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 THE

Homoeopathic Recorder.

MONTHLY.

VOLUME XIII

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PUBLISHED BY
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IXDI-X TO VOL. XIII

K Little !\ ppei Cactus Grand, in Fever,

A R< ad a Forecast, 19. Calendula, 370.
dnthium, 211. Cancer, 119, 120, 216.
Acetanilide, 230. Carbuncle, 397.
Aconite, 116, 1S5, 308. Carbo An., Cough, 113.
Aconite, Insanity, 116. Cardiac H\
irdium, 1
Cases From Practice,
Another Pioneer, Koch, 19S. Catarrh and Cystitis of Bladd
Antidotes, Homoeopathic in Poison Causticum, 402.
Cases, 407. Chimaphila Umbellata, 179.
Antitoxin "Accident," 47S. China, 402.
Antitoxin, A Substitute for, 556. Chlorine in Diphtheria. -

Antipyrin, in Potency, 211. Chronic Ailments, 404.

Anus, Itching in, 224. Cimicifuga. 211, 467.
Apis, 222. Cimicifuga in Noises in Ears
Appendicitis, 479. Cina, 2ii, 403.
Appendicitis, Ecchinacea, 73. Cistus Canadensis,
Aqua Magnanimitis, 194. Clematis in F'ever,
Are They all Daft, 355. Colchicum, 401.
Arsenic Poisoning, 162. Colchicum in Typhoid. 116.
Arsenical Neuritis, 56. Cough, 113.
Arsenicum in Cancer, 112. Combination Tablets, 115.
Arsenicum in Intermittens, 27. Coralium Rubrum Cough, [«o,
Arsenicum, Jodatum, 402. Crataegus Oxyacantha, 228
Arsenicum, Pathology of, 105. Croup, 61, 1 16, 207.
Atropin Poisoning, 223. Crocus Case, 462.
Authorities, Our, 1S3.
Diarrhoea, 31, 1 14.
Diphtheria, 213.
Bananas as Food, 479. Doctor Puck, 390.
Baryta Carh., Intermittent Fever, :'. 35-
12.
r
Dynamic Circle
Belittling of Medical Science, 509.
Belli^ Perennis, 406.
Berberis Vulgaris, 212.
Blatta ( Orient Ecchii
Blood Remedies, Homceopathi Bczem
Borax, Diarrhoea, 1 14. Emin
in, \.\\. nine
216.
Bryonia C

isqn
IV INDEX.

Ethical Obliquity, 326. Kali Nitricum in Diarrhoea, 31.

External Application of Horn. Medi- Knee Swelling. Chronic. Cured, 562.
cines, 300, 322. Kunrath's Water, 194.
Eyes, Treatment of, in Children, 546.
Labor Cases, 85.
Lachesis Cases, 36, 112, 475.
Ferrum Phos., 400, 488.
Lachesis in Gangrene, 133.
Ferrum Picricum, 377, 481.
Let Him Get Well, 414.
Formica Rufa., 194.
Liatris Spicata in Dropsy, 35, no.
Free List Question, 354.
Lippe's Keynotes, 28, 61, 108, 146,
201.
Gall-stones, 361. Lobelia, Croup,
Gaultheria, 238. Lolium Temulentum, 401.
Gelsemium Headache, 415.
Lumbago, 113.
Gout, 325. Lycopodium in Croup, 116.
Graphites, 358. Lycopodium in Tonsilitis, 157.
Grindelias, The Two, 554.

Hcemoptce,^545- Marriage and Divorce, 1.

Hamamelis, 476. Marriage and Divorce, Reply, Si.

Hamamelis, in Eczema, 72. 122, 127, 152.

Hasty Prescription, 199. Medical Examinations, 410.

Headache, Gelsemium, Mezereum Case, 172.
Headache, Lachesis, 112. Milk Sugar in Infants' Food, 210.
Hepar Sulph., 397. Mistletoe in Labor, 85.
Hepatic Colic, 412. " Modern Scientific Tinctures," 522.
Heysinger's Scientific Basis Criti- Monument to Hahnemann, 146.
cised, 78.
Homesickness, 487. Naphthalin, 326.
Homoeopathic Successes, 555. Natrum Arsenicatum, 122.
Homoeopathy —University of Natrum Mur., 156, 557.
Mimich, 219. Natrum Phos., 117.
How Should Materia Medica be Negundo, 376.
Taught, 529. Neuralgia, 356.
Hydrocyanic Acid, 35. Niccolum, 324.
Hygiene, 337. Nitric Acid, 210. 324.

Hyoscyamin Hydrobrom., 212. Nitrum in Diarrhoea, 31.

Hypericum Perforatum, 178. Noises in the Ears, 541.

Ignatia, 176.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Infants, Excoriation of, 220. Baudy. Gynecology, 470.
Intermittent Fever, 27, 112. Blackiston. Visiting List. 567.
Insanity, 116. BoGKR. Diphtheria, 517.
Indicated Remedy, The, 571. BOUI/TON. Genito-Syphilis, 230.
Iodine Cases, 50S. Bradford. History of Hahne-
Iris Versicolor, 375. mann College, 512.
Is Aconite a Fever Remedy, 308. Burnett. Skin, 329.
Iich Mite and "Chronic Diseases," BURNETT. Change of Life in
94. Women, 469.
 INDEX.

Burr. Psychology, 566. Massey. Gynecology, 378.

Butler. Materia Medica, 516. Mitcheee. Renal Therapeutics,
514.
CareeTon. General Disorders of Moore. Orthopcedia Surgery, 88.
Men, 567. Mracek. Atlas, Venereal, 421.
Chapin. Insanity, 188.
Crandaee. Diseases and Cure, Netteeship. Diseases of the
5i7. Eye, 42.
Crowther. Elements of Latin, Norton. Ophthalmic Diseases,
89. 419-
CruTCHER. Appendicitis, 231.

DaCosta. Modern Surgery, 421.

OSEER. Practice, 515.

Dewey. Essentials Therapeutics,

420.
Paue. Vaccination, 422.

DOREAND. Dictionary, 567.

Purdy. Urinalysis, 566.

EeeioTT. Nervous Diseases, 87. Ray. The Plague, 420.

Fernie. Herbal Simples, 60. REED. Cyclic Law, 517.

Feint. Encyclopaedia, 187. SCHUESSEER. Therapy, 419.

Scudder. Materia Medica and
GoTTHEiE. Cancer, 517.
Therapeutics, 378.
Goued. Year-book, 88.
Starr. Diseases of Children,
Grundwaed. Larynx, 330.
471.

Haee. Saw Palmetto, 86.

HarteEY, Auvard. Obstetrics, Van Vaezah. Stomach, 231.
188. ViERORDT. Diagnosis, 516.
Hawkes. Characteristics, 515.
Hoffman. Atlas Legal Medicine, Wood. Gynecology, 140.
329-
Woodruff. Clematography, etc.,

Hughes. Repertory Cyclopaedia, 188.

378.
ZUCKERKANDE. Operative Sur-
Jahob. Atlas Clinical Medicine, gery, 421.
187.
James. Alaska, 88. Obituary, Kuechler, 45.
Jones. Porcelain Painter's Son, Obituary, Schuessler, 499.
565. Obituary, Smith, 514.
Oils, Curative Effects of, 319.
Keen. Surgical-Typhoid, 187. Oligodynamics, 482.
Keesey. Haemorrhoids, 422. Olive Oil in Hepatic Colic, 412.
KENT. Repertory, 186. Olive Oil in Typhoid Fever, 548.
King. Dispensatory, 515. On a Custom of Druids, 49.
Openings in the South, 540.
Lutze. Neuralgia, 470. Organ Diseases of Women, 70, 452.
Oswald's Investigations Into Homoe-
McFareand. Bacteria, 442. opathy, 22.
Macdonaed. Surgical Diagnosis,
42. Passiflora, 72, 120, 182, 468, 552.
VI INDEX.

Pathology of Medicine, On the, 65. Stigmata Maidis, 34.

Pepper and Salt, 299. Stomatitis, 226.
Pharmacopoeia, The New (A. I. H.)» Strychnine Poisoning, 158.

14, 143, 155, 190, 231, 331, 334, Successes, 165.

336, 372, 380, 385, 425, 431, Sugar of Milk as a Diuretic, 224.
522, 525, 526, 540, 572. Sulphur as a Pulmonic Remedy, 503.
Phosphorus, 325, 360.
Physostigma. 117. Taste, Salty, 117.
Phytolacca, 395, 490. Teeth and Hard Water, 521.
Phytolacca, Fatty Heart, 504. Tessier, Dr., Observation by, 160.
Plantago Major, 480. Thallium for Baldness, 374.
Pneumonia, 72, 488. Therapeutical Notes. 417.
Poisonings, 223, 407. Therapeutics of Typhoid, 97.
Prenatal Influences, 293. Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris, 119, 185
Primula Obconica, 101. Thuja in Cancer, 119.
Principality of Lippe and Homoe- Thuja, A Striking Cure, 174.
opathy, 177. Typhoid, On the Effects of, 68.

Ptlea Trifolia, 468. Tobacco Habit, 549.

Pulsatilla, 118. Tongue in Dyspepsia, 565.
Tonsilitis, 157.
Quinine in Malaria, 32, 72. Transactions Condensed. 115, 208,
213.
Reminiscence of an Old Soldier, 544. Treating the Unborn. 551.
Removal of Hahnemann's Body, 345. Typhoid, 97, 116, 120, 548.
Rhus, Indications for, 175.
Rhus tox. in Lumbago, 113. Vaccination, 209, 218, 231, 507. 559.
Verbena Hastata, 216.
Sabal Serrulata, 34, 103. Veterinary Homoeopathy, 436, 496,
Salix Nigra, 35. 536.
Saw Palmetto, 34, 103, 408. Viscum Album, 85.
Scall, 357.
Schuessler, Will, 545. Wake Up, 531.
Senecio, 74, 214, 466, 553. Warts, 481.
Signatures, 414, 445. Was it Cancer of Stomach, 460.
Silicea, Whooping Cough, 297.
Skin Diseases, 290. Why Spaniards are Cruel, 351.
Sprains, Liability to, 209. Women, Concerning, 558.
Spices, 227.
Staphysagria, 34, 431. Ye Cannot Serve Two Masters, 3S5.
 THE
HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.
Vol. XIII. Lancaster, Pa., January, 1898. No. 1.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

The Medical Profession and the Sexual Question.
By I. M. D., Author of "The Source and Mode of
W. He} singer, M. A.,
Solar Energy Throughout the Universe," "The Scientific Basis of
Medicine," etc., etc.

Among the great sociological questions which have been

crowding themselves to the front of late is that of the so-called
Emancipation of Woman. Behind it there looms up, less and
less dimly, the question of marriage, and especially that of
divorce, as modified by sexual desire and passion.
Women, they tell us, lose their marital desires, they are no
longer satisfied with the same man; while their husbands also
wish to seek new pastures; shall women be free to seek out and
find new human stimuli, to again awaken their dormant desires
by an easy divorce? and shall men experiment with new women,
under sanction of the law, so long as advancing age and their
emasculation by past excesses permit ?
That is to say, is the basis of marriage to be the sexual
pleasures of the individuals, or is there a broader basis than
this, so far transcending these fugitive, fanciful, and unphysio-
logical concomitants that the mere question of sexual appetite
and indulgence is dwarfed, by comparison, into relative insigni-
ficance?
So, too, shall we cater to a gross, physical appetite, which
grows by what it feeds upon, until a new woman or a new man
shall be required for every sexual act, for each man and woman,
or until palled desires ask for a change, as oneflits from one

tempting viand to another at a public table A

medical friend
?

tells me of a man he knows who has ticked off on his list fifty

different women who have shared his sexual services during the
past year, and he has started in with the present year for a
2 Marriage and Divorce.
greatly increased record. Is this something to be proud of?
Is normal ? Is it excusable? Should our laws be made general
it

enough to meet and approve such cases, and should such cases
become the accepted general rule ?
All the private and social iniquity of the age sooner or later
falls under the ken of the family physieianf£hould he be a man

to whom the hopes of the future shall turn with

unerring
confidence, or one whopander like a procurer to those
will
who seek "emancipation," and, worst of all, shall he do this in
the guise of an expert in biological science and a confidant in
the family circle?
As the medical profession shall decide these questions, so
shall the outcome be; or else the common sense and decency of
mankind, and its civilization, will sweep aside such alleged
technical knowledge as a libel on humanity, and, with this,
turn away from our glorious profession the conservator of —
human health and sweetness, as tainted with the poisonous
breath of a basilisk.
What is our privilege, and what is our duty in the premises?
We stand at the parting of the ways; for a mighty surge of
indecency has been for years sweeping along; it is the old time
concomitant of irresponsible wealth, and ease, and fashion, and
indolence, among one class of our population, and of learning
by example and precept among another. The growing children
have new problems presented as they emerge from childhood ;

fallacy is everywhere accessible, but not truth the newspapers —

reek with true narratives of filth; the conversation is far looser
than ever before; unrebuked examples of unchastity are more and
more publicly visible everywhere; condonement follows dis-
covery, and the popular ideals have been changed.
"Vice is a creature of such hideous mieu
That to be hated, ueeds but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with its face,

We first endure, then pity, then embrace."

The hysterical emotional has come to that point among many

women that they are ready to load with flowers the most loath-
some criminals. This is a well-known form of sexual perversion,
and this revolt from hard common sense is prevalent in a
thousand directions. The sympathies are misdirected and de-
—
praved there is a reaching out for the strange, the exciting,
the terrible, the morbid and the criminally strong and masterful.
These tendencies are very closely allied to the blood-thirst of
 Marriage and Divorce. 3

savage tyrants, and to the craving for monstrous forms of crime

among some of the lower races of men; they are the manifesta-
tions only of a struggling, hysterical, psycopathic " emancipa-
tion."
The problem is a real one, and it has not, hitherto, emerged
into human experience, as it is now doing, since the decadence
of the Roman Empire; and there again it had only emerged,
after an interval of a like period, from the psycopathic depravity
of ancient Babylon. Before this, again, the biblical record
narrates a similar wave in the days of Sodom. They are the
recurring epilepsies of the human race, when nature turns her
convulsive energies inward upon herself.
To our profession all must eventually look, and it is a serious
matter for us to consider what the outcome is to be and how we
shall meet it. These great cyclical movements do not develop
their inevitable consequences at first. Those who are dabbling
in and pleading for the putrid deluge would be horrified to see
the logical sequences. But they are inevitable, unless a better
science, and the lessons of history, the clear comprehension of
this almost world-wide disease, its diagnosis and prognosis, are
at hand to develop an efficient moral hygiene against the ap-
proach of a preventible epidemic of atavism which otherwise
will submerge, for centuries perhaps, the manhood and woman-
hood, and the welfare of whole sections of the race; or else turn
it, emasculated and depraved, into subjection to cleaner races

now emerging from the darkness of the past, just as our own
civilization has, so recently emerged; how recently and how
imperfectly, only the critical student of ethnology and history
knows.
It is incomprehensible that educated physicians should fail to
—
see these growing disorders every culture is full of their mor-
bific germs.
But they do fail to see them. They write, speak and work, in
many instances, for the powers of darkness and against those
of light.
In looking over the pages of the November issue, 1896, of a
medical magazine published in Chicago I found an article by
Dr. William F. Waugh, one of the editors, which has surprised
me. The statements therein made are so specious, and so
frankly and boldly presented that, unless their entire incom-
patibility with the broader grounds, upon which all such ques-
tions must finally rest, be kept in mind, they will carry con-
4 Marriage and Divorce.
viction to many persons, both professional and lay, and aid in
spreading abroad doctrines totally antagonistic to, and irrecon-

cilable with, nay, even subversive what we understand to be

of,

civilization, and which civilization, in any case, is the only

defensive and progressive organization possible for humanity in
its present structure, as has been clearly evidenced by the uni-

versal experience of mankind.

Reduced to its fundamentals, Dr. Waugh's argument is that
" about 25 per cent, of women never know a sexual orgasm, while
with 60 per cent, it is rare. A very small number, not 1 per
cent., have the appetite like a man's."
"With man," he continues, "it is altogether different.
(Nature) makes man ready to do his part at all times, that the
woman's favorable time may not be missed."
"Men and women," he says, "cannot be judged by the same
standpoint, as they differ fundamentally in the sexual instinct.
Woman's desires are towards maternity." * * * "Marriage,
social customs, theunion for life of one man to one woman,
form no part of Nature's scheme. They are attempts by man
to interpret Nature, however imperfectly." So says Dr.
Waugh.
Disclaiming, however, any attempt by marriage to interpret
Nature, as Dr. Waugh says, but substituting therefor modify,
(for everything, which differentiates men from brutes, modifies
Nature), the above presents a series of facts which, in great part,
w ill not be
T
controverted. After the above statements he cites
the former Japanese custom of a course of prostitution (which was
really intended, however, to provide a cash dower for the young
lady's possible marriage, and not, as Dr. Waugh
seems to sug-
gest, a mere target practice for that desirable consummation .

and also the old Scottish habit, in which emancipated courtship

was pushed to its full logical conclusion, and in which, says Dr.
Waugh, " the bride presented herself at the altar with on<
more children to begin wedlock:" and the writer then asks :

"How manywretched marriages would be prevented by such

a custom? As it is, the acquaintance of man and woman be
marriage is usually so slight that wedlock becomes indeed, in
many respects, a mere lottery."
The acquaintance, to which he refers is this sexual acquaintance,
of course, in order to determine if the parties are properly fitted,
in that particular way, to each other, for it is not conceivable
that an experiment of this sort, however often repeated, would
 Marriage and Divorce. 5

enable the man and women to know more of each other

spiritually, mentally or socially.
Indeed, the writer emphasizes his point by citing cases in
which, as he says, " a man with powerful sexual organs, of the
larger size, marries a feeble woman with a small vagina. Re-
sult: Murder, I feel like calling it."
The doctor is right in his facts; we
meet with such cases,all

and such marriages ought toI would respect-

be prevented; but
fully suggest that the parties themselves are not the proper ones
to arrive at an accurate measurement or a correct conclusion,
and especially at such an exciting time they are, in fact, too —
deeply interested in the experiment themselves; and afterwards,
as the doctor says, it would be too late, for the woman would be
practically murdered. In any case they would want to experi-
ment around a good deal to get the best and most fashionable
fit; it would, in fact, be a delightful addition to the pleasures of
shopping, and no doubt our large establishments would open
record books, keep stallions, and conduct the business in a sys-
tematic way. I am told that there are such rooms in the bath-
ing establishments for ladies on the other side, but these rooms
are kept dark; when Dr. Waugh gets thenew system estab-
lished it will all be done in broad daylight, and we shall see
signs erected in front, inscribed: " Ladies fitted while they
wait."
For he suggests two remedies directly in this line: first, that
the stigma cast upon divorce should be removed, and that peo-
ple who are mismated should separate. The separation, of
couse, is not so both parties are agreed, but the re-
difficult, if
mating would logically require some such mechanism as I have
mentioned above; for otherwise a woman might be murdered
several times a day (since, he says, less than 1 per cent,
of them are immune from this species of homicide), for years, or
indeed until they had passed the climacteric so far that the as-
sassins would all have abandoned the pursuit in disgust, and
yet she might never have found her delightful companion at all,

with all her trying, which is sad.

The second remedy, the doctor says, consists, to quote his
words, in " the advancement of woman towards independence.
* * * As woman becomes independent and self-supporting,
her union with man loses the degrading element of dependence,
and she meets him on terms of equality. And what a delight-
ful companion she then becomes; when inclination alone leads
6 Marriage and Divorce.
her to us, without a mercenary thought." " The indifference
with which married couples treat each other would be most
beneficially dissipated if separation were made easy, with no
pecuniary sacrifices to either, but a proper sharing of the re-
sponsibilities resulting from the union."
I think the doctor is a little vague here; for example, if all
this delight is to come from " inclination" leading one to the
other, there would be just as much of the opposite, that is of
misery, in case one party wanted to separate and the other
didn't, or in case one wanted to come together and the other
wanted to stay apart; or else come together with somebody else.
There would be the rub. It does seem to me that the doctor has
not calculated, in his snap shot arrangement, for the fifty or
more lop sided inclinations for each bi-lateral one. There
would be plenty of experimenting around, of course, and the
" pecuniary " element doubtless refers to money, which neither
party is is, according to the doctor, it is all to
to sacrifice; that
be a "free-blow but the "responsibilities" are more proba-
;"

bly in the nature of the resulting offspring. After one of these

sexually favored ladies had produced three or four broods of chil-
dren to as many different living husbands, and each of these
husbands had at the same time acquired one-half the pro-
ceeds of as many other surviving wives, these families would
have become decidedly mixed; it would require a " master of the
hounds" to keep the stocks and breeds separate. A far easier
solution, it seems to me, would be to run the babies into general
foundling asylums, or the parents into insane institutions; or
else drown the youngsters, as they do with surplus pups and
kittens. The on the back fences are entirely u emanci-
cats out
pated;" the males and females are each " independent and self-
supporting;" the female meets with the male " on terms of per-
fect equality," for " inclination alone leads her to him;" and all
the neighbors will testify that the "companionship is delight-
ful."
The doctor adds: " The children resulting from illicit unions,
due solely to inclination, have always been noted for their su-
periority; and history is full of the achievements of bastards."

Stock-breeders will not agree with the doctor in this state-

ment the progeny of such unions are known to these experts
;

as "mongrels" and "accidental hybrids." Careful selection

by outside and disinterested parties is a sine quaI'non in improv-
ing the breed of any animal.
 Marriage and Divorce. J

As a final conclusion, this writer says: " And how then can a
conscientious man or woman take an oath that they will love
the other for the whole course of their future lives when they
know very well that no one can love by exercise of will, and
that very many do not and cannot keep the oaths." And
then, "my conviction is that if divorce were to be easily ob-
tained, and if all women were self-supporting, prostitution would
become much less frequent and seduction rare.
Without raising the question as to whether a man and a woman
cannot take an oath, and keep it, to live a decent life, whether
they want to or not (for none of us can do as we like) or ;

whether prostitution itself is not -the very means by which pros-

titutes are made self-supporting and also whether the adoption
;

of the good old Scotch custom would not merely exclude seduc-
tion by legalizing the act, so that, as Mark Twain said of the
Sandwich Islands, under the missionaries, "it would only exist in
reality, and not in appearance," we must take a broad, horizon-
tal view of what marriage and the state of wedlock really are.
To make divorce easy, as Dr. Waugh advises, is to make mar-
riage still more easy. The records of history prove universally
that the marriage state, in which one man is linked to one
woman, as the conservator of the future offspring, is the very
foundation of the social organization. Wherever this has been
trespassed upon or abrogated, or wherever it has failed to be es-
tablished, there we find society in a state of chaotic disorgani-
zation,and civilization and advancement made impossible. We
must go back to the plains of Australia to find a country where,
among the original natives, marriage and divorce were both un-
known, and, also, in which human beings were human beings
only in form.
Just as the object of the sexual instinct is the reproduction
of the species, so is the object of the marriage state the preser-
vation of the future organization of society. The whole fabric
of mankind rests upon this substructure, and to secure this par-
amount gain individual loss must be endured, as is the case with
every association, or every means of advancement, with such
ameliorations as may be possible, without trespassing in one jot
or tittle upon this great heritage.
We might say that a note of hand, with good endorsements,
a long-term lease, or a ground- rent, also becomes, in many cases,
a great burden, but what business could be done, or what finan-
cial prosperity be produced, in a country where repudiation of
8 Marriage and Divorce.

obligations was made easy at the will of the party most disa-
greeably bound thereby Or we might say that the terms of
?

service of enlisted soldiers become very distasteful also, some-

times, but what great war could be successfully waged in which
the soldiers were allowed to discharge themselves at will ? So
the stigma of the presence of our jails and penitentiaries, the
stigma which is the result of every attempt to break oneself
against the adamantine wall of the social compact, must exist
if that wall, behind which are all the priceless inheritances of

man, is to stand, our sole defense against animalism.

But let us, even, take Dr. Waugh'sown view, and see whither
it will lead us. He says, " not i per cent, of women have the
sexual appetite like a man's." Let it go at i per cent., and
we will throw in the difference for good measure.
In such case, if we are to be properly mated, every one of
these properly qualified women, in addition to the happy man
who now shares her delightful companionship, must have su-
peradded to her modicum (if the men are to be considered)
ninety and nine new ones. It is related in the History of Prosti-
tution that a woman in France once took a whole company of
cannot deny the existence of
soldiers, in succession, so that I
such a "saving remnant" among the sisters; but it certainly
seems to me that for the permanent economical utilization of
this i per cent, our domestic architecture would
have to be
greatly modified. There would be the one main central woman-
house, with a flag flying from the dome with the signal numbers
in proper rotation, I suppose, and around this structure would
be grouped in a circle the one hundred man-cabins, in front of
each of which would sit a hungry troglodyte with his eyes glued
to that signal flag.
But there would be a constant danger that this abundance
might become, to the lady herself, in time, a superfluity, and
some of the crowded out husbands might there have to take
refuge among the "small vaginas" (and every one knows how
objectionable these are), and then there would be the same old
trouble again and the homicides would recommence.
But indeed this matter of the small vaginas is not so formid-
able as it might seem; if, as the good Doctor happily says, " wo-
man's desires are towards maternity," there must surely be some
provision in Nature and the Doctor is very loud of Nature with
a big N), when we properly "interpret" it, subsequent
for the

passage of the head, at least, of a living b&by through that same

 a and Divorce.
Marriage

vagina; and it must certainly be very rare, even in Chicago,

that the "powerful sexual organs," even if they be of the
" larger size," as the doctor says, can tally up to that diameter.

So, while the gay old Scotch custom may answer well enough
so far as the "organs" themselves are concerned, it may yet
"gang all aglee " with respect to the forthcoming organism,
and which the candidates cannot test, even if they wanted to,
until " forever and eternally too late."
Or is the woman not to be counted in at all ?
Child-bearing, though extremely useful, is not an agreeable
operation, with its strains and lacerations, even if anaesthetics
be used, and I very much doubt, if the processes were reversed,
and the "pleasures of the delightful companionship when inclina-
tion alone leads her to us," as Dr. Waugh so beautifully remarks,
were to occur nine months after instead of the same time before
the operation of child-birth, whether he would have occasion to
take the same interest in the subject, as one solely concerned
with" inclination " and " delightful companionship."
The simple truth of the matter is that decent people do not
fall in love with each other by reason of nice prior calculations
and estimates as to the net amount or accuracy of fit, or of the
mere animal quality of sexual pleasures, at all. This is an im-
portant incident, but it is only an incident, and is a part of the
same lottery of life in which we all take our chances when we
start our first game at the gate of infancy and end it at the por-
tals of the grave. We love with our spiritual nature, and
we procreate with our animal nature, and to sacrifice the former
at the altar of the latter is to cut our throats, and those of the
coming race, in the filth of the shambles. The general run of
bastards is not above, but below, the average, and to scatter our
children broadcast, like pumpkin seeds, is to do an unpardon-
able crime against manhood, motherhood, and God whether —
it be the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, or the God of
Nature, Evolution and Advancement.
But is there no remedy for these acknowledged defects in the
essential order of higher nature ? Yes, emphatically.
Men and women who are in any doubt, (and all contemplat-
ing marriage ought to be in doubt), should take at least as
much whom they are
interest in the adaptability of those with
to live as in the purchase or building of a house in which they
are to live. In the latter case they would have the foundations,
the construction, and the drainage carefully examined by skilled
io Marriage a?id Divorce.

experts in such matters ; and it ought to be an ordinary course

of procedure before marriage, make such a rule
(and we can
universal if we so will), to have a similar physical examination
made by the skilled family physician, not only as regards the
immediate chances of sexual felicity, but also as regards subse-
quent child-bearing and such a custom, if once universally es-
;

tablished, would immeasurably enhance the dignity, responsi-

bility, and importance of our profession.
Among the Araucanian Indians of Southern Chile, I have
been informed by a gentleman long resident among them, such
a custom has prevailed from time immemorial and Humboldt, ;

Charles Darwin, and other anthropologists, all agree that this

race presents the highest physical type of manhood and woman-
hood in existence. So also the custom prevails in Brazil, where,
I am informed, for a marriage to take place, even among the

most aristocratic, without a previous physical examination of

both male and female candidates by a medical man, would be
looked upon as highly disreputable.
The remedy is simply and entirely in our own hands, and we
are faithless to our sacred trust so long as we fail to earnestly
teach it to the people.
It is a fact, well known to the profession, that the marital dis-
taste for sexual intercourse, on the part of the wife, is usually
subsequent one or more children, or to a miscar-
to the birth of
riage. In nearly or quite all such cases, as is well known to
recent medical science, the normal standard of desires can be re-
stored, if taken in time, by a simple surgical operation, either
upon the perineum, the neck of the uterus, or adjacent parts, or
the rectum, the entrance to the vagina, or clitoris. This should
be promptly resorted to in all cases of perverted sexual func-
tion, and it should be explained to both wife and husband, and
the husband himself should insist upon it. Where a continued
term of years may pass in which the wife remains sterile, and
when this condition cannot be corrected by professional treat-
ment, this sterility might be made a valid reason for divorce by
mutual agreement of the parties under proper circumstance
for, otherwise, the welfare of the future social organism, which

depends on reproduction, would be to that degree imperilled.

Nine times out of ten the wife and the husband drift apart by
reason of pathological conditions induced after marriage, and
which can, in many cases, be as easily corrected as a sore toe.
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Marriage and Divorce. 1

Where this is not the source of the trouble, it is caused, iu a

vast preponderance of cases, by the devilish machinations of
other men, who deliberately seek, by arts which they have
learned to practise, " to conquer" a new slave to their passions.
Where women are not thus tempted, and where the physiologi-
cal structures are intact, the feelings of wifehood may and will
become more mellowed (as they should) with passing years,
but will still remain, and be better correlated to their conditions,
than if these wives were to manifest the wildest caracoles of
paid prostitutes, or numbered themselves among that anointed
i per cent., or less, of women who carry a masculine passion
flaunting on their horns.
Constituted as we are, the mere sense of a confinement which
can be broken by an one of the strongest incentives to
effort, is

that effort. The loss of chastity comes from the contemplation of

the losing of chastity. We are all creatures of inexorable cir-
cumstances, environed by nature on every side but simply ;

because these circumstances are unavoidable, we do not chafe

against them —
we make the best of the bargain, which is, in
fact, our own circumscribed humanity; andwe can be as happy
there, aye, far happier, than though we bore the conquests of
new worlds, and the struggles and temptations of a new freedom,
beneath our waist- bands, with all their cares and all their re-
sponsibilities and agonies.
" Man never is, but always to be blest."

The true pathway of happiness is the middle way, as wise old

Confucius so long ago discovered. Moderation and reciprocity
are the great factors which now and eternally make for happi-
ness.
Do not make divorces more easy, but make marriages more
a subject of special individualization; see that those who propose
to wed together forever are fitted to do so; and then see that all
artificially-raised obstacles are removed at the time;and teach
the sacredness of marriage, not necessarily in a religious sense,
but as a constituent and essential part of the great fabric of
humanity, in which we are all irremovably interwoven.
Then guard the wives against the seductions of other men,
just as we guard a fold of our sheep, or of the domestic fowls
we cherish, against the assaults of wolves and hawks.
As we guard our young daughters, by the stern hand of the
law, so let us guard our wives also against their enemy and
themselves.
12 Marriage and Ehvorce.
The law most wisely provides that the "age of consent"
shall not exist until a girl woman grown.
is a
When a woman marries she, by her own act, and in the most
solemn manner, surrenders ber right of consent. What man in
the whole world would ever marry a woman who openly reserved
to herself this right of consent in favor of other men ? The very
contract itself is the abandonment of
all right of consent, on both

sides. But male the danger to the fabric of

in the case of the
social organization is by no means so great, for with women the
very fountains of reproductive purity are poisoned. This is the
true reason for the different degrees of obloquy which follow
adultery by the man or the woman, and it is just.
If the married woman can be made as dangerous to a libertine
as a rattlesnake, the problem will be solved. To do this, it is
only necessary to make the marriage contract an irrevocable act,
by which the wife has totally abandoned and lost the power of
" consent," and treat every case of illicit intercourse with a mar-
ried woman, not legally separated from her husband, as a case
of rape, and punishable, precisely as similar intercourse now is,
under our existing statutes, with a female under the legal age
of consent. And to this add heavy civil damages in favor of
the wronged husband.
It may be objected that the punishment will then fall entirely

upon the male criminal, while the woman partner will go scot-
free. This is not so, for adultery is now recognized as a statu-
tory ground for divorce. And the cry has always been that, in
these cases, it is the woman who suffers alone, both socially and
legally, while her seducer is comparatively exempt. The above
procedure will at least make him bear his full share, and will
prevent, to a large extent, such violation of the family circle,
for there surely can be no adultery unless there be a man in the
case, as well as thewoman. The women are those to whom we
owe the first and greatest protection.
—
Of course, adulteries will occur murders and thefts occur,
but who would desire the laws against these crimes to be abro-
gated because such crimes still exist. As Col. Ingersoll has
well said: " You can prevent a man from committing a crime,
but you cannot prevent him from wanting to commit it."
Others will object that the proposed remedy does not go far

enough; that morality demands that it ought to protect all wo-

men, married or single. But the question ol morals is not what
is involved in this matter. Incidentally it will operate in favor
 Marriage and Divorce. 13

of public morality, but that is only an incident: it would be

equally necessary if it were not moral or if it were even im-

moral.
The purpose, and the sole purpose, is to preserve the family
circle immaculate, to safe-guard the future generations, to make
the bond between parents and children firmer and stronger, to
insist upon the double responsibility of father and mother for
the welfare of their offspring, and to further civilization and
human progress along lines which history and experience have
demonstrated to be the only means of development into higher
and higher planes of social organization, and to lead to the
physicial and intellectual advancement of the race. The rest
will take care of itself, if we once securely and permanently
hold fast to this.
It has been said that if a marriedwoman once " meets her
ideal " she is lost. Well, a man who will tamper with the
virtue of a married woman, and destroy his miserable victim, is
a mighty poor sort of an " ideal " for a decent woman to have.
Besides, it is not true. The ideal of a man of eighty is usually
a girl of about fifteen; and the ideals of a girl of sixteen, the
same girl at twenty, then at twenty- five, and afterwards at thirty
or thirty-five, are quite different sorts of men. There are hidden
sympathies apt to come to the surface, and, like quick-sands,
engulf their victims, but these belong to the category of pre-
ventable diseases. How many happy wives to-day thank the
prevision of their parents which saved them from marrying their
criminal, pauper, drunken, selfish, worthless ideals of years ago!
In the country districts the folks talk about " calf-love." On an
average, I think people fall in love about three times, and are
"engaged" once before the final engagement comes,
at least
which culminates marriage. The whole subject of sexual
in
love needs an overhauling; it has long been suspected that it
partakes largely of a psycopathy. It certainly dominates among
less than one-tenth of the human race, so far as making it a valid
basis for marriage. The very fact that it is so evanescent; that
itmay be instantly converted into the fiercest hatred, showing
how nearly these passions are allied: that it is made an excuse
for ''change partners" in the great dance of life, (which is proof
that, for these, life itself, as only
ccordinated with such passion, is

a dance, and not path of duty which, when i-t is

a conflict, or a
followed, leads to content and real happiness), all these show
that it is not a true guiding- star, but a mere passing passion, an
14 The New Pharmacopoeia.

ignis fatnus in many cases. Physicians will agree that among

their patients they findmore unhappy marriages in the category
of those who " sprang to arms " at the first call of passion than
among those who studied the ground, carefully planned their
campaign, and then entered upon married life with a full
knowledge of its responsibilities and duties, and with a matured
acquaintance with their life-partners. Divorces are very rare
among this latter class.
Of course, once in a while a marriage of passion is followed
by a life of single-hearted devotion, but the experiment is a
dangerous one. I have often thought that Shakespeare's play
of " Romeo and Juliet " has done much harm in this way; I feel
very sure that these people, who were happily spared the ex-
perience, would never have been able to live up to their first
send-off; they started in with terrapin, roast turkey, and too
much pie.
But in every case, ideal or no ideal, there must be a man in
the case; and if we can make it to the interest of this individual
not to be an " ideal " for any married woman, it is certain that
these married women have the opportunity, at least, to live
will
out their lives in decency and decorum, and that " their children
will rise up and call them blessed."
Treat the man as the aggressor; punish him as the denier of
the fountain of the race, and he will flee from such temptation as
Joseph of old fled from the lures of Potiphar's wife, even though
a prison should confront him as the consequence.
And we then keep this priceless pearl of chastity, and
shall
its twin jewels of parentage and the family circle, as nearly in-

tact as common- sense and art and science, reinforced by the

active aid of our sacred profession, can make them.
We must keep our eyes firmly fixed on the family as the
centre and the hub, and on the social structure and the state
as the felloes and the spokes, and then quietly help, each of
us, all we can, for time, for man, for eternity, and for the
future welfare and advancement of the race.

THE NEW PHARMACOPCEIA.

When work was noticed last July in the Homckopathic
this
RECORDER, it was said that some months must elapse before we
could give it the critical review that a work of its character de-
manded the time has now arrived for stating the objections,
;

then intimated, in fuller terms. It is not an agreeable task and

 The New Pharmacopceia. 15

itwould be pleasanter to remain silent, but a sense of duty to the

cause of Homoeopathy seems to forbid this. Of the mere mis-
takes, and errors, in the work (and they are by no means incon-
siderable) we shall say nothing at the present time, for they are
of a nature that could be corrected, when pointed out, in future
editions, but shall confine ourselves to what we regard as the
two fundamental and fatal errors of the work ;and in doing
this let be understood that we are animated by no hostility to
it

the Committee who prepared the work, giving their time and
services without reward, nor by any other motive than the wel-
fare of all that pertains to the cause. Though just here it might
be stated that the Committee were by no means unanimous, as
we know.
The lesser of the two fundamental errors, baldly stated, is :

That the new pharmacopceia gives the medical profession dif-

ferent remedies from those on which the grand homoeopathic
edifice has been reared. Carrol Dunham has given us the great
"Homoeopathy; The Science of Therapeutics,"
definition,
and nothing truer was ever penned. Homoeopathy is "The
Science of Therapeutics " or it is nothing but a rather long last-
ing fad in medicine. There can be no middle course. Thera-
peutics, in the true sense, is the hcienfjfic application of.olrugs
t

to the cure of disease. Jlorcceopathy, the " Science ''

of chat
procedure, is founded on it s materia mec.ioa and
on notning
else ;that materia rnedica is built on the provings of drugs pre-
pared in a specified nianner but, at this, lale day for the sake
;

of a shadowy "uniform drug power," the" new work departs

from the old methods, and ordains new methods which will nec-
essarily produce drugs of a more or less different character from
those on which Homoeopathy has prospered and waxed great.
Let us take but one example, Aconite. This drug has always
been prepared, for the use of the homoeopathic medical profes-
sion, from the pure juice of the fresh plant, preserved in an
equal quantity by weight of alcohol. The new method is to
pound up and macerate the whole plant. What would be the
difference ? Who knows
Certainly not the Recorder and, with
!

due Committee. Imagine a wine made from the

respect, not the
juice of the grapes and one in which stems, seeds, skins, leaves,
etc., had been fermented with the juice and an idea of the dif-

ference may be had. Something not in the drug from which the
provings were made enters into the new preparation. And what
is gained? Naught but an uncertain and elusive " uniform
drug power !"
 6

1 Jlic New Pharmacopoeia.

"What is drug power?" We fear that the committee has

confounded "drug power" with "drug violence." A drug
that, even in the 30th potency, will cure a disease, exhibits true
drug power, while one, like Acidum hydrocyanicuni, a drop of
which will kill, is an example of drug violence. " Drug
"
power does not exist in the actual amount of the drug present
in a prescription, but solely in its homceopathicity to a disease.
It is but fair to state that not all the drugs in the new woik de-

part so far from the old lines as the specimen cited, but
there are a sufficient number of them to render the work radi-
cally objectionable to everyone who believes in Homoeopathy,
or the law, Similia similibus curantur.
Our second reason for opposing the work is of a widely differ-
ent character and, again, baldly put, That the new Pharma- is :

copoeia actually, though insidiously, cuts away the ground from

under the American Institute of Homoeopathy, and, conse-
quently, from under every homoeopathic college, hospital, prac-
titioner, and all pertaining to Homoeopathy. This is a sweep-
ing assertion, but if the new book is to be followed the slow but
sure logic of time will prove its truth. Homoeopathy made its
way against 'terrible opposition chiefly on cures of so-called
" chronic " cases, and 1
were mostly cured with remedies
''these
like- Silicea, Calcare&varb., and a host of other " insolu-
Aiir-utii,

'-"bles." Until comparatively recent yea r s all these drugs were

prescribed- m dilutions, or pellets medicated with dilutions of
the -Vritu'ratuins-of- rh^s'e in|^uf>ie& in accordance with Hahne-
1

mann's directions. The new Pharmacopoeia condemns these

—
drugs as inert precisely what our " regular " friends have al-
ways said What follows? Why sooner or later the laughing
!

" regular " points to this fact and very truly insists that if you
condemn the one you cannot spare the other dilution and away —
goes the whole. For what reply can be made ? The most im-
portant part of our edifice is built on material gathered from
work done by these dilutions which the official Pharmacopoeia —
if it is to be the official —
says were and are inert.
It truly replied that the new work docs not actually
may be
say these dilutions are " inert " in so many words. What it
does say is this "The minutest particles attainable by mortar
:

trituration are equal in size to those obtained by precipitation,

and like these, they are not further reducible by trituration."
Which is nu-re assertion.
These remarks have reference
1
' to the long established cus-
 A Retrospect and a Forecast. 17

toms of attempting to make dilutions from the 3rd centesimal or

6th decimal trituration, as this does not produce perfect solu-
bility of ordinary insoluble substances, in the sense hitherto
eroneousiy accepted."
" Therefore, triturations of substances insoluble in water or
alcohol, should not be used for dilutions." Why not? Clearly
there can be but one Because such dilutions are
answer:
inert; the cruel alternative would be Because they do not
:

enable pharmacists to sell enough medicine, but of course this is

absurd and the condemnation of our oldest remedies remains.
Worse than all the new work in this denies Hahnemann, who
says on this point "In order to convert the potent trituration
:

into the liquid state, and still further develop its power, we
avail ourselves of the experience, hitherto unknown to chem-
istry, that allmedicinal substances triturated to the third are
soluble in water and alcohol." And this is true, as the past
solemnly testifies it is not to be believed because the man
;

Hahnemann taught it but for the reason that experience has

incontestibly proved its truth even though the microscope fails
to reveal to the eyes of finite man any material particles of the
drug such dilutions.
in
The gain in adopting this book will be an illusive " uniform-
ity " that even if attained will be of no actual value to the physi-
cian, and for which he will be, unless he prepares his own medi-
cines, dependent on the honesty of his pharmacist. Thus we
see that the gain to the cause from adopting this new work is
practically nothing, while the loss may be everything it con- ;

demns the founder, or, rather, the discoverer and formulator, of

the great law of therapeutics, and our brightest lights of the
past, and leaves us, what ?

A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST.

In this rare old world, and always providing one is not stone
blind, there is much between the ages of twenty-four
to be seen
and sixty-four. Perhaps a retrospect through such a vista may
not be wholly without interest to the readers of the Recorder,
inasmuch as the recollections pertain entirely to a medical
studentship for that period of time and the student's convictions
made and keep him a homoeopath.
It was the student's good fortune to enter the office of the

Hon. W. H. Watson, M. D., of Utica, New York. There he

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1 A Retrospect and a Forecast.

certainly found " the best of good company;" the doctor

all
himself, a graduate from Brown University when
a diploma in
letters had no foot-ball folly depreciating its meaning; a student
who sat at the feet of an Okie, and who did not disgrace the
preceptor when his student donned the gown of medical doctor-
hood after graduation in the beloved old Filbert Street shrine of
Homoeopathy. If the student now writing has learned that
nothing pertaining to medicine is foreign to the homoeopathic physi-
cian, then, of a certainty, he owes it to his own preceptor.
Preceding this student fondly-remembered office were
in that
the late Dr. Millard, of New York City, and the present Dr. W.
S. Searle, of Brooklyn, N. Y. If Hamilton College is not
"justified of her children " it is not the fault of the two class-
mates just mentioned. But why should he, who was ever der
tangenichts of that office, endeavor to creep for a moment under
their mantles! Little did he see of Dr. Millard until much later:
and with Dr. Searle his intimacy began as a room-mate during
the last year of the doctor's medical undergraduateship. (Where
now is the landlady who
"country fellows" with oyster
fed us
pies until we absolutely could not turn over in bed mornings?
That was hospitality!)
Medical students read a year in a preceptor's office before they
entered college, in those days ;
yes, and if the preceptor did his
duty they recited to him of their reading. Dear teacher of
mine, thou didst thy duty faithfully didst thou drive me
;

through " Wilson's Anatomy " daily the inevitable recitation,

;

daily the invariable reprimand for flirting with the girls while
sitting at the front widow of the office pretending to " study."
Yes, dear teacher, thou knowest "Wilson's Anatomy " went
through me Alas It didn't stay in me, because in these days
: !

of mistaken belly-aches half of the time I'm puzzled to know

where the appendix vermiformis is; a modern, "scientific"
surgeon "knocks me silly" every time! But that isn't tin-
fault ;
perhaps it isn't always mine.
the student, " with verdure clad," saw for the first
One day
time a live " professor" of the species medical. Awe " isn't in
it" compared with the sensation of that first moment. Shortly,
however, the "professor" uttered a sentence that would have
paralyzed Bindley Murray, whereupon that student took cour-
age to scrutinize the talker on the platform, and that time awe
wasn't "in it," nor did it ever again perturb him. That man's
teachings slid off that student like water from a duck. Does
 A Retrospect and a Forecast. 19

your professor ever dream of the freemasonry of letters that so

often "gives him away," that neutralizes his influence as a
teacher ? I fear not. (Of course, a fondness for correct language
" "
is an acquired taste," but it is good taste, "just the same ;

machine-made professors to the contrary, notwithstanding.)

Per co?ilra, does your really educated professor ever imagine
that pedantry is fully as fatal to his influence with his class as
even grammar-murdering can be ?
There was Prof. X., a classically educated man —
he could give
you Hippocrates his directions for cutting your finger-nails
(do you know them, reader ?) —
always called nightmare
" ephialtes " whose favorite compendium of medicine was that
;

compiled by Paul of sEgina (to keep the devil away whilst poor
Paul was waiting for practice); whose favorite authority on
measles was Rhases, the Persian in a word, it was of him that
;

the class said :

" There's nothing original in him

Excepting original sin."

Poor fellow! he couldn't help it; he was " built that way;" it
was the ante- natal influence that dominated him, for his father
had been branded as a plagiarist while yet the present century
was in its third decade.
But of all the automata that ever gyrated as a professor com-
mend me to him who was disguised as a "chemist." Such a
drizzle of feeble inanities as he put forth — a thin stream of skim-
milk and HjO (to the infinite damage of the latter). One course
of lectures did for us and did
him; he was succeeded by a
it for
chemical Quaker, and some years later he blossomed as a patent
medicine what-d'ye call-it.
The real professors were Hempel, Williamson, Moore and
Reed; the others were simulacra, capable only of signing a
diploma and blackballing any student who dared to call chaff
rubbish.
Charles Julius Hempel; scholar, patriot, enthusiast and the
protagionist of translators; thou, too, art now translated! It was
a happy fortune that enabled the student of the old Filbert
Street college days to see thee laid tenderly to rest in far-off
Michigan. Long wert thou wrapped no
in darkness; for thee
more the morning's ruddy glow nor evening's golden gleam;
but patience was thine and child-like trust, and, lo! the Deliv-
erer came, bringing the peace ineffable so rightly thy guerdon.
20 A Retrospect and a Forecast.

How often did we graceless students do the sleeve-laugh

when he launched forth into one of his countless paeans praising
Acofiite; but he, at least,
" Believed the wonders that he sang."
In the years to come, the student who is now writing had op-
portunities to see that Hempel could accomplish more with
Aconite — for he knew the whole gamut of its possibilities than —
any other physician he has ever seen use it.
The greatest grief of Hempel's life was the endeavor (futile as
it proved) to shipwreck the mother college for the sake of found-

ing that in New York city —

from which the prime mover in that
plot was ignominiously displaced some ten years later for mak-
ing merchandise of its diploma. That branch of " home indus-
try " was instantly suppressed by the faculty, with Dr. Carroll
Dunham for Dean. The present writer had the pleasure of
recommending to the mercy of his colleagues the disgraced
diploma seller who ten years before had honored him with a
blackball vote.
The present writer knows that a codicil to a certain will post-
poned indefinitely, then, the present flourishing condition of the
Philadelphia college —
so long have American homoeopathic
physicians been addicted to kicking their own fat into the fire.

Michigan doesn't wear the belt for that prowess!

Walter Williamson, a homoeopath with a conviction that filled
him, and willed him, and killed him by his devotion to its tri-
umphs and its toils. Never was there a teacher who so pared
away the superfluities of a lecture. Every word counted, and
what a count! Earnest and indefatigable, solid and reliable,
and —
supplanted one day by a thing without petticoats that
talked about the " sympathis pubis " to a crowd of students who
could only "sit and take it." Later the "thing" became
somewhat famous for the flavor of the grapes he grew in his
vineyard; but when it was discovered that his favorite fertilizer
consisted of the disjecta membra of the dissecting room his
patrons became queasy and the cannibal viticulturist came to
grief.
William A. Reed, a physiologist in whom there was no bile!
(Black bile raises the d — euce with a fellow and his fellows, ac-
cording to the pre-pathological writers.) Beyond all question,
Dr. Reed was the most richly read of all the various professors
whom this student has ever heard — and that list includes both
Faraday and Tyndall. He was better up in physiological
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A Retrospect and a Forecast, 2i

chemistry than any of his compeers in Philadelphia of that day.

Once while holding forth on the physiology of digestion he in-
formed us with all the fervency of profound admiration that
11
after some years of research Liebig had actually made faeces
in his laboratory" (synthetically). "Humph!" whispered a
fellow student to another, "/ did that before I was a day old"
(A candidate for graduation who could not distinguish between
faeces and meconium! Well, a few years later, a?id as might have
been expected, he found a place in State's prison.)
Thomas Moore, the genial, ever-unruffled Professor of
Anatomy. Ah, but were we not proud of him ? Indoctrin-
all

ated in the University of Pennsylvania, and Demonstrator of

Anatomy there until the light broke in upon him then casting ;

his lot with the despised " Homoeopaths," and meeting the
averted faces of his whilom teachers and associates his foot on ;

the first round of the ladder leading to preferment and pelf and
all that is so seducing in the flesh pots of Egypt, yet turning his

back upon all these blandishments to share the proud man's

contumely with a pitiful minority, and all for a conviction. He
was proudly and justly conscious that it could never be said of
his students
il
:They don't know anything of Anatomy." That
poisoned arrow of a contemptible calumny never dinted the face
of his shield on the contrary, when we were berated for our
;

heresy by the bullyrags of the older school whilst we attended

the clinics at the Philadelphia Hospital, it was ever allowed
that "if they are Moore's students they at least know
Anatomy."
How promptly, after the last stroke of Enos's bell, Dr. Moore
shot into the ampitheatre with a question (the preliminary quiz,
you know) popping out of his mouth and taking some of us
unawares for he was like lightning we never knew where he
; ;

would strike. Thus entering once, with a skull in his hand,

the base of it facing the class, and his index finger curved into
the foramen magnum, he suddenly asked " Mr. G., what :

passes through there besides the cesophagiisT De rectum! was '

'
'
'
'

the prompt reply of the Teutonic student, who was by no means

so sleepy as he looked. The professor's eyes fairly danced with
delight, and I question if the dust we raised in that room on the
second floor thereupon had all settled when the building was
finally demolished.
Death touched him in the heart I always thought it would
;
;

it was the tenderest spot in the consummation of God's work

a gentleman.
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22 ProfessQr Osirala^s Investigations

"Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand,

And the sound of a voice that is still."
% -.: * :£ %. :£ :fc

It was designed something of the progress of

to have-written
Homoeopathy from those days of fervent faith and earnest pur-
pose to these of coquetries with coal tar products, that have
never been "proved," and "monkeyings" with hypodermic
syringes that have been proved the cheap-and-nastiest of all
defilements. But I am afraid the old professors might learn of
it, for they all read an " astral " edition of the Recorder, — and,
oh, what would they do? Hang and whisper won-
their heads
deringly " Has the dread Source of Truth forgotten it even as
:

they ? Did we pass the torch to unworthy hands ? Did we vainly

toil through all those long years of sore travail for this ?"

Perish the thought, O ye who early tilled the vineyard !

There still be those who never bent the knee to Baal those who ;

have never lost sight of the lone star, never faltered in convic-
tion nor failed in duty. What though the heathen rage and the
people imagine a vain thing
" Although the many in their might condemn thee.

One truth with God is Truth's majority."

That is the forecast which filled worn and w eary solitary
the ?

student with deep delight. Again he saw the eager faces of his
old classmates around him as in the long-past days. He raised
mighty cheer, and, behold it was a dream.
his voice for a !

Not "too good to be true," but too true to be doubted.

Heaven send him many such until the lumen siccum of Eternity
shall dispel the mirages that deceive only here.
S. A. J.
Ann Arbor, 18th of December.

PROFESSOR OSWALD'S INVESTIGATIONS AND

HOMCEOPATHY.
Translated from AUgemeine Homoopathische Zeitung for the Homoeo-
pathic Recorder.
My honored COLLEAGUE: You have requested me to make
some remarks from the point of view of the homoeopathic physi-
cian with respect to the very gratifying researches of Professor
Oswald which have been published in full through your paper,
and I only now find time to comply with vour request. In doing
so, however, I shall confine myself to a few points, since most

of the conclusions wrhich result from Prof. Oswald's publications

involuntarily impress themselves on every thinking reader.
 Professor Oswald's Investigations. 23

I would first of all like to point to the fact that, supposing

the experiments of Oswald to contain no error in their arrange-
ments, we have in them a means of demonstrating the presence
of a number of organic and inorganic chemical combinations in
homoeopathic trituration, and this, indeed, in a state of unusual!}'
minute and subtle comminution, such as probably corresponds,
according to the statement of the experimenter himself, to the
limits of the most sensitive analytical reaction of the spectrum;
for in these experiments the only question was the demonstra-
tion of the presence of most minute particles in a state of solid
aggregation. The proof itself consists in the immediate per-
ception of rigidity or crystallization in a supersaturated solu-
tion. Consequently we perceive a physical phenomenon, and
from this we are compelled to acknowledge the presence of solid
particles of the subtance in question in the homoeopathic tritura-
tion examined.
It is worthy of note, that the substances here considered are
mostly of an organic nature, which can never be investigated by
spectral analysis. When we find that tartrate of potassa and of
soda are regularly found active even in the 8th Decimal tritura-
tion, and that in a number of other substances even the one
hundred thousandth part of a milligram is still recognizable,
this latest increase in the exactness and subtlety of experimental
analysis is a matter of great satisfaction. Now of what nature
is the exhibition of energy which here furnishes us with new

means of quantitative identification? It consists in a change of

condition with respect to the state of aggregation, and we may
call it a vis formativa. The fluid before homogeneous becomes a
mixture in a physical sense: by allowing a particle of the tritura-
tion in question to fall in, a certain quantity of the same sub-
stance is separated in a solid form. We see here how an ex-
tremely minute impulse may produce transmutations which are
disproportionally large, quantitatively considered. Theoretically
considered, the smallest particle of the 8th Decimal trituration
may be sufficient under certain circumstances to cause a corre-
spondent change in masses as large as the earth if existing in the
form of a supersaturated solution. The state of matter in which
the simple touch of matter in a different state of aggregation,
i.e., a solid particle of the same substance suffices to transform

matter into the solid state, Oswald calls metastability This .

opens an interesting vista into the transmutations occurring in

the inorganic world as well as in the world of life. In a similar
24 Projessor Oswald's Investigations.

sense Oswald opines that the elements and combinations occur-

ring on earth may be in a state of metastability with respect to
living organism, so that they may by the mere touch (reception)
come into such a state that they are transmuted into constituents
of a living body whenever a homogeneous tissue comes into
connection with them. This again is merely a theoretical ex-
pression for the absence of a ge?ieratio (Equivocal
Returning from this extended vista, let us consider as homoeo-
pathic physicians how these observations of Oswald may be of
use in enlarging our views. First of all we recognize in them a
progress in the quantitative recognition of our cause, in so far
as the physical energy of the minimal has been scientifically in-
vestigated and established in a new domain, with a recognition
and with the use at the same time of Hahnemann's method of
comminution. In the second place, we have gained a new
analogy for the relation of similars. We see that with respect
to conformable substances those very energies are manifested
which transmute the forms, so that from a very changeable, i. e.,

metastabile state, there may be caused a new, solid state through

impulse minimal, indeed, but directed very definitely in the
direction of the tfoyf,and this minute impulse may transform
quantities of indefinitely great dimensions. This very fact
points to a very weighty analogy. The results obtained when
we give a homoeopathic remedy appropriate to a certain case of
disease are surely quite similar to the case in question. If the
ingested, highly potentized drug has no affinity with the actual
morbific cause, i. e., if the natural effects of the two are not
largely concordant, we donot see any exhibition of energy at
all, just as little as Oswald obtained any result from dropping a
crystal of natrum sulphate into a supersaturated solution of
salol. But when the minutest crystal of salol capable of ex-
isting by itself falls into a supersaturated solution of salol,
then we have the analogy of those cases of disease which have
been treated with a higher potency of the remedy exactly agree-
ing with the symptoms. The direction of the energy ingested
agrees exactly with the direction of the chemical morbific irri-

tant and the quantity of the energy is quite a secondary matter

as the slightest impulse operates in the direction called for ac-
cording to the measure of the living reactionary and curative
activity of the organism, but by no means according to the
* Spontaneous generation.
|
Equal <>r same.
 Professor Oswald's Investigations. 25

quantity of the drug ingested, since this serves only to give the
direction independent of the quantity; just as in the crystals of
Oswald which cause the reaction, it is only its existence in a
condition of solid aggregation which is required, but not any
particular dimension. Oswald e. g. made the observation and
conclusion that salol, although demonstrably present in the 4th
decimal, nevertheless there ceases to possess the properties of a
solid substance. It is a matter of course that we homoeopathic
physicians w T
ill not identify Oswald's demonstrations as to the
solid state of a body with the possibility or probability of the
therapeutic action of remedies. The preservation of a certain
vis formativa within the limits of certain dilutions is there de-
pendent on its presence in a solid state; as is well known, we
are independent of this state in our therapeutic experiences. It
is quite possible that within our narrower limits the law 7
:

Corpora non agunt nisi fluid* has full force. The changes which
after receiving homoeopathic remedies w e observe in the very ?

changeable system of energy of a morbid organism consist

surely in a mutation of the former state of energy and of its re-
newed establishment in physiological breadth and balance of
forces. It is probable that for such a therapeutic solution a
higher state of aggregation may be called for, but even in this
state only the energies proceeding thence in a definite direction,
changing the forms, need to be considered as active causes.
The processes which ma} then be observed subjectively and ob-
7

jectively are: the restoration of states free from pain, the re-
moval of other obstructions to the physiological action of forces,
proceeding an accelerated or otherwise striking enhanced ratio
at
when compared with the processes of healing w hen left to 7

nature alone, in so far as we have any data from which to judge.

The system of energies in a living organism is an incompara-
bly more complicated matter than a chemical solution; neverthe-
less we ma>' laws and retractions w hich are
find certain natural 7

common to both. When

w e consider the energies, it comes
r

natural to view them both as systems of forces, and the change-

able nature of supersaturated solutions increases the propriety
of comparing the two; for as solutions are ready through their
metastability to enter on the condition of solids in answer to a
well-defined impulse so also the disturbed (morbid) organism
tends back to a physiological mobility,! which may be viewed as
* " Bodies only act when fluid."
t German " Labilitaet."
26 Professor Oswald's Investigations.

metastabitity in certain oscillating breadths (see G rail yogi's

Idea
of Proportional Oscillation); the homoeopathic
ingestion of
remedies, according to many observations, replaces the body, as
it were, by jerks into this state. We need not and should not
be astonished that in so highly complicated a system, the energies
of whose separate parts under certain circumstances cause very
remarkable vital phenomena striking to the senses, the change of
condition caused by the homoeopathic remedy frequently may
appear as striking as the sudden crystallization of a supersatur-
ated solution by means of the crystalline trace of Oswald; nor
that the limit of the action of our remedies which, as before said,
are not limited to the solid form of aggregation, extends way
beyond the dilutions tested by Oswald. It is well known that
the human organism itself is the most sensitive reagent, and all
reagents must at last be perceived through some sensuous media-
tion, and thus through secondary reactions in the apparatus of
our senses. These organic instruments are like a sensitive lever
which magnifies small changes taking place outside of the organ-
ism, i. e., in many cases these only become appreciable through
the sensitiveness of the organic material. The almost infini-
tesimally minute energy which issues from the luminous plate
of a lightworm, and of which only a small fraction enters the
eye, would not produce an appreciable effect anywhere except
through the mediating sensitive lever of the retina, fashioned to
perceive undulations of ether of precisely so subtle a character.
Thus we find in the machinery of organic life connecting points
with various qualities and quantities of energy, and these render
possible the curative action of small definitely directed medical
forces, as they induce processes of solution and release, i. e. in- }

direct activities, activities which turn their objective side out-

ward and thus become perceptible, while subjectively they affect
the general feeling or man's consciousness. These are the ob-
jects of subtle, medical observation.
The experiments of Oswald offer many suggestive momenta
for a scientific theory of homoeopathic therapy. Iam glad to say
the fundamental features of the theory developed by me in former
writings come forth rather confirmed by a comparison with
Oswald's observations.
In fine, I would express a certain satisfaction that in the labors
of Oswald the discoveries of Hahnemann occupy the honored
position of useful work, exact in its physical aspect, and are
valued as such. Thus once again some small fraction of the im-
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Arsetiicuni in Intermittents. 27

portanee of Homoeopathy is protected on the field of general

scientific life; when will the way be opened for the assimilation
of thewhole of these memorable works and discoveries ? Answer:
When the natural sciences shall have been enlarged and de-
veloped sufficiently in their views and their discoveries. Then
at once will they be appreciated.
E. SCHLEGEL,
Practising Physician.
Tuebi?ige?i, September 26th, 1897.

ARSENICUM IN INTERMITTENTS.
" Arsenic is
one of the most prominent agents of cure against
intermittents. When the chills and fever are not distinctly
developed, when they alternate, or commingle with each other,
also, when the heat is burning, likewise disagreeable to the
touch and attended by great agitation and almost inextinguish-
able thirst, Arsenic will exhibit its remedial efficiency. Arsenic
demands a preference over all other remedies when the fever
presents a form peculiarly characteristic of this remedy ; for ex-
ample, when the pains or accidental symptoms already existing,
but feebly developed, augment at the accession of the fever, or
when they first appear and are succeeded by and unite with the
fever, or when the fever is accompanied by symptoms which do
not appertain to it, as lively anxiety, buzzing in the ears,
twitching in the limbs, etc. Arsenic is not less efficient in those
fevers where, immediately after the chill, an inclination to vomit
or a bitter taste in the mouth is observed ; when the taste of
aliments and drink is extinguished, without a constant continu-
ance of a bitter or disagreeable taste in the mouth, which will
not again develop itself for some time, except while eating, or
shortly after; where vertigo, nausea, trembling and sudden
prostration of strength are manifested to the highest extent;
where patient drinks very frequently but very little at a time;
where perspiration does not supervene for some time after the
heat, and also where it does not appear at all and where sen- ;

sation and motion is impaired, attended with insupportable pains

and the highest degree of anxiety." Hartmann.
28 Dr. Ad. Lipprs Keynotes.

SOME OF DR. AD. LIPPE'S KEYNOTES.

By Thomas Lindsley Bradford. M. D.
[N. B. — The symptoms in
brackets were taken down in the class-room
and are not found in Dr. Lippe's work.]
Phos. Intermittent fever. Heat and perspiration at night,
with faintness and ravenous hunger, which could not be satisfied
by eating; afterwards chilliness, with chattering of teeth and
external coldness; the chilliness was succeeded by internal heat,
especially in the hands, while the external coldness continued.
Phos. Blood boils. {Arnica with pain as if bruised.) Fungus

haeraatodes; small wounds bleed much. (Skin bleeds profusely

from the least cut or touch; old sores break open and bleed
easily.)
Phos. Polypus. (Bleeding. See also Sanguiji., Merc. corr.
Uterine polypus, Calc. c. The c. polypus does not
Calc. bleed,
but has a mucous discharge, if any.)
Phos. Petechias. Red spots. (In measles and scarlet fever.
Petechias in old persons, Co?iuim.)
Phos. Head and facesymptoms are relieved by cold air, but
the cough and chest symptoms are aggravated.
Phos. Aggravation; in the evening, at night, especially before
midnight (after midnight, Ars.)', after breakfast; when alone
(never wants to be alone); after eating something warm; when
rising from a seat; from light; during a thunder storm; from
change of weather; from singing; laughing; strong smells (the
cough). (From eructations; on walking; from pressure; ag-
gravated from rising from a seat, under Rhus t., Lycop., Snip.,
Puis, aggravated after perspiration and in a room filled with peo-
ple —see Con turn).
Phos. Amelioration; in the dark; while lying on right side;
from rubbing; after sleeping except debility; after eating some-
thing cold. (After drink, especially wine; from dry weather;
from touch, during twilight; from warmth, warm air).
Phos. Especially suitable for lean, slender, tall persons.
Phos. In a condition of great debility this person is much
ier beneficially affected by Phos. being mesmerized before
taking the remedy. (Especially in lung complaints, when the
patient docs not respond to Phos., and it is surely the right
remedy, and the person is near death — sinking rapidly — magne-
tize patient slightly and the remedy will act. This is true in

non action of other remedies |.

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Dr. Ad. Lippe's Keynotes. 29

Phos. Is an antidote to over doses of Camphor. (Give an

emetic in Phos. poisoning, and then give Nuxv. y Coffea or Cam-
phor. )
Phos. Never give Canst, after Phos., or vice versa.
Phos. acid. Perfect indifference (absent minded); silent sad-
ness; indifference, thoughtlessness, stupidity; disinclination to
talk. Even to answer a question (often seen in typhus).
Phos. acid. Bad effects from sexual excesses — loss of fluids.
(See China.)
Phos. acid. Most of the pains are only felt during rest and are
much ameliorated by motion. {Rhus t.)

Platina. Pride and over-estimation of oneself; looking down

with haughtiness on others. (Too much self-esteem Pal-
ladium. )
Platina. Illusion; everything around her
very small and
is

everybody inferior to her in body and mind.

Mania, with great
pride; with fault finding; with unchaste talk; trembling and
clonic spasms, caused by fright or from anger.
Platina. Sensation of coldness in the ears, with sensation of
numbness extending to the cheeks and lips.
Platina. Purple, net-like appearance on the skin.
Platina. Constipation; after lead poisoning or while traveling;
frequent urging, with expulsion of only small portions of faeces,
with great straining.
Platina. Nymphomania; unnatural excitement of the sexual
desire (Sach.) especially in lying-in women, with voluptuous
tingling in the external and internal sexual organs. (Onanism
and voluptuous desires in women —origanum vulgare. Br.)
Platina. Pressing down during menstruation.
in the genitals
(Extending from the groins through the hip to the back, and
there the pain becomes fixed.)
Platina. Hysterical spasms, with full consciousness at the —
dawn of day, morning. (Spasmodic yawning, speechless distor-
tion of the eyes, and involuntary motion of corners of mouth
and eyelids.)
Platina. (During intervals of spasms children lie on the
back and seek to uncover legs; knees are drawn up to abdomen;
face pale and sunken.)
Platina. The pains begin slightly, increase gradually and
decrease in the same slow, gradual manner.
Podophyllum pelt. Important in dentition with morning
diarrhoea.
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30 Dr. Ad. Lippc's Keynotes.

Podoph. pelt. Prolapsus ani, with diarrhoea.

Descent of rec-
tum from by stool, or by the discharge
a little exertion followed
of thick, transparent mucus, sometimes mixed with blood.
Podoph. pelt. (Diarrhoea of infants; painless discharge of yel-
low water running down the legs and soiling the floor. Br.)
Podoph. pelt. Frequent nocturnal urination during pregnancy.
Podoph. pelt. In the earlier months of pregnancy she can only
lie comfortably on the stomach.

Psorinum. Despair of recovery thinks to be ver)' ill, and in

great danger not to survive the sickness; hopelessness. (See
Cale., Lach., Ars.)
Psorinum. Congestions of blood to the head, with red-hot
cheeks and nose, redness of the eruption on the face, with great
anxiety every afternoon after dinner (during pregnancy in fifth
month). (The only remedy with this symptom.)
Psorinum. Great aversion to have the head uncovered, even
in the hottest weather does he persist in wearing a fur cap.
Psorinum. Shortness of breath. Anxious dyspnoea with pal-
pitation of the heart. The dyspnoea is worse when sitting up to
write, better when lying down. Asthmatic attacks with hydro-
thorax.
Psorinum. Pain in the legs, especially on the tibia and in
the soles of the feet, as from overexertion in walking, w ith T

great restlessness in the legs, better on rising (worse on first

rising Rhus t.).
Psorinum. Very weak from the last exertion. (See Kali e.,
Natr. mur., Carbo. veg., Ars.) Great debility from loss of
fluids or after severe acute diseases.
Psorinum. Sleeplessness at night, from dyspnoea; from intol-
erable itching
Psorinum. Perspiration profuse when taking the slightest ex-
ercise; at night. After typhus. Perspiration in the palms of
the hands. (See Snip., especially if cold.)
Psori?ium. Itching and stinging in skin in many parts at the
same time. Intolerable itching from getting warm; in the even-
ing in bed scratches himself until he bleeds. Suppressed itch.
Herpes, with biting-itching, with meal dust, humid eruption.
(See Thuja.')
Psorinum. Is an indispensable remedy if debility remains after
violent acute diseases; if profuse perspirations remain alter ty-
phus fever; in consequences of suppressed itch, especially after
large doses of Sulphur; if the patient is hopeless, despairing of
his recovery.
Psorinum. Sitting aggravates the dyspnoea (asthma) and
pain in the heart; these and other ailments are relieved while
lying down.
 Kali Nitricum in J diarrhoea. 31

KALI NITRICUM (NITRUM) IN DIARRHCEA.

By E. V. Ross, M. D.
November 20th, 1896, at 7 A. M., I was requested to visit Mrs.
G., aet. and found her suffering from an attack of diarrhoea
60,
which had been going on for past three days. She informed me
that it was brought on from eating a small piece of veal three
days previously. She had had one previous attack, caused as
she believed from partaking of veal this attack lasted some six
;

weeks and brought her to a very low state, and she was fearful
that this attack would be even more severe as it had so far pre-
sented a more violent character. With pencil in hand I jotted
down the following Stools frequent and profuse, as many as 20
:

in twenty-four hours. Stools watery, dark brown in color.

Before stool rumbling and griping in the umbilical region.
After stool great prostration. Concomitants Loss of appetite,
:

thirst, tongue clean, nausea, constant but more severe at times;

feels weak. Modalities: Aggravation from eating veal.
Bell's Therapeutics of Diarrhoea, etc., gives but one remedy as
having the peculiar aggravation from eating veal, viz Kali ;

nitr. Bcenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket-book gives the fol-

lowing Ars., Calcc, Caast., Chin., Ip., K. nit., Nux v., Sep.,
:

Sul.,Verat a., Zinc.

My first thought was to give Ipecac, but after considering the
symptoms of Kali nitricum as given in Dr. Bell's work I de-
cided on the latter, giving two powders of Kali nitr. 3 m.,
(Jenichen) one hour apart and plenty of placebo to follow. Diet:
14
Scalded" milk.
November 21, 10 a. m. —
Great improvement, stools gradually
grew during previous day. No stools during the night,
less
sleeps quite soundly, feels quite well this A. m., but weak, appe-
tite better, one quick natural movement this a. m.; she con-
tinued to improve and has upon three occasions since the last
attack partaken of veal without any ill effects.
" Some persons always have diarrhoea after eating veal. The
curability of such cases with Kali ?iitr. needs somewhat more
confirmation, but no other remedy has had this symptom so well
confirmed as yet." Dr. Bell. —
Rochester, A T
. Y.
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32 Quinine in Malaria.

QUININE IN MALARIA.
There has of late been an intermittent controversy going on
in some of our homoeopathic exchanges on this subject, and,
therefore, a few quotations from a paper by Hartman, pub-
lished in 1834 on the use of Cinchona or Quinine in inter-
mittent fevers may not be amiss. Cinchona, he says, " will only
cure that form of intermittent fever which comprises some of the
following symptoms: Absence of thirst during the shivering or
chill, yet thirst between the chill and heat. However Ci?ichona
is not a suitable remedy when there during the heat;
is thirst
for at the extent of its indication here there should be nothing
more than a slight warmth or dryness of the lips, which it may
be necessary to moisten, without the existence of absolute
thirst. If there is thirst after the heat or during the perspira-
tion the Cinchona is perfectly suitable. When an intermittent
commences with an accessory symptom, as palpitation of the
heart, anxiety, frequent sneezing, excessive thirst, canine appe-
tite, pressing pain in the lower part of the abdomen, or pain in
the head, we can depend on its yielding to a small dose of
Cinchona. Also, when there is distension of the veins, with
simple warmth in the head, or increased general warmth, or a
simple sensation of heat without sensible exterior heat, or,
finally, actual external warmth. If the blood determines to the
head, ordinarily, with redness and heat of the face and fre-
quently with coldness of the remainder of the body, likewise
appreciable to the touch, or if there is an internal sensation of
heat with coldness of the cheeks and cold perspiration on the
forehead the Cinchona is equally beneficial.'
The men 1834 knew quite as well as the men of
of the year
1898 of the power of Quinine to suppress an intermittent with-
out curing the patient and Hartman, at the end of his paper,
says: " I shall next speak of intermittent fevers which have
been changed by the abuse of Cinchona or Peruvian bark, sup-
pressed by this agent, or complicated with symptoms which are
peculiar to it. Thence morbid state which we
arises a different
shall designate under the name of Peruvian bark or Quinine
malady, and which constitutes a peculiar kind of affection."
"The treatment of an intermittent fever thus complicated
with Peruvian bark symptoms, or, in preference as to title, of a
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Therapeutic Gleanings. 3$
Peruvian bark malady, for the primitive intermittent can scarcely
offer any vestiges of its primitive purity, and cannot be corn-
batted as such this treatment, I aver, demands the greatest
;

circumspection on the part of the physician, since, almost al-

ways, in a similar case, the latent morbific principles in the
body have been excited to their development and are equally
associated with the artifical bark malady and primitive inter-
mittent fever, thus giving origin to a triple complication. The
principal indication for the cure of so difficult a malady always
consists in destroying, or at least moderating, by appropriate
agents, the accidental symptoms engendered by excessive and
frequently repeated doses of Peruvian bark that we may .have
directly before us a pure image of our intermittent. The best
method is to have recourse to the known antidotes of Cinchona^
etc."
Commenting on this, Dr. A. Gerald Hull, who together with
John F. Gray, M. D., was editor of The American Journal of
Homasopathia, from whose pages the foregoing is quoted, says:
"Since the introduction of Jesuit's bark into medical practice,
for the treatment of intermittent fevers, perhaps there is no
singledisease which the Allopathic physician has considered more
under remedial control, although the annals of medicine have
constantly developed the unsuccessful issue of his anticipations."
Yet " Homceopathia " removes "simple intermittents with an
efficacy similar to that noticed in the treatment of other com-
plaints, generallycombats the complicated forms of this disease
more promptly and certainly than any other mode of practice,
and never occasions one of the worst and most obstinate of dis-
eases a7i intermittent complicated with the effects of the medicine. '

The italics are Dr. Hull's.

THERAPEUTIC GLEANINGS.
Echinacea.
Dr. G. W. Homsher, of Camden, O., in theDecember number
of Medical Gleaner, says: " In all and
diseases of the skin,
mucous membrane, Echinacea is the remedy. No drug will an-
tagonize blood poison as rapidly and completely as Echinacea.'"
His general prescription of the drug is "20 to 30 drops in a
little cold water." He has also found it useful externally in
cases of rhus poisoning, eczema and erysipelas; also Echinacea
and Hamamelis extract as a spray, gargle or swab in diph-
theria; and the same combination as an injection in gonorrhoea.
34 Therapeutic Gleanings.

Sabal Serrulata.
In the same journal Dr. Joseph Adolphus, of South Atlanta,
furnishes the following points on several remedies. Of Saw pal-
metto, or Sabal serrulata tincture; he says: " An old medical
friend, practicing in South Carolina, near the coast, writes me
that he frequently meets with old men who suffer severely from
prostatic enlargement, chronic cystitis of a catarrhal nature. He
regards this medicament as almost specific on the prostate,
mammae and ovary, and on the testicle and its appendages. He
says the cause of so much complaint and disappointment with
the use of the medicament is owing largely to unreliable prepa-
rations. Frequently fluid extract of Saw palmetto is made from
the root of the tree, which is nearly valueless in these diseases.
The dried berries, he believes, are nearly inert; yet large quan-
tities are used by northern manufacturers to make fluid extract,
because the fresh ones spoil when packed in large quantities for
shipment."
Stigmata Maydis.
Of Stigmata maydis he says: "An old friend and pupil, Dr.
J. T. Dodd, of Alabama, has told me that the fluid extract of
corn silk usually found in country drug stores is unreliable. He
insists that the tincture be made from the green silk in the way
Saw palmetto, Gehemium and
Passiflora incarnata are made, by
maceration; it is the only way, he thinks, in which a reliable
preparation of the medicament can be obtained. Corn silk,
when good, acts specifically on the urinary organs, in all forms
of congestion of the kidneys, dysuria, excessive urination,
chronic diseases of the kidneys and bladder, and, in my experi-
ence, it is the best diuretic and kidney tonic in all forms of
Bright's disease, acute and chronic, because it is a pure sedative
to the irritated parenchyma of the kidneys, and to the mucous
membrane of the urethra and bladder."

Staphysagria.

Of this drug he says: " In some cases of irritable bladder in

pregnant women, Staphysagria gives wonderfully satisfactory
results, especially when the symptoms can be traced to disturb-
ance in the nerve centres; neuralgic pains in various parts, espe-
cially the pelvic organs, restlessness at night, hysterical
in

excitement, and when the woman was troubled with dysmenor-

rhcea. The small dose is best to rely upon. Twenty drops in a
 Therapeutic Gleanings. 35

tumbler of water, teaspoonful at intervals of an hour or two. It

is often as efficient in old men who suffer from irritable bladder
and every now and then, retention."

Salix Nigra.

This from Chicago Medical Times: " In acute gonorrhoea, with

much erotic trouble, and in chordee with great irritation, gave
from thirty to sixty drops of Salix nigra on retiring, repeating
again at midnight or toward morning, if needed. Nothing
gives more satisfaction than this remedy, as it robs the night of
its terrors, and leaves no unpleasant consequences in its train.

In excessive venereal desire, amounting to satyriasis, this should

be the first remedy employed, inasmuch as it controls venereal
appetite in a very satisfactory manner. The Salix nigra can be
given in cases where the bromides are considered appropriate,
and likewise where they would be inappropriate, since there is
no reflex effect on the brain or nervous system."
By some physicians Salix nigra aments, the tincture of the
bloom of the black willow is regarded as even superior to the
Salix nigra tincture.

Liatris Spicata.

Dr. G. W. Holmes, of Sharpee, Fla., in a letter to Eclectic

Medical Journal says that twice during the past year Liatris
spicata has given him good results in dropsy. In the first case
the dropsy occurred as a result of enlargement of the liver and
spleen due to malarial contamination. The second case was one
in which numerous other remedies had totally failed, the kid-
neys declined to respond and almost total suppression w as pres- T

ent. Liatris was prescribed and on the second day afterwards

the patient had passed a gallon and a half of urine. In the
same letter it is stated that Sabal serrulata gave prompt and per-
manent relief in agonizing dysuria from fatal cancerous disease
of the uterus.

Hydrocyanic Acid.
Dr. A. S. Ironsides, of Camden, N. J., contributes to the
November Homoeopathic Physician a verification of the Hydro-
cyanic acid symptom that upon swallowing liquids " they gurgle
and roll audibly from oesophagus into the bowels." The case
was that of a boy of four down with fever. " When swallowing
a mouthful of water or spoonful of any liquid, it sounds like
 a

36 Some Lachesis Cases.

water rolling into an empty barrel (the mother of the patient

remarked this as strange). Sound commences just as soon as
water enters oesophagus, and rolls on down into stomach and
bowels." On this symptom Hydrocya?iic acid was given and the
case at once took a turn for the better and recover}- followed.

SOME LACHESIS CASES.

By A. W. K. Choudhury, Calcutta, India.
(1) Patient, a female Mahomedan of 40 years, came to my dis-
pensary (6-7-'97, afternoon) to be treated for general oedema
a?id piiffiyiess, from which she had been suffering for three days.
History and symptoms of the case were as follows: About a
month ago she had fever for two days, which passed off without
medicine. As the fever went off, itch gradually appeared on the
lower extremities. She had used an external application —
certain oil— twice a da}', for one day only, two days previous
to her coming to my dispensary for treatment. The itch
disappeared suddenly after the application the same day; the
following night her face was bloated and was in this condition
when she came under my treatment. Before the application she
had itching as far up as the knees, but this now extended all
over body except her back. Increased heaviness of body. For
about two months previous she had been costive, passing daily
one insufficient, small, knotty stool; her urine was reddish, hot
and burning when passing. Last menstruation scanty, at about
last full moon, with pain all over bod}' and in the hypogastrium.
Formication all over body save the back. Had tenderness in
left iliac region after the last menses, but no such tenderness

these three days; giddiness on standing after arising from a sit-

ting posture; red swelling of face ; sleeplessness.
She was given Lachesis 30th, one globule per dose, two doses,
one dose per diem. On her first day of attendance Kiwi and
milk for diet were ordered. She was ordered to bathe daily as
usual. The 8th inst. she came again to the dispensary and I
found the swollen face and itching of the body decreased. She
had suffered from pain and burning in her whole body before
taking the medicine, but these were considerably diminished.
On the 7th inst. she passed three stools. She was again given
two (loses more of Lachesis 30, as before. She is continuing the
treatment, and has almost recovered. She now looks almost as
well as she was before her attack.
 Some Lachesis Cases. $?

Remark: This is a case of general cedem a from suppression of

itch eruption.She used the external application in the day
time, afternoon and evening, and the itch eruptions almost all

healed up as a result, but the following night oedema com-

menced. This suppression of eruptions, with tenderness about
the left iliacregion during the last menstruation, and other
minor symptoms, as costiveness, itching and burning of body,
etc., caused me to try Lachesis. Four successive doses were
given and no more, getting placebo for the following days. On
the fifth day of her treatment she complained of difficulty of
breathing, especially at night when lying, and of oedema of the
feet, while she was otherwise improving. Thinking these two
symptoms might be an aggravation, I discontinued the medi-
cine, substituting placebo every day. She has been improv-
ing with the discontinuance of the medicine.
A practical hint to beginners of homoeopathic pactice: Should
cease to administer the medicine if an altogether new symptom
appear or aggravation of any of the existing symptoms, or of all
the symptoms, be witnessed.
This case is an example of repercussion of skin diseases produc-
ing dire and dangerous conditions, and how Homoeopathy
soothes such sad sufferings.
(2) The patient, a relation of mine, had been under my
treatment during convalescence from an attack of remittent
fever, complicated with an acute inflammation of liver, and was
getting Sulphur, when all on a sudden, after a slight exposure,
noticed a pain on the left side of his neck. The following
morning (i2-7-'o,7) I examined him and found his left tonsil in-
flamed, with difficulty of deglutition on the left side of throat,
increased salivation, saliva stringy sometimes, external pain on
the part, saliva with bad smell, carotid pulsation visible, fever
increased, no stool, sticky mucus on the affected part, frequently
to be brought by hawking; a sensation of a lump in the throat
(left side), with attempts to swallow that were in vain; oedema-
tous swelling of feet and increased urination.
Treatment: Lachesis 30th, one globule, a dose per diem, was
given three days successively and a satisfactory amelioration of
the throat symptoms, sound sleep and opening of the bowels
followed, but I could not proceed with Lachesis on account of
other symptoms compelling me to change the medicine to an-
other better suiting the occasion.
38 Some Lachesis Cases.

Remark; Lachesis has an affinity for the left side of the throat,
and so it was given in the above case. In narrating this case I
am compelled to go out of limit to lay before the reader a con-
dition of the house indicating Lachesis tendency of the patients.
My patient has three brothers all living in the same house with
him: for about a year or so his youngest brother had been suf-
fering from a chronic abscess, of small size, on the left anterior
side of his neck, and when he came under my treatment was
very sensitive about neck to clothes; had also constipation,
epistaxis and a few other symptoms indicating Lachesis. He
was given that remedy and at once improvement followed;
bowels moved regularly and the hyper- sensitiveness went off.
The abscess was opened and cured with Silicea. Another (the
third) brother of my patient had an abscess of the same size
and character, though not chronic, on the left anterior side of
neck. This patient did not use any medicine but only got his
abscess opened by me.
I think Lachesis may have symptoms arising from some ill

hygienic condition of the situation and structure of the resi-

dence.
(3) A case of acidity, with enlargement of liver. Patient,
named Dabu Molla, a Mahomedan, aged about 50 years, came
to my
dispensary on the 28th of June, 1897, f° r the treatment ot
the above ailment.
The history and symptoms of the case were as follows Was :

many times ill with intermittent fever before and during this
long period of illness, the duration being ten or twelve years.
No fever for about a fortnight before coming to me; vomits oc-
casionally; has attacks of constipation and then follows pain in
liver, which again is followed by vomitings; frequent discharge
of urine by drops, but of small quantity, color reddish, passed
with burning. Fistula in ano for the last twelve or fourteen
years; had itching of hands and feet, both extensor and flexor
surfaces, but no such itching since the present illness: vomiting,
etc.; heartburn afternoon about 4 p. M. till 8 or 9 p. m.; eyes
burn afternoon, heat from vertex of head; had scabies when
twelve years old, which was healed by some external applica-
tion; had ringworm when he was sixteen years old; inoculated,
but not vaccinated; gonorrhoea in his twenty-fifth year; no gleet
now; whitish discharge with latter part of micturition; eructa-
tion or downward passage of flatus relieves inflation of abdomen;
sleeplessness; appetite dull; taste insipid; never had syphilis;
 Some Lachesis Cases. 39
pain or pressure in epigastrium and right hypochondrium; spleen
slightly enlarged; right side of abdomen tympanitic on percus-
sion; oedema of feet, full or new moon; flatu-
increasing before
lent distension of abdomen; eructations loud; occasional bleeding
from gums; bitter, bilious vomitings; gets fever occasionally,
fever time being afternoon; vomiting time being morning. Has
the fever if he takes acid, producing acidity and vomiting.
Treatment: Lachesis 30th, one globule a dose, two doses given,
to be taken daily. Diet, rice and milk. Bathing allowed.
2-7-'97, 9:30, he came to dispensary and reported "no more
acidity; no heartburn; pain in epigastrium less percussion; no
eructation; no more vomiting; sleep better; appetite much im-
proved; about half the sufferings disappeared. Another two
doses were given and he appeared no more.
Remark: What an astonishing result produced by Lachesis.
Besides other symptoms, " Gets fever if he takes acid "* was es-
pecially the guiding symptom.
(4) Here in this case we see an old Mahomedan, an opium
eater of sixty years, come under treatment for fever the 25th of
June, 1897. His case goes as follows: Got fever the day
previous to his coming for treatment, hence the type of the fever
was not ascertained; the time of commencement was noon (12
o'clock day); stretching before chill, which was slight, with no
thirst, with tightness of head, and lasting about two hours;
then following slight heat with no thirst, and lasting for about
an hour; enjoyed sleep both in chill and heat, no sweat;
apyrexia complete; bowels not opened the day he came under
treatment, but were open previously; during the paroxysm of
fever he passed water involuntarily; appetite was rather good;
the weather had been raining for several days. Patient, a thin
man.
Treatme?it: A dose of Lachesis (one globule) was given to
him, which restored him to his health. No more medicine was
required.
Remark: This is a strange case. Patient got only one dose of
the medicine and that restored him to health. Time of accession
of fever being noon; sleep in chill and sleep i?i heat of fever, f and
*Dr. H. C. Allen has, in his "Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever,"
—
under Lachesis: " Cause Especially useful when paroxysms of fever are
sure to return after taking acids."
t Bonninghausen has, in his Homoeopathic Therapia of Intermittent and
Other Fevers, sleep in both chill and heat of fever as symptoms of Lachesis;
but H. C. Allen, in his Therapeutics of Iutermittent Fever, has sleep only
in heat of fever of Lachesis.
4-0 So??/c Lachesis Cases.

involuntary urination made me select Lachesis for the present

case.
General Remarks: (i) General ozdema and puffiyiess after s?ip-
pression of eruption. (2) Left- sided tonsillitis, (a) Abscess on left

anterior side of ?ieck. (3) Acidity, with enlargement of liver.

(1) Fever.
Our first case shows vividly what w onderful power Lachesis
r

has over ailments such as general oedema and puffiness pro-

duced after suppression of eruption, of course when totality of the
symptoms indicate it. Her oedema and puffiness w as so very T

great that could not recognize her when she first came to my
I

dispensary, notwithstanding her appearance had been well

known to me, she being a neighbor of mine. Her recovery
under Lachesis was all very satisfactory to me.
This is the only case of general oedema and puffiness that I
have tried Lachesis in. As far as I remember, without consult-
ing my casebooks, I have treated many such cases, but mostly
with Sulphur. Sulphur never pleased me so with its efficiency
in removing the ill-humor produced by suppression of eruption,
and with its rapidity of action, as did Lachesis in this case. In
many cases Sulphur produced no good effect, whereas other
patients derived benefit slowly from the use of Sulphur.
The second is a tonsillitis case. The location of the inflamma-
tion being on the left side of throat, with some other well marked
symptoms as mentioned above, I was tempted to try Lachesis.
Lachesis did not prove to be curative in this case, as the consti-
tution of the patient had been broken down with some other dis-
eases which were still continuing when he received the medi-
cine. Lachesis did its portion satisfactorily to ameliorate the
suffering.
The next is an abscess case. The abscess was situated on the
left side of the anterior part of the patient's neck, with a well-
marked hyper-sensitiveness, disallowing contact of clothes, with
other symptoms, as constipation, epistaxis, etc. Lachesis in this

case removed the hyper-sensitiveness, caused a slight subsidence

of the swelling of the abscess, the skin over which shriveled to
cause desquamation there, and opened the bowels, the epistaxis
gradually disappearing.
The following is third case of the series: It is a case of
acidify,with enlargement of liver. In this I was more for Sul-
phur than Lachesis, till I came to learn the peculiar symptom of
his lever that whenever he takes anything acid he gets the
 Some Lachesis Cases. 41

fever. The patient did not appear any more after the second
time, when he admitted the wonderful efficacy of the medicine
he used. I am sorry that I cannot report the final result be-
cause of his discontinuance of attendance.
The last case is a case of fever. I could not get him to make
out the type of the fever, as the patient came under treatment
on the second day of his illness. Most probably it was intermit-
tent fever, as I saw the patient in apyrexia. One dose (a glob-
ule) was sufficient to restore him to health.
In treating intermittent fevers homceopathically there are
various difficulties, and experience is the only means to over-

come those. The profession has already some valuable works

at command to aid in the treatment of intermittent fevers;
but none seems to me an outcome of experience, as none
to be
treats what the difficulties are and how to meet them. By this
I don't pretend to say that these authors on intermittent fever

have had no experience in its treatment. H. C. Allen and Bcen-

ninghausen are good collectors of symptoms, and the former a
praiseworthy arrangement maker. Allen is more practical than
Bcenninghausen. I don't know how Douglass and Lord did in
their works. Dr. H. C. Allen, I see, has once explained how to
meet one specified difficulty in treating intermittent fevers ho-
mceopathically. We see under Ipecac, in his well-known work,
how he meets a difficulty where a messenger comes from a
far-distant place " for some medicine for ague." He (Dr. Allen)
gets no information of the peculiarities of the case, but pre-
scribes Ipecac rather than a dose of Quinine, considering " Ipecac
covers a much larger range of symptoms than Quinine.'" Well
following the advice of Jahr, and I think with a better prospect
for the patient. But this is no homoeopathic treatment, however;
he teaches here how to meet this sort of difficulty. This is
truly an outcome of an experience.
In the last case there was the difficulty that there did not ap-
pear any type of fever, the patient coming under treatment on
the second day of his illnes. In treating intermittent fevers we
need know the type, time, prodrome, chill, heat, sweat, apyrexia,
and other symptoms of the different regions of the body and, if we
be so chanced as not to get information of any one or more of these
symptoms our case admits a comparative difficulty in its treat-
ment. A thorough study of the patient is a sure guide to suc-
cess.
42 Book Notices.

BOOK NOTICES.

A Clinical Text-book of Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment

for Practitionersand Students of Surgery and Medicine. By
J. W. Macdonald, M. D., Graduate in Medicine of the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh; Licentiate of the Royal College of Sur-
geons, Edinburgh; Professor of the Practice of Surgery and
Clinical Surgery in Hamline University, Minneapolis. With
328 Illustrations. 798 pages. 8vo. Cloth, S5.00; Half Mo-
rocco, $6.00. Philadelphia. W. B. Saunders. 1898.
This superb volume is confined to answering practical sur-
gical questions, " What is the disease or injury " and "What

is the proper treatment?" It is practical from cover to cover,

and we cannot see how it can fail, being one of the most success-
ful surgical works of the day.

Diseases of the Eye. By Edward Nettleship, F. R. C. S.,

Ophthalmic Surgeon at St. Thomas' Hospital, London; Sur-
geon to the Royal London (Moorfields) Ophthalmic Hospital.
Revised and Edited by W. T. Holmes Spicer, M. A., M. B.,
F. R. C. S., Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital
and to the Victoria Hospital for Children. Fifth American
from the sixth English editition. With a supplement on Color
Blindness by William Thomson, M. D., Emeritus Professor of
Ophthalmology in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadel-
phia. Handsome i2mo. of 521 pages, with 2 colored plates and
161 engravings. Cloth, S2.25. Lea Brothers & Co. Phila-
delphia and New York. 1897.
A work that has passed through six editions in England and
five in the United States may certainly be regarded as a meritori-
ous one. The supplement by William Thomson, M. D., on the
subject of examination for color blindness makes the book al-
most indispensable to railroad surgeons. The two elegant
colored plates in the book belong to this part.

From Messrs. OtisClapp & Son comes a twelve page pamph-

let, with cover, "Obligations of the Physician" by John Pren-
 —

Book Notices 43

tice Rand, M. D. " Annual oration delivered before the Massa-

chusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, October 13, 1897." Its

sentiments are high, noble and timely.

The new American edition of Clarke's Prescriber, revised and

augmented, will be a welcome volume to many homoeopathic
prescribers, especially to beginners in the science. It is a book

that can be carried in the pocket, yet in which can be found a

good prescription for nearly all diseases.

Aix lovers of good books speak in terms of the highest praise

of Bradford's Pioneers of Homoeopathy .As a work of historical
reference its value is incalculable, as the author has gathered
from all sources everything known of homoeopathic physicians
and pioneers in all parts of the world. Everyone who can afford
the luxury of book buying should have this one on his library
shelves. The edition is limited to 500 copies.

Thk second edition of Wood's Gynecology will be out, it is

hoped, in January. It will be a much more elaborate work
than the first edition, with larger pages, an immense amount of
new matter added, new illustrations, and a large number of
plates, many of them in color. It is safe to say that the new
work will be the work on gynecology for several years to come,
and-deservedly so, for the author has put an immense amount of
thoroughly conscientious work into the new volume. It will
also be the handsomest book ever issued from the homoeopathic
press.

" It is interesting to note that the most striking points of dif-

ference between the various remedies, the symptoms which serve
most readily to distinguish them, are the ones which the im-
provers of the materia medica would remove by elimination. It
is the odd, trifling, peculiar symptoms of a remedy which are
the most distinctive." From Horn. Jour, of Obstetrics' review of
Gross's Comparative Materia Medica.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel have placed in their composi-

tor's hands a work by Dr. E. B. Nash, of Cortland, N. Y., en-
titled Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics, that will, when pub-
lished, attract considerable attention, As Dr. Nash is one of
our old-time and orthodox homoeopaths, and as his book is al-
most exclusively composed of that which he has verified in his
practice, its nature and trend will be seen and appreciated. We
doubt if there is a physician in practice to day who could not
find in its pages much that is at once new and valuable to him.
 HorrLQeopathLic Recorder.
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By BOERICKE & TAFEL.

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Address communications books for review, exchanges,
, etc., for the editoi , to

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With this number the Homceopathic Recorder enters on

its thirteenth year and volume, and in commemoration of this
event a copy is mailed to every English speaking homoeopathic
physician in the world whose name and address we can obtain.
The object, of course, in mailing these sample copies is to ob-
tain new subscribers. The journal's subscription list to-day,
we have reason to believe, is as large, and, it may be. larger
than that of any other homceopathic medical journal, but in
this respect editors and publishers are never satisfied, and like
little Oliver ask for " more." The price of the Homceopathic
Recorder for one year is $1.00. It is published monthly and
you will find it sound Iwmcropathic journal, cos-
a clean, liberal,
mopolitan in character, giving hearing, but excluding per-
all a

sonalities, whose monthly visits will more than repay the sub-
scription price. Try the Recorder for a year. Address sub-
scription to the publishers, Boericke & Tafel. ion Arch street,
Philadelphia, or to any of their pharmacies.

The Recorder for March, 1897, contained a very useful hint

on the use of Thuja H in five to seven drop doses to control sem-
inal emissions. It was given to us verbally by Dr. C. W. Rob-

erts, of Scranton, Pa., who said lie bad not time to write it out,

and faithfully reported. In brief the treatment is Not less :

than five, nor more than seven drops of the mother tincture of
Thuja, twice a day, will give relief in even >f excessive

seminal emissions. The reason for recalling this, which at-

tracted a great deal of attention, is to be found in the following
which we clip from the Medical Age for December [o:
 —

Editorial. 45

Thuja. —
Thuja, in doses of from five to
seven drops, is the best remedy to control
seminal emissions that I ever tried. A
remedy that will control excessive seminal
emissions without injury to the patient is a
welcome addition to the medical armamen-
tarium, and thuja is worthy of a trial for this
honor. Roberts, in Medical Summary.
The Indian does not possess more skill in throwing pursuers
off his trail than does the average medical journal editor in hid-
ing; the source of his scissored matter.

OBITUARY.
Kuechler.
At his residence on the corner of First and Monroe streets,
Springfield, 111., Friday, December 10, 1897, at 12:15 p. m., of
dropsy, Dr. Carl Ferdinand Kuechler, aged 75 years, 5 months
and 18 days.
The deceased was born in L,anchstaedt, near Halle, Germany,
June 17, 1822. He received his first instruction in the teach-
ing of the immortal Hahnemann in the city of Berlin, Prussia,
where, while a student in 1844, he became acquainted with Prof.
J. Pantillon, first homoeopathic physician of that city. In
November, 1845, Dr. Kuechler left Berlin for Bremerhaven, and
the same month embarked for America in the ill fated ship
Pacific. When three days out at sea the ship became wrecked
and the deceased lost everything except his dressing gown and
slippers, which he wore. He again returned to Bremerhaven
and then commenced the practice of medicine. In July, 1846,
he again sailed for America and arrived in New York after a
voyage of forty-six days. A month afterward he removed to
Springfield, and was at that time the only homoeopathic physi-
cian between Chicago and St. Louis, and but one person in
Springfield knew anything of Homoeopathy. His practice be-
came so large that he was compelled to take an associate. He
invited Dr. B. Cyriax, now of Cleveland, O.
In 1848 he was wedded to Miss Meta Fisher, of Bremen, in
the Baptist church of this city, this being the first church mar-
riage ever celebrated in Springfield. In 1868, after so many
years of deep devotion to his work, he became ill and returned
to the fatherland for a brief recuperation. While there he met
46 Editorial.

great favor with Fraulein Hahnemann, the only surviving

daughter of the great reformer, and she presented Dr. Kuechler
with a lock of the great master's silvery hair, which the deceased
valued as one of his choicest treasures to his dying day. After
his first wife's death he was married a second time in Kansas
City to Miss Fannie Wiley, May 7, 1S79.

The Hahnemannian Monthly is worthy of

following from the
what man is there who can deny the tremen-
careful perusal, for
dous power that must lie in the rule, Similia Similibus Curantur x

when he contemplates the fruits, and who cannot foresee that if

the rule is ignored the result will be as it was with Sampson
when shorn of his locks — an easy prey for the Philistines. The
Hahnemannian says:
" No one is more willing to recognize the immense good that
has resulted from this enlargement of the curricula, viewed from
the standpoint of general medical education; but when called
upon to decide the question of the benefit to Homoeopathy and
its development by exactly such changes, we hesitate. There
can be no doubt that through the State medical examinations
the homoeopathic graduates, who have passed them, stand be-
fore the law and the public as the peers, in medical knowledge,
of their colleagues of the school hitherto known as the
l

regular.'
and we believe they Hereby, no doubt, the name of
are.
Homoeopathy has been elevated, and its adoption by a larger
clientele furthered —
but has there been a corresponding inner
growth? Has this widened scientific knowledge on the part of
its students, been devoted to the establishing more firmly the

foundation of Homoeopathy and developing its principle? We

sadly confess that the evidences of this are not marked. We
recognize such efforts on the part of older physicians to whom
experience has brought a realization of the value of such knowl-
edge, which was not within their reach when students; but
among the majority of the younger members of the profession a
condescending tolerance of Homoeopathy, as in some case of
some benefit, has taken the place of the just as illogical and un-
fortunate faith in its universal applicability of thirty years a^o.
we the faith and enthusiasm of those times, coupled with
the science of the present, Homoeopathy would be invincible.
These are not incompatible. If Homoeopathy be true at all, it
 Editorial. 47

must be willing and able to stand the investigation of science,

or vanish. A 'higher criticism' is here, even more than in
theology, demanded by the spirit of the age."
"Incalculable injury has been done to the advancement of
Homoeopathy by the unreasoning adoration (we can think of no
other word) of Hahnemann and his every word. A reaction was
sure to come, and in its coming it has too often, alas! brought
with it a belittling of his attainments, and his writings, while
still considered by some as almost inspired, are by others set

down as the vagaries of an enthusiast. No better work has

been done in counteracting this latter tendency than by Brad-
ford, in presenting a Life of Hahnemann in which is brought
out all that he really was. The author has given us in it a
'proving' of Hahnemann, that bitter pill which the old school
has been so long attempting to annihilate because it could not
swallow. In the light of his life, Hahnemannianism and its re-

lation to Homoeopathy become intelligible. Let this relation be

brought out in our colleges; let the students be shown what
Homoeopathy is, and what Hahnemann thought of it, and how
he came to think as he did. They will then be in a better con-
dition to attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to
recognize the limits of their allowable criticism — and perhaps
learn modesty. The immediate results of the knife, of the
hypodermic and antitoxin syringes, are so much more dazzling
than those reached with far more mental effort by attempted
homoeopathic treatment, that it is no wonder that in this spec-
tacular age the young graduate is blinded."

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY.

This is the oldest medical society in America. It issues a
volume of proceedings that is a Klondyke of medical wealth.
It issues a certificate of membership that equals a diploma it —
is, in fact, a certificate that the possessor stands among "the

leading physicians." The Institute "bronze button" is an

insignia of rank. Every reader of the Recorder, who is
eligible, should be a member of this ancient and honorable
society.
For further information address Thomas C. Duncan, M. D.,
Ph. D., LL.D., Chairman, Board of Censors, Chicago; or E. H.
Porter, M. A., M. D., 181 West Seventy-third street, New York,
Secretary.
 PERSONAL
A Happy New Year !

Hale'snew work, Saw Palmetto, 96 papes; cloth, 50 cents; by mail, 55

cents; is Boericke & Tafel, publishers.
just out,
—
Go west to the next institute meeting.
Dr. H. B. Esmond has removed from Madison to Norway, Me.
The Denver Medical Times mentions Dr. Wm. Murrell " who introduced "
nitroglycerine. Has the Tunes never heard of one, Constantine Hering?
Dr. G. H. Lemoiue says that twenty or thirty drops of the oil of Gaul-
theria bound on the part affected by acute rheumatism quickly relieves the
intense pains.
Ten thousand times ten thousand has it been written keep the bowels :

regular but how it shall be done no man knoweth, though many sayeth.
!

Who can answer Pilate's question ?

Vegetarians claim that vegetarianism " is the ethical corollary of evo-
lution."
" We
point with pride to the fact that not a single fatality has ever been
attributed to the use of our serum," says a recent trade circular.
" The Light that Failed " paid handsome dividends notwithstanding.
Everyone says that Biddle's " Questions and Answers Concerning Hom-
oeopathy " is the best thing for the general public ever printed. $3.00 per
hundred or $4.00 for two hundred.
Now is the time to subscribe for the Homceopathic Recorder — one
dollar a year — worth it.

Dr. S. N.Watson has removed from Iowa City, la., to Chillicothe, O.

B. & T.
say that their ''News Letter" in 189S will not be published
monthly, but often enough not to be forgotten.
NOTICE. A first class location for a homceopathic physician.
Present incumbent going to retire. For particulars ad-
dress with stamp, Dr. C. M. Wheeler, Oswego, N. Y.
The actor's work is all play.
Man rarely complains because the sermon is too short.
Some pharmacists are using a tincture of the roots and bark of the plant
forsupplying cratcegus oxyacantha. Queer fish, these.
There are so many ways and means of getting well that it is a little sur-
prising that there are any sick ones left.
Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, is now offered by the publishers in two
volumes, half morocco, $11. go.
When a man has a bad cold he is apt to lose faith iu medicine.
If you want readers " everywhere " send it to the Recorder.
If hell is paved with good intentions, what is done with bad intentions?

Dr. Heysinger's paper in this number of the Recorder is calculated to

arouse thought.
Raue's Special Pathology and Therapeutics is the best practice for the
homoeopathic physician. 4th edition out.
[s not the straw hat and its accompaniments better than the ulster and
J
overshoes
For a pocket companion Custis' Practice beats them all.
Every member of the alumni of " old Hahnemann," Philadelphia, should
subscribe for a copy of its History by Bradford, now in press.
Bound volumes Recorder, 1897, 51.25.
 THE
HOMEOPATHIC RECORDER.
Vol XIII. Lancaster, Pa., February, 1898. No. 2.

ON A CUSTOM OF THE DRUIDS.

" Science and Art are twins, but it is Art that bears the blue
ribbon at its wrist."
The old doctor, having delivered himself of this dictum, knocked
the ashes from his pipe preparatory to reloading it; the young

doctor pondered. He knew it were unwise to ask the old doctor

to explain his jokes (no one likes that, and least of all the old
doctor); he felt sure there was something in it, but he dared not
ask what, for the old doctor did not believe in that heathen hos-
pitalitywhich masticates the food for a guest.
The was now smoking with the silent satisfaction
old doctor
that only Charles Lamb's "Great Plant" affords; the young
doctor had cogitated, and he soon saw that science and art are
indeed twins; just a little delay in the delivery. How clear it

was. Art is "get there;" science lingers, and the

the first to

blue ribbon is tied to the wrist that first reached out for it.
Primo-geniture does not mean either first made or first born.
Fate begins her pranks with us before we have drawn our first
breath. The breaking of the waters may afford the flood that
sweeps one into fortune. The impetuous tide bears the tiny
hand through the sluice-gate that leads to life; and where a title
and a proud estate descend to the first-born that little hand, as
if grasping for these, must be marked with a ribbon. Then is
the fate of the laggard sealed; in the sequel, its cry may first
salute the mother's ear and fill her heart with joy that a man
child is born, but wanting the blue ribbon at its wrist, title and
estate fall to the wearer of it.

" Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay,"

sings the poet — but do they squabble for titles and estates, even
in utero, in Cathay ?
11
1 was thinking," said the old doctor, "of a custom of the
50 On a Custom of the Druids.

Druids. They did not gather the sacred mistletoe unless at the
propitious time. But, get me the old translation of Pliny's
1
Natural History '
— Philemon Holland's: Peace to his ashes !"

The great tome, wearing its original leather cover (now

browned and darkened like cathedral oak) and bearing on its
title-page, "London: Printed by Adam /slip. 1634," was
opened by the old doctor, reverently, as if he were performing
some religious rite. " 1634; I was born in 1834; it is now 1S98:
Two hundred and sixty-four years old; sound yet, and good for
as many more centuries. Ah, men were honest then; no pulp '

paper to crumble into dust almost as soon as will the scurvy

'

knave that dishonors Caxton's calling by using it But here is !

Pliny's account of The age of trees : what kind of trees they be

'

that are of least continuanceSembably\ of Misselto, a?id the Priests

.

called Driiidcs.' Van, my boy, do you read; my incisors w ere r

sacrificed to Saturn some time since, and the solitary canines,

standing like the Pillars of Hercules at Speech's sallyport,
make merry with my pronunciation. The three legged man of
CEdipus did not provoke the gods with mumblings and whistlings
whilst he strove to speak his pious orison !"
Whereupon the young doctor read:
"The Druidae (for so they call their Divinors, Wisemen, and
the state of their Clergy) esteeme nothing more sacred in the
world than Misselto, and the tree wherupon it breeds, so it be

an Oke. Now this you must take by the way, These priests or
Clergymen chose of purpose such groves for their divine service
as stood only upon Okes; nay, they solemnize no sacrifice, nor
perform any sacred ceremonies without branches and leaves
thereof, so as they may seem well enough to be named there-
upon Dryidae in Greek, which signifieth as much as the Oke
priests. Certes, to say a truth, whatsoever they find growing
upon that tree over and besides the own fruit, be it Misselto or
anything else, they esteem it as gift sent from heaven and a sure
sign by which that very god whom
they serve giveth them to
understand that he hath chosen that peculiar tree. And no
marvel, for in very deed Misselto is passing geason and hard to
be found upon the oke; but when they meet with it, they gather
it very devoutly and witli many ceremonies: for first and for-
most, they observe principally that the Moon be just six daies
old I
upon that day they begin their months and new yeares,
tor

yea, and their several ages, which have their revolutions every
thirty yeares because she is thought then to be of great power
I
 1

On a Ctistom of the Druids. 5

and force sufficient, and is not yet come

her halfe light and
to
the end of her first quarter. They call language All-
it in their
Heale (for they have an opinion of it, that it cureth all maladies
whatsoever), and when they are about to gather it, after they
have well and duly prepared their sacrifices and festival cheare
under the said tree, they bring thither two young bullocks milk
white, such as never drew in yoke at plough or wain, and whose
heads were then and not before bound by the horn: which done,
the priest, arraied in a surplesse or white vesture, climbeth up
into the tree, and with a golden hooke or bill cutteth it off, and
they below receive it in a white, soldier's cassock or coat of
armes: then fall they to kill the beasts aforesaid for sacrifice,
mumbling many oraisons, and praying devoutly that it would
please God to blesse this gift of his to the good and benefit of all

those to whom he had vouchsafed to give it.

"Now this persuasion they have of Misselto thus gathered:
that what living creatures soever (otherwise barren) do drink of
it, will presently become fruitful thereupon: also that it is a

sovereign countrepoison of singular remedie against all vermine.

So vain and superstitious are many nations in the world, and
oftentimes in such frivolous and foolish things as these."
" Little thanks to C. Plinius Secundus for his sneer !" said the
old doctor, emitting a cloud of tobacco smoke that would make
Plinius Secundus imagine Vesuvius opening up on him again.
' '

" There is n't such a storehouse of superstitions in literature as

that same 'Naturall Historie of his, and a Roman pot should
'

n't call a Drudical kettle black."

"But, Doctor," asked the young doctor, "don't you think
Pliny simply exemplified that pride which a nation having a
literature feels when comparing itself with one that is with-
out ?"
" To call a nation Barbarians does not make them so." (The
old doctor spake somewhat snappishly, for his lineage is of the
line that links with the Druidae in those long-lapsed centuries.
Nothing pleases him more than to bait a Bostonian who claims
the New World because he can trace his ancestral line to a stow-
away in the steerage of the Mayflower.) "The Druids had a
literature as much as the Elusinians. It was preserved in the
same manner and transmitted by the same means (memory and
oral communication) when the recipient had been long proven
fitting and worthy. The Druid had his alphabet, and his was
not a Phoenician device. It was derived from three straight
52 On a Custom of the Druids.

lines — the symbol of the Omnipotent, Uncreated, Eternal,

One whose name a Druid never uttered. The Druid gave
sacred
to Pythagoras that which the Hebrew Bible did not convey: the
doctrine of Immortality. In the sore travail of his soul the
stricken one of Uz groaned, " If a man die shall he live again ?"
and there was none to resolve him. The Druid made Immor-
tality theone factor that could not be eliminated from the prob-
lem of Life without debasing the value and meaning of every
other element in that solemn equation.
"To the Druid the mistleto was a symbol of the highest
meaning to Man: it could not exist without the tree and yet it was
a separate individuality; so is man dependent upon God and yet
separate."

There much else said that need not be reported here, but soon
the conversation took an entirely different trend, for the younger
doctor had asked his senior what he thought of the druidical
custum of gathering the mistleto at a particular stage of the
moon.
"Did you note carefully Holland's quaint language?" asked
the old doctor. "They observe, principally, that the moon be
just six days, because she isthought then to be of great power
and force sufficient, and is not yet come to her hal/e light and the
end of her first quarter." That " halfe light " is significant, to
say the least; significant because of our ignorance. The read-
ing of Hunt's remarkable book* will lead one to invest the
Divine command, Fiat Lux, with a mystery that science may
not solve. Who shall say that the actinic, the illuminating and
heating properties comprise all that there is in Light ?"
The old doctor laid down his pipe and went to the library from
which he soon returned bearing an armful of books. " I am not
particularly taken with the latter-day methods of making medi-
cal graduates," said he, "though I may be all wrong in my
objections. It seems
me, however, that the microscope and
to

its revelations constitute the summum bonum to-day. An under-

graduate paralyzed me only yesterday with a mouthful of ses-
quipedalian slang learned in the Biological Laboratory
'
of '

the Pordegenesian University, He certainly had long names for

small things, and he made me feel that I had lived in vain; but
when he declared that a thermometer and an hypodermic syringe
*" Researches on Light."
 On a Custom oj the Druids. 53

were all that the scientific physician needed for practice, I

'
'

was obliged to acknowledge that I was not in it at all. '

'

"Where is the wide and all-including reading that distin-

guished the old fashioned doctors ? Where the knowledge they
had of the History of Medicine? Where the reading of Hippo-
crates, of Galen, of Celsus, of Sydenham, of the worthies who
shine as fixed stars in the firmament ? Compared to one of these,
your modern discoverer of mare's-nests is as a bacillus to a bull.
"But. let us return to the matter which led me to get these
books, the influence of the moon on the misllelo, according to the
druidical belief. This 'influence' is, doubtless, more than a
mere 'superstition,' as Pliny terms it. He certainly forgot
that in his own Historie
'
he cites beliefs countenancing the
'

same influence upon trees; it being held that the quality of the
timber depended upon the lunar phase during which the tree
was felled. He knew, too, that the Emperor Tiberius had his
hair cut only when the change of the moon was favorable, and
•that M. Varro (in the treatise that Thoreau liked to read) recom-
mends all who would avoid baldness to have the hair cut only
when the moon is at the full.
"These books will teach you what medical writers have
thought about the influence of the moon upon the human body.
Read this one first: " Millengen's Curiosities of Medical Ex-
perience" It is a book that I especially commend to the liberal
physician for the sake of the chapter entitled, ''
Of the Homoeo-
pathic Doctrines." It displays a degree of liberality that is

very unusual in medical writers. I think I shall try and get the
Homoeopathic Recorder to reprint it some day. However,
here is a copy of the second edition, and at page 73 begins a
chapter, "Lunar hiflueyice on Human Life and Diseases ," and at
page 482 you will find another on " Solar Influence." The read-
ing of these will whet your appetite for fuller information.
Then take this —
the second edition; the first was written in
Latin and published some thirty-nine years previously 'A —
Treatise Co7icerni?ig the Influeyice Sun and Moon upon
of the
Hu?na?i Bodies, and the Diseases Thereby Produced. By Richard
Mead, Fellow of the Royal Colleges at London and Edinburgh, a?id
of the Royal Society, and Physician to His Majesty (George the
Second.)
"It was published yet again in the quarto edition of Mead's
Works, 1762; and I hope you may see this edition just for the
mezzotint of the fat doctor that smirks at you with such oleagi-
54 On a Custom of tJie Druids.

nous smugness. Oh, such a be-wigged, be-frilled, be ruffled and

be gowned pomposity; and to think that in his old age he took
dancing lessons to please a daughter of the devil who had clean
bewitched him!
"Twenty-eight years later a Scotch physician, who had seen
service in India, published '
A Treatise on Putrid I?itesti?ial Re-
mitting Fevers; in which the Laws of the Febrile State and Sol-
Lunar Influences are Investigated. By Francis Balfour, M. D.
Edinburgh: 1790.'
1
A Collection of Treatises o?i the Lficcts of Sol I^u?iar in Fevers*
was published at Cupar in 181 1, and yet a third edition (that in
your hand) in 18 15.
" In fact, the first treatise was published at Calcutta in 1784,
and of it there are virtually four editions; so, you see, Dr. Bal-
four stuck to his text for some thirty-one years. The following
excerpt from the Fourth Treatise purpose in
is sufficient for the
hand. The postulates are derived from the observations of some
seventy physicians in the service of the Honorable East India
Company:
" 1 That the paroxysms
. of fevers shew themselves in a greater
degree of violence about the and change of the moon (that
full
is to say, about three days and a half before and after, including
at each period a space of about seven days), than during the in-
terval of these periods.
"3. That some remarkable abatement in the violence of the
paroxysms never fails to take place upon the expiration of the
periods of full and change.
"I think you will find such literature more fructifying, in
every sense, than the triangulation of any number of microscop-
ical mare's-nests, or 'cultures,' as I believe they are politely
called."
Perhaps the old doctor thought he had earned an extra pipe-
ful of tobacco; at all events he took it, and from behind a dense
blue cloud he resumed:
"That does not bear upon the druidical custom in gathering
the mistleto, but this does," and he proceeded to read from a
fifty year- old volume of the " American Journal of Pharmacy."

(April, 1847. P. 20.)

" The age of the moon also is another circumstance which demands
consideration in connection with the season of the year; since what-
ever sceptics, whose range of observation has been confined within
the limits of the temperate zones, may think, all who have a Uracil-
 '

On a Custom of the Druids. 55

cat acquaintance with the perennial vegetation of the tropics are

fully aware of the powerful influence which the lunar phases, in
'

conjunction with the solar heat, exert over the circidation of the sap.
"That is significant testimony; and, in fact, I commend the
whole paper from which it is taken to your earnest considera-
tion. It is '
On the Properties of the Asclepias curassavica, or
Bastard Ipecacuanha ' —
a remedy that some of our homoeopathic
pharmacists should take hold of. Dr. Hamilton writes: The '

uncertainty which attends the emetic operation of this plant

arises most probably from inattention to the proper season of gath-
ering it; a similar uncertainty attending all the more active articles
comprising our Materia Me dica, which are derived from the vege-
table kingdom; of which the Piscidia erythrina in the West
Indies, and the Digitalis purpurea and Colchicum autumnale in
Europe furnish familiar examples.' To the examples mentioned
by Dr. Hamilton I would add Conium maculatum, and iEthusa
cynapium. These certainly vary in quality according to the
character of the season and even when the quality of the soil in
which the} have grown is the same. This consideration throws
7

some light upon the negative results of Professor Harley's ex-

periments with ^Ethusa cynapium: he deems it innocuous; but
our clinical testimony flatly and forcibly contradicts his conclu-
sion.
" It is well known that certain years are famons for the quality
of the wines grown therein, and science is striving to connect
the fact with those conditions of the solar photosphere that occa-
sion the 'sun spots.' If variations in the solar energy affect the
grapevine, why not the whole vegetable kingdom; the drug as
well as the delicacy?"
The old doctor blew the ashes from his pipe and seemed to be
deeply meditating.
11
Van, my boy, the poet says,

'An honest man's the noblest work of God.'

If the poet had to practice medicine for a living (as some of them
have tried to do), he would soon find himself saying, " An honest
pharmacist's the rarest work of God," because it seems as if the
devil manufactures the most of them. Do you recall Tenny-
son's scathing stroke at the villainous apothecary,
'
Pestling a poisoned poison behind his crimson lights.'

" You may be graduated with the highest honors of your class;
you may burn the sacred oil of the scholar until the stars pale
56 Arsenical Neuritis.

in the morning light, but, at the bedside, all your toil shall be
mocked, your yeaming endeavor frustrated, by a rascally phar-
macist. Paul may plant and Apollo water, but the devil's own
druggist shall defeat the science that knows and the art that
vainly strives to do.

"Wehave these vermin to avoid. It easily done if the

is

physician is not one of the same species. Their shibboleth is,

'Cheap medicines.' Show them the door, my boy; a cheap
pharmacist is the devil's choicest adulteration.
" Hadn't you better look up the literature of the Mistleto dur-
ing your next vacation ? Good night!"
S. A.J.
1st of Jan'y\ 1898.

ARSENICAL NEURITIS.
By W. Smith, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Fred. R., aged 54, chairmaker, residing in a boat-house.
Drinks very little; of fairly good habits; nationality, German.
In good health. First seen at my clinic on December 20th,
1897. States that about three months ago, mistaking rat poison,
which the druggist said contained Asentc, for baking soda, he
took a small teaspoonful. The immediate results were fainting,
prostration, thirst and severe vomiting, which lasted for three
days. A few days after these severe symptoms had subsided he
noticed a tingling and prickling in the finger tips and feet, which
has been increasing.
When I first saw him, three months after he had taken the
poison, he complained of heavy pains in the lumbar region; fre-
quent urination, sometimes scanty, at other times as much as a
half pint at each passage; urine occasionally burnt; tingling
and numbness in fingers and soles of feet. He felt as if his boots
were full of water, and at times as if something crawled from
the knees to the toes. Examination of urine revealed nothing
abnormal.
Physical Examination : Knee-jerk entirely absent. Muscles
of arms and legs flabby. Emaciation, having lost thirty-seven
pounds in ninety days (155 to 118 pounds). Feet and legs to the
knees felt cold to the touch. Loss of sensation from the middle of
the leg down. Below the knee the faradie irritability of the
muscles w.is wanting, and present but slightly in the arms.
 A Materia Medica Book and Study. 57

Patient could stand and walk alone with* his eyes shut. No diz-
ziness. In walking he put his heels down
with consider-
first

able force. A subsequent examination of urine revealed an excess

of bile pigments and urates.
At no time have the bowels given any trouble.

A MATERIA MEDICA BOOK AND STUDY.

[With the consent of all parties we publish the following interesting
letter.— Ed.]

Dear Dr :

* * * You must be lively and get a copy of Materia Medica

Physiological and Applied Vol. I. while you can. It will just
suit you who want demonstrated facts. But forget your old
school training when you come to study this work. Physiologi-
cal is normal, you know, and when the body is normal there are
no symptoms or disease. Instead of physiological read patho-
genic, which may be functional or structural. You want original
sources for the symptoms dissected ? Here they are, and what
will interest you are the clinical demonstrations. I think you

can depend upon them. Dudgeon who edited Aconite is the in-
ventor of the best sphygmograph, so you may infer that he st
least is exact. You will be interested in the study of Aconite
that robbed your school of the lancet. Master this fine analysis.
You may wonder about finding Crotalus in this collection, but
just hold on until you have compared its effects with those of
your yellow fever. Did you not notice the raving of this fever
in your cases last fall, just as we had carbuncles and glandular
swellings in plenty a year ago when the plague was raging in
India? "Great epidemics cast their shadows before." Old
Dr. Shipman told me that six months before cholera appeared in
Chicago in '53 there were lots of cases of diarrhoea that were per-
sistent. Camphor was in demand, so was Arsenicum and other
cholera remedies. This is the bacteria era. But these organ-
isms flourish when the soil conditions are ready. But to come
back to Crotalus. I was asked this morning while lecturing on
yellow fever if Lachesis was indicated, and if your vial was empty
would Crotalus do, and vice versa ? What could I answer ?
Homoeopathy does not imply substitution. The student's idea
was: Is Crotalis a kin to Lachesis f I had never compared these
two drugs nor seen a comparison. How imperfect is our works
5S A Materia Medica Book and Study.

on drug analysis even yet! But I know something of the work

that' was put in on Crotalus. Dr. Hayward was conscientious
and careful. He came from Liverpool to America to attend the
Centennial in 1S76 to get facts about our rattlesnake. I think

he called on Dr. Wier Mitchell, who was experimenting with

this snake. I was then deeply interested in diseases of children,

and was picking up all the works I could find on that branch.
When I boarded the train from Philadelphia to go to Washing-
ton to visit the Congressional and Army libraries I found Dr.
Hayward on the train going to look up Crotalus literature at the
same points. I remember how interested he was when I pointed
out the features of cholera infantum in a child on the train It
was awful hot. How the doctor did suffer. You know it is hot
in England when ~2 Z The night we spent in the capital city
.

we slept outside the covers. Dr. Verdi kindly entertained us,

and I left Dr. H. delving in the libraries for Crotalus experiments
and poisonings.
Old Dr. Shipman, of venerated memory, told me a symptom
of Crotalus that will interest you. While in a cellar in his early
days he was struck by a rattlesnake. Doctor was a
in Illinois
mild-mannered man of nervous temperament, but he said he was
"never so mad in all his life* He beat the snake to a jelly, took
1

Arsenicum and was soon recovered. I forget whether he said he

took whisky also, but I think not.
In this connection get. if you can. a copy of Xeidhard on
" Crotalus in Yellow Fever, 91 etc.I suppose the book is out of

print, butyou may run across a copy. Speaking of snake poison-

ings, I suppose you know now they use Kali permang. in the
200 to antidote the snake virus. That I judge to be a little bit
of chemistry. It was Hering's idea that the snake poison was

a cyanic acid or rather a sulpho-cyanic acid. The human saliva

contains the cyanide of potassium. (Onion, by the way. con-
tains the sulpho cyanide of ferrunO I suppose the potash of

permanganate antidotes the cyanide as it does in the healthy

saliva. Query — Does the saliva in a viscid dry mouth become
poisonous ? Is the bite of a crazy man deleterious ? Ask your
insane friend to experiment with the saliva of a maniacal patient
on rats. Possibly there is a bacteria. Have any investigations
been made, do you know, along this line? Oh! how little we
know yet about drugs and diseases.
To come back to the book. The next drug is Digitalis. The
•-•riments there will interest you. Study them well and see
 A Materia Medica Book and Study. 59

if my idea is correct that the primary effects lead on to fatal

results — become cumulative at least. It is the second swing of
the pendulum that cures or helps the body to cure (explain it as
you choose), and it is the secondary symptoms of both drug and
disease that must correspond. That will prove to you Homceo
pathos. Study Digitalis in comparison with Aconite. Compare
them in the poisonings, in the proving experiments, in the
order of arrangements of symptoms and in the diseases You will
discover that Aconite is a frightened sort of a drug, but Digitalis
means business. We find it meets pathological lesions. Under
Aconite write "fear not." Under Digitalis write effusion from
" hurrying the cattle in the heat of the day." It tells of an

overtaxed heart. Write under it " Whoa, Emma." But draw

a mild rein. Give only a small dose. A big dose may curb the
heart too suddenly. Try it on yourself and see just how it
works. You will never appreciate the spirit of a drug until you
have tried it. Try Strapha?ithus also. There is another heart
drug you must study, and that is Spigelia. You know all about
Puis, and Senna. Did you ever connect "worm symptoms " and
cardiac disturbance? No Will you examine the heart in the
!

next case you get where the old ladies say " worms."
The next remedy is Kali bichromicum, Chromic acid and Pot-
ash. That was a vaunted remedy for diphtheria twenty years
ago, hence was chosen for the next place in this valuable work.
But don't study this or any other drug with a disease in mind.
That is therapeutics and not drug study. Read over all the ex-
periments with this double-ender. Compare them with each
other. See if you can write me out the pathology of this drug.
Drugs are forces and produce tissue change. These must be
similar to those they cure. Trace the effects from their starting
point and see how it goes to the back spine and produces a
lazy, nervous effect that is manifest on the mucous membrane.
Cannot you picture to yourself a typical lazy, spitting, loose-
jointed man ?

The Nux, your favorite Strychnia, will interest you.

anaylsis of
you that Nux is the typical remedy for the typical, plan-
If I tell
ning, pushing American you will, perhaps, see more in the prov-
ings than otherwise. Make out its pathology. It has one clear
cut.
Plumbum is the last drug in this valuable work. What is the
pathology of the paralysis that lead causes? There is no microbe
there, but a clear case of chemical pathology a new field that —
60 Comments by "Country Doctor."
the experiments here recorded will throw light on. I know that
you will enjoy this collection. You will miss the therapeutic
confirmations that Dr. Black would have added, doubtless, had
he lived.
Separate the primary action as manifest by rapid cardiac
action and congestive symptoms
over the body and then
all

(secondary) the slow heart and the mental and muscular weak-
ness following. That peculiar lead-colic suggests spinal hyper-
semia, and then how like locomotor ataxia tne after effects. Re-
member in all this study that it is the secondary symptoms that
seem to be the therapeutic guides, according to similia. That is
the swing towards health, any way.
I have not written this to arouse your interest in this work,

but to help you to see and feel how it will help you. Get all
the works you can on Materia Medica. To master our drugs
you must study. Homoeopathy is no place for lazy folks. You
are of a nervous temperament and therefore will make a sharp-
shooter by and by —
I want to help you as I have been helped.

I do not know of a more fascinating study than that of drug ex-

periments. It is discovery and adventure, and sometimes a

wonderful story. I wish you could have heard old Father Her-
ing tell about his tussles with Lachesis, and Morgan's experience
—
with Ge/semzum, etc. good as a novel and twice as valuable.
Excuse this rambling letter, but believe me yours for science,
T. C. Duncan.
Chicago.

COMMENTS BY "COUNTRY DOCTOR."

11
Herbal Simples."
From one point of book takes the
view at least this
premium tulip. May Fernie's shadow never grow less. They
used to say that I, myself, was no slouch among herbal
simples, but I can't begin to shine a little bit in Fernie's company
— he is the sun to my poor luna. There are a great many books
which, while not absolutely necessary, are rather essential for a
physician and for his success. A man may lay claim to be a
literary CUSS, but unless he has read Homer, Yirgil, the ancient
and modern authors of some well-known and acknowledged
authority (including, of course, the " Country Doctor"), he is
shallow, very shallow, indeed. All these authors will round out
 Dr. Ad. Lippe^s Keynotes. 61

the man, round him out well, put the finishing touches on him,
makes him upward and tall all around, and that is just what
tall

Fernie's Herbal Simples will do to any well-read physician of any

or all schools. I have read and re-read that book and am not half
done yet. If Fernie should ever take a tumble to himself and
leave his fog- covered British Isle, let him strand on the rock-
bound coast of Maine and I shall be more than happy to greet
him.
Spasmodic Croup. — Lobelia.
Years ago dread a case of spasmodic croup as much,
I used to
or more, than anything else. In real aggravated cases the sight
is really dreadful, although the percentage of fatality is, of

course, very low. However, since I took up the use of Lobelia

all dread and fear has vanished. That is ten years ago at least,
so you will see that it is no new-fangled notion. I always carry

in my my own make, made from

case a vial of a preparation of
the. fresh plant, suppose that B. &T.'s Lobelia inH. 6 would
but I

answer just as well; and whenever I get a case of spasmodic

croup I give it freely. For a two-year- old child I average about
seven drops to a dose, in a little sweetened water, and repeat
every three or five minutes, until the child is relieved or vomits,
which result is obtained in less than fifteen minutes. Then
leaving a somewhat weaker mixture, which I order given when-
ever the " whoop " again appears, I wend my weary way home
again for the night, and as a rule no further attendance is needed.
I have compared this treatment with other physicians of all
schools, allopathic: Alum, Sulphate of Zinc, etc., and homoeo-
pathic: Spongia, Belladonna, et at., but none appears so certain,
sure, speedy and harmless.
"The Country Doctor."
Olamon, Maine.

SOME OF DR. AD. LIPPE'S KEYNOTES.

By Thomas Lindsley Bradford, M. D.
[N. B. — The symptoms in brackets were taken down in the class-room
and are not found in Dr. Lippe's work.]

Pulsatilla. Mild, bashful, yielding disposition, with inclina-

tion to weep. (Bears all trouble meekly. Especially suited for
mild, good-natured folks. Puis, patient never laughs.)
Puis. Peevishness, which increases to tears, with chilliness
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62 Dr. Ad. Lippe's Keynotes.

and thirstlessness. (The Puis, child pleads for things constantly

yet is not satisfied with them, it uses no violence.)

Puis. Gloomy, melancholy, full of cares. (Trifles irritate.

Stl.) Mistrust, anthropophobia. Tremulous anguish, as if

death were near. (Aeon.)

Puis. Covetousness. (As in misers; in people dreaming of
gold or of coin.)
Puis. Vertigo as if intoxicated, when rising from a seat;
when stooping; after eating; when lifting up the eyes. (False
vertigo originating in the organs of sight.)
Puis. Twitching, tearing in the temple on which one lies,
and going to the other side when turning on it; worse in the
evening and on raising the eyes upwards.
Puis. Pain in the head as if the brain were lacerated, on or
soon after waking. (Pain over eyes on making. Gels. Pain in
whole head on waking. Lack. Pain in head in morning after
dissipation of preceding night and after being up some time.
Nux v.)
Puis. Disposition to take cold in the head (from uncovering),
which is exclusively perspiring, especially on the head becoming
wet.
Puis. Painful inflammation of the eyes and of the Meibomian
glands. Styes, especially on the upper Lachrymation in
lid.

the open air and in the wind. Burning and itching in

(Sz'l.)

the eyes, inducing rubbing and scratching. (Wishes to rub

eyes mildly constantly.)
Puis. Dryness of the eyes and lids with sensation as if dark-
ened by some mucus hanging over the eyes, which ought to be
wiped away.
Puis. Inflammation of the eye, with secretion of thick
mucus, and nightly agglutination. (Has to open eyes with
warm water in the morning.)
Puis. (Important in ophthalmia from suppressed gonorrhoea.)
Puis. Fistula lachrymalis, discharging pus on pressing upon
it. (Thick, heavy, yellow pus, the characteristic pus of Puis.)
Puis. Obscurations of the cornea. Tike a veil before the
eyes, better on rubbing and wiping them.
Puis. Inflammation of the external and internal ear, with
redness, heal and swelling. I
In children after measles.
Puis. Flow of mUCUS or thick pus from the left ear. Whole
I | I

lace in (lamed and red with trouble in right ear. Bell.)

/'ids. Hardness of hearing, as if the ears were stopped up,
 —— —

Dr. Ad. Lippe^s Keynotes. 63

especially from cold, from having hair cut, or after suppressed

measles. (Abscesses form in ear. Merc.)
Puis. Bleeding of nose, blood coagulated, with dry coryza.
(In scanty menstruation, during typhus, and in children.)
Puis. Green, fetid discharge from the nose, like old catarrh
(of long standing). Smell before the nose as from old catarrh
(recognized at some distance).
Puis. Coryza, with loss of smell and taste, or of long stand-
ing, with a hecevy yellowish-green discharge.
Puis. Tongue feels dry, sticky and clammy; feels in the
middle as if burned.
Puis. Inflammation of the throat, with veins distended.
(Extending into fauces and hard and soft palate. See also Kali
at.)
Puis. Aversion to fat food, butter, meat, bread, and milk.
Puis. Hunger and desire to eat without knowing what.
(When the food is brought the patient does not want it.) (Loath-
ing of food Ars.)
Puis. Disordered stomach (indigestion) from eating fat food,
pork, pastry.
Puis. Inflammation and swelling of testicles, with swelling
of the scrotum —
from a contusion or after suppressed gonor-
rhoea. (See also Conium. If the swelling is from a contusion
the Puis, will heal it, but if it be from gonorrhoea a discharge
will take place after the remedy has taken effect.)
Puis. Menstruation too late and too scanty, and of too short
duration, with cramps in the abdomen; blood thick, black,
clotted, or thin and watery.
Puis. Suppressed menstruation, especially from cold, getting
the feet wet. (If it be suppressed from pregnancy there will be
no menstrual flow after giving the remedy, but if from cold, etc.,
the flow will appear.)
Puis. First menstruation delayed. (Xose-bleed instead of
menstruation Pry.)
Puis. Difficulty of breathing when walking.
Puis. Asthma at night as from vapors of Sulphur. Dyspnoea
as from spasmodic tension in the lower part of chest, below the
false ribs.
Puis. Dry cough, whenever he wakens from sleep, diappear-
ing while sitting up in bed, and returning as soon as lying down
again.
64 Dr. Ad. Lippc^s Keynotes.

Puis. Expectoration salty, offensive, tasting like the dis-

charge chronic catarrh.
in
Puis. Anxious and spasmodic tightness of the chest as if it
were too full, and the larynx constricted, especially in the eve-
ning and at night.
Puis. Varices on lower extremities (painful and sore, espe-
cially during pregnancy).
Puis. The complaints are worse when one allows the feet to
hang down. (The patient —
man or woman —
will always be
more comfortable with the feet in a chair.)
Puis. Sleep. (Patient sleeps with arms above abdomen or
with hands over the head; often seen in children. The feet are
drawn up. Restlessness during sleep. Inability, though sleepy,
to go to sleep until after midnight (2 A. m.). Starts and jerks
during sleep. Wakes at night as from fright —
knows not where
he is. Talk during sleep, or stupor, with delirium, moving
about, perspiration, especially in fevers, desire for beer.) The
above symptoms of sleep of Puis, are not printed in the "Lippe,"
but were given during a lecture. Br.)
Puis. Thirst before the chill or heat but seldom during the
hot stage.
Puis. Profuse perspiration at night. Perspiration during
sleep, soon ceasing when waking. (Patient perspires when go-
ing to sleep.) (Patient perspires at night on waking and not
while sleeping —
Sambucus.)
Puis. Eruptions from eating much pork, itching violently in
bed. Eruptions like measles. {Puis, eruption is moist.)
Puis. The symptoms are often accompaned by chilliness,
thirstlessness and oppression of the chest.
Puis. Worse in a warm room; in the evening; while exhaling;
from having eaten fruit, ice cream, pork, pastry, or warm food;
during perspiration.
Puis. Better from slow motion; in the open air; in a cold
place; while lying on painful side.
Puis. Symptoms better from midnight until noon; worse
from noon until midnight.
Ranunculus bulb. Pains in the chest as if sore, as from sub-
cutaneous ulceration, or rheumatic soreness of the intercostal
muscles. Stitches in the chest (right side of chest, extending to
the liver). (It is a very important remedy in pleurodynia. 1

Rheum. The child demands various things, with vehemence

and weeping. 'Throws things away— Staph.)
 On the Pathology of Medicines. 65

Rheum. Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, worse on motion

and when walking. Thin, papescent, sour-smelling, diarrhceic
stools, with straining before, and colicky, constrictive cutting in
the abdomen after, and chilliness during the stool. Mucous
diarrhoea. Stools brown, mixed with mucus. Diarrhoea of lying-
in women; of children.
Rheum. The milk of nursing women is yellow and bitter;
the infant refuses the breast. (Si/., Cina.)
Rheum. Bubbling sensation as from small bubbles in the
muscles and joints. (The only remedy.)

ON THE PATHOLOGY OF MEDICINES.

By Cook Co. Horn. Medical Society.

This old Chicago medical society, under the presidency of Dr.

Hoyne, the well-known author and materia medica instructor,
decided to devote most of its sessions for a time to the considera-
tion of drugs and their effects. Most of the new and younger
societies run to surgery, which is so attractive just now, espe-
cially to young men. Medical cases make up the bulk of pro-
fessional business, and it was believed wise to give more study
to medicines and especially their pathology.
The first subject chosen for the first meeting after the summer
vacation was Does Belladonna Produce Inflammation ?
Several essayists were selected to discuss this subject from the
standpoint of the specialists.
Dr. Duncan up the inflammatory remedies
said that in looking
for diseases of the chest he was rather surprised to find that
Bellado7ina was not given for the inflammatory cardiac diseases.
In proof of its lack of inflammatory symptoms, he quoted from
the materia medica its respiratory and cardiac symptoms. These
he thought pointed to congestion but stopped short of true in-
flammation. The principal action on the heart is to produce
violent palpitation.
Dr. Mclntyer gave a fine analysis of the effect of Bellado?ma
upon the brain and nervous system. He thought that from the
cerebral symptoms that if Bellado?ina did not produce inflamma-
tion it came very close to it, so close that from clinical, o r
more correctly therapeutic experience it is one of our leading
remedies in cerebritis, meningitis, etc. It does cure if it does
66 On the Pathology of Medicines.

not cause nerve lesion. The severe heart action referred to by

Dr. Duncan was doubtless responsible for the temporal headache
of Belladonna on account of the distended middle cerebral,
meningeal and temporal arteries.
Dr. Paul thought that the eye symptoms of Belladon?ia pointed
to inflammation. It was certainly a most valuable remedy in
ophthalmic inflammations.
Dr. Hunt thought that the earache of Bella do?i?ia pointed to
inflammation.
Dr. Hoyne called attention to the skin and urinary symptoms
of Belladonna, emphasizing its value in scarlet fever and cystitis,
particularly, both without question inflammatory diseases. The
value of Belladonna in scarlet fever was one of the triumphs of
Homoeopathy.
Dr. Mary A. Seymour called attention to the value of Bella-
dojina in uterine diseases, and especially in ovaritis, as bearing
out the generally received impression that it was here certainly
an inflammatory remedy.
Dr. Rogers said that he had ransacked all the literature he
could find for facts bearing on the point under discussion, " will
Belladonna cause inflammation?" At last he found one where
the microscope revealed true tissue change as found in inflam-
mation. The experiments were made upon rabbits. Dr. R.
teaches surgical pathology, and his excellent paper was accepted
as conclusive that Bellado?i?ia is an inflammatory remedy, as the
symptoms hinted. How the inflammation is produced is still a

problem of interest that awaits solution.

Rhus tox.: Its Pathology, Comparisons and Antidote was the ^

subject selected for the next meeting.

Dr. Merrill led off with a paper on the pathological changes
Rhus produces, particularly in the skin. Rhus poisoning was an
ocular demonstration that drugs do produce tissue change. He
essayed to explain the modus operandi of these skin effects
along the line of chemistry. The conclusion was that the toxine
must be an acrid acid that can be carried in the air.
Dr. Druekett brought out the well known characteristics of
this drug, emphasizing the restlessness, the relief from motion,
comparing it with other drills, Bryonia^ Arsenic especially.
Dr. Duncan called attention to the backache of Rhus due, he
believed, to spinal hyperaemia, which he inferred was the central
pathology. lie cited several cases of helpless legs from weak
back in which Rhus was the curative remedy. As as an anti-
 '

Inquiry Department. 67

dote to the Rhus poisoning he had come to only one, Sanguinaria.

Dr. Gentry, of materia medica fame, took up the antidotes of
Rhus. The best domestic remedy for Rhus poisoning he had
found was buttermilk. The lactic acid was doubtless the active
agent. The Rhus person was of a sanguine, lymphatic tempera-
ment, and the effect of the poison, it was believed, would con-
tinue for seven years.
Dr. Grosvenor (L,. N.) (sanguine, neuro-lymphatic) presented
himself as a victim. He had had it repeatedly for years, this is

the seventh year. It returns about the same time every year,
whether he knew of an exposure or not. There was a fine crop
of Rhus near where he lived and he had many cases to treat.
Had tried everything recommended, even to croton oil. He
found buttermilk the best domestic remedy.
Dr. Pease suggested as an antidote a high potency of Rhus as
the nearest similimum.
Several members gave their experience with Sanguinaria and
other antidotes. One suggested Permanganate of potash. Many
comical experiences were related.
In my next I hope to give your readers some more facts from
this society that may prove interesting and valuable to your
readers who are interested in drug action.
Reporter.

INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
Any reader is privileged to contribute to this department either
an inquiry or a?i answer. '

' K?wwledge is to be passed around. '

Can you give in brief outline the evolution of Homoeopathy

in the mind and writings of Hahnemann? Dr. L. D.
•%. % •%.

The Plague. —Where can I find the homoeopathic treatment of

the plague ? Zumda.
^ ^ %.

(1) How many different pharmacopoeia, have been published

and how do they differ ? (2) Which one now follows the teach-
ing of the old masters most nearly ? C. J. G.
^ 5fc
;
;
;

Where can I find a proving of Strophantlucs ? Is it made from

Curare ? S. F.
68 On the Effects of the Thyroid.

What remedy compares most closely with Lachcsis? Where

are the original provings to be found ? H. O.

What is cannot get any effect from Dulcamara?

the reason I

Are we supplied with the same plant, prepared in the same way,
as the original provers used ? G. H.
-; * ^
Does Aconite napellus grow anywhere in America ? Where
does the best tincture come from? H. F. L.
^ % %.

Where can I find Hahnemann's idea of the genius epidemicus

fully elaborated ? T. C. D.
^c if. >|c

" I would like to ask a question or two. By accident (mis-

direction) a copy of the Recorder camewanted to to me. I

know more of the delusion of Homoeopathy, so sent for Hahne-

mann's Organo?i of the Healing Art, thinking to have some
amusement any way His review of physic made me shooting
mad. I am impressed, however, with its scientific spirit. Now
I want to know if there are any asylums under the care of
physicians of that faith, and do they cure insane cases as he
thinks they might? Do they follow his directions? Then,
about chill cases. We don't have much
' '
ager up here in ' '

the mountains, but does these little doses cure them ? And do
the physicians who give them follow out the directions given in
that book ? I would like to see some cures reported in the

Recorder from physicians in the malarial districts. I don't like

you know who I am."
to let
Mountaineer.

ON THE EFFECTS OF THE THYROID.

The Thyroid, especially if used continually or in large doses,

causes the following symptoms;

i.Elevation of the temperature.
2.Increase of the heart's action and of the frequency and
volume of the pulse, which, however, is more compressible.
Walking, even standing, after taking a dose is apt to cause a
feeling offaintness and even complete syncope. The heart may
become so weak that it cannot endure any overexertion without
danger, even death may result.
 On the Effects of the Thyroid. 69
3. Shortness of breath.
4. Increase or decrease of appetite, sometimes nausea, less
frequently vomiting, still less diarrhoea.

5. Improvement body nutrition generally, more complete

in
absorption of nitrogenous food. But later on nitrogen is ex-
creted in excess of that taken in the food.
6. Loss of weight.
7. Increase of sexual desire.
8. Menses profuse, prolonged or more frequent, rarely amenor-
rhoea.
9. Increased activity of the mucous membrane, kidneys and
skin, which becomes moist and oily, sometimes exfoliation of
the epidermis.
10. Rapid growth of the skeleton in the young with soften-
ing and bending of those bones which have to bear weight.
11. A closely resembling exophthalmic goitre.
disease A
cataleptic improved under large doses of Thyroid, but when the
dose of 75 grs. a day was reached symptoms like those of ex-
ophthalmic goitre developed with a pulse of 160, but no glandu-
lar swelling. When the Thyroid was discontinued the catalepsy
grew worse, the exophthalmic goitre better; when resumed the
catalepsy better, the exophthalmic goitre worse.
A patient, while under Thyroid treatment for myxcedema,
took, through a misunderstanding, in eleven days nearly 3 ounces
of the dessicated Thyroid, whereupon tachycardia, pyrexia,
insomnia, tremor of the limbs, polyuria, albuminuria, and
glucosuria, in short, a disease similar to exophthalmic goitre
developed.
Thyroid has been used with benefit in the following diseases:
1.Arrested development in children, cretinism, idiotism.
2. Myxcedema. [The extirpation of the entire Thyroid pro-
duces a disease resembling myxcedema.]
3. Simple goitre.
4. Excessive obesity with tendency to weakness and anaemia.
5. Melancholia, functional insanity, where improvement has

taken place up to a certain point and then remains so.

6. Defective secretion of milk during lactation when connected

with reappearance of menses. Thyroid will suppress the latter

and increase and enrich the milk.
7. In fractures of the bones in which consolidation does not

promptly occur.
8. Hypertrophy of cicatricial tissue resembling keloid, possibly

true keloid.
70 Organ Diseases of Women*
Doses: Either the fresh gland of the sheep prepared like food
or the extract, or in the dessieated state, of the latter may be
given from 2-3 grs., or more or less, once a day (at night) or
often er.
The Thyroid is contra-indicated in tuberculous persons, as
they are apt to lose quickly in weight, over two pounds in
twenty four hours.
Rheumatic and anaemic symptoms are more frequently aggra-
vated than improved.
As the Thyreoid is a powerful remedy, the following should
be always remembered:
There is a decided difference with regard to individual tolera-
tion, some are very susceptible.
The pulse should be watched regarding frequency and quality.
The least effort or exertion will increase* it even to 160, hence
some cases should be kept in bed or at least very quiet and
tranquil even for a time after the remedy has been discontinued.
Deaths have taken place after a few days' treatment.
If Thyroid is not taken for myxcedema the patient should be
weighed at least every two weeks, and if pathogenetic symptoms,
called thyroidism, appear the remedy should be discontinued
or reduced.
If softening of the bones has been caused it may be necessary
to restrict the use of the legs or to use splints.
Thyroid seems to have a cumulative effect.

In many cases a liberal diet should be prescribed to avoid

injurious consequences.
Collected principally from medical journals of both schools b)r
F. G. Oehmk, M. D.,
Roseburg, Oregon.

ORGAN DISEASES OF WOMEN.

The following is taken from a paper, in the Pacific Coast Journal
of Homoeopathy^ of one who has a great deal of experience with
Homoeopathy in far-away places, and who is now taking a medi-
cal course at a college:
" Taking a leaf from Dr. Compton Burnett's 'Organ Dis-
J.
eases of Women,' I have cured a retroversed womb of three
years' Standing, and that in less than three months. All diag-
nosing was done by several physicians, who could not account
 Organ Diseases of Women. 71

for and would not believe when told of the remedies. They
were allopaths, and the case came to me through a friend who
had been benefited. The lady would never wear a pessary —
nor are they ever needed except in broken tissues, where surgery
amply steps in. The remedies were two in this case, but let no
one believe they are specifics. Each case is as distinct as pos-
sible, and must be viewed and treated alone. Some cases are
underlaid by sycosis, others by a vaccinal blight, others by
abuse, such as constant injections to thwart nature (when Bellis
pere?inis is often indicated for one remedy). The remedies I
commenced to tell you were two: Fraxinus Am. 0, five to seven
drops twice daily for two weeks. One week no medication.
Thlapsi bursa pastoris 0, seven to ten drops twice daily for two
weeks; then miss fourteen days. Then Frax. Am. 6 again for
two weeks, and miss medication for two weeks. Hereabouts
pregnancy occurred, with its concomitant symptoms, when medi-
cation was stopped. This had been impossible before, as the
mouth of the uterus was against the anterior wall of the vagina.
These two remedies were given because of all things they have
a special aptitude to congest the womb, thus making it ab-
normally heavy; it tips because the muscles cannot support such
abnormal weights Hence and here is the grandeur of Homoe-
opathy — they are given because of the congested state of the
organ. The cure was rapid, regular, and is marvelous to those
who do not know and believe. We know it is all in accordance
with nature's law. These two remedies will at the same time fill
out the breasts (with much pricking and tingling maybe) when
they are shrivelled, due to uterine congestion."
—
He also adds thereby confiming Dr. Kraft's statement " In —
my travels I have met Dr. Burnett, and assure you the best argu-
ment to the truth of his statements is the immense practice he
has drawn to him. Two days a week are devoted entirely to
correspondence, his patients being all over the world."
The fact is, that more original matter —
therapeutic —
can be
found in Dr. Burnett's many little books than anywhere else.

"What rational man could think of strengthening his patient

without firstremoving his disease. * * There is no such thing
as a strengthening remedy as long as the disease continues."
Hahnemann M. M. Pura.
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PICKED FROM THE EXCHANGE FILE.

Pneumonia.
Dr. W. C. Cooper, in Medical World, says that he is almost
ashamed he has
to confess that in a practice of twenty-five years
never pneumonia. "One thing I am certain of,
lost a case of
and that is that I have never prevented a recovery, whatever the
disease, by over-treatmeiit. Early in my medical experience I
became convinced that more people have been (not are) killed
than cured by doctors." "What will make a well man sick
will make a sick man sicker." The treatment for the sthenic
type of the disease isVeratrum vir. and Bryo?iia in small doses,
and for the asthenic Aco?iite and Bryo?iia.

Hamamelis in Eczema.
"Too frequent washing of a child affected with eczema may
aggravate the inflamed condition. For cleansing purposes the
parts may be bathed w ith witch hazel diluted one-half with
T

water. When the disease is accompanied by excessive itching,

the hands should be covered to avoid laceration of the skin."
Sarah f. Coe, M. D., Medical Cotmcellor, December.
Quinine in Malaria.

A
correspondent of the N. Y. Medical Journal, January 15,
1898, says that the time to give large doses of Quinine is when
the fever has subsided, because "the actual attacks of rigors
and fever was the result of the war that was taking place in the
system between the malarial germs and the phagocytes, and the
cessation of fever was an indication of the defeat of the enemy
caused partly by their destruction and partly by their being
weakened." Now is the time, according to Dr. Row, when if
Qui?iine, like Napoleon's "old guard," be hurled against the
wavering ranks of " germs " their rout will be complete.
Passiflora.
This remedy, Passiflora, often does not act only in repeated
full doses. A teaspoonful of the remedy undiluted is no harder
to give than as much water with five drops of the remedy in it.
Small doses often have no perceptible effect, while full doses
have no ill effects, and the most gratifying good results usually
follow. We have never been disappointed when we have given
a full dose. It is not only a sleep produeer and a relaxer of
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spasms, but has a wide influence on nerve irritation of what-

it

ever character and undesirable reflex action. We really know

but little of its wide influence yet. Give Passiflora in full doses
without fear, and repeat the doses often if the results are not
obtained, and you need have no doubt about the results.
Chicago Medical Times.

Less Inclined to the Phagocyte Theory.

Fromthe N. Y. Med. Journal, January 18 (editorial):
''When, says Schattenfroh, the bactericidal action of the
blood and the blood-serum had been shown by H. Buchner's
investigations to be unquestionable, the nature and origin of
the substances to which that action was due were still matters
of surmise. Buchner, Hahn and Denys assumed the existence of
peculiar bactericidal principles, the alexins, which, to judge
from their secretions, had to be looked upon as albuminoid
bodies. They went further and took it for granted that the
multinuclear leucocytes constituted the mother-substance of the
alexins. Apparently in square opposition to this doctrine stood
Metchnikoff's theory, which denied that the blood-plasma and
the fluids of the tissue had a bactericidal action, and ascribed
the function of destroying bacteria particularly to the multi-
nuclear leucocytes, which took the bacteria into their interior
and digested them after they had been killed by some substances
that acted chemically. Since, says Schattenfroh, we have borne
in mind the connection of the alexins with the leucocytes, we
have been less inclined than before to hold to the phagocyte
theory; whoever looks upon the leucocytes as the sources of
bactericidal substances must believe in the possibility that these
substances come into action in the interior of the cells."

Echinacea as a Remedy for Appendicitis.

The following from the Am. Homceopathist, by Dr. Henry

is

G. Ide, M. D., of Oxford, Mich.:

" I want to say to you that in this epidemic of appendicitis I
have had my share of cases, and as yet have not had to go out-
side of Echinacea 9, Belladonna ix, Merc. cor. 3X, and Arsenicum
30X. I consider their importance as I have placed them. If
there is any such thing as a specific (which I am sure there is
not) Echinacea 0, gtt. v once in 30, 60, 120 minutes is a specific
for appendicitis. It has proved so with me, but I have no guid-
ing symptoms to offer. Cases that are well-marked Bell. or ,
74 Senecio Aureus.

Merc, cor., or Arsenicum, and that have failed to yield to what

seemed to be the indicated remedy, have all yielded in my
hands to Boericke & Tafel's Echinacea; and I think every
homoeopathic physician ought to go to his cases with this remedy
at hand.
Klebs-Loeffler Bacillus.
The Medical Times says:
" According to the London correspondent of Medical Progress
the most humiliating come down for the bacteriologist is seen in
the attitude he is forced to sustain relative to the diagnostic
value of the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus. This bacillus is now re-
garded as not at all diagnostic of diphtheria, and its presence is
given no particular significance in this regard by any well-
informed man in London."
To this the Eclectic Medical Journal adds:
" We have known of cases of undoubted diphtheria, cases the
gravity of which was exceedingly alarming, to be pronounced
non-diphtheritic because of the failure of 'culture' to exhibit
the presence of the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus; and now comes the
above quoted statement, all the more valuable in that it ema-
nates from the old school, the mother of bacteriology, that the
Klebs-Loeffler bacillus is now regarded as of no significance as
a diagnotic feature of diphtheria. Truly, the old adage, '
Make
haste slowly,' is applicable to this question of blindly accepting
the bacterial teachings of the day."

SENECIO AUREUS.
" A
remedy of repute as a vulnerary among the Indians was
Senecio aureus, and among the early settlers, and afterward by
the botanic doctors it was much used as a regulator for the
uterine functions, being given to promote the flow if it were too
scant, or to check it if it were too profuse. It would seem, how-
ever, from the statements of Dr. F. Gundrum, of Sacramento,
Cal., (Therapeutic Gazette) that the drug has a real value as a
hemostatic in parenchymatous hemorrhages. Teaspoonful doses
three times a day checked for him, within two days, a provok-
ingly obstinate case of hematuria which for six months had re-
sisted the usual hemostatics. In another case, where the hema-
turia came on after puerperal convulsions, marked benefit fol-
lowed the exhibition of Senecio within twenty- four hours. Like
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good results from giving it in a case of hemoptysis, and again in

a case of menorrhagia. The dose given in the dispensatories is
far too small to produce any effect whatever. From one to two
fluid to six times a day are necessary to secure the
drams three
results desired. Cleveland Medical Gazette.

THE DYNAMIC CIRCLE AND ORGAN REMEDIES.

Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.
Some time ago my wife suffered from a very severe attack of
left-sided sciatica. Now, a casual reader will pass this without
further attention; but sciatica is a very painfid affection, and the
sooner you cure it the better, and this axiom is nowhere more
true than in your own family. The treatment of sciatica reads
simple enough in text-books, but I thought it was one of the

most exasperating things to cure; after trying, with only partial

relief, nearly a dozen different remedies which I thought indi-

cated by comparing with the Materia Medica, the complete

field of symptoms in this worrying case was found coveied by
Sulphur, and Sulphur cured it, thanks to God.
This by the way of introduction to a more interesting and im-
portant principle. In the January number of the Recorder
for 1897 I published an article, entitled " The Dynamic Circle,"
being abridged from the large work of Prof. Baehr, of Dresden,
Germany. Without going in many details, I will repeat that
Baehr discovered that all bodies, whether organic or inorganic,
simple or compound, when examined on what he calls the dy-
namic apparatus, are given a certain position on the circle,
divided in 360 Gold, for instance, is on the o°, silver on the
.

45 , zinc on the 67^°, copper on the 112^°, platinum on the

135 sulphur on the 180
, quick silver on the 270
,
iodine on ,

the 310 oxygen on the 360 etc.

, ,

Repeating some of Baehr's experiments, I found myself, in

examining the animal organs and fluids, that the blood and the
heart (inside) answer to the o°, the liver to the 90 the lungs ,

to the 180 the kidneys to the 225

, etc., and by reasoning and
,

studying the medical literature and with the help of Baehr's

dynamic apparatus I at last discovered one of the keys to the
scientific practice of the healing art, viz., that those organs and
those drugs which, on the dynamic circle, occupy the same
position, like blood and gold, or heart and gold, or sulphur and
j6 The Dynamic Circle and Organ Remedies,

lungs, etc., are sympathetically related to each other, or in

other words, that those drugs are orga?i remedies\ consequently,
gold would be a true heart and a good blood ieinedy, Sulphur
a specific lung remedy; further that drugs, which on the circle
are 180 distant from any organ, are also the specific remedies of
that organ, but in a new sense; for instance, quick silver (270 )

is a specific remedy for the liver (90 ), as they differ 180 on the
circle, but mercury is an antagonistic or antipathic liver remedy,
while sulpher is a sympathetic lung remedy, both being on the
180 . In other words, as Culpepper in his Herbal said long ago:
"The whole practice of physic turns on the principle of anti-
pathy and sympathy." Culpepper, of course, means by this
the supposed antipathic or sympathetic planetary influences,
which it is not my intention to prove or disprove for lack of
understanding of those pretended influences. His words, never-
theless, are true, even if they meant to express something dif-
ferent.
But to come back to my sciatica case. After curing it, I
wondered what relation the sciatic nerve bears to Sulphur on the
dynamic circle, and I eagerly embraced the first opportunity to
dissect that nerve; judge of my surprise when I found that the
sciatic nerve is on the 180 the same as Sulphur.
, If I had
known beforehand the position of that nerve on the dynamic
circle Sulphur would have first presented itself to my mind, and
probably I would have effected an easy and prompt cure. Xow,
do not be too hasty and conclude that Sulphur is the remedy for
all cases of sciatica; I don't believe that; but I know that it has
cured many and that, in my hands, it cured a
a case of sciatica,
left sided sciatica. There are some conditions to be considered
in the cure of a disease, one of the first being the side which is
most affected. By means of the dynamic apparatus I can now
give an explanation of the hitherto mysterious one sided action
of some drugs which, however, may be passed over just now.
In reading the works of Paracelsus, I was very gratified to find
that his experience fully confirms my views. Gold he recom-
mends as the organ remedy for the heart, as well as lor the
blood; "there no better i near native than gold."
is Sulphur he
calls the balsam of the lungs. Mercury lie used successfully in
dropsy, depending upon inactivity of the liver; but he was not
the quick silver hero some scribblers, who never read him, want
him to be.
 The British Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. 77

In conclusion I will say that in Baehr's dynamic circle we

have a precious means to classify drugs and establish one of the
foundations of the medical art. May these fond anticipations
soon be realized !

A. A. Ramseyer.
1060 East Second South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.

THE BRITISH HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACOPOEIA.

Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.
I have not seen the new " American Homoeopathic Pharma-
copoeia," but I should like to make a few remarks.
When in England some twenty years ago I was put on the
sub-committee of the British Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, con-
sisting of Dr. Vallancey Denny, Mr. Wyborne (Gould & Co.)
and myself.
As far as fresh plant preparations went we gave directions for
the same parts of plants to be used as according to Hahnemann.
The amount of moisture was ascertained by making a magma
and then taking 100 grains, drying over a small water-bath in
a tared watchglass and then reweighing, thus ascertaining the
percentage of moisture. Aconite used to run about 78 per cent,
of moisture according to my memory, leaving the amount of 22
per cent, of dry product, so that 100 ounces of magma yielded 22
ounces of dry matter and 78 (ounces) of moisture or juice.
Tincture in Ounces.
Moisture or Juice 78.00
Alcohol . 130 00
Proof Spirit . . 12.00

220.00
Thus making a 1 in 10 matrix tincture.
The reason we preferred this plan was that plants vary in
their amount of moisture according to whether it was a dry or
wet season.
I have known Aconite to vary one season with another from
72 per cent, to 82 per cent, of moisture, Calendula from 75 to 95
per cent., and others also, from some years experience.
It is evident from the above that the former tinctures when
made by adding an equal part of Alcohol to the juice would
78 Scientific Basis of Medicine.

vary in their strength according to the variation of moisture

according to the season obtained.
At the time I read, I think in the Pharmaceutical Journal
(London), that there is less alkaloid in plants with excess of
moisture than in those without Belladomia was named, so that
the new method is decidedly more correct and scientific.
If doctors assume that all matrix tinctures are ix in strength
and invariable it is a great advantage.
To be correct, the ix dilution should be marked 2x.
With regard to dilutions from trituration, we decided that
they were preferably made from the 3 centesimal or 6x tritura-
tion, and that those made from the 3X trituration were not to be
relied on, as cold water did not dissolve the amount of tritura-
tion required.
Apologizing for taking up so much space, and hoping I do not
seem egotistical in the matter,
I remain your's truly,
Franklin Hpps, M. D.,
(Hahn. Chicago, '83.)
Rapid City, S. D., Jan. 28, 1898.
The Recorder is desirous of having this question of homoeo-
pathic pharmacopoeia thoroughly discussed, and therefore Dr.
Epps' communication welcome, as will be any others on the
is

subject. That different specimens of Aconite vary between 72

and 82 per cent, in moisture is doubtless true, but inasmuch as
homoeopathic prescribing does not include doses that may en-
danger the lives of patients should the strength vary so much
as between 72 and 82 —
10 per cent. —
is this possible slight

difference of plant moisture sufficient ground for the upsetting

of our whole past ? Would not the medicine from the 82 or the
72 per cent, plant be equally efficacious if prescribed in a case
where Aconite was homceopathically indicated ? It is better (and
certainly safer) to let the old landmarks remain as our future
guides.

A CRITICISM ON HEYSINGER'S SCIENTIFIC

BASIS OF MEDICINE.
Editor of Tm: Homceopathic Recorder.
"TheScientific Basis of Medicine," by Dr. I. \V. Heysinger,
liasbeen already reviewed both favorably and adversely, yet on
sonic points it seems to merit further notice. The book contains
many interesting ideas, notably the restatement of the axiom
 Scientific Basis of Medicine. 79

that " action and reaction are equal and opposite," in the men-
tion of the extinguishment of similar waves by mutual inter-
ference, with resultant calm. The recounting of experiments
on germs that perished in water contained in a silver dish, al-
though no silver could be detected by any other reagent, sho^vs
the reality of the "radiant state" of matter, and proves the
"
existence of a vapor of each substance, the " natural sphere
taught by Swedenborg (C. L., § 171). This is distinct from the
solid particles or atoms figured on by Dalton, and it negatives
Dr. Heysinger's claim on pp. 72 and in, that the limit of active
potentization is about the 9th or 12th centesimal trituration.
Oswald's later experiments are in the same line, and do not indi-
cate any limit. We may and do object to the loose nomenclature
of the fluxionists, but he would be a bold man, indeed, who
would venture to try to demonstrate the inertness of any con-
siderable portion of their preparations.
As our author well quotes Dr. Jeanes (p. 93), " Homoeopathic
medicines are a power, and a little filth won't hurt them."
Sometimes they will act well, even if handicapped by mixture,
which is always injudicious, to say the least. Dr. Heysinger is
wrong when he says (p. 91) " the whole atmosphere is an ocean
of potentized drugs." It is an ocean of drugs, truly, but at-
tenuated and neutralized by admixture, not in any sense potent-
'
'

ized." Potentization, to be effectually done, must be carried on

away from powerful aromas or floating dust, and then there is
no limit yet found to its degree. We need not at all confine
ourselves to the medium potencies, as advocated on p. 61. The
" Middle of the Road " may be necessary to travel over, but it
is a poor place to live in!

Chapter VI gives a plain and forcible argument for Hahne-

mann's Homoeopathy, and this by itself would make a useful and
weighty tract, but as it is it is marred by signs of confusion
and haste in the rest of the work. In this best portion he says
(p. 56): " It is a well-recognized axiom of science that we shall
not seek for two diverse causes to produce an effect which can
can be fully accounted for by one." It is also a law of econom-
ics not to employ two diverse agencies to do the same work at
the same time, but Dr. Heysinger actually defends the too com-
mon practice of routine alternation as better than the single
remedy.
This is his language (p. 96): "These very purists, by the
way, as they call themselves, are always those most likely to
So Scientific Basis of Medicine.

fly from one drug to another, while the old lumbering Cones-
toga wagons of alternation roll along the highway, steady and
sure, and a welcome sight to all. They are the ones who get
there." Again (p. 64) he says: "We can easily exaggerate
the importance of this single remedy theory, and instead of a
faithful servant make it a tyrant or a god." On p. 63: "If
Dover's powders grew, in their complete form, on trees, as a nut
or a flower, they would be a single remedy, and so of every
compound or nostrum in the whole Materia Medica. We thus
perceive the reason for holding to the single remedy —
it is^better

for working purposes." Very true, it is just because they work

better that we stick to the single remedies, by which we mean
that a remedy, whether an element or an organic or chemical
unit (loose and unstable mixtures alone being barred), must
be allowed to act alone until a fresh observation determines a
new choice.
Again he says. " But if we have a totality of mani-
(p. 89)
festations to meet, which are completely covered, one- half by
one medicine and the other half by another, it is obvious that
if we will administer these two remedies in alternation at such

intervals as will permit each to manifest its own individual

power undisturbed by the other, that these two medicines, like
successive waves, together will constitute but one remedy"
By the same rule, if three or six, or sixty medicines contest
the field, we must give each a proportionate chance and exhibit
them all at " suitable intervals," of course, in regular rotation!
But how some of these similar waves extinguish one another?
if

Now Hahnemann (" Organon," § 169): " If, on the

listen to
first examination of a disease and the first selection of a medicine,

we should find that the totality of the symptoms (Symptomen-

inbegriff comprehensive idea) of the disease would not be
effectually covered by the disease elements of a single medicine
— owing to the insufficient number of known medicines, but
that two medicines contend for the preference in point of ap-
propriateness, one of which is more homoeopath ieally suitable for
one part, the other for another part of the symptoms of the dis-
ease, it is not advisable, after the employment of the more suit-
able of the two medicines, to administer the other without fresh
examination, for the medicine that seemed to be the next best
would not. under the change of circumstances that has in the
meantime taken place, be Suitable for the rest of the symptoms
 Marriage and Divorce. 81

which then remain; in which case, consequently, a more appro-

priate homoeopathic remedy must be selected in place of the
second medicine for the set of symptoms as they appear on new
inspection."
This assuredly does not mean that we are to stick to one drug
through the whole course of a disease, as inferred on p. 95,
where we find the following: " Every time a change of medi-
cine is made, during clinical practice, the dreaded alternation
must necessarily occur, only to be avoided by starting with a
drug and sticking to it, hit or miss, through change or perma-
nence, good or bad, till the patient gets on his feet again, more
by luck, perhaps, than management, or the doctor is invited to
the funeral." Neither, on the other hand, does Hahnemann
leave any excuse, in common sense, expediency or fewness of
remedies, for the placing of two or more drugs in one prescrip-
tion, or for the setting out of a row of two, four or six tumblers
or vials, to be given from in alternation or rotation, every five
minutes, or every hour, as is done now by far too many self-
styled homoeopaths, whom Dr. Heysinger appears to defend,
though it is to be hoped he is misunderstood in that extreme.
Similia similibus curantur — simplex, simile, minimum —
these are the '

' Scientific basis of medicine;" but the man, if there

be one, who always
sees two or more remedies indicated without
same case at the same time, is either mentally
preference, in the
strabismic, or else under some powerful hallucination that
—
makes him " see double" a not uncommon phenomenon!
Edward Cranch.
Erie, Pa.,Jan2iaryji, ic

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

The Medical Profession and the Sexual Question.
A REPLY.
"A part," says Euclid, "one at once may see,
Until the whole can never equal be;"
Yet H s speeches can this fact control,
Of them a part is equal to the whole.
Had I the length, breath and volume of vocabulary of Dr. Hey-
singer I should write a reply to match his style on Marriage and
Divorce and to finish it so that the classic —
what's his name —
would explain (as he did on reading the leading article in Jan-
82 Man'iage and Divorce.
uary Recorder) "Words, —
words, —
nothing but words!"
But it is a subject that the Recorder is not particularly bound
to represent, and, therefore, it must be cut as short as possible,
and let me say right here that I verily believe the more such
articles as the one already referred to the worse for the divorces!
I am not in favor of divorces, never was divorced nor expect to
be (and the old lady's health is very good), but I believe the
only way to stop the practice of granting divorces is to educate
the younger people up to what married life really is, and in that
one particular Dr. Heysinger's article starts my ire. It is well
enough to build air castles and ideals, but by so doing we should
be careful not to paint the future so rosy-red as to lead astray
those poor mortals who are following behind trusting to our
experience for their guidance.
Humanity is about the same the world over; immorality exists
everywhere, and there is just as much of it in the United States
as elsewhere, the only difference is that here we hide vice and
lull our easy-going conscience to sleep in the false belief that to
hide sin is to be righteous!

"What's fashionable, I'll maintain

Isalways right," cries sprightly Jane ;

"Ah! Would to Heaven," cries graver Sue,

"What's right were fashionable too."

Then how can we reduce the number of divorces? Simply by

stopping the mismating of our boys and girls! Let us look this
question squarely in the face, and and you must
at all its sides,

come to the conclusion that the sexual mismating is the cause

of 90 per cent, of all our domestic unhappiness, no matter what
form it takes, — drunkenness, abuse or otherwise. What do
you mean by sexual mismating? you ask. And in reply let us
for the sake of argument divide all persons, male and female,
into three distinct classes, although in reality there is no straight
lines of division, where one class ends the next is well begun.
First, then, there are those whose sexual instinct or appetite is
nil, or next to nothing. I have heard it declared by some who
professed to belong to that class that they could be sociable,
agreeable, yes, lovable, and perhaps they can, but I fail to be-
lieve it. The second class, which, I am happy to say, includes
the great majority of all the people, and which possibly could be
sub divided into several groups, are those whose sexual appetite
is more normal — persons who under most circumstances are
 Marriage and Divorce. 83

well satisfied with one man or woman and sexual congress once
a week about the average rule during the whole of their married
life ;then we have the third class —
those, both men and
women, who are always in a sexual passion.
If we call the whole number of persons ten, then my obser-
vations lead me to believe that the first mentioned class would
contain two, the second seven and the third one person. In the
first class we find seven women to four men, in the second about

an even thing and in the third class about five women to seven
men.
Now, if two persons of the same class and temperament are
lucky enough to get married then good and well, they are happy
for life, but if the contrary happens, as very often is the case,
that persons of different classes gets together then there is a
sexual misfit and troubles for life. The lively, vivacious, well-
built, healthy girl marries a spindling, cigarette-sucking youth;
they indulge to their heart's content, and the young man is
shortly reduced to be a fit subject for consumption, pneumonia
or anything else, and in a year's time, or two at the outmost,
we have one of those chic widows, who are jolly good play-
'
1

mates but dangerous wives! Or if the man somehow refuses to

die, the chances are that our bright little Venus will
well, you know the rest. There is no use in denying that hu-
manity will be humanity wherever found, or as one very es-
teemable lad}- once remarked: "It is human; I do not approve
of it, but after all it is human!" Or we can reverse the example
and the result will be about the same —
the man will be the
transgressor, oftentimes the worse of the two. All of which
accounts for why some men and some women can outlive four or
five of their mates and remain lusty. Oh yes, my friend, I
know this is plain talk, dreadfully plain, but it is also the truth,
all the truth and nothing but the truth ; if you doubt my words
open your eyes, friend, open your eyes and look around, not too
far away, but right under your own nose. If the subject wasn't
so "plain" I should like to go into details and give facts and
figures of men and women whom I have known and studied in
their misfortune of sexual misfit and the different ways they
adopted to make up the deficiency, even to a well-known sew-
ing-machine maker who left six different respectable don
establishments when he died!
And it is simply this damnable fashion of covering up vice,
the result of sexual misfits, and calling it virtue that keeps this
84 Marriage and Divorce,

nasty business up. Here is a little item cut out of one of the
leading and most reliable papers during January, 1898, that will
give some startling inside facts concerning the much talked of
"morality" in the highest circles of so-called civilization.
Please study it well, it is a whole sermon in itself:

Mine. Patti and Nicolini were married in 1886, after he had secured a
divorce from his wife, who was a " woman of no importance," with sev-
eral children of whom
he was the father. For several years previous to
this event the diva had lived with her future husband, trying meanwhile
to make Mme. Nicolini acquiesce in a divorce, which would reinstate the
former Marquise de Caux in society. Not until this occurred, and Patti
and her Nicolini had proved their attachment to be lifelong, would the
Queen so much as hear the name of the greatest singer of her day. It
speaks well for Patti's judgment that her association with the tenor was
absolutely happy from the first, and that the world recognized his worth,
as well as her devotion, at the last.After a number of years of royal
neglect,Mme. Patti was commanded to sing at a state concert, and then
followed a " command " to appear at Windsor Castle. From this moment
it was understood in society that she had been " pardoned " for behaving
like a true woman! With
the exception of this "affair," which ended so
happily for both, Patti's life has been above reproach. She has been as
devoted a wife as Nicolini has been a husband, and those familiar with
their home wonder how the little singer can endure to be left alone.

If this subject was well within the Recorder^ sphere I

should take pleasure in exposing the mass of indecency, suffer-
ing, crimes, murders, prostitution and unnatural methods caused
and created by that enormous ignorance of sexual life that now
exists among our men and women because self-styled phil-
osophers proclaim that such subjects are not "nice" to talk
about Away with your false modesty! Away with your philo-
!

sophical morality sophistries! Call a spade a spade, and if you

wish to prevent divorces do not meddle with law courts or
legislatures, but educate all the people up to the standpoint that
to find happiness in wedlock two persons must be sexually
mated as well or more so than in any other respect.
The grim editor sits with his great big blue pencil to mark
out all that he can, therefore I must be brief and will lay down
the following propositions, which I am ever ready to defend
with pen or tongue:
1 st. That humanity is ever humanity, and that our natural or
beastly (have it either way you want it) instinct will often over-
come all our acquired civilization, so-called.
2d. That sexual misinating is the cause of more suffering,
 Mistletoe in Labor Cases. 85

crimes, pollutions and divorces than all other causes in married

life combined.
3d. That to prevent such mismating is to prevent divorce.
4th. That the only way to prevent such mismating is to study
the subject carefully, to discuss it publicly and to educate the
intelligent masses up to it.

5th. That honest scientific discourse should always be re-

spectfully treated, even upon this subject,
6th. And that I have a very good opinion of Dr. Heysinger,
of the Recorder, and of The " Country Doctor."
Olamon, Maine, Jan., 1898.

MISTLETOE (VISCUM ALBUM) IN LABOR CASES.

The following, from the Medical Summary, by Dr. E. M.
Holland, is interesting:
11
My first case of child birth in which I used Mistletoe ( Viscnm
albu?n) was May 30, 1897. Was called to see Mrs. C; second
confinement; there was but little advancement; finding pains
seemingly no good, I sent the husband to my office, three blocks
away, for some Mistletoe, and I gave the lady half a teaspoonful
with a swallow of water every twenty minutes, and before one
hour had passed labor was on in good shape, and in half an
hour longer all was over."
" I returned to my office, and in less than half an hour I was
called to see a colored woman, much of a lady, mother of two
children; on examination I found only a slight advancement
of the child, mouth of the womb but little dilated. I learned
that she had been just about the same for twelve hours. I pre-

pared a mixture and ordered a teaspoonful every twenty min-

utes; this dose contained 30 drops of the Mistletoe. I was not

well, and returned to my office, leaving instructions to notify

me when labor was well on; my office was four blocks from her
residence. I reclined on a lounge, intending to return in about

an hour, but dropped into a doze and in about one and a half
hours the husband came on the run, notwithstanding they had
sent a little girl for me. He reached my office panting, and ex-
claimed: For God's sake, hurry, for her insides have all come
'

out.' On my arrival, I found the child and afterbirth all in a

pile. The confusion was soon calmed down by the assurance
that all was well."
86 Book Notices mid Gossip.

" Soon after this I was called to see Mrs. M., the mother of
seven children. I had been with her in six of the seven con-
finements, and knowing that she had always been tedious I

gave the messenger a small vial of the same mixture and same
dose, labelled it teaspoonful everytwenty minutes, stating that
I would be there in an hour or two, and I was; but the child
was born about fifteen minutes before."
11
On the 14th day of July of the present year I was called to
attend Mrs. B. in her third labor, some two miles in the coun-
try I left home at 3:30 A. M. When I arrived at the house I

found nothing to indicate that I would be permitted to return

—
home sooner than I will say a number of hours. I found
presentation all right, some dilatation, but there was but little

advancement. The pains seemed to be of excruciating charac-

ter, but not the kind to do more than to wear the patient out.
She told me that the same kind of pains had been on for a day
and night, so I continued with the Mistletoe in half-teaspoonful
doses every twenty minutes. Pains came on; in just one hour
her extreme agony ceased. Labor came on, and in half an hour
more the child was born."
" In all these cases the placenta came readily and everything
progressed well after birth. I said I left my office at 3:30 a. m.,
and I was at home again by 7 A. M. It may be that four cases
are not sufficient to decide on the merits of a remedy, but the
change was so decided and prompt that I am satisfactorily con-
vinced that in Mistletoe we have an oxytocic that is superior to
all remedies hitherto tried."

BOOK NOTICES AND GOSSIP.

Saw Palmetto. (Sabal Serrulata.) Its History. Botany,

Chemistry, Pharmacology, Provings, Clinical Experience and
Therapeutic Applications by Edwin M. Hale, author of "New
Remedies," etc. 96 pages. i2tno. Cloth, 50 cents net; by
mail, 55 cents. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. [898.
Sabal serrulata is a remedy of such marked characteristics,
and one that covers some conditions that have hitherto had no
remedy, that Dr. Hale's exhaustive treatise on the remedy
OUght to be assured of a hearty welcome from the medical pro-
 Book Notices and Gossip. 87

fession, too many of whom are unaware of the virtues of this

powerful drug. Sabal serrulata has been successfully used clin-
ically in iritis where the prostate gland is involved, chronic
inflammation of middle ear, as a spray in laryngitis, bronchitis
and many other throat troubles for which it seems to be an ex-
cellent remedy, chronic incontinence of urine, chronic and acute
gonorrhoea, urinary fistula, enlarged prostate and prostatic
diseases (for which it is justly celebrated), loss of sexual
ability in men and a number of other conditions. The remedy
is well worth a careful study and Dr. Hale's is, we believe, the
only book on the subject ever printed. It is worth its price to
any physician or specialist.

Lectures on Nervous and Mental Diseases. By Charles

Sinclaire Elliott, M. D. 912 pages. 8vo. Xew York. A.
L. Chatterton & Co. 1897.
"Every general practitioner," writes "should
Dr. Elliott,
know something of neurology, for there no special line of
is

study which the worker in general medicine or the family phy-

sician should apply himself to more assiduously than the
nervous system, for it is a fact that all will admit that, after all,
the nervous system represents our main capital /" granting the
truth of this (which no one will deny;, then we can say that
the best work on the subject of neurology is the one before us,
for it gives everything that can be found in the latest old school
works in addition to what is original with its author, and also
gives the practitioner sound homoeopathic therapeutics for each
of the diseases. Electrical and surgical treatment receives a
full share of attention and " Oriflcial philosophy" is not neg-
lected. On this latter bone of contention Dr. Elliott says:
" Oriflcial philosophy in reality is the study of the sympathetic
nervous system —
its relations and its diseases, and the best

measure to be used for the cure ;" it " does not conflict with any
other measure for giving relief. It does not deny the truths of
the Organoyi, nor the law of similia, but it supplements when
the organism fails to respond. It paves the way for the poten-
tized drug. Remedies whose action before seemed to be inert
now respond with brilliant results." The book contains quite
a large number of colored plates, besides black and white illus-
trations.
88 Book Notices and Gossip,

Alaska. Its Neglected Past, Its Brilliant Future. By Bush-

rod W. James, A. M., M. D. 450 pages. 121110. Cloth,
$1.50. Philadelphia. Sunshine Publishing Co. 1897.
At this time, when thousands have determined to go to
Alaska to seek their fortunes, and other thousands are hesitat-
ing whether to go or not, the appearance of Dr. James's book is
timely ; it will give the reader full information concerning the
new El Dorado. It contains a number of good half-tone pictures
and sixteen maps.

The American Year-book of Medicine and Surgery. A

Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion
in all Branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from Jour-
nals, Monographs, and Text-books of the Leading American
and Foreign Authors and Investigators. Edited by Geo. M.
Gould, M. D. Illustrated. 1077 pages. 8vo. Cloth, S6.50;
Half Morocco, $7.50. Philadelphia. W. B. Saunders. 1898.
To
those who have the preceding volumes of this really
great work no more need be said than to announce the appear-
ance of the volume covering the year 1897. To those who have
not seen it we may state that it is from four to six times the
size of the old-fashioned"yearbooks." Homoeopathic authori-
ties are not quoted, we believe, Dr. Gould being too orthodox
for that but the ground he does cover is covered effectually.
;

The book is for sale by subscription only. Address the pub-

lisher, Mr. Saunders.

Orthopedic Surgery. By James E. Moore, M. D., Professor of

Orthopedia and of Clinical Surgery in the College of Medi-
cine of the University of Minnesota. 177 illustrations. 354
pages. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50. Philadelphia. \V. B. Saunders.
1898.
" Orthopedic sugery comprises the prevention and correction
of deformity," and the author's aim in writing this book has
been to eliminate everything but the practical, and to give the
profession a helpful reference book in this increasingly great
branch of surgery. He has succeeded. Great as has been the
advance in orthopedic surgery (to go a little outside of the
notice), we should advise every reader to study the question of
 Book Notices and Gossip. 89

deformity and blight, as Burnett puts it in his " Delicate, Back-

ward, Puny and Stunted Children." It is a strange companion

to go with a work like Dr. Moore's, but, to those who can read
the deeper secrets, a fit one."

Elements of Latin. For Students of Medicine and Pharmacy.

By George D. Crothers, A. M., M. D., Teacher of Latin and
Greek in the St. Joseph (Mo.) High School; formerly Pro-
fessor of Latin and Greek in the University of Omaha; and
Hiram H. Bice, A. M., Instructor in Latin and Greek in the
Boys' High School of New York City. 5^x7^ inches.
Pages xii-242. Flexible Cloth, $1.25 net. The F. A. Davis
Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry St., Philadelphia; 117
W. Forty-second St., New York City; 9 Lakeside Building,
218-220 S. Clark St., Chicago, 111.

An excellent little book to ground the student in so much

Latin as is essential to his medical or pharmacal studies. It
may be said that a man should master Latin before he studies
medicine, but the trouble is that practically when one has mas-
tered the dead languages he has not, in most cases, sufficient
" grey matter " left to master anything else. bright student A
can get the needed Latin in this book.

We learn that the work on " Practice," upon which Dr. H.

R. Arndt has been engaged for several years, is about completed

and will be put in the compositors' hands before long. The

publishers, Messrs. Boericke & Tafel, hope to have it out about
the time for the opening of the college terms next fall.

The second edition of Dr. James C. Wood's " Gynecology "

is completed with the exception of the index, and ought to be
ready for delivery from the binders by the end of this month.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel have in press a work on the

"Therapeutics of Sciatica," by Dr. F. H. Lutze, of Brooklyn.
It will be a valuable work.
90 Book Notices and Gossip.

Dr. Biddle's "Answers to Questions Concerning Homoe-

opathy " continues to be the most popular homoeopathic tract
published, and many physicians who want to enlighten their
public are using it for that purpose. $3.00 per hundred, S4.00
for two hundred copies, or 50 cents a dozen.

Dr. E. B. Nash's "Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics"

is well under way. Watch for it. Worth it!

Bradford's " History of

Hahnemann College" is in the
compositors' hands and will be out by the time of the 50th
anniversary of the college to be celebrated this year.

If you ever have occasion to recommend a work to a mother

for her baby and herself, do not forget good old Dr. William-
son's " Diseases of Females and Children," recently reprinted.
It elementary Homoeopathy, and will reach the spot in a
is

large majority of cases. The title is not as elegant as it might

be, but the work, as far as it goes, is as sound as an autumn nut.
Though the first edition was published in 1848, the publishers
report that the sale of the reprint (3d edition, 1871) is really
surprising. All which seems to demonstrate that sound ho-
moeopathic work never becomes obsolete.

Another old evergeen, Hull's Jahr, Symptomatology, has

had to be reprinted (from the plates). It is a work of 1272
pages and sells at the net price (half morocco binding) of S4.80;
by mail, $5.18. It is the materica medica on which such men
as Farrington relied, and, considering the very low pr:ce, there
is no reason why it should not be popular among the medical
students to day, especially those who are not rolling in wealth.
It embraces all of our well proved remedies and does it most
effectuallv.

"I was very much interested in Clarke's Prescribe?-. It will

prove a sort of stepping stones for the young prescribes Like a

remedy, every book has its place. The place tor this one is to

lead on to such advanced works as Lilienthal's Homoeopathic

Therapeutics, which every prescribe!' should own, just as that
 —a

Book Notices and Gossip. 91

leads or should lead to Allen's Symptom Register, Boenning-

hausen's Pocket Book and others. I was especially
interested in the chest diseases (lungs and heart) and dis-

eases of children. In bronchitis Belladonna, so often indicated in

America, is omitted. In pneumonia he gets Phos. in too early I
think. Indications in tuberculosis pulmonum are concise,
abridged but valuable. In pleurodynia Kali card, is absent —
most reliable remedy. The heart remedies are well given concise —
it is true. How long to continue a remedy in an acute or
chronic disease is not stated. In pleurisy we miss that valuable
remedy Sulphur where the effusion is persistent. Some years
ago Prof. Talbot, of Boston, reported several cases cured with
this remedy when tapping had been ordered and failed. In
spinal irritation only one form is recognized, i. <?., anaemia. The
remedy indications given are good, but the hygienic and electric
indications are omitted. In a word, we would add, herewith
the spine. The directions for case-taking will be very helpful.
On a whole the book will greatly assist the young physician.
Dr. T. C. Duncan.

Owing to the great popularity of the new American edition

of the famous Clarke's Prescriber the publishers, Messrs.
Boericke & Tafel, have, in addition to the regular cloth binding,
had it bound in cloth interleaved and also in flexible morocco
with gilt edges, in which shape makes an elegant and useful
it

pocket companion. The interleaved makes the most convenient

and best arranged note book for entering points on the treatment
of any diseases that can be found. The Hahnemann histitute
says of it " This is the book that will fill the wants of that
:

student who said I wish I had a book that would tell me,
:
'

when I get into practice, just what is apt to be the medicine

most frequently indicated in a given condition and what potency
and how often to prescribe it.' "

Among the new books announced by Mr. W. B. Saunders,

medical publisher, Philadelphia, is an English edition of the
famous Lehmann Medicinische Hayidatlaiiten, each volume of
which will contain from fifty to one hundred unusually fine
colored plates. Seven of these " Atlases " are announced, em-
bracing, "Internal Medicine and Diagnosis," "Legal Medi-
92 Book Notices and Gossip.

cine," " Operative Surgery,"

"Laryngology," "Eye." 'Ve-
nereal Diseases" and " Skin Diseases." The announcement
says: " These Atlases offer a ready and satisfactory substitute
for clinical observation, available only to the residents of large
medical centers ; and with such persons the requisite variety is

seen only after long years of routine hospital service." Among

other new publications are de Schweinitz on " Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat," Guiteras, "Pathology," Peterson, "Legal Medi-
cine and Toxicology," Stengel, "Pathology," Church and
Peterson, "Nervous and Mental Diseases," Heisler, "Embry-
ology," Kyle, "Nose and Throat," Hirst, "Obstetrics," West,
"Nursing," besides new editions. A goodly array for one
house.

Dr. Temple S. Hayne has sold his Medical Visitor to Messrs.

Halsey Bros., of Chicago, and the journal for 1898 comes out
under the experienced and able control of Dr. Wilson A. Smith.
The type and make-up is an improvement over the old journal.

In the February number of the New Engla?id Medical Gazette the —

—
journal of the new pharmacopoeia we read: "At a time when the Phar-
macopoeia of the American Institute of Homoeopathy is meeting with so
much apparently intentional misrepresentation,'' etc. Is not the term u so
much apparently intentional misrepresentation," misleading ? We have
seen just three adverse criticisms of the new work and two of them, one
from the Allgemeine Homoopathisehe Zeitung and the other from the
Recorder, cannot truthfull} be said to "misrepresent" it. The RECORDER
T

pointed out two features of the new work for the cousideratiou of the pro-
fession, namely : 1st. That it orders certain important tinctures to be

prepared in a different manner from that directed by Hahnemann and fol-

lowed by pharmacists ever since, the result necessary being a tincture dif-
ferent from that used by the provers, and 2d. That in condemning the di-
lutions made from the triturations of insoluble substances as directed by
Hahnemann it condemns a big part the very foundation of Homoeopathy,
which consists largely of a record made with drugs prepared in pr&
the manner which the new work pronounces to be inert. In this the
RECORDER has not misrepresented the new pharmacopoeia, but has simply,
and clearly, stated what it teaches and what must be the inevitable result
of the acceptance of that teaching. We would gladly have this vital sub-
ject thoroughly and dispassionately discussed, but if the discussion must
take- the form of recriminations, personalities and mei mship in
which truth ami Homoeopathy are of less importance than party, then the
Recorder has nothing more to say on the subject.
 Homoeopathic Recorder.
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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 following from the Homoeopathic Student (Chicago)

shows the true spirit:
Frequently we meet some of our friends, who are studying our neigh- m
boring schools, and they ask why did we take up the study of Homoe-
opathy ? They say they can see nothing good in our system of medicine,
and are we well enough versed in the principles of our school to explain
the why and the wherefore of our belief?
The truth which Hahnemann has promulgated and advanced is a mighty
and vital one and we should study it carefully and be sure that we under-
stand all the many underlying truths so that we can stand firm in the face
of all argument and discussion.
We
have, it is true, all the adjuvant studies and methods which are
necessary for the examination and diagnosis of the diseases of our patients
that the regular schools have and should be as able to diagnose and ex-
amine as they, but we also should have the foundation basis for our
method of prescribing. It seems that in our desire to get thro' school and
get to practicing, that we neglect to get at the bottom of our materia
medica and the reason why we give this or that remedy.
Would it not be well to stop and consider this point and get such a firm
grasp upon the meaning of Sunllia Similibus Curanter that we can never
be shaken.
And, we may add, the nearer the student gets to original
authority in his study of Homoeopathy the better. No student
who can possibly affordshould be without a complete set
it

of all Hahnemann's writings he should not sit in judgment

;

(as is too often done) of Hahnemann until he knows at first hand

what Hahnemann taught.

Hahnemann was born in the year 1755.

The Chronic Diseases appeared in 1828.
The
doctrine of Rademacher is dated by Park in his "History
of Medicine " from the year 1772.
94 Edttoi iii/.

Grauvogl, in his Lebruch der Hom<eopathie, says of the Rade-

macherians that they " know nothing more of the itch than that
a mite, the acarus scabiei, produces it."
From the foregoing we can conclude that Hahnemann was
not in error concerning the significance of the itch, for the
acarus was evidently well known lo?ig before he wrote his last
and greatest work.
Grauvogl says, of what we might almost call the itch epi-
demic: " After the destruction of all the mites, and the remov-
ing by inunction of the copiously discharging eruptions, such
diseases rapidly ran a fatal course, or left behind them chronic
diseases; that hence these violent phenomena, constantly follow-
ing the itch, could not be dependent merely upon the presence
of the mites, but upon their specific excretion or excrements
taken up by the blood, if indeed it may not be assumed, from
historic facts, that the acarus itself is net always the cause, but
"
rather the result, the final product
Even Ptomaines are not "new!''
From the foregoing may it not be assumed that the errors
connected with the Chrojiic Diseases are not in the book, but in
men's understanding of it ? The psoric theory of disease will
stand the "search light" better than any other extant.
And Hahnemann saw in suppressed
be careful not to say that
itch the cause of psora, and hence of chronic psoric diseases,
for that is by no means taught; on the contrary, the itch was but
one of the many external manifestations of psora.

In a letter to the North American Journal of Homoeopathy %

January, Dr. J. B. Gregg Custis, after quoting Dr. Helmuth to

the effect that the work of the original provers represents more
of value to suffering humanity than the sum total of the " origi-
nal work" of those who claim to be "regular," says (anent the
discussion on Materia Medica I:

No one connected with our school has improved upon the fundamental
rules laid down by Hahnemann for the proving of drugs, orthe recording
of symptoms produced during the proving; and will venture to say that,
I

during the last twenty years, there has been no original proving published,
which, for practical results, ease of comprehension, or freedom from just
criticism, compares with Hahnemann's proving of Bryonia. The reason
for this is that Hahnemann had hut one object in view, the cure of the
sick. The prover of to-day adds to this his wish to keep within scientific
requirements, to avoid the criticism of skeptics, and, above all, to avoid
the charge of too great credulity.
 Editorial. 95

And also:
There are but few physicians who, in their daily practice, stop to assure
themselves that the remedy prescribed covers the totality of the symptoms.
They instinctively admit that if two or three more or less characteristic
symptoms are covered, those remaining will be found in an exhaustive
proving of the remedy; and yet, they want the Materia Medica expurgated
and reduced in size.
And finally:

So our old Materia Medica remain as it is, make its application the
let
special study, give the enlargement of its groups to those who have made

it their life work, hold them accountable for characteristic symptoms

recorded, and encourage them to carefully prove the new remedies, such as
Stropanthus, Fusil oil and the different products of coal tar.

All which is well said and sound common sense. There is

no easy road for true homoeopathic prescribing, and if there
were the patients would soon discover it themselves and save
the doctor's fees. " So let our old Materia Medica remain."

" I am inclined to think that post operative traumatic insani-

ties are more common after pelvic operations than after others.
A great deal of uterine and ovarian disease should escape the
knife by use of patient medical treatment. No grave surgery of
the pelvis should be allowed without medical consultation." —
Weir Mitchell.

Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.

our Phosphorus unreliable ? I was surprised and pained to read in an
Is
article on Phosphorus in the Medical Century, this "the best results are
:

obtained not from our Homceopathic preparations but from granules or

pills representing about the same drug quantity, but prepared in such a
way that oxidation does not take place." Is that so? Was not Hahne-
mann a chemist and did he not know how to prepare phosphor so that we
could get the best results ? I like not such talk. Is it true ? I think not!
H. S.
The Medical Century isa good journal, but not infallible and
its commendation of Phosphorus " granules " is something of a
break. All that any one knows of the true medical use of
Phosphorus he gets from Hahnemann and until this time no one
thought of using anything else than the drug prepared according
to his directions. B. & T., have supplied the pro-
for instance,
fession all over the country for many
years with the remedy and
have yet to hear of its being ''unreliable" or giving anything
but " the best results." But perhaps the item referred to (we
have not identified it) is a " reading notice."
 — —

PERSONAL.
The man without a stomach suggests new fields for operation and the
possibility that, like the appendix, the stomach is not necessary.
Dr. R. T. Gamble has removed from Beaver Dam to Boscobel, Wis.
Dr. A. Preuss has removed from Kansas City to Leavenworth, Kansas.
Out of consideration for the eyesight of its readers, The Pulse ought to
change the color of its printing ink.
Never take the bull by the horns if you can avoid it; the tail is safer, if
you must grab him.
True homoeopathic pharmacy individualizes remedies with the same care
that homoeopathic practice does patients.
Francis M. Bennett, M. D., has removed to Springfield, Mass.
" There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mam-
mals in their mental faculties." Darwin. Complimentary to
which ?
The only thing the Cape Colony government have to show for Koch's
serum against the Rinderpest is a hole in the public purse and an in-
creased mortality; only this, and nothing more.
German, Professor, Marpmann, Leipsic, has examined sixty-seven kinds
of ink and found bacteria and danger in every pot.
Med. Monatschrifte fur Horn., Dec, '97, says that a patient was
given Ant. sulph., and it unexpectedly cured his bronchial catarrh of long
standing; it is said to be a powerful bronchial remedy.
"The first thing to be noted about the word scientific is, that it has no
'
'

absolute meaning whatever." Horn. World.

Dr. T. M. Strong has resigned the position of Resident Physician of the
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital and has removed to Hotel llkley.
Boston, and will devote his attention to nose and throat diseases exclu-
sively.
Kraft says he will conitinue to " hew to the line."
Or. E. L. Crutchfield, Baltimore, cites two cases in his practice where
Arsenic administered as a remedy produced herpes zoster in the patient
" The oyster must go," or ought to go, before the soup —blue points on
the deep half-shell.
The new Pharmacopoeia from Boston says graphites is a "metal."
whichis news, indeed. Same work also speaks of an "inodorous metal,"
which is something like unto " cold ice."
Anyone contemplating locating in Oswego, N. Y., would do well to cor-
respond with E. L. Hinman, M. D., of that city.
It is now in order for the Kaiser's ministers to find dangerous bacteria on
the Yankee bicycle.
The last month of winter! Good!
Dr. Bradford says, study Pulsatilla and you will find the epidemic rem-
edy for this winter's grippe.
Elliott's Lectures on Mental Diseases is the completest and best ho-
moeopathic work on the subject in print Just out.
Take a trip OUt to )inaha, ). ye denizen of the Bast, and learn that
( (
,

there air other boulders on tin- beach, and more than one, too.
Well, the Rhcordeb is growing, as yon can see. One dollar a year.
Send in your subscription.
 HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.
Vol. XIII. Lancaster, Pa., March, 1898. No. 3.

THERAPEUTICS OF TYPHOID FEVER.

By C. Sigmund Raue, M. D.
(Read before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of
Philadelphia.)

Although no absolute limit can be placed to the number of

remedies which may become indicated in typhoid fever, as the
individuality of the case alone is our guide in the selection of a
drug here as well as in any other disease, still there are a few
special remedies which have stood the severest tests of clinical
application, and as they are the ones we find indicated in the
majority of cases a consideration of their symptomatology will
be the sole efforts of this paper.
Agaricus. In typhoid fever where the nervous symptoms pre-
dominate. Low fever, tremulous tongue, and general tremor of
the entire body. Progressive heart failure in drunkards with
typhoid fever.
Apis. Admixture of malarial element. Chilliness in afternoon
with oppression of breathing; heat without thirst; later uncon-
sciousness with involuntary stools; dry tongue, which is
cracked and covered with aphthae, difficult to protrude, difficult
deglutition; scanty urine; muttering delirium
Arnica. General stupefaction of the senses; general soreness,
bed feels too hard; the sleep is disturbed by anxious dreams;
the tongue is red and dry, with a brown streak down the centre;
putrid taste in mouth; fetor ex ora; involuntary discharge of
faeces and urine; the extremities become cold while the head re-
mains hot; hemorrhages and bed-sores develop.
Arsenicum. Low types of typhoid, usually the later stages in
unfavorable cases. Farringtou cautions against the early use of
Arsenic in typhoid fever, and considers it a remedy capable of
98 Therapeutics of Typhoid Fever.

doing absolute harm unless clearly indicated. It is most useful

in the young or aged, or those debilitated by previous ailments.
The general symptoms so characteristic of Arse?iic, such a.->
great restlessness, prostration; thirst for small quantities of
water; hot, dry skin; general aggravation of all symptoms soon

after midnight or noon; cadaverous smell of the discharges as

—
well as the patient are all prominent indications for its use.
Baptisia. The well-known mental symptom, the hallucination
that the body is dismembered, that certain parts of the body are
double, or that there is a second self in the bed with the patient,
is a strong indication for Baptisia, although its absence by no

means deprives this drug of its usefulness in typhoid fever.

Phosphorus and Petroleum both have similar symptoms. The
condition calling for Baptisia is characterized by great weari-
ness and a bruised feeling of all the limbs, together with a low
type of fever and physical prostration; offensive diarrhoea;
breath, sweat and urine are alike offensive; there is dull, stupe-
fying headache; the patient is delirious, sleeps heavily and is
aroused with difficulty. The tongue is dry and brown, the con-
junctivae injected, the face flushed, with a besotted expression;
exhaustion is marked. Baptisia may be indicated early in the
disease when the symptoms are intense from the beginning, ex-
cluding such remedies as Bryonia and Gelsemium.
Bryonia. Bryonia may be indicated at any stage, although its
most frequent application will occur during the first stage. The
symptoms are very characteristic and prominent calling for its

selection — irritability, lassitude, desire to remain quiet and

sleep; headache, worse from opening the eyes or moving the
head; dryness of the lips, mouth and throat, with thirst for
large quantities of water; aching of the limbs, worse from
motion; frequent brown, putrid, loose stools; delirium at night and
restless sleep, disturbed by dreams of business affairs; wants to
go home; visions when closing the eyes.
Carbo veg. Carbo vegetabilis is indicated in extreme cases. It
has well been said, ''The Carbo vegetabilis patient is dying,"
and although many a life is saved by the timely application of
this remedy, cases are nevertheless critical in rehich it brings
on reaction and gives the organism another chance to rally.
—
The picture is familiar to you progressive stupor; lustreless
eyes, with sluggish pupils; hippocratic countenance; parched
tongue; distended abdomen; involuntary diarrhoea; hemorrhages
 Therapeutics of Typhoid Fever. 99
from the nose, mouth or intestinal tract; cold extremities, the
coldness gradually extends from the feet up to the knees; small,
frequent pulse, at times imperceptible; decubitus. The Carbo
vegetabilis patient is passive, the Arseiiicum patient active in his
decline.
Geselmium. In the early stages Gelsemium is frequently indi-
cated on the symptoms of lassitude, drowsiness, dull headache,
with heaviness of the eyelids and photophobia; slow, intermit-
ting pulse, accelerated from slight exertion; blueness of the
lips; up and down the spine; epistaxis; catarrhal con-
chilliness
ditions of the eyes and respiratory tract; diarrhoea.
Hamamelis. Hemorrhages of dark, fluid blood from the bowels,
with great soreness of the abdomen.
Hyoscyamus. The delirium indicating Hyoscyamus is charac-
acterized by loquacity, obscene actions, or even attempts at vio-
lence. The patient picks at the bedclothes and grasps at flocks
in the air, with continual muttering. Stramonium is similar,
but the loquacity is confined to one subject and the patient is
more noisy, often crying out in terror from supposed visions of
horrible animals, bugs and the like, which he sees coming out
of the floor, crawling along the ceiling, etc. The automatic
movements of the extremities occurring during the delirium is
also characteristic in both drugs; in Hyoscyamus they are angu-
lar and jerky, in Stramonium gracefully executed in gyratory
motions. Hyoscyamus also has total loss of consciousness, with
dry tongue, involuntary stools, subsultus tendinum, dribbling of
urine.
Lachesis. The Lachesis patient is also loquacious, but he
jumps from one subject to another in an incoherent manner;
there is stupor, dropping of the lower jaw, dry, red or blackish
tongue, which is ted at the tip and bleeding, and trembles on

being protruded; the stools are horribly offensive, the abdomen

sensitive to touch, and all symptoms are more intense after sleep.
The fever is highest in the afternoon, the patient is restless, the
surface of the body is cyanotic, and a sense of suffocation about
the throat overcomes him on falling asleep.
Mercurius. The characteristic nocturnal aggravation, the
greenish-yellow stools, broad, flabby tongue and drowsiness
may indicate Mercurius, especially when there is hepatic dis-
turbance in connection with the case.
Muriatic acid. Low types of typhoid fever, in which the patient
is stupid, sliding down to the foot of the bed; the tongue is
ioo Therapeutics of Typhoid Fever.

parched and dry, difficult to protrude; stools involuntary while

passing urine; loud moaning during sleep, and when awake not
fully conscious to his surroundings.
Nitric acid. Deep ulceration of the bowels, with hemorrhages
and great sensitiveness of abdomen in the region of the ccecum,
and intermittent pulse. Also hypostatic pneumonia; brownish,
bloody expectoration, rattling cough; " too weak to talk."
Opium. Either complete loss of consciousness, with loud, ster-
torous breathing, contracted pupils, face dark red and bloated
or pale and deathlike expression; dropping of the lower jaw,
hot sweat; or delirium with sleeplessness due to hyperaesthesia
of the special senses, so that slight noises keep him awake.
Phosphoric acid. Low typhoid state, in which the patient be-
comes totally indifferent to his surroundings. He can be
aroused but with difficulty, and soon relapses into his apathetic
condition. There is great debility, rattling of mucus in the
chest, rumbling in the abdomen, tympanites, grayish, watery
stools; bleeding from the nose; red streak through the centre of
the tongue; milky urine; clammy skin.
Rhus tox. After Bryonia and Gelsemium, Rhus toxicodendron
and Baptisia frequently follow. The provings of Rhus tox. pre-
sent a typical typhoid state, and the anatomical changes in the
intestines closely correspond to the lesions of typhoid fever.
The symptoms are sharp and w ell defined, T
as in the case of
Bryonia. The mind becomes beclouded and the mental opera-
tions are performed with difficulty; the patient is restless from a
distressing aching in every limb and constantly changes his
position to gain relief (not as in Arnica, where there is soreness
induced by lying in one particular attitude, which makes him
seek a new position). The sleep is restless, disturbed by
dreams of great physical exertion. The lips are brown and dry
and the teeth are covered with sordes; the tongue is likewise
brown and dry, presenting a triangular red tip. The diarrhoea
is worse during the night, often involuntary during sleep. Be-
side this, there may be bronchitis; hypostatic pneumonia, with
bloody expectoration; bleeding from the nose, and labial
herpes.
Stramonium. The Stramonium stool is blackish and horribly
and has been fully described under
offensive; the delirium noisy,
Hyoscyamus. Suppression of urine during typhoid fever is a
prominent symptom.
 Primula Obconica. 101

Sulphuric acid. Protracted cases, especially in children with

aphthous stomatitis, stools like chopped eggs and very foetid;
haemorrhages, with rapid sinking of the vital forces; desire for
stimulants. Similar to Phosphoric acid, but more intense.
Sulphur. This remedy is often useful when other prescriptions
have not yielded the desired results in the case. The lack of
reaction is a strong indication for Sulphur, although its symp-
tomatology furnishes ample instances pointing to its applicabil-
ity in typhoid fever. Where the cardinal symptoms are re-
tarded, the course protracted, and the type complicated, Sulphur
will be indicated at some time or another.
Veratrum viride. Veratrum viride is indicated where there is
furious delirium; full, tense pulse, later becoming soft and irregu-
lar; red streak down the centre of the tongue; pneumonic com-
plications. Tartar emetic may likewise be called for where there
is dyspnoea, cyanosis, rattling of mucus in the bronchial tubes,
sub-crepitant rales, and oedema of the lungs.
Zincum. Abolition of all reflex excitability. Trembling of
the hands, constant motion of the feet and lower extremities,
cessation of diarrhoea, hippocratic countenance, subsultus tendi-
num.

PRIMULA OBCONICA— CONE-SHAPED PRIMROSE.

ORDER: PRIMULACEiE.
By E. V. Ross, M. D., Rochester, N. Y.

The following summary of the pathogenetic effects of Primula

were produced from handling and in otherwise coming in con-
tract with the plant, and so far as known the poisonous proper-
ties are wholly confined to the leaves.
The effects bear a close resemblance to Anacardium, Euphor-
bium, Ranimculus, Rhus, etc. It is evidently deserving of a
thorough proving, and it is our intention to attempt one as soon
as a reliable preparation can be had.
References: (i) Syme, British Medical Journal ; (2) London
Lancet; (3) Homoeopathic World, March, 1892; (4) American
Homoeopathist, 1897, P- 4 2 9) (5) New York Medical Journal, Jan-
nary, 1898, p. 68.
(1) 1. Eczema on face.
2. Eczema on face and arms.
3. Moist eczema on face and forearms, papular and
excoriated.
102 Primula Obconica.

4. Severe cracking over joints and fingers as from frost.

5. Great itching of the skin.

6. Eruption appears at night.
7. Eruption and itching worse at night.
8. The itching was intolerable at night.
(2) 9. Irritable papular eruption on both hands, followed by
desquamation.
10. Papular eruption on chin.
11. Eruption of small papules on a raised base with in-
tolerable itching.
(3) 12. Papular eruption (eczematous) on hands, wrists and
fingers.
13. Skin red and swollen and itching violently.
14. At night she became feverish, hands and face would
burn, then intolerable itching followed by ery-
thema with small papules becoming pustular.
15. Papular eruption itching violently.
(4) 16. Confluent blotches on face resembling urticaria.
17. Eruption between fingers which resembles scabies.
18. Desquamation.
19. Purple blotches on dorsal surface of hands.
20. Palmar surface of hands and fingers are stiff and un-
usable.
21. Deep seated blisters form on tip of each finger and
above and below each phalangeal flexure.
22. Blisters on fingers from which a clear fluid escapes
on being pricked.
23. Intense itching and burning accompanies the erup-
tion.

(5) 24. Eruption preceded by pricking sensation which

gradually changes to a smarting.
25. Skin tumefied and diffuse infliltration with a red
serosity, with here and there small fullae filled
with a limpid liquid.
26. Eyelids greatly swollen and covered with large fulke.
eyes half closed.
27. Great tension and redness of ^kin resembling ery-
sipelas.
28. Desquamation sometimes furfuraceous, sometimes la-

mellar, involving all of the epidermic layer in such

a manner that in some places the papillary layer
was exposed.
 Notes of Proving of Saba I Serrulata. 103

29. Eyelidsstiff and immovable, resembling ptosis.

30. Dryness and heat in palms of hands.

Deep infiltration of tissues rendering- the parts stiff
31.
and immovable.
32. Skin symptoms accompanied by pronounced febrile
symptoms.
From symptoms Xos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 23 it would appear
the time of aggravation is at night, and the most prominent sen-

sation is and less prominent is burning.

itching This is charac-
teristic of the Arsenicum eruption, also of Anacardiunr Rhus fox..
and some others. The eruption also bears a strong resemblance
to these remedies, and if one may judge from the symptoms
enumerated ought to prove a potent rival in erysipelas and
eczematous complaints. Rhus poisoning will no doubt find a
new and efficient remedy in Primula, and here let me state our
experience in the treatment of the latter's complaint. It has
been our fortune to see and treat a number of these cases.
Rhus radicans (500) is our chief reliance, and in majority of
cases it has proved all sufficient, its action being prompt and de-
cided. Where there was deep infiltration of the tissues, giving
the integuments a board-like feel, and accompanying the inflam-
mation and swelling from the start, or remaining after the more
acute symptoms have subsided, Aiiacardium orie?it. 500 and 47m
has rendered us excellent service. When the eruption is pustular,
and the pustules coalesce, forming thick scabs or crusts, we pre-
fer Ledum pal. 500 (Tafel) and 1,000 (Skinner). In a few
cases we have been compelled to resort to other remedies, but
the majority of poisonings from ivy can be promptly antidoted
by these three remedies.
Will others, who know of anything pertaining to the actions
(curative or otherwise) of Primula obcon., kindly make it kncwn
through the pages of The Recorder?
279 Jefferson Avenue, Rochester, X. Y.
[Messrs. Boericke & Tafel have a fresh plant tincture of the
—
Primula obconica. Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.]

NOTES OF PROVING OF SABAL SERRULATA.

[The following proving was sent me too late to be incorpo-
rated into the monograph Sabal serrulata. It has one character-
isticsymptom, " fear of going to sleep," which may prove of
value. —
E. M. Hale.]
104 Notes of Proving of Sabal Serrulatcu

Ten drops H (probably B. & TV

Decided tonic effect.

Some increase in sexual power.

Twelve drops.
—
Mind. Irritability; impatience; fretftilness.

Head. — Pain and irritation at the base of brain and upper third
of cervical spine. Thelatter was similar to the conditions
in that locality for which we prescribe Gelsemium.
Face. — Papular eruption on left temple and about the mouth.
Slight neuralgia in right temple and right jaw.

—
Sexual Organs. Slight irritation of the prostrate gland.
Some increase of sexual power.
General Symptoms. — Nervous erethism. Weakness. Slight
pallor of face. Sleeplessness. Fears to fall asleep lest
something should happen. (Some undefined danger.)
Second Proving.
Park, Davis & ex., which of two is not
Co.'s tincture or
fl.

noted. Quantity not noted, but certainly but a few drops, oc-
casionally repeated.

Sexual Organs. — Great excitement for the first two days.

Mind. — Very irritable. Difficult to study or read.

Sleep. — Fourth or fifth day. Great sleeplessness. After he

had fallen asleep awoke at 1:30 A. m. and remains awake
two hours.
Fears to fall asleep lest something should happen. Starts
up with this fear as he is dozing.

General Symptoms. — Much nervous erethism. Cannot keep

quiet.
Third Proving.
Morgan's fl. ex. used. Quantity not noted. Certainly only
a few drops repeated three or four times a day.

Sexual Organs. —
Excitement which continued while drug was
taken. Discharge of prostatic fluid from penis.
Urinary organs. — Pain or irritation in region of the kidneys.
Later an appreciable amount of albumen in urine; also
a few renal cells. (The last symptom from memory,
but, doubtless correct.
 The Pathology of Arsenicum. 105

THE PATHOLOGY OF ARSENICUM.

An Cook Co. Homoeopathic
abstract of a paper read before the
Medical Society, Jan. 18, 1898, by E. R. Mclntyer, B. S., M. D.,
Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases in the National Medi-
cal College of Chicago.
Perhaps no drug has a more profound and general action than
has Arse?iic. Its action may be classified
( local

(constitutional
v \
(
\
chronic.
Locally itacts as a slow and exceedingly dangerous caustic.
Hence it should never be applied for its caustic effects in any
case.
The constitutional effects show a metallic taste, with spasm of
the fauces, thus pointing to the pharyngeal plexus from the
pneumogastric and glasso-pharyngeal nerves, notwithstanding
the books tell us its first action is on the sympathetic, from which
it extends to the cerebro-spinal.
Next we get violent burning pains in the stomach, followed
by retching and vomiting. This again points to the peripheral
endings of the pneumogastric. These symptoms could not be
the necessary result of its local effects, since they "appear even
in a greater degree and more speedily when Arse?iic is applied
to a wound then when taken into the stomach," so says Prof.
Boehme.
The vomiting is accompanied by spasm of the oesophagus,
again pointing to the pneumogastric as the point of irritation.
The thirst points to the intestinal absorbants, whose vessels
are dilated by vaso motor irritation, thus favoring a state of con-
gestion of the gastro intestinal tract, which very soon reaches a
stage of effusion when the action of the absorbants is reversed,
so to speak, and the watery constituents of the blood are poured
into the canal, which will help us to explain the watery, bloody,
floculent, slimy, mucous diarrhoea.
The congestion may go on to ulceration with vomiting of
blood.
Through the pneumogastric nerve Arsenic exerts a very
powerful action on the liver, causing in acute poisoning a loss
of power to convert maltose into glycogen by the extraction of
106 The Pathology of Arsenicum,

a molecule of water. Since it cannot be stored in the organ as

maltose, thrown into the general circulation, to be excreted
it is

by the kidneys, and we get diabetes In chronic cases, the gen-

eral devitalized condition of the blood renders it incapable of
taking up oxygen in sufficient quantities to consume the car-
bonaceous matter which is deposited as fat. Xo known drug
causes more marked fatty degeneration than Arsenic, not even
Phosphorus.
This is shown in the liver, but in the heart and other
not only
organs. Knowing
the marked irritating influence of Arsenic on
the pneumogastric, we would expect to get a slowing of the
heart's action, and we are not disappointed in that since we find
it gradually becoming slower until it ceases. After death its in-

terior presents numerous spots of extravasation, but no true in-

flammation.
This points to the vasomotor nerves of the organ whose
function has been stricken down, producing in the capillaries of
the heart the general state of asthenia that is such a prominent

factor in the symptomatology of the drug, as expressed in the

"Great exhaustion."
This action on the vasomoters is still further manifested in
the serous effusions that are so prominent under its action. It

rarely, if ever, produces true inflammation of serous membranes,

since the congestion is so easily relieved by the discharge of the

watery constituents of the blood from their surfaces, thus differ-

ing from Bryonia in that the Arsenichad previously disorganized
the blood by the destruction of its fibrin like Mercury, but differ-
ing from the latter in the destruction also of the blood
corpuscles.
Arsenic destroys the outer layers of the skin first, then attacks
the deeper structures. Dr. Nunn, of Boston, has made some
elaborate experiments on the frog, and I quote from her report
as follows: " The general effect of Arscnious acid on the epider-
mis is to cause a degeneration and partial solution of the proto-
plasm of the cells, whereby (i) the whole epiderm becomes
loosened from the subjacent derm, 2 the cells of the malpig-
I I

hian layer becomes incoherent so that whole layer collapses and

its well-known architectural features become obscured, ami

the intermediate layer separates from the malpighian layer below

and, at times, from the corneous layer above. All the
facts go to prove that the changes are the result of the Arsenic
 The Pathology of Arsenicum. 107

acting directly on the epidermic cells themselves; in fact, a lethal

stimulation, by which the destructive stages of the metabolism
of the cells are hurried on beyond the separative power of the
constructive stages."
This is a very graphic description, but I am not prepared to
receive the reasoning in full unquestioned as an explanation of
the dynamic action on the skin, because (1) the conditions were
the result of hypodermic injections, and may have resulted from
the local caustic effects of the drug, (2) the trophic nerves are
ignored, and (3) the possible difference between the skin of the
batrachian and the human being.
Indeed, facts contradict his theories, because the skin lesions
in provings by poisoning and otherwise show lesions resem-
bling indignant ulcer, and anthrax, which dip deep into the tis-

sues. Wecannot ignore the action of the trophic nerves in the

production of the skin lesions or the baldness of Arsenic.
I have already referred to the action of Arsenic in causing
diabetes through the pneumogastric. It has a direct effect on
the kidneys, causing a degeneration very similar to, if not iden-
tical with Bright's disease.
This can only be credited to two sources, viz.: The disor-
ganized blood or the nerve supply of the organs. If it is at-

why are the changes different from those

tributed to the blood,
which they are ? Then one must refer them to
in other organs,
the dynamic action on the pneumogastric or sympathetic, since
both send fibres to the kidneys. Since they probably result
from inflammation, we are justified in looking to the sympa-
thetic vasomotors for the irritant.
On the bladder Arse?iic causes retention of urine, or painful
urination with great urging, and burning in the urethra. This
points to a profound influence on the spinal cord, since it shows
either paralysis of the detrusor urinae or spasm of the sphincter,
both of whose centres are in the lumbar cord. Since the reten-
tion of urine is accompanied by the other symptoms of irrita-
tion, and since irritation is such a prominent feature of the
drug, we may conclude that there is spasm of the sphincter.
However, from the well known fact that paralysis is as sure a
sequel to continued irritation as exhaustion is to over-action, we
might expect with drib-
finally to get paralysis of the sphincter
bling of urine. Arsenic seems to exert its action first on the
cerebro-spinal system, and secondly on the sympathetic.
10S Dr. Ad. Lippe's Keynotes.

Through these systems its primary action is that of an intense

irritant to almost every organ and tissue of the body, which is

followed by the secondary action of exhaustion and destruction
of the vital forces.
too State street.

SOME OF DR. AD. LIPPES KEYNOTES.

By Thomas Lindsley, Bradford, M. D.

[X. B. —
The symptoms in brackets were taken down in the
class room and are not found in Dr. Lippe's published works.]
Rhus tox. Restlessness which does not permit one to sit
quiet, and compels him to throw himself about in bed. (The
Rhus patient never lies still unless too weak to move. The Dry.
patient never wishes to move on account of pain.)
Rhus tox. Erysipelatous swelling of the head and face, with
vesicles drying up and forming burning itching scabs. (See
Bell., Apis.)
Rhus tox. Erysipelas with vesicles containing yellow water.
(Euphor., Ca?ilh.)
Rhus tox. Cracking in the articulation of the jaw. (With
involuntary yawning.)
Rhus Sore throat, as from an internal swelling with
tox.
bruised pain also when talking, with pressure and stinging
;

when swallowing. (Sensation of soreness in back on taking

food —
it strikes a sore spot on its way down. H. N. Guernsey.)
Rhus tox. Difficult deglutition of solid food, as from contrac-
tion. (The Lack, patient can swallow solid food, but not
liquids.)
Rhus tox. Thirst especially in the night, from dryness in the
mouth, and mostly for cold water or cold milk. |
Characteristic
in fevers.)
Rhus tox. Longing for cold oysters. (Lach., Lye. and Rhus
tox., the three remedies for this. I

Rhus tox. Colic compelling one to walk bent (doubled up),

(The Coloc. colic compels patient to bend double and to keep still,
there is no wish to move. The Bell, colic compels patient to
press against something hard. The Rhus patientwalks about
in colicky pain. I

Rhus tox. Sensation of soreness in the walls of the abdomen,

especially in the morning, when stretching.
 Dr. Ad. Uppers Keynotes. 1
09
Rhus tox. Nightly diarrhoea, with violent pain in the ab-
domen, which is relieved after an evacuation (nightly diarrhoea
of Merc, not relieved), or when lying on the abdomen. (In
dysentery: The Siilph. patient lies on his back in dysentery;
the Merc, patient is always in a perspiration.)
Rhus tox. During stool shortness of breath, (dyspnoea.)
Rhus tox. Prolapsus uteri from overstraining, overlifting.
Rhus tox. The lochia become bloody again (after labor) and
smell offensively.
Rhus tox. After-pains of too long duration, after severe labor,
with much and excessive straining. (From effects of strain-
ing.)
Rhus tox. Stitches in the heart, with painful lameness and
numbness of the left arm. (Aeon, and Rhus t. the two reme-
dies.)
Rhus tox. Pain in the small of the back when sitting still or
when lying; relieved when lying on something hard, or from
exercise. (Natr. mur.).
Rhus tox. Painful swelling above the knee. (Housemaid's
knee,when from a bruise.)
Rhus tox. Tension, stiffness and stitches in the joints; worse
when rising from a seat. (Better from motion. Bry. Patient
worse. Lye. has stiffness in joints.)
Rhus tox. Pain as if sprained in outer parts; disposition to
sprain a part by lifting heavy weights. ( Calc. c.) (Sprains from
overlifting, especially after getting wet.)
Rhus tox. Spasmodic yawning without inclination to sleep,
and with stretching of the limbs, and pain as from dislocation
of the articulation of the jaw. (Hysteria.)
Rhus tox. He falls asleep late; sleeplessness before midnight.
(Wakes late in the morning. Worse before midnight Rhus and —
Phos. Worse after midnight Ars.).—
Rhus tox. Heart disease from suppressed eruptions.
Rhus tox. Perspiration with violent itching of the eruption
(in all eruptive diseases).
Rhus Itching over whole body, especially on the hairy
tox.
parts. (Worse on perspiring.) Stinging and tingling in the
skin, burning after scratching. Erysipelas; vesicular. Zona.
(Neuralgic pains remain after erysipelas, remain in parts that
have been affected with zona.) Rhagades on hands in the
winter, from cold. Milk crust.
 — — —

no Liairis in Dropsy.

Rhus tox. Pain as if the flesh were torn loose from the bones,
or as if the bones were being scraped (with a knife
I. This is I

found no other remedy.)

in
Rhus tox. Bad consequences from getting wet, especially after
being heated; from excessive bodily exercise: from bruises and
sprains; from heavy falls; concussion of the body. As in slip- I

ping on ice. Symptoms worse from getting cold or wet. Dulc.;

from getting cold or wet when heated Rhus tox.; from lengthy
and fatiguing exercise —
Ars.; from very severe exercise for a
short time — Rhus tox. I.

Rhus tox. From (Head-

cold bathing, convulsive twitches.
ache from bathing —
Ant. crud.).
Rhus tox. Aggravation; in the morning; after midnight; dur-
ing every winter; while at rest (Ruta, Rhod.), reposing, lying
down; on rising from a seat {Lye, Puis. ) or after rising from the
;

bed; from stepping heavily on the ground; on change of

weather; in wet weather; from getting wet; in cold air; from
cold air in general; from cold water; from uncovering the head,
(Bell.)
RJius tox. Amelioration; when continuing to walk; from mov-
ing the affected from
parts; stretching out the limbs; from
warmth, warm air; wrapping oneself up warmly must keep |

head warm —
Si/.); in dry warm weather. (Soldiers after a

night on the ground waken stiffened and must exercise in order

to get "limbered up," after exercise the pain and stiffness

passes away. Rhus is useful for old wornout horses who can
hardly step when led from the stable. I have found it a benefit

for log drivers, who are exposed to wet and over- exertion. Br.
Rhus tox. In shocks from injuries give Rhus t.; in simple
bruises Arnic. In Rhus injuries patient trembles from the shock.

LIATRIS IN DROPSY.
By Dr. T. C. Duncan, M. D.
Any new remedy that promises relief in dropsy will be hailed
with pleasure by the profession. Happening into a pharmacy
soon after receiving the January Recorder, a physician rushed
in arid inquired for "that new remedy for dropsy — that got rid
of 'a gallon and a half of urine in one day.' Have a bad ease
cardiac dropsy. Wan 't to try it. How do you give it?" He
could not get it. "Get me some," was his order. "There is
"
the article, be sure you get the right thin-. Liatris I
 Liat'r is in Dropsy. in
Liatris spicata is the familiar "button snake root" that I

used to dig every fall for our old family physician (who called
himself a " botanic physician ") and who gave it for indigestion.
It is also called " colic root " and " devil's bit," because a piece

is missing from each tuber as a rule, just as if bitten out.

Kost's Medicine (my first medical work) describes it as follows:
" Root perennial, tuberous, ovate, abrupt, beset around the base
with many very fine fibers; it is aromatic. Stem round, about
three feet high, bearing a spike of scaly purple-colored blossoms,
bearing in the aggregate a resemblance to an acorn. The
leaves are linear or sword-shaped, somewhat resembling the
leaves of young corn. It is found in prairies and open woods in
the western States."
"The Liatris is an aromatic stimulant, diaphoretic, diuretic,
anodyne and carminitive. It is particularly useful in colic, back-
ache and flatulency."
It is interesting to know that it has had clinically a good effect

in dropsy, (i) due to liver and spleenic enlargement, also (2)

where the kidneys were involved. In the second case referred
to, " Apocynum Aralia, Digitalis, et al." had been given,
can.,
but the kidneys failed to respond until the Liatris " was given
in infusion," then "on the second day the patient passed a
galloji a?id a half of urine" — equal to 192 ounces of urine ! In
the first case the Liatris was followed by Ferrum carb.
Whether it will prove equally efficient in cardiac dropsy only
"time w ill
T
tell. I hope that the readers of the Recorder will
report results, whether favorable or otherwise. The dose that
Dr. Bradley gave was about a pint drank during the course of
the day containing about half an ounce of the root. The
tincture will be more convenient, and it is a question if the dilu-
tions will not be equally efficient. Try the third, and then go
up or down the scale as the case seems to demand. This drug
should be proved. It is harmless. If any young physician will
volunteer I will gladly direct him.
Infusion of Digitalis (English leaves) is a favorite prescrip-
tion wuth some physicians in cases of cardiac dropsy, but I have
not found that form any more efficient than the dilution, except
in cases where alcohol had been a cause, then Strophanthus or
Arsenicinn had a better effect.
112 Five Clinical L'cises.

FIVE CLINICAL CASES

By A. W. K. Choudhury.

Lachesis in Headache.
Patient, an old Mahommedan of about 60 years of age, came
to my dispensary November 12, 1897. He had
been suffering
from headache for three days. It was a hemicrania, the pain
being located near the left eyebrow. The headache was accom-
panied by a cold, and as soon as a discharge of a thick mucus
from the left nostril would appear the headache lessened. Bow-
els opened twice daily, but had four loose stools the day before
his first attendance. Urine slightly reddish. Appetite good,
but sleep not good.
He was given one dose of Lachesis 6, and that cured him.
We sometimes see Homoeopathy work magic.
Baryta Carb. in a Case of Intermittent Fever.
Patient named Pear Sirdar, aged about 17 years, color black,
came to my dispensary on the 3d of November last suffering
from an illness that had lasted a fortnight. The case runs as
follows: Type, double tertian (a pair of fever days running side
by side without having an apyrexial day after them, which
would make such a case a double quartan, as I classify these
fevers. We should remember that one of the two days is a
comparatively light fever-day and the other a comparatively low
fever-day); time, 2 p. m. (light fever-day) and 12 m. (high
fever-day); yawning and stretching before chill; chill severe on
high fever-days, with no thirst, goose skin during chill, chill not
alternating with heat, body hot in chill, headache in chill;
chill shorter than heat; heat slight, with 710 thirst, but headache;
no sweat; apyrexia complete; bowels not regular; stool soft,
with thread worms; urine reddish, with burning in micturition
sometimes; bad smell from mouth; aphthous ulcerations of
tongue tip; labial commissures, with whitish ulcerations; no fever
when seen; eyes icteric; pupils dilated; pain on percussion on
epigastrium and right hypochondrinm.
He was given Bar. C. 30, one dose per diem, first two days.
He attended the dispensary till the 12th insl., when he was dis-
charged as recovered. Since the 5th to the 12th inst, he re-
ceived placebo. He was discharged when the aphthous state ol
 Five Clinical Cases. 113

the inouth almost recovered with few dietetic instructions suiting

the state. Two doses were sufficient to restore him to health.
An intercurrent complication made appearance on the 5th
its

inst.; an urticaria-like eruption, with itching of body and with

swelling of the face, especially of the lips, together with heat of
the fever, complicated the case. I stopped the medicine as ex-

pressed above. The urticaria with itching in heat of fever con-

tinued for two days, till the 6th inst., then disappeared to ap-
pear no more.
As this eruption with itching in heat of fever appeared after
two doses of Bar. 30 on the second day of treatment, and dis-
c.

appeared since the 6th, the second day after discontinuance of

the medicine, one may conclude the eruption to have been
caused by the medicine.
No mention of such a symptom as itching, urticaria-like erup-
tion in heat of fever found in Allen's Bcenninghausen or in the
is

Chronic Diseases of Hahnemann under

Bar. c. symptoms.
Do you know, my reader, such a symptom of Bar. c.f I will
be obliged if you inform me of such a symptom.

Rhus Tox. in Lumbago.

Patient named Bahnran Chobay, aged about 28 years, came
under treatment the 9th of November, 1897. He is a Darwan
of a Zemindar; had been exposed to cold night air on his duty
night following the 7th inst. Pain first felt 12 o'clock the same
night. One hard, scanty stool the 8th inst., and no more stool;
urine yellowish, with slight burning in passing; movement ag-
gravates pain; increase of pain in coughing and in respiration;
stiffness of the painful part.
Rhus tox. 6, four doses, cured him. Diet was rice and milk.
Remark: He is a strong, robust man, but the pain made
him quite unable to sit on the ground and get up from that posi-
tion without undergoing much difficulty. Four doses cured the
patient. He was asked on the nth inst. if he wanted any
more medicine, but he gladly refused, as he had recovered.

Carbo Animalis in a Case of Cough.

Patient, aboy of 12 years. He had been suffering from
cough two years, when he came to my dispensar3 December
for r
,

6, 1897. The history and symptoms of the case are as follows:

Vaccinated when about four or five years of age; bad state of
health since infancy.
U4 Five Clinical Cases.

Cough, increasing at evening and morning or after lying down,

and that especially at night; expectoration thick whitish and
sometimes yellowish; expectoratioyi i?i the morning and evening
and at night when lying down when he coughs; taste of sputa
sweetish when thick; never expectorated blood; sputa some-
times frothy; coughs more when lies on right side.
Aggravation of cough whenever he catches cold; catches cold
by exposure to cold night air or to water, as in bathing or in
walking in rain; occasional increase with full or new moon.
Bowels irregular, a stool every second day; stool soft, with
thread worms, with bad smell; grinding of teeth during sleep;
occasional redness of eyes and sensation of sand and dust in
them; heat from vertex; appetite good; sleep not good on ac-
count of cough; cough sometimes, with vomiting of frothy
mucus; pain in abdomen during coughing; great tendency to
catch cold; susceptibility to cold; feverish; had itch in early life.
—
Was given Carbo an. 6, daily, one dose eight doses in all. He
attended dispensary three times more on three different days,
during which he reported his gradual and satisfactory improve-
ment since the commencement of the treatment.
Although no final report of his full recovery reached me yet
I have least hesitation to admit his full recovery.

Borax in a Case of Diarrhoea.

Patient, Ekeem Dalai, a Mahommedan male adult, a quack
using native medicines, but a firmer believer in Homoeopathy, as
he has attended my dispensary on many occasions, for his own
as well as his wife's sake, with good effect. On this occasion he
came to my dispensary on the 7th of December, 1897. His case
is as follows:
Aggravation in the morniiig, after a meal or a breakfast; in-

crease since about a fortnight; stools fermented\ yellowish, slimy,

with bad smell; head hot; pustular eruption on face, appetite
not good; flatus hot; frequent urination; distension of abdomen by
flatulence after meal; debility; cough with thick expectoration at
the latter part of night till morning; thread-worms; pricking at
the anus.
—
Given Borax 6, two doses daily a dose.
Remark: Two doses quite restored his health; he reported
thorough recovery by the two doses. Given sago for diet and

allowed bathing.
 American Institute of Homoeopathy. 115

This is the first case of diarrhoea that I have treated with

Borax. I don't know how often others use Borax in diarrhoea,
and with what result, Mr. Editor, and my dear reader may
mention some such cases of diarrhoea cured with Borax and
oblige.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE FIFTY-THIRD SESSION

OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCE-
OPATHY.
As in the past we pick here and there, from the discussions
and papers of this yearly report, a few practical points on the
use of remedies, and such other matters as lend themselves to
condensation, as may be of general interest.

Combination Tablets Condemned.

The following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolution i.

Whereas, There being placed upon the market by pharmaceutists,

is

tablets and prescriptions of mixed drugs which individually have been ad-
mitted into our Materia Medica as proven homoeopathic remedies, and as
the spirit of Homoeopathy is oppose I to any such misuse of our homoeo-
pathic preparations, and as their use has not been, to any appreciable ex-
tent, discountenanced by the Homoeopathic Medical Institution of this
country in their teaching of Medical Students; therefore,
Resolved, That the American Institute of Homoeopathy hereby expresses
itsdisapproval of all such combinations, they being deemed non-homoeo-
pathic preparations and their use liable to call dishonor upon those of the
profession who use them.
Resolution 2.

WHEREAS, Drug manufacturers are now in the habit of preparing alka-

loid preparationsand tablets in divided doses, whose appearance and size
resemble homoeopathic remedies, and
WHEREAS, Many physicians calling themselves homoeopathists are now-
prescribing these unproven drugs and combinations; therefore,
Resolved, That this Institute disapproves of their use as well as that of
those proprietary medicines offered as remedies for special diseases, deem-
ing them all uu-homceopathic.
The resolutions were adopted.

Homoeopathy vs. Homeopathy.

The Committee on Medical
Literature went on record against
dropping the diphthong from the word Homoeopathy and we
think correctly. The life of a word comes through its roots,

cut these all off and the word is dead; mutilate these and the
word is mutilated.
n6 American Institute of Homoeopathy.

Lycopodium in Croup.
Some interesting points were brought out in the Materia
Medica discussion. Here is one by Dr. \V. P. Wesselhoeft.
A child of five years, every afternoon at fonr o'clock, was taken
with a severe attack of spasmodic cronp. It lasted three or four
hours, and then passed away; the child slept quietly all night This
had occurred for several days at this regular time every afternoon at
nearly the very hour. The mental conditions of the child were entirely
changed, which was especially marked after waking from sleep. It would
cry on waking; it was extremely angry and would strike or try to scratch
the mother or attendant. I suggested to the attending physician, that on
account of the mental symptoms and the marked four o'clock afternoon
aggravation, Lycopodium seemed the remedy indicated. Now Lycopodium
has no croup symptoms, but no other remedy in the Materia Medica has in
so marked a degree the mental symptoms on waking, and the 4 p. m. ag-
gravation. There was no recurrence of a croup attack after a single dose of
Lycopodium in a high potency, and the temperament of the child became
normal immediately. In this case the pathological condition, therefore,
had nothing whatever to do with the selection of the remedy.
Colchicum in Typhoid.
Here is another by Dr. J. R. Simson, of Tonawanda, X. Y.
A man of nervous temperament had a very severe attack of typhoid.
He was very wild, could not sleep, imagined his left half belonged to some
other person, animals after him, would spring out of bed to get away, etc.
And one peculiar and characteristic symptom was that his left pupil was
contracted so as to be almost imperceptible, while the right was dilated the
full extent of the iris. I w as giving him the best indicated remedy I knew
r

of. He had many symptoms which several remedies of the typhoid class
have, except the eyes. I searched for days for a remedy with that symp-
tom, and finally found it in the symptomatic indications of " Panelli on
Typhoid Fever." Contraction of left pupil with dilatation of the right
(Colchicum). I found further symptoms corresponding with this remedy. I

gave him Colchicum and he became better immediately and slept until late
next morning, and when he awoke was on a fair way to recovery. Now I
fail to find that symptom in any Materia Medica or repertory.

Aconite and Insanity.

By Dr. A. Korndoerfer:
Von Helmont's experiment with the Aconite root gave us the peculiar
symptom, u felt as though his mental arts were performed in the stomach."
This seemingly ridiculous and untrustworthy symptom, for even von Hel-
mont was unable to reproduce it upon himself, nevertheless led to the
prompt and permanent cure of a case of insanity, in which this symptom
was characteristically present Such cases should warn us to " make haste
slowly " in the work of eliminating the so called useless symptoms of our
Materia Mi-diea.
 American Institute oj Homoeopathy. 117

A Physostigma Symptom.
By Dr. Hiram
L. Chase, of Catnbridgeport, Mass., anent
provings of drugs made by himself:
We sometimes, however, get very peculiar symptoms, and, if genuine,
they are of great moment. In the proving of Physostigma many years
ago, I experienced a severe pain in the right popliteal space —
a very severe
pain. Fortunately I had a case of the same kind two years later, which
yielded quickly to a prescription based on this single symptom; which I
had thought good for nothing, but this clinical experience was confirma-
tory of that proving. I advise every person here to prove drugs. If you
have a case which corresponds you will have the proof in your own mind
of the truth of Homoeopathy.

A Natrum Phosphoricum Case.

By Dr. Chas. Mohr:
I heartily indorse the sentiments of Dr. Chase, as I have always taken
the position that the best thing a student can do is to engage in the prov-
ing of drugs, old or new, so that he will not use them empirically. I had
an experience similar to that of Dr. Chase when I proved Natrum Phos-
phoricum, under the direction of the late Dr. Farrington. After being
under the influence of the drug for some time, not knowing what it was, I
experienced much itching about the joints, especially at the ankles, fol-
lowed by an eczematous eruption. Associated with the objective symptoms,
there were a number of subjective ones, besides the itching. I was in fear,
very similar to the fear mentioned last night as attributed to Natrum
muriaticum. I am not an emotional individual. I take everything pretty
calmly, but, while under the influence of the drug, I could not get rid-
especially at night, of the idea that something would happen. I would
waken frequently to see if everything was all right, being unduly appre-
hensive. There was an undefinable headache, with slight nausea, some
indigestion and defects of vision, with dilatation of one pupil, which did
not react as promptly as did the* other. The symptoms finally passed off,
but required an antidote, which proved to be Sepia, given under Dr. Far-
rington's directions. A couple of years later I had a patient who, among
other symptoms, had some visual disturbance, and when the headache was
worse and vision most disturbed, she had a haunting fear —
a sense of fear,
especially at night, and an eruption about the ankles which began with
itching. I gave her Natrum phosphoricum the 6x, and that was the end of
her sufferings.
Salty Taste.
By Dr. Jas. C. Wood:
The patient, some months after operation, complained of a salty
six
taste in the mouth. had prescribed several times without relief, and
I
finally consulted a repertory, something I don't often do. I found the

symptom under Hyoscyamus, Sepia, and other remedies. The moment

Hyoscyamus was suggested I could see a perfect picture of the remedy in
my patient and wondered why I had not thought of it before.
 »

[i8 American Institute of Homoeopathy,

Symptom of Hair on the Tongue.

By Dr. Dr. A. P. Hanchett, Omaha, Neb.:
I had a typhoid case recently in which the remedies did not seem
to have
the desired and where I found this peculiar symptom the young
effect, ;

woman, ahout twenty ) ears of age, in the second week of typhoid fever,
complained constantly of a difficulty in drinking hecause of a hair on her
tongue. When the nurse would administer water, even in very small
quantities, the patient would rub her tongue and complain of that hair. I

paid little attention to it at first, and thought it was simply hecause the
tongue was dry, or that it might he merely a passing whim. The next day,
however, hoth the mother and the nurse called my attention to the peculiar
symptom. I found this symptom under Xi trie acid, which also corresponded
to many of the patient's symptoms. Other remedies have the symptom of sen-
sation of hair on the tongue, but I think it is ofteuer found under Nitric add
than under any other remedy, and, in this case, as it corresponded to so many
of the other symptoms, it was given. The results were more than could
have been expected, as we often see when we get the right remedy. The dis-
agreeable symptoms vanish one by one, and the patient goes on to re-
covery.
Pulsatilla.

By Dr. B. G. Clark, New York:

George W. Worchester, M. D., of Newburyport, Mass., first called my
attention to it in diphtheria, as a remedy for the severe backache which
often accompanies that disease, and I have used it several times since The
remedy when there are present, high
will be called for in the earlier stages
fever, severe frontal headache involving the eyes, which is worse by mov-
ing eyes upward, patient is very restless and complains of a backache
" that seems as if it would break," the throat looks dark or purplish, with
veins promiuent, with scraping sensation in throat and dryness and diffi-
culty in swallowing. The color of the throat reminds one of Lachcsis or
—
Baptisia the membrane was yellowish in the cases which have u^ed it.
Thirstlessness is a characteristic of Pulsatilla that i- usually looked for, } et
it has a thirst that calls for " a. little and often " similar to Arsenicum,

Apis, China, and some other remedies, and in all acute diseases where I
have seen this remeny indicated that form of thirst for •' a little and often'
was present.
In follicular tonsillitis it is a valuable remedy. With symptoms similar
to those just referred to tonsils studded with ulcerated points and often
:

covered with a sticky mucous, scraping in throat, restlessness, thirst for

" a little and often " or no thirst, witli that severe backache usually use
I

a warm (not hot. milk and water gargle in these cases to aid the suppura-
tive process.
Again in " I. a Grippe
" Pulsatilla should be studied. In my own case, in

1890, the backache, restlessness, and severe head iche are still remembered.
The physician who was called to prescribe tor me gaveme Rhus to v. 30.
During the day three other physicians came to see me about my patients.
Two of the doctors were looking after some of my work, and the other had
been called in consultation with me that day regarding a case. They came
 American Institute of Ho?7ioeopathy. 119

at different times and all said Rhus tox. was my remedy. I kept on taking
it until late in the evening, when the remedy was changed to Pulsatilla
200, and relief began soon after the first dose, and rapid improvement en-
sued.
Rhus tox., I believe, is often given when Pulsatilla would be more
homoeopathic.
Since my own case, I have often used it according to its indications in
" La Grippe," and it has done splendid service.

Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris.

By Dr. Millie J. Chapman:
Our knowledge of this remedy is derived from the early observations of
Rademacher and the later provings by Dudgeon, Bcenninghausen, Lippe,
Hale, Macfarlau, McGeorge, Claude and Fahustock.
The provings are brief and do not furnish very full indications for its use.
However, from them we learn of its effectiveness in expelling accumula-
tions of sand and uric-acid crystals from the kidneys and bladder, also in
controlling hemorrhage from the nose, kidneys, or uterus.
My attention was first called to this remedy in cases of subinvolution
following either abortion or labor at full term, where it many a time in-
duced recovery.
I have since witnessed equal success in hemorrhage from uterine fibroid
where the flow was controlled, and the growth was greatly reduced in size
before the age of the individual would naturally produce these changes.
Also uterine hemorrhage, attended with cramps and expulsion of clots, has
been relieved by it after curetting had failed.
A member of the Women's Provers' Association took five drops of the
tincture three times a day for ten days. This was followed by a great in-
crease of urine and a menstrual flow lasting fifteen days. She became
alarmed and could not be persuaded to continue the proving.
Another took ten drops, three times a day, for five days, when the
quantity of urine and brick dust deposit were so unusual that her interest
in scientific investigation suddenly ceased.
About a year since, there came for treatment a patient who had suffered
long from both disease and treatment of the bladder. Thlaspi 2x and
later five drop doses of the tincture expelled great quantities of sand, and
was followed by complete relief of the bladder symptoms and the disap-
pearance of rheumatic pains that had been supposed incurable.
Another case of similiar bladder irritation and marked evidences of gout
was promptly relieved.
Thlaspi also has a reputation in the cure of urethritis following marri-
age.
The good results from its clinical use convinces me that a more thorough
proving would insure a more frequent administration of this remedy.

Thuja in Cancer.
By Dr. R. C. Allen, Philadelphia:
We are frequently called upon to treat cases which have been given up as
hopeless by the surgeon, and in many cases have cured them. I wish to
120 About Corallium Rubrum Cough*
cite justone such case and the result. I had a case six or seven years ago
in which there was made a diagnosis of uterine fibroid. Dr Van Leuuep
confirmed this diagnosis and offered no relief surgically, believing that she
would surely die before long. Her friends expected her death, but by the
aid of the internal remedy she is to-day a well woman and a fine specimen
of physicial womanhood. Her remedy was Thuja.

Arsenicum and Cancer.

By Dr. J. Thompson, Chicago:
J.

It seems curious that after so many well-authenticated cases are brought

to light still there are learned men who say that cancer cannot be cured by
the internal remedieis. I have now under my care a lady who some eight
years ago had her disease diagnosed by Professor Hobart, of Chicago, as
cancer of the uterus. He called Dr. Charles Adams, of the same place, in
consultation, who pronounced it cancer and advised operation, without,
however, holding out a very substantial hope of cure, so the advice was
not followed. She was then put on the opium treatment to relieve pain,
and at the time of Dr. Hobart's death was taking an immense quantity of
opium daily. To-day she is not taking any opium, seldom complains of
pain, and eight years after the first diagnosis of cancer there is very little
enlargement of the uterus. She was under Dr. Hobart for three years
and he gave her Arsenicum. Since then I have occasionally given her the
same remedy in the 3d to the 30th potency. She is well and presents no
symptoms of cancer. I believe there are many here to-day who could tell

of similar cases.
Passiflora in Typhoid.
Dr. Richard Kingsman, Washington, said, anent the nervous
symptoms of typhoid:
Passiflora one of the best all-round remedies that I have ever used for
is

general nervousness and insomnia. I usually put one drachm of the tinc-

ture in a glass two-thirds full of water and give one tablespoonful of this
mixture every hour while the patient is awake. If nervousness and sleep-
lessness is the most annoying feature of the disease, I frequently keep
the patient on this medicine for twenty-four hours with happy results.

ABOUT CORALLIUM RUBRUM COUGH.

By T. C. Duncan, M. D.

Corallium rubrum barking cough. Dr. Rockefeller, Homoeo-

pathic Recorder, December, 1N97, relates a case of a boy of 10,
with a cough " like the barking of a dog." The family had a dog
with a similar COUgh that died. The people feared hydrophobia.
The cough was incessant during the day but at night he was en-
tirety free. Atropine suppressed the cough when given in phy-
 About Cor allium Rubrum Cough. 121

siological toxic doses. Bellado?ina had no effect, but Corallium

rub. 3X trit. gradually controlled and in five weeks cured the
nervous spasmodic stridulous cough. In the provings and
record given in Allen's Encyclopedia there is no similar cough
symptom. Teste proved this remedy and obtained " some char-
acteristic symptoms" which induced him to "prescribe it,
sometimes with striking success, for nervous cough, asthma of
Miller, endemic whooping cough and for certain forms of
gastralgia. I believe that the action of Corallia is very similar
to that of Causticum, Cojfea, etc." Teste's Materia Medica, p.

353-
Coral in croup. In his valuable little book on Diseases of
Children, p. 315, Teste gives for spasmodic laryngitis Corallium
30 and Opium 3.
In whooping cough he prescribes " Corallia rub. 30 for three or
four days in succession, four doses in 24 hours. It is like
'

water thrown upon fire,' said one of his patients one day after
it had been given for attacks of a convulsive cough which had

passed into a chronic state." In whooping cough cases, after

four or five days, he gives " Chelidonium 6 (3 doses a day) unless
there is a renewal of the violent spasmodic coughing fits, or
convulsions in children, or spasms of the glottis (all of which
circumstances would call for a return to Corallia), until the evi-
dent transformation of whooping cough into single bronchitis."
Then he suggests Pulsatilla. For dry cough Causticum, or if

severe depression with the cough Lachesis is given. On the

strength of the above some physicians have found that Coral-
lium 30 and Chelidonium 30 cured every case in a week, but in
other epidemics of whooping cough these remedies had no effect.
Hahnemann found that also true of Drosera in whooping cough.
So that there is no specific for this disease or cough. The sim-
ilar remedy must be selected every time. How coral ("mix-
ture of carbonite of urine and oxide of iron") can cause or
cure a convulsive cough is a problem worthy of further investi-
gation.
122 Nat rum Arsenicatunu

NATRUM ARSENICATUM.
Editor of Homceopathic Recordkr.
Will you please give keynotes of Xatrum arsen. in March number of
Homoeopathic Recorder d

And oblige,
A. McPherson, M. D.
Erie, Pa., February 2, 189S.

Our correspondent will find in that best of all homoeopathic

materia medicas, Ha?idbook of Homoeopathic Materia
Allen's
Medica a?id Therapeutics, five quarto pages of symptomatology
of this drug, but we could not attempt to give the keynotes.
The drug is more allied to Natrum mur. than to Arsenicum.
Clinically it has been successfully prescribed for chronic con-
junctivitis, granular lids, nasal catarrh with burning in eyes, or
pain at the root of the nose; "in diphtheria, with excessive
swelling and great prostration, throat dark purple, uvula exces-
sively swollen, like a sac of water, body cool and sweaty, great
oppression of the heart, feeble, intermittent pulse ;" in tubercu-
losis, and greenish expectoration stage and in
night sweat ;

eruptions on the chest, with dark brown spots, scaly, on a red

base, without itching.
The foregoing is taken from Dr. Allen's work.

THE SEXUAL QUESTION AND THE MEDICAL

PROFESSION.
Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder.
The January number Homceopathic Recorder con-
of the
tains a very timely article on " Marriage and Divorce," by Dr.
I. W. Heysinger. The above mentioned article is to the point,
though a little out of the ordinary line of medical literature.
No physician can read without acknowledging the truth of
it

much, if not all, the doctor has said. The thoughts set forth
will, in the minds of many, stimulate other thoughts of a simi-
lar nature. The doctor has only hinted at a subject which needs
"airing." The writer of this article, himself somewhat of a
student of these sociological questions, is prompted to add a lit-
tle more to what has already been said. Let it be understood
that nothing shall be said in a spirit of unkindly criticism.
That these questions should be discussed there can be no
doubt. Truly, the doctor has said, " there is a mighty surge
 Sexual Question and Medical Profession. 123

of indecency sweeping along," and inasmuch as the medical

fraternity has ample opportunity to see and hear it is high
time we were raising a protest.
11
But," says one, "why drag a sociological question into
medical literature?" "What has 'Marriage and Divorce' to
do with the healing art ?"
Let us pause a moment and see. Our friend may be answered
in the " Yankee style;" that is, by asking him a question.
What is the true mission of the physician ? Is it to simply
sit in his office and prescribe ? To give a little Aco?iite to this

one, a little Belladonna to that one or to apply the electrodes to

Mr. So-and-so, or perhaps amputate a leg ? Is this all of the

physician's work ? We are called both " Doctors" and " Phy-
sicians," and it were well that we were worthy of both titles,
for to be called "Doctor" implies ability to "teach" while
" Physician " implies ability to heal the sick.
We ought to rise above the low plane of making our profes-
sion a mere money-making business. We are "healers" and
(or should be) "teachers."
Ours is a peculiar profession and we are many times in pe-
culiar positions.
No other class of men hears so many of the family secrets.
Before no other class of men is the " family skeleton " made to
" dance " so often.
Could we remember half we hear and were we allowed to
tell what we hear the world would be surprised.
Ours being a peculiar profession we have double opportunity
to know and advise, too, concerning the family circle.
The question is, are we doing- our full duty f
Since the world began people have married and people have
been divorced. But that divorces are on the increase there can
be little question.
The up wide awake physician, when called to a case,
to-date,
looks for the cause of the malady. There never was an effect
without a cause, and so in the question now under discussion
there must be some cause for all of these divorces.
It is undoubtedly true, as Dr. Heysinger has shown, that the
leading cause is disturbance of the sexual relations. Can any
careful observer arrive at any other conclusion ? The writer
was, one day, in company of a number of medical men when
this question was brought up. The question was asked, " What
124 Sexual Question and Medical Profession,

per cent, of family troubles arises from disturbances of the

sexual relations?" The answers were varied. Some said 60
per cent., some 75, some as high as 90 and 95 per cent.
It would of course be a very laborious task to gather data to

prove this ; but it is the firm belief of the writer that by far the
larger majority of divorce suits arise from this cause.
That there are other causes we all know, but they form but
a small per cent.
Granting that this is the leading cause, what, in turn, is the
cause of this disturbance? This is a question difficult of solu-
tion.
Probably there is more than one cause, but that they all tend

in the same direction there can be no doubt. Judging from ob-

servation, it would seem that the prime factor is disappointment
resulting i?i dissatisfaction to o?ie or both parties.
This may originate on either side of the house.
We have said " disappointment resulting in dissatisfaction,"
and it may well be reversed dissatisfaction resulting in disap-
pointment. Too many, far too many, marry from "sexual
love," and the result is disappointment sooner or later.
It cannot be otherwise. After the " new" is worn off it gets
to be an old story, and then the one whom they have promised
to love they cannot love, because the very fountain of this love is

exhausted.
In this we can see the folly of brief courtships and early mar-
riages.
Taken as a class, it is quite probable that females have not as
intense sexual passions as males. On the other hand, it is prob-
ably also true that many men allow their passions to get control
of their minds. This sexual desire becomes abnormal and inor-
dinate. Some men
are worse in this respect than brutes, and
the number is not small, either. The writer remembers a case
of "sexual neurasthenia" which was presented to the clinic at
college. The man had indulged in sexual intercourse twice
each day for a period of six or seven years. Cases of a simi-
lar nature could be cited did space allow. When this passion
becomes abnormal the result will be dissatisfaction on the part
of the male and disgust on the part of the female. Xo woman
likes to be tormented day and night nor even every night.
Is it any wonder that after awhile it becomes a subject of

disgust ?
 Sexual Question and Medical Profession. 125

When this inordinate desire assumes control of a man the

wife is made the victim of this insane desire, and she submits
simply to "
keep peace in the family."
As what should be the most enjoyable act of private
a result
life becomes the most disgusting. Let men be taught that
women were created for some other purpose than to act as mere
11
mistresses " and there will be less trouble. And who shall do
this teaching? Surely if the physician does not no one will.
This should be a part of his business.
We can do it for we are fitted for it, and if we do it not we
are neglecting our duty.
Few people know what constitutes a perfect sexual inter-
course.
One of the elements of a perfect intercourse is the sense of
enjoyment on the part of both. But how can a woman who is
" worked " to death, or nearly so, enjoy it to the fullest extent,
and how, if she does not enjoy it, can she give satisfaction to
her consort ? It is impossible. The result must be dissatisfac-
tion and disappointment.
Such a state of affairs may exist for a time, but sooner or later
the husbands seeks new pastures and the trouble begins. Dr.
Heysinger has rightly said that "husbands and wives drift
apart by reasons of pathological conditions." We all know
that this is true. Dyspareunia is another cause of lack of enjoy-
ment and consequent lack of responsiveness on the part of the
wife.
This too will result in much dissatisfcction.
True it is that the wife will submit for awhile, though she
does not enjoy it because she can not, until finally she refuses
altogether. Result: Dissatisfaction of course. Dr. Heysinger
in his has spoken of lack of enjoyment, due to " patho-
article
logical conditions developed subsequent to childbirth and mis-
carriage," and these do not need to be mentioned again.
The doctor has touched upon another point which it will be
well to dwell upon more strongly. That is, "the adaptation of
the sexual organs of either party."
This is an important point, and yet one which is little
thought about, probably through ignorance of the bearing it
has.
To have complete sexual intercourse there must be a?i adapta-
tion of the sexual organs. Surely this needs no argument.
 .

126 Sexual Question and Medical Profession.

Where the trouble lies in the " lack of adaptation of the

organs" the dissatisfaction is apt to be with both parties. " But."
says one, " they should learn to endure." True enough, if they
would; but they won't. Besides, in the case of a small vagina,
can you expect a woman endure what is almost like murder to
her ? Dr. Heysinger's remedy in this case is the passage of " the
child's head." Yes, but Doctor, how about the time before the
advent of the child ? And again, how about the small male
organ ? What effect will the child's head have upon that kind of
a case? Fix it as you will, dissatisfaction will result if the sex-
ual organs are not properly adapted to each other.
Without a doubt the Doctor hit upon the right remedy when
he proposed to subject all those who contemplate marriage to a
physical examination. This would be perfectly proper, and it
seems that this is the only rational and efficieyit procedure.
For those who are married, one remedy would be correctio?i of
pathological conditions and education of those who are ignorant
concerning things sexual.
More stringent laws is another remedy advocated by Dr. Hey-
singer, but it is hard to see how this can do more than to act as a
palliative. It certainly will not get at the root of the evil. In
the Doctor's article there is some slight intimation that the
blame is all with the men. In this we cannot agree, for obser-
vation has taught us that, in many instances, the women are at
fault in the beginning. In a summing up of the matter it would
seem that as a leading cause of divorces sexual troubles stand
at the head, and as a cause of these troubles dissatisfaction and
disappointment due in part to ignorance, in part to pathological
conditions, are factors.
The true remedy for the future is education in things sexual.
For preseyit conditions, correction of abnormal conditions and edu-
cation for those who need it. And who shall be the instructors
in these matters ? Every physician has around him many pa-
trons who will gladly accept such instruction as he will give.
Shall we neglect our duty? These matters will have to be
largely settled by our fraternity. We
are in a position to know
and to advise, hence is our responsibility increased.
In the future shall we do this duty or leave it undone? Ten
times more might be said upon this topic did time and space
permit.
It is hoped that enough has been said to call forth more
thoughts in future issues of our journals.
K. r. Felsh.
Rt m ing to n , /// dia na
 ;

Dr. Heysinger Replies to Dr. Cranch. 1 2

DR. HEYSINGER REPLIES TO DR. CRANCH.

Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.
As a general proposition, a writer has no business to go to
defending his own books ; it is better to have the books right in
the first place.

In your issue of February 15th, page 78, Dr. Cranch, of Erie,

Penna., has something to say about my little book on the Scien-
tific Basis of Medicine, which Boericke & Tafel have recently

published; and I think this breezy little article ought to be put

right, lest mislead some of those who " toil not, neither do
it

they spin," but want their medical science ready-made.

When the doctor talks about the " radiant " state of matter,
he probably mixed up w ith the kinetic theory of gases, which
is
T

latter is valid. Crookes's fourth or radiant state has nothing to

do with a solution of metallic silver in water, nor can I conceive
of a " vapor " of silver as being existent in a pot full of water.
How such things can negative my claim about the limit of
action from potentization I cannot just see, as I simply stated,

with reference to these dilutions, that the observations showed

that, when carried up to a certain point, the "critters" didn't
die off any more, or act as though they cared a continental
whether the "vapor" was radiant or as solid as a tombstone.
And in Crookes's experiments, which I also cited, that eminent
investigator found that the bombardment simply died out from
want of material, at a certain point.
These are either facts, or they are not. I quoted them from
standard authorities, with whom I am quite familiar, and I have
never heard these statements or experiments disputed.
The general opinion among men of science is that specific
sorts of matter are composed of specific molecules, and that if
you divide it up into more pieces than there are molecules you
won't have a molecule apiece, and whatever you have rubbed
it against to do this will be short of those particular molecules,
in spots at all events.
I don't see what this has to do with vapor, or radiant, or any
other sort of matter. You can divide up a pie among a whole
camp-meeting, but it doesn't look reasonable to suppose that the
whole confraternity shall still have a full-sized chunk apiece.
The Apostles are said to have done that; but Hahnemann never
claimed to be that kind of an apostle.
128 Dr. Heysinger Replies to Dr. Cranch.

Professor Tait's summary of the work of a number of very-

eminent men of science, working by different methods, suggests
for copper about 64 septillions of molecules to the cubic inch,
and lor other substances analogous numbers.
Even just above the 30th centesimal potency the proportion is
only one drop of the original drug or one grain to a sphere of
1
)

alcohol represented by a diameter of 100,000,000 miles. Hence,

I suggest that some of the pie has been rubbed off in transmis-

sion perhaps, and that these constitute "the first step, which
counts," in curing disease.
Of course no spectroscopist need be
told that all metals are
vaporable; there are no peculiar points " about that ere frog"
any more than about Mark Twain's celebrated jumping frog
of Calaveras but the latter was loaded up with shot, five
;

pounds of it, in the shape of a "mother tincture," or even the

II
crude drug."
When Dr. Cranch says I am "wrong" in saying that the
whole atmosphere is an ocean of potentized drugs, he ought to
stop there but, unfortunately, he says I am wrong because this
;

ocean of drugs is " attenuated and neutralized by admixture."

We would all like to know where he gets his authority for
saying that drugs are neutralized either by attenuation (oh,
Hahnemann!) or by admixture.
In the latter case, to what amount of cleaning out would he
subject his patients before administering a remedy? He
would have to full- fast them for three months at least, in order
to prevent "neutralization by admixture;" as they do with the
terrapins, in order to give them time to " clean themselves be-
fore killing." I doubt if they would be thoroughly cleaned,

against admixture, till they got to Heaven.

The Doctor's childlike faith in keeping his potentizing jug, or
bottle, or trough, or mortar and pestle, " away from powerful
aromas or floating dust," while working up to the ioo, oooth
potency, when, as I wrote in my little book, Professor Aitkin
states that in a public meeting room there were 489,000,0 O of
micro-organisms alone to each cubic inch of space, some of which
doubtless " smelled," besides the illimitable other abominations
in the air which I have also cited from Tvndall. is decidedly
" fresh," even if his medicines are not.
When the Doctor says that I "actually defend the top com-
mon practice of routine alternation as better than the single
 Dr. Heysinger Replies to Dr. Cranch. 129

remedy" he swallows his own tag, as the calf on the railway

cars did, and chance of safe delivery. I didn't do that; I
loses all
simply said that we have no right to commence to use new reme-
dies at all if w e already had old remedies which singly and pre-
T

cisely fitted every case; and that, unless we were to shoot down
Homoeopathy dead in its tracks, we must keep on trying to dis-
cover new remedies, and to prove them, which will substitute
for old duplicates that which will work as a single remedy in a
single form.
have no doubt that Dr. Cranch occasionally comes across a
I
case in which Gelsemi?ium is directly and positively indicated,
and no other remedy. I know that I do. Now if he has prac-
tised medicine as long as I have done he will recall the time
w hen there was no Gelseminum in our whole repertory; and what
r

did he do then? All our provings are only to " make one blade
of grass grow where two grew before." When he speaks of
" working purposes," on page 80, he clearly does not under-
stand what this well known technical phrase means; I shall not
endeavor to set him right. I like the old Gelseminum .

When the Doctor, however, gets in behind the majestic shade

of Hahnemann, and yells out "you're another!" he ought, at
least, to find a better citation; for what Hahnemann there said,
simply boiled down, is that a medicine by acting on the diseased
system modifies its adaptability to a different remedy, which is
precisely what
I said in the book.

however, for I don't want him to suffer, give him a

I will,

quotation from Hahnemann which will relieve the spasm at

once:
" Purple rash being a disease different from scarlet fever, it

requires to be treated in a different way. In purple-rash Bella-

do7i7ia can do no good; and patients who are treated with Bella-
donna in this disease will generally have to die; whereas all of
them might have been saved by the alternate use of Aconite and
the Tincture of Coffee, — the former being given against the heat,
the increasing uneasiness, and the ago?iizing anguish/ the latter
against the excessive pain and zveeping mood."
When the Doctor suggests strabismus as the condition of a
physician "who always sees two or more remedies indicated,
without preference, in the same case at the same time," what
would he say was the condition of a doctor who only saw one
medicine indicated, and also without preference?' I would sug
' *
'
130 A Plea for Western Pilgrimage,

gest a cataract of one eye and the Rocky Mountains

Niagara in
in the other. Why more
logical to choose one out of 700
is it

than two out of the same 700, when, in the year of grace 1910,
he will probably choose some other one, or in the year i860
would, to an absolute certainty, if he is now using a new
remedy, have chosen another one? I cannot see it; as Lord
Dundreary says, " that is one of the things no fellow can find
out."
When such a man down to table he ought to eat nothing
sits

but plain boiled and eat that with a tooth-pick. A physi-

rice,

cian who has no preference, or discrimination, or knowledge, or

judgment, or experience, is not a physician at all; a man who
doesn't know anything but doctoring doesn't know that.
I. W. Heysingkr, M. D.
1426 Girard Ave., Phila., Pa., Feb. 22, 1898.

A PLEA FOR WESTERN PILGRIMAGE.

Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.
The local committee of arrangements for the Omaha meeting
of theAmerican Institute of Homoeopathy are very much en-
couraged in their prospects of making at least two records in the
history of Institute meetings.
First as to attendance, and second as to new members. The
inquiries as to what we are doing in Omaha are so numerous as
to indicate that the interest in our next meeting is beyond that
shown for many years. This is, of course, especially true of
the West, but it is from all over the
also equally gratifying
East. The plans most thorough canvass for new members
for a
throughout the states west of the Mississippi River are being
carefully laid and a surprise is in store for our beloved Insti-
tute.
We members and friends of our Na-
are glad to report to the
tional Society that arrangements are progressing satisfactorily,
and that we will soon be ready to make an official report to the
Executive Committee in detail.
(Mnaha is to be the National Convention city this year. Over
sixty national and sectional meetings are already booked for the
Exposition City in [898. We wish to assure our visitors that
hotel accommodations are ample and satisfactory. A list will
 A Plea for Western Pilgrimage. 131

be given in a few weeks, and it is urged that engagements for

rooms be made early through our Sub-Committee for Hotels.

Our meeting occurring probably the last week in June, book-
ings for rooms should be made early in May at least. This is
important and should be borne in mind.
The railway facilities for reaching Omaha are unexcelled.
Fourteen lines of railways converge at Omaha from all direc-
tions. The train service between Chicago and Omaha in point
of elegance of equipment is equal to that between Chicago and
New York, so nothing need be said, as that is the finest in the
world.
While here Institute sessions nothing
in attendance of the
will be allowed to interfere with the regular program of the
meeting, but to him who desires recreation and entertainment
most ample facilities will be provided. If the visitor wishes to
see something large, he will be shown an ore smelter which
turns out more gold and silver than any other refinery in the
world.
He can also see the extensive meat-packing establishments of
Armour, Cudahy, Swift, Hammond, and others, who have
national fame as millionaire packers, and find that Omaha is
crowding Chicago hard for first honors as to the volume of
meat products distributed. Omaha's parks, public buildings,
art galleries, libraries, etc., must not be overlooked in the daz-
zling magnificence of the Great Trans-Mississippi and Interna-
tional Exposition, which begins June 1st for a five months'
exhibition.
The plan of this Exposition is modelled after the World's
Fair, and its architectural beauty will recall vividly the mag-
nificence of Chicago's famous Court of Honor. A booklet giv-
ing some idea of this Great Fair will be mailed to each member
of the Institute and to all others upon application.
A word to tourists. Omaha is the gate to a realm of sublime
scenery and unrivalled wealth. From
Gate City radiate an
this
half dozen great railway trunk-lines through Nebraska, the
greatest corn-producing State in our country, and with its great
stock industries and beet-sugar factories and varied farming
products fast becoming the richest of the Western States.
Beyond are the Alps of America, snow-capped, ice-mantled,
with silent, eternal, congealed rivers projecting into the valleys
as mighty glaciers; mountains of gold and silver; gardens of the
132 A Plea for Western Pilgrimage,

Gods; springs, veritable Fountains of Youth, and scenery of

unrivalled grandeur. To the northwest are the Black Hills, with
their golden treasures: the world-renowned Homestake mines;
the Hot Springs, with the famous hot plunge-bath; the wonder-
ful Wind-cave, with ninety-six miles of subterranean depths
already explored; fishing, scenery, hotels and transportation
facilities all that can be desired. Two trunk-lines compete for
travel here.
If you are looking for fine fishing you can be accommodated
by a few hours' ride from Omaha, viz.: Lake Tekamah, Spirit
Lake, Lake Okoboji. Lake Washington and a dozen others con-
tiguous to Omaha by rail; or you can go farther into the trout
regions of Wyoming and the mountain districts.
Many of our visitors will wish to visit Yellowstone Park, a
most delightful trip into a veritable wonderland which has no
prototype; incomparable in Nature's domains, a veritable
museum of scenic freaks and beauty, with its geysers, lakes,
canyons, springs, cataracts, weird petrifactions, and game pre-
serves of, elsewhere, all but extinct American wild animals.

Colorado needs no mention. You will hear of the attractions

of that wonderful State from Denver. Wyoming, Montana,
Utah, Idaho all have their special features for the tourist.
All this wealth of scenery and inspiring grandeur is within
the reach of the most modest and most economical of Institute
members. Excursions will be made through the Rocky Moun-
tains, extending through points of interest from the Black Hills
to Colorado and Utah, Yellowstone Park, etc. The season will
be delightful for such excursions and our visiting doctors and
their friends will get so full of mountain ozone and patriotic en-
thusiasm that they will be carried many years beyond the three-
score and ten allotted to man.
Friends, doctors, countrymen, begin early to plan for this trip
to Omaha. Enjoy the great meeting of our National Medical
Society. Educate yourselves by attending the brilliant Exhi-
bition, an artistic object-lesson of the resources of your country,
the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, in which
millions of dollars are being judiciously expended to worthily
present to your view the splendid products of American in-
dustry.
Broaden your knowledge, your lungs, your hum-drum ex-
perience, by visiting the wonderland of your native country,
 Laches is in Morbid Gangrenous Conditions. 133

the envy of all lands, the great Rocky Mountains with their
primeval glories. Do this, and believe me, when you have re-
turned to your several homes there will come daily into your
life, with its weary rounds, a bright troop of blessed memories

and splendid visions. When you turn your eyes toward the
setting sun, your heart will prompt you to bless the friends who
urged your pilgrimage hither, and you will find your love and
admiration cemented eternally to the Great West, your West,
your country !
D. A. Foote, M. D.,
Chairman Sub-Committee Press and Correspondence,
Local Committee of Arrangements.
200 Pax ton Block, Omaha, Neb.

LACHESIS IN MORBID GANGRENOUS CON-

DITIONS.
A Review of Dr. Lambreght, Jr.'s Article in Journal Beige d'homosopathie,
by Dr. Mossa in Allg. Horn. Zeit., Jan., 1898. Translated for the Ho-
myopathic Recorder.
In Lachesis and its kindred remedies, Crotalus and Naja, etc.,
we possess agents which may be of excellent service to us in
combatting infectious diseases of the blood which frequently
terminate in gangrene. Nor need we be surprised at this, when
we consider the penetrating action of the venom of serpents on the
human organism. If we glance over the pathogenesis of Lachesis,
we cannot fail to notice there the prominent symptoms of infec-
tion and of the disintegration of the blood. Under its influence
all inflammations assume a strikingly malignant character. Ab-
scesses secrete a fetid and poisonous pus (all the secretions,
indeed, are also distinguished by their fetid smell. Edit.); when
this is taken up by the lymphatic vessels and the veins, it gives
rise to phlebitis and pyaemia; lesions (wounds) and ulcers be-
come putrid and gangrenous; cutaneous eruptions show malig-
nant symptoms; the infection of the blood is shown in the
ecchymoses of the skin, purpura, hemorrhages from the
intestinal region, hematuria, etc. Simultaneously with these
local symptoms we meet with general phenomena, i. e., an
adynamic fever of a typhoid form, with considerable prostration,
delirium, cold sweats, etc.
134 Lachesis in Morbid Gangrenous Conditions,

Reasoning a priori from the law of similars, we might at once

assume that a substance which can produce such deeply penetrat-
ing changes in the organism must exercise a considerable in-
fluence on the morbid conditions to which it corresponds.
Clinical experience has fully confirmed this assumption, and we
find in homoeopathic literature numerous cases of cures obtained
through the use of Lachesis and its kindred remedies in infec-
tious diseases of the blood which threatened to terminate in
gangrene. The author in • article introduces some very
his
serious cases of this nature which he has observed in his own
private practice and also at the Bureau de Bienfaisance in treat-
ing the poor.
i. A case of typhoid fever with intestinal hemorrhage and
hematuria, ga?igr<z?ia pe?iis and decubitus on the os sacrum —
Cure.
During author had under his treatment a young
last April the
man of twenty-eight years, of vigorous constitution, without
any especial hereditary taint. The patient had complained for
several weeks of general feeling of indisposition, with wander-
ing pains in the limbs, loss of appetite, thirst, liquid stools,
headache and insomnia. The tongue was covered with a thick,
whitish coat, and the urine contained a copious deposit of sedi-
ment; at the same time there was a slight, feverish agitation,
more pronounced in the evening. In answer to this image of
disease, he received Baptisia 3, four times a day. The symptoms
in the meantime increased, and a severe form of typhoid fever
developed. In the middle of the second week the following
symptoms appeared: repeated epistaxis, inflation of the abdomen,
with sensitiveness to pressure and gurgling in the left ileo-caecal
region. The tongue was dry, the stools liquid, of yellowish
color; delirium with hallucinations; great prostration; the tem-
perature, 104 ,with remission in the morning; pulse, 120. On
the abdomen there were some roseola spots. There was nothing
morbid in the respiratory organs.
Prescription: Acid phosph. 3, cold ablutions of the whole body,
which was then wrapped in a woollen blanket.
The disease proceeded in its regular course, but on the four-
teenth day there appeared most serious symptoms, threatening
a fatal issue. First a hemorrhage from the rectum, then, a few
hours afterwards, a violent h:ematuria.
Prescription: Vamame/is and Acid
J pliospli. 3.
 Lachesis in Morbid Gangrenozis Conditions. 135

The hemorrhages now succeeded each other at long inter-

vals and with less violence, and after five days they ceased
entirely. These complications had caused a great debility
and caused a very unfavorable prognosis. Bouillon, wine
and some doses of China were given as a tonic, when sud-
denly a new complication arose. The penis bjecame the seat of
a considerable ©edematous swelling, and about the middle of its
dorsum there appeared a blackish, luminous, carbunculous spot,
which quickly extended toward the tip of the member and gave
off the dreadful odor of gangrene. I at once ordered Lachesis 6,

a dose every fifteen minutes. The author then separated the

dead parts from the sound, and thus laid bare the glans and a
part of the corpus cavernosum, which were already covered with
small ulcers of a malignant appearance. All these parts were
washed with carbolized water and covered with a thick layer of
iodoform. In a similar manner I treated the gangrenous spots
which had in the meantime formed on the os sacrum.
Under the action of Lachesis, the gangrene was stopped, and
the patient, who was the very image of misery, daily awaiting
his last breath, soon felt an appreciable improvement. The
ulcerated surfaces on the glands and the corpus cavernosum took
on a healthier, red color and cicatrices formed in two weeks.
The tongue became clear, the appetite and strength returned
and the young man is at this day in full health, and has only a
somewhat extensive circumcision to remind him of the dreadful
danger from which he escaped.

An Infected Wound.
While treating the above case, Dr. Lambreght had suffered a
slight lesion on the index finger of the left hand; on this, as a
precautionary measure, he placed a slight bandage. This wound
was about forming a cicatrice, but while amputating the morti-
fied parts of the penis of the patient the bandage on his own
wound slipped off and the wounded part came in contact with
the gangrenous ichor. Although he immediately washed the
wound with carbolized water, and took all the requisite precau-
tions, next day shooting pains developed in his index finger,
and these soon extended to the dorsum of the hand and the
and the forearm, and during the night they increased to such a
degree that he could not close his eyes. The wound had be-
come the seat of a bluish-livid swelling, threatening evil conse-
 3

136 Lachesis in Morbid Gangrenous Conditions.

quences. He took Lachesis 6. Under the action of this remedy

the pains perceptibly decreased, while at the same time a sup-
puration copious in comparison with the slight extent of the
lesion set in. The swelling disappeared and the spot was com-
pletely healed in ten days; only a small cicatrice like a line
still shows on the dorsal surface of the index finger.
In his Manual of Homoeopathy, Jahr mentions lesions while
dissecting as a clinical symptom of Lachesis. The observation
above mentioned fully confirms the practical importance of this
symptom.

Erysipelas Gangraenosum in a Pregnant Woman — Abor-

tion Cure. —
This case concerned a poor woman who suffered from angina
faucium. The patient was 32 years of age, the mother of three
children, and of a weakly, debilitated constitution, and this the
more as she was in the third month of pregnancy. A year be-
fore Dr. L. had treated her for a lesion on the foot, and erysipe-
las affecting the whole limb had set in. This yielded, however,
promptly to the homoeopathic treatment, but it showed that
there was a certain predisposition to such affections with this
patient.
She now complained of a violent pain in the throat, as well
as great difficulty in deglutition, while swallowing fluids. An
examination showed that the whole mucous membrane of the
throat was of an intense red, swollen and ©edematous. This
was accompanied with pains and heaviness in all the limbs, high
fever, showing 104. and 120 pulsations; considerable prostra-
tion.
Prescription: First of all Aconite 3 and Apis 3, the latter on
account of the cedematous and erysipelatous swelling of the
throat.
In a few days a perceptible improvement in the angina was
manifested. The pains and the swelling decreased, so that the
patient could swallow without any great difficulty. Neverthe-
less the fever remained as high as before, which threatened
serious complications. And these were realized, for the dorsum
of both hands suddenly became swollen and o\ deep red color,
an affection which soon extended to the forearm. On the dis-
eased CUtaneoUS surface large blisters were thrown up here and
there, which then filled with black blood, and when they burst
 Lachesis vi Morbid Gangrenous Conditions. 137

there appeared extensive ulcerations of a blackish color and a

gangrenous odor. The tongue became dry and the patient was
delirious at night. She received Lachesis 6 and the ulcerated
surface was sprinkled with Iodoform. The state of the patient
was hopeless, but, thanks to the powerful action of the remedy,
a turn for the better soon appeared. The delirium ceased, the
tongue became moist, and the fever lost much of its violence.
The convalescence was very much protracted, as the suppura-
tion in the ulcerated surfaces had gradually weakened the
patient, and besides this, when the general condition had al-
ready become somewhat satisfactory, an abortion and the pass-
ing off of a dead foetus was superadded. The abortion was
attended with a copious hemorrhage, which was, however, soon
checked by Sabina 3. To remove the weakness and anaemia
appearing in the course of her reconvalescence a few doses of
China were administeted. After six weeks the woman was per-
fectly restored and could again attend to her business.

Stomatitis Gangraenosa. — Cure.

A boy seven years of age, of a poor family, after having
passed through measles, suffered from an attack of stomatitis.
The little patient was pale, weak and his nutrition was defective.
The appetite was good, but the stools were frequent and liquid.
When examined, the inner surface of the mouth, at the height
of the gums, on the left side, showed a broad ulceration of
greyish-blackish color and an intense gangrenous fetor. On the
same side the cheek also was the seat of a pretty considerable
oedematous swelling. The glands on the neck and below the
lower jaw were swollen.
The ulcer was rinsed several times a day with a solution of
Borax; internally he received Lachesis 6, a dose every hour.
Under this treatment, after four days, the gangrene ceased to
spread; the ulceration appeared more red and improved, and the
swelling of the surface had perceptibly decreased. In the
course of two weeks a full cicatrization had ensued. As the
child was manifestly scrofulous, Ca/c. card. 6 was given, after
which the glandular swellings also gradually disappeared.
 s

138 Homoeopathic Blood Remedies*

HOMOEOPATHIC BLOOD REMEDIES.

By Dr. Alfr. Michaelis.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from Med. Monaishefte
fuer horn., Tan.. 1898.
In my general homoeopathic therapy, entitled " Alltcrgliche
Erkrankungsftelle** (" Common Cases of Disease"), in § S, I

treat of the Blood Remedies as distinguished from Organic Reme-

dies. The writer considers this distinction as most important,
because it arranges homceopathic therapy, as it were, under
general points of view, and very much facilitates the work of
the physician; on the other hand, it also enables us, through an
appropriate and skilled combination of blood remedies with
organic remedies, to secure therapeutic results which can
hardly be otherwise obtained.
Rademacher, an old-time practitioner, in his "Erfahrungsheil-
mittellehcE " (" Manual of Experimental Remedies "), divides all
remedies into two large classes, as organic remedies which have
reference to some particular organ, and universal remedies which
cure the fundamental diseases of the whole organism and also
under certain circumstances those of particular organs.
The writer would include, among the "blood remedies,"
those remedies the effects of which, as indicated by the name,
extend to the blood (and the fluids of the body in general), and
which thereby exercise at the same time an influence on the
entire organism, including generally at the same time an action
on the nervous system; in other words, remedial agents which
act on the entire sa?iguineo?is and nervous life, and which may,
therefore, be accounted as universal remedies in Rademacher'
meaning of the term. They are as to their whole nature the
so-called homceopathic polychrests, i. e., remedies which have a
wide and general sphere of action; and in mentioning for the
present Aeonife, Belladonna and Gelsemium as representatives of
this class, we indicate at the same time in advance that the
blood remedies especially include the fever remedies; tor fever-
ish conditions have their root primarily in the sanguineous and
nervous systems; this does not. however, exclude the possibility
of their originating in a single particular organ, as in " inflam-
matory fever." As we shall see later on, a blood remedy may
also simultaneously become an organic remedy, besides its
it"
 Homoeopathic Blood Remedies. 139

general action it has also a local action, while on the other

hand remedy acknowledged as a specific organic remedy can
a
never compete with a genuine blood remedy or even partially
take its place. All these are facts which can only be learned
from practical experience.
We can here only give a brief characterization of the more
prominent blood remedies.
As remedies for acute and recent cases of taking cold, more or
less accompanied with feverish symptoms, we there mention Aco-
nite, Belladonna and Gelsemium Of these remedies, Aconite rep-
resents amore energetic action, Bellado?ina a milder one, while
Gelsemium, besides its more proximate action on the nervous
system, unites in itself in a felicitous manner the action of the
other two blood remedies. All three may be designated as
regulators of the blood in the truest sense of the words.
Baryta muriatica and Kalijodatum, however, are to be consid-
ered in chronic colds, but with the following differentiation:
Bar. mur. 3 d. in firmly seated and obstinate colds, which
appear without fever and in a very concealed manner, affecting
now the one organ and then again another, and especially when
it causes disturbances in digestion with diarrhoea. General sen-
sibility to colds and chilliness, a decreased warmth of the blood,
as it is manifested in chronic disturbances of digestion and
anaemia.
Kali jodatum 1-2 d. for inveterate as well as for recent colds, in
which it can withdraw catarrhal and inflammatory substances

from the blood. Fluent coryza and a constant tendency to the

same is the leading symptom; also laryngeal catarrh and catarrh
of the windpipe and the bronchia specially point to this remedy.
It is very important in degeneracy of the fluids, especially when
this is of a scrofulous and mercurial nature.
Acidum nitricum 2-3 d. Nitric acid is especially an excellent
remedy for the stomach and the intestines, and is of great im-
portance in disturbances of digestion. Besides this, it acts
counter to dyscrasia and thus has a purifying and amendatory
action on the fluids.
Nitrum 1 d.is a prominent remedy for the stomach, ex-
Nitre
citing the appetite and improving the digestion. It acts counter
to the catarrhal processes and improves the blood in an extra-
ordinary manner. It purifies the blood and makes new blood.
Nitre is thus both a purifier and a former of blood. The last
140 Book Notid

two remedies are, therefore, at the same time blood remedies and
organic remedies, and equally valuable in both directions.
Arsenicum 3 d. The proper domain of Arsenicum is the
nervous system; it is not, therefore, able to purify the blood
from morbid substances, like the remedies mentioned before it,
but on the other hand, it possesses in a high degree the power
of inciting to the formation of blood and to create new blood.
It is, therefore, a most effective creator of blood, and on this ac-

count an excellent blood remedy. It even surpasses Fcrrum in

this respect.
Sulphur 1-3 d. It is a common
saying: " Sulphur passes
into the blood!" and this Sulphur does not, indeed,
is true.
form new blood, but it purifies the blood (and also the lymphatic
current) more than any other remedy; no remedy equals Sul-
phur as a purifier of the blood. Impure substances which have
been introduced into the blood from without are thrown to the
surface by the internal use of Sulphur. Cutaneous eruptions
which have receded or been suppressed are driven out to the
surface; also gonorrhoeal poisons are led outward, even when
they have become firmly seated. Sulphur also shows itself as
a blood remedy in piles, for in this disease it is also the leading
remedy. Its virtues in purifying the blood are so prominent
and far-reaching that a whole book might be written on this one
feature of the remedy.
In the brief indications thus given we have endeavored to
differentiate the leading blood remedies and thereby indicate the
manner of their action.

BOOK NOTICES.
A Text-book of Gynecology. Wood, A. M., M.
By James C.
D. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With two hun-
dred and ninety-five Illustrations in Text and thirty-seven
lithographed, colored and half-tone plates. 964 pages, large
OCtavo. Cloth, $7.00; half morocco. $8.00. Kxprcssage extra.
Philadelphia. Roericke & Tafel. [8<

The first edition of this famous work appeared in

justly
[8 14, a book of 858 pages. In every respect it compared favor-
ably -in fact, surpassed, any of the old-school works on the sub-
ject, and was adopted as a text- book by, we believe, all of the
 Book Notices. 141

homoeopathic colleges. The second edition, which now comes

to hand after the first has been out of print for nearly a year,
far surpasses the first in eyery respect. It contains one hundred
and six more pages of text matter and the pages are larger of —
the generous 9^x6^ inches adopted by modern works of a
large size. The first edition contained but one plate while the
second has thirty-seven, eight of them being lithographs or
halftone color. The increase in the illustrations in the text has
also been in proportion to the increase in the size of the work.
The text itself has been thoroughly revised, much of it re-
written and a very large amount of new matter added, as can be
seen by the increase in the size of the pages and in addition the
increase of one hundred and eight in their number. As it
stands the book is to-day the latest and most thorough work on
gynecology published, and the author may feel a just pride in
his achievement. The publishers, too, have done their part
well, and produced a work that may be placed side by side with
the best medical work of any other house and not suffer by the
comparison. Taking into consideration the increased size, the
large number of expensive lithographs and the utter absence of
" padding " (needlessly heavy paper, big type and useless spac-
ing so often found in medical books) the second edition is a
cheaper work, proportionately, than the first. Finally, if any
physician wants ah up-to-date, scientific, yet soundly homoeo-
pathic work on gynecology he can now obtain it.

A new homoeopathic pharmacopoeia, Pharmacopee Homceopath-

ique Francaise, published by the Societe Medicale d' Homoeopathie,
is out. In the announcement of the new volume we are told
that "Hahnemann, who, for his time, was a distinguished
chemist and careful of details, has given us in most precise
terms the method of preparation of all the medicines with which
he experimented; the present work absolutely conforms to the
methods given by Hahnemann." Our French homoeopathic
brethren have acted wisely for the future welfare of Homoe-
opathy in their country. Germany, we know, will soon follow
suite. Only in the United States is an attempt made to ignore
the old landmarks and set up new ones that are supposed by
those who know no better to be "scientific," yet which on
close scrutiny are found to be anything but that. Unfortu-
142 Book Notices.

nately a number of our colleges, apparently on the assumption

that the Pharmacopoeal Committee could not err, have adopted
that book, so full'of errors and radical departures from all fixed
homoeopathic standards; but this can be remedied in the future,
as the true [nature of the work becomes generally known, and
should be, for the welfare of the medical students. France is to
be congratulated for having upheld true homoeopathic pharmacy.

That remarkable, yet repeatedly verified symptom of Borax,

fear ox dread of dow?iward motion, was experienced by one prover
only, Schroeter, who, as Hering said (Bradford's " Pioneers of
Homoeopathy" ), was " one of the pro vers most objected to by
the purificators next to Nenning." If all that which has so
often been termed " chaff " were blown from our Materia Med-
ica, there would be but little left, and that little of not much
value in curing the sick. If this Borax symptom, " very anx-
ious when riding quickly down hill; it is as if it would take the
breath away, which was never the case before," had not been
verified so often it would no doubt be " chaff" and allowed no
place in that " purified" Materia Medica which is the dream of
so many.

The Homceopathic Directory for 1898 is out. It is a much

more complete work than the one for 1897, which covered 107
pages, while the Directory for 1898 covers 116 pages. The
Directory gives the addresses of homoeopathic physicians for
Great Britain, the Australian colonies and islands, West Indies,
Cape Colony, India, China, British North America and the
European continent, thus including all save those of the United
States and the various American republics of North and South
America. Published by Homoeopathic Publishing Company,
12 Warwick Lane Paternoster Row, E. C, London, England.
Price, 50 cents.

"The author in this monogram (Quay Diseases of Nose and

Throat) presents in a concise form the diseases of the nose and
throat. Heteaches clearly the fact that many diseased con-
ditions met with in the nose and throat demand for relief ap-
proved surgical treatment in addition to the internal treatment.
He wisely emphasizes the great necessity of treating the patient
in his totality. The arrangement of the work is excellent. It
is neatly printed in large type. It is especially adapted to the

needs of the Student and general practitioner.- .S\ .V. A'., tn

Denver Journal of Homoeopathy,
 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.

Our rejuvenated friend, The Medical Visitor, in editorially re-

viewingitsown review of the new " Pharmacopoeia," says: "Until
now there has never been a standard to guide the pharmacist
in the preparation of the drugs used by our school in the treat-
ment of the sick." The proving of the greater part of the
drugs in active use to-day are to be found in the " Materia
Medica Pura " and the "Chronic Diseases," and Hahnemann
prefixed to each proving a clear description of how the drug is
to be prepared for " the treatment of the sick." If Hahnemann's
guidance in this matter is faulty, then what the
Visitor has to
say is pharmacopoeias are but abstracts of
correct, for the older
what he directs in those two books, which have guided the ho-
moeopathic physician and pharmacist up to the year 1898. The
issue is clearly between the Boston book and Hahnemann.
Which is right ?

NO INJUSTICE INTENDED.
Editor of HoMoeoPATHic Recorder:
On page 95 current number of Recorder your correspondent " H. S."

does Prof. Cowperthwait great injustice by only partially quoting his re-
marks on Phosphorus; and you, by publishing the misquotation, are
guilty of misrepresenting the Medical Century
I delight in seeing justice done to all. We should all be very careful in
I am a subscriber to both Medical Century and Homceo-
that respect.
pathic Recorder, and a former pupil of Dr. Cowperthwait, and I love
them all. Fraternally yours,
C. G. S. AUSTIN.
Nantucket, Mass., Feb. 28, i8g8.
 —

PERSONAL.
The second edition of Dr. James C. Wood's " Gynecology " is out; it is a
triumph for its author, its publishers and for Homoeopathy. It easily takes
first place among works on gynecology regardless of school.

Edward M. Gramm, M. D., has removed to Professional Building, 1S33

Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Skin and genito-urinary.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Gallavardin, author of Alcoholism, etc., departed this
life January 22, in the 74th year of his life, at Lyons, France.

Dr. Felix A. Boericke, of the firm of Boericke & Tafel, has been ap-
pointed by Governor Hastings delegate from Pennsylvania to the National
Pure Food and Drug Congress.
The offering of " premiums " is something like the morphine habit
never resorted to by the healthy.
Mr. Gustav. H. Tafelis now manager of B. &
T's., 15 W. 42.I St.. X. Y.
pharmacy. We
predict that he will be very popular with the patrons of
that flourishing establishment.
As a rule the young man is satisfied to have some one else the architect
of his fortune.
NOTICE. A
post-graduate course will be given at the National Ho-
moeopathic Medical College and Contiguous Hospitals in
April. Address, E. C. Sweet, M. D., 70 State street, Chicago, 111.
FOR SALE. $2,000 practice in Iowa. Growing town of Soo. Col-
lections 95 per cent, and opposition weak. Will give
up field and introduce successor on sale of residence property and medical
outfit. For reasons for selling and terms, address, K. L., care Homoe-
opathic RECORDER, P. O. Box 921, Philadelphia, Pa.
St. Louis, Dr. Lawrence asserts that far better results are obtained from
Aquades. with the same amount of carbolic acid in it) than from anti-
toxin. Very likely, but what a squashing thud of reputations there would
be if it were admitted !

Weare entirely out of January, 1898, Recorders and have many calls
for that number; any that you can send in will be thankfully received,
Hale'smonograph on Saw Palmetto is worth the 50 cents it costs.
The broadest and best homoeopathic journal published " was the com-
"
nit nt of a learned doctor ou the Recorder, last mouth.

Subscribe to the history of " Old Hahnemann." Philadelphia, $3.50.

Published by Boericke & Tafel under auspices of the alumni. Bradford,
historian.
"Calomel heroically administered is again advancing to the front," says a
"regular" exchange, from which we may infer that the light among those
who dwells in medical darkness is not waxing.
Graniutn maculatum in material doses of live to twenty drops o( the
is said to be a good remedy for chronic catarrh of any part of the body.
A RECORDER " Personal " costs only fc.OO yet it is the best short adver-
tisement available for homoeopathic medical profession.
The " Chronic Diseases " of Hahnemann, 2 volumes, half morocco. $1 O 1 .<

is a work you should own.

Burnett's "Children," Delicate Backwardy etc., is a small book but con-

y

tains a world of new matter for the blighted human mites.

Spring '
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Beautiful spring.
 THE
HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.
Vol XIII. . Lancaster, Pa, April, 1898. No. 4.

THE PROPOSED MONUMENT TO HAHNEMANN.

Tweed Mount, Yentnor. Isle of Wight, England,
14th March, 1898.
Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder
Dear Sir: You will greatly oblige me if you can give the
following notice as much publicity as possible. It is very
strange that the editors of the Monthly Homoeopathic Review
think it of no moment where Hahnemann's monument is

erected ; they only want somewhere a monument. Having

been present at the funeral of my grandfather, I am seriously
afraid that some one grave will be fixed upon for this
else's
monument. Dr. Piatt, of Boston, had to obtain first the permis-
sion of the municipality of Paris before he could have the tomb
of Hahnemann repaired.
I remain, with kind regards, yours sincerely,
L,. Suss Hahnemann, M. D.
Hahnemann's Tomb.
In the March number of the London Monthly Homoeopathic
Review a letter by Dr. Hughes, of Brighton, on the above sub-
ject,appeared appealing for subscriptions to erect a funeral mon-
ument over the grave of Hahnemann.
It cannot, however, too widely be made known that there is
unfortunately a very great chance that this monument will be
placed over the wrong grave.
Xow, although the editors of the Monthly Homoeopathic Review
say that this does not matter at all, if only the monument is

somewhere seems a most ludicrous affair to erect

erected, it

Hahnemann's monument over any grave, no matter where.

The appeal for subscriptions states that the French Homceo
pathic Society has succeeded in obtaining the authority of the
146 Dr. Ad. Li/)/)c\s Keynotes.

heiress of Hahnemann to raise a monument over Hahnemann's

grave Now the ownership of the tomb wherein Hahnemann's
body was placed belongs to the municipality of Paris, whose
permission Dr. Piatt had first to obtain before he could have
the repairs of the scandalously neglected tomb effected. No
heiress of Hahnemann was then anxious to have the privilege
of defraying the costs ;
'
besides there is no real heiress of
Hahnemann at the present time living. If, therefore, any per-
son claiming to be the heiress of Hahnemann has authorized
the International Homoeopathic Committee to raise a funeral
monument, it must have reference to a totally different grave.
Of the few persons who were permitted to be present at Hahne-
mann's funeral, his grandson is the only one living he was an ;

eye witness of this remarkable scene. The resting place was

an old brick grave, wherein already two coffins w ere found to be ?

deposited, one containing the body of a Mr. Gohier, the last

president of the French Directoire, the other the body of a Mr.
Lethiere, both having been intimate friends of Mine. Hahne-
mann. Hahnemann's coffin was with some difficulty pushed on
the top of the other two and the tomb closed, and it has never
been opened since.
It would decidedly be more prudent first to ascertain and
make sure whether Hahnemann's body is really in that grave
which the so-called heiress of Hahnemann graciously permits
to be used for the proposed international monument. Xo one
can be expected to part with his money before this point is

made perfectly clear.

SOME OF DR. AD. LIPPE'S KEYNOTES.

By Thomas Lindsley Bradford, M. D.
[N. B. — The symptoms in brackets were taken down in the class-room.]

Sanguinaria. Sick headache with vomiting (of bile), begin-

ning in the morning, increasing during the clay worse from ;

motion, stooping, noise, and light only endurable when lying

;

still and relieved by sleep or after vomiting especially severe :

over the right eye —

the headache returns periodically, Head- i

ache returning every seven days — Sacch. e/jle., Si/., Sulph.)

Sanguin. Headache rises up from the neck. (In headache
rising from nape of neck and going over back of head to vertex

Sanguin. is of very great value. Br.)

 Dr. Ad. Uppers Keynotes. 147

Sanguin. Heat in the nose coryza, rawness in the throat,

;

pain in the breast, cough, and finally diarrhoea. (The only

remedy.)
Sanguin. Nasal polypi.
Sanguin. Dry cough, awakens him from sleep, which did
not cease until he sat up in bed, and flatus was discharged both
upwards and downwards. (The onl}- remedy.)
Sanguin. Pulmonary consumption ; expectoration and breath
exceedingly offensive.
Sanguin. Typhoid pneumonia, with very difficult respiration,
cheeks and hands livid pulse full, soft, vibrating, and easily
;

compressed. (The last resort.)

Sanguin. Intense rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder,
worse at night in bed cannot raise the arm motion, turning
; ;

in bed, makes it much worse. (The only remedy. Pain in left

arm and shoulder —
Fermim.)
Sanguin. Ulceration at the roots of the nails on all the fingers
of both hands. (Going from one finger to another through the
whole hand.)
Sanguin. Rheumatic pains in the limbs pain in those places;

where the bones are least covered with flesh, but not in the
joints on touching the painful part the pain immediately va?iished
;

and appeared in some other part.

Sanguin. Rheumatism, pneumonia, sick headache.
Secale corn. Hemorrhage from the uterus of black, liquid
blood ; the discharge is increased by motion.
Secale corn. (Before labor pain ceases, the woman is very
weak.)
Secale corn.Aggravation, especially from warmth from ;

getting warm' in bed from being covered from warm applica-

; ;

tions to all the variously affected parts during pregnancy, par-

;

turition and confinement.

Secale corn. Better in cold air, from getting cold.
Sepia. Small, red pimples on forehead rough forehead.;

(Pimples extend to the face. Whisky pimples Ledum. —

Loafer's pimples Lachnanthes ,~)
Sepia. The eyelids pain in the morning when awaking, as if
they were too heavy, and as if he could not keep them open.
(Very important in stiffness of eyelids.)
Sepia. Yellow saddle across nose and face.
Sepia. Canine hunger and sensation of emptiness in the
stomach. (See fgn.)
148 Dr. Ad. Lippes Keynotes.

Sepia. Herpes scaling off— on the elbows. —

Sepia. Itch and scabs on the hands. Soldiers' itch.
Sepia. Suitable for persons with dark hair, and for women,
especially during pregnancy, in childbed and while nursing.
Sepia. Follows well after Puis. (Spo?igia follows well after
Sepia.)
Si/ieia. Desponding, melancholy, tired of life. Averse to
labor. All mental symptoms worse from reading or writing,
unable to think.)
Silic. Compunction of conscience about trifles a | rare
symptom.)
Silic. The child becomes obstinate and headstrong ; cries
when kindly spoken to (often seen in scrofulous children
Silic. Burning, in head, with pulsation and perspiration of the
head worse at night, from mental exertion and talking,
;

relieved by wrapping the head up warm.

Silic. (Patient feels pains in the head at every step.)

Silic. Most all the headaches are aggravated from mental

exertion, stooping, talking and cold air, and are relieved in the
warm room, and from wrapping the head up warmly.
Silic. Profuse, sour-smelling perspiration on head only in I

evening and at night), w ith great sensitiveness of scalp, with

T

pale face and emaciation. (In scrofulous children when hydro-

cephalus commencing.)
is

Silic. Tendency to take cold in the head, which cannot pos-

sibly be uncovered. (Patient cannot remove his hat, even for
an instant.)
Silic. Stoppage of which open at times with a loud re-
ears,
port. (Little cracks, asgun was heard, in the ears.)
if a
Silic. Gnawing pain and ulcers high up in the nose, with
great sensitiveness of the place to contact. (Much nasal dis-
charge. Ulcers low down, seal) has to be blown off — Thuja.
See. also, Kali bich.)

Silic. Acrid, corroding discharge from nose and stoppage of

the nose. 1 /.iy\, Nit. ac, Arum
try. Ars. Kali hyd. t }
1.

Silic. Sensation as it were lying on fore part of the

a hair

tongue. (II lir seemingly grows from the tongue Natr. mur. —
See Kali bich l

Silic. Cutting pain in abdomen (colic ,

witli constipation.
Colic, with yellow hands and blue nails.

Silic. Incarcerated flatulency; difficult discharge of flatulence,

very offensive flatulence. Lye. flatus has no smell. 1
 Dr. Ad. Lippe^s Keynotes. 149

Silk. Constipation; difficult, hard stool; the faeces are large,

and if partly expelled slip back again, as if there were not
power enough to expel them; even the soft stool is expelled
with much difficulty. (Pipe-stem, hard stool, expelled with
difficulty —
Alumina.)
Silic. Abortion (can scarcely bear the motion of the child dur-

ing the last months of gestation.)

Silic. Hollow, spasmodic, suffocative cough, from tickling in

the throat, especially the throat pit, with expectoration only

during the day of profuse, yellowish-green pus, or of tough,
milky, acrid mucus, at times of pale, frothy blood, generally
tasting greasy and offensive smelling.
Silic. Burning in tips of fingers (stiffness of fingers, trouble in

bending them).
Silic. Panaritium. (When the felon has just commenced
Apis is important, but after medication for it Silic. will help in
healing it up.) (See, also, Hepar s. c. Br.)
Silic. Swelling of knee. {Lye. swelling is painless.)

Silic. Ulcers on the lower leg, on the tibia. Caries of tibia

(tenderness on inside of shin bone; sore to touch; dull, throb-

bing pain; swelling of bones. See, also, Asafcet.) {Mezerium.
Br.)
Silic. Sweat of the feet, offensive, causing soreness between

the toes.
Silic. Ulceration of big toe with stinging pain. (Proud flesh
in ulceration of toes, and in in-growing nails —
in which case sus-
pect tuberculosis. For in-growing nails, see Sacch off., Graph.,
Marum verum t.)

Silic. Takes cold easily, especially when uncovering the head

and feet. {Puis., Bell., useful for persons taking cold from change
of hat or boots.)
Silic. Sensation of great debility and sleepiness during a
thunderstorm. (P/ios.) {Rhodod. Br.)
Silic. Child learns to walk late. (Calc. c.)
Silic. Night- walking; gets up while asleep, walks about, and
lies down again.
Silic. they only cause very
Painless swelling of the glands;
unpleasant Suppuration of glands.
itching. Lymphatic
swellings, with suppuration. Bones swollen, inflamed. Caries.
Silic. Suppurations; ulcers, with good and bad pus, especially

in membranous parts. The skin heals badly; a small injury

suppurates much.
150 Dr. Ad. Lippe* s Keynotes.

Silic. Skin painful and sensitive. (In knee joint affections

with great sensitiveness to pain, Sil. is important. II. N.
Guernsey.)
Silic. Ulcers of all kinds; also, after the abuse of Mercury.
(Ulcers worse from cold, better from heat — Arn , Sil.; better
from cold, and worse from heat — Fluor, acid. Fluor, ac. patient
likes to sponge affected parts with cold water.)
Silic. Ulcers smell offensively; with proud flesh and putrid,
acrid ichor; with stinging, burning, pressing, itching and smart-
ing; panaritium; blood boils, carbuncles, warts: cancerous
ulcers; fistulous ulcers. (Cancer of face. Bad effects from vac-
cination.)
Silic. Especially suitable for scrofulous children, who have
also worm diseases, and during dentition.
for children
Silic is an antidote to Mercury when it has produced bad effects
in large doses, but it does not follow well after Merc, nor does
Merc, follow well after Sil. Fluor, ac. follows Sil well, and
antidotes its too frequent repetition. (Never give Merc, for
night sweat in typhus, look to Sil.)
Stapliisagria. Anger and indignation, with pushing or throw-
ing away of w hat one holds in his hand. (The only remedy.)
T

Staph. Styes. Nodosities in the eyelids. (When continually

returning. The only remedy.)
Staph. Excrescences and nodosities on the gums. Teeth are
very sensitive to the touch and to cold drinks. (Sulp/i.)
Staph. Pain in small of back, as after overlifting, spraining,
worse at night (at 1 at night, at rest), and in the morning, and
when rising from a seat.
Staph. Mechanical injuries from sharp, cutting instruments.
(In cases of surgical operations with troublesome after effects.)
Stramonium. Mental derangement, especially in drunkards.
Loquacious delirium and mania. Attacks of rage, with beating
and striking persons. Desire for company and light. (Verified.
Br.)
Stramon. Very changeable disposition; alternate; anticipa-
tions of death and rage; laughable gestures and melancholj
portment; affected haughtiness and inconsolableness; loud
laughing and groaning. (Verified. Br. 1

Stramon. Red, inflamed, swollen eyes. Staring, glistening

eyes. Stupid, distorted countenance, Anxiety and fear are
expressed in the countenance. 1 Verified. Br.)
 )

Dr. Ad Lippe^s Keynotes. 151

Stramon. Difficult deglutition from dryness and spasmodic

constriction of the throat. (Verified. Br.)
Stramon. Stuttering, with distortion of the face. Speechless-
ness. (Verified. Br.)
Stramon. Convulsive movements of arms over the head.
Trembling of the hands. The hands are closed to a fist. Twitch-
ing in limbs. (Verified. Br.)
Stramon. Suppression of all secretions and excretions. (Verified.
Br.)
Stramon. Worse in dark. (Cannot bear anything black,
clothes, etc.) (The above symptoms were verified by me in a
case of nymphomania. Br.
Sulphur. Pulsation in the head, with heat in the brain, pulsa-
tion of the carotid arteries {Bell.), and of the heart, worse on
waking in themorning, when moving about, on stooping, when
talking, in the open air; better when at rest and in the warm
room. (Pulsations in vertex.)
Sulf)h. Contractive pain as from a band around the
cranium.
Sulph. (The sensation of burning on top of the head, with
pressure as though a hand was pressing hard on the head is an
important indication for Sulph. Br.)
Sulph. Ulceration of margins of eyelids. Itching of eye-
brows (Styes on lower lids.)
Sulph. Hardness of hearing; over sensitiveness of hearing.
(The hardness of hearing always begins in left ear and goes to
the right.)
Sulph. Herpes across the nose like a saddle. (Yellow saddle —
Sepia.)
Sulph. Great sensitiveness of points of teeth. Teeth feel as if

too long. Tearing toothache on left side. (Can bear nothing on

points of teeth. See, also, Lye.)
Sulph. (Faintness at 10 or 1 1 a. m.; must have something to
stay the stomach; caunot possibly wait until dinner time; all-

gone feeling.)
Sulph. Diarrhoea; painless; in the morning compelling one
to rise from his bed; watery; of white mucus; smelling sour;
undigested; involuntary. (Especially when passing urine.)
(Tnis early morning diarrhoea, when the patient must jump and
run, one of the great keynotes of Sulph. Br.)
is

Sulph. Haemorrhoids, oozing or bleeding. Swelling of anus.

Soreness of anus. Stitching and itching of anus. (Nux v. haem-
152 The Marriage Relation.

orrhoids are dry, painful, with no discharge.) ("Constant redness

around aims. H. N. Guernse
Sulph. C - of penis, prepuce; weak sexual powers: im-
potence Lye ) 1

Sulph. Inflammation, swelling and phymosis of prepuce, with

deep rhagades, burning and redness. Not always a sure sign of I

syphi
Sulph Deep, suppurating ulcer on the glans and prepuce,
with puffed fii

Sulph. Bearing down in the pelvis; congestion to the uterus.

(Bearing down is worse on walking.)
Sulph. Stitches through the chest, extending into left shoul-
der blade; worse when lying on the back, during the least mo-
tion, when di awing a deep breath, when up arms over
lifting
the head. (Stitches in stomach. going through and
Pain
through left shoulder-blade. Pain through and through right
shoulder blade — Boiax.)
Sulph. Offensive perspiration in the arm pit. (In young girls
at first menstruation — Tellurf)
Sulph. He
on his back.
has to lie

his head and shoulders are stooped

Sulph. Stooping gait;
when he walks. (Lean, thin and dirty.)

THE MARRIAGE RELATION.

Editor of Homoeopathic Rkcordkr.
I have been interested very much in the articles in Thb
Recorder regarding Marriage and Divorce. Dr. Heysinger
said some good things; so did "Country Doctor." If neither
has reached the heart of the matter, fully, nor exhausted its p< s-
sibilities, neither do I expect so to do. But I did wish to say a
word or two touching the matter a-- see it. I

Dr. II., in speaking of some remedies (preventives^ applying

M
to the evils now existing on the marriage plane, says Teach :

the sacred n marriage, not necessarily in a religious sense "

1

I would say teach the sacrednessof marriage ina religious set

The fact is, Dr. Waugh's assertions are largely over-estimated I
believe But, allowing his statements to stand ami allowing
that in 25 per cent, of women sexual org ism never occurs — in
per oent. rarely, his remedies (separation and facility o\

divorce) are impotent, for there an many women who revel in

sexual license who never knew sexual orgasm. No amount of

 The Marriage Relation. 153

"education" that happiness in wedlock "depends on being

sexually mated " will ever make men and women as God in-
tended them to be morally and spiritually clean. Being morally
and spiritually clean is the only remedy for the evils Dr. Waugh
and his kin, and "Country Doctor" bewail. Dr. W. has
touched the border of truth in thinking that experience must be
the guide to happiness sexually, but the meat of the truth is the
fact that such experience must not take place upon the plane of
license. The morally clean must lust after orgasms. Nor does
the absence of orgasm prevent normal conception. I do not

think young minds should be poisoned with the slightest hint

of sexual passion either before or after marriage. And true love
may run smoothly without sexual mating. Given a marriage
of morally clean persons there is full possibility after marriage
for all needed sexual knowledge. I do not forget that there is a
personal mating, but I remember that the only mating in which
God can be interested must be a soul mating. He or she who
is not governed by the purest character motives in the seeking
of a wife or husband will sink to the level of sexuality in mar-
ried life — possibly to the slums of license, which is hell on
earth. Therefore, I assert that the sacredness of marriage
should be taught in a religious sense; that is, in its teaching it
should be allied to things in which God places LOVE not —
sexuality. Jesus said: " In the resurrection they neither marry
nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven," and
for proof that he considered this purity of thought in the resur-
rection as fruitage from the previous life of the soul we have
him on record as saying that God recognizes but one legitimate
cause for divorce, namely, fornication. In his words: God "in
the beginning" made men and women "male and female,"
and for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall
cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh." And
" what God hath joined together let no man put asunder." If
any education concerning marriage is to be taught the young
let it not be an education pertaining to sexuality, but let it in

Jesus' name, and in the interests of God be an education that

teaches the principles of purity and honesty and self-sacrifice of
soul. Should a couple make a home together, and it should
happen that the wife lack the power of orgasm, the family phy-
sician may by advice to the husband convey to that couple
knowledge which shall remedy the defect; possibly medicine
may be needed in the case. The majority of such cases may in
i54 The Marriage Relation,

one of these ways be set right. In a large percentage of such

cases the fault is the husband's — he is not thoughtful and con-
siderate in time and character of his attentions, or he is weak-
ed by excesses or habits which are wrong. But. suppose we
think of a couple who are both healthy, neither weakened or
abnormally turned by bad habits or excess, and yet the wife is
incapable of orgasm. If those two are moral, clean thoughted,
with aspirations and considerations in their minds such as nor-
mal man and woman should have, and if they love each other
even as well as true friends should love, is the main question
raised by Dr. W. going to mar in the least their mutual happi-
ness or lessen their mutual respect? Certainly not. The sexual
instinct is legitimate, but when it becomes the incentive to
marriage, or the ruling passion of marriage, it makes the man
or woman mere nasty brute, nasty where animals would be
a
innocent, because animals have not reason such as man has been
given to guide him into the use and away from the abuse of pow-
ers in object inhering in God's creation of souls as compliment-
ary to divine ultimates in salvation. It is inevitable that some

couples should be mis-mated in marriage even though they

should have exercised the wisest possible discretion privileged
to them by their environment in seeking the union. But in
such cases there should not enter the least thought of low satis-

faction (satisfaction on a plane of thought devoid of moral and'

spiritual aspiration) as an incentive to separate and seek ther (

mates. There is possible in such cases a nobility of self sacri-

fice such as makes true saints, which may hallow the married

life into a friendship which may bring as high results as the

most loving marriage might bring. The sexual function is not

a necessity of life for either man or woman Dr \V. should
know that the properties that pass in the consummation of con-
ception become in the purity of manly and womanly abstention
the properties of high intellectual power. In the light of this
fact, hew revolting manly or womanly
it is to the to see or hear
teaching that turns the young mind to the beliel that personal
satisfaction is the incentive to marriage. The truth is that in
the defects of character training are all the roots of marital un
happiness, and from character training mu lucked those
basic defects, and in their place must be put noble Christian
principle, as the only means to as far as possible the
I

e listing evils.
W. YV. GLEASON,
AttleborOy Mass.y February 26, /-
 Hahnemannian and Boston Pharmacopoeias. 155

TINCTURE STRENGTH IN THE HAHNEMANNIAN

AND BOSTON PHARMACOPOEIAS.
Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder.
In an article in the Medical Visitor, favorably reviewing the
Boston Pharmacopoeia, it is made to appear that homoeopathic
tinctures made according to the Boston Pharmacopoeia are
stronger than those prepared by Hahnemann's method, as, in
support of his contention, only tinctures that are stronger
(though some only theoretically so) are used as examples to
illustrate the writer's point, ignoring the great majority. Tak-
ing the figures given in the new Pharmacopoeia (which, by the
way, are not at all accurate, and, therefore, tinctures prepared
from these data are not all " scientifically" accurate) by actual
count it is found that ninety- four of the tinctures prepared in the
new way are theoretically stronger, while three hundred and
eighty four are very much weaker, than those prepared accord-
ing to Hahnemann's rules; indeed, a very large number of these
latter, prepared according to the Hahnemannian method, are
fully double the strength of those of the new preparation. Class
4 tinctures, such as Nux vomica, Ipecac, Ignatia, etc., are, ac-
cording to Hahnemann, prepared in the proportion of 1 part of
drug Boston Pharmacopoeia gives
to 5 parts of alcohol, while the
the proportion as 1 to 10, from which it will be seen why some
pharmacists would readily follow the new plan if physicians are
satisfied to adopt it.

The word "theoretically" is used above in reference to the

ninety four tinctures, which seem to be stronger when prepared

by the new method, since practically the result is frequently
quite different, as in fact the writer of the article in the Visitor
himself indicates, for he states: "Assuming that the moisture,
i. e., the juice of a plant, represents all of the valuable medicinal

properties of the plant, it is nevertheless a practical impossi-

bility to obtain in the form of juice more than a trifle over one-
half of the moisture present in the drug." To take Belladonna
(one of the illustrations used by the writer of the article in the
Visitor), we find it stated that the plant contains 567 C. C. of
moisture to 100 grms solids, and according to the above we
could express only 280 C. C. of juice with which Hahnemann
directs us to mix an equal quantity by weight of alcohol to
make the tincture and though the physician is asked to be-
156 Some Cases From the Far East.

lieve, by means of the " deadly parallel," that, theoretically, the

Hahnemannian tincture of Belladomia is weaker than the new
tincture, that is, the proportion of solid is 1-11, still practically
by the above rule the proportion in the Hahnemannian prepara-
tion of Bellado?ma is 1 double the strength of
to 5'_>, or nearly
the new preparation. This proportion will be found to be the
same in a majority of the ninety-four tinctures, which, according
to the new methods, are theoretically stronger.
M. D.
Philadelphia, Pa., March 25 1897.
,

SOME CASES FROM THE FAR EAST.

Verification of Two Symptoms of Natrum Muriaticum
of Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases.
By A. W. K. Choudhury, Calcutta.
Whenever we chance to verify a symptom of the homceopathic
Materia Medica we glorify Hahnemann, the founder of Ho-
moeopathy. Nati'um Muriaticum is nothing but what we con-
sume every day in large quantities in the form of our common
table salt, and, perhaps, had
any medicinal usescarcely
before Hahnemann Homoeopathy. A true and
introduced it in
earnest homoeopath may call the outsiders to come in and see
what Homoeopathy has in her palace, though unfinished. Our
reader will be amazed to find how two of the symptoms of Xat.
mur of the ''Chronic Diseases" of Hahnemann were verified in
the following case :

This is a Patient, L. R. K. C, aged about

case of fever:
seven years, came under treatment the 12th December, [897.
The history and symptoms of the case were as follows: Fever
since nth December, 1897, from n A. M.; no remission till 10
P. M., the next day. Residence near a pond; bathed in that
pond tor a longer time just before the attack after bathing ;

took food —
his day meal; nothing mentioned as prodromata :

chill, .severe, with thirst, with sleep, then heat, with thirst (in the
first part), having no thirst in the latter part of the heat heat :

with sleep and aversion to uncover ; headache severe, causing the

child restless both in chill and first part of heat during the first ;

part of heat greasy sweat on forehead, neck and sides of trunk,

but this sweat not continuous no separate sweat * almost no
;
;

'Compare here Bcenninghausen, who has in his "Homceopathic Therapeia

Intermittent and Other Fevers," chill, then heat with sweat, t'>.

out sweat, having Nat >>i. for its remedy.

 Some Cases From the Far East. 157

headache in latter part of heat ;

passed a small involuntary
liquid stool while sitting,and not sleeping.
Startings very often in chill and in heat just after sunset the
1 2th December, 1897, while he was in heat of fever and sleep-
ing. Another child of about the same age as that of our patient
came near to the outside of the room in which our patient was
sleeping and made a peculiar sort of a loud noise, causing the
patient to be startled, horrified, and become, as it were, par-
alyzed by the fright.
Hahnemann has in his " Chronic Diseases," under Natrum
mur., in S. 53. " Very much inclined to be startled," and in S.

54. " In the evening he was, as it were, paralyzed by a fright,

then he became horrified and apprehensive."
The startings and the state of being horrified while sleeping
continued till medicine was administered. After the first dose of
the medicine the child had sound sleep till after 3 A. M., then
again slept for about two hours.
Treatment Natrum mur. 30, one globule per dose. One dose
:

just after 10 P. M., the 12th December. Another dose the next
morning. Fever gradually disappeared and there was perfect
remission before evening the next day. Had no more fever ;

tongue found the 14th inst. yellowish; no stool till the 17th
December, and that after taking his usual meal the rice. —
—
Remark. I think the two symptoms mentioned above from
the '' Chronic Diseases " of Hahnemann are very well verified
by our present case. After administration of the first dose of the
medicine the startings and the horrified state disappeared,
patient enjoyed sound sleep and the fever commenced to sub-
side, perfect remission following the next evening.
In verifying the symptoms of Natrum mur., as shown above,
we are very glad to note the wonderful efficacy of the salt,
when potentized, to cure some fevers. We often neglect to study
common things and things of our every day use, but this should
no longer be continued seeing Nat. mur. play magic in the
hands of homoeopaths.

Lycopodium in a Case of Tonsillitis.

Here we have a patient, the wife of a rich Zemindar, mother
of six (?) children, of fair color. A
year or more past I had to
treat her once more for the same illness. This time she was
given Bar. c, and she got well under that treatment. Although
I was well aware of her getting the illness whenever she hap-
 158 Poisoning From Strychnine*

pens to catch cold — a state of deviation of health often requiring

Bar. c. to reform — the totality of the symptoms compelled me
to select the present remedy.
On the present occasion she came under my treatment Decem-
ber 19, 1897, at about evening. For some cause or other this
time I was not allowed to see her, a state of things which I
never allow in treating a case however simple ; but for fear of
losing a patient, and moreover a rich patient, I was compelled
to prescribe for her, and God did good to both of us the patient —
and the doctor. She recovered.
History and symptoms of the case : She came under treatment
when she had been suffering since about two full months. In
the commencement both tonsils were affected, then throat
painful on both sides in swallowing there was no pain in the left
;

side,only the right side painful in deglutition ; slight pain in

swallowing in the daytime with aggravation at night, with diffi-
culty of breathing a?id oppression of chest at night. Running cot
with stuffed up nose at night ; no fever ; bowels open daily, twice
or thrice.
These were the symptoms of the case — and what led me to
select Lye. here ? The right-sided tonsillitis and running coryza
with stuffed up nose made me to select the remedy.
Four doses of the medicine {Lye. 30, one globule a dose) cured
her. Good result was seen soon after the first dose: but r.

satisfactorily after the third dose, which was given at about 3

p. m., before the commencement of aggravation of her symptoms

and that of Lye. The first two doses of the medicine were given
after evening, when aggravation had already been commenced.
She was given a dose per diem.
Medicines having an anti periodic action in Homoeopathy
may better be used before the commencement of the aggravation
of symptoms.

A CASE OF POISONING FROM STRYCHNINE.

By Dr. Robert Saeger.
Translated for Homoeopathic Recorder, from -

Horn. /
March, [898.

Observations of poisoning from Strichnine are not numerous,

and on account oi this rarity the following case ought to
roduced here in a summary form. It was observed in the
medical clinique of Prof. Eichhorst in Zurich and reported in
 5

Poisoning From Strychnine. 159

the ''Miinchener Med. Wochensehrift " (No. 1, 1898), by Dr.

A. Habel.
"On the 10th of November, 1897, at 10 A. m., a man was
brought to the clinique who attempted suicide with Strychnine
at 8 A. m. Even while the patient was put to bed, at the
slightest touch, clonic convulsions of the arms and legs ap
peared. The expression of the face was full of anxiety. The
face itself was cyanotic in a high degree and there was a dis-
coloration of a leaden gray. The cyanosis, or rather leaden
color, also extended over the body which was covered
rest of the
with a cold clammy perspiration. The patient was very rest-
less; the sensorium was perfectly undisturbed. The pupils were
of medium size and reacted well. The mouth could not be
opened. There was a violent opisthotonus, but no stiffness of
the neck. The arms were extended, but could be bent without
offering any resistance. The legs were abducted; the contours
of the muscles showed plainly under the skin and showed un-
controllable tonic contractions. Clonic muscular jerks darted
at times through the whole of the body, especially manifest in
the arms. They appeared in consequence of acoustic and optical
irritations, as well as when the skin was lightly touched while ;

a firm grasp did not call forth any convulsions.

The stomach was at once thoroughly washed out with 12
quarts of water the patient was given strong black coffee and
;

then every two hours 10 drops of tincture of Iodine. In conse-

quence, the convulsions came at longer intervals and in the fol-
lowing night they ceased entirely.
The temperature was 38. o° (ioo° Fahrenheit), and the pulse
showed 132 beats a minute.
In the morning of November nth there was no more trismus,
nor clonic twitches. The patient complained of urging to urinate,
but could discharge no urine. Temperature 36 (97 Fahrenheit),
the pulse 88.
In the evening of November nth, the retention of urine still
continued.
November 12, severe pains along the spinal column. During
the night there had been spontaneous micturition. The urine
was distinctly bloody, of a brownish-red color,
and showed, on
standing, a copious sediment, which contained albumen. Heller's
blood-test gave positive results. Very many renal cylinders,
consisting chiefly of hemoglobin. Temperature 36. (98 Fah-
renheit), pulse 84.
160 Revue Homoeopathique Francaise.

On the 1 8th of November the urine was again quite clear,

without albumen and without sediment. On the 2 2d of No-
vember he was discharged.
The patient had taken altogether and at one time about 0.1S
gramme 2 77 grains of Strychninum hydrochloricum, thus more
I I

than ten tunes the maximal dose (o.or gramme;. According to

the statement of the patient, symptoms of poisoning showed within
half an hour, as there were painfullness, stiffness and twitches in
the limbs. This first appeared in the ankle and then quickly
ascended into the knees.
Nothing really new was developed by this case. All the
symptoms and many more are well known to every homoeopath
r
from A /c x vomica Dr. Habel, who reports the case, was. how-
ever, surprised by the retention of urine the appearance of blood
in the urine and the increase in the temperature. He found only
one similar case in the whole medical literature, that of Honi^-
mann {Deutsche and lVoche?ischri/'t, 1889). "Blood," he avers,
" has been found in stools after poisoning from Strychnine, but,
except in the case of Honigmann, never in the urine." This
plainly shows us where a limited, narrow-minded partisan spirit
naturally leads. If Habel had ever looked into any homoeopathic
book of Materia Medica, he could not have remained ignorant of
this symptom so long well known. He explains the symptom as
hemoglobinuria in consequence of irritation of the kidneys
Retention of urine is too frequent a symptom in poisonings with
Strychnine and is also so well known to allopaths in general
(see Schulz. Grundrcss der Arzneimittellehre) to require any
further consideration.
As to the increase of temperature, Farrington mentions that
the mix fever does not range as high as the fever of tetanus.
But concerning tetanus we know that it may be attended by
even hyperpyretic temperatures, even up to 14° C. (in Fah-
renheit). In fevers from taking cold, chills running up the
back, etc., Nux vom. is a very common remedy to eventually
cut short a catarrh that is setting in.

REVUE HOMCEOPATHIQUE FRANCAISE.

By Dr. Mossa.
Translated for the Bomcbopathic Recorder.
Observations by Dr. Tessier.
1. An engineer, 28 years of age, came under my treatment
in May, [896. He complained left arm, which
of a pain in the
had continued for several years, but had become insupportable in
the last weeks. At nighl he is waked up every lew moments
b\- the piercing stitches and the formications, which, starting
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Revue Homoeopathique Francaise. 161

from the arm, radiate into the forearm and the hand. During
the day he is unable to lift up any object at all heavy, or even

to bring his fork or tumbler to his mouth. Writing is trouble-

some and painful.
On examination, the humerus feels somewhat enlarged, and
a photograph with the Roentgen rays enables us to distinguish
a hypertrophied, misshapen humerus. The case is diagnosed as
osteomyelitis. Before trying any operation, Dr. Tessier, with
the consent of the patient, desired to try the homoeopathic treat-
ment. The patient received for six months Rhus tox. 6 in alter-
nation with Merc. sol. 6. After this lapse of time a slight amel-
ioration could be established. Aurum, which was next used,
gave no effect. In October I prescribed Cocculus and Asafcetida.
From then on a definite, continual improvement could be seen,
and at present the man is cured. A photograph lately taken
and exhibited in the session of the Homoeopathic Society on
March 10, 1897, shows that the diameter of the bone has been
restored almost entirely to its natural diameter and its normal
form
Observation of the Reporter: The skeptic may perhaps deem
the diagnosis not beyond the reach of criticism, nevertheless the
success obtained is a very valuable one.
2 ^\ man
60 years of age had been afflicted for several weeks
with a universal eczema, which left him no rest night nor day.
Every treatment tried hitherto had been ineffectual. On the
1 2th of June he came to Dr. Tessier. He found a moist eczema
occupying face, breast, the arms and the inguinal region. The
patient was emaciated and exhausted. Prescription: Meloe 1st
dil., one dose on awaking and one before the siesta. Chloral-
hydrate 5 centigrammes before dinner and before going to bed.
On the 14th of July, four weeks from the commencement of the
treatment, the patient was cured.
The author used Chloral hydrate on account of the pathogenetic
symptoms of this remedy as given by all provers, such as flushes
of heat, redness of the skin, eruptions, especially on the conjunc-
tiva. It is hard to say how much of the cure is to be ascribed to
Meloe (probably Meloe majalis) a remedy but little proved as yet,
and probably similar to Cantharis in its action, and how much
to Chloral hydrate. —Rep.
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Poisonings from Arsenic.

Dr. Comby directed the attention of his colleagues in the So-
ciite Midicale des Hopitaux to a case of paralysis from Arsenic
h he had observed.
A girl of 7 years had been treated with Arsenic by an eminent
physician, owing to a highly- developed chorea. The child had
taken about 24 centigrammes of Acidum arsoiicosum in eleven
days. About the sixth day vomiting and a moderate degree of
status gastricus appeared, but the child was nevertheless dis-
missed as cured of its chorea. Five weeks later the parents
brought the child back to the clinique with a paralysis of the
lower limbs, which had set in forty days after the last dose of
Arse?iic, and fortunately was as quickly cured.
Several other members of the society reported similar obser-
vations.
On July Lancereaux made an interesting report
21, 1897, Dr.
to the Academy Medicine concerning arsenical paralysis,
of
arsenical fever, and the dangers of arsenical treatment.
Dr. Lancereaux acknowledges not only the merely dynamic
paralysis (as in hysteria) and that dependent on the material
alterations of the nervous centres (haemorrhage, softening,
swellings, etc.), but also a third class, which from their chemical
origin he denominates toxical paralyses. These, he says, are
those paralyses which, by physicians who care little for causal
notions, are described as peripheral paralyses, which, however,
have quite a peculiar quality and character.
Now what are these characteristics.
1. A special localization in the nervous trunks of the extrem-
ities, especially in those which supply the extensor nmscles.
The nervi optici, phrenici and vagi are only exceptionally affected.
2. Atrophy of the muscles affected, diminution or cessation of
the electric contractility; the limbs remain half flexed, while
the alteration of the extensors predominates.
3. An almost total symmetry of the paralyses in the upper
limbs, when these are affected, as also in the lower extremities.
}. The paralyses extend upward from the extremities to the
roots and trunks of the nerves, so that these toxic paralyses may
also be denominated ascending.
5. The accompanying phenomena:
Subjective, that of
a. sensitiveness, which precedes the
motors- disturbances, and which, like these, are localized in en-
 5

Revue Homceofiathique Francaise. 163

tiresymmetry, with preference in the termination of the limbs;

they are ultimated here as sensations of going to sleep, pricking,
formication, lancinating pains and burning.
b. Objective and symmetrical general sensitiveness, also local-
ized in the extremities, while the special sensitiveness is nearly
always preserved. These phenomena show themselves in an
excessive exaltation or depression of that function, according to
the nature of the toxic matter.
c. Vasomotory or trophical disturbances, which also appear
symmetrically in the lower limbs in the higest degree of their
intensity, while this rarely takes place in the upper extremi-
ties.

To illustrate the subject, the speaker introduced two cases ob-

served, the being a paralysis from Arsenic.
first

This case occurred in a girl of 13 years, who had been well

up to that time, if we except repeated vomiting and undefined
pains, but took to her bed as sick on the 10th of February. Up
to the end of March the temperature fluctuated between 38 or
38. C. (ioo° and 101 F.) in the morning, and 39 to

39.
5° C. (102 to 103 F.) in the evening. The pulse fluctuated
between 100 and 130 a minute. The complexion was fresh, but
the girl, despite her good appetite, fell off more and more.
The digestion was not bad; diarrhoea showed itself but rarely,
but from time to time there was vomiting of mucus with great
exertions.
Being called in for consultation, Dr. Lancereaux, as well as
the physician who was treating her, thought of typhoid fever.
Toward the end of March the girl complained for several days
of a sensation as if the tips of her toes were asleep, so that L,.

thought of the appearance of paralysis from a typhoid origin.

The fever, instead of diminishing, after a slight remission of
a few days, increased again; the feet became more and more
painful and difficult to move, and toward evening, at the time
when the fever increased, the girl, who since several days had
not been able to leave her bed, had a sensation in the termina-
tions of her limbs as if they were dying off, and under her toe

nails, which had thickened, she had a sensation of formication,

burning, or as if they were torn open.
An examination of the lower limbs brought Dr. L. to an ap-
preciation of the true state of the case. The legs were half
flexed toward the thighs and could not be fully stretched out
164 Revue Honteeopathique Francaise.

owing to the retractian of the tendons of the hough. The toes

showed a slight degree of flexion, especially the big toe of the
right foot; here, as well as in thefeet, an oedema had been occa-

sionally observed. The had thickened, were firm, apt

toe nails
to break off, and had lengthened. The extensor muscles of the
lower extremities, on the thighs as well as on the legs, the feet
and the big toes were distinctly paralyzed and atrophied.
The girl could neither properly stretch her toes nor her legs,
so that a lameness and atrophy of the extensor muscles of the
lower limbs was indubitable. The reflexion of the patella had
ceased and that of the planta was diminished. Sensitiveness to
pain, which in the region of the feet was depressed, almost
reached its normal above the malleoli. The sensations of numb-
ness and of burning continued, her sleep amounted to nothing,
and she was continually afflicted with nightmare.
The upper extremities, although weak and emaciated, offered
no motory or sensory disturbances, excepting some lancinations;
heart, lungs and kidneys wcrked normally. The appetite was
totally lacking; she had an aversion to all food, and though
there was no diarrhoea her strength steadily declined and death
seemed near.
In this state of the case only one thing seemed sure; there
was doubtlessly a toxical paralysis An alcoholic paralysis was
excluded, not only from the girl's mode of life, but also from the
absence of an increase in the reflexion of the planta, of the hyper-
algia of the extremities, of frightful dreams and of mucous ex-
pectoration in the morning.
Finally, in searching after a substance that might have
caused such a paralysis, it was mentioned that the child, which
had formerly suffered from general psoriasis, had. on the advice
of a specialist in cutaneous diseases, used Arsenic for three
years.
This solved the riddle. By a milk diet, and the use of hydro-

therapeutic and electric treatment, a sudden and progressive im-

provement was effected, though the cure is nol yet Completed.
In another case there appealed in a patient alter ceasing the
nse of Arsenic an intolerable itching^ then an intense erythema on
the palm of the hand and the sole of the feet. This erythema, ac-
companied with a light swelling, was of a scarlet redness, which
was most pronounced toward the tips of the fingers and the toes.
This cutaneous eruption was followed by an entire desquamation
of the parts affected .
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Strange Lancereaux asserts that he never has seen

to say, Dr.
a ease of Arsenic fever nor found any such in the works of our
revered teacher, Imbert Gourbeyre. And yet the latter had
as early as the year 1865 published an article in the Art Medical,
entitled, Memoire sur I Arse?iic Febrigene, in which he gave
quite a number of observations on fevers, both intermittent and
continuous, caused by Arsenic. But Dr. Lancereaux has perhaps
no knowledge of the journal, V Art Medical. (The gulf which
separates the old school and Homoeopathy is in France no less
deep and wide than in Germany. The ignoring of scientific
labors, however, is more a failing of the dominant school than
of our own, since we willingly and gladly take notice of every-
thing worth knowing in the domain of medicine.) The labors of
Hahnemann, of his pupils and successors, especially in the
physiological and pathogenetic proving of the heroic remedy,
Arse?iic —although these discoveries were of such importance,
have been hardly noticed by the other side —
until at last the un-
desirable attendant and subsequent effects of this remedy, which
continues to be given to patients in doses too large and too long
continued, have forced upon their notice many facts which have
long been known to us as its pathogenetic effects.

SUCCESSES.
By Dr. Goullon, Homoeopathic Physician in Weimar.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Leipziger Pop.
Z.fuer Horn., March, 1898.

Mr. E. writes on the 28th of December " It is very wrong of

:

me, I must openly confess it, not to have before this answered
your friendly missive. But I hope you will excuse my making
you wait so long, as I can now communicate to you that I feel
entirely well. And this is apt to make a man forget everything

else if he was said to suffer from ulceration of the stomach, but

by your calming words of comfort and your trusty help has
been brought to think otherwise."
This is the case of a foreign patient who came to me on the
8th of July, 1897. He was strikingly emaciated, so that almost
every rib could be counted. He had suffered from violent hem-
orrhages from the bowels. At present he was tormented by an
inordinate flatulence, which, as he says, only appears from ten
1 66 Successes.

to twelve hours after eating. So also heartburn. Four weeks

ago there was a flux of yellow mucus from his rectum. These
are burdened with piles, and as he is an office-holder of se-
dentary occupation we might call it official hemorrhoids. When
he hawks his fauces bleed, so there is surely also catarrh of the
fauces this is accompanied with nasal catarrh.
; But it was the
catarrh from the fauces which made him an invalid after serving
for nine and a half years as assistant in a hospital.
His parents are 72 and 71 years of age, so there was not much
likelihood of tuberculosis, of which the patient was suspected by
other practitioners when in the spring of 1879, after a wetting
all through by a thunderstorm, hemorrhages from the lungs de-

veloped. We must also give prominence to a great indolence of

the bowels, w hich not only caused obstinate constipation but
T

also the incarceration of the gases (flatulence). As is usually

found in such patients, he could not bear milk. Frequent empty
eructations upward completed the typical image of a hemor-
rhoidal patient, to which, however, several aggravating mo-
menta were added.
Sulphur, Carbo veg. and Lycopodium, all of them names of good
report among us, though esteemed but little or not at all by allo-
paths, restored this man to health. Here the wide difference
between the two methods of healing is clearly indicated. And
although the results obtained can be felt with both hands, the
allopath remains in his a priori unbelief and ignorance. How
is it possible that vegetable charcoal and the harmless lvcopo-

dium seeds cause any change in the condition of such a chronic

patient and his deeply rooted ailments ? The same doubts oc-
cupied the opponents of Galileo, when he condemned the sun to
stand still and demanded of the colossal earth that it should re-
volve 365 times a year around the sun. The fact is " And yet :

it moves I" So also Homoeopathy keeps moving in spite of all

the clever and just as frequently stupid arguments of its oppo-
nents.
2. Quite a strikingly rapid curative effect of Kali bichronicum
was seen in the following case :

Mis. was suffering from Basedow's disease, but feeling

C.
relatively well at the timewas seized in the middle of Novem-
ber with an acute larvngca-bronehial catarrh. She has a feeling'
of soreness along the tract corresponding to the course of the
trachea. She has a characteristic name lor it ;
" an inflamed
 Successes. 167

pelt." The access of the air to the lungs is thereby so much

impaired that the passage seems continually to become more
straitened, and there arises a high degree of dyspnoea. This by
itself would explain the distressing insomnia from which she
has been suffering for several nights. In consequence the
patient during the day is very much and
prostrated, out of sorts,
feels wretched and miserable, which is further attended with
loss of appetite and disturbed digestion. All this was at once
changed when the patient received Kali bichro?nicum, which has
a specific co-relationship with the larynx as well as the bron-
chia. On this account also certain asthmatic troubles, attended
with a sensation of dryness and straitness in these organs, are
wont to yield to this remedy. It has seemed to me to be more
reliable in such cases than Mercur. sol., Phosphorus, Hepar,
Causticum, Bryonia, etc.
Especially remarkable was in this case the effect of Kali
bichrom. on the sleep. The patient after taking itwould sleep
almost without interruption from 8 p. m. to 7 A. m., which she
of course considered as a great treat. And although this effect
on her sleep merely secondary, and caused primarily by the
is

fact that the Kali bichrom. produced a change in the mucous

membrane of the respiratory passages which had been affected
with catarrh, and the inflammation in which was reduced,
which made the respiration easier and put an end to the
obstruction to her sleep, it is nevertheless noteworthy that
not only Kali bichrom. but also Kali carbonicum and the
latter, indeed, in a still more sovereign manner —cause sleep.
The same is true of Tartarus stibiatus (alias Kali stibio tartari-
cum). Even Kali jodatum frequently proves a soporiferous
remedy, but in such a way that it may produce sleep, as well as
disturb it other times. Best known, however, and we may say
that that it has even become a household remedy, is the prepar-
ation of Potassa (Kali) called Bromide of potassium.
As to the dose, experience teaches me that 6th decimal is the
best, as it is in Tartarus stibiatus. It suffices to put 4 drops of
the remedy into half a wine-glass full, i. e., about 50 grammes of

water. Of this we give 1 teaspoonful every 2-3 hours.

Tartarus stibiatus would be preferable to Kali bichrom. in cases
where there are symptoms of the bronchia, the lungs and the
pleura, thus, e. g., at the height ofan influenza with fever, heat,
restlessness, thirst, etc. There were, however, no complaints
 Succei

of this kind in the case reported above. The two remedies com-
plement each other and are adapted to the same individualities
and bodily constitutions. Our literature is comparatively poor
in such communications; but Kal bichromicum deserves to be
well noted in such circumstances.
Miss P. about eighty years old, had a violent bronchial ca
tarrh. Soon threatening symptoms appeared, e. g during the . ,

t suffocative attacks. On applying the ear to her back,

and even without this, wheezing and rattling in the bronchia was
heard, and their being temporarily sniffed up cause asthmatic
attacks. The patient at times leaves her bed at night, without
knowing what she is doing. So also while coughing the urine
is involuntarily discharged, and this weakness of the bladder

and its consequences cause her to take a fresh cold. Owing to

the age of the patient, who looks prostrated and discolored, has
little appetite, while her strength gives way. The prognosis
could not be termed a good one. At the same time Miss P.
originally had a robust, we may say, a hard nature. She walked
a number of miles yet last summer, and was used to a regular
course of life.

She received Bryonia, Phosphorus, Tartarus stib. Neverthe-

less the copious ill smelling expectoration did not diminish.
China seemed to be very suitable, and I had relieved her sister
with that remedy in a similar case in such cases I use the i. D..
;

4-5 drops several times a day. The continued use of this pre-
scription acted excellently, and Miss P., to the surprise of her
acquaintances, recovered.
But I must not leave unmentioned the fact that I also used a
very simple external remedy, but which for that very reason
should be imitated by others, i. c, purified spirits of turpentine
in the form of inhalation. And the fact that even the poore-t
man can apply this remedy (for a few cents' worth of spirits of
turpentine is sufficient for several weeks)
worth noting. For
is

it is impossible that the really beneficent remedies should only

be intended for the rich we should rather suppose that in such
;

cases cheapness, simplicity and rationality should join hands.

On thi- account we should mistrust the modern remedies which
quite unnecessarily lighten the purse of the patient, without
verifying the boasting promises heralded forth in their quack-
like advertisements this equally applies to curative serums,
;

dietetics and surrogates for remedies well proved.

 Successes. 169

We thus succeeded in obtaining through inhalations of tur-

pentine (joined with China) results which else are only attempted
by the use of creosote and its derivatives, Guajacol., etc., which
remedies besides destroy the appetite of patients already weak-
ened.
A very obstinate case of Tic douloureux or (Fothergill's) facial
neuralgia had been kept in bounds and alleviated for months
with Spigelia, Magnesia phosphor., Quinine, Arsenicum and Stan-
num ; but on the 15th of September Mrs. A., a patient about 70
years of age, living in impoverished circumstances (we might
speak in this case, after the analogy of Arthritis paupcrum the —
—
gout of the poor of Tic douloiireux or, more fittingly, of Prosopal-
gia pauperum —
the face-ache of the poor) came back again
and lamented about an intense burrowing pain in the right side
of the face, which is slightly relieved by pressure on the painful
spots. She also mentions twitches and darting pains in the af-
fected nervous portions as well as "a copious perspiration ex-
tending all the way to the forehead." At other times tearing :

all through the head, as in the typical face-ache in general,

so also here the pain is called up or considerably aggravated by

eating, i. e. by chewing, by speaking and by moving the mouth.
As an originating cause, there seemed to be very defective teeth,
or remains of teeth, she calls them " stumps." But every man
of experience knows that the removal of these corpora delicti, or
scape- goats of pain very rarely causes a radical cessation or even
and appreciable alleviation of this neuralgia. Even the cutting
through (resection) of the nerve or nerve trunk principally in-
terested has frequently proved in vain. The old woman in this
case had also tried all the recommendations of the allopathic
school, the so called "scientific medicines."
I did not this time hesitate any longer to give her a remedy

which frequently before has proved effective in very deeply

rooted nerve pains and in inveterate, chronic painful inflamma-
tions in various parts of the body, and which thus may be re-
garded as an ultima ratio. This is Mezereum. This remedy is
well known to many from their tooth-ache practice (and the teeth
were, indeed, also concerned here). It is said to be indictated
when in tooth-ache there is at the same time the sensation as if
the teeth were too long. Heinigke frequently gave Mezereum
in chronic inflammation of the internal eye.
Mrs. A. received the second decimal freshly prepared by my-
self, still a proportionally heavy dose, since Mezereum is a viru-
i jo Cases From Practice.

lent poison ; so that there is no reason for certain learned men to

turn up their pathologieo anatomical nose at this dilution.
The result was excellent, tor the pain disappeared on the
right side and only died away, so to say, in weak chords on the
left side, but so insignificantly that the patient was highly de-
lighted at the exchange and the cure. I precribed that she

should for a time continue with Mezereum 2D., taking 3-4 drops
in the morning and in the evening.

CASES FROM PRACTICE.

By Dr. Thorn of Fleusburg.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Leipzig, Pop. Z. /'cur
Hovi., March, 1S98.

Mrs. T., the owner of a mill in Northern Schleswig, a stately

lady of otherwise blooming aspect, between thirty and forty
years of age, has been for ten years suffering from a hypertrophy
of the concha of the right ear. The skin of the concha is dis-

colored a bluish red, and covered with excrescences, some of

hemi-spherical, others of a spiral form, which are very painful.
Since the ailment has lasted she has been almost the whole
time under allopathic treatment. Repeated abscissions of the ex-
crescences by Danish physicians were after every operation fol-
lowed by a growth only more luxurious. About one and a half
years ago the patient, who now, for the first time, "gives Ho-
moeopathy a trial," sought my help. She received Graphites 6
in rare doses; now and again a powder of Sulphur 3d trituration
for three mouths, without any effect But from that time she
began to improve. The same prescription is continued with
occasional pauses and with a steadily increasing improvement
After about 10 months from the beginning o[ the cure the
diseased concha looked almost like the other. The pains had
ceased months before.
j The son of locksmith M of \. has been sick for several
months : he is one and a half years of age. The allopathic
physician who treated him before me had given no diagnosis
the case, as far as 1 could discover. An examination of the
internal organs showed nothing abnormal. On the skin there
were seen brownish-yellow spots, found especially on the ex-
tremities these point to the fact that an eruption has been
;
 Cases From Practice. 171

cured. The appetite and digestion of the infant are normal ;

there no fever. The only deviation from the normal consists

is

in a nervousness of high degree. Then the child is seized now

and then by day and at times by night with a peculiar dyspnoea
and restlessness, during which the child desires to be taken up
by its mother and carried about. After several hours, the phe-
nomena disappear and the child appears as if were healthy. I

did not give any definite diagnosis. I only prescribed a few

doses of Sulphur to introduce the treatment In a subsequent

call the mother suggested that the child had perhaps taken sick
after the vaccination. Xow I prescribed some pillets of Thuja
6 D. For a long time I heard no more from my patient. Some
weeks later, I was again consulted on account of a gland as large

as the fist of a little child. This had developed on the right

side of the neck and would not, as the parents had hoped, go
away of itself. The attacks before mentioned and all the morbid
phenomena had disappeared after a few doses of the Thuja pre-
scribed.
3. Mrs. Z., the wife of a merchant near Xeumiinster, has suf-
fered from sore eyes for about ten weeks. The allopathic treat-
ment with A tropin
and eye-lotions has been altogether ineffect-
ual. The patient is in despair. There is so great a sensitiveness
to light and so severe a spasm of the lids that it is absolutely
impossible to examine the eyes. Even the least ray of light is

unbearable to the patient. Out of the closed eyes there issue at

times sharp tears. Xow and then certain muscles of the face
twitch. There are fiery zigzags before the eyes. Since her
eyes are sore the patient is also afflicted with noises in the ears,
which she describes " like the chirping of grasshoppers." The
patient cannot remain quiet in one position even for a moment
while consulting me, but has continually to move her body
hither and thither, which gives her some relief. She suffers
from nervousness of a high degree, and in consequence of un-
favorable family relations she has to bear much grief and sor-
row, which she has to suppress. With especial regard to the
mental state and the nervousness of the patient, I ordered
Ignatia 4, which has, indeed, a great number of symptoms re-
ferring to the eyes, but nevertheless belongs to the eye remedies
which are rarely used. The success was surprising. Eight days
after beginning the cure the patient, as she communicated tome
in writing, was already able to take part in the preparation for
Christmas.
172 A Mezereum Case.

A Mezereum Case.
Translated for the HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER from Leipzig. Pop. Zeitschr.
f. Horn., March 1898.

In the spring of 1894 a merchant called at my office ; he was

of slight built and strikingly emaciated, and. as he stated, that
he had for some time been suffering from cough, first thought he
was consumptive, especially since he complained of pains for the
last four days in the left side of his back, before the appearance
of which he had had a shaking chill. After he had stripped for
examination, I made him show more particularly the spot which
pained. It was a strip, 5-6 inches broad (behind on the left
side, below) above the 8 10th ribs. The pains had a lancinating
character, were constant, but of varying intensity, and extended
forward to the line of the axilla and behind to the spinal column.
They were worse on deep inspiration and became unbearable
during coughing. The affected part was also somewhat sensi-
tive on pushing the skin over it. A careful examination of the
respiratory organs and of the heart showed nothing morbid
there. The cough was a consequence of a catarrh of the nose
and fauces. The patient stated that he had never been asth-
matic and only breathed short on account of the pains; in short,
I found nothing to justify my first suspicion that the tips of

lungs were affected with phthisis. The temperature was some-

what above the normal, about ioo° F. I believe, though I did
not put it down. I suspected therefore that pleurisy was devel-

oping, though my auscultatory examination did not present

any concomitant symptoms of such a visitation. But as mis-
takes are sometimes made in such examinations. I supposed from
the higher temperature that it was coining on. since a mere
muscular rheumatism or an intercostal neuralgia would not have
been attended by such increase of temperature. supposed there-
I

fore that the effusion of serum into the pleural space would still
set in, and as we have in Homoeopathy the well defined and ap-
proved indication for Bryonia "when an exudation threatens or
has already appeared,'' I prescribed this remedy in 3 I)., taking
3-5 drops every half hour for two hours, then every hour, and
later on every two hours. On the second day after this the
patient appeared again —
without improvement. examined himI

again, but could not find anything. questioned him again,

I
 A Mezereum Case. 173

and found out that he had formerly suffered from neu-

finally
ralgia in the face, and had always been nervous. Also with re-
spect to a certain disease, I only now found out the exact truth,
as he observed with the words so frequent used by young men :

11
Yes, yes, a little touch of it but Dr. H., whom I consulted
;

in time, had it away in two weeks; it did not, therefore, amount

to much." Now I finally could make some diagnosis; it was in-
tercostal neuralgia on a basis of lues, and since the lancinating
pains were worse from the evening into the night I gave him
Mezereum 3. Only twelve hours after taking the medicine
the pains had disappeared. Still he came back next day

and stated at the end of his report: "You will have to

examine me again, something new has appeared." When I did
examine him I had to laugh right out. for over the two inter-
costal spaces, which had been painful, I found a few dozen of
which itched It had been, therefore, a
reddish- white vesicles
herpes zoster, for whichI had found the right remedy by fol-

lowing the guiding symptoms, even though my diagnosis had

been quite at fault. Such a zoster or zona formerly was quite
troublesome until the vesicles dry off. Sometimes the skin
would be rubbed off as far as it extended, or the vesicles
turned into an inflammatory crust, partly from the rubbing
of the clothes against them and on account of the diffi-
culty of applying the necessary bandages. But since we
can fasten the bandages securely with the American Indian -

rubber sticking plaster there is no more any difficulty. The

morbid parts are first washed with a dilution of carbolic
acid (*4 %), then dermatol is sprinkled upon it, or superheated
cornstarch, which has been allowed to cool again until the skin
can bear it, then a layer of prepared raw cotton, which is cov-
ered with the strips of the sticking plaster. This bandage re-
mains on for 8-10 days, and when it is taken off it is usually
found all healed. And so it was in this case.

Mezereum. "Severe itching on the head as from lice, only

transiently removed by scratching, and always recurring else-
where in the evening. Itching on the head and on the whole
body, as from vermin; after scratching it soon returns elsewhere.
Dry scabs on the hairy scalp. The scales of dandruff are whiter,
simpler and dryer than usual." Chro?iic Diseases.
 174 A Striking Cure With Thuja,

A STRIKING CURE WITH THUJA.

By Dr. H. Goullon, in Weimar.
Translated for the HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER from LeipZ. Pop. ZHtschr.
fner Hon.
A lady of middle age had been suffering for a whole year from
a troublesome headache. On awaking she would feel as if a
light hoop enclosed her forehead, and this sensation would only
pass away about noon. Her eyelids at the same time were heavy
as lead. This latter symptom is especially characteristic of the
Thuja headache. I therefore gave her a dose of Thuja, namely
three drops of the 10 decimal potency on sugar of milk, to be
taken at once before going to bed.
Many delusions occur in therapy in Allopathy, as in Homoeo-
pathy, but we are not of the opinion of Mephistopheles that
we must let such cases go "as God pleases," i. e., to let our
hands hang down and say as, e. g., our opponents do in whoop-
ing cough: " It must run its course!" No, " we search through
the old and the new world," in order to be able to give real
help. For the nihilistic standpoint is as destructive in the med-
ical camp as in that of politics. The long duration of the head-
ache in question might, indeed, cause a doubt as to the exist-
ence of a quickly healing specific, and yet there was such a one;
sometime afterwards the son of the patient, whom I had never
put my eyes on, came to me and was still quite enthusiastic as
to the wonderful effect of this single dose of Thuja. For the
last four months his mother had been delivered from the suffer-
ings with which she had been daily afflicted. Since nothing
had been done at the time of taking the medicine which could
simultaneously have effected a cure, the mode of life remaining
the same, and no external application having been made, it
would be a proof of extreme prejudice to deny to Thuja the
glory of having in a striking manner proved its healing quali-
ties in this as in many other analogous cases before it. We
might add yet theetologic remark, that the patient was a chronic
sufferer from weakness of the eyes, had wept much in COI
quence of long continued emotional impressions. There was,
therefore, a sort of neurasthenia and particularly an affection o(
the eyes. In connection with this, there appeared that headache,
or speaking more exactly, the sensation of an iron ring of two
 .

Indications For the Use of Rhus. 175

fingers' breadth lying above the eyes, and a certain lassitude of

the lids. There were no additional indications for Thuja, either
with regard to the secretion of urine, the cutaneous action, dis-

turbed sleep, etc. ic

INDICATIONS FOR THE USE OF RHUS.

By Dr. Goullon, of Weimar.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from the Leipzig. Pop. Z.
fuer Horn.
Miss I. had been nursing weeks and was attacked
a patient for
bv a catarrh of the intestines and stomach; we shall not here
decide whether this was caused by a cold or by a mistake in
diet; at the same time her whole nervous system was severely
affected
Having been before inclined to constipation, now at every
slight provocation she would have diarrhoea, e. g., when she in-
tended to take a little trip. She herself gives the following ac-
count of her state: "Severe distension of the abdomen (her
dress had to be let out almost a hand breadth). Dyspnoea,
especially in the morning and at the slightest exertion. In com-
pany she experienced fearful aiixiety and restlessness, so that
she could not retain her seat. Diarrhoea, or at least very soft
stools; after the stools a feeling of great weak?iess hi the back or in
the small of the back, so that she had to walk stooping forward,
and out of breath and had to rest for a long time. Also in walk-
ing in the open there was great weakness of the back, so that
air,

she could only walk slowly for half an hour, stooping forward.
In the morning a slimy taste in the mouth. The appetite was
otherwise good." Calcarea carb. given in the morning, at noon
and at night produced improvement, but after one or two days
there were frequent slight relapses. Finally only Rhus tox. 6
three times a day removed all the symptoms.
The patient decidedly gave the preference to Rhus as having
been of the greater service; also the great nervousness, the soft
stools in the morning and the weakness of the back are Rhus
symptoms. More rarely is there found in it the attendant dysp-
* Thuja has been proved effective even in the 30 decimal potency by Prof.
G. Jaeger by neuroanalysis, and Dr. Grauvogl obtained with the same
potency manifest physiological symptoms, as a softening of the nails and
of the tendinous tissue.
176 A Splendid Case of Ignatia.

noea; this is more frequently found as an anaemic or Calcarea

symptom. The same may he said of the slimy taste or the at-
tendant symptoms of catarrh of the stomach, to which was
added also a long- continued bitter taste.

A SPLENDID CASE OF IGNATIA.

By Dr. Goullon, in Weimar.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from Leipziger Pop. Z.fuer
Horn.
On Miss R. came to me, complaining of a
the 4th of March
disagreeable twitching in the head, which hadnow troubled her
for four weeks and rendered her quite miserable. This might
be a mere nervous accident, for the patient had lately gone
through hardships and was before that in a shaky state of
health. She had on that account been repeatedly compelled to
visit the springs and had also lately passed through a tedious
catarrh of the stomach In short, she had quite lost her power
of resistance and had become an invalid, when she was seized
by this twitching of the head. This eruption might be viewed
as a minimized St. Vitus' dance. On this account, even with-
out the anamnestic symptoms of her ailment, I came to choose
our specific remedy for chorea, Ignatia. I dropped a few drops

of the 3 dilution on a powder of milk sugar. This the patient

at home dissolved in 60 grammes of water and took a teaspoon-
ful thrice a day.
The result was at once striking to the patient, so that of her
own accord she wrote me the following lines: " I feel urged to
tell you that the powder for the twitching in the /wad has af-

forded me a wonderful relief. It helped me at once, and day by

day. I still perceive its lasting good effects. I am very thank-

ful to you."
It should not be forgotten that the patient had been tor-
mented by the twitching tor four weeks Would it not then be
foolish to ascribe the rapid cure to nature? Together with Ho-
moeopathy as such, also posology (the doctrine <d doses cele
brates a triumph on such occasions, which ought to move the
adherents of the traditional allopathic doses to think. But —
velle non discitur!
 Lippe and Homoeopathy. 177

THE PRINCIPALITY OF LIPPE AND HOMOE-

OPATHY.
Translated for the HomcEopaThic Recorder from the Leipzig. Pop. Z F.
Horn., March, 1898.

There no town or village in this principality where hom-

is

oeopathic treatment is not known and desired. Thousands of

patients are, however, unable to find this at home, and have to
seek relief in the neighboring kingdom of Prussia, in Paderborn
or in Herford at the expenditure of time and money. This is
to be deplored for several reasons. This state of things is suf-
ficiently well-known to our diet. In the year 1894 it unani-
mously requested the government to bring in a law which in
consonance with the medical laws of other German states and
notably of Prussia, would permit homoeopathic physicians to
establish themselves also in Lippe. This well-intentioned action
of the diet called forth great and thankful joy in the whole cou?itry.
This urgently desired law was not, however, laid before the
diet for consultation and sanction. Instead of it there appeared,
on February 23, 1895, a decree of the Government not in con-
sonance with the Prussian medical code, and which, therefore,
has not brought and could not well bring to Lippe any homoeo-
pathic physicians. After the publication of the decree a well-
known Prussian physician, Dr. J. in E., sent the query to the
government of Lippe, whether he would be allowed to settle in
Detwold in agreement with the medical laws in vogue in Ger-
many and especially in Prussia. But this physician met with
a peremptory refusal. That this prohibitive action, which with-
out benefiting the allopaths brings additional expense to thou-
of patients, cannot endure any length of time is self evident.
Why should Lippe be denied what is gra?ited to all the other Ger-
man States f
There is a prevailing hope in the country that the new
ministry of state, which is known throughout the land for its

kindly intentions, will annul the decree of 1895 and will estab-
lish laws in consonance with those of Prussia and thus make it
possible and easier for homoeopathic physicians to settle in Lippe.
May thishope be soon fulfilled, bringing with it healing and
blessings to all the sick of Lippe. The ministry would thereby
secure very hearty thanks from thousands of the citizens.
178 Cures with Hypericum Perforatum,

CURES WITH HYPERICUM PERFORATUM.

Translated for the HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER, from AUgtm. Horn. Zeitung,
February, 1898.

Although we are in possession of a proving- of this remedy,

nevertheless its physiological effect, and thence its therepentic
sphere of action, is not yet fully defined by this proving. The
successes secured with this remedy in trismus traumaticus indi-
cate a very important direction of action in this remedy, which
puts it in the foreground in the cases of neuralgias in conse-
quence of traumatic Influences now so frequently occurring and
so much talked of. This action is also indicated in two cases
communicated in Vol. 59 of this journal, on page 95: as they
seem to have been forgotten, we here reproduce them.
1. A lady, 45 years old. the mother of five children, of robust
constitution, has been suffering for ten years from violent attacks
of asthma spasmodicum with its ordinary sequence of symptoms.
Several remedies had been used ineffectually, when in a search-
ing investigation of the case it was found that the patient, when
15 years of age, had fallen down the cellar stairs, and that there
had been a lesion of the spinal column in the region of the
upper vertebrae. At that time she was sick for only a few days,
and although that local ailment had hitherto caused her little
trouble, and this vertebral region was not very sensitive to pres-
sure, yet the circumstance was remarkable, that she could not lie
on her back for any length of time. Dr. Ludlam prescribed Hyperi-
cum perf. 2 dil., 10 drops in half a tumblerful of water, 1 table-
spoonful to be taken every two hours; later on at greater inter-
vals. The attack soon disappeared, and now for several mouths
the patient has had no further recurrence of this asthma.
2. A little girl of 6 years has been sickly for three years.
Every four weeks she suffers from an attack of feverishrj
inning with chilliness, succeeded by heat of longer duration,
with headache, especially in the evening; these attacks last
for 4 s days. At every movement of the neck and the
arms she screams aloud; she is averse to making any such
movement. She shows extreme vehemence when she is to be
moved Or earned to another place. The face LS pale, with an
anxious and suffering look; anorexia, thirst alter warm bever-
•: tussiculation without expectoration; stool and urine r.or-
 Chimaphila Umbellata. 179
mal. A careful examination showed extreme sensitiveness of
the spinous processes of the lower cervical vertebrae and of the
upper dorsal vertebrae An anamnesis developed the fact that
the child when three years old had fallen down stairs, though
her consequent illness had been of short duration.
Hypericum perf. 2, in water, given every three hours during
the attack, at once cut it short For a year since the child has
not had any such attack and is apparently quite well. As a
precaution, the remedy was continued for some time after her
recovery. The reporter of these cases adjoins the question:
Has the sensitiveness of the vertebrae disappeared ?

These two cases, cured with Hypericum, were quite different in

their symptoms: only their proximate cause was the same: a
concussion and contusion of the spinal column and the spinal
marrow from a fall. In the first case there was a manifest
neuralgic character shown by the ailment, in the second there
was an inflammatory febrile irritation, resembling a subacute
spondilytis.

CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA.
The following by Walter H. Fearn, M. D., in the California
Medical Journal, February, concerning this rather obscure
remedy, may be of use to some of our readers. The dose ranges
from five drops to a teaspoonful of the tincture.
''
In atonic dyspepsia, gastric catarrh, intestinal catarrh,
chronic diarrhoea and dysentery. This remedy does not disagree
with the stomach, but by its gentle stimulant action tones up
mucous membranes of stomach and intestinal tract. In diabetes
in early stages it will effect a cure, and in old cases it is un-
doubtedly palliative. In many skin diseases such as acne,
herpes and eczema, by its wonderful alterative properties, it has
proven very efficacious. In enlarged lymphatics (scrofula) it is
an active remedy and a good adjuvant to phytolacca. On ac-
count of its eliminative properties (being both diaphoretic and
diuretic) we have few better anti-rheumatics, and is especially
"
good in articular rheumatism
" In passive renal, uterine or intestinal hemorrhages, this
remedy, by its tonic and astringent properties will act very
kindly, hence its good effect in chyliferous urine. In stranguary
(vesical tenesmus) with smarting, burning pains or urination,
i8o Chimaphila Umbellata.

turbid urine, and frequent micturition,

it is very quick to act.

Being a non irritating diuretic one of our best remedies in

it is

acute nephritis. Its action here is s milar to buchu and uva

;

ursi, but more preferable to either on account of it relieving irri-

tation of the entire urinary tract, and at the same time improv-
ing circulation and nutrition of these organs. By this specific
influence on the urinary apparatus (increasing renal secretion),
it lessens the quantity of lithic acid secreted, and hence is bene-

ficial in calculus and prostatic difficulties."

11
In chronic renal irritation and inflammation, and in the ad-
vanced stage of albuminuria, it is one of the best remedies we
possess to check the waste of albumin; part of its utility is
ascribed to its astringent and alterative action, and part to its
diuretic and tonic properties. In acute and chronic cystitis
when there is urgent desire to micturate and urine is loaded
with mucus and pus and the characteristic aromatic odor is
absent, it is then the remedy for first place. In leucorrhoea,
gleet, specific urethritis male or female; this remedy will give
satisfaction for internal medication. In acute gonorrhoea of the
male, it quickly takes the teeth out of the urine, so to speak,
and in most cases will prevent troublesome chordee, the urethra
tolerating local treatment better."

Editor Homoeopathic Recorder, Omaha, March, 189S.

Gentlemen The American Institute of Homoeopathy will

:

hold its next annual session at Omaha, Neb., June 24th to 30th,
1898, and Omaha joins with the Institute in assuring a hearty
welcome to all present and prospective members.
The great Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition
opens its gates June 1st., on railroads
special rates will be offered
from all points to Omana during the Exposition and we antici-
.

pate an unusually large attendance.

Physicians, not now members, will do well to at once send in
their applications and make early preparations to be with us,
and whilst enjoying well earned vacation join the National So-
net v, which has done so much lor Homoeopathy, at a time than
which none could be richer in promise. Local committees will
be pleased to furnish any desired information.
Fraternally,
P. C. MnklAKlTV,
Chairman Local Committee
Invitations and New Members.
 American Institute of Homoeopathy. 181

THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE

OF HOMCEOPATHY AT OMAHA NEXT JUNE.
Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder.
The annual meeting of the American Institute of Homoe-
opathy, to be held at Omaha, Neb., beginning on June 24th,
1898, bids fair to eclipse all previous gatherings of this vigorous
association. The interest in the Institute has been stimulated
and strengthened, and it is evident that an united effort will be
made to advance the influence and power of the Institute in
every possible way. There should be but one desire, one aim,
and ambition in common to all the members of the Institute,
and that should be to aid by every endeavor to try and make
this meeting of 1898 exceed all our former records. The various
chairmen of the sections have prepared excellent programs, and
they have made it a special point to consider, not quantity, but
quality in the papers presented. Each paper will be definitely
arranged for in the sectional programs, and will be well and
ably discussed. Some of the sections have in preparation
programs which will be entirely novel to most of the members
of the Institute. Whatever changes are made will be made to
increase the interest in sectional work. The local committee at
Omaha have been most thoroughly occupied since last fall, and
have done an immense amount of work. They are prepared to
afford us a number of welcome surprises while we are their
guests ;in fact, there seems to be no limit to their hospitality.
There will be ample accommodations at Omaha, so far as the
hotels are concerned, for all who attend the Omaha meeting, and
the rates will be extremely reasonable. It will not be forgotten
that the great International Exposition will be held at Omaha
during the time of the Institute meeting. This in itself, as it
will be the greatest exposition held in this country since the
Chicago World's Fair, will be a great attraction. Various ex
cursions have been arranged for, one to Yellowstone Park and
return, another to Denver, to the Garden of the Gods, Colorado
Springs, Salt Lake City, Glenwood Springs and return to
Omaha. Others will be announced. The reports from various
sections of the country indicate that the attendance at the
the Institute will be very large, and it is expected, not only that
every member should come himself to this meeting, but that he
[82 Passiflora Tncarnata.

should try to bring with him least one new member

at this is ;

•
linly not a and could easily be done if
laborious task
earnestly undertaken. Let us all pull together at Omaha, and
m ike that session not only the most pleasant in its relation-
ships, not only the greatest in its record of attendance, but the
most perfect in harmony, the most marked in progress and in
contributions to medical science. Railroad rates and different
routes for reaching Omaha, and statement of hotel accommoda-
tion will be found in the annual circular. I am

Yours very truly,

E. H. Purtkr, General Secretary.
New York. April /, 1898.

PRACTICAL POINTS ON PASSIFLORA

INCARNATA.
About twenty years ago I was called to see an old negro wo-
man and found that one of her troubles was pleurisy. It is so
common to see negroes with some kind of weeds bound over the
painful place that I paid little attention to a wad of scalded leaves
bound to her forehead until their peculiar odor caused me to ask
what they were. Her reply was, " M ly pop leaves and roots "
It was a new idea to me, as cabbage leaves are most commonly
used. She explained to me that a tea made of it and drank " re-
lieved pain like laudanum." On this idea I commenced using a
strong tea of the weed (technically passiflora incamata) for a
goodly number of ordinary aches and pains Among the first
was a case of a woman who was troubled with after-pains of
childbirth they would hang on for three or four days, and were
;

so severe that she would have to take opium in some form to be

able to suckle her baby. In this case I used the fresh plant and
its roots in a strong decoction, giving about a half ounce every
hour, and the effect was all that could be wished. I also used it

in connection with viburnum prun. in other cases afterward. In

one case of nervous headache, from lack of sleep, it had the
double effect of relieving the pain and producing pleasant, re-
freshing rleep. — Dr. B. II. Brodnax, in Medical Summary,

Dr. C. 1' Fin.. Secretary of the Section on Materia Nfedica,

Pharmacy and Therapeutics of the American Medical Associa-
tion, solves the proprietary medicine question in the Philadelphia
Medical Journal hy asserting that, 6rst, "ninety percent. 01 the
 Our Authorities. 183

best men in the profession" ("regular," of course) daily prescribe

these medicines, and, second, " it would be impossible for a man,
however talented to succeed as a practitioner in these modern
times" who did not do so. Verily, it seems that Homoeopathy,
pure and simple, with every decade, stands out stronger and
bolder as the one and only regular system of medicine.

OUR AUTHORITIES.
(The following ripper is from the March number of the Char-
Medical Journal
lotte It looks as though Young America was
kicking over the traces.)
" Who are and what have they done to make them
they,
great ? we make no attempt to name them lest we
It is best that
offend many thousands wbo make the claim for themselves,
without warrant or assistance. My gentle reader, you must
know them without any introduction from me for they fill the
earth with their greatness. Woe unto the poor ignorant doctor
who has not heard of them. They know all things, and their
word is law They are great surgeons, specialists, and mighty
men of valor, who have risen from the ranks of the common
herd. Let the general practitioner and all listen to their wisdom,
and humbly submit to their decision, from which there is no
appeal. What have they done ? Done Why everything. Have
!

they not contended that the human blood vessels contained only
air, or air and water ? That water would kill a fever patient,
and that teaspoonful doses of calomel, frequently repeated, would
cure fever and all other diseases ? That pus was necessary for
the proper healing of wounds and devoutly to be wished for in
surgery ? That bleeding would certainly revive the exhausted,
and leeches were the sine qua non ? That vaccination would
not prevent small pox and was criminal, at the same time liable
to make brutes of people ? What have they done ? I repeat :

Have they not compelled us to give our poor gullible patients

portions of snakes, scorpions, beetle horns, sebaceous matter
from the castor, and testicles from the lamb? Have they not
endorsed Koch's tuberculin, and Hammond's elixir of life ?
Then that delicate food for tuberculosis suggested by great in-
telligence, a relic of civilization —
the blood of the ox and dog.
I will no longer stimulate your memory of the bitter past by
such questions, for your patients are exhausted and so are mine ;
 184 Out Authorities'*

but will give you a few more choice bits from the authorities,
and leave your conscience to recuperate and your mind to rumi-
nate over these things. They suggest that extract of the brain
will cure insanity and all nervous diseases. Extract of testicle
and ovary will cure sterility and impotency respectively. So
on and on till there is nothing to be desired, for no one need
die, or even grow old. Recently there has been a great revolu-
tion amongst the authorities. They have changed their minds
from fad to fad so often that it now becomes easy for them.
Their latest fad, however, was such a tremendous leap in ad-
vance that they feel especially proud of the feat a not unusual —
thing. Don't you know? Germs! germs! germs! Every-
thing is due to germs. They are literally eating up the earth.
Germs are the cause of all our troubles, from pregnancy to
tape worm; from a sore finger to the tooth ache. Statistics will
prove this beyond a doubt. Now comes the funny part (if it
was not so serious) of it all: —
The authorities now propose to
cure all diseases according to their latest fad, of course they can
only be cured that way. As usual they (the authorities) are
divided on how to accomplish this; but all agree that killing
the germs cures the disease. Statistics prove this. Some con-
tend that the best way to kill the germs is by feeding them on
themselves. Like kills (or cures) like, you know. If the
authorities were compelled to take their own medicine they
would all die. What a pity The other side contends with
!

equal zeal and wisdom for a more humane method. They think
it cruel to make the poor germs cannibals, when they the I

germs) are so particular about their food, you know. So they

.tinker with some old horse or ass, call them names, then bleed
these animals. Poor things, they think it fairly good treatment,
they haven't evoluted past the bleeding fad, you know. This
blood serum, or what not, when medicated a little, according to
the homoeopathic doctrine, will cure all ills to which human
flesh is heir. All that is necessary is to change the name to
suit the disease and bravo ! you have it. Statistics prove alt
these things.
MORAL.
Let each doctor treat the patient and not the disease. Let us
beware of tads and frauds. Let us think tor ourselves and
above all things cultivate the faculty of close observation. This has
been sadly neglected. Let us follow blindly no man, but think
and practice conservatively. Tune will prove all things ami
tell posterity who our authorities have been.
 Thlaspi Bursa Pastorts. 1
85

CAPSELLA OR THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS.

Our use of it is based mainly on its diuretic action, and in
this field we are willing to vouch for its worth, It relieves both
renal and vesical irritation, and at the same time it promotes
the functional activity of the kidneys to a very great degree.
The increased flow of bland urine frequently relieves the incon-
tinence of the aged, and especially of old women, when the
inability to retain the urine is due to irritation of the bladder or

kidneys a chronic cystitis or nephritis. We desire to put

special stress upon the Capseila case: there is frequent desire
and the uririe is heavy with a heavy, brick- dust, phosphatic
',

sediment. A year or two ago our attention was specially

directed to this by an article in the Homceopathic Recorder,
by Dr. Phillips, of Hartwell, O. Since that time we have used
the drug freely and frequently when the above described symp-
toms prevail. We remember one case of ascites in which the
most astonishing results followed.
Capseila should be recommended in cases of hematuria. How-
ever, we do not think it the equal of Triticum repens in this
trouble. It has been highly commended in both chronic diar-
rhoea and dysentery, as well as in some cases of dyspepsia.
It has given excellent results in a few cases of oedema of the
glottis. We believe the effect is produced by its action on the
kidneys its anti-dropsical effect.
The dose is from one to fifteen drops in water, every two to
four hours. Doctor, try it in the next case of urinary trouble
in which the above indications prevail, and we believe that you
will be pleased. —
IV. E. B., Eclectic Medical Journal.

HEROIC DOSING WITH ACONITE.

In 1874was called to see a young lady who had inflamma-
I

tory rheumatism. She had high fever along with other reme-
dies. I ordered three drops of tincture of Aconite every two

hours. But her friends thought that was rather slow treatment
and they increased it up to ten drops. After giving her two or
three doses they became alarmed at its effects and very properly
and promptly sent for me. They were very much alarmed, and
said she would be dead by the time I would get to the house. I
1 86 Book Notices.

must confess that was badly demoralized when I saw her con-
I

dition. Her pulse was about

25. and very irregular. She had
a cyanotic hue of a very marked character. Her respirations were
only five or six to the minute, and she was laboring very hard
to get her breath. And oh, what a sweat The perspiration !

was running off her like rain drops. I gave her large quanti-
ties of brandy and other stimulants and brought her out all
right. The rheumatism was nowhere to be found. It had left
her " quicker than a cat." Thereafter I labeled Aconite a
" quick cure for rheumatism." must confess that I have
But I

never cared to repeat the experiment. It was shockingly suc-

cessful and "did the business" with a vengeance. 5. C. —

Dumm, M. D., Medical World, April, 1898.

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s

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work shall be a complete general repertory of the Homoeopathic
Materia Medica, and from the notice above of the parts to follow
the reader ran see that it will follow the plan of the Ilahne-
mannian Materia Medica. The printing and paper are first-class
and the work one of great value to the medical profes-
will be

sion. Subscriptions tor it may be sent to any of the Boericke

& Tatel pharmacies, or orders for the parts as issued.
 Book Notices 187

The Surgical Complications and Sequels of Typhoid Fe-

ver. By W. W. Keen, M. D., LL. D., Professor of the
Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Jefferson Med-
ical College. 3S6 pages, 8vo. Cloth, S3. 00. Philadelphia:
W. B. Saunders. 1898.
This work hx the well-known surgeon, Keen, is based fas we
learn from the unusually long and complicated title page) upon
seventeen hundred cases, compiled by the author and by Dr. T.
S. Westcott, of the University of Pennsylvania. It also has "a
chapter on the ocular complications of typhoid fever," by Dr.
G. E. de Schweinitz, of the Jefferson, and has for an appendix
<l
the Toner Lecture No. 5," by Dr. Keen, before Smithsonian
Institute ''on the surgical complications and sequels of the con-
tinued levers." Many interesting sequels of typhoid are given.

Atlas of Methods of Clinical Medicine, with an Epitome of

Clinical Diagnosis and of Pathology and Treatment of Inter-
nal Diseases, By Dr. Christfried Jakob, formerly First As-
sistant in the Medical Clinic at Erlanger. Authorized Trans-
lation from the German. Edited by Augustus A. Eshner, M.
D. 259 pages. Cloth, S3. 00. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.
1898.
The chief value of this book lies in its plates, of which there
are sixty-eight, containing one hundred and eighty- two colored
illustrations, and in addition sixty- four illustrations in the text.
The editor writes : "Extensive modifications in the text have
not been found necessary, and the translation has been free
rather than literal, the endeavor having been to convey the spirit
rather than the language of the original." The plates are very
fine and will be of great value as an aid in diagnosis. The size
of the book is a small octavo.

Flint's Encyclopaedia of Medicine and Surgery. Second

(1898) edition, 1,555 pages, revised with the assistance of fifty-
six contributors and thoroughly in line with recent advances
in medical science. Cloth, $5 ; Leather or Half Morocco, S6.
1898. J. B. Flint &
Co., 104 Fulton St., New York.
A very useful book of reference. You want to know, say,
about Alopecia ; turn to that heading and you have a full de-
scription of the six recognized varieties of that disease, or condi-
 .

1 88 Book Notid .

tion. with the accepted treatments and so the book runs for its
;

1,555 pages until every medical and surgical disease is covered.

Tlie medical treatment recommended throughout is almost ex-
clusively homoeopathic.

A Compendium of Insanity. By John B. Chapin, M. D.,

L.L. D., Physician in-Chief of Pennsylvania Hospital, for the
Insane. Illustrated. 253 pages. Cloth. Si 25. Philadelphia:
W. B. Saunders. i<Sgs.
The publisher writes " I believe the book will supply a real
:

need, insomuch as heretofore the physician and student have had

no brief manual on this important subject, and have been com-
pelled to search through the larger treatises for just such practi-
cal information as this book contains. But the book is intended
not alone for the physician. Written in clear, untechnical lan-
guage, it will prove a most useful manual for members of the
legal profession. By the laymen, too. it will be read with much
interest, and will furnish information of the utmost value, ena-
bling him to recognize insane tendencies and to provide intelli-
gently for any case cf insanity in the family that he may be called
upon to care for temporarily."

Hartley- Auvard System of Obstetrics. Third' 1898) edition,

436 pages, 543 illustrations. Revised by Dr. John D. Hartley
Cloth, $4 00; Leather or Half Morocco, S5.00. J. B. Flint &
Co., Xew York.
This work, now in its third edition, is based on the
known French work by Dr. A. Auvard, Accoucher to the I
?

pital of Paris, and the French are the leaders in this art. Ver-
bum sap.

Climatography of the Salt River Valley Region of Arizona.

The Land of Health and Sunshine. By \V:n Lawrence Wood-
ruff, M. D. 72 pages. Paper, 35 cent.s. R. R. Donnelley &
Sons, Chicago
The author of this little pamphlet. Dr. W L. Woodruff, is a
well-known homoeopathic physician. The pamphlet contains
the land of sunshine " tor health seekers.
,-
valuable data of

MESSRS. Lea Brothers & Co the well known Philadelphia

.

Publishers of standard medical books announce the following

works for early publication :

./ Manual 0/ Otology, by Bacon, of the University Medical

College of Xew York.
The Treatment of Surgical Patients Be/ore and After Ope* 1

by Brinckner, ol the Mt. Sinai Hospital. New York.

./ Tt vl Book of Dental Pathology, Therapeutics and Pharma-
r. by Burchard, oi the Philadelphia Dental College.
 Book Notices. 189

The Principles of Treatment, by Bruce, of Charing Cross Hos-

pital,London.
Diseases of the Nose, Throat, Naso-pharynx, and Trachea, by
Coakley, University Medical College, New York.
Diseases of Women by Davenport, of Harvard.
A Treatise on Gynecology, by Dudley, of the Chicago Medical
College.
A Text-Book of Anatomy, by American Authors. Edited by
Frederic Henry Gerrish, M. D.. Professor of Anatomy in the
Medical School of Maine. In one handsome imperial octavo vol-
ume, copiously illustrated in colors.
Manual of Skin Diseases, by Hardaway, of the Missouri Medical
College.
and Practice of Obstetrics, by American Authors.
The Principles
Edited by Charles Jewett, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the
Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. In one hand-
some octavo volume, with many illustrations in black and in
colors.

The notices of Dr. Walter Williamson's Diseases of Females

a7id Childre?i and Their Homoeopathic Treatme7it< that was re-
printed last year, evidence that the book puzzles the corps of
reviewers not a little. Some wonder why it was printed and
others think it is a book "designed for the laity," while none of
them seem to know that it is the original homoeopathic w ork on
r

the subject and that it was written for physicians. Dr. William-
son, as readers of Bradford's forth-coming '' History of Hahne-
mann College, of Philadelphia " will learn, was one of the pillars
of that college in its early days, and the third edition of his book
was brought out in i860 and reprinted (from the plates) in 1871,
and, after many years of "out of print," the publishers again
reprinted it in 1897. It is an old book, but if its Homoeopathy
were followed to day it would not mark a retrograde step in the
treatment of women and children.

Dr. Fisher's " Homoeopathic Journal of Surgery and Gyne-

cology" Vol. 1, No. 1, comes duly to hand. It is a handsome
volume of no goodly pages, well printed and containing a great
many plates that would do credit to a text book. It is a big un-
dertaking and deserves, and will need, the hearty support of
physicians. The subscription price is $5.00 a year. Address,
Medical Century Co., Chicago. (This notice was unfortunately
mislaid and our apology is due to the new journal for not sooner
welcoming it.)

After and interval of three years Dr. I. D. Foulon again be-

comes editor of the Clinical Reporter, so hereafter that journal
will be among the first from which the wrapper is torn. Dr.
Foulon can write.
 Homoeopathic Recorder.
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Address comtnunications, books for review, exchanges, etc., fo> the editot , to

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

The Medical Visitor is doing its best to prove that the Boston
Pharmacopoeia is right and homoeopathic pharmacy preceding
its advent wrong. It brings into the argument two columns

headed "the deadly parallel," in which it seems to find

death in. or to, the time honored pharmacy of the past, and life
in, or for, the book of the Hub. After the " deadly parallel "
it says "Thus it will be seen that belladonna representing
:

Class rof the old pharmacopoeia furnishes a ix dilution that is

5.75 times weaker than its drug power claims for it, and conse-
quently 5.75 times weaker than the 0=ix (mother tincture of
the new pharmacopoeia, with which some unthinking or un-
scrupulous individuals have compared it." So in all these
years Belladonna has been a deceiver and a fraud, " 5.75 weaker
than drug power claims for it !" But, really, what does " its
its

drug power claim for it?" Going directly to the original, we

read on page 198 of the Materia Medico, Pura that by Belladonna
is to be understood " the freshly expressed juice of the whole

plant at the commencement of mixed with equal

its flowering,
parts of alcohol." Only this and nothing Very "un- more.
scientific," isn't it? Xot a word about "moist magma" and
"Gin" and "drug power." and all that sort of thing. Only
two lines that convey the meaning SO plainly that even the
fool ought not t<» err therein.
The fresh juice ol the flowering Belladonna plant mixed, with
equal partsof alcohol is the time-honored tincture of Belladonna^

and how it-- ix dilution can be "3.75 times weaker than its
drug power claims for it," in view of the simple fact that it
Claims nothing and says nothing about "drug power," is on
those things that no fellow can find out.
 — —

Editorials. 191

SOUND DOCTRINE, EVERY WORD OF IT !

11
Homoeopathy not a dead issue, nor yet an expired trade-
is

mark, and its adherents are not all either knaves, trading on a
name, or fools, following an antiquated delusion. Let our hos-
pitals and dispensaries be utilized, not to test every new,
untried allopathic preparation, but to prove that there is in
Homoeopathy a distinct advance in the science of therapeutics
over the empirical practice of the old school. Were half the
time now spent in discovering minute points of differential
diagnosis to be verified by a post mortem, or in seeking to keep
track of the ever-varying suggestions of a lawless empiricism,
spent in studying up the cases to find the curative remedy homoeo-
path ically indicated, suffering humanity would be better served,
and Homoeopathy more highly honored." Hahnemannian
Monthly.

An examination for two resident physicians for the Children's

Homoeopathic Hospital, of Philadelphia, 926 North Broad street,
will be held at the institution during the first week in May.
Applications should be sent to the hospital in care of the
Medical and Surgical Staff.
A large experience is afforded a physician who desires to post
himself in general work.
Besides the medical and surgical practice of the hospital
wards, there is a dispensary of 40,000 applicants annually,
where clinics for adults and children are held daily.
Surgery and outside practice in medicine and obstretrics is
also available to the residents.

"One of the most practicable books given to the profession

during the past year was the work upon " Veterinary Medicine "
by the accomplished physician, John Hurndall, member of the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England. By means of
this work the profession may be brought into touch with the
diseased conditions of the horse, and thereby enabled to intel-
ligently supercede the work of the illiterate horse doctor and at
the same time win converts to the cause of Homoeopathy. The
book is carefully written, and while the remedies are seemingly
selected from a pathological standpoint, at the same time suffi-
cient indications are given for the purpose required." Halme-
mannian Advocate.
 PERSONAL.
Dr. C. H. Helfrich has removed from 158 West 47th street to 64 West
49th street. New York City.
removed to South Lincoln, Mass.
Dr. S. H. Blodgett has
Died. Dr. Timothy Baker, Union City, Mich., in his 82 year. 1

It is no use crying over spilt milk, but it is sometimes a relief to swear

over it.
Eminent medical authority says that the job of night-watchman is the
best cure for insomnia.

FOR SALE. A very

New
desirable residence in
York, with stable, garden, etc., centrally local
immediate vicinity of

on principal thoroughfare, near depot, churches, schools, etc. rfas been

occupied for twenty years by a practicing physician. Will use influence
for a competent successor, but charge for property only. For particulars,
address, George Thorn. 27 Pine street. Room 114. New York Citv.
The Annual Reunion of the Alumni Association of Hahnemann Medical
College, Philadelphia, will be held Thursday, May 12th.
A Kansas journal writes of " a python that stalked rampant among the
people "
The 1st of April is chiefly observed by those to whom the day is dedi-
cated.

WANTED TO BORROW. l wish to make pictures of the

following subjects for the

forthcoming history of Hahnemann College. Any one who can loan me
either a picture or class pin can be assured they will be carefullv cared for
and promptly returned. Pictures of C. B. Matthews, F. Suns. Sam.
Freedley, \V. A. Gardiner, Jacob Jeanes. I wish to make a page of
similes of class pins. Any one having one will please communicate with
me For the good of Odd Hahnemann. T. L. Bradford, M. D., 1S02
Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia.
Of the last edition of Wood's Gynecology, Dr. James G. Gilchrist write- :

'•
far and away superior to anything
It is we have yet had and not inferior
to the best old school publications."
Of same book Dr. Sheldon Leavitt writes: "It is undeniably the best
work on the subject put forth by our school."
Boericke & Tafel will soon issue a third edition of Burnett's striking
work on the skin.
Adlonez water is undoubtedly the best known for sufferers from dialu
"lb- threw a firebrand into their camp, which caused chills to creep up
and down heir spines. " Daily paper.
t

I)i' Bushrod W. James, iSth and Mount Yernon streets, is the American
member of the International Commission to restore Hahnemann's tom'v
Send your contribution to him.
Write to Dr. J. Wylie Anderson, Denver, Colo., for particulars of the
great outing through the Rocky Mountains to follow the meeting ^\ the
American institute of Homoeopathy at Omaha.
Dr. B W. Severance has removed from Mineville to Gouverneur, N Y.
md ear specialist.
As a rule marriage is not so much of a failure as are the contracting
parties who fail in it.

T11 1 K 1 CORDE k — 51. iii.

 THE
Homeopathic Recorder.
Vol. XIII Lancaster, Pa, May, 1898. No. 5.

A FRAGMENT in re FORMICA RUFA.

One of the pleasures of married life is that it develops and
furnishes a garret — that niutifarious omnium gatherum — to ran-
sack, which on day affords a series of never-ending sur-
a rainy
prises. Happy the boy and girl who have such a resort It has !

its surprises, too, for the older boy. For instance, my own co-
partner in the "Infantry" line was beguiled into visiting our
garret this very day. Speedily, she descends upon me with her
spoils; an armful of "truck," which she wishes to know " what
on earth it is good for." There is something in the dulcet tone
of her enquiry which my prophetic soul tells me "means busi-
ness;" so I dropped Stephen Paget's " Ambroise Pare and His
Times" to sort the "stuff." (I may say, in the strictest confi-
dence, I never retreat from a family "engagement" until I —
have to — but I am the daisiest of diplomats in keeping out of
them. Verbum sap.)
Very soon six pages of yellow manuscript engage my atten-
tion. It is my own " cacography," as my old writing teacher
delighted to call it. It is some thirteen or fourteen years old.
I have thought worth while the transcribing for the Recorder.
it

Take it for what it is worth, and at your own estimation. It was

induced by the reading of an old book; there were no " patients "
that afternoon, and I at least "stood off" the devil during the
writing of it.

Some two hundred and fifty years ago John French, Doctor of

Physick in the realm of Great Britain, committed to the press

of Richard Cotes the painfully written (and in that day " pain-
fully written" meant pains-takingly written) manuscript of a
learned book bearing the following exuberant title: "The
Art of Distillation, or a Treatise of the choicest Spagyrical Prepa-
194 A Fragment in n Formica R\

performed by way of Distillation, being partly taken out

ratioiis

of the most select Chymicall Authors of several/ lan± and

partly out of the Author's manual! Experience; Together with
The Description of the chiefest Furnaces and Vessels used by the
Ancient, and Moderne Chymists: Also A Discourse of divers
Spagyrical Experiments and Curiosities, and of the Anatomy of
Gold and Silver, with the chiefest Preparations and Curiosities
thereof, and Vertices of them all."
These w ords wmich I have put into italic dress Richard Cotes,
T

duly instructed by Dr. John French, printed in red ink, which

shineth to-day on the time-stained paper and maketh a piebald
page, as a glance thereon will testify to the most incredulous
reader hereof.
But our present concern is with p. 199 of Book 4. whereon is

to be found the following :

" Kunrath's Famous Water, Called Aqua Magnanimitatis."

"Take of Pismires, or Ants (the biggest, that have the
sowrish smell, are the best), two handfuls, spirit of Wine a
Gallon, digest them in a Glass vessel close shut, the space of a
month, which time they will be dissolved into a Liquor, then
in
distill them in Balneo, till all be dry. Then put the same quantity

of Ants as before, digest, and distill them in the same Liquor as

before: doe this three times, then aromatize the Spirit with some
Cinnamon.
11
Note that upon the Spirit will float an Oil, which must be
separated. This spirit is of so excellent use to stir up the
Animall Spirit in so much that John Casmire, Palse-grave of the
Rhene and Seyfrie of Collen Generall against the Turks did al-
ways drinke of it when they went to light, to increase Magnani-
mity and Courage, which it did even to admiration.
"This spirit doth also wonderfully irritate them that are
slothful to Venery.
" It also provoketh urine even to admiration. It doth also

wonderfully irritate the Spirits that are dulled, and deaded with
any cold distemper.
This Oil doth have the same effects, and indeed more power-
fully. This )d doth, besides what is spoken of the Spirit, help
<

deafness exceedingly, two or three drops being dropped into

the Bar, after it Is well syringed, once in a day. for a week to-
gether.
 A Fragment in re Formica Rnfa. 195
" It also helpeth the Eyes that have film growing on them,
being now and then dropped into them."
Now turn, please, Allen's
Encyclopaedia,
to Sub voce
"Formica Rufa," and read the provers' evidence:
" Mind unusually excited," is one report. " An exhilarated
condition, like that produced by drinking champagne." Make
a note of that, please. " All day very happy and inclined to be
jolly." " During the day remarkably happy and able to study;
everything seems easy to be accomplished."
Here are three different witnesses in the nineteenth century,
and all in full accord with John Casimir, Palgrave of the Rhine,
and Seyfrie, of Cologne, as to the statement that the "spirit"
of the species Formica Rufa can be used " to stir up the animall
Spirit."
Hering, whomnothing escaped, gives us, " Exhilarated con-
dition after pain in vertex had abated." Hering also gives, as
a symptom derived ab us?c in morbis, " Indisposed, forgetful,
morose, fearful and apprehensive." Ah! that is not in the
proving, says some ardent "purifier" of our Materia Medica.
True, my carper, but it is most assuredly the physiological oscil-
lation to the other end of the arc, without which the arc were in-
complete; and it is an instance wherein Hering's knowledge
arraigns your ignorance. Hering, in his quiet way, was up to
such tricks. We have more than one exhibition of his insight.
For instance, he gives us as a clinical symptom derived from
cures, " Want of memory; forgetful in the evening." Now does
not one prover in the Encyclopaedia record this: "During the
day remarkably happy and able to study ?" Couple that state-
ment of time with Hering's finding a patient, having other
symptoms of Rufa, "forgetful in the evening." How true it is
that we can see only that which we have learned to see. Yours
is a pitiful hemiopia; you can't see the whole of anything; you

discern only the left half of the face, while the distinguishing
mole is on the right half. You declare that what you can't see,
therefore, is not there !

Moreover, let such as are "slothful to Venery " turn to the

Encyclopaedia again, Formica Rufa, symptoms 163 and
166, and
learn how homceopathically "Spirit" of the busy ant
the
promises to correct such shamefnl indolence. Now open Her-
ing's " Guiding Symptoms," Vol. V, p. 347. Clinical symptoms
again: It, this same "Spirit" and potentized at that, has cured
 '

i < >6 A Fragment in re Formica Rufcu

11
Seminal emissions." " Weakness of sexual organ-." (Isn't
it hard to kick against the prick.- I

"It provoketh urine even to admiration." says Dr. John

French, and, lo one of the modern provers records this:
!

"Double the quantity of urine, even at night (third day.'; in-

creased for two or three day- " surely, an increase " even to —
admiration;" and, dear reader, in those days to admire meant to
wi nder.
A.S for deafness, we have no direct hint in the Encyclopedia,
but following other symptoms indicating Rufa, Hering has
cured " Difficult hearing; deafness " with this remedy.
" It also helpeth the eyes that have the film growing over

them," avereth Dr. John French; and, sure enough one of our !

modern provers says " Appearance when looking at objects as if

:

seen through mist." Clinically, Hering records " Dimness of ;

sight." "Nebula; leucoma; pterygium."

Really, thou that wert John French, it seemeth unto me that
thou didst testify to the truth in thine " Art of Distillation;'
"
and at no distant day I will reprint thine " Anatomy of Gold
for modern eyes to read. " But, thou that wert John French,

hast met thy revered Master in the Beyond ? By the term

" anatomy of gold " I know thou wert a Paracelsian: hast met
him There f
moderns will know what the " anatomy of gold "
How many
means? Paracelsus "uses common words in new signification,
without giving any indication of the change which he in-
duced. Thus anatomy^ in the writings of Paracelsus, signifies
not the dissection of dead animals to determine their structure,
but means the nature, force and magical d
it >n of a

thing Then, reader, keep an eve open for Dr. French's

!
;;:

natomy of gold" it will —

make a neat little addendum to
1 1. Burnett's instructive booklet on the metal th ties Per-
»n by the lust for it.

Thus far went the MS. from the >ut while it was slum-

bering th lightful English natural >k led me to try •

nic acid as a remedy in a case of pulmonary tub s —

m vain !

But here is the hint that led me try it: " Possibly we ma;
use ants* r some other clever insects to find out the origin of the

Thomson's h
 '

A Fragment in re Formica Ru/a. 197

fatal parasite which devours the consumptive. Some reason

exists for imagining that this parasite has something to do with
the flora, for phthisis ceases at a certain altitude, and it is very
well known that the floras have a marked line of demarcation.
Up to a certain height certain flowers will grow, but not beyond,
just as if you had run a separating ditch round the mountain.
"With the flora the insects cease; whether the germ comes from
the vegetation or from the insect that frequents the vegetation
does not seem known. Still it would be worth while to make a

careful examination of the plant and insect life just at the

verge of the division. The bacillus may spring from a spore
starting from a plant or starting from an insect. Most of
England had an Alpine climate once, and some Alpine plants
have been stranded on the tops of our highest hills and remain
there to this day. In those icy times English lungs were prob-
ably free of disease. Has fo?'??iic acid ever been used for experi-
ments 071 bacilli ? It is it, and it is
the ant acid; they are full of
extracted and used for some purposes abroad. Perhaps its
strong odour is repellant to parasites."*
Ah, it was but a forlorn hope; and that patient sufferer did
not need the " spirit " of the ant to give her that cheerful courage
with which she trod the path to dusty Death.
To be sure, I snatched at a surmise and fruitlessly; but see
how suggestive Hering's observations are, as recorded in his
'
1
Guiding Symptoms
'
:

" Hoarseness with sore throat; tedious and long-lasting cough;

cough aggravated at night: cough with an aching in the fore-
head and a constrictive pain in the chest; all night dry throat,
woke her out of sleep; disagreeable sweat during the night,
awoke with clammy skin; general lassitude and prostration;
pleuritic pains; inner chest and lungs."
Is not this category, gathered at random, sadly significant of
work done in the territories that the fell destroyer notedly
affects; does it not give a strange impressiveness to the fancy of
the naturalist(who himself perished from a tubercular devasta-
tion) and to the suggestions regarding the sphere in which
Formica Rufa is operative ?
Reviewing at this late day the work of an idle hour in the
long-ago, the reflection comes to me that the truths in our patho-

*Jefferies. " Field and Hedgerow," p. 207. Longman's Green and Co.
1890.
198 Another Pioneer,

geneses are " surrounded with witnesses," amongst whom is he

that was Dr. John French, now sleeping in some long-forgotten
grave, but testifying from the pages that remain to also testify
to the workmanship of him that was Richard Cotes. Peace be
theirs and the blessing that attends all honest work !

S. A. J.
Ann Arbor, April igth.

ANOTHER PIONEER.
Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder Will you : please insert this biog-
raphy inyour journal. It should have found a place in my History of Pi-
oneers, but through an oversight was omitted. If you will publish it in

the Recorder it can be inserted in the book by the subscribers to it, and
it is an act of simple justice that Dr. Koch's name should be writ among

the pioneers.
Yours truly
T. L. Bradford, M. D.

Koch, August W., born March 27, 1805, in Wiirtemburg, Ger-

many. He attended a classical institution until his fourteenth
year, w hen he entered a pharmacy.
T
Here he remained four and
a half years, and then was enabled to pass an examination and
qualified as a druggist's assistant. He afterwards entered the
University of Tiibingen, in Wiirtemburg. Four years later he
passed both the University examination for the degree of M. D.
and that required by the State for his license to practice medi-
cine. In 1831 he began his practice as an allopathic physician
in the town of Ebingen. Later, his attention was directed to
Homoeopathy, and in i834-'5, becoming convinced of its truth
from his own personal investigations, he began its practice. In
1836, in pursuance of a call from some of the most influential lay-
men capital city of Wiirtemburg, he moved
of Stuttgart, the
thither, and was soon in enjoyment of a lucrative practice, be-
sides being instrumental in firmly establishing Homoeopathy in
that city. During his eleven years residence there he received
from the South German Homoeopathic Medical Society their
prize for the proving of Calcarea carbonicnm and Calc. canst.
le was the first to introduce
1 Iodine to the profession in the
treatment of croup, and published in [846 a book on Homoeop-
athy, besides being a faithful contributor to the medical journals
of the new school. This book was published in Mannheim, and
 Unsuccessful Results of Hasty Prescriptions. 199

a second edition was issued in

1852. He was made honorary
member Homoeopathic Institute of Paris shortly before
of the
leaving Europe. In 1S47 he came to this country and settled
in Philadelphia, where he continued to practice with success to
within two years of his death, which occurred on May 4. 1886.
He was a senior member of the American Institute of Homoeop-
athy, a member of the Philadelphia County and of the Pennsyl-
vania State Homoeopathic Society.
At a meeting held in Philadelphia in 1883, the following com-
munication was presented :

Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 18, 1882.

J. F. Cooper, M. D.:
Dear Doctor — Please have my name taken off the list of mem-
bers of the State Society. My increasing age prevents me from
enjoying any of the advantages of membership, and I therefore
wish to withdraw. I have wished to take this step for a couple
of years past, but it has always escaped my memory until the
year was too far advanced.
Yours Fraternally,
August W. Koch, M. D.
The Society,by vote, unanimously declined to accept this res-
ignation, and the Bureau of Organization, Registration and Sta-
tistics was instructed to prepare an amendment to the By-Laws
which will allow the Society to retain its veteran members free
from all pecuniary or other obligations.
Dr. Koch was intimately associated with Dr. Hering. Dr.
Hering died in his eighty-first year, Dr. Koch in his eighty-
second — {Trans. Penna. Horn. Med. Soc, 1886. Bibliotheca
Homceopathica. Kleinert. Baumgartner s Buchhandlung: Leipzig.
1862. P. 80.)

UNSUCCESSFUL RESULTS OF HASTY PRESCRIP-

TIONS.
By A. W. K. Choudhury, Calcutta.

Our experience is not in favor of hasty prescriptions, of course

with some exceptions. No one will observe this rule in a case
of immediate and impending danger. A case of cholera, acute
laryngitis, etc., requires immediate and hasty prescriptions, for
which we should have an especial stock of knowledge for each
especial disease and danger. A case of cobra bite does scarcely
allow time to consult books, be the treatment any pathy. —
200 Unsuccei A Ha .'-
riptions.

two insl rom my case-book. The first is one

of intermittent ft ver and the s< '.acute tonsillitis.
3 a female of five months, color fair,came under
itment August i when the child had been suffering
three days past. Fever fii menced after noon with
efore chill; chill severe with goose --kin: the
weat, slight; next day (second
paroxysm afternoon; morning the third day of illness while yet
heat continuing convulsions twice: visited after the fits, when
the body was found rather cold after perspiration after fits;
abdomen found distended and on percussion tympanitic: green-
ish yellow liquid stool the second day of illness, and one such
stool the morning I visited the child.
Mother had increase of milk and four or five days previously
had fever.
Treatment : Cham. 6, one dose given immediately. Mother's
milk not allowed to the child.
No more fits: apyrexia the next morning, when passed a
stool; found no distention and tympanitis of abdomen; child
rather cheerful. Given placebo.
Finding no further improvement, and as it is usual with
me not to change the medicine already given without giving it
a further trial with one or two more doses. I ,^ave the child
another dose of the same medicine on the 20th inst., but with no
better success. Given no medicine till the 23d. when on the
24th inst., her fever was very like that of Dr. Higgins quoted
by Dr. H. C. Allen treating of Nux vom. in his well kn
work, Intermittent Fevers, and which is as follows: Fever, parox-
ysm from 7 to 9 A. J/., chill commencing with k/;<

skin; sleep with groaning ', with dry cough, Jits dit

i?ig; coldness of hands and feet al! along; heat long lasting with
thirst; sweat some days absent; bowels open; abdomen tym-
panitic.
The child was given Nux vom. ;,<> one the 24th inst.

and another such dose the 27th, and was under treat: the
[stof September, [897, gettii Patient gradually im-
proved under placebo and recovered,
Chamomilla, being a hast} pi meet sue
and had to change it to
I A' 1. Here i give mj
thanks to Drs Higgins and II. C. A i hint.
The italicized symptoms above me to chang<
 Dr. Ad. L/ppe's Keynotes. 201

milla for Ntix vomica. The child recovered with two doses of
the latter medicine.
The next case was one of acute tonsillitis. A female of about
sixteen years came under treatment the 21st of August, 1897,
after she had been suffering for about a week. The following
are the symptoms and history of the case: Only the left tonsil
found red, swollen and painful on deglutition, aggravations of
symptoms at night, cough; no fever; bowels open, weather had
been rainy for some days.
The so-much- praised Baryta card, was tried here, two doses
given the first day of treatment and the following day two doses
more. But here it failed to produce the desired effect. Xow
without any further waste of time I gave her Belladonna, an-
other powerful remedy to quell such an inflammation. The red-
ness was very like that of Belladonna. Five doses of Belladojina
6 cured her.
The site of the inflammation (left side) caused me to remem-
ber Lachesis, but as I could not make out any characteristic
symptoms of the drug in the patient I withheld that remedy.
The above two cases will suffice to show how hasty prescrip-
tions meet failure. My first, but hasty prescriptions, were not
successful, though the second ones were. My patients recovered,
yet I am not so happy as I would have been if I could have
cured them with the first prescription.

SOME OF DR. AD. LIPPE'S KEYNOTES.

By Thomas Lindsley Bradford, M. D.
[N. B. — The symptoms in brackets were taken down in the class-room
and are not found in Dr. Lippe's work.]

Sulphur. Aversion to washing. (Especially in children who

become averse to it all at once.)
Sulph. Itch. Voluptuous itching and tingling, with aiming ''

after scratching, or with soreness after scratching. (Especially

around joints.)
Sulph. Headache every seven days. (See Sach. off., S/l.)
Sulph. Suitable for lean persons, especially if they walk
stooped: it will often serve to rouse the slumbering vitality if

the proper medicines have failed to produce a favorable effect,

especially in acute diseases. (See Opium in paralyzed condition
of nervous system when medicines fail to act.)
202 Dr. Ad. Lipped Keynotes.

Sulph acid. Bad effects from mechanical injuries, as from

bruises, falling, knocking, pressure of blunt instruments, and
contusions, especially in old women.
Symphytum Mechanical injuries, bad effects from blow
offic.

bruises, thrusts in the eye. pain from fractured bones. (When

whole eyeball is hurt as from a snowball or from a blow.)
-

Theridion cur. Every sound or shrill noise penetrates through

the whole body, especially into the teeth, causes vertigo, which
produces nausea. (Verified Br.) —
Thuja occid. Fixed ideas; as if a strange person were at his
side: as if the soul were separated from the body: as if the body,
especially the limbs, were of glass and would break easily; as if
a livinganimal were in the abdomen. (See Sabadilla). (Feels
as though another person were in bed beside him and this per-
son seems a part of himself. )

Thuja. Perspiration smelling of honey, sweetish on the un-

covered parts of the head, face, and hands, with dryness of the
covered parts, and of those on which one lies, mostly on first
going to sleep; better after rising. (Sweet perspiration Thuja —
is the only remedy.)

Thuja. The eye must be warmly covered; when uncovered it

pains at once, and it feels as if cold air were streaming out of the
head through the eye.
Thuja. Blowing from the nose of a large quantity of thick
green mucus mixed with pus and blood; later of dry, brown
scales with mucus, which comes from the frontal sinuses and
firmly adheres to the swollen upper portion of the nostrils.
Painful scabs in nostrils. (Blows scabs from the nose.)
Thuja. Heat and redness of the whole face, with fine nets of
veins, as if marbled.
Thuja. Toothache from drinking tea. (A great antidote to
te.i poisoning.)
Thuja. Blue swelling under tongue -ranula.
'Thuja. Bad effects from fit things, and onions. iSee Puis.)
Thuja. The fluid which he drinks falls with a noise into the
stomach. (Drink gurgles down into stomach — Apis, Cuprum.
Drink falls with one plash Thuja. — I

Thuja. Movement in the abdomen, as of something alive, as

if the abdominal muscles were pushed outward by the arm of a
foetUS, but painless.
Thuja. Flatulence as if an animal were crying in the abdo-
men.
 Dr. Ad. Lippe*s Keynotes. 203

Thuja. Diarrhoea; pale-yellow water is forcibly expelled

with much noisy discharge of wind. {Nat., Sulp., Aloes.')
TJi7ija. In the morning, immediately after breakfast, or in
the morning periodically returning diarrhoea, always at the same
hour. (Immediately after breakfast, 2C. potency proving.
Diarrhoea from coffee — Oxalic acid.)
Thuja. Stools oily or greasy. (Hard stools covered with
mucus — Caust.)
Thuja. Frequent urging to urinate and profuse secretion of
urine, especially towards and in the evening. (7. p. m. 5 to 10
A. M.)
Thuja. The urine foams;
the foam remains long on the urine.
(Lach., Lye.) Involuntary emission of urine; at night; when
coughing; in drops after having urinated (See Lach.)] (Caust.)
The bladder and rectum feel paralyzed, having no power to
expel. (See Clematis erecta.)
Ihuja. (Swelling, induration and inflammation of prostate
gland —
Puis, and Thuja are the two important remedies.)
Thuja. (Left testicle drawn up. See also Calc, Crot. tig.,

Zinc. Right testicle drawn up —

Clematis, Puis.)
Thuja. Fig warts. Sycotic excrescences on the frsenulum and
on the glans; they ooze especially during the new moon. Swell-
ing of prepuce; inflammation of glans. (Fig warts on penis.
In one case in which the glans and inside of prepuce was liter-
ally covered with small fig warts with long necks Thuja —
cured. Br.)
Thuja. Gonorrhoea, watery, copious discharge from the
urethra. Stitches in urethra with urging to urinate. Sensa-
tion as if a drop were running through the urethra. (Erec-
tions at night preventing sleep.)
Thuja. During the evening cough after lying down, the ex-
pectoration becomes loose; easier when he turns from the left to
the right side. (In cough from lying down, with great expec-
toration — loose — Nux. v. is the most important, Thuja,
next )

Thuja. Blue color of the skin on the clavicle. (The only

remedy.)
Thuja. Burning extending from the small of the back to be-
tween the shoulder blades. (Spinal disease.)
Thuja. Toe nails crippled, brittle. (In horses with crippled
204 Dr. Ad. Lippe's Keynotes.

and brittle feet, onions rubbed on the hoof, or Thuja or All.

cepa given
Thuja. Diseases of tea-tasters.
Thuja. Heat in a. m. and chills in p. M. (The only remedy. |

Thuja. Perspiration on the parts of the body which are un-

covered, with dry heat of the covered parts. (Szl. opposite. I

Thuja. Perspiration at times oily or fetid, or smelling sweet

like honey. (See Try.)
Thuja. (Seed warts on hands.)
Thuja. Pustules, small -pox. I See Ant. t. Bcenninghausen
gave one dose of Thuja.)
Thuja. Condylomata, large, seedy, frequently on a pedicle.
'Thuja. Flat ulcers with bluish-white bottom. (Lard-like
bottom — Merc.)
Thuja. (Dr. C. W. Roberts of Scranton, Pa., says that 5 to 7
drops of Thuja tincture will control seminal emissions. Quoted
from The Recorder. Br.)
Veratriim alb. Coldness in and on the vertex, as if ice were
lying on it, and nausea; worse when rising
with icy-cold feet
from the bed; better from external pressure, and when bending
the head backwards. (Heat in vertex Snip., Calc.. Hyper, —
per/.)
Veratr. alb. Vomiting whenever he moves or drinks. (As
soon as drink is warm in stomach Phos.) —
Veratr. alb. After the least food vomiting and diarrhoea. Vio-
lent vomiting with continuous nausea; great prostration. Vom-
iting of food, of acid, bitter, foamy, white or yellow green
mucus; of black bile and blood. Vomiting with diarrhoea and
pressure in pit of stomach. (More pain in Veratr. than in Ars.
in cholera morbus. Br.)
Veratr. alb. Constipation, as from inactivity of the rectum:
stool hard, of too large a size. (See Dry. Riband-like, hard
stool in Veratr. II. X. Guernsey.)
Veratr. alb. Watery, greenish diarrhoea, mixed with Bakes,
(Inoffensive diarrhoea.) Blackish diarrhoea. Insensible dis-
charge of thin stool —
while passing flatulence Painting dur*
ing Stool. During stool, paleness of the face, cold sweat on the
forehead, burning at the anus,
Veratr. alb. Suppressed urinary secretion. (Characteristic of
•

chol<
/ eratr. alb. Sporadic and Asiatic cholera.
Veratr. alb. Color of skin blue, purple color and cold. The
 The Corallhim Cough Symptoms Compared. 205

elasticity of the skin is lost, the folds remain in the state into
which the skin has been pressed. (In cholera.)
Zincum met. The hair falls off from the vertex, causing com-
plete baldnes with sensation of soreness of the scalp.
Zinc. m. Headache from drinking even small quantities of
w ine.
T
(Intoxication from small quantity of wine — Coniiun.)
Zinc. Tearing and sore pain in facial bones. (In improper
771.

use of magnets. Dr. Lippe told of a case where a woman had

such pain in face and it proved to be from false teeth having a
zinc plate. Br.)
Zinc. 771. Bluish herpes in the throat after suppressed gonor-
rhoea.
Zi7ic. m. Palpitation of the heart; irregular beats of the
heart; occasionally one violent thrust of the heart.

THE CORALLIUM COUGH SYMPTOMS COMPARED.

By T. C. Duncan, M. D.

A study of Coral carries us into deep water. What is the cura-

tive agent? How does it cure a cough? The prevalence of
whooping cough just now adds to the interest, even if it does not
meet the present genius epidemicus as well as Bellado7i7ia or Gel-
semiunt, Aconite or Arnica. We are told that the red coral of
commerce (Corrallium rubrum) is a Mediterranean species, and
occurs principally at a depth of from five to six fathoms.
The sclero basis is unjointed, more
or less branched and
densely calcareous. It pink color and finely
is of a red or
grooved upon its surface. The calcareous axis is covered with
bright red caenosaecal crusts or cortex which is studded by the
apertures for the polypes.
Dunglison says of Coralline: "It contains gelatin, albumen,
chloride of sodium, phosphate, carbonate and sulphate of lime
(not carbonate of urine as the types had it in March number —
although that may not be so very far wrong after all), carbonate
of magnesium, silica, oxide of iron and a coloring principle. It
was once used as a vermifuge, but is not now employed."
Among the Romans branches of coral were hung around chil-
dren's necks to preserve them from danger, and the substances
had many medicinal virtues attributed to it. In Italy to-day it
is worn by women as a cure for sterilitv. It is the cou^h that
206 The Corallium Cough Symptoms Compared.

interests us, however. The coral gives us, according to Dr. Meli-
chen's provings (Allen's Encyclopedia), some symptoms of
value :

i. On deep inspiration, it seems as though icy cold air were

"

streaming through the air passages, with some provocation to

cough, and much difficult hawking of bronchial mucus in the
morning."
The mucus prevents the rapid transpiration that keeps this
surface.
r
2."I ery painful cough; it seems as though a stone were ly-
ing on the diaphragm; it pressed downward and caused a violent
pressive pain in the chest beneath the sternum, thence the pain
extended to the scapula (spinal); it gradually subsided as the
cough was relieved."
3.
" Expectoration of yellow purulent-like mucus" that
shows rapid degeneration of the transuded corpuscles. If coral
is composed chiefly of carbonate of lime {Calcarea carbonica) and

oxide of iron it would be of interest to compare their cough

symptoms.
Calcarea has no respiratory symptom like Xo. 1. Although a

variety of coughs are recorded under Ca/c, none seem painful.

It has however, pressure between the shoulder blades and many
other spinal symptoms, affecting the respiration and cough. The
expectoration is "mucus" and often "bloody."

Turning now to Ferrum, we do not find a similar respiratory

symptom. The cough does not seem especially painful and the
expectoration is "white purulent," "greenish purulent,"
" frothy, streaked with blood."
Comparing Calcarea phosphoricum we find no such sensation
on breathing. The cough does not seem especially painful and
is dry. The larynx seems chiefly affected.
Calcium sulphate does not have a similar respiratory symptom.
Its cough does not seem painful, but the expectoration is quite
similar, and it has the scapular pain.
Magnesia carbonica (Carbonate of Magnesium) has no similar
respiratory symptom; its cough is not painful, and the expector-
ation seems to come chiefly from the pharynx.
Silicea is tin- last remedy we will compare with the Coral. We

do not find a similar respiratory symptom. There is

in-" COUgh and the expectoration is yellow purulent, and ti:

he scapular pain. There is a little natural history bear-

 Spasmodic Croup. 207

ing on this question. "Coral is found attached to rocks em-

bedded in a muddy which it nourishes more than in
sea bottom, in
a clear or sandy bed. The amount of silica must be very slight.
'

'

Corrallium rubrum must be chiefly a Carbonate of Lime, with

Iron. The fact that Teste found it similar to Causticum sends us
off on another comparative hunt. The
respiratory symptoms are
more spasmodic, the cough is " racking," the expectoration is
scanty, and the chest pains seem largely "stitches." We must
conclude from these comparisons that Coral has a distinct patho-
genesis.

SPASMODIC CROUP.
By T. C. Duncan, M. D., Chicago.
The experience of a " Country Doctor " recalls
my experience
with his Lobelia in croup. It was many years ago in March,
cold and wet a spelling school two miles away was the at-
;

traction. Wet feet developed a hoarseness that prevented spell-

ing. The croupal cough who induced the
frightened a neighbor,
youth he might die on the way back
to stay with him, "for
home " a hot steam bath and a Lobelia emetic was the effectual
treatment that left a little weakness and cough next day.
Since then "a Lobelia emetic" with its terrific retching has
never been attractive. Swallowing shot, a hot or cold cloth to
the throat were popular expedients until the natural history of
the disease was learned and the power of the similar remedy.
What is spasmodic croup? It is an inflammation of the trachea
with a spasm. It begins as a pharyngitis and laryngitis and
may continue on as a bronchitis.
The indication is to control the inflamation that provokes the
spasm. It is senseless to vomit ; it is wiser to apply a com-
press if the patient can be kept away from the air for two or
three days. It is wisest to select a remedy that will stop the
inflammation and head off the disease from traveling on down.
Aconite corresponds usually and relieves completely. The
second night the sudden choking may need Spo?igia and the
may be wiped out by Hepar. That
resultant bronchial catarrh
will manage worst cases of spasmodic croup or inflammatory
tracheitis. True Croup pseudo-membraneous croup, cannot be
cured so promptly. It plows deeper.
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POINTS PICKED FROM THE TRANSACTIONS OF

THE THIRTY-THIRD SESSION OF THE HO-
MCEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Colonel H. M. Boies, Ad lress of Welcome opens the book :

"I have no patience with any of my best friends of the old

school who refuse to consult with a homoeopath," and per contra.
••
While I believe in the homoeopathic theory of therapeutics I

do not believe that it is of universal application. If steam

is necessary, if hydropathy is neces-
electricity is necessary, or if
sar) . u^e it whether you
to save the patientapply homoeopathy, ;

allopathy, steamopathy, hydropathy, or whatever you apply,

save your patients that is what we want you
; to do." And
yet, like the chorus in the Pirates of Penzance, it seems to us
that "there is a fallacy somewheres if we could only see it."
Probably it lurks in the placing of the hand-maidens of the
great Law of Therapeutics in the same category with the Law
itself. But the welcome was cordial and genial.

President Miller Said :

Asepsis Yes, yes, because it harmonizes with that more

!

than secondary adjunct to surgical procedure, materia medica.

We owe it to the advancement and enhancement of Hahne-
mann's art not to depart an inch from the principles he adjusted
to the care of the sick; and. despite all the theories of germ
cause, etc., every one of you will attest that the homoeopathic
remedies, with cleanliness and care, are sufficient. Theengi
ing upon our operative course the malodorous destroyers of an
enemy \\ I nee is largely if not entirely imaginative
lught more d listinctive title than
the departure from I the nil-

peutic application. This should not be. The f every

uphold in thai which h
;
I us the
,\ our competitors in the healin;
Tin's sake, but I

the sim] aishing

ility with which th<

and- royers are brought to yom

 The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania. 209

but emphasize what I have said with regard to the necessity for
ignoring all of them in favor of pure water and pure homoeo-
pathy."
Compulsory Vaccination.
President Miller also made this ringing declaration, to which
"
every freeman should shout, " Amen !

11
1 would consider that I was careless of the interests of my
constituency if I did not call your attention to the compulsory
vaccination laws new on the statute-book of this State. As an
individual and representative of a class growing every day I

appeal to your sense of justice, and from that sense to an act of

common right, to place yourselves on record as opposed to that
unqualified outrage. You recognize that you would have the
same right to demand of the State that its citizens should be
compelled to patronize homoeopathy, seeing that it is superior
to any other healing method, and thereby save the citizens'
lives. Neither you nor the State would tolerate for a moment
such an arbitrary enactment. Yet do you tolerate, and some of
you encourage, the very same criminality, with a penalty at-
tached that is contrary to all constitutional law. Children are
deprived of the privilege of State education, not because they
have committed an overt act against the State, but because they
run one chance in 100,000 of contracting contagious disease.
How unjust ! How shamefully barbarous ! How un-American
that is ! Of
the tyrannical rules for the government of
all

citizenship borrowed from the old world, not one is so steeped

in the misery of debauchery as that. Whatever adverse action
you may be impelled to take, you can feel encouraged by the
fact that several States in the West have declared the compul-
sory vaccination law unconstitutional. I beg of you, then, to

give this question your careful consideration. Even if you

favor vaccination individually, let that keen sense of love of
liberty guide you to grant to the conscientiously opposed the
liberty of their convictions. Is that asking too much ?
"

Liability to Sprains.

In a discussion Dr. Joseph E. Jones said :

" Let me give you
another little practical hint. Early in my life I was subject to
sprains of my ankle. If I stepped suddenly from my carriage I
would sprain my ankle on the slightest provocation. It seemed
incomprehensible how easy a thing it was to hurt myself, so
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that I would have to sit down on the curbstone to get my

equilibrium. After doing that I would resprain my ankle day
after day.week after week, on the slightest provocation, and it
became exceedingly annoying. But I soon found if I took a
dose of Rhus fox,. 3 after spraining my ankle it would not recur.
And there is the proof of the power of Homoeopathy, even in
the case of a sprained ankle."

Milk Sugar in Infants' Foods.

By Dr. T. E. Parker: "Milk-sugar
milk that is not in
heated will set up a while cane-sugar
lactic-acid fermentation,
will set up alcoholic fermentation. Cane-sugar is not as-
similated, but acts as a reserve, whereas milk-sugar is utilized
in the economy of nutrition. Therefore, on physiological as
well as on bacteriological grounds, we are justified in using
the same animal sugar as is found in the infant's natural food.''

A Possible Cause of Homoeopathic Failure.

Dr. Edward M. Gramm "There

is a thought that has
:

struck me paper which has not been men-

in the reading of this
tioned. It is this Year after year we have all sorts of agents
:

coming into our offices, and each one underbids the other in
medicines, triturates and tablets, and we are apt to be led into
purchasing medicines from firms who have no idea and who
exercise no care in keeping their medicines pure. We have
firms w ho make tablets at a very low figure, and they are pur-
r

chased by our physicians by the thousands. These firms have

been in the business of mixing crude medicines for years, and
they simply see a lucrative field open to them for making tablets
out of homoeopathic preparations they have no idea of keeping
;

the drugs pure, and I believe that the market value of drugs
has been responsible for many failures to obtain results in pre-
scribing."
A Nitric Acid Case.

By Dr. Mohr: "This was a man who had a great deal of

trouble with vomiting and constipation, with occasional attacks
of diarrhoea and some haemorrhage from the bowels. He was
treated for some months for gastralgia ; he was treated for some
years for constipation, and occasionally he was treated for diar-
rhoea, particularly when it was associated with haemorrhage and
led to considerable depletion but unfortunately this man had
;
 The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania. 211

never been examined physically, and I was astonished at that,

because he had such violent pains in the region of the stomach
and the hepatic region. An examination revealed a cancer of
the liver. He did suffer the tortures of the damned with that
stomach and liver he could not sleep, he could not take
;

nourishment without causing a great deal of pain; and mostly

followed by vomiting, so that he became very much emaciated
and anaemic. I will tell you what Nitric acid in that third
decimal dilution did. It stopped his pain in the liver and
stomach, it stopped his vomiting, it stopped his constipa-
tion, he had movements from the bowels every few days, quite
well formed, and that man absolutely died of a cancer cachexia,
without suffering one hour's pain after he got that Nitric acid."

Cimicifuga in Obstetrics.
The following is one of several cases given by Dr Pearl Starr
illustrating the great use of Cimicifuga in obstetrics. " Fifth
confinement previous ones had been very difficult, and anaes-
;

thetics and instruments used. With her first child she was
badly torn, and not repaired. I first saw her when called to at-
tend her with her fourth child. Her suffering was severe.
Anaesthetics were used in the later stages —
enough to stupefy ;

at no time was she unconscious. Delivery accomplished with

instruments. The babe weighed ten pounds. In her fifth preg-
nancy she was carefully watched, and during the last two
months was given Ci?nicifuga, morning and night. Labor was
regular lasted twelve or thirteen hours
; neither anaesthetics
;

nor the instruments were needed, although it was a case of dry

birth, and the babe weighed nine pounds."

Fragmenta.
By Dr. S. C. Middleton : "Absinthium has often brought
more or less sleep in typhoid fever when in that serious disease
wakefulness has been a prominent and menacing symptom, due
perhaps to nervous exhaustion and hyperaemia of the brain.
So also has absinthium proved useful in allaying the nervous-
ness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children when other drugs
have either failed or not been indicated."
"Antipyrin. —
Some one a long while since, in Boericke's
Recorder, advised the use of this drug, in the 6x trituration,
in high and apparently dangerous temperatures, and stated that
a reduction of the heat would surelv follow. This result has
2 12 The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania,

followed its my hands in all the instances in which it was

use in
applied. Ihave never used antipyrin in massive doses, but
rarely in the above potency, in which form it can scarcely be said
to do harm on the contrary, benefit followed."
;

''
Hyosciamine Hydrobrom. —
This drug is used largely, I be-
lieve, by the old school in insomnia of the insane. It is a

powerful poison. It has never proven very satisfactory in my

hands for sleeplessness. It should be used with great care.

The 3X trit. has been very useful in nervous excitement and a
state bordering on paralysis agitans, after the excessive use of
alcohol, tobacco, etc. In highly excitable or nervous children
who are easily frightened it has been of service. I have used it
in dilution also much higher than the 3X."
11
Berb. vulg. has often relieved " backache " where it is not
always easy to ascertain whether the trouble may be congestion
of the kidneys or a muscular e?mui. This was one of the late
Dr. McClatchey's remedies for that purpose."

Cina Categories.
By Dr. Charles Moh, Cina patients are grouped in two classes:
" First, the cachectic. Children, and even adults, who may
have had worms or intermittenttent fever, who invariably com-
plain of pains in the belly, whose abdominal organs are deranged
functionally, and who suffer nevously, as do those whose in-
testines are actually infested with worms."
"Second, the anaemic. Children (and adults, again, who )

have suffered from indigestion and 11011 assimilation ot food, or

have become anaemic from some acute illness, especially when
they suffer much with headache, vetrigo, and neuralgia."
" Now, in these two classes we will find many patients who

have specialized diseases of the visual, nervous, respiratory,

digestive and sexual systems, and I may profitably mention
some with the leading characteristics calling for the administra-
tion of cina ix to 6x. * * *
" In conclusion, I may remark that after Aconite in nervous
phenomena accompanying colds, after Digitalis and Belladonna
in asthenopia, after Drvsera and Antimonium tartaricum in respi-
ratory affections, after Antimonium crudum and Cuprum in
gastric and intestinal derangements, Cina should always be con-
sidered,if medicinal treatment is necessary after these di
have been used.
 Homoeopathic Medical Society of New York, 213

TRANSACTIONS OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDI-

CAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. FORTY-
SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING.
Plenty of pickings in this number for the specialists, but
rather barren for the general practitioneer. Dr. W. H. Sweeting,
of Savannah, N. Y., has the following to say of the treat-
ment of

Diphtheria :

" My list of remedial agents is not long. First in importance

is mercurius biniodide. I used to wait before giving it

until patches appeared, but now I commence at once to give

the 3X trituration in doses of from one to three grains, accord-
ing to the age of the patient, repeated every two or three hours
as the urgency of the case may require."
"In alternation with mercurius I usually give phytolacca
decandra, 2x."
I prepare my solution of phytolacca for the patient's use by
11

putting twenty drops of the dilution into half a glass of water.

I direct the nurse to give a teaspoonful, more or less, as re-
quired by the age of the patient, every two hours."
"At the first intimation of diphtheritic croup I add to the
above prescription kali bichromicum as an intercurrent remedy."
11
I prepare my solution of kali by putting a sufficient
quantity of the 2x trit. into water to change the water to a light
straw color. I direct that it be given in doses of one-half to
two teaspoonfuls according to the age, and the dose repeated
every one, two or three hours as needed. I believe I have
saved many lives by the timely administration of kali bichro-
micum.
"These three remedies, mercurius, phytolacca and kali bi,

are my sheet anchors in diphtheria. Of course,the case did

if

not progress favorably, and I saw clearly indications for other

remedies, I should use them."
"I have frequently given apis mel. 2x trit. when there was
great oedema. I have found gelsemium especially helpful
for the paralysis that occasionally appears during or after an
attack."
214 Homieopathic Medical Society of New York.

"The local treatment I employ is very simple, but in my

humble opinion exceedingly simply in
beneficial. It consists
spraying the throat hourly and thoroughly with listerine. I use

full strength in malignant cases and half or quarter strength in

mild cases."
"I never use a swab or other instrument in the throat for
detaching the membrane, believing that such interference
aggravates the disease."
"I give my patients all the milk they will drink, also allow
other liquid nourishment. Except in extreme cases, I do not
use stimulants."
" I see to it that the patient has plenty of fresh, moderately
warm air."
11
Briefly given, this is the treatment I have employed in
diphtheria. Had I not been very successful in curing my
patients could not have been induced to write a paper upon
I

the treatment of a disease characterized by so large a percentage

of deaths as diphtheria."
It is refreshing to read a paper on the treatment of diphtheria
in which "antitoxin" is ignored.

Senecio Aureus in Puerperal Mania.

The following interesting case is by Dr. Selden H. Talcott,
chief of the great Middletown, N. Y., Asylum for the Insane.
11
Every homoeopathic remedy has its individual sphere of ac-
tion. Each drug exerts its inherent and peculiar influence upon
the human system. Many
of the proven remedies produce simi-
lar effects in a generalway, but in spite of this fact each drug
has its own face, and form, and power. The efficacy of a remedy
depends largely upon its selection and application. If the symp-
toms of disease are matched accurately by a drug whose proven
symptoms correspond precisely with those of the case in ques-
tion then the results are prompt and satisfactory."
"It is not often that we are called upon to use the remedy
known as Seiucio aureus for the cure of insanity, but one patient,
who came under our care and observation last year, was promptly
relieved by the administration of this drug. The case was as
follows:"
" Number in our record book, 4723. The patient was a female;
age, 26] married; two children: was admitted to the Middletown
State Homoeopathic Hospital June 17th, [896. This patient was
 Homoeopathic Medical Society of'New York. 215

suffering with her first attack of insanity, and it came on sud-

denly. There was no history of insanity in the family of either
her father or mother. Her friends stated that she had worried
continuously during her pregnancy, for fear that the coming
child might be born dead, as her first one had been. The child
was born June 8th; it was strong and healthy. June 17th, as
above stated, she was admitted to the Hospital. When admitted
she was in a condition of very"violent acute mania. She looked
like a strong and healthy woman physically; that is, she was
large and portly, but of flabby texture. She was very much
excited mentally, and emotional to the hysterical degree. Her
temperature was 103 her pulse 112, and respiration 28. During
,

the three months following admission she improved but slightly

in a physical way; her maniacal excitement continued without
abatement, and she was much disturbed all the time. At one
time her temperature was 105 but usually it ranged about 103
, .

She took the usual remedies, such as aconite, baptisia, bella-

donna, hyoscyamus, pulsatilla, and stramonium, as they seemed
to be indicated, but she made no mental improvement. We do
not often see a patient remain so much excited for so long a time
after childbirth. While such cases may not recover in several
months, the symptoms usually subside, in part at least, after two
or three months of careful treatment. In this case the bodily
temperature remained high; the patient was very active physi-
cally, and the mental state was that of a wild, violent, and almost
uncontrollable person. We ascertained at last that the lochia had
subsided suddenly after childbirth, and that the menstrual flux
had failed to appear. On account of the amenorrhcea, coupled
with a continued mental excitement, severe pain in the head,
great nervous irritability and sleeplessness, and hysterical ere-
thism, we gave her Senecio aureus in the third decimal dilution,
drop doses every two hours. She took the first dose of Senecio
on the fifteenth day of September. In less than three days she
was improved, and on the 21st the record states that she "seems
more quiet and rational than at any time." On the 24th the
case-book shows that she is "improving everyday." On the
26th "appears more rational; sleeps well." She menstruated in
October for the first time in several months. On the 20th of Oc-
tober she seemed to be free from delusions and well balanced in
mind, but was not very strong in body. She made slow progress
in the line of physical recuperation, and though fat and healthy
216 Verboia Hast at a i)i Epilepsy*

in appearance she was unable for many weeks to endure the fa-
tigues of ordinary occupation. Such weakness of the entire
bodily system sometimes follows attacks of severe maniacal ex-
citement.
In response to the wishes of her friends, we allowed her to
return home on a thirty days' parole. She was comfortable for
a short time after reaching home, and then relapsed, returning
to us on the seventeenth of November. At that time she was
excited, violent and destructive. This condition seemed to be
partially relieved by the use of belladonna, but improvement not
being as complete as desirable, we again gave Se?iecio aureus.
From this time she improved rapidly, both physically and men-
tally. She menstruated naturally, and all the physical and
mental functions were again performed in a normal manner. The
patient was allowed to return to her home on the 15th day of
February, 1897 ( on a thirty days' parole), and was discharged
recovered March 17th, 1897. Since that time she has remained
in good health, both physically and mentally.
While the proving of Senecio is not very elaborate, and while
there are but few mental symptoms recorded, we find enough to
lead us sometimes to the use of this drug. It seems to have a

place of action midway between the fierce, hot, pugilistic mental

state oi Belladonna, and the mild, tearful, and changeable condi-
tion of Pulsatilla. Recovery from puerperal mania is seldom
effected unless the menstrual function is re established, and in
attaining this desirable end the efficacy of Senecio aureus may
be more fully recognized in the future.

Cancer on the Increase.

Dr. J. M. Lee, while doubting the efficacy of internal medica-
tion, said: "Nevertheless, the workers in this field should not
cease to apply their old remedies or search for new ones; cancer
ison the increase, and no greater service can be done the public
or profession than to discover a successful medical treatment."

VERBENA HASTATA IN EPILEPSY.

By J. N. White, M. D., Queen City, Texas.
May 1 st, [897, I years old brought me for
had a boy five

treatment and also diagnosis. had fir^t passed through a

IK-
severe attack of whooping cough. It had been six weeks since

the disease had first come on. At this time he began to develop
 Verbena Hastata in Epilepsy. 217

symptoms of epilepsy; and it was for these peculiar spells they

brought the boy to me.
Being out of town at the time, I did not see him, but a neigh-
boring physician who was called to see him during an attack
told me it lasted half an hour or more, and was a very severe
epileptic fit.

Word was me to come out and see him the next day,
left for

which I and found he had twelve of these paroxysms dur-

did,
ing the last twenty-four hours. The patient had always been
very healthy up to the time he had had whooping cough, but
from close inquiry I found a history of epilepsy on the mother's
side of family.I cleaned out the alimentary canal with chola-

gogues, and tonicked him up and put him on Solatium Caro-

linense with sulfonal to control and quiet the nerves. I tested
these remedies for a month. found the sulfonal a fine thing
I

to control the paroxysms, but if the Solatium did any good I

could not tell it. Each time I would withdraw the sulfonal the
spells would return while I had him on the above.
After this I tried the bromides thoroughly without any per-
manent effect. I tried them about three months.
At this stage, the parents getting anxious. I suggested con-
sultation, and the physician above referred to was called in the
case. He suggested oxide zinc alternated with Hyoscyamus and
Cannabis Indica, with heavy purges of calomel once a week.
We kept him on this for a month or longer without any im-
provement. I told my friend (the Doctor) that when he became
satisfied with the zinc treatment I wanted to try another Eclec-
tic remedy. (The Doctor was an Allopath.) He was perfectly
willing, and I put him on Verbena hastata, 12 minims every four
hours, skipping the dose at midnight. After we both took the
case we decided, as there were no curative properties in the sul-
fonal, we would drop it, and not use anything to control the
paroxysms, and consequently the boy seemed to get worse to the
parents, as it would have several falling spells a day. From the
first dose of the Verbena hastata the boy began to improve. He
would have contractions of the muscles of the arms and legs
and look wild for a minute or more for the first week, but after
that he never had another symptom. We kept him on the med-
icine, as above, for six weeks, and now he takes twelve drops
three times a day.
He has not had any symptom in over two months, and all that
2i8 / 'ace illation Before the German Diet
wild vacant look is gone, and he plays, eats, sleeps, etc., as if

he had never been troubled with epilepsy.

I have another case on treatment, but it is too early to report
on it.
I shall keep the boy on treatment for at least six months
longer. I stopped the medicine one week about a month ago,

to see if there were any permanent effects. He had no symp-

toms. But I think best to continue for some time yet.
Let's have some more reports on Verbena hastata in epilepsy.
— Eclectic Journal.

THE SUBJECT OF VACCINATION BEFORE THE

GERMAN DIET.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder, from the Horn. Monat-
blattcr, April, 1898.

This subject was again brought forward on January 28. Rep-

resentative Reisshaus interrogated the Secretary of the Interior
on this subject. On May 8th, 1896, the Diet had resolved that
a commission should be appointed consisting of friends and of
opponents of vaccination, that these should investigate the ob-
jections made to vaccination and report to the Diet; but the
Federal Council had non-concurred in this resolution and dropped
it into the waste paper basket. Instead of this proposition, the
Federal Council had resolved to order an investigation Whether, :

and how far, " according to the latest experience and investiga-
tions," a revision or a supplement to the statutes concerning vac-
cination might seem to be indicated ?

Representative Reisshaus interrogated the secretary, whether

in this official investigation experts opposed to vaccination
w ould also receive a hearing?
T

The answer of the secretary, representing the Government

ended with the declaration that the federated Governments were
resolved to maintain vaccination without regard to any scientific
discussions.
Prof. Dr. Foerster, a member of the Diet, makes the follow-
ix
in- very appropriate criticism in the " ftnp/geguer (*' The op-

ponent of vaccination "): " It is thus that the demands of the

people which are ever becoming more urgent as to a revision, I.

c an abrogation of the statute on vaccination of I

s ;.}, are set

at naught. And even though a man should speak with a

trumpet and with the tongues of angels it would avail nothing.
" The Diet, the Government and the Imperial Hoard of Health
 Hoynceopathy and the University of Munich. 219

are under an accusation. The Diet has determined to fulfil the

demand of the people. The Government, which is one of the
accused persons, turns to the Imperial Board of Health, its
counselor, and at the same time, another accused party. This
board, which is thus constituted an expert, declares everything
and the Government, a judge in its own cause, decides:
is all right,

Refused! there will be no change. But to show our good '

Will we will inquire whether the manner of vaccination may be

'

somewhat improved. And the end of the matter is, that noth-
ing will be done. We shall only advance in this matter, when
the popular representatives shall be obligated by the electors in
a binding manner to take charge of this matter. The people
can impose this obligation on the candidates of any party.
This must be followed by renewed petitions. Eventually we
are bound to succeed."

HOMOEOPATHY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF

MUNICH.
From the Horn. Monatsblcztter, April, 1898.

The Finance Committee of the Bavarian Diet lately discussed

Homoeopathy. Representative Landmann moved that a Chair
of Homoeopathy be established in the University of Munich.
This resolution was heartily seconded by Dr. Dallas, the chair-
man of the Committee on Worship; Dr. Orterer, the chair-
man of the Finance Committee, also desired a thorough con-
sideration of this resolution by the Government. But Dr. V.
Landmann, the secretary of Worship, responded that the Uni-
versity, on being questioned, did not see any 7ieed of such a chair, be-
cause as it aver7ed Homoeopathy is no science! Neverthe- !

less he would keep the matter in mind.

The Muenchner medizinische Wochenschrift from which we ex-
cerpt these facts, remarks: " There is no doubt that the Univer-
sity will also in future occupy this repellant attitude."
Of course! Homoeopathy cannot be a scientific curative
method, since it is not recognized as such by the University.
What is it that Goethe says about this?
These traits will prove men learned !

Whate'er you do not touch, is miles away !

Whate'er you do not grasp, does not exist at all ;

What you do not compute, that is not true.

What you don't weigh, that has no weight for you,
What does not bear your stamp, you think is valueless !
2 20 Excoriations in Infants*

Luckily! the existence of Homoeopathy does not depend on

the favor or disfavor of these honorable professors. It will con-
tinue when they shall have been forgotten, and, sooner or later,
it will conquer its rights, if needs be, even by decapitating some

of these pig-tailed pashas.

Truth can bear to wait !
— It is not truth, but they who make
it wait, who suffer by the delay !

EXCORIATIONS IN INFANTS.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from Med. Monatsh. fucr.
Horn., April, 1898.
This ailment as found either where there are folds in the skin,
or it may extend over a large part of the skin. In the former
case it is caused by perspiration and friction. In the second case
the excoriation consists more in an inflammation of the skin
caused by the action of the sharp urine; in these cases there is
an actual eruption in the form of small hnmid pustules.
The most frequent cause is neglect in cleanliness, when urine,
perspiration and dirt are not removed by frequent ablutions; but
it may also be caused, or at least much favored, by internal causes,

especially where it extends all over the body making it look raw.
This may be caused by the use of food sharp in taste and
strongly spiced, and of spirituous beverages either in the nurs-
ing mother or in the nurse. Unhealthy fluids in the body may
also be a cause. Scrofula especially predisposes to it.

In itself, the ailment is not dangerous, except when the harm-

ful causes continue to act, in w hich
T
case ichorous sores may be
formed.
First of all, the causes of the excoriation must be removed.
Cleanliness and frequent ablutions cannot be sufficiently in-
sisted on. The infant must not be allowed to remain lying in
diapers wet with urine. Daily baths in lukewarm water (also in
decoction of marsh-mallows, milk or bran-water) are excellent.
The infant should be carefully dried, of course without friction.
The starch used for strewing on the excoriated places should be
starch made from wheat, not potato-starch.
Homoeopathic writers agree that Chamoilla 4 D. stands first as y

a remedy, as soon as excoriation is discovered, unless the ailment

has arisen from the abuse of chamomile tea with the mother and
the child, in such cases [gnatia amara 6 I), or Pulsatilla 4 I), are
 1

MiseelIan ies. 22

indicated. If the infant has a yellowish color and the excoriated

spots look red, extending even to behind the ears Mercurius vivus
will cuie; sometimes after four or five days Tinctura sulphuris
or Carbo veget. will have to be used. Hartmann, when he
Dr.
found Mercurius sol. insufficient, would after a week had elapsed,
use with striking effect Lycopodium 10 D. If the excoriation is
caused by a nettle rash, Sulphur or Graphite 10 D. is to be pre-
ferred to Lycopodium. In many cases, when Ti7ict. sulph. is in-
sufficient, Silicea may be given.
Riickert in his works recommends the following remedies, giv-
ing the proximate indictations:
Chamomilla 4 D. given internally and also in a weak infusion
for ablution is recommended by Dr. Gross. But if the abuse of
Chamomile-tea was the cause, then Iguatia and Pulsatilla 10 D.
Lycopodium cured excoriations on the genitals and on the
inner side of the thighs, forming long, flat sores, with a fatty
appearance at the top and with inflamed borders, simultane-
ously with a humid scald of the head.
Sulphur ( Tinct.) one to two doses cures excoriations with in-
fants, where the skin behind the ears, on the neck, under the
arms, in the inguinal region and between the thighs is of a deep
red color and humid, covered now and then with a thick, ill-
smelling, puriform lymph.
Sepia 10 D. cured a considerable excoriation, secreting mucus
of offensive odor, with violent pains, accompanied with noc-
turnal cough.
We see, on
therefore, that these various practitioners agree
and that according to them Chamomilla, Sul-
certain remedies,
phur and Lycopodium may be considered as the leading remedies
for excoriations with infants.

MISCELLANIES.
Translated from Horn. Monatsblcetter, April, 1898

Ocimum canum was introduced, as Dr. Shlegel informs us, in

the year 1840, by Dr. Mure, and its provings are found in a work

unknown Germany, "Doctrine de V e cole de Rio Janeiy-o"

in
y

which contains also a number of other interesting remedies which

have been but little applied so far.

On the 16th of March, 1898. the Dutch Secretary of the In-

terior, Borgesius, proposed a statute in the legislature which
222 An Apis Cure.

intends to introduce obligatory attendance in the public schools

of Holland. Rightly apprehending one of the main obstacles
which has caused the absence of so many children from school
hitherto, the Secretary at the same time proposed to abolish com-
pulsary vaccination /. e. the demand made hitherto that it must
,

be proved before a child is received in the school that it has

been vaccinated! According to the Schw&bische Merkur on Janu-

ary ist, 1897, there were 60,000 children in Holland, who had
never attended a school.
A manifest indication that the hateful compulsory vaccinatioyi
ought to be abolished.

AN APIS CURE.
By Dr. Goullon.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder From the Leipz Pop. Z.fucr
Horn., April, 1898.

Dear Doctor! I am sorry to report a thickly swollen right

cheek and all the inside of my mouth swollen. I dare not go

out in the finest weather, although a thousand strings are

drawing me to the Park. I am sure a remedy would quickly
help me, and I entreat you for the same." This was the laconic
report of a patient, and the confident conclusion of the note
made it " a matter of honor" not to disappoint this hope for
quick relief by one homoeopathic remedy. I chose Apis because
there was no mention made of any heat, pain or redness, which
might have made me prefer Belladonna. Later I heard that a
molar <( passing slowly away " caused the swelling, and that on
this account the swelling was both internal and external. If it
should not improve, I wrote to the patient, I should come to see
her next day. I was rejoiced, however, to see the patient enter

my office next day with a very satisfied air, and there was noth-
ing to be seen of any swelling on her cheek. There had not
been any abscess, it was clear. It had not burst open. Just
tli i^ kind of a swelling | formerly frequently called a cold abscess)
corresponds to Apis. And this is truly homoeopathic, for who
does not know the Striking effects of the Sting of the bee, in
which frequently the face is disfigured in a few minutes, especial-
ly if the Lesion occurs in the neighborhood of the eyes, in the
loose intercellular tissue. The curative effect of the poison of
the bee acted with almost an equal rapidity. Four drops of Apis
 Foreign Clippings. 223

6. D. in 50 grammes of water were given, 1 tablespoonful every

2 hours. If this cure was effected by Dame Nature I herewith
give her my thanks for waiting with her activity until accident-
ally Apis stepped in to interfere with her work.

FOREIGN CLIPPINGS.
From Leipz. Pop. Zeitscha.f. Horn. 1898

Poisoning from Atropin. In many diseases of the eyes

specialists are of the opinion that the continued use of solutions
of Atropin is These may, however, have toxic effects,
required.
causing first an inflammation of the conjunctiva. During
of all

a longer use of Atropi?i the effects of its use are cumulative

(v. Graefe), and there are effected anatomic changes in the con-
junctiva, increasing its sensitiveness, which augmented irri-

tability may
continue for months, so that every additional drop
of Atropin causes a very intense inflammation. But also other
effects appear which belong to the sphere of Atropi?i and are to
be considered as toxic symptoms, e. g. swellings of the parotid
glands, faucal catarrhs, urinary troubles (first of all, retention of
urine; later on, unconscious micturition). Such phenomena
should therefore be looked for, and the remedy should be inter-
mitted when such symptoms appear; for its frequent use is out
of all proportion with the slight benefit secured from it by
specialists.

Arsenical Poisoning. It is well-known that adecigramme of

arsenic acid may have a fatal effect. Nevertheless, this remedy
is still used in large doses by old school practitioners, especially
in chronic cutaneous eruptions, in scaling herpes, neuralgias,
St. Vitus' Dance, chronic malaria, etc. There is no doubt that
patients frequently suffer injury from its use. Such injuries,
vulgo poisonings, do not always become generally known, be-
cause it is not known that many weeks may pass between the
use of the arsenic and resultant phenomena of poisoning; and
these phenomena are usually not ascribed to the remedy which
had been used for curative purposes, especially as the public is
ignorant of the fact that Fowler's Solution, which is as pellucid
as water, contains one per cent, So Dr. Cole-
of arsenic acid.
man reported in the Clinical Society, of London, on the 14th of
January (1898), that a girl who was sick of chorea had received
224 Foreign Clippings.

fifteen drops of Fowler's Solution three times a day for four

weeks; this had caused the disappearance of the chorea, but
three weeks later there had followed a complete inflammation
of the nerves in the arms and le^s with paralysis. Coleman
was able to save the life of the girl because he knew the circum-
stances of the case: for he had had repeated experience of such
cases, but once before he had lost such a patient.

Itching of the Anus and Hemorrhoidal Knots. These —

two ailments may sometimes appear with such violence that
they impede walking, and disturb sleep. Although we have
real curative remedies for this disease in Sulphur, Thuja, Nux
vom., etc., especially when the patient then carefully cleanses
the parts affected with glycerine-soap, and, after drying them,
smears them with fresh tallow, I may, nevertheless, mention a
treatment which relieves at once, at least for several days,
namely, anointing these parts with collodion with a swab made
of raw cotton. This must not, however, be done near a burn-
ing light. The burning caused by this soon passes off. The
hemorrhoidal knots, when thus treated, also diminish in
size. Dreos, in Hamburg.

Sugar of Milk as a Diuretic is not appreciated by all as it

ought Homoeopaths especially seem to have a settled

to be.
aversion to allowing any medicinal virtue to sugar of milk be
cause it is by them defined to be an "indifferent medium."
That this is incorrect may be at once seen when we consider
that it is made from whey, and therefore contains not only the
the whole amount of the sugar of milk contained therein, but
also all the salts contained in the whey. Cow milk contains
0.18 per cent, of chloride of sodium, 0.16 per cent, of lime, 0.25
percent, of potassium phosphate, and 0.0001 of oxide of iron.
When [OO grammes (= 1543 grains are dissolved in two lit
(quarts) of water and drunk in the course of the day the
Secretion of urineenormously increased, so that this simple
is

remedy would seem to be more useful in dropsy than many

other remedies. But also in children suffering from constipa-

tion, a warm solution of sugar of milk mixed with the milk
is the best remedy for constipation. This diuretic eiheiacy
ngar of milk may be yet increased by dissolving it in hot
water in which a handful of elder bark {of Sambucus nigra)
lias been boiled.
 Cases of Eczema. 225

Effects of Phosphorus. — Dr. Hartrep in the Muenchener

Med. Woche?ischr (87. 96) speaks very enthusiastically of the
.

use of Phosphorus in hon>ceopathic doses (twice a day, half a

milligram — between the 3 —
and 4 Dec. but always on a full
stomach) in cases of the English disease (Rickets). Dr. Hartrep
has, besides, discovered some excellent attendant effects of
Phosphorus which nothing new to homoeopaths;
are. of course,
it increases the intelligence of children that are mentally back-

ward, and also removes brain symptoms. Also, in irregular or

periodic headaches, Dr. Hartrep has found Phosphorus beneficial,
as also in anaemia and in cases of nervous irritability or
debilitv.

CASES OF ECZEMA.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from the Allgem. Horn
ZeiL, April, 1898.

Dr. de Keghel reports the following case of eczema:

A man of 40 years, owing to a chronic eczema on the prepuce,
had been circumcised seven years ago. Since that time the
eczema has appeared on various parts of the body, the scrotum,
the shoulders, the temples, the flanks, the legs and the arms.
Sulphur 30, 2 doses of 2 globules a day at intervals of 4 days,
brought but little amelioration. Calcarea carb. 30, given in the
same way, had no effect either on the eczema or on the secretion
from it. A renewed dose of Sulphur failed to have any effect.
Then there were given in succession Graphites 30., Arse?iicum
200, Rhus Antimonium crud. 30, Silicea, Phosphorus, Pe-
30,
troleum and Sepia. There was a gradual improvement, but the
full cure was only affected by two renewed doses of sulphur 30

at intervals of 4 days. We note that the patient was suffering

from haemorrhoids.
Van der Berghe succeeded in curing an eczema scroti with
Croton tiglium with the same remedy Dr. Schmitz cured an
;

eczema vesiculare in the inguinal region.

Dr. van der Neucker reports the case of a girl of 17 who had
been suffering for months from suppression of the menses and
from an eczema on the hands. Sulphur gave no result. Remedies
that are usually indicated in eczema, such as Rhus tox. Gra }

phites, Lycopodium, also failed to be of any use. Finally by

means of Pulsatilla in less than 14 days the appearance of
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226 Stomatitis.

menstruation and the cure of the eczema were reached at the

same time.
Dr. de Keghel saw with a lying-in woman an ezema occupy-

ing the flanks, the vulva and the abdomen cured by means of
Rhus tax On the day after the 6rst dose there was a tearful
.

aggravation of the symptoms, but on the following day there

was a decided improvement that soon increased to a full cure.
{/our n al Beige d' Homoeopathic, No. 6, 1897.

STOMATITIS, .INFLAMMATION OF THE MOUTH.

Translated for the HoMoeoPATHic Recorder from M'rfizin. Monntuhefte^
April, 1898.

This ailment is chiefly characterized by great painfulness in

the buccal cavity, so that the partaking of food becomes very
difficult and even impossible and the patient is compelled to
subsist on liquid food. The mucous membrane covering the
cavity is reddened, loosened and swollen, the gums and the
teeth especially become loose and swollen, and if the process is

not checked the teeth even finally drop out. Stomatitis arises
especially from four causes:
1. Mercurial Poisoning. Mercurial stomatitus appears before
the breaking out of the salivation, and also as accompani- its

ment. The gums and their

are swollen, of an intense redness
border as well as the teeth themselves are covered with a
tenacious, yellow mucus; all the tissue, inside of the buccal cavity
are loosened; at various places, on the tongue, the fauces, etc.,
extremely painful ulcers, very similar to those from sypilis, are
formed. The chief remedy for this condition is Kali j'odatum,
1 D.
2. Poisoning by Bismuth. Kocher indicates as the character-
ises of a chronic poisoning by Bismuth subnitr: Stomatitis with
severe swelling of the gums, ol the tongue and the fauces. Ic

7iess of the teeth, black discoloration of the border of the gums,

attended with catarrh of the intestines, colic and diarrhoea:
quamative nephritis with albumen and granuloUS cylinders in
the urine; nausea and disturbance of the digestion. Similar
symptoms are caused by the 1 allopathic 1 preparation called
Airol lately put OH the market; tlii.- also contains bismuth.

3. Diabetes mettitus. Tin- tongue has a whitish color with red

borders, later on blackish; the gums swollen, and not infrequent-
 Concerning Spices. 227

ly the incisors drop out. The tongue is not only dry, but fre-

quently also spotted and fissured, and the thirst is not assuaged
by drinking. The dryness in the mouth is one of the first and
most troublesome symptoms. Remedies are Arsenicum, Kreoso-
tum, Uranium nitr., etc. It is a question whether Bismuthum
subnitr., as it causes simular symptoms of poisoning, might not
be used according to the law of similars in treating diabetes; this
has not yet been done.
4. Scurvy. A general disturbance in nutrition with a cyanotic
swelling of the gums, with subsequent necrosis, probably an
infectional disease, the appearance of which is favored by a
lack of fresh meat and fresh vegetables, and is, therefore, fre-
quently found on ships and in prisons.
A dark, bluish redness of the buccal cavity, attended with a
loosening of the mucous membrane, and especially also of the
gums, is one of the symptoms of scurvy, as well as of incipient
mercurial salivation.
Who would not thence recognize a certain relationship be-
tween these diseases? However obscure it may be as yet, how
these several causes may bring forth similar and related changes
in the same parts of the body, it is very important to become
familiar with the question so as to avoid diagnostic errors and
consequent therapeutic mistakes.

CONCERNING SPICES.
From Med. Mofiatshefte, April 1898.

Spices (Aromata) have in general a use in forwarding the diges-

tion of nutriments, improving the inferior kinds and giving a com-
plement to those that are insufficient; they also increase the for-
mation of blood, of the plastic constituents, the development of
warmth, the energy and activity of the heart and of the entire
vascular system. Spices forward the new formation and nutri-
tion of the tissues, limit their retrogressive disintegration, and
thus organic decay and excretion, and advance the formation of
fat. The nervous system is exalted to higher flights by the in-
creased digestion, the vigorous formation of blood, the quick-
ened circulation of the blood and the transitory exciting powers
of the ethereal oils. Spices, therefore, in general forward as-
similation and nutrition, limit disintegration and egestion;
they are therefore useful in improving and complementing the
228 Cratcegus OxyaccuitJia.

inferior and insufficient aliments of the poorer classes and in

economizing and preserving the strength with laborers who
work hard. This is also the case only in another way with
spirituous beverages.
Spices and aromas are of dietetic use in impaired appetite,
weak and indolent digestion, in phlegmatic temperaments and
lymphatic constitutions, in the middle or advanced states of life;
where the aliments are fat, farinaceous, insipid and hard to
digest; in frosty, cool, wet seasons and weather, and whenever
we would secure a heightened excitation of the digestive organs,
increased warmth and a quicker circulation, an increased sensa-
tion of vigor, and a delay in the disintegration of the tissues.
When taken in excess, spices cause a super-excitation of the
digestive organs, congestive and hyperaemic states in the stom-
ach and intestinal canal, i. e., such states as rest on an excessive
pressure and fulness of the blood; according to the degree and
measure of the excitants or the excitability of the alimentary
canal, there may also appear inflammatory conditions of the
mucous membrane.
Especially in dyspepsia or chronic weakness of digestion a
highly spiced and piquant cuisijie may become of use, as it
moderately excites and stirs up into activity the indolent and
relaxed digestive organs.
From the above, it follows at the same time that spices are
not, in general, useful to children.

CRATAEGUS OXYACANTHA.
It will be remembered that this remedy was introduced by
Dr. Jennings in the N. Y. Medical Journal, but it attracted no
attention until the RECORDEB republished his article in De-
cember, 1896, when it at once received a great deal of attention.
It is our custom when a new remedy appears to republish from

all sources whatever appears concerning it, and this we have

done with Crataegus. The latest is an enthusiastic paper by Dr.

Joseph Clements, read before the Jackson County Medical So-
ciety, and printed in Kansas City Medical Record. It is needless

to reprint it entire, as the greater part of it is irrelevant. But this

is tlie point : The doctor himself was his first patient on the
remedy.
 Cratcsgus Oxyacantha. 229
About twelve years ago I was suddenly siezed with terrible pain in the
left breast extended over the entire region of the heart and down the
; it

brachial plexus of the left arm as far as the wrist. I pressed my hands
over my heart and seemed unable to move. My lips blenched, my eyes
rolled in a paroxysm of agony the most fearful sense of impending
;

calamity oppressed me and I seemed to expect death, or something worse,

to fall upon and overwhelm me. The attack lasted a short time and then
began to subside, and soon I was myself again, but feeling weak and ex-
cited. I consulted no one took no medicine. I did not know what to
;

make of it, but gradually it faded from my mind and I thought no more of
it until two years afterwards, when I had another attack, and again nearly

a year later. Each of these was very severe, like the first, and lasted about
as long and left me in about the same condition. I remember no other
seizure of imoortance until about three years ago, and again a year later.
These were not so terrible in the suffering involved, but the fear, the ap-
prehension, the awful sense of coming calamity, I think, grew upon me
From this time on, two years ago, the attacks came frequently, the time
varying from two or three months to two or three weeks between.
I took some nitro-glycerine tablets and some pills of Cactus Mexicana,

but with no benefit that I could perceive. This brings me down to about
fifteen months ago. I was feeling very badly, having had several attacks
within a few weeks. My pulse was at times very rapid and weak, and irreg-
ular and inlermittent.

About this time he got hold of Cratcsgus. with the follow-

ing result.
After getting my supply I began with six drops, increasing to ten before
meals and The results were marvelous. In twenty-four hours
at bedtime.
my pulse showed marked improvement in two or three weeks it became
;

regular and smooth and forceful. Palpitation and dyspnoea soon entirely
left me I began to walk up and down hills without difficulty, and a more
;

general and buoyant sense of security and well-being has come to stay.
During the three months that I was taking the medicine, which I did with
a week's intermission several times, I had several slight attacks, one rather
hard seizure, but was relieved at once on taking ten drops of the medicine*
He adds that a hypodermic of Morphine does not give relief
from these heart pains as quickly and as surely as does fifteen
drops of Cratcsgiis. He also says, " of course I consider it the
most useful discovery of the Nineteenth century." He also
names a number of " the most reputable and careful men in the
profession," who are having good results with this remedy.
Truly Crataegus oxyacantha seems to have a future.
It may not be amiss to state here that not long ago we saw it
stated in a journal that a certain firm proposed making a fluid
extract of the roots,branches and leaves of the Cratcsgus; if
this done it will probably be the Old Man of the Sea of the
is

new remedy, the same that has killed so many other promising
230 Dangers of Acetcuiilide.

drugs ; the new preparation can be sold very cheap, therefor will
largely supplant the preparation from the ripe berries, and thus
kill this useful drug save with those who think more of quality
than price

DANGERS OF ACETANILIDE.
I have, in the last six or eight months, seen five or six cases
of thrombosis in lower extremities, caused by use of this remedy
in antipyretic doses in continued fevers. The heart was so much
enfeebled that it could not propel the heavy current in its course

through the large veins. The great weakness of the heart in all
forms of continued fever should deter us from using the power-
ful sedatives, and remedies to increase the vis a tergo are clearly
indicated. This is true of pneumonia also. If there is exten-
sive consolidation of lung tissue, the decarbonization of the
blood will be compromised; and we would have a condition
analogous to the cyanosis of Aceta?iilide. If doctors persist in
using this drug in pneumonia vitis, they may expect to see their
bill of mortality run up very rapidly, as any man of clinical ex-

perience will attest. —

Dr. L. H. Cowde?i, in Med. Summary.

BOOK NOTICES.
An American Text-Book of Genito Urinary Diseases,
Syphilis and Diseases of the Skin. Edited by L. Bolton
Bangs, M. D., and W. A. Hardaway,
A. M., M. D. Illus-
trated with 300 engravings and 20 full-page colored plates.
1229 pages, 8vo. Cloth, $7.00; Half Morocco, SS. 00. Phila-
delphia: W. B. Saunders. 1S98. For sale by subscription
only.

This is another addition to the well known " American Text-

Book Series." and fully keeps up with the pace set by the pre-
ceding volumes. Forty-seven leading specialists have con-
tributed the text, of which the publisher says: "My object in
making this book was to furnish the physician and student with
a modern one-volume treatise covering the same ground that
heretofore has required the possession of" three or four costly
works." This object has been accomplished and the work is in
 Book Notices. 231

every way commendable save one — treatment, especially of skin

diseases. In this particular there has been no advance, and the
custom of suppressing skin diseases externally is everywhere
applied and defended. How long, O, Lord! how long will it be
before man can see that the ostrich- like policy of driving a
disease into the body is not curing it! Every physician should
read Burnett's book on Diseases of the Skin\ it will repay the
time spent many fold by presenting the other side of the shield.

The Diseases of the Stomach. By William W. Van Valzah,

A. M., M. D., Professor of General Medicine and Diseases of
the Digestive System in the New York Polyclinic Medical
School and Hospital, and J. Douglass Nisbet, A. B., M. D.
Illustrated. 67}. pages. Cloth, 8vo. $3.50. Philadelphia:
W. B. Saunders. 1898.
This book faithfully represents the latest word of the " regu-
lars " on the diseases of the stomach. It is divided into six sec-

tions, namely Section i. Introduction and Classification. 11.

Diagnosis and Diagnostic Methods, in. Medication, iv. Dy-

namic Affections of the Stomach, v. Anatomical Diseases of
the Stomach and vi. The Vicious Circles of the Stomach. There
is an unusually complete and detailed presentation of the im-

portant subject of dietetics. The nutritive value of the various

foods is fully discussed, together with their special application
in diseased conditions of the stomach. The diet lists for each
disease are extremely full, and are so arranged that selections
can readily be made to suit individual cases.

A Practical Treatise on Appendicitis. Prepared especially

for the use of the Students and General Practitioners. By
Howard Crutcher, M. D., Professor of Surgical Anatomy and
the Principles of Surgery in the Dunham Medical College,
Chicago. Illustrated. 134 pages, 8vo. Cloth, Si. 50. Chi-
cago Hahnemann Publishing Co.
" The aim of the author," we are told in the preface, "has
been to prepare a helpful book, along practical lines, for the use
of those whose bed side experience in appendicitis is limited,"
and when we say the aim has been accomplished, a good de-
scription of this book has been given. On the disputed point
232 Book Notices.

author says on page 43: " Appendicitis is a

in this disease the

surgical disease. That a great majority of primary eases recover

without operation has no logical bearing upon the essential
nature of the affection. Comparatively few fractures require
direct operative interference, yet no one questions that all frac-
tures are of themselves surgical leisons." The use of opiates
to relieve the pain is unqualifiedly condemned as they cloud the
case and the pain may be largelv controlled by thorough
evacuation of the bowels.

The Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Massachusetts

Homoeopathic Hospital, of Boston, makes a very favorable
showing. In surgical cases (of which there were 1,185) the
death rate was 4.4 per cent., while the average death rate of all
cases, medical and surgical, was only 3.44. An excellent show-
ing in both departments.

Our esteemed contemporary, the Medical Century, thinks:

" It is house like Boericke & Tafel to reproduce
a mistake for a
such an antiquated and insufficient volume as Williamson upon
these important topics," i. e. Diseases of Females and Children, for
" its reproduction at this time serves no special useful purpose
unless it be to call the attention of the profession to the practices
of forty years ago and to repeat to them the homoeopathic indi
cations for a few of the remedies in more general use in disease
of women and children, not always so clearly set forth as in
Williamson's brief but pointed indications." But may it not be
that in doing this the shade of Walter Williamson has not ap-
peared in vain ?

The majority of the world takes its opinions, like its clothes,
ready-made. Many years ago someone said cod liver oil wis
"good consumption" and the belief still holds;
for ditto, that
sarsaparilla was "good for the blood " an it still 1 ,^ocs; that
fishwere "brain food," and the world now believes it: tint the
"grape cure" was a good thing, and forthwith men would stuff
themselves with pounds of grapes; tint grape seeds caused ap-
pendicitis,and forthwith the consumption of grapes fell off
enormously; thai oysters cause typhoid, and, lo the oyster was !
 —

Book Notices. 233

given a much needed rest. Probably no belief has a stronger

hold on the "ready-made" part of the community than that
the "cigarette habit" is a potent cause of insanity and other
things with which the reporters have made us all familiar in
their flaring But Mr. Clark Bell, editor of the
headlines.
Medico- Legal Journal, of New York, has been investigating this
oft repeated story and finds it (like the beliefs cited above) to be a
fake, and publishes his researches in a neat little pamphlet en-
titled The Truth About Cigarettes. Aside from the other investi-
gations. Mr. Bell has taken the trouble to run to earth some of
the most highly spiced sensations, and the result is amusing; one
"victim," an especially shining example, it was found had
never smoked cigarettes or anything else in all his life. Yet so
far has this notion got a hold, on the part of the people alluded
to that they have succeeded in having laws passed for-
bidding the sale of this form of tobacco. We do not advocate
the smoking of tobacco in any way, being satisfied to let each
man judge for himself, but surely it is not very "scientific " to
legislate against cigarettes and let, say, the Pittsburg "stogie,"
go scot free.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafee have in press the fourth addi-

tion of Dr. J. C. Burnett's work on Diseases of the Skin. It will
be out this month and ought to have a large sale, for it is as
radically any of his other works. The author's
original as
views are somewhat similar to those advanced by Hahnemann
in his Chronic Diseases, and it would be a good thing for hu-
manity, and especially posterity, if these views were to be care-
fully and dispassionately studied by the whole medical pro-
fession.

The everlasting truth of the homoeopathic law of cure is well

shown in the issuing of the fourth edition of this little book
(Williamson's Diseases of Females and Children) which has ,

long been out of print. While fashions and fads in medical

treatment have come and gone since the first edition was issued,
the therapeutic indications herein given are just as true and just
as reliable as when first penned. There is a vitality and fresh-
ness in these books of the earlier generation of homoeopathists
that keeps them forever growing old, and renders them more
valuable than many of the newer ones. Horn. Journal of
Obstetrics.
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FORWARD, ALONG THE WHOLE LINE!

At a meeting of the Committee of the Homoeopathic Medical
Society of Germantown, held on Friday, April 22d, 1S9S, the
following resolutions (which ought to be presented in every
homoeopathic society ) were presented, and were adopted unani-
mously:
Whereas, a large increase in the Army and Navy is about to
take place, and has taken place already to a considerable extent,
and
Whereas, a large percentage of the entire population of the
United States are accustomed to and greatly prefer the homoeo-
pathic system and practice of medicine, and an equally large
percentage of the physicians and surgeons of the United States
are also of the homoeopathic school of medicine, and the num-
ber of both these classes is rapidly and largely increasing; and
Whereas, in education, skill, qualifications and experience
the physicians and surgeons of the homoeopathic school are
fully equal in every respect to those of any of the other schools
recognized in the surgical departments of the Army and Navy,
and in many respects, especially in the medical branch of the
profession, the results are decidedly superior, as statistics have
always demonstrated: and
Whereas, soldiers or sailors enlisted in the military < r naval
service of their country, by reason of the discrimination against
practitioners of the homoeopathic school i for it is a well known
thatHomoeopathic physicians and surgeons, graduates ol
Homoeopathic medical schools and colleges, have not been able
to obtain, for some reason, official position or recognition as sur-
geon's Or assistant surgeons in the army, the navy or in the h0S-
 Editorial. 235

pital service of the country), are debarred from treatment in

accordance with what they believe to be the only rational and
successful system of medicine, and are therefore subjected, of
necessity, to a system of treatment which they do not approve,
and would not employ in their own private lives; and
Whereas, by reason of this discrimination, and the depriva-
tion for those contemplating service in the Army and Xavy, of
such medical service in which they confide, valuable men have
undoubtedly been deterred from enlisting in said Army or Xavy,
whereby their services have been lost to the country; and
Whereas, the patrons of the homoeopathic system of medi-
cine are numbered very largely among the most cultured, intel-
ligent and the wealthy citizens of our country (for it is a well-
known fact, that the clientele of homoeopathic physicians, and
a fact which no one disputes, is generally among the intelligent),
and that those who adhere to and use the homoeopathic prac-
tice are larger tax-payers, and more influential citizens, member
for member, than those of any other school of medicine; and
Whereas these citizens and tax- payers are equally entitled
to the consideration and protection of the Government as are
those who adhere to and practice other systems of medicine;
therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the representatives of the homoeopathic

physicians and surgeons of Philadelphia, and of the thousands
of citizens who patronize and sustain the same, most earnestly
urge, in the name and on behalf of the said physicians, surgeons
and citizens that the military and naval authorities of the United
States shall take such measures as will result in placing in the
different departments of the United States Army, and the Xaval
and Marine service, and the United States Volunteers, qualified
surgeons who are practitioners and graduates of the homoeo-
pathic school of medicine, without driscrimination: and further
Resolved, That we respectfully but most earnestly request the
Governor and the military authorities of the State of Pennsyl-
vania, to accord to the homoeopathic school of medicine the
same recognition in the Xational Guard, the State Military when
called into service, the State hospital service, and such other
appointments of surgeons and assistant surgeons as may be, by
law, vested therein, as is or may be granted to any school of
medicine.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the
236 Editorial

President of the United States, the Secretary of War, the Sec-

retary of theNavy, the Postmaster General, the United States
Senators and Members of Congress for the State of Pennsyl-
vania, and to the Governor of Pennsylvania, and a request be
made that a hearing may be accorded this Committee in further-
ance of the same.
Very respectfully submitted
William K. Brown, M. D.,
Isaac W. Hkvsinokr, a. M.. M. D..
George W. Stewart, M. D.,
Charles W. Karsner. D. D.,
William H. Keim, M. D.,
Pres. Pa. Homoeopnthic State J fed. Soc.
Job Mansfield. M. D.,
Pemberton Dudley, M. D.,
Member Pa. State Board of Health.
James Harwood Closson, M. D.

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.

many inquiries, will say that Membership fee is
In reply to
which entitles the elected member to the elegant certificate
$2. 00,
of membership and the " bronze button" with Hahnemann's
Medallion thereon.
The annual dues (S5. 00) entitles the member to a large volume
of Transactions, worth to any physician "double the money."
The first if possible, with the mem-
year's dues should be sent,
bership fee so that the name may appear in the proceedings. Xo
doubt arrangements can be made each year so that the Transac-
tion will be sent C. O. D. New members can get back volumes
of the Transaction at a small cost by addressing the Secretary,
Dr. E. H. Porter. These are lull of valuable information, and
make agrand addition to any medical library.
We would urge all young graduates to strain a point to join
the Institute this year. Those who are isolated from their col-

leagues need the help this national body can bring. In its
Transaction will be found valuable facts about the spread of
Homoeopathy, and the comparative success over other methods of
medical treatment, that should be copied into every local paper.
Our old physicians know the value of this sort of propaganda.
If yOU cannot attend the session of the Institute once in a decade
 Editorial, 237

it can come to you every year. " Come with us and we will do
you good." Send for a blank application to the Board of Cen-
sors. We want to double the Membership this year.
T. C. Duncan, M. D., Chairman, 100 State St., Chicago.
R. B. Rush, M. D., Salem, Ohio.
Geo. R. Peck, M. D., Providence, R. I.
A. C. Cowperthwaite, M. D., Chicago.
Millie J. Chapman, M. D., Pittsburg.

Mr. Geo. R. Hennig, a Chicago homoeopathic pharmacist,

has lately taken unto himself a journal, and since has been giv-
ing its readers the benefit of his pen in nine and ten page in-
stallments; but, doubtless, in the matter of space, like Mr.
Weller, as he "grows vider " he will "grow viser, width and
wisdom go together, Sammy." In the meantime it takes ten
pages of Mr. Hennig to reply to a twelve-line note in the
February Recorder, objecting to the New England Medical
Gazette 's assertion that the criticisms of the new pharmacopoeia
were apparently "intentional misrepresentations." The back-
bone of Mr. Hennig's defence of the new work consists of an at-
tack on what he repeatedly terms "the Recorders pharmaco-
poeia," thereby showing that his ideas of medical journalism
have not as yet risen above the " house organ" species. The
Reco?der has no pharmacopoeia, never had one, nor never ex-
pects to have one. Furthermore, friend Hennig, assailing the
other pharmacopoeias is no defence of the new work. It is on
trial and not the others.
The Recorder raised the query, concerning the new work " if —
it is to be official
" —
and at this Mr. Hennig cracks the whip of
authority over the heads of physicians and pharmacists to lash
—
them into subjection all which seems to prove that as yet he
lacks Mr. Weller's " vidth." Hear the crack of the whip!
Mark the words: "if it is to be official". (!) Will the Recorder relieve
the suspense of au anxious school of medicine and tell us what yet
remains undone to make the new pharmacopoeia official ? Will it yet be
necessary to get the consent of its avowed opponents? Is not the stamp
of approval of the American Institute of Homoeopathy sufficient?
Is not the new pharmacopoeia at the present moment just as official as it

is possible for it hence ?

to be five or ten years
Is it not as binding upon the homoeopathic pharmacists as is the U. S.
Pharmacopoeia upon the old school druggists, save only in the enact-
238 Editorial.

meiits of the different legislatures in the "drag laws" and "pure food
laws ?"
Does the Recorder wish it to be understood that the •' strong arm of the

law" will yet he necessary to project the new pharmacopoeia upon an

official bas

So. seems, according to the expounding of Mr. Hennig,

it

there no appeal; you must accept the production of the rent

is

and torn Pharmacopoeia Committee without question or suffer

anathema! Apropos of this, we quote the following from a letter
from a western homoeopathic physician; it is typical of many
others.
I am thoroughly disgusted with the effort to foist upon the homoeopathic

physcians the new pharmacopoeia. * * * We ought to know who sells

the new tinctures so we can get what we want. Can you tell us in the
Recorder ?
No, that would be outside of the province of this journal; we
Hahnemannian homoeopathic
are fighting for the maintenance of
pharmacy. Ask the question of the house you deal with. The
whole glorious history of such remedies as Silica, Ca/carca,
Graphite, Aurum and a host of others is indirectly condemned as
fable by the new work that Mr. Hennig upholds, and if it is
universally adopted Homoeopathy as an organized body will
cease to exist; for how is it possible to teach the young medical
mind the pathogenesy and clinical results of such remedies in
one college class and in another instruct him that the remedies
from which the provingsand results were obtained were " inert,"
as the new pharmacopoeia does? Even the lash of authority will
not drive this contradiction through to acceptance. Mr. Hennig
intimates that this is " quibbling about chaff." We do not think
it is, and, further more, we have reasons for believing that the

great majority of the profession do not think so either.

The Therapist^ of London, England, says that "it is well

known " that the oil of wintergreen Gaultheria) H contains all the
1

anti rheumatic properties of salicylic acid." We are glad to

hear this, for it was certainly no/ well known before Dr. Lang

contributed his papers on the subject to the Homoeopathic

RECORDER in [894, or at least the fact had not found its wav into
print. The moral is that when you want to be heard speak
through the Recorder.
 Editorial. 239

The thirteenth annual meeting of the Kentucky Homoeo-

pathic Medical Society will be held at Frankfort, Ky., May 25th
and 26th. The following are the officers for 1898: Presi-
dent, Wm. F. Reilley, M. D., Covington, Ky.; Vice President,
E. H. Griffith, M. D., Henderson, Ky.; Treasurer, J. W.
Krischbaum, M. D.. Danville, Ky.; Secretary, F. W. Fisch-
back, D. D., Newport, Ky.

LET THE GOOD FIGHT GO ON.

Editor ofHomceopathic Recorder.
Nowhere are there to be found more patriotic and loyal men
than are found in the homceopathic ranks. As a natural result
of this condition, when President McKinley issued his call for
volunteers there were numbers of good men, graduates of
homoeopathic colleges and successful workers in our ranks, who
saw fit to offer their services. It shortly came to my notice
that the Governor of at least one State desired to make some ap-
pointments from our school, but for the knowledge that they
would not be accepted by the surgeon-general of the United
States.Inasmuch as the surgeon general has always held, when
importuned by us. that no discrimination was practiced, this was
to my mind sufficient reason for an indignant protest. That we
might be positive as to the status of affairs before taking action
in the matter, sent the following telegram: "Lincoln, Neb.,
I
May 3, 189S. — B. Gregg Custis, no East Capitol street,
J.
Washington, D. C: Wire surgeon-general's decision relating
to appointment homoeopaths in army." I received the follow-
ing reply: —
" Washington, D. C, May 3, 1898. — B. F. Bailey,
M. D., Lincoln, Neb.: Theoretically homoeopaths eligible, practi-
cally debarred. Last one rejected because had not had yellow
fever J. B. Gregg Custis." In reply I immediately sent the fol-
—
lowing telegram to Dr. Custis: 'May 4th, 1898. J. B. Gregg
Custis, M. D., no East Capitol street, Washington, D. C: Re-
quest Senator Allen, of Nebraska, to introduce this resolution
forbidding discrimination against any school of medicine in ap-
pointments to Army or Navy, and attaching penalty clause.
(Signed, Benj. F. Bailey, President of Nebraska State Board of
j

Health. I endorse this request. Silas A. Holcomb, Governor."

Senator Allen has complied with this request, and introduced
this resolution, and inasmuch as it seems that we cannot expect
justice from the spirit of the law, but must demand it by the
letter of the law, it behooves us to see to it that we take strong
and rapid advantage of this opportunity, and place upon the
statute books of the country a law which shall recognize us in
fact as well as in spirit. To this end I ask you to bring to bear
upon the Senators and members of the House from your State
such immediate influence as will insure their vote in behalf of
this resolution. Refer to above resolution as Senate File 164.
Fraternally yours,
Lincoln. Neb., May 10, 1898. Benj. F. Bailey.
 — .

PERSONAL.
Dr. H. Hallock has regained his health after two years roaming about
J.
in thewoods, and lias located at Saranac Lake. We believe he is the only
homoeopathic physician in the Adiroudacks.
We congratulate Dr. Dewey on his great kinsman, the hero of Manila
Bay.
One bad thing with many an invalid, is a chronic weakness in bill
paying.
" Dixie " and " Yankee Doodle " are now companion national airs.
It is difficult to distinguish between antitoxin "reading notices " and
antitoxin articles.
The worst thing about a cigarette is its odor.
Whenever spinal symptoms recur at a certain hour give Rano bufo.
Wahle.
Ferrum picricum acts well in bilious debility, says an English authority.
Do not forget Rhus aromatica in diabetes.
When all one's bills are receipted he can look on philosophically.
The gamblers' winning ways are not very pleasant.
Soon the shirt-waist will bloom again.
The best modern materia medica? Allen's Handbook by 10 to i.

Remember Erythroxylon coca in chronic deafness with noises in the

head.
In chronic coughs try Vcrbascum 6.

When tri. may be the remedy.

the urine smells like a cat's Viola
For persistent deafness with recurring earache think of Guaiacunt
When a man is on the right side of "the market" the time seems to be a
jocund and a halcyon one.
Do not fail to read and ponder Burnett's work on the skin it goes be-
low the epidermis.
There is nothing but praise for Wood's new Gynecology. It's a solid
work.
Homoeopathy may be truly said to be imprescriptible.
"Office hours " should always be on the sign.
What is the difference between died of" heart failure " or " for want of
breath ?"
Dr. S. A. Jones, the prover of Picric acid, pictured the soul of that drug
as "speedy exhaustion from slight exertion."
If you want. in unsurpassed clinical note book get a copy of Clark 's
Prescriber inter-leaved; i1 prescribes tor every disease and the inter-leaves
give you ample space for adding every new prescription that comes
-

waj
Messrs. Boericke & Tafel have lately ad. led to their special preparations
Cantharis Baltn, which will be found an excellent dressing for burns or
foi tii \ purpose for which antharis is used externally.
(

Pox toothache Afercurius 6x old, but fact

Gonorrhoea antitoxin from a goat is the Last.
Send your papers to the Recorder.
Di \. Jerome Robbins has removed from Scottsville to Mayville N V.
 THE
HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.
Vol XIII. Lancaster, Pa., June, 1898. No. 6.

SULPHUR.
By E. R. Mclntyer, B. S., M. D.
Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases in The National Medical College
and Hospital of Chicago.

In a study of Sulphur there seems to be symptoms sufficient

to combat all the possible ills of the human race. But calm, de-
liberation leads to the conclusion that this is not the only
remedy we need. We are led to this conclusion by the incon-
gruities in the symptom-groups. One author gives: "Paleface;
wan, blanched, sickly, bloated face, with wrinkled countenance."
It is a dangerous strain on the imagination that sees wrinkles
in a badly bloated face. But he further states: " Patient is
happy, has happy dreams, and everything looks beautiful.
There is hypochondriac sadness, disposition to weep, imitable,
taciturn disposition." Now I submit that it is difficult to
understand how these symptoms could occur at one and the same
time in any patient, and if they do not, why are they placed to-
gether with no explanation ? He further states that there is
" Pain in the abdomen, with sensitiveness of the surface; spas-
modic contraction; colic, cutting pain with nausea, followed by
diarrhoea and tenesmus; haemorrhoids, constipation, with pain
in the rectum as if it would protrude; mucous stools, streaked
with blood; passed with ascarides or lumbrici; stranguary foetid
urine." This is a single sentence, with no intimation that the
diarrhoea and constipation alternate; but would convey the idea
that they are present at the same time. After these statements
we are not surprised at the closing words of the article, viz.:
"The symptoms of Sulphur are so numerous and so contradic-
tory that I will leave the physician to make out the balance by
physiological induction and clinical experience." That is,
242 Sulphur.

after assuming the role of teacher he discovers that he is unable

to manage the boat in the swift current, and gallantly tij -

over, informing the occupants that they can swim or drown.

Another author, under "Sulphur." says: " In the evening

violent itching and smarting all over the body, particularly on

and between the fingers; parts of the body, not sensitive, itched
when she touched them; she feels as if she were alive beneath
the skin; " she may not have been dead ); " there was a feel-
ing as if vermin were running about. Itching and provoking
scratching on the scrotum and thighs, and sweat on those part-.
We can scarcely sympathize with her, since we cannot see what
" she" was doing with a scrotum anyway. I have never ob-
jected when "she" wore the pants, but I rise to protest lest the
principle be carried too far.

The most important symptom of Sulphur is eruptions of vari-

ous kinds on the skin. One of these, the vesicular, is the re-
sult of the venous capillary engorgement that so prominently
marks the action of the drug. This points to the vaso-motor
nerve supply of these vessels, which are paralyzed, notwithstand-
ing some of our authors say: " It increases the activity of the
vegetative life generally and the process of secretion and ab-
sorption in particular," and another says, after quoting the
above, that Sulphur paralyzes the walls of the venous capillaries.
I do not know how he harmonized these statements, but I sup-

pose he did in some way. The capillary paralysis permits

a passive congestion, and the serum is forced out through the
walls to appear in the vesicles, which soon become pustular
owing to transmigration of leucocytes. The rash is most promi-
nent in the bends of the joints and between the fingers, which
with the aggravation by external heat are additional evidence of
venous capillary stasis. Its paralyzing effect on the venous
capillaries is shown by the passive congestion to the head, as
expressed in " Great fullness of the head as if tilled with blood,
with nose bleed in bed. Great heat on top of head." This last
symptom reminds us of Graphites^ but under the latter the heat
is circumscribed.
The cerebral hyperemia of Sulphur is not always venous;
but may result from paralysis of the arterial vaso constrictors,
as is the case in the "violent rush of blood to the head, beating
of all the arteries in the head," etc. This may be the result of
over action of the heart, of which more presently. Sulphur also
 Sulphur. 243

causes a reflex " headache from abdominal plethora," this be-

ing an expression of venous stasis consequent to the capillary
vaso motor paralysis. is dull, and is
In these cases the pain
located in the frontal region. Not all pains in this region are
from this cause, however, though most of them are reflex, and
some from catarrh of the frontal sinuses; some are from uterine
irritation and some from eye-strain, etc. Only a knowledge of the
fifth nerve and its connections can assist us in differentiating.

And this is extremely important, since if the pain results

from eye-strain we will waste time by prescribing Sulphur. Nux
vom. has an identical frontal pain, but the Nux irritation reaches
the fifth nerve, viz., the pneumogastric, while under Sul. it travels
over the sympathetic. The uterine reflex headache is further
back toward the top of head, or in the occiput. The latter is

also the location of pain in spinal irritation. This, however,

may result from pelvic engorgement, as in "spinal congestion
from suppression of menses or hemorrhoidal flow," when Sul-
phur is the remedy if this is part of a venous capillary vaso- motor
paralysis, as indicated by "piles either blind or flowing, with
discharge of dark, venous blood, with itching and burning of
the anus," and "thin, watery diarrhoea." The stools are foetid
and and are simply the serous discharge from the mucous
acrid,
membrane that has been forced out through the walls of the
overfilled venous capillaries in the colon and rectum.
This is followed by a reaction, so to speak, when there is dry-
ness of these surfaces, causing "constipation, with stools hard
and black, as if burned." This alternate constipation and
diarrhoea should not be confounded with that produced by Nux,
because the latter results from irregular peristalsis, owing to the
action of Nux on the pneumogastric, while under Sulphur is
results from irregular capillary circulation from its action on the
venous capillary vaso-motors and those concerned in the portal
circulation.
The "hard black stools, as if burnt," reminds us of Bry., but
under the latter the stool is large from lying in the colon and
rectum, because of inertia of the intestinal tract, and dry from
absorption of its watery constituents while remaining there, thus
differing pathologically from Sulphur, where the stools are
"insufficient."
The portal stasis of Sulphur points away from the venous
capillaries to the larger vessels, as does the varicose veins on the
leers.
244 Sulphur.

It also directs our attention to the liver, since the engagement

extends to that organ, where it produces "sweling and hardness

of the liver; induration with jaundice; secretion of bile is
increased and acrid." These symptoms point to hepatic con-
gestion, and may explaining the "acute and chronic-
assist in
rheumatism, especially the latter; the heat of the bed aggra-
vates." The function of the liver being crippled, lithaemia results
from its inability to convert insoluble lithic, uric and lactic acids
into soluble urea. To this we may attribute the "rheumatic
pains in the joints, with cracking on moving." A.S a result of
this lithsemia, we get accumulations of offensive flatus in the
bowel. But this will not explain the "cramps in the calves of
the legs and soles of the feet; cramp-like tensive pain in muscles
of thigh." These are not rheumatic, but an expression of an
irritant to the posterior columns of the cord, which probably
results from the venous congestion of the cord itself.
This condition could result in locomotor ataxia, although it
could hardly produce true sclerosis of the columns, because
that condition results from arterial congestion. But certainly
it will prevent the normal removal of waste matter, which may

prevent sensory impressions- ascending, thus producing " un-

steady gait, tremor of hands," etc., of Sulphur. When this
venous congestion extends to the motor columns it may inter-
cept motor impulses, thus producing the " palsy of lower ex-
tremities, with total retention of urine and numbne-s extending
up to navel," when in the lumbar cord; or the " general weak-
ness of spine, which is tender to pressure, so that he walks
stooping, chest feels empty and weak; it tires him to talk,"
when higher in the cord.
This weakness of the chest from spinal venous congestion
may lead to more serious thoracic difficulty, because of the in-
ability to properly expand the lungs, thus favoring deposits of
tubercle, especially in those lymphatic, scrofulous individuals
where Sulphur {days so important a part in all their diseases.
Given a case of this kind, and the sympathetic vaso-motors
the lungs are as liable to attack as those of other parts, and the
sequent venous stasis in those organs may be prevented
Ion- as expansion is perfect; but this being weakened by the
passive congestion of the cord as above given, and the danger
from tuberculosis is more than doubl<
This yen >us engorgement of the lungs points to an explana-
 "Professional Etiquette" 245
l<
tion of the palpitation of the heart with anxiety; palpitation
of the heart without any apparent cause; feels oppressed, wants
doors and windows open; at times intermittent pulse." The
venous engorgement in the lungs is a peripheral irritant to the
pulmonary sympathetic, which is immediately telegraphed to
the cardiac fibres, which proceed to remove it by the usual
method of increased circulation; but this fails owing to the par-
alyzed venous capillary vaso-constrictors in the lungs permitting
the vessels to dilate, increasing the trouble all the while, until
the overwrought cardio-acceleratory fibres become exhausted
which results in the " intermittent pulse."
This cardiac irritation resulting from pulmonary venous stasis
may assist in explaining the "Stitches through the chest extend-
ing into left shoulder blade worse when lying on the back
; ;

during the least motion, when drawing a deep breath." This

reminds us of Bry. and Kali carb. But under Bry. the pain is
in the right side, while under Kali carb. it does not pass along
the nerves to left shoulder blade, neither is it aggravated by
by lying on the back, as is all cases of spinal hyperaemia, the
position increasing the trouble by force of gravity. In short the
pains of Bry. and Kali carb. result from serious irritation while
those of Sulphur are caused by venous congestion.
In a word, through the sympathetic vaso-motor nerves Sul-
phur seems to strike down the vital forces of the venous capil-
lary vessels of the whole body, producing a condition of con-
gestion and malnutrition in every organ and tissue that
manifests itself in the so-called psora, whatever that may mean,
which may culminate in almost any form of diathetic disorder.
100 State street, Chicago.

"PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE."
By , M. D.
In all the various walks of life there are none so bound down
and hampered by rules of "Professional Etiquette" as the
medical man. The lawyer gives his services free to his col-
leagues only upon the rarest occasions. The same may be said
of the dentist. i\bsolutely all comers outside the profession
must pay. The physician alone is bound by an unwritten code
of old fogy laws, which not only impoverish his pocket, but place
246 "Professional Etiqueth ."

him before the eyes of his fellow-men as ''no business man."

Even physicians have come to regard themselves as " no busi-
ness men." and in this age of progress and competition this fact
is lamentable.
A
survey of a brief list of patients treated free of charge on
account of the inevitable " professional etiquette " would astound
the layman and even make the physician himself think he was
somewhat of a sponge, to be squeezed at will.
First of all, a brother physician, his wife and family must head
the free list. This is perhaps quite as
should be.it

Next come the parents, brothers and sisters, and too, too often
cousins, aunts, etc. This isa little too much. Then the ministers,
whom we charge because they are M men of God."
do not like to
Just here it is but fair to say that often one meets with a noble
fellow of this class who refuses to be given free treatment. This
is always refreshing.

Coming down the line, the letter-man drops in with a bad cold
or sore throat, and the kind doctor would scorn to charge the
good fellow who brings him his mail. Next in order comes the
policeman. He selects his favorite "on his beat," and comes in
with " any old disease." Xo one would think of charging him.
of course. Glad to do a little favor, etc. Then the fireman
around the corner needs a little attention and gets it free. He
is a good fellow, too.
Nowlast, but not least, comes the scores of "trained nurses,"

who themselves are becoming a drug on the market. This class

forms the greatest imposition of all. For why ? These women
make from ten to twenty dollars per week. Their expenses are
very light. Two, three and even four rent a room together at a
cost of from one to two dollars a week each. During the time
they are employed this is their sole expense. When not em-
ployed they have the reputation of doing a ,^reat deal of visiting,
not only among their friends but among the families in which
they have nursed. Of course they are given a welcome. Why
3
not? Have they not helped through a weary ami anxious time
But the question remains, why should they be treated five o\
charge by any physician at his office? If asked themselves, it is
doubtful whether or not they would want to be objects of
Charity. However, this is what they become, and no doubt
partly through the doctor's fault. once asked a young col-
I

league why this class of people was on his free list. He was
 —

"Professional Etiquette" 247

young, handsome and popular, and had any number of this white-
capped and aproned brigade coming to his office. He said it
was a little tiresome, but "they talk so about a fellow if he
charges them and then they sometimes send a patient." This
was pretty hard on them, but no doubt contained some truth.
Now the question is, how to rid the profession of all these
friends and relatives. It is a strange fact, but none the less true,
that all who come to the office and are not charged have more
to say about their ailments and take up more of the doctor's
time with unnecessary gossip than any other class. This is no
doubt to make up in agreeableness (?) what they lack in paying
quality. It is also a correspondingly strange fact that we phy-

sicians ourselves treat these people a little more agreeably than

others. Why For fear they will think we want their money
?

of course, we would not think of such a thing.

No doubt the relatives are and ever will be a fixture on the
free list and cannot be reached. The remaining list named
should be gently but firmly led to see the error of their ways.
The last on the list can be reached through the head nurses of
the various hospitals throughout our country. These are
generally women of good common sense and executive ability.
They should instruct each class and each individual pupil nurse
under them never to enter a doctor's office without paying the
usual fee upon leaving. If they will still have free treatment,

there are the physicians belonging to the hospital of which they

are a part to whom they should apply.
As I am now out of the business and "laid on the shelf"
among the old fogy doctors and the "granny nurses" God —
bless them, for at least they were always healthy I feel free to —
write as I have done without fear of giving offence to any class.
As this " free list " proves itself to be a constantly growing one,
it is time that those physicians most affected by it should unite

in remedying the evil, which certainly falls heaviest upon the

homoeopath, who must give his medicines as well as his advice.
If the ball only needs a start, let us set it going, and trust that
otheis may keep it rolling until the goal is reached and the
physician emancipated from the binding but unprofitable laws of
" professsional etiquette."
248 I 'accination a Fall

VACCINATION A FALLACY— ITS COMPULSION A

CRIME.
By Dr. W. Curtis Cross.
Read bef ru New Vork Homoeopathic Society, April 7U1, :-

jrvation and experience incline me I ve that there

are numerous physicians who, with unreasoning and unquestion-
ing faith in the dicta of their preceptors and teachers, follow im-
plicitly and blindly the practice they have been taught and vac-
cinate their patients, at the same time assuring them that they
are thereby fully protected from smallpox. It is to try to induce
these self-confiding members of the profession to stop and con-
sider the validity of the assertions they make that I write
this thesis. Before proceeding to the discussion of the main
propositions set forth in the title of this paper, I propose to sub-
mit your consideration a few of the most important facts in
for
the history of the origin and evolution of the giant delusion
called vaccination.
In the year 1798, Edward Jenner, at that time an obscure
country doctor, practicing at Sudbury, near Bristol, England.
announced to the world that he had discovered a preventive of
smallpox, and startled the medical profession by his assertions,
which he based on the following fanciful superstition: The cows
in his neighborhood were milked by men as well as by women,
and the men would sometimes milk the cows with hands foul
from dressing the heels of horses afflicted with a malady known
as grease. With this grease thedirtv milkers poisoned the cows'
teats,which soon became covered with running sores, and this
disease was termed cowpox. The absurd notion that in some
way cowpox was related to smallpox, and that individuals in-
oculated with the former disease were incapable of contracting
the latter, had been prevalent among the peasantry for many
years, and impressed itself upon Dr. Jenner. He sent a paper to
the Royal Society in [797, announcing his supposed discovery;
this paper was rejected, however, and in [798 he rewrote it and
had it published at his own expense. He spread it broadcast,
and called his preventive " variola' vaccinae," although it was
well-known that cattle never contracted smallpox.
In this paper Dr. Jenner condemned spontaneous cowpox
 Vaccination a Fallacy. 249

kind now used), and stated emphatically that none was "gen-
uine unless it had been caused by horse-grease." He assured the
profession that inoculation with this agent meant complete im-
munity from smallpox for life, but subsequently he dropped the
horse-grease idea on the advice of Drs. Woodville and Pearson,
of London, and substituted humanized cowpox instead
Jenner's claim of complete immunity for life was soon proven to
be false:then another claim of one vaccination in infancy and
another before manhood was set up, but this also proved a delu-
sion, and its advocates then advised that vaccination be repeated
at maturity. It was next thought necessary that it should be
repeated every seven years, and now to insure perfect immu-
nity it is claimed by authorities that everyone should be revacci-
nated every three years, and that there should be three scars.
In every country where vaccination is practiced the profession
is divided respecting the merits of humanized and bovine virus.

Referring now to the title of my paper, it will be seen that it

embodies two independent propositions: one that vaccination is
a fallacy, and the other that its compulsion is a crime.
Independent in this sense, that whether I succeed or fail in
convincing my hearers of the truth of the first proposition, I
have still an equal and unimpaired right to be heard upon the
second. I submit then that vaccination is a fallacy and in sup-
port of this thesis I now endeavor to show that the claims put
forward on its behalf are false and delusive. To consider them
all within the limits of a papers like this is obviously impossi-

ble. The space afforded by a score of such papers would ill suf-
fice for such a task. But some few of them I will take as fair
examples of all, and will state them in such broad outlines as
the available space will permit.
—
Claim I. Protection. If you are vaccinated, you will not
take smallpox at all. This was the original claim. Listen to
the words ofjenner himself, as written on page seven of his
original Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae
*'

Vaccinae:" " What renders cowpox virus so extremely singular

is, that the person who has been affected is forever after secure
from the infection of the smallpox."
Nor was this the mere dream of an over-sanguine and enthu-
siastic inventor. Many of the high priests of the vaccine cult
cut themselves adrift from the saving grace of ajudicious hedge
by their dogmatic assertion that vaccination is an absolute pro-
250 / 'accinatton a fallacy.

tection against smallpox. Nothing could be clearer than their

•ment, unless indeed it bj its refutation by the stern logic of
For when we come to test the extent to which so uncom-
promising a promise has been redeemed, we are at once con-
fronted by a long and dreary history of failure. In England,
the birthplace of Jenner and his delusion, the first compulsory
vaccination law was passed in 1853. Referring to statistics, I

find that since theabove date there have occurred three leading
epidemics of smallpox. The first, 1857-9, killed 14,244 of the
population of England and Wales; the second, 1863-5, killed
29,059, and the third. 1870-2, destroyed 44.840. Between the
first and second epidemics the increase of population wa> seven

per cent, and that of the epidemic was forty and eight tenths
per cent. From the second to the third epidemic the population
increase was nine per cent, and the epidemic increase was one
hundred and twenty-three per cent. And when smallpox again
broke out in London in 18S1, coming upon a city ninety per
cent of whose inhabitants were at the time officially claimed as
vaccinated, it was confessed by the advocates of the vaccination
delusion that of the four hundred and ninety-one patients ad-
mitted into the Hi^hgate Hospital, the principal hospital then
receiving smallpox patients, no less than four hundred and
seventy, or ninety-eight per cent., had bee successfully vac- 1

cinated. So that comparing the proportion of vaccinated

patients to patients inside the hospital with that of vaccinated
population to total population outside the hospital, we find vac-
cination left six per cent, to the bad.
In theAppendix of the British Army Medical Report for
page 442. we find the detailed report of Surgeon Boulger on
fifty cases of smallpox among the British soldiers in Cairo. Re-
vaccination expressly admitted with thirty eight of these fifty
is

cases, including the four fatal ones In the London Lancet for
February 23d, [884, is recorded an outbreak of smallpox in
Sunderland comprising one hundred cases, whereof ninety-six
had been vaccinated. In the more recent history of Sheffield,
the history from which, by some wonderful process of ratiocina-
tion and self persuasion, the vaccinationists have managed to
extract so much comfort, we find the broad record of vaccinal
failure writ in characters no Less clear than the above.
" for years and years," says Niilnes, "the force o\ compul-
sarv vaccination could no further gto than it actually went in Shef-
 Vaccination a Fallacy. 251

field. The vaccinations had been brought to within five per cent,
of the births accountable. Neither can the quality of the
vaccine virus there employed, nor the proficiency of the public
vaccinators of Sheffield, be successfully impugned, in view of the
fact that they were awarded round sums by the government in-
spectors for vaccinal excellence, and in thirteen months, ending
March, 1888, Sheffield obtained as the reward of her faith in
vaccination 608S cases of smallpox. In this misguided city
re-vaccination had reigned supreme during all the time of her
trouble " The Times of Nov. 23 rd, 1887, of that city remarked :

" Re- vaccination had become general, and the plague ought to
have been stayed in stricken Sheffield if there were any virtue
in vaccination."
Did time and space permit I could cite thousands of other
similar recorded data comparing the historical facts of vaccina-
tion with the promises of its advocates, with damaging effect to
the latter. The British RoyalCommission appointed to enquire
into the merits of vaccination as a preventive of small pox re-
ported directly against the practice. Milnes writes '' Leicester,
:

England, did not vaccinate during a recent small-pox epidemic,

and had the lowest death-rate of any city of its size in England."
Returning to this country, I may mention the fact that Indian-
apolis, Ind., which refused to vaccinate during the last epidemic
of smallpox, had but three cases of the disease, one being a
recently vaccinated person who brought the disease there.
Rochester N. Y. had but one case, in spite of the fact that it did
not officially vaccinate. The smallpox epidemic of 1870-3,
after twenty-five years of compulsory vaccination in Europe, was
the worst experienced during the century. In Bavaria, out of
30,472 cases of smallpox 29,427 had been vaccinated, and in the
army, where every man had been revaccinated, the disease raged
with greater virulence than among the civilians.
I believe I have now adduced sufficient evidence to nullify the
first great claim that has been made on behalf of vaccination.

By the resistless logic of facts, the " complete protection " de-
lusion has long ago been dispelled and the arguments of its ad-
vocates completely demolished.
Now let us examine claim No. 11. Mitigation: — I find in
Dr. Husband's " Handbook of Forensic Medicine " these words
— "The proper view totakeofvaccination seemsto be this — that
:

it

does not preve?i' smallpox, but modifies its virulence." This

252 / Wccination a Fallacy.

tement en the view taken by most modern authorities

on the vaccination problem. Now the first and most obvious
remark to make on this spurious plea is that, if it claims to make
a statement of actual fact in any specific individual case, it
clearly assumes a knowledge of the unknowable an absolutely —
unwarranted assumption. For it must be clearly understood
from the history of this disease that long before the birth of
Jenner smallpox was of every degree of severity, from the
mildest to the severest type. Since, therefore, there were plenty
of mild cases of smallpox in the days before vaccination was
known, it is obviously impossible to say of any individual case of
post-vaccinal smallpox just how severely that patient had meant
to have it, if he had never been vaccinated. If, therefore, this
claim is to be supported at all, it must find that support in some
alleged statistical basis, and that basis is alleged to be found in
the comparative fatality rates of the two classes, the vaccinated
and the unvaccinated.
"But the evidence is overwhelming," says Milnes, after a
very exhaustive study of the matter, " that the fatality of small-
pox did not. as a rule, exceed in the pre-vaccination period
the fatality in the post-vaccination period." By a formidable
array of facts which have never been assailed, gleaned from the
statistical records of England
and France in regard to the
history of smallpox before and after the promulgation of
Jenner's dream, Milnes has demonstrated beyond refutation that
the claim of mitigation is absolutely without justification in
facts. I regret exceedingly that the scope of this paper forbids

their presentation herewith.

Let us now consider Claim III. Decrease of smallpox since
the Introduction of Vaccination :
— Opponents of vaccination
often find themselves reproached in some such teims as the
following :
" of smallpox used to be much more
The ravages
terrible than they are now." " There can be no doubt in any
intelligent mind that smallpox; has diminished in severity and
extent since the introduction of vaccination, and what more do
you want?" reply that I want a great deal more. I want
I

some little between the two. I

evidence of a causal connection
do not want to be- imposed upon by a mere post- hoc-ergo propter-
hoc argument. And it is just this causal connection t hat I deny,
and Ithink that can justify that denial with the irresistible
I

logic o! stern facts.

 Vaccination a Fallacy. 253

Calling to witness the recorded statistics of smallpox epi-

demiology, we get unmistakable evidence that the decline of
smallpox had set in long before vaccination had been heard of,
and very long before it had been carried out to any extent which
could have had any appreciable effect on the death-rate from
this disease.
Dr. Farr observes in his article, Vital Statistics " in " McCul-
'

'

loch's Statistical Account of the British Empire :" " Smallpox

attained its maximum after inoculation was introduced ; this dis-
ease began to grow less fatal before vaccination was discovered."
Thus smallpox, during the last few years of the last century, was
trying hard to die out, and the inoculators were trying no less
hard to stamp it in and vaccination got the credit of a change
;

with which was indeed contemporary, although to that change

it

it was never even contributory. But I may be exhorted by my

critics to compare the behavior of other diseases if I would see
the effect of vaccination on this particular one. I am willing

to do so to any extent on one condition, that the diseases to be

compared be fairly comparable. Smallpox is one of a great group
of diseases, and for fair comparison we must remain within the
limits of that group, making our comparison with other zymotic
fevers and exanthemas.
And first, broadly, what of the diseases that have come and
gone without vaccinal interference? Where is the "Black
Death" now? What has become of the plague which in the
past was wont to decimate the population of the old world ?
The dread typhus, which in the days of the Stuarts gave such
terrible significance to the phrase " rot in gaol," is all but gone,
though innocent of vaccinal expulsion. Let well- vaccinated
Sheffield declare whether plague or cholera or typhus, from
which we have no vaccinal protection, is more or less to be
dreaded than that of smallpox against which its citizens are so
well protected by vaccination. The decline of smallpox among
diseases is not unique. Historical data declare that many other
diseases have during the last hundred years progressingly de-
clined in nearly the same ratio as smallpox. I maintain there-
fore that the claims made in behalf of vaccination break down
on all sides as soon as subjected to really impartial scrutiny.
On the other hand the examples already cited of Indianapolis
in this country, Leicester of England and numerous others
where vaccination had been all but entirely neglected prove
 / 'accinaiion a Fallacy.

beyond question that a community may be thoroughly protected

against the smallpox by sanitary measures, even
spread of
though the disease be not infrequently introduced into the limits
from the well-vaccinated districts around. Passing to the second
I of my contention, I now affirm that the compulsion of vac-
cination is a crime; and I put my reasons for this conclusion in
the comprehensive statement that the so-called justifications of
it are false. As before, but still more briefly, I propose to state
them as I find them urged by compulsionists, appending a few
words of reply to each.
Justification I. — Endorsement by the Majority of the Medical
Profession. —A little reflection cannot fail to make the fallacy of
such an argument quite apparent. In the world of thought
majorities count for nothing. Truth has always dwelt with the
few. Even if the profession were unanimous in support of the
claim for vaccination, what then? Unanimity of opinion could
not establish the infallibility of the claim. Why ? Because in
the domain of thought great numbers count for naught, and it
w ould not be the first time that a no less unanimous profession
r

had been unanimously wrong. The doctors were unanimous

once in the support of inoculation; and the very law that now
enforces vaccination in England provides for a month's impris-
onment for any physician who might now attempt to go back to
the old orthodox faith. The profession w as unanimous once 7

about bleeding; and this unanimous blunder was erected into a

fetich, and at its altars for centuries were sacrificed hecatombs of
human victims.
But unanimity in regard to vaccination does not exist. The
very reverse is true, and so far from the medical profession being
unanimous on the subject of vaccination there can hardly be
found a matter within the broad domain of medicine regarding
which more numerous and more fundamental differences of
opinion are to be found among its members. After a careful
study of the subject, I venture, without fear of successful con-
tradiction, to affirm that no proposition can be formulated with
respect to the theory or practice of vaccination, but its direct
contradictory can be quoted from pro-vaccinal medical works
.1 authority. Let us see: the question, how
In answer to

many scars from insertions of lymph should be made on the

arm ? we find among authors of unimpeachable vaccinal
child's
orthodoxy that Drs. Brisdale and Lee say "one." Dr, Adams.
 Vaccination a Fallacy. 255

of Liverpool, says"two," Dr. Greenhalgh, of London, says

11
Government Board of Great Britain demands four,
three," the
Dr. Sandwith says "five," Dr. Martin, of Boston, says "five"
on each arm (10), Dr. Debenham, of London, says "six," Dr.
Curschmann, the great German authority, says " Six on each
arm" (12), and Dr. Bond, of Gloucester, says "the more the
better," thus recommending the "confluent" variety of the
disease. Thus has vaccination />/-<?gressed from the original
single scratch of Jenner, which any old granny could make with
a darning needle, up to an apotheosis of tattoo. How often
must be repeated to secure immunity ? You can select any
it

answer you please from the " once only " of the original Jenner
up to the vaccination of Warlomont, who recommends a repeti-
tion of the operation every four months until no further result is
obtained.
Dr William Jenner advises revaccination whenever there is
an epidemic while Dr. Guy emphatically declares that vaccina-
tion during epidemics is worse than useless.
If you enquire as to the lymph to be used, you will once
more let Babel loose. More than a dozen different varieties have
been advocated by as many different authorities. The choice is
ample; only remember that you must have the right one or it is
no good at all.
The theories of the alleged protection, though not quite so
numerous, are fully as internecine in their strife as the lymphs
themselves. They are too numerous to mention here.
Justification, II. —"The Unvaccinated are a Public Danger
— —
A Constant Menace to the Community. It is held that if a
man lived alone we might allow him to have smallpox at his
pleasure, but that as we live in communities we cannot permit
the unvaccinated to take a disease which they may communi-
cate to others; and, therefore, we are forced to compel vaccina-
tion in self defense. To this I reply that no man can give away
what he has not got. The unvaccinated must have smallpox
before their having it can be a danger to any one else. And
from where are they to get it ? They must either, in each com-
munity, receive it from the vaccinated, or else, for that com-
munity, it must originate among their own class. But the re-
corded evidence is overwhelming that when smallpox attacks a
community it does not commence with the unvaccinated.
256 Vaccination a Fallacy.

When the great pandemic struck the town of Bonn, the first
unvaccinated case to occur stood No. 42 in the chronological
order of the cases. At Cologne the first unvaccinated case was
No. 17.;. At Leignitz the first unvaccinated case was No. 224.
In the outbreak at Bromley every person attacked had been vac-
cinated.
What is vaccination to do ? Is it to protect or only to miti-
gate ? If it is to protect, then how can the unvaccinated be a
menace to those whose vaccination protects them from attack ?
Whereas, if the claim is that it only mitigates, then so far
as contagion is concerned one case of smallpox is like another,
and the unmitigated, because unvaccinated, cases are neither
more nor less a public danger than the vaccinally mitigated ones.
This being necessarily so, the public has no more concern with
my choosing to take my smallpox without mitigation than with
taking my coffee without milk.
Vaccination is either good or bad. If good, its goodness re-
moves the need if bad, its badness destoys the right of enforce-
ment upon the unwilling. Not to mention the indubitable
proofs on record of the vaccinal communication of syphilitic
contagion and other terrible human contagia, it is a fact no longer
disputed by competent authorities that vaccination has been the
causa vera of thousands of deaths.
In the returns of the Registrar-General for England there is a
regular permanent heading for M Deaths from Cowpox and Other
Effects of Vaccination." The entry began in 1SS1, since which
time there have been rendered, on the basis of death certificates
signed by physicians, many hundreds of deaths. Such unjusti-
fiable destruction of life by compelling people to submit to the
outrage of having their children's bodies contaminated with the
virus of a filthy disease is, in my opinion, nothing less than a
crime.
In concluding this thesis I wish to state that after a careful
review of the recorded evidence for and against the practice of
vaccination, it seems to me that no honest and intelligent seeker
after truth, who has given the subject careful attention and
who has been able to divest his mind of prejudice and
ence in weighing the evidence, can fail to be convinced that vac-
( [nation is a fallacy and its compulsion a crime.
 The Marriage Relation. 257

THE MARRIAGE RELATION.

Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.
Having carefully read Dr. Gleason's article (in the April
number of the Recorder), we can not let it pass without a few
words of comment. The three articles preceding the April num-
ber have agreed, practically, with each other, but this one takes
issue. Dr. Gleason's ideas are all right, but not practical, as
we hope to show. The ideas are lofty, too lofty, in fact, for the
common run of people.
He has placed before us a high ideal of what should constitute
married life.

The spiritual side of married life has been made prominent,

while the physical aspect has been almost totally ignored. If
we were all spiritual beings this would be all well and good;
but, if we mistake not, the majority of us are physical, grossly
so, in fact.
It is impossible to estimate the amount of inconvenience and
discomfort which we will have to endure before we reach the
high ideal set before us.
We do not, however, wish to be understood as depreciating
the high standard placed before us, but until that can be reached
we must adopt other methods to palliate the condition.
Dr. Gleason says: " Teach the sacrednessof marriage in a re-
ligious sense." Does he mean to totally ignore the physical
side of the matter? If so (and we presume he does), we beg to
differ. What, may we ask, is the chief object of marriage ?
Happiness of mankind ? Possibly; but more probably, the prop-
agation and perpetuation of the race, in a legitimate and decent
manner. If this is the object can we divest it of its physical
aspect ? Surely not.

So interwoven is our physical with our higher, or so-called

spiritual, nature, that to ignore the physical one must be as
spiritual minded as Christ himself. Even some of the apostles
did not ride above their physical natures. Without fear of con-
tradiction, we are prepared to make the statement that, consti-
tuted as we a perfect physical organization of both parties and
are,
a perfect physical adaptation contribute very largely to the higher
(or spiritual) aspect of ?narried life.
2- s The Marriage Relation.

We know of no one who advocates that the "sexual instinct

shall be the incentive to marriage." On the other hand, all three
of the preceding articles really advocate just the reverse.
Let us suppose the case of a couple who, after they were
married, found one or the other sexually undeveloped. What
man or woman is so spiritual as not to feel some degree of dis-
appointment ?

It is less than a month since a case came to our notice which

illustrates this particular point. From a knowledge of the
parties there is no doubt in our minds but the parties loved each
other with a true spiritual affection, yet this couple, being
sexually unadapted as they are, have somewhat of a struggle to
overcome a certain amount of dissatisfaction. They live peace-
ably together, but at the same time the husband is disappointed
and the wife has a perfect disgust. How much better if there
was not this disturbing element.
Where you will find one couple who will endure you will find
a thousand who will not. It would be grand, indeed, were we

all so spiritually minded that we could overlook any or all of

our physical discrepancies.

It seems to us if the spiritual love, which should be the in-

centive to marriage, can be combined with a perfect physical be-

ing (sexual and otherwise), and those perfect physical beings
are adapted to each other, the sense of companionship would be-
come grand; even sublime as the years go by. Dr. Heysinger
touched the right chord (Page n, January number): " Where

the physiological structure were intact (and he probably meant

more than that) the feeling of wifehood may and will be mel-
lowed with passing years."
is that there is ample opportunity to sup-
Dr. Gleason's idea
ply needed sexual knowledge after marriage. This may
sible, but we do not think it is as beneficial. It is better that

some things be known before than after marriage.

The doctor would not have the young minds poisoned with
sexual matters. We would like to ask Dr, Gleason if he would
attempt to keep all sexual knowledge from the young ? [fsuch
is his idea, the attempt will endin a miserable failure. The
young think of sexual things long before we have any idea that
SUCh thoughts have entered their mind-.
The poisoning comes net from correct teaching, but from
vicious associates and impure conversation.
The only way to prevent contamination of the young minds
 The Marriage Relation. 259

is by correct teaching, and this cannot be begun too early.

Better a little good, wholesome instruction than the rotten stuff

they now receive.

At one time there was a ''sect" who regarded the body as
vile and all conversation or thoughts tending in that direction
(especially on sexual matters) as impure, and we suspect they
are not all dead yet.
There would be just as much sense in keeping the young
ignorant of the function of their stomachs or lungs as of their
reproductive system. It is ignorance which leads to vice, not
knowledge.
To be sure, it is not a subject for the parlor or drawingroom,
but there is a proper time and place for such instruction to be
given.
Parents neglect their children in this respect. How many
girls know what the first menstruation means? It is simply
astonishing how much ignorance there is among adults concern-
ing things sexual.
Dr. Wood, (author of Wood's Gynaecology) has aptly said
that "too often the girl is permitted to assume marital responsi-
bilities while perfectly ignorant of them, and sheshocked at is

the role she is to play," and "the time

approaching is fast

when all educated mothers will realize that their full duty will
not have been done until their daughters have received from
them some knowledge bearing upon sexual hygiene and their
sexual relation." Dr. Gleason makes the statement that "true
love ma)* run smoothly without sexual mating. The experiences '

'

of life do not go to prove such an unqualified statement.

It is true, as the Doctor has said, that fornication is the only
cause for divorce which is recognized by God. But what is the
cause of so much fornication? In the March number of this
journal we have tried to show some of the causes. A.nd we still

believe that were sexual mating more perfect fornication would

be In his closing remarks, the Doctor says that
less frequent.
"the sexual function is not a necessity of life for either man or
woman." We can not agree with this statement, and that the
assertion is not true anyone can demonstrate who will make a
little observation. That "the properties which pass into the
consummation of conception become, by abstention, properties of
high intellctual life" is yet a disputed point among our best
physiologists.
E. P. Felch, M. D.
Remi?igto?i, hid.
260 Otitis Media Purulenta.

OTITIS MEDIA PURULENTA.

A Study by the University Professor of Medicine, Dr.
Rafael Molin, in Vienna.
The disease called by the older clinical practitioners otitis in-
terna, but by modern writers acute otitis media purulenta vel
suppurativa, a peculiar and insidious disease, by no means
is

rare, especially among children. It is, however, hardly men-

tioned in the allopathic manuals of special pathology and thera-

peutics. So we find that neither Bock, in the last edition of his
' Medizinische Diagnostik," and of his "Pathological Anat-
omy," nor Constatt, Leubuschek, Kunze, Billroth, or others,
make any mention of the inflammation of the cavity of the tym-
panum. Niemeyer only remarks, that during the angina
maligna in scarlatina the inflammation quite frequently extends
through the eustachian tube to the tympanal cavity, producing
an otitis interna, which leads to the perforation of the tym-
panum and often also to caries of the petrous part of the tem-
poral bone. Only Professor Hermann Richter, in his " Grundriss
der inneren Klinik," published twenty years ago, called the es-
pecial attention of practitioners to this malignant disease.
Though the picture drawn by Richter of otitis interna is not
quite in accordance with nature, I am, nevertheless, glad to be
able to adduce his words, so as to show the more manifestly the
use of this present study. This clinical practitioner of Dresden
remarks: " The inflammation of the internal ear otitis interna)
I

isnot only a frequent cause of encephalitis, but is also easily

mistaken for it, especially in children and in patients who are
unconscious. It begins with a deep seated pain on one side, ac-
companied by restlessness, insomnia, and frequently also by
delirium, cramps and stupefaction. In such a case we should
inquire as to previous pains in the ears and discharges from the
ears, notice the fact that the patient lies on the affected side,
mark his heat, ami the redness of the concha: we should not
omit the examination of the meatus auditorius and the cervical
glands, or the percussion of the petrous bone. Usually th<
ted ear is deaf. At times paralysis of the facial nerves on the
same side takes place. Later on there are symptoms of internal
suppuration in the skull: at times this is attended with the I
 Otitis Media Purulcnta. 261

tion of the pus that flows down the eustachian tube, by means
of coughing, hawking, etc. The treatment is the same as in
meningitis."
From what has now been adduced, it may be seen that otitis
media has not found much attention or favor with allopathic
practitioners.
We cannot say the same of homoeopathic practitioners. Al-
though Kafka, in his " Homoeopathic Therapeutics," mentions
only scrofulous catarrh of the ears, omitting all other diseases of
the ear, we find the old veteran, Hartmann, in his " Special
Therapeutics," devoted two sections to otitis externa et interna.
Hartmann remarks that otitis interna frequently has a cold for
its exciting cause; but that it is by the inflamma-
also caused
tion of adjacent organs, by acute and chronic
especially also
eruptions of the skin, and that it may also be one of the forms
in which secondary syphilis manifests itself. He enumerates as
pathognomica symptoms: A pain seated in the internal ear, of a
violent burning, stinging, tearing, boring and throbbing nature,
aggravated by the least motion, frequently spreading over the
whole head, and even affecting the brain; frequently there is a
complication with inflammation of the brain; there is an in-
creased sensitiveness of the organ of hearing, with a roaring and
rushing sound before the ears; intense fever and delirium, vomit-
ing, cold extremities, great anguish, twitches, throbbing of the
cervical and temporal arteries, etc. Hartmann mentions, besides,
that this inflammation under allopathic treatment very easily
passes into suppuration. Such an issue has never taken place
under his treatment, though he has treated a number of very
violent ^ases, and he does not think that suppuration is apt to
take place under homoeopathic treatment, if taken in time. This
learned man praises Pulsatilla as a specific in otitis, when not
complicated with cerebral symptoms; but when it is complicated
he advises Belladon?ia.
Our classic author, Dr. Bernhard Baehr, draws almost the
same picture of otitis interna, but calls especial attention to the
fact that this diseasehas a special tendency to suppuration and
spreads to the brain; that the disease of the brain thence result-
ing is a meningitis exceedingly rapid in its course, and is one of
the most fatal disorders. But Baehr especially emphasizes the
following: " The issue of inflammation of the ears may in the
most favorable cases be complete recovery, but this is rare
262 '!
M> lia Purulenta.

enough, for disturbances in the function of the meatus auditor-

ins usually remain, which too often manifest themselves as total
deafness. If pt -if
this finds an external vent, even if this should cause a l" -

tinned destruction of the tympanum and I discharges

from the A.s to the therapy, Baehr quo; illy the
advice of Hartmann, but recommends in addition the
Mercury in a syphilitic diathesis and of Hepar sulphuris h
ulons" persons, Arsenicum in a sudden collapse with a cadaver-
ously smelling, ichorous suppuration, Phosphorus in pyaemia, as
well as other accessory remedies.
According to the statements of Hartmann and Baehr, the
diagnosis of otitis interna, or, to speak more accurately, of otitis
media acuta, ought to offer no difficulties. Both of these auth<
indeed, agree as to the presence of the deep-seated pain in the
ear, which even when obscured by the pain in the brain lasts
from the beginning to the end of the disease. Nevertheless, as
will appear from my clinic experience, I hardly ever found this
symptom present. I, therefore, examined the books treating
especially of the diseases of the ear. I do not wish to say any-
thing about the therapeutics of the ear specialists, for that
neither suits us nor the patients. But I was not even satisfied
with the semiotics of these gentlemen.
Doctor Gustav von Gall, e. g gives the greatest importance to
,

the violent deep seated pain in the ear. which is aggravated by

chewing, blowing the nose, coughing and similar motions. It

is true, indeed, that he at the same time mentions violent hum-

ming, or noises in the ears, hardness of hearing, sensitiveness

noise, and vertigo, the eyes suffused and sensitive to the light,
the side of the face cedematous, and the outer ear in tife later
stage red and even painful. But what value is there to th
symptoms at the sick-bed, when they are hardly ever present ?

Gall, indeed, also tells us very eloquently that, according to the

statement ofSchwarz, the children suffering from otitis are rest-
less in their sleep and often awake with a scream; that rocking
and swinging aggravate their pains, am! causes their moan
to turn into screaming; that, if they are over a year old. they
bore into the pillow with the affected side of their head, or pi —
it against the shoulder of the nurse who cai ries them ;
that every
change of position is extremely disagreeable to them, and they
tos^ their head about until they find a support for th<
 Otitis Media Purulenta. 263

head that is affected that sucking is more difficult for the baby
;

than swallowing, so that the sucklings frequently push the

nipple away and scream and become emaciated if the food is not
given them in a spoon, and that at times they seize their ears
and bore in them with their finger. But all this will not enable
us to make a clear, exclusive diagnosis, such as the school of
Skoda has introduced into the practice of medicine. Even Gall
himself acknowledges that otitis media is a disease chiefly pecu-
liar to children, and that it is easily mistaken in them for inflam-
mation of the brain.
Professor Gruber lightly passes over the semiotics of this
disease, and gives as the chief symptom the well-known pain, and
one or more chills, hardness of hearing, and noise in the ears ;

but he lays stress on the fact that patients frequently from the
very beginning of the disease lie in a torpor, and readily pass into
light and even into furious delirium, or even pass into a coma.
But he makes the important observation that, "in spite of the
great danger which in such a disease threatens the life of the
patients, and while it is a disease occurring rather frequently,
it is extremely rare to see it taking a fatal termination."

In the extensive manual of diseases of the ear, by Prof, von

Troeltsch, Leipzig, 1873, this disease is treated, indeed, more in
extenso, but not more clearly than by Gall. Von Troeltsch dis-
tinguishes according to the underlying pathologic cause two kinds
of inflammation of the cavity of the tympanum the one, the ;

simple acute catarrh, also called the mucous catarrh, and the acute
—
purulent catarrh the otitis media. He states that the mucous
catarrh developed chiefly during changes in the weather, in
is

consequence of colds, especially with persons suffering from

chronic catarrh of the ears, or with syphilitic individuals so ;

also with individuals who are prone to affections of the mucous

membranes ; so also that the violent forms of this disease are
localized by preference on one side, but that the other ear is

hardly ever free from the trouble. According to him the most
important symptoms are Constant hardness of hearing, some-
:

times deafness, sometimes a sensation of heaviness and pressure

in the ears. Frequently in the first stage of the disease there
are sometimes variable pains, sometimes nocturnal, sometimes
constant pains, lasting even for a whole week, intense tearing
pains which are aggravated whenever the patient swallows or
hawks up ; constant sounds in the ears, as continuous singing,
264 Otitis Media Purulenta,

hammering and beating ; in more violent cases a troublesome

heaviness of the whole head, often vertigo returning even in bed,
finally febrile symptoms, which may at times be so much
aggravated that acute catarrh of the ears not infrequently mis-
leads physicians, being taken for meningitis cr irritation of the
brain. Then Prof. Troeltsch says verbatim :
" Especially with
children acute catarrh of the ear is distinguished only with diffi-

culty from congestive states of the brain, and from anatomical

observations I think it very likely that especially the suppura-
tive catarrh of the ear occurs very frequently in the infantile age,
and that its symptoms are very frequently differently explained."
If I add that this Professor of Wuerzburg asserts that the ex-
ternal meatus auditorius usually shows no symptom of the dis-
ease, and that the essential disclosure as to the seat of the disease
is given by the results of the air-douche. I have conscientiously

reported everything said by Troeltsch respecting the semiotics

of the simple catarrh of the ears.
Concerning the suppurative catarrh of the ears, Troeltsch says
that this is developed as a complication in dyscrasic diseases or ;

in persons inclined to suppuration, it is developed in unfavorable

conditions from the mucous catarrh of the ear but with children ;

it is idiopathic. He says further that the symptoms are the same

as in simple catarrh, only more violent, but that there are also
caseswhere such an abscess in the tympanal cavity, without any
pain and without any fever, has led to a perforation of the
tympanum and he emphasizes the fact " What we have before
; :

remarked as to a possible and indeed frequently occurring mis-

taking of the simple acute catarrh for an affection of the brain
and its coverings applies in a greater degree to this form of the
disease, which is always conjoined with a considerable hyper-
aemia of the dura mater lying above the petrous bone, and with
a corresponding reflex action on the sensorium : especially since
in such general disease of the individual the attention will not
a

be directed to the ear, as long as this is not yet suppurating ;

especially if the patient is in a delirium and sopor, ami thus

not himself able to give an account of his sensations."
As progression of this disease, Gall states that the in-
to the

flammation proceeds in most cases to suppuration, during which

the pain is aggravated to the most furious degree, and within
two or more days there is a discharge of pus mixed with blood
through tin- torn membrana tymp:ini, with a loss of the ossicles
 Otitis Media Purulent a. 265

of the ear and chronic deafness, unless in a higher degree of the

disease and with a complication of the brain death ensues on the
fourth, seventh or eleventh day with slight moanings and sopor
or attacks of twitchings.Troeltsch says that the usual issue of
otitis media is the rupture of the tympanum, and the most
violent and dangerous forms of the disease are those in which
the thickened tympanum resists the rupture by the abscess, and
the inflammation, spreading to the meninges or the brain,
quickly terminates fatally.

Ishould consider this critico-historical part as incomplete if I

should not add that Schwarze, in the post-mortem examination of
five new-born babes, found in two of them the tympanal cavity
filled with pus; that Wreden, in examining the auditory organs

of eighty infants from twelve hours to fourteen months old,

found in thirty cases the suppurative catarrh; Bruner, in three

new-born infants and in three infants less than five weeks old,
found in each case either the suppurative or the mucous catarrh;
Troeltsch finally in examining forty- nine petrous bones, belong-
ing to twenty individuals, found in twenty nine cases belonging
to fifteen infants, less than one year old in most of the cases,
suppurative catarrh of the typanal cavity.
Now I may be allowed the question: Who can find his way
out of this labyrinth ? A. distinguished physician for the ear rep-
resents to us the otitis media as being a disease without danger,
other physicians for the ear, who are just as skillful, describe it

as suddenly fatal, drawing after it not unfrequently the loss of

the ossicles of the ear and deafness; nearly all of them present as
a pathognomic symptom the pain, which, nevertheless, is very
frequently lacking, or which is only found for a very brief time
in the beginning of the disease; no one of these teachers tells us
plainly whether it only seizes on one cavity of the tympanum or
on both at the same time. The diagnose is founded by all of them
on subjective symptoms, which, considering the infantile age and
soporous condition of the patients, cannot be found out, or they
teach us to depend on the auricular mirror or the douche, which
will generally afford us no information, or the use of which if
they could afford us any information is not permitted by the
state of the patients.
hope that this evidently defective information concerning
I

otitismedia purulenta will be considered as a justification of the

necessity of this study, even more than the picture drawn by
Richter.
266 Otitis Media Purulenta.

II.

Clinical Experience.

Of the m ses of this disease which I liad an opportunity

of ob- i ill only describe three in detail.
i. It is now had my first o]
nearly thirty years since I

tunity, while a student, of Studying otitismedia purulenta. It

was at the time of the long autumn vacation, which I spent in
the environs of Vienna with the family in which I was employed
as tutor. At that time the sanitary cause in that vicinity was
represented by a single country surgeon, who did not infuse any
particular confidence even in the peasants there. In the family
with which I was a merry little boy of four years,
lived there
who was my pet, and who was merrily playing with me one
evening before going to sleep. After midnight I was suddenly
awakened with the request to look at the little boy for a minute,
as he was restless in his sleep and showed an intense heat.
I see his image before me even at this day. The facts were
just as they had been related to me. The boy kept changing his
position in his sleep, as if he could find no rest, but he would
remain longest lying on his back; he would scream at times in
his sleep; he would now and then twitch first with his hands,
then with his feet, but would always keep his eyes shut; his
skin was intensely red. burning hot and dry; the belly was not
contracted, the pulse showed 120 beats, the heart beat was very
strong, the respiration quickened. Being asked what ailed him,
the child gave no answer. I ordered leaven applied to his feet

and compresses on his head. After a little while his restlessness

decreased. The next day the boy waked up, showed much
thirst, but did not complain of any pain. The tongue was
moist, only at its base slightly coated with a grey substance; the
face was bloated; the eyes were without lustre sensitive to the
light; there was no appetite at all, the remaining symptoms
were unchanged. The surgeon who was called declared it was
incipient typhoid fever, and wished to give him calomel. But I
suggested that as the disease had not yet broken out it might
be better first to moderate the fever by Digitalis. He consented,
and gave every two hours one-eighth of a grain of powdered
Digitalis. This remedy suppressed the pulse and moderated the
heat; but the remaining symptoms remained unchanged. It

was odd that the lively boy never desired to get up, that he was
 Otitis Media Purulenta. 267

peevish and even showed aversion to clear beef booth, played

many hours of the day, sitting up in
quietly and silently for
bed; but most of the time he lav moaning in a stupor on his
back. The urine was red, the stools normal. On the third or
fourth day I thought understood the state of the patient; I
I

called the disease meningitis, while the surgeon was still await-
ing the typhoid fever; and I had much trouble every day to pre-
serve the child from calomel, to which I had an instinctive aver-
sion, and to keep him true to Digitalis. With the exception
that the boy perspired for many hours profusely on his head,
especially in his sleep, that his skin became paler, and now and
then showed some moisture, the symptoms dragged along in the
manner above described till the eighth day. On the evening of the
eighth day the boy commenced suddenly to weep and to scream,
and complained of stitches in his right ear. We tried to quiet the
child; but he continued to weep, and would continually lie on
his painful ear, when he soon fell asleep. The night was much
more quiet than the former ones, and next morning the pillow
on which the patient had lain was found stained with purulent,
bloody spots and on the right ear we found traces of a discharge.
On the ninth day the boy was much more cheerful, had less
fever, hardly any thirst, but also no appetite at all. At the same
hour as on the previous day the patient again began to weep and
complain of stitches in the left ear. He wept until soon after
he went to sleep, lying on the ear affected, and after a quiet
night the freshly covered pillow was found soiled as on the
previous night with stains of pus and blood. Scarcely had the
child waked up on the tenth morning, when he demanded food
and would not stay in bed any longer. The left ear was stained
from the discharge, but every trace of the disease had suddenly
vanished; his hearing was not injured in the least. I thought

then that the meningitis had thus discharged its secretion; fori
—
was far from supposing an abscess in the ear but at this day I
am of a different opinion.
2. In the winter of the year 1870 I was invited to a card-

party at the house of a friend, whose domestic physician I was.

After ten o'clock at night the son of my friend, a very talented
boy of five years, who hac passed the preceding summer through
typhoid fever, woke up with dreadful pains in the right ear.
The pulse was normal, and as I thought it was simple earache
I gave a drop of Oleum hyoscyami on cotton and put it in his
 Otitis Media Purulenta.
ear. The pain soon abated, and the boy fell asleep. Xext
morning early I was called to see the same patient. The
night had been a restless one: fever with headache, an intense
dry heat and violent thirst had appeared. When I saw the
patient I found him in a semi-stupor, lying on his back, his
face bloated, the eyes lustreless, the white of the eye slightly
reddened, the pupil normal, the tongue moist, slightly coated
with white, the respiration normal, the abdomen slightly dis-
tended and unyielding, the temperature higher, the heart-beat
stronger than in the physiological state, the pulse 140. The
patient lay moaning, as if he could hardh
there apathetic,
breathe, complained of pressure in the whole head, which did
not allow him to keep his eyes open, of general languor and in-
extinguishable thirst. On sitting up, he became dizzy. Noth-
ing abnormal was to be seen on the ears; the earache of the
previous night had disappeared. I ordered Bclladoyina inter-

nally, cold compresses on the head, and weak lemonade to drink.

In this state the day and the next night, which was very rest-
less, passed away. When questioned by the parents as to the
disease, I said that there was a (probably double) abscess of
the ears; that if the symptoms were not aggravated there was a
probability of his being saved, but that this could only be if

the abscesses discharged outwardly. Early on the second day

epistaxis appeared, wdiich, however, did not relieve the child.
The patient was still weaker on this day. The alarmed parents
demanded a consultation. On the evening of the same day I

had a consultation with a renowned children's physician. He

diagnosed the disease as typhoid fever, he declared that the
bleeding at the nose signified that the disintegration of the
blood had already begun, and he ordered Arsenicum. All my
observations could not shake my colleague in his conviction. A.S
our consultation had taken place in the presence of the pares
I was certainly in no enviable position. Luckily, when my
colleague had retired, the parents asked me whether 1 agreed
with the therapy of my colleague. Since the collapse had taken
place suddenly, replied that I should use the remedy ordered
I

by him but that I expected the cure to take place through the
disch the abscesses on the eight or th< nth day.
Imay be asked how dared to make such a bold diagnosis
I

and pn>. must answer 'hat I had had betoie this some
I

similar cases, and that the description of the disease, which I

 Otitis Media Purulenta. 269

shall give below, will enable us to make an exclu-

easily
sive diagnosis of this disorder. On
the use of Arsenicum the
pulse fell to 100-90, the head became a little freer, the heat
abated. The other symptoms remained unchanged. Except a
slight hardness of hearing there was no change in the auditory
organ. The eighth day, or rather the eighth night, which I had
so ardently wished for, passed without causing the slightest
change I waited undismayed.
in the progress of the disease.
On the evening of the fourteenth day I purposely visited my

patient. About 9 o'clock he suddenly commenced to weep on

account of very intense pains in the right ear. The parents
asked me, despairingly, " what they should do ? " " Nothing,"
I answered, " this is the cure." And, in fact, the boy instinct-
ively lay on his affected ear, fell asleep soon afterward, and
next morning his pillow was found soiled with the well-known
pus and blood. The pulse had sunk to 86 beats, the tempera-
ture of the skin was normal, the head clear, the thirst hardly in-
creased, the other symptoms unchanged. " Tomorrow the boy
will get up," I told the parents. And, actually, next day
when I visited my patient I found him sitting up cheerfully in
his bed and tormented with hunger. They showed me the
second pillow, soiled by the discharge from the other ear. This
latter discharge was not preceded by any pain. After a few
days I made Valsalva's test with the boy. Both the tympa-
nums were untouched.
3. On the 27th of October, 1874, I was called to see a little girl

two and a half years old, of slight built, blonde, but mentally of
unusual development; I had been for a long time before the
domestic physician of the family. The child had passed through
several mostly severe diseases. When I had her first under my
charge she had the dropsy, owing to the measles.
This time I found my little patient in bed. The head was very
hot, the face bloated, the eyes weary, the tongue coated white;
in the right lung there was a slight bronchial catarrh; the abdo-
men was slightly distended and rumbled when pressed upon;
the skin was burning hot and dry, the pulse 120. The child had
had severe diarrhoea for several days, but without fever, and had
been up all the time, and indeed as mischievous as a little Satan,
to use her mother's expression. In the previous night the
diarrhoea had increased, there was fever, the patient slept very
little, indeed, she was really only lying down and dreadfully
270 Otitis Media Purulenta,

tormented with thirst. The stools were very thin and of yellow
color. I diagnosed an intestinal catarrh and gave five drops of
the 3d dilution oi Rhus in half a pint of water every two hours
a teas poo nful. The fever soon moderate he heat, the
tongue became clean except the bottom of it, which remained
coated and. of a leaden color; the diarrhoea diminished, and on
the fourth day there was a formed stool. It was contrary to ex-

pectation, that the fever, though weak, still continued: that the
child showed aversion to all food, had much thirst, passed her
nights uneasily and almost without sleep, had no desire to get
up, and on the fifth day while coughing, vomited up a large
quantity of a clear yellowish-green fluid. A physical examina-
tion showed a catarrh of great extension in the right lung.
I gave 7pccacua?iha X3 in the same form as the Rhus. The
vomiting was not repeated, but the other symptoms re-
mained unchanged on the seventh day. In the left lung
a rattling sound as from small bubbles could be heard. I

would have given Tartarus, but as I feared the second-

ary action of this remedy on the intestinal canal which had only
just been healed I gave Phosphorus 6 On the eighth day the
disease showed the following image In the forenoon till about
:

II o'clock the child was cheerful and merry, and she played, sit
ting in her bed then she gave up her playthings, quietly lay
;

down on her back, and at once, as if by command, a severe fever

developed, she lay as in a stupor, groaned, and her limbs
twitched now and then, she was slightly delirious and in this
state she perspired profusely on her occiput, while the rest of her
skin was dry and burning hot. To take her medicine the little
girl had to be roused from the sofa by shaking her. Toward
seven o'clock in the evening the fever abated. The patient
w iked up, became merry and actually romped around in the bed
with her brothers and sisters. So she carried on till 11 o'clock
at night ; but from that time on there was a more severe fever,
at times she lay there in a stupor, then she tossed abou ssly,

with an unquenchable thirst, in a word, with all the symptoms

of the forenoon. This complex of symptom--, which was out of
all proportion with the slight bror.chi.il catarrh, excited in me a

suspicion that an affection of the meninges was being developed

in the patient. I determined, therefore, on the 9th day, to order
Belladonna K3 in liquid form. Through the action of this
remedy the child on the 1 ith day was altogether free from fever,
 Otitis Media Purulenta. 271

bright, but very pale, and did not complain of anything. The
other symptoms had alldisappeared, except that the bottom of
the tongue remained coated, so also the total lack of appetite,
the restless nights, the thirst, and the desire of remaining in
bed still remained. The urine, which before this was only of a
deeper color, on the ninth and tenth days looked like weak
coffee with milk, and in a short time deposited a considerable
sediment but on the eleventh day it became normal. I stopped
;

the Belladonna, and as the slight bronchial catarrh still continued

I again gave Phosphorus. On the 12th day till about 10 o'clock
in the morning no change had occurred in the state of my
patient. I found her at this hour in her bed, bright, but play-

ing silently and quietly in her bed. Suddenly, before my eyes,

the child put away her playthings, laid herself on her back,
closed her eyes, fell into a fever, and on her cheeks, white like
chalk, there appeared two dark-red spots, near the zygoma and
about as large as those bones. When I observed the child
groaning in her stupor with slight twitches of the limbs I asked
myself What is really the matter with the child ? * * * When I
:

thought of her condition, a suspicion flashed through my mind

like lightning. I had the child carried to the window, with my

right hand I closed her nostrils so that she had to open her
mouth, I placed my left index in her mouth and cast a glance at
the velum palati. The fauces were inflamed. Now I knew
what was the matter with the child. I ordered the Phosphorus
discontinued, commenced again with the Belladonna and prom-
ised the mother a crisis of the disease on the night from the 14th
to the 15th day. On the 13th day the urine looked again as on
the 9th day, the fever had entirely disappeared in a word, no ;

morbid symptom could be perceived, except the restless nights,

lack of appetite and thirst. On the evening of the 14th day the
child, which, though without fever, was peevish, for the first
time lay on her right side and fell asleep. The mother told me
on the 15th day that the previous night had been the first quiet
night, and showed me on the pillow the well known spots of pus
and blood and the dried- up traces of the discharge on the right
concha. The thirst had disappeared, as well as the bronchial
catarrh only the urine remained turbid and the lack of appe-
;

tite continued. I continued with Belladonna, and told the mother

to-morrow we will be through. And, in fact, during the night
the abscess in the left ear opened, and on the morning of the 16th
272 Otitis Media Pnrulentcu
day the child rose up, perfectly cured. Her hearing had not been
impaired in the least.
III.

Image of the Disease, and Differential Diagnosis.

Acute otitis media purulenta vel suppurativa is an inflamma-

tion of the mucous membrane of the cavity of the tympanum
with the deposit of a purulent exudation the formation of an
I

abscess). It appears as a complication of other diseases, espe-

cially ofdyscrasic processes, or, idiopathically, in consequence of

a cold. In the latter case it usually attacks both ears at the
same time, and is chiefly found in children. It begins with a
fever, which in the beginning has the characteristic of catarrhal
fever, and is not infrequently introduced by a febrile rigor, either
with or without a deep-seated pain in the auditory organ. The
pain at times becomes persistent, and in this case
aggravated at is

every motion of the head, and at every motion in chewing and

in swallowing; sometimes it passes away in a short time, even
in a quarter ofan hour. The fever increases in a short time,
sometimes few hours. The pulse has 120 to 140 beats;
after a
the skin is burning hot and dry, the face is bloated, the eyes
without lustre; the tongue is moist, clean or hardly coated on its
bottom, but with this there is a total lack of appetite and violent.
tormenting thirst; the velum palati is hyperaemic, the abdomen
not indrawn; the urine reddish, and all this is accompanied with
the symptoms of cerebral irritation familiar to all physicians. If
the disease takes a favorable course, or is checked, the fever
moderates in a few days, pulse sinks to 100 or even to 90, the
skin becomes more moist, perspiration sets in, the urine leaves a
sediment, while the other symptoms remain unchanged. The
hyperemia of the velum palati, the lack of appetite, the thirst,

the general lassitude, the sadness and restless sleep especially

remaining changed. Only by well chosen remedies the whole
complex of symptoms, with the exception of the hyperaaemia
the fauces, the lack of appetite and the lassitude, can be made to
disappear. On the 8th day, but sometimes not before the 14th
day, the abscess during the night disrupts the tympanum on its
upper and posterior part in the region of the membrana floccida
shrapnelli, and through the aperture thus made a purulent.
bloody fluid is discharged by drops. The disruption of the
tympanum sometimes takes place with a sudden, very viol
 Otitis Media Purulenta. 273

pain in the ear, which, however, is of short duration; sometimes

it comes unperceived. The process is repeated the following
night in the other ear. As soon as the pus is discharged the
torn borders of the tympanum close together and are soldered
up. Xo perforation remains. Very rarely the ossicles of the
bone are ejected with the pus. and then perforation and deafness
remain. It is peculiar to this disease that the inflammation of

the eustachian tube is the last to yield, and on this account it re-
mains impassable for a long time, so that the pus cannot flow
out through it.
In an unfavorable course of the disease the inflammation of the
mucous membrane of the cavity of the tympanum is communi-
cated through the fissura petroso-squamosa by means of the
erteria meningea media to the dura mater and meningitis is
then added to the otitis media purulenta. This dreadful com-
plication soon becomes manifest by the addition of the symp-
toms of cerebral pressure, especially by the sudden sinking of
the pulse below its normal. In such a case death usually shortly
supervenes.
Otitis chronica is seldom a consequence of the acute otitis,
and when it occurs it is a sign of the caries of the petrous bone.
Acute otitis media purulenta may easily be mistaken for typhoid
fever and meningitis, especially when it appears with a febrile
rigor and without pain. From typhoid fever it may at this day
easily be distinguished by the well-known law of temperature
in typhoid fever; from meningitis it may be distinguished in the
beginning by the hyperaemia of the fauces, later on and, indeed,
after the third day, by the above-mentioned hyperaemia and also
by the absence of the symptoms of torpor of the brain. Even
in cases where the child, being still too young, does not permit
the examination of the fauces, there remains after the third day
the absence of the symptoms of torpor of the brain to establish
the differential diagnosis. This is the first point in this indelect-
able work.
IV.

Prognosis.
The prognosis of acute otitis media purulenta is in general
favorable. But the careful physician must always keep in view,
not only a possible complication, but also a possible deafness
and caries and he must therefore be cautious in his dictum.
274 Otitis Media Purulenta.

V.

Therapy.
We have two excellent remedies to encounter this disease,
namely. Belladonna and Arsenicum. Belladonna, if u ^ood
time, limits the inflammation, keeps it from spreading, tames
the lever, and thereby saves the strength of the patient. How
does Belladonna effect this? Hahnemann's Materia Medica
In
Pura we find symptoms 44 (English edit., S. 319): "Tearing
downwards in the inner and outer ear." Symptom ^2 Engl.
e d-, 333): " Stitches in the inner ear, with impaired hearing in
it." S. 101 (E. ed., 556): "Long continued repugnance to
food." S. 102 (E. ed., 557): "No appetite for food, he loaths
everything." S. 304 (E. ed., 1108): "General weaku
S. 310 (E. ed., 1 164): "Sleeplessness."
S. 315 (E. ed.,
1 1 26): " Before midnight restless sleep; the child tosses about,

kicks and speaks crossly in his sleep." S. 327 (E. ed., 11

"At night much thirst." S. 348 (E. ed., 1194): "Great

thirst." S. 369 (E. ed., 1 317): " Frequent groaning without
being able to why, or what pain makes him do so." S. 371
tell

(E. ed., "Grunting and groaning in sleep," etc. Do

1319):
we not see in these symptoms the image of the disease we have de.
scribed ? * * * Noack and Trinks have listed the following char-
istics with Bellado?i?ia in their Arzneimittellehre\ " General great
weakness of the whole body: subsultus tendinum: twitching in
the limbs; inflammation of the mucous membranes: sopor: in-
somnia; very restless sleep; muttering, singing, loud talking n i

sleep; hot fever with convulsions: fever with violent, anxious,

very troublesome thirst; vertigo; ebullitions of blood to the
head; otitis; stitches from the upper jaw into the internal ear;
ringing and roaring in the ears: deafness as if a skin was ex-
tended before the ears; intensely red mucous membrane or' the
/oures and tonsils; entire absence of appetite: long continued
aversion to food; unquenchable thirst, etc.

Here we have a -till more complete picture

o\ this disease:

yea, we might say, ever the law of similia

it" was applicable, it
is suitable in this case. This to quiet the conscience of I:.
who content themselves with the theory of Hahnemann. In
these latter days, however, pathological anatomy teaches
us to view diseases not a- a com pi ( x ol symptoms of course, not
always, as, e. e.. tor intermitting but to consider the
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Otitis Media Purulenta. 275

symptoms as the expression, or rather as the consequence, of a

change in the texture in the organism, for it declares: " Where
there no material change, there is no symptom." This con-
is

clusion applied to our case means: Otitis interna purulenta does

not consist of the complex of the symptoms described, but the
symptoms are caused by the inflammatory process; they are
really the consequence of the inflammation of the mucous mem-
brane of the cavity of the tympanum. According to this concep-
tion, Belladonna is the specific remedy, not because it excites in
the healthy organism the symptoms of otitis, but because it
causes a real otitis in the healthy organism. Now is this the
case ? * * * I assert: Yes. We
do not indeed find en-
rolled amid the symptoms of Belladonna media purulenta,
'

' otitis
'

but the cause of this is that our Pharmacodynamics has

not yet been reconstructed in this sense, in which my friend,
Professor Hausmann, has instituted his investigations as to the
effects of remedies, namely, as to their causing pathologic
changes. But from the complex of the Belladonna symptoms,
and from the nature of the ear symptoms which Belladomia
causes to disappear, we can conclude that this remedy causes
acute otitis media purulenta in the healthy organism. In my
practice of many years I have cured very many cases of impaired
hearing, roaring in the ears and pains in the ears by Belladonna.
But what cases were these ? I would call especial attention to
the fact that these were only such cases in which an acute or
chronic catarrh of the fauces was present. But what does the
catarrh of the fauces here signify ? It signifies a catarrh of the
eustachian tube and of the cavity of the tympanum. But are not
these pathological changes produced by Belladonna f Once
more: It is not because the symptoms of Belladorma cover the
symptoms of otitis that Belladonna cures otitis, but because
Bellado?ma produces otitis in the healthy organism. And this
constitutes the second point in this study.
Pathological anatomy proves the correctness of this homoeo-
pathic doctrine. That Bellado?ma does not lose its indication as
the specific remedy even when this otitis is complicated with
meningitis may be seen from the post-mortem examinations on
the effects of Belladonna as reported in our Pharmacodynamics:
" In animals, slight injection of the pia mater, congestion of the
veins on the surface of the brain, rednessof the corpora quadri-
gemina and of the lobes of the brain; in men the brain, which
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Stomach-Cough.

with blood in all the blood

ins to be putrid, is red, turgid,
vessels; there is an accumulation of black, thinly -fluid blood in
the receptacles of the dura mater, pia mater and of the substance
"
of the brain * * *.

As to Arsenicum, what homoeopath is ignorant of the general

indications of this, our chief remedy ? But its special use in
otitismedia purulenta is indicated by the following medicinal
symptoms: Roaring in the ears, especially at every fit of pain,
ringing in the whole head, deafness and obstruction of the ears
when swallowing, hardness of hearing as from obstruction of the
ears; * * *
inflammation of the palate, internal inflamma-
tion and swelling of the throat,"
::
and among the
:;:

effects as found by post-mortem examinations: "Inflammation

of the meninges."
Homoeopaths may therefore confidently encounter otitis media
purulenta. Its diagnosis has for us lost its ambiguity, even
without auricular mirrors and the air douche. We have specific
remedies with which to meet this disease and, indeed, such as
have stood the fiery trial of pathological anatomy.

STOMACH-COUGH.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Medizin. Monaish
fuer Ho m.
When cough is mentioned we are accustomed to think of some
morbid symptom of the lungs or the respiratory organs in gen-
eral, and to many of our readers the superscription of our article
may look strange. As indicated by the name, stomach-cough is
a peculiar cough which either proceeds directly from the stom-
ach or in which the stomach is at least drawn into sympathetic
disorder, and has a more or less prominent part, as it, si> to say,
loosens the cough. This morbid symptom is chiefly noticed in
old people.
What is properly called stomach cough may be caused by the
fact that the stomach, in a catarrhal process, produces an e\
quantity of mucus, which then penetrates also in an up-
ward direction even into the pharynx and the parts sur
rounding tlu- larynx, and through the irritation caused th
produces a co ugh with more or less expectoration of mucus, or,
again, may appear as a purely nervous stomach symptom. In
 Stomach- Cough. 2~i~

either case we must consider the stomach, which in the former

case endeavors to eliminate the accumulated mucus as the start-
ing point and the cause.
When a diseased stomach imperfectly digests, the blood then,
in consequence, catarrhal substances pass into the blood and the
entire stream of fluids, and when this is impregnated to a cer-
tain degree with these morbid products these are deposited in the
most various and even the most distant organs and the whole
organism may thence be brought into a mucous state which may
be best described as a " universal catarrh." Usually, however,
and in most cases, the respiratory channels are implicated, and
thus their catarrhal state is complicated with an ailment of the
stomach, and these are the relation of cause and effect.
Then, again, an independent pulmonic affection (catarrh, con-
sumption, etc ) may particularly act upon the stomach and come
into closer relation with its that cough arises as
functions, so
soon as a man eats or drinks anything.This may be explained
from the closeness of the relation of the lungs and the stomach,
which are in direct communication through one and the same
nerve (the nervous vagus). In this case the stomach only suf-
fers by sympathy, and the stomach-cough arising thence is only
a sympathetic symptom, the origin of which is not to be sought
in the stomach. The intimate connection of these two highly
important organs, and their very close mutual relationship, may
be seen most drastically also in other cases, as in the severe dis-
turbances of digestion which precede and attend pulmonary
consumption like a shadow, as also the violent symptoms of
nausea peculiar to many forms of influenza.
Finally a stomach-cough may be caused by the simultaneous
disease of both the organs involved, when it will prove all the
more stubborn.
The stomach-cough may become a most troublesome symptom,
and thence call for a speedy remedy.
We shall now shortly adduce the homoeopathic remedies
which we have found efficient. The potency used was in all
cases the 3d decimal.
Bismuth nitr., especially in the stomach-cough proper, i. c,
one originating in the stomach. This is the chief remedy in a
cough appearing after eating and drinking. The prescription in
such a case is always: take a dose as soon as the cough begins !

Pulsatilla. —Cough with much expectoration of yellow mucus

2 7 s Stomach'i augh.

with a bitter taste. This ought to be tried especially when the

preceding remedy has proved ineffectual. The power of loosen-
ening the mucus is in general to be regarded as the fundamental
effect of Pulsatilla.
Manganum curb. — Catarrhal cough at night and after eating
and drinking; a very important remedy.
Thuja. — Cough immediately after eating and drinking.
Phytolacca dccandra. —
Retching cough, vomiting and stomach-
cough.
Ant. tartar. — Chronic mucous state of the chest and suffocat-
ing catarrh with old people; stomach cough.
Lycopodium. —
Cough after eating and drinking; it acts on the
stomach and the lungs, especially in nascent pulmonary con-
sumption (catarrh in the tips of the lungs), and in advanced
tuberculosis.
Senega. — Affections of the lungs with stomach-cough.
Calcarea hypophosphorica. — If the chronic pulmonary catarrh
assumes a malignant character, with a pronounced tendency to
consumption, and Phosphorous and Arsenicum have proved in-
sufficient, then Calc. hypophos, 2-3d trit. is indicated by the fol-
lowing symptoms: Violent attacks of coughing (without expec-
toration) at night; intolerable cough after eating and drinking,
constant, noisy eructation of air, entire lack of appetite, catarrh
of the stomach with tongue coated white, tendency to diarrlura
(leading symptom), bluish white blisters on the lips and in the
corners of the mouth, increased pulse with fever (leading symp-
tom), appearing suddenly owing to taking cold. After fre-

quently repeated doses there will soon follow the expectoration

of large masses of mucus or vomiting of mucus, with immediate
and general improvement. (See " The Cure of Pulmonary
relief
Consumption," p. 19, by Ad. Alf. Michaelis 1

As stomach cough has not been specially treated of in homoe-

opathic literature, these statements will probably satisfy a want.

lt
Sttcta Pulmonaria is of homoeopathic origin, and is one in
which the late Prof. Scudder had great faith. The chief indi-
cation upon which he based its prescription was pain in the
back and shoulders, extending Up through the neck to the back
of the head. No matter what the disease, when this particular
pain is present, sticta is the remedy. We find it peculiarly ap*
 —

Hedeoma Pulegioides. 279

plicable to many cases of rheumatism, to bad colds, and to chest

troubles. It is one of the remedies we always consider when
about to prescribe for cough. It is especially effective in many
cases of chronic cough. Webster places particular stress
Prof.
upon its value as a remedy when the cough is dry, rasping,
wheezing, persistent; especially in the hay fever cough so com-
mon in many parts of the country in July and August." Eclec-
tic Medical Journal.

HEDEOMA PULEGIOIDES.
The following case of poisoning with "pennyroyal" is re-
ported by Dr. H. W. Kimball, of Providence, R. L, in the At-
lantic Medical Weekly of May 14, 1S9S:
" On the morning of September 4, 1S97, shortly after one
o'clock, I was called in great haste to see a woman said to be
dying."
" When I arrived at the house I found Mrs. B., twenty-three
years of age, lying upon the bed unconscious and rigid. Eyes
were tightly closed, and when forced open pupils were closely
contracted and would not respond to light. Jaws firmly shut,
hands closed, fingers over the thumb. Respiration slow and
shallow, pulse weak, thready and rapid, temperature normal,
skin culd and covered with perspiration; general state of
collapse."
"Asapproached the bed patient had a general convulsion,
I

tonic in character. There was a strong odor of pennyroyal all

over the house, so strong that it could be plainly smelled as
soon as the outside door was opened."
" On making some
inquiries of the husband I learned that his
wife had gone some two weeks over her usual menstrual period,
and fearing that she was pregnant had, upon the advice of a
neighbor, taken some oil of pennyroyal upon retiring The
bottle that had contained the oil was shown me. an ordinary 51J
bottle, with the druggist's label upon it; I was told that it was
one half full, and that she had taken the whole of it at about 10
p. m., first having soaked her feet, and gone to bed."
" The next the husband knew was that he suddenly awakened
and found his wife vomiting and unconscious; the vomiting was
shortly followed by convulsions. He, being unable to arouse
her, sent for me, and I found her in the condition I have de-
scribed."
2S0 Euonymus Atropurpun
"
immediately injected one-tenth grain Apo morphia, hypo-
I

dermatically. following this h. sulph. one th grain, 1

and repeating tl hnia in about twenty minutes. Before

the Strychm ut soon be-
>ve I then, at short intervals, inje :uls
of whiskey under the skin. Th< at vomit l1 times
i Apo-morphia but had only one convulsion
result of the y

while was there. Her condition improving, and at r>.;><> a. m.,

I

her pulse was of good volume and much slower pupils reacting
to light, and she would swallow whatever liquid that was placed
in her mouth and evinced pain when the hypodermic was used.
She was still unconscious, however, but was improving so
rapidly that I went home, after telling the family that I thought
she would come out all right."
From this on the patient made good recovery, but whether
the woman accomplished her obiect or not Dr. Kimball could
not sav as she moved awav from the city soon after.

EUONYMUS ATROPURPUREUS.
"Country Doctor " treats of this remedy, Euonymus atrop..
or" Wahoo." in the May number of Journal of Medicine and
Science (Maine Academy), and claims for it some remarkable
powers. He says:
" On the secretory functions of the kidneys it is the most won-
derful drug I know of. It increases the secretions somewhat
but not enough to claim the rank of a diuretic per se, but it will
remove albumin from the secretions almost completely in a very
few davs. It has some anti rheumatic properties as have all

remedies that affect the kidneys."

*'
" Now how can I class this plant ?

" My key note for its employment is one single word, Back-
ache — of course it is a peculiar backache, a Wahoo backache.

which in reality is more of a soreness and tenderness than an

acute ache; that is my chief indication. Most patients will say
that it feels as if they were lying on a hard roll oi cloth a,
the small of their back. Now this particular indication occurs
in a great many <! and in conditions where no dis( -

exists; in cases where the functions of the ki inevs arc totally

changed or where the kidnevs are not affected at all."
 Euonytuus Atropurpureus. 281
11
Mrs. W. C, age about thirty. Had attended her at different
times for some chronic kidney trouble of no serious aspect, but
had not seen her for two years. Was
called about three weeks
after birth of her fourth Bowels constipated, had not
child.
moved for more than two weeks, and the kidneys were working
very poorly, a small quantity of urine every two or three days.
Vision and breathing very much disturbed and every symptom
of uraemia pronounced. She also complained of " having a roll
of cloth" under the small of her back. Urine sp. gr 1.028,
neutral, very pale and slightly clouded. Upon boiling it, over
35 per cent. — yes, nearly one-half — by volume coagulated, of
which again 65 per cent, remained undissolved in strong acid.
say that at least 25 per cent, by volume (before set-
It is safe to
tling) of the total amount of urine passed was albumin. Of
course I cannot give any nearer details as the test employed at
the patient's home was such as every country doctor can easily
carry — which does not include any elaborated analytical balances.
Diagnosis: Acute or sub acute Bright's disease, aggravated by
the recent childbirth and associated with suppressed lochia.
Prognosis: Rather doubtful if the feared convulsions would set

in, but, I added, if these could be held off for forty-eight hours,
we could have Mrs. C. safely in hand."
It is needless to follow the full treatment, but Euonymus atrop.,
aided by other indicated remedies, completely relieved the case.
Like our late Dr. Holcombe, the writer of the above believes
that Euonymus is agood remedy for Bright's disease, though he
has never tried it on a fully developed case but has been able to
check every incipient case with it.

"As far as the soreness and tenderness of the back goes, I

could cite hundreds of cases, mostly females, who have been

promptly relieved, and as nine women out of ten have more or
less backache, you will see, doctor what an opportunity this
remedy gives you to get on the good side of the ladies! The
Wahoo backache differs from the Helonias backache, in that the
Helonias has a dragging and bearing down sensation towards
the uterine organs and associated with an atonic condition of the
same; in other words Helonias is indicated where the uterine
organs are the cause of the backache, while Wahoo is called for
where the back is the chief offender and the surrounding parts
only act in sympathy."
"Country Doctor " says that in this drug, as in all others of its
 r
282 On the ( se of Nosi

class. to get tlu-sc favorable results a preparation ofthe fresh plants

must be used. He also gives some instances of gross mistakes
made by ignorant, commercial pharmacists, thereby demonstrating
the importance of doctors exercising some care in their purchases
of drugs. In one case Veratrum vir. was sent in for Phytolacca
decandra, and in another Chelidonium was made into Belladonna
tincture. But as long as buyers of medicines look to price only
these little errors must be expected.

ON THE USE OF NOSODES.

My object nowsimply to show that the scientific use of
is

nosodes is from the teachings of Hahne-

strictly a fair inference
mann and a real advance in both the science and the practice of
our art. To bring the subject clown to date, what are Pasteur
ism, Listerism, and Kochism but crude imitations, mechanical
blunderings into the arcana ofthe mighty laws introduced to us
by the genius of Hahnemann ? and what were the fearful mor-
tality at first under Koch and the many failures under Pasteur,
but proofs of both the absurdity and the danger of mixing things
that differ into an unknown compound, not of the multifarious
drugs of polypharmacy, but the laws of similarity and potentiza-
tion sought to be carried out on material lines ? What is the
thought that every case of hydrophobia could be cured by the
crudity of inoculation but a gross defiance of that stern individ-
uality of disease which true science alone claims, and which is

an absolute sine qua ?wn to successful cure ? Let us go further.

Is not the whole of bacteriological science, as taught and prac-
ticed in the present day, only, on a large scale an admission,
though a most gross recrudescence, of there same laws which
come in so clearly in the scientifically therapeutic use of nosodes?
What is the admission ofthe almost infinite power of something
hitherto inappreciable by any of our senses and now only by
one. because microscopes have been brought to an excellence
hitherto UD attained, but an admission that there are powers in
nature which can both kill and cure in myriads, and yet to four
of our senses they are still nan sunt f In a word, what real
therapeutic advance is there in this year of grace, (898, that is
not in its germ to be discovered in the " Organon, " the
"Chronic Diseases," and the prefatory an other remarks in the
" Materia Medica Pura," and in those two directions of similar-

ity and potentization ?

 — —

Tela Aranece. 283

In conclusion, I cannot forbear throwing out a hint as to the

use of disinfectants, scientifically. Is not the most simple rem-
edy at the moment the truest disinfectant for that particular
case and that particular epidemic? Should not we, on principle,
raise a unanimous protest against the crudity of Listerism and
allpowerfully offensive odors, and besides the carefully chosen
remedy trust implicitly to the powerful virtues of absolute
cleanliness and fresh air ?

This is a large subject, and I only refer to it, as it seems to

me a fair deduction in principle from the subject before us.
Edward Mahoney, M. R. C. S., in Jour. Brit. Horn. Soc, April,
1898.

TELA ARANEiE.
G. P. Bissell, M. D., Woods, Oregon.
was much interested in the article with the above title, in
I

the April number, which, by the way, did not reach me until
the 24th. It gave me a hint of the remedy that I have had oc-

casion and need to use in several cases

I want to tell what I know about the use of the spider's web
in bulk, which is very little.
When I was a young man I had several patients sick with the
ague, and all of them so poor pay that I never received a cent
from any of them. Xow here, thought I, is a good chance for
an experiment; so I ransacked cellars and dark stables, gather-
ing up a mass of spiders' webs. These I made up into pills of
almost four grains each, and dosed my impecunious clients with
three or four to each person. The result was that it broke the
ague in every instance, and broke it so thoroughly that it did
not recur.
I was a young man, and lately from the East, where I had

never seen a case of ague. It was in Wisconsin that I did the

dosage. Also, I had in the same vicinity some patients who
would pay. These I treated in the most approved scientific
form of allopathy, with far less success in controlling the dis-
ease, but with greater benefit to my pocket.
I shall try to remember the remedy, Tela. Dr. Law says it is

good for numbness. Is it good for paralysis incident to change

of life, where there is no lesion ? And does the fluid form con-
tain all the virtues of the original fibre ? California Medical
Journal.
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Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schuessler, of Oldenberg, Germany, died
on March 30th, 1898. In a notice of his life, published in a
German homoeopathic journal, it is said that the 25th edition of
his famous work, "Abridged Therapy," was edited by him
shortly before his death, and from a private letter from one of
his friends and assistants, we learn that Dr. Schuessler was very
much interested in an authorized translation of his work into
English, for which he had entered into a contract with Messrs.
Boericke and Tafel. was proposed to translate the 24th
It

edition, but Dr. Schuessler wrote his American publishers that

within a year he expected to have out the 25th edition, which
would be very materially altered from the preceding ones, and
asked them to wait and he would send them advanced sheets.
He did this, they were translated, and the work is now in the
compositors' hands. It will be very interesting to all who are
interested in biochemistry, and will be the latest and last mes-
sage from the old master to his followers. The following letter
to his publishers from Dr Meyer may be of general interest:

MESSRS Boerickk & TAFEL Honored Gentlemen: I have — in-

cumbent on me the sad duty of informing you of the death of

Dr. of Med. Schuessler. the founder of Biochemistry. His death
took place on March 30th, of this year, at 6:45 p. m., from the
consequences of a stroke of apoplexy. The burial of our dear
departed friend took place here in the Gertrude Cemetery, on
April 5th, and w:is very largely attended.
Yet on liis sick bed the departed put the finishing touches to

the 25th edition of the "Abridged Therapy," and it was granted

him also to live to see its publication. We are sorry to see that
 Editorial. 285

he did not live to see the publication of its new translation into
English, as he was looking forward to it with great expectation,
from its being a pure translation without any additions.
The information as to Dr. Schuessler's course of life is ex-
tremely scanty, as he could never be persuaded to write an auto-
biography, and nothing looking in that direction was found
among the manuscripts left behind. All the facts concerning
his life have, therefore, to be taken from the official records and
from communications obtained from his contemporaries.
If you should desire to make use of the little that is known
concerning Dr. Schuessler, either for an article in an American
homoeopathic journal or in an introduction to your new transla-
tion, I offer my service for that purpose. I have the honor of

signing myself, with great respect

Your's sincerely,
August Meyer, Chief Reviser.
(President of the Biochemical Society.)
Oldenburg, April 8, 1898.
Steinweg 31.

The character of the average "Drug company" is well illus-

trated by a circular recently sent out by one of them, called the
"Alta Drug Company." The subject of the circular is Crataegus
oxyacantha, which is said to be useful in heart disease, nervous
disease, scanty and suppressed menses, constipation; that "it
will increase longevity," is of use in la grippe, in anaemiawhere
iron is no use, and, in short, that the new remedy is a very
of
wonderful discovery indeed; all of which may be true, as there
is good testimony as to its value in heart disease, and it may be

useful in the others. But here is the point, quoted from the
broad-cast circular:
"We are willing, hence, to stake a fortune on that assertion,
and do hereby declare that we will pay $1,000.00 to any family or
legal heirs of any person dying of heart disease in the presence
of Crataegus oxyacautha (Alta) as made by us. Remember the
offer is only for Cratcegus made by us, as all other manufactures
of the drug are worthless."
In view of the fact that what is known of this drug was dis-
covered before this "company" took it up, the vulgar impu-
dence of their assertion needs no comment. CratcBgics is simply
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286 Editorial.

a tincture of a species of hawthorn berry, and is sold by legiti-

mate pharmacists at the same rates as the other standard tinc-
tures, but this "Alta Company" states that it "is put up only in
two and four ounce bottles and sold at $1.00 per ounce."
It will next be in order for some of the journals to lash them-
selves into a high state of indignation (in "reading notice")
over the fact that "unscrupulous dealers" are "substituting"
other Crat&gus for that made by the truthful and virtuous Alta
Drug Company.

The annual meeting of the American Ophthalmological, Oto-

logical and Laryngological Society will convene at Chicago,
June 22d.
From the number of papers presented and the subjects they
cover, a most successful meeting is assured. The session will
close in time for the members to proceed to Omaha to attend the
Institute meeting.

Dr. H. T. WEBSTER in a communication to the California Medi-

cal Journal, on the new heart remedy, Crataegus oxyacantha, in
which, after recounting what has been said of the remedy, he
adds the following from his own experience:
"It is recommended not only where we prize cactus so much
—
as a heart tonic but in valvular affections. Curative effects are
claimed here, but as too much is almost invariably claimed for a
new remedy, we may doubtless accept some of the claims with
doubting. I have employed it as a general heart tonic with per-

fect satisfaction for the past few weeks, and feel confident that in
this remedy cactus grandiflorus and cereus bo?ipla?idii have met
a successful rival, if not a superior. In one long-standing case
of cardiac irregularity and debility that had been treated with
a wide range of cardiac agents for years without benefit, Cratae-
gus gave speedy relief."
"Dr. Born, of San Francisco, was the first to call my attention
to it, and his experience with it has been rather extended. He
thinks it the best heart remedy he ever tried."

Dr. Geo. D. Coe

(Cal. Med. Journ .) writes: "Mrs. \V
from a vulvar puritus. Examination revealed
applied for relief
nothing abnormal She was cleanly in her habits and person,
and there was no obvious cause for the distressing itching. She
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Editorial. 287

had been to two other physicians before coming to me, so, of

course. I was more than anxious to give relief. After trying
several remedies with no benefit I gave her a solution of Grin-
delia 3ss to the 5 of water, and directed her to apply it on a soft
piece of muslin. Improvement began at once, and you may be
sure she is very grateful."

The following particulars from Med. Monatshefte fuer. Horn. etc.

are noteworthy as practical rules:
1. All homoeopathic medicines should be kept in a dry place,
but especially the trituration of Nitrum, which is apt to attract
moisture.
2. Camphor is never to be kept in the same case with other
remedies, but separately, since as an antidote of almost all the
other remedies, it destroys their action.
3. Preparations of Iodine must not be exposed to the direct
rays of the sun, as they are decomposed by its chemical effects
and become inactive.
4. Preparations of Bromine should, if possible, be fresh.
5. While using Mercurius< water treatment should be care-
fully avoided.
6. Preparations of Iodine and Mercury generally act better in
summer and in a mild climate.
7. Phosphorus Iodine and Mercury generally act better in dry,
,

warm weather, than when it is cold and wet.

"While most of the homoeopathic preparations even in their
—
low potency, are very important yea, indispensable curative
remedies in dangerous and threatening diseases where a quick,
energetic and penetrating action is called for, two medicinal
drugs owing to their peculiar nature and their particular qualities,
are an exception to this rule: These are Lycopodium and Silicea,
of which it is said, that they are inactive in low potencies. Prof.
Dr. Hegewald says on this subject; Lycopodium is inactive so
long as its spores are not broken, and only becomes active when
triturated repeatedly. I have seen no effects in any lower form
than the 12th trituration. Silicea is a remedy only when it is
potentized, not below the 12th trituration."

—
Reduction of Hernia. When a hernia has protruded and
became incarcerated and its reduction proves difficult and even
seems impossible on account of corpulence and owing to the dis-
tension of the abdominal muscles, place the patient in a warm
bath of 102 Fahrenheit (39 C). After 15 minutes the reduc-
tion of the hernia will generally be easily effected, for in the
warm bath the vessels become relaxed and the tension of the
striated muscles ceases. The same treatment will also be found
effective in spasms of the bladder. Pop. Zeit.fuer. Horn
 PERSONAL.
Dr. C. F. Goodell, Hahnemann, Philadelphia, 'S3, has been appointed
Health Officer of Frederick, .Aid.
On his death bed Dr. Schiissler, he of Oldenburg, expressed regret that
he might not see the true" translation of his "Abridged Therapy"
'

authorized by him to be published by Messrs Boericke & Tafel.

Dr. C. Eurich has removed to Bath Beach, L. I.
Bacterium brassiccz acidce is the cognomen of those responsible for the
odor of sauer-krout.
Fortunate that men cannot supress Mother Earth's skin eruption, volca-
noes, else we should have an unpleasantly vigorous, confirmation of the
truth of Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases.
Dr. William Lathrop Love has removed from 409 Classon to 1188 Dean
St. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dr. S. R. Bell has removed from Rock Valley, Iowa to 2200 Congress St.
Chicago, 111
Is not "dynamic power" sort o' tautological?
Japan, as it were, takes the confection, in making quinquennial revacci-
nation compulsory.
Let us all unite in prayer that compulsory immunization (how that word
is worked these days!) will not come upon us and our little ones.

M. Sebourand has discovered that baldness is a microbial disease, so look

out for microbes when the bald-headed man is abzjut.
Robert Whinna, M. D. has removed from Norristown, to 5726 Market St.,
Philadelphia. Specialty, eye, ear, nose, and throat.
The First Annual Report of the new Syracuse Homoeopathic Hospita
is to hand, and is promising.
Dr. E. C. Price has resigned the editorial chair of the American Medical
Monthly, Drs. Henry Chandlee aad Geo. T. Shower succeeding.
Recorder's "Personals" always open for notices of removals, location,
deaths or marriages of the profession. No charge, of course. Let us know
when you move, locate or marry.
Get a copy of 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, first American Edition,
cf Burnett's Diseases of the skin. Original work.
The new heart remedy Crataegus Oxyacantha seems to be fulfilling all
expectations. If you want to avoid risk of wrong preparations get B and
T.'s. Crataegus.
His name is almost as elusive as his fleet (is, or was, at writing) — Cer /-

ver-a, Cer-ver'a, Ker'-ver-a, Ker-ver / -a, Ther'-ver-a, etc.

Clinically Saw Palmetto is said to benefit iritis with a co-existing en-
largement of the prostate.
Get a copy of Hale's Saw Palmetto to learn all about the drug, 55 cents
by mail: cloth binding.
" Certainly the homoeopathic work on " Gynecology " says the Charlotte
Me,/ Jour, of the 2d ed of Wood's work.
'.

When "worn out " the great Physiological Tonicum Hensel Improved)
ter than the "tonics" of Kola, Coca, and the like.
Bradford reports " progress " on his grr.it " History of Old Hahnemann."
It will be a great work and historically valuable.
 THE
Homeopathic Recorder.
vol XIII. Lancaster, Pa, July, 1898 No. 7

SOME EXPERIENCE IN THE TREATMENT OF

SKIN DISEASES.*
By Wm. E. Leonard, M. D., University of Minnesota, Min-
neapolis.

It is not my purpose to revive the hackneyed subject of Ex-

ternal versus Internal treatment, a subject over which controv-
ersy has raged for generations, not only between extremists of
our own school, but also between the learned dermatologists of
routine medicine.
In classical dermatology, arrayed mainly on the side of ex-
ternal treatment, are the renowned Hebra and Unna, while Hunt
and some of the earlier skin specialists extol the internal use of
arsenic as the only method. The present status of Old School
practice, at least in America, is fairly stated by Dr. George
Henry Fox as a happy mean between the above extremes, viz.
the use of arsenic as most efficacious in many chronic inflamma-
tory diseases, while regulation of the diet, hygiene and general
improvement of the patient's health is even more successful in
most acute inflammatory skin diseases.
Of course, Homoeopathists are by no means confined to arsenic
in their internal medication, as is practically true of the Old
School, since we know of the specific effects of some forty re-
liable skin medicines, and many of these are entirely unknown
to the other school, as, for instance, Graphites, Lycopodiuvi,
Calcarea card., etc. Yet, even with these advantages, I am con-
fident that we too may not spurn the middle ground and ignore
the use of soothing or occasionally even medicinal external ap-
plications. As illustrating this middle ground, I will summar-
ize my
experience of two years in the skin clinics of the Univer-
sity Homoeopathic Dispensary, held weekly throughout the

* Read before the Minnesota State Homoeopathic Institute, May, 1898.

290 Treatment of Skin Diseases.

year, and also in some typical private eases. At the clinic, in

those two years, over two hundred cases of skin disease were
presented. A majority were various acute and chronic forms of
eczema, and the remainder scattering instances of acne, erysipe-
las, urticaria, psoriasis, pityriasis, tineae, malaria, scabies,
rosaceae, pediculi, etc. Each disease will be given separately
with a general outline of the methods employed. One class can
be dismissed in a word, viz, the parasitic. For these the
treatment was some local parasiticide, with free use of aqua
pura, sometimes such a general medicine as Sulphur being es-
sential to a complete relief of the irritated or inflamed skin.
Acne, of which, next to eczema, we saw the greatest variety,
including vulgaris and indurata. as well as milium and comedo,
was palliated only by both local and internal means. Persistent
opening of the ripely inflamed glands, the use of nothing but
very hot water upon the parts affected and occasionally cleansing
with Boric acid, Tar or Sulphur soaps, and such remedies as Natr.
mur., Bryonia, Hepar and Nitric acid, were usually palliative
y

and with patience curative. It was impossible in a free clinic to

regulate diet or hygiene to any extent, for the food is what they
can get and not what their troubles require, and their hygiene
is usually of an involuntary kind. This being true in general,
most cases of acne, as well as other chronic skin ailments, drifted
out of our observation only partially improved.
Erysipelas was never treated but by internal medicines only,
and was thereby readily cured. I have long since learned the
uselessness of cranberry, slippery elm or other poultices in this
affection. If something must be done to allay the burning and
itching, vaseline, lanoline or simple cerate is entirely sufficient.
In the order of their usefulness, the following remedies are my
reliance: Bell. . Apis, Lachesis. Cautharis, Euphorbia.
Urticaria. Here
local applications are most often necessary, if
you would not make a second visit to your patient, and the best
for that most painful form, affecting the soles of the feet, is wrap-
ping in cloths saturated in chloroform water, or keeping the feet
in moist black earth, or excelsior dressing, the latter being more
elegant and more efficient. Arse?iic and Apis will promptly
check most cases.
Psoriasis, in the few instances we had, proved as obstinate
as the books say, for cleanliness, bathing in oils, etc., were out
of the question. As Kippax says,probably Arsen. Jod., per-
sisted in for months, is the nearest specific remedy.
 Treatment of Skin Diseases.

the :::.::;:.: ehrtni: mc-t ::" the atnte oeinc;

the :hronic :" orm chiefly seen ah cut the head and face
-. " •
. :: the genitals of adults, while :'
netted the :; legs and ankles of oil people. As
recorded y numerous observers, etzema seems :: :r

- ige advances appearing ablaut the leg - c ...-..- :

in the oldest subjects.

:r f.v; ge::erati:ns back. Especially vras this true

-_ ndinaviar. peasantry whcse parents aud grandparent

duration is worth while detailing-. The while crown

- lid dry. brownish scab with a :ringe o: new hair ale

-^ . u ^:- a

and Graphites mainly internally, we had a new growth of hue

short bair where the scab had been. We lost sight od her scon
after and had to be sat:sned with this much improvement.
Those cases called acute. \. that had manifested themselves ;'.
:

but a few days or weeks and in the vesicular or pustular stage o:

eruption, reacted quickly without external adjuvants, ether than
vaseline, under such drugs as Graphic's. Ars-rr-r-m. A*:::'":-

_>:.: and Rhus.

The chronic forms were always more obstinate, nor did we
usually see tne patients as socn as decided improvement : :

- tb nc a' solute cures

: are :n record. In the eczema s
sum my usual application for the nightly itcbing and irritati n

ring in •
:ri: acid. Where this aggravated
- : - metimes :id. tb rough washing in boric acid or su
wed y vaseline uuaer ;. light an .ge '"
s su
That clinic and many private cases have led me to conclude
in the blood '-—:•: use tb
292 Treatment of Skin Diseases.

sion — it is chronic eczema, and that while local and internal

medication may temporarily relieve or even apparently cure,
nothing short of years of right diet and hygienic living will
eradicate the disease. As has been said, this is not possible in
dispensary practice, nor always absolutely practical or curative
in private practice. Again and again in certain patients have I
seen erysipelas or some accidental local irritation start up violent
outbreaks of this ailment after months or years of dormancy.
These outbreaks generally take on the form of so called eczema
rubrum and prove very obstinate, lasting for weeks in spite of
anything internal or external.
If anything will convince one of the truth of Hahnemann's
psoric theory, it is these cases, but I confess to not having been
able to fit any of his antipsoric remedies to the alleviation of the
symptoms, even after much careful experimentation. A possible
exception is Lycopodium which in very high potency seemed to
,

check one of my very worst cases. I say check advisedly,

because in subsequent attacks of the same patient it cut them
short, which it would not do if the first attack simply expired
by limitation about the time the remedy was given.
Interesting experiments were made at the clinics with certain
local applications. For instance, "Saponified Hepar," as the
druggist who made it at Prof. T. J. Gray's suggestion called it,
a digestion of equal parts of sulphur and carbonate of lime in
sapo viridis (German Green Soap), in a few acute cases, without
any internal remedies, seemed to dry up the eruption quickly. A
preparation from petroleum called " Rockolean," "Excelsior
dressing" and others were used with local relief, but not exten-
sively enough to enable me to generalize as to their curative
effects.

Among patent preparations, for the above are essentially that,

the most useful in private practice is " Resinol," which readily

allays the itching and soreness. ,A most successful result was

obtained from daily inunctions of cod liver oil in a private case
of general dry eczema, said result being due, I think, to the
extra local stimulation and nourishment of the skin. But even
in this case, surrounded by the best of care and conveniences,
the treatment was given up as soon as the skin was reasonably
better.
Psorinum and Sulphur (high), Sepia (low) Graphites, Arsen-
icum and Ant. crudum have proven the principal remedies in
 Pre- Natal Influences. 293

my hands, the best results being obtained by solving the difficult

problem of the individual constitutional remedy. In chronic
eczema, I conclude that adjuvants are mainly palliative, nor do I
credit any permanent cure of this complaint to any of the various
well-advertised patent preparations, having seen them thorough-
ly tested in many cases.

PRE-NATAL INFLUENCES.
By Martha Allen Parry, M. D.
Whoever embarks in the study of human nature will find
himself afloat on a sea that is ever widening and of ever increas-
ing interest. Its depths have never been fathomed.
The greatest study of mankind is man. He is the noblest
work of God Know ye not ye are the temples of God and God's
.
'

'

spirit dwelleth in you," and he that defileth the temple, "him

will God destroy ." As a preface to my paper, I shall make a few
remarks in regard to fatherhood. Of late years much has been
written and spoken on the subject of motherhood, but occasion-
ally it is merely suggested that the father might be held re-
sponsible as well.
Everything written, everything said in behalf of parental
responsibility, of the duty of the present to the future, of the
blame of the past for the present troubles, has taken for its

corner stone the hypothesis that woman as a moral agent has

more to answer for than man. She enters the marriage condi-
tion as free from taint of blood as her heritage of ancestry per-
mits her. She is cleanly endowed with an individuality of
moral health.
When, all too often, she husband's health is underminded by
the invalidism of young excesses.
If man has furnished her with poor material to complete, to
nurse into human life, her effort is futile, her endless musings
and prophesies avail little. She has indeed entered into the
"Holy of Holies." She should shrink back abashed, for she
carries an unworthy offering.
But taking for granted that the father is as free from taint
and sin as the mother, I shall proceed to the subject of "Pre-
natal Influences"
In this nineteenth century of boasted civilization, we talk much
of our "Declaration of Pidependcnce," which declares that all
294 Pre- Natal Influences.

men are born free and equal. This is a sentiment worthy of all

admiration but of limited acceptance. We are not free or equal.

The slavery of government is nothing, compared with the
bondage of inherited evil tendencies and taints. Thousands are
born with shackles of appetites, of passion, of hatred, of theft, of
murder, all searing their very being with their iron.
Holy writ tells us that " the sins of the father shall be visited
upon the children to the third and fourth generations," and that
" the fathers eat sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on
edge."
Oliver Wendell Holmes was once asked if it were not true
that all disease and evil tendencies could not be eradicated
if the

doctor were called early enough. he replied, but early

Yes,
enough would commonly be two hundred years before one is
born.
No one has a better opportunity of observing the verification
of these sayings than physicians.
Our children come to us without thought of duty to them un-
til after period of birth, when really our greatest opportunities of
moulding character and mentality are past. Why does not the
offspring exactly resemble the parents, as we find in the animal
kingdom ? Because in man there are constant changes in men-
tal impressions and great variety in conditions and environ-
ments.
The influence of objects of environments seems to have been
well understood by Jacob, —when he prepared striped rods to be
placed before his cattle at their watering places. The Greeks
were familiar with the necessities of surrounding their wives
with beautiful pictures, images, and statues which represented
strength and beauty; they enforced this custom by law, called
the law Lycurgus. The same custom prevailed among the
Spartans, and history, poetry and song speak of the great
physical beauty of these people. Popular opinion has conceded
that strong, hideous mental impressions upon the mother are
capable of producing deformities and marks in the child, and we
do not doubt that such is the case. Why cannot the mother in
the same way influence the character and intelligence of her
child? That she does and can investigators on the subject
have given abundant proof.
We read in the first chapter of the first book of Samuel an ac-

count of the prayer of Hannah, who prayed for a son as she

 Pre-Natal Influences. 295

stood in the temple of the Lord, and she vowed a vow and prayed
thus:
" O Lord of hosts —thou wilt indeed give unto thine hand-
if

maiden a man I will give him unto the Lord all the
child, then
days of his life," and thus she dedicated him unto the Lord before
he was conceived. He was a seer, a priest and a judge in Israel
for forty years, he judged with righteousness and reproved
with equity, and so pure was his life that it is recorded that
when he died all the people mourned.

Another well-known character of history is Xero, the Em-

peror of Rome. His mother Agrippina poisoned her husband
and caused his son to be assassinated to make room for her son,
who in turn killed his own mother and lived a life of cruelty
and vice.
The mother of Napoleon, a beautiful, ardent and enthusiastic
young woman, followed her husband on horseback in the midst
of wars, familiar to and beloved by the armies. It is not dim-
cult to understand how a Xapoleon was given to the world, with
all his love for and fitness for military life.

The mother of Robert Burns, previous to his birth, sang old

songs and ballads continually as she went about her household
duties. Wolfgang Mozart's mother, during the earlier part of
her married life, had cultivated her musical talent, but later
abandoned it, and even took a dislike to music, and as a result
her two sons younger than Wolfgang had no disposition for
music.
Numerous instances of less noted persons might be cited, of
which I shall record a few. N. N. Riddell reports the case
Prof.
of a judge, who, after being on the bench for six weeks, his mind
wrought up up to its highest pitch, went home for a vacation,
left with his wife the seed of a girl, who when grown was far

superior to her brothers and sisters, but was especially gifted in

the power of judicious decision.
Two most remarkable children were produced intentionally.
Their father, a minister, decided to endow a child with the ele-
ments of a pulpit orator. He gave special attention to oratory
for a considerable time before begetting the child. After concep-
tion the mother gave herself to the study of oratory, reciting, and
went to hear the leading speakers of the country. When the
orator was born it was a girl. But, mark you, they had their
orator just the same. The child, now thirteen years old, can
296 Pre-Naial Influences.

command the attention of the largest audiences with ease, and

ber voice is remarkable for its clearness and power. These same
thoughtful parents now turned their attention to music; though
not possessing any special talent in that direction, they exerted
every power within them, the mother subordinating everything
to this one study. When their Jennie Lind was born it was a
boy. is now six years old and a musical prodigy. The child's
time is as perfect as the swinging of the pendulum. He plays
by ear and by note any instrument placed in his hands; he is
bright and intelligent and not deficient in energy or business
ability.
He is a fortune to himself, a great credit to his family, a bless-
ing to humanity, and withal a verification of this law we are en-
deavoring to make plain, i. e., that the active power in the
parent becomes the native power of the child.
The notorious mother of criminals of New England is said to
have five hundred descendants, two-thirds of whom have be-
come malicious criminals, and to have cost the state two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
A lady, I will say of Nebraska, tried in vain to produce an
abortion,was angry with herself and everyone else, despised
the child and tried to take its life from the first. The child
hates everybody and is extremely cruel, and is never happy ex-
cept when killing something, and this how many an Ishmaelite
is

is born whose -hand is against every man and every man's hand
against him. Dr. F. M. Powell, of Glenwood. Iowa, superin-
tendent of the State Institute for the Feeble-Minded Children,
was asked, in what percent, can you trace any pre-natal in-

fluence as the cause of their condition ? The answ er was: About

r

three-fourths of all cases present are termed congenital, due to

pre-natal causes.
Let us give a striking illustration: In 1870 occurred the
famous seige of Paris, when, for a season, the streets of that
beautiful city were overrun by a drunken rapacious rabble. M.
Le Grand Soulle afterwards had the opportunity of examining
ninety-four children who were begotten of such fathers during
that siege; of the ninety-four, sixty-four were crippled in mind
or in body, thirty-five being malformed and twenty-nine being
imbecile.
The active powers of body and mind in the parents previous
to and at conception, and in the mother during gestation, will
 Remedies in Whooping Cough. 297

be the native strong power in the child. It is during the last

three months that the mental state of the mother most vividly
and effectively is transmitted. Emerson says, to the well born
child all the virtues are natural and not painfully acquired.
Said a scientiest, I would rather have been born as well as my
parents could have born me than to have been left the heir to
Rothchilds' estate.
In the words of Helen H. Gardner: "Heredity and environ-
ments and react upon each other with the regularity and
act
inevitability of night and day; neither tell the whole story, to-
gether they make up the sum of life."
Practically our powers and possibilities are fixed before we
ever see the light of day.
This is a subject of more importance than •' war," money mak-
ing, than fame or honor or position. I hold that it is a moral

and Christian duty for the physician as philanthropist to his race

to instruct all young married partners how to beget their off-
springs that they may improve their race and not retrograde
it.

Kokomo, Indiana, May 16, 1898.

A FEW INDICATIONS FOR REMEDIES IN WHOOP-

ING COUGH.
By Carl A. Williams, M. D., New London, Conn.
For the catarrhal stage remedies should be selected according
to the symptoms, as in ordinary coryza and bronchitis.
Aeon., Bell., Bry., Ipec, Dulc., Puis.
Aconite 3X. In the beginning; fever; dry, hot skin: thirst;
restlessness; cough dry and sibilant; burning pains in larynx or
bronchia.
Belladomia 3X. Headache; red face; marked cerebral symp-
toms;, paroxysms terminate in sneezing.
Ipecac 3X. Cough is accompanied with great anguish, with
danger of suffocation and bluish face; nausea; rattling of mucus
in bronchia.
Pulsatilla 3X. When from the beginning there is a loose cough
with vomiting of mucus or food, or else slimy diarrhoea.
The convulsive stage or fully developed case, Drosera, Coral-
Immrub., Cuprum, Oxalate of Cerium, Trifolium pratense.
298 Pepper and Salt.

Drosera ix, 3X. Paroxysms are excessively violent, and the

sibilant sound of the cough is very marked; may or may not

have fever; painfulness of the pit of the stomach.

Cuprum met. 6x, 30X trit. During the paroxysm there is

rigidity of the body; bluenessof the face with thumbs clenched;

seems as though they would never breathe again; they hold their
breath for some time.
Corallium rub. i2x, 30X. A remedy par-excellence; the cough
of this remedy has been compared to the firing of minute guns.
Short barking cough (M. Teste was the first to call the attention
of the profession to this drug). It has been used by a large
number of careful observers and it ranks among the first remedies
for the second or convulsive stage. I would like to call your

attention to a drug that has been used empirically by a number

of physicians with apparently marked benefit. The drug to
which I refer is the Oxalate of Cerium. It is given in two or three
grain doses three times a day. It takes several days before any
change in the cough is noticed, after commencing with the
powders. In all cases where I have seen it employed it lessens
the severity of the symptoms to a marked degree. There is no
proving of the drug to my knowledge, however there is a good
deal of clinical experience back of its use, and I would recom
mend it in severe cases where no special indications for a remedy
can be obtained. I think it acts better in those cases where the
stomach is very irritable, and where the cough terminates in
vomiting.
Tr ifolium pratense (red clover). This remedy benefits quite a
number of cases. The exact indicationsI have never been able

to obtain.

PEPPER AND SALT.

" There was when the scientist was inclined to accept the
a time
dicta of his co-workers, and when he quietly digested the results
of some new discoveries without fear of having them discredited
before they had been barely swallowed. But times have
—
changed." Medical Record.
"Quite recently we called the attention of a very reliable
manufacturer of chemicals to the (act that a certain article we
had bought from him did not stand the U. S. Pharmacopoeia
 —— — —— — — — —

Pepper and Salt. 299

test, to which he The trade is not willing

replied, laconically: '

to pay a fair price, hence we cannot produce the article to meet

your requirement.' " Myers Bros." Druggist.
" Now, specialists are all right, good ones we mean, but there
are too many poor ones." Medical Visitor.
"Medicine is the occupation of gentlemen." America?i —
Homceopathist.
Why should ministers pay ? None but the regenerate would
1
'

venture to suggest a fee." New England Medical Monthly.

''Astrology and medicine are not quite two centuries di-
vorced." Medical Century.
" The present age and year is shown not only not to be the

worst, but to be the best, and to this result we may justly claim
that medicine and its allied sciences have contributed their full
share.
'

'
—
North American Journal of Homoeopathy.
" The tendency is city ward, and yet how much speedier and
surer the limited competency offered by a less ambitious prac-
tice.
'
'
— Hahnemannian Monthly.
" Shot-gun homoeopathy a therapeutic monstrosity.
is It is
the most indefensible of medical methods known to man. It
all

is not flesh, fish, nor flowl. There is not a word to be said

in its favor except upon the feeble plea of convenience, and that
is indeed a paltry excuse when a human life is hanging in the

balance. The combination tablet should be laid away in the

church yard along with all other therapeutic follies. It scarcely
deserves even a decent burial." Minneapolis Homoeopathic Maga-
zine.
11
The old spirit of persecution is not dead by any means, but
the number of those who are disposed to take the larger view,
we are convinced, is clearly increasing." Homoeopathic World.
Perhaps a modern Pilate asks: " What is truth?" Truth,
scientific, moral, religious, is essentially the manifestation of the
Divine will. To know the truth is "to think God's thoughts
after Him." Clinical Reporter.
" It is Spain that will remember the Maine!" Medical Era.
" The shoemaker can not make a good shoe from shoddy
stock, nor can the best medical college in the land give sense to
the senseless, or brains to the brainless, and make a good stu"
dent or practitioner out of worse than shoddy stock." Medical
Gleaner.
" Some doctors, if they are busy, feel that they can not leave
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300 External Application of Homoeopathic Medicines.

their patients, and if doing little, that they cannot afford to

leave. " Medical Sentinal.
"A man is a man always, biologically, until he ceases to ex-
ist, though he may be
a most unmanly or a very beastly one in
another acceptation of the term." Medical Council.
" As a rule, there is no difficulty in the mind of any man con
stituted with a normal modicum of honor, gentlemanly instinct,
and the golden rule, as to what course he ought or ought not to
pursue in a given case." New York MedicalJournal.
Now, who is better prepared to write a review of one's book
11

than the writer himself? " Post Graduate.

" Pain is a war cry. It is the smoke of a battle. It is the din
of a struggle. Two parties are contending instead of making
friends with one another. Two forces are at variance and strug-
gling for supremacy. It is evidently a survival of the fittest." —
Journal of Orificial Surgery.
" Xext month the Homoeopaths, the electics and the allopaths

of Kansas will meet in joint session at Topeka to do what ? ? ? —

If nothing else is accomplished they will at least endeavor to
agree upon legislation which will make it difficult for beginners
to earn an honest living in the practice of medicine, and this is
about all they will do." — The Critique.

EXTERNAL APPLICATION OF HOMOEOPATHIC

MEDICINES.
By Dr. Mossa.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Allg. Horn. Zeit.,
May, J 898
As the reigning school of medicine at the present time so fre-
quently applies medicines by subcutaneous injections and intrav-
enous applications, the question is naturally asked: What
position does Homoeopathy occupy with reference to such treat-
ments? Urgent-circumstances, e. g. i. trismus of the jaw or con-
,

vulsion of the oesophagus in consequence of poisons (in such a

case we might, nevertheless, apply the medicine to the tongue),
or with the insane, who
refuse to take any food
frequently
or any medicine mouth, compel us to look for
in their
some other ingestion than through the mouth, and we have
found the injection of the medicine per anum or by subcuta-
 External Application of Homoeopathic Medicines. 301

neous ingestion useful. We would also mention the great suc-

cess achieved by Dr. Neuschaeffer through the subcutaneous
injection of Merc, cyanatus in cases of diphtheria of the utmost
virulence.
Besides this we have in such an application the authority of
Hahnemann on our side. In his Organon, § 289, we read: Every
part of our body, if it only possess the sense of touch, is also
capable of receiving the action of the medicines, and the power
of communicating this action to all the other parts." This truth
is further elaborated in § 290, 292. In § 290 we read: Besides
the stomach, the tongue and the mouth are receptive of the opera-
tion of medicines; still more excellent is the internal part of the
nose; then also the rectum and all the parts which give access to
the interiors, as also all the parts possessed of the sense of touch,
are all almost equally receptive of the action of medicines.
Thence where the skin has been abraded, wounded or
also spots
ulcerated parts give an almost equally penetrating influence to
medicines upon the organism, as
if the medicine had been taken

through the mouth; how much more then through smelling or

inhalation?
§291: "Even those parts that have lost the sense peculiar
to them, e.g., the tongue and the plate which have lost the sense
taste; the nose that has lost the sense of smell; communicate the
action of the medicine which only touches them proximately,
in no degree of perfection, to the entire mass of the organs
less a
of the whole body."
§ 292: "Also the external surface of the body covered with the
cuticle and the epidermis is not irreceptive to the influence of
the powers of medicines; but the parts most sensitive are also
the most receptive." So we also find in the provings of Hahne-
mann quite a number of symptoms as genuine effects of the
medicine which have been obtained by an external application
of the medicines.
In his fragnentary remarks to " Brown's Elements of Medi-
cine" (Hufeland s fournal, 1S01), he says of Brown's statement
that the medicines for the asthenic diathesis, to whatever part
they may be applied, excite this part more than any other:
"This also is one of his sentences which carries us with it

through its divine simplicity. It is a pity that it is totally

false." Tincture of the juice of poppy applied to the pit of the

stomach excites no sensation in that particular spot, but, never-
302 External Application of'Homoeopathic Medicines.

theless, it quickly alleviates hysterical vomiting. When applied

there, or to the neck, or to any external part of the body which
is sensitive, it (palliatively) checks certain diarrhoeas, it takes

away the deadly chilliness resembling apoplexy, the stiffness

and insensibility after large doses of Camphor, the colic induced
by bclladonyia and the somnolence in typhus, and this, although
the spot where it is applied feels no perceptible change. And so
he (Hahnemann) might adduce a hundred other examples dis-
proving the general statement "that medicines act most powerful
on the spot where they are applied."
In this, however, as we think, he was unjust to old Brown.
In the first place, to disprove this sentence, he selects a remedy
which, when used in strong doses, can hardly be counted among
stimulants. Brown, indeed, numbers Opium among them, yet
his saying, "opium mahercle non sedat," is only applicable to
small doses. Then Opium, when applied externally, especially in
a mass, as Hahnemann proves by a number of examples cited at
the close of his proving, actually produces an irritating effect.
Boerhave observed when an opium-plaster was laid on the skin
that it caused great heat and pain, the formation of a blister,
erosion of the skin and the production of mortification, which is
confirmed by Geoffroy. Monro remarked that Opium, when
applied immediately to the nerves, does not take away their sen-
sibility, but rather increases their pain, while, when applied to
the muscles, it very soon destroys their irritability.

In the passages taken from Hahnemann's Organon he does not,

however, treat of any mere local action, but especially about the
general dynamic action of a remedy as it diffuses itself from any
suitable place of application. More at length than in his Organon
he has treated of this matter in the lengthy treaties on " Hiel-
kunde der Erfahrung" (Therapy of Experience), written in

1805:
"I said that the touch of the living sensitive fiber by the
remedy is almost the only condition necessary to its action: this
dynamic property is of such extent that it is quite indifferent
what sensitive part of the body is touched by the remedy in
order to produce the full effect, if only the grosser part of the
cuticle has been removed — it is quite indifferent whether the
dissolved medicine is ingested into the stomach or should only
remain in the mouth, or on wound, or another spot deprived of
its skin.
 External Application of Homoeopathic Modicities. 303

"If we need not apprehend an evacuation from it, the full end
may be reached by ingesting it per anum or in the inner part of
the nose; this may be done by a remedy which has the power of
curing a certain stomachache, or a particular kind of headache, or
a particular kind of a stitch in the side, or a cramp in the calves,
or any ailment in any part which has ?io anatomic relation with
the part touched by the medicine
" Only the something of an obstacle, though not
cuticle puts
an insurmountable one, in the way of the action of the medicine
on the sensitive fibre below it. Medicines also act through the
cuticle, but with a force somewhat diminished. The dry sub-
stance of the medicine when reduced to a powder will not act so
strongly, but more strongly if it is dissolved, and more strongly
still if it is applied to a large surface.
" The cuticle is in some places thinner and, therefore, more
susceptible to action. Among these places the abdominal regions,
especially the pit of the stomach, the region of the flank, and
inner surface of the axilla, of the bend of the arm, the inner side
of the wrist, the houghs, etc., may be mentioned as parts suscepti-
ble to the action of medicines.
11
Rubbing in the medicine generally only forwards the action
of the medicine, because rubbing of itself makes the skin more
sensitive and thus makes the fibre, which has been quickened
and rendered more sensitive, at the same time more receptive for
the specific power of the medicine which radiates through it into
the whole of the organism."
It was on account of this that Hahnemann and his first fol-

lowers not infrequently applied homoeopathic highly potentized

remedies by inhalation. With children and also with adults
suffering from toothache I have frequently used this procedure
successfully. The custom has also developed with us in flesh
lesions or contusions of parts situated on the surface of the body
remedy {Arnica, Rhus., Hypericum, Ledum)
to use the indicated
internally in a higher potency and at the same externally in a
lower potency dissolved in a large quantity of water as a com-
press. Some practitioners also in rheumatic or neuralgic pains in
the limbs confined to one side have precribed the rubbing in of
the remedy in a watery or alcoholic solution on the skin of the
part affected, while they at the same time give it internally.
In such a use of the remedy there was already ultimated the
idea of the specific relation of certain remedies to particular
 304 External Application of Homoeopathic Medicines.

parts, tissues and regions of the body, and that the direct im-
mediate application of the remedy applied in that particular
part considerably augments and supports the action of the
remedy used internally; this of course passed beyond Hahne-
mann's view and approached the idea of local specific remedies.
Finally the specific remedy was even used only externally,
reaching thus a merely local treatment. Thus we see in the
Revne homoeopathiqiie frayicaise, of the 1 ith of December, 1897, an
article by Dr. d'Esponet, who calls himself specialist of the
(homoeopathic) Hopital of Saint-Luc in Lyons, concerning the
local treatment of diseases of the nose.
The author says: "The therapy of affections of the nose is
of such a nature that Homoeopathy, according to his opinion, can
in it best adapt itself to the local use of remedies. The organ
in question is really an entrance court of respiration, easily ac-
cessible to the eye and to the instrumental touch, as it offers a
number of angles and protuberances where the excretions accum-
ulate. The lining of the nose is a spongy tissue, in which there
are sudden and frequent fluctuations in the supply of blood, pro-
ducing a considerable change in the topography of this entrance
court and causing more or less extended obstructions to the
free passage of air and the normal as well as the morbid secre-
tions.
"It appears therefore indicated that we should use local
remedies to cleanse those windings and to apply curative sub-
stances on this mucous membrane which varies so much,
remedies which are suitable to sustain the action of the medi-
cines introduced into the general circulation and whose aim it

is to gradually remove the dyscrasy, to which the origin of these

disturbances is due.
" The author desires merely to discuss a few points, the practi-
cal use of which he has verified himself.
"The pathogenesis of Hydrastis canadensis gives us a clear
image of the catarrh of the mucous membranes (specifically
of the nasal mucous membrane mossa), and clinical observation
has confirmed the results of these provings. The author locally
applied this remedy in the following form: Hydrastis canadensis
<-',grammes; Glycerine, da, and water a?ia, 30 grammes. With
2

thismixture he moistened a camel's hair brush or. better, yet, a

plug of raw cotton which is elongated by winding it around a
metal shaft in which is the thread of a screw. The raw cotton,
 External Application of Homoeopathic Medicines. 305

which is thus rolled into the shape of a camel's hairbrush, must

pass at least one fifth of an inch beyond the end of the shaft.
The moistened brush or the swab of raw cotton is then intro
duced into the nasal cavity and is slipped over the length of the
nasal cavity, in order to avoid the danger of rough and unskillful
movements. The patient is instructed to handle the instrument
as if he wanted to move it downward toward the mouth and not
toward the eyes. The introduction of this instrument at first
causes a disagreeable tickling and sneezing, but the patient soon
gets accustomed to it. After acquiring some facility in its use, the
instrument may be applied somewhat more firmly, massaging
with it, and squeezing out the contents of the brush, the motion,
however, being always toward the lower part of the nasal cavity.
The author usually caused the application to be made twice a
day. Used in this way the HydrastzcAiniment has been found
of great service by the author in the inveterate catarrhs of the
mucous membrane of the nose which prove so rebellious. Under
its influence the congestion of the spongy alae diminishes, the

catarrhal secretion decreases and becomes thinner; the primary

respiratory passage becomes more permeable, and the patient
feels an increasing comfort.
"The obstruction of the nose passes away more quickly, in-
deed, by the use of Cocain; but the action of Hydrastis, which is
not merely palliative but is really curative, and which, when
continued gradually cures the disease, is much more lasting.
Nor is it attended with the well-known injurious effects of Cacain,
for more than one cocainist is indebted for the commencement of
his dangerous cocainism to the physician who prescribed the
repeated application of the insidious substance, the use of which
soon becomes as dominant as that of morphine.
"The glycerine in the above mixture also has its significance;
it supports the contractive property of Hydrastis, by unburden-
ing capillary circulation by means of the serous secretion which
it produces. The first applications are usually attended by the
overflow of a more or less copious fluid; but this is gradually
diminished. It is well to advise the patient beforehand of this
fact, so that he may not suppose that the use of the remedy is
producing an effect contrary to the one entended.
" A mixture of glycerine with more or less water, applied by

means of a swab of raw cotton, is in the opinion of the author a

good palliative for persons who suffer from a disagreeable dry-
306 External Application of Homceopathic Medicines.

ness of the nose; they are overjoyed when they find themselves
enabled again 'to blow the nose,' and this affords them great
relief.
"The use of the mixture mentioned above is not confined to
the mucous membrane of the nose; it is rarely, indeed, that the
naso pharynx is not affected by the same morbid process. Now,
especially when the swabbing is done just before going to bed,
the liquid remedy slowly flows down along the sloping parts and
rinses the mucous membrane of the posterior passage whi^h is so
difficult to reach by way of the mouth, —
and this is an advantage
not to be undervalued. Now in what cases is Hydrastis indicated?
The characteristic of the secretions is that they should be clear,
copious, yellowish and maydrawn out in threads; another
be
characteristic is mucus into the throat. The
the discharge of
rhinoscopic examination shows the turbinated bones swollen,
vascular, more or less pressing close to the septum.
"We must not indulge in the hope of reducing a genuine
hypertrophic rhinitis, i. e., a state in which these bones are
changed into a thick, fibrous mass; nevertheless Hydrastis will
probably be of use also in such cases by influencing the catarrh-
al state of the mucous membrane, and acts upon the parts in
which the erectile tissue has not yet been transmutted into con-
nective tissue; this will be especially the case after the use of
the galvanocauter without which we cannot do in such cases,
has made room for the ingress of the air.
" With children the local treatment is especially useful and
they usually bear it well. In the muco-puriform catarrh, which
so frequently appears in a youthful age, the mucous membrane
may be freed in this manner from the accumulated secretions
and a free passage for the respiratory air be made, which is the
more important, as the galvanocauter can very often not be used
with them.
" A liniment with Hamamelis composed in the same manner
is also indicated, although more rarely in rhinological practice.

It is useful, as elsewhere, in varicose enlargements. Venous

hyperemia usually calls for a more general treatment the local :

effect of Hamamelis assists this. The naso-pharyngeal space has

even more than the nose itself, these varicosities running through
it, and the introduction of the liniment through the nasal canal
allows a convenient and direct action upon their.. The sensation
of dryness in the throat, which often accompanies the varicos-
 External Application of Homoeopathic Medicines. 307

ities, is thereby appreciably diminished. Hering states under

Hamamelis: dryness of the lips and asthma; the patient has to
drink large quantities of water to facilitate swallowing.
11
Venous epistaxis is also an indication for this remedy; but in
such a case stroking it with a swab might increase the bleeding,
owing to the mechanical irritation, and then it will be more
useful to apply it in the form of plugs which are kept
inserted for a definite time. Very hot water with an addition of
Hamamelis tincture is an excellent remedy to stop the epistaxis.
" Sanguinaria has valuable properties; it is particularly indi-
cated in intensive congestion of the mucous membrane and great
.dryness; mucous polypi also belong into its sphere of action.
The auditor usually prescribes it in the form of an ointment:
Sanguinaria nitrate I 2 trit. 0.50. up to 1.0. Vaseline (or Lanolin)
20 o.
"The nose should be carefully smeared with this with a
wooden spatula, which is best done before going to bed. Blow-
ing a more or less concentrated powder into the nose is also use-
ful, especially in a freshly caught cold or San- in hay fever.
guinaria can assuage a rush of blood and is therefore a useful
remedy in sudden rushes of blood which with some persons set
in on the slightest provocation, and the painful symptoms o f
which easily lead to hypochondria, if the soil is at all prepared
for it.

" Dryness in the back part of the fauces is one of the most

pertinaceous symptoms, as may also appear in the following

typhoid case: A lady teacher, forty years old, suffered from a
naso-pharyngeal catarrh which extended to the eustachian tubes
and was accompanied with sclerosis of thetympani cavity. For
two years she had been treated without effect by the most cele-
brated specialists ; the dryness of the throat especially, about
which she complained continually, remained unchanged. The
author prescribed, for internal use, Lachesis; but externally an
ointment of Sanguinaria nitrata. After two weeks she felt an
unhoped for allievation, she could speak with hardly any effort,
and with the improvement of the throat the obstruction in her
auditory organs was also partially removed, so also the sensation
of pressure on the root of the zygomatic process — a symptom
which is nearly always found in obstructions of the eustachian
tubes — had disappeared.
Ointments have a mechanical action in keeping together the
secretions, which without their presence gradually thickens in
308 Is Aconite a Remedy in Fever f

the back part of the pharynx and during the night they dry up
and cause in the morning that disagreeable hawking which
sometimes is augmented even to a tendency to vomit, and is a
torment to those suffering from naso pharyngeal catarrh. The
substance ingested onlv touches the mucous membrane, pene-
trates into the crypts of it glands and into its folds and thus ef-
fectively combats the foe."
Dr. D'Esponet concludes with the words:
" If any one should blame me that I, as a Homoeopath, give
too great importance to this local medication, I would answer
first with the general truth, that if remedies have a local action

it is proper that we should make use of it, and secondly, all who

have experienced the difficulties in rhinological practice can

easily see that we cannot omit any means which will lead us to
the desired goal."
The writer of this article can give due weight to the force and
urgency of these practical postulates. Nevertheless it would be
more in agreement with the homoeopathic method of curing to
use the same remedy which is applied externally, also internally.
The pathogenesis of Hydrastis canadensis gives us, indeed, a
pronounced image of a nosal catarrh with the peculiarities
enumerated by the author, especially as this drug, according to
Dr. Lilienthal (a good connaisseur of medicine), is an antipsori-
cum and an antidyscroticum of the first order. There is no
doubt that the idea of local diseases and their local treatment
keeps spreading with our younger generation, and probably this
is no benefit to Homoeopathy, and specialism contributes not a

little to this change. Although we ourselves do not oppose the

external application of the homoeopathic remedies indicated,
yet, we would not recommend a merely local treatment, especi-
ally in the case of remedies, the effect of which is not sufficiently
known to us from previous physiological provings.

IS ACONITE A REMEDY IN FEVER?

By Dr. Derlin in Liegnitz.
Translated for the Homoeopathic RECORDER from Leipz. Bop. Zeitschr.
furr //<>>?!., April and May, 1S9S.

On the 18th of May, 1S97, was called to visit by railroad a

I

girl of fourteen years, who days had been sick and treated
for five

allopath i call y without success, as 1 was told on getting there.

The patient lay in bed extremely weak and debilitated, so that
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she had to be supported while I was examining her thoracic
organs. She acted as if she were extremely muddled and her
replies came very slowly. She had not asked for anything to
eat or to drink, but only complained occasionly about pains in
the abdomen. first there was constipation, but for one day
At
and had been frequent yellow, pappy diarrhceaic
a half there
stools. Occasional cough. The pulse was small and quick. An
examination of the chest showed squeaking and humming on
the right side in the axilla, i. e , dry noises in the finer ramifica-
tions of the bronchia. The body was extremely sensitive to
pressure. Temperature 40. (104 Fahrenheit), thus a high
fever. She had taken many remedies, among them a series of
antipyrin powders for the fever, and lastly a series of powerful
mercurial powders (Calomel). It was difficult if not impossible
to make a correct diagnosis, and to deteimine the cause of the
fever, whether in the chest or in the abdoman or in both. Who
could decide what was due to the natural disease itself and what
to the different medicines ingested? Were the diarrhoea and the
painfulness of the body a consequence of the mercury or was
there an acute inflammation of the bowels?
I could not decide the

matter at my
examination. Consequently I gave Rhus tox. 3
first

to combat the symptoms present (the weakness and muddled

state —
there was no restlessness or anxiety then also the —
diarrhoea), and Phosphorus 5 from the fear that there was an
incipient pneumonia on the right lung. Both these remedies
were given at intervals of one hour, in alternation, four drops.
Besides every afternoon and evening a half-bath at 25 R
this,
(88° Fahrenheit) should be given from eight to ten minutes, to
counteract the fever.
When I had pretty well made my arrangments, my allopathic
colleague entered the room, without knowing of my presence.
I told him only used the homoeopathic method of treating,
that I

and had prescribed the above-mentioned remedies. My colleague

also had been unable to diagnose the case clearly, as I had
already seen from the five prescribed recipes, every day a new
one. I only wish to relate as to the course of this case that we
met daily in the afternoon by the sickbed, and that the general
state was much better on the 19th of May. Her muddled state
had disappeared, the diarrhoea had not returned, but there had
been a formed stool. The sensitiveness of the abdomen to pressure
had also much diminished. No pneumonia showed itself either
310 Is Aconite a Remedy in Feverf

then or on the following days. The temperature had sunk to

39. i° (102 Fahr. 1. The bronchial inflammation had, however,
extended somewhat. Prescription, Phosphorus 5, every two
hours, five days. On the 20th of May a mucous rattle appeared
in the bronchia, for which I prescribed Tartarus emet 3 tritura
tion every two hours, as much as would lie on the point of a
knife. On the 22d of May we found the child free from fever
and with good appetite; only a slight cough remained. China
a 1

four times a day five drops.

At our first meeting my colleague asked me why I had not
given Aconite, as it was claimed that that remedy depressed the
fever. I, of course, gave him my reasons, stating that Aconite
might, indeed, in certain cases depress the fever; but that this
was done in a manner quite different from that in which the allo-
pathic febrifuges acted, I will here enter more particularly upon

this point concerning which there is so much obscurity among

the adherents of Homoeopathy.
We have in allopathy a number of remedies, such as Antifebrin %

Antipyrin, Quinine, etc., which when used in proper doses depress

the fever for 2 3 hours by 0.5 —
1° without exercising the least

effect on the inflammation, on the disease, of which the fever is

a symptom. Besides, all these remedies produce also disagree-
able, hurtful concomitant effects on the heart, the stomach and
other organs; so that eventually the slight advantage gained is
countervailed by a much greater disadvantage. Where there is
fire there will be heat; they cannot be separated. So there can
be no extensive inflammation without fever!
When there is an inflammation in the body, whether it be in
the brain, the lungs, the kidneys, the bladder or the intestines,
etc., or when the body is attacked with measles, scarlatina,
diphtheria, etc., then fever symptoms, showing us
is the first

the disease often a long time before the physician can determine
the organ affected or the disease. The fever accompanies the
inflammation up to its final extinction, when it disappears of it
self. From this it follows that all febrifuges should be alto-
gether rejected, unless they at the same time act in a curative
manner on the morbid process, or if they, as all the allopathic
febrifuges do, debilitate the body.
How then is Aconite related to fever? It is no febrifuge in
the proper sense of the word, like the above mentioned allopathic
remedies, but it is a remedy against inflammation. Aconite al-
 Is Aconite a Remedy in Fever/ 311

lays the inflammation as well as the excitation of the arterial

vascular system caused by it, and then the fever subsides of
itself. But Aconite must not be given according to the allo-

pathic routine in any kind of fever, but there must be the fol-

lowing symptoms: there must be a violent vascular excitation

with quickened beat of the heart and pulse, over 100 beats a
minute; the pulse must be full and hard, i. <?., the pulse should
disappear under the compressing finger only on strong pressure.
For a weak and soft pulse, pointing to weakness of the heart,
Aconite is not suitable. The body must at the same time be
burning hot and dry, the heat must be acute and continuous not
alternating. The mental symptoms are also of importance.
Excitement and restlessness do not permit the patient to lie quiet;
he tosses about, laments, is in despair and dissatisfied with every-
thing. At the same time the patient shows a certain anxiety in
his features and laments also himself at times about anxious feel-
ings and even deadly anguish. Only when the inflammation or
the inflammatory fever is accompanied by such symptoms can we
expect help from Aconite. Such a fever was formerly called
sthenic (from the Greek sthenos, strength), i. e., a fever with a
strong cardiac action and an excitation of the nervous system,
as opposed to an asthenic fever attended with general dyscrasia,
obtuseness, weakness of the heart, etc., as in typhus fever,
scarlatina, tuberculosis, etc. Of all these symptoms none ap-
peared in the case mentioned; the pulse was was accelerated,
indeed, but small and weak and easily suppressed. So, also,
there w as no
T
excitation, on the contrary, a manifest depression.
Therefore, Aconite could not be used. The fever for which
Aconite is suitable must be
must appear suddenly and be
acute,
continuous. In slow fevers and such as diminish and at times
disappear altogether, e. g., in chills and fever, Aconite should
not be used. The main sphere of Aconite is in fevers caused by
taking cold, thence also for diseases resulting from taking
cold. These are generally preceded by chilliness or a
shaking chill, then there follows heat with the symptoms noted
above, and, finally, prespiration breaking out gives a relief or
may even entirely put an end to the inflammatory fever. Aconite
should therefore be given at once when an inflammatory fever
breaks out, whether this to be a consequence of a disease in the
head, the chest, the abdomen, the joints or of a disease as yet
unknown and not yet localized; however it may be, an inflam-
312 Is Acojiite a Remedy in Fever f

matory fever is a pressing indication in every ease of Aco?iite. I

myself take Aconite as a prophviatic whenever I suppose that I
have taken cold, and I imagine that I have thereby prevented
many a catarrh, sore throat, etc. In fever I generally prescribe
the 3d or 4th decimal attenuation, to be taken according to the
violence of the symptoms every 10 30 minutes, or every one to
two hours, giving five drops in a teaspoonful of water. Very
often worse diseases are prevented by its timely application, or
we effectually check their extension. I have often seen after the
use of Aconite for 6 12 hours a considerable diminution of the
excessive vascular action of the fever and the pains, and after
twenty-four hours the whole image of the disease has been re-

moved or the disease has been reduced to the stage of localiza-

tion, i. e. , an accurate examination was then enabled to establish
the exact disease, as pneumonia, pleurisy, measles, scarlatina,
arthritic rheumatism, etc. With the localization, the Aconite
symptoms mostly vanish and other objective and subjective
symptoms then become prominent, so that we must have recourse
to other remedies.
Aconite is not, therefore, a remedy which acts directly to de-
press fever like antipyrin, antifebrin, etc., but its action is in-

direct, as with the suppression of the disease the fever also

decreases. Homoeopathy knows no febrifuge like the allopathic
remedies mentioned above, but remedies are directed in the
its

first place against the fundamental disease causing the fever,

they thus go to the root of the trouble, and they are selected ac-
cording to the causes of the diseases and according to their
symptoms, the remedies being selected in agreement with the
physiological action of the remedies, or the law of similars.
Fever is never the object of treatment in Homoeopath >j, but it treats
first the causative as well as the objective and subjective symp-

toms of the disease.

If it is necessary to treat thesymptom of fever itself (this is
necessary when the temperature continues for some time above
39 C, i. <?., above 102 Fahrenheit) then we should use the half-
baths at a temperance of 77 to 8o° F., allowing an immersion
of from 8-10 minutes, or packing in wet sheets from the ankles to
the knees at a temperature of 6i° to 68° Fahr., changing them
as they get warm. Four to six packings at a time are sufficient.
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Part II.

In what now follows, I shall attempt to illustrate the forego-

ing remarks on Aconite by practical examples.
1. Katie G., three years old, was taken on the morning of Jan.

27th, 1897, with violent fever and vomiting.* Now and then a
slight fit of coughing. When examining her at noon I could
hardly discover anything as being the matter; only in one spot
on the chest the respiratory murmur was in so far changed that
an incipient pneumonia might be indicated. I stated this to the

parents, but added that there might as well be something else

the matter with the little one, and this would appear by the next
day. The body was dry and hot, the temperature 40. 6° (105
F), the face a fiery red with an anxious expression; great rest-

lessness, so that she continually wanted to get up out of bed, and

asked first one thing, then for another. When she re-
for
ceived the same, it would not suit her. The pidse accelerated,
full and hard. I prescribed Aconite 2 ten drops in three-fourths

of a wineglass full of water, giving her a teaspoonful every ten

minutes. But as soon as perspiration set in and her restlessness
decreased, she should be given only a teaspoonful every hour.
Besides this, I ordered that if the temperature at 9 P. M. should
be above 39 (103 F.) she should be given a half bath.
still

Next day the little patient was free from fever and quite merry.
Toward evening perspiration and tranquillity had set in, so that
the bath had not been needed. The night had been a pretty
quiet one.
2. On the j.th of Jan., 1897, I was called to Cabinet maker M.,
as he was reported to me to be ill of pleurisy from taking a cold
during a sleighing party on the preceding day. The patient
had a red, hot head, so also a btirning heat all over the body,
temperature 39. (104 F.). He complained of considerable
shortness of breath, as he had a most violent lancination in the
right side of the breast whenever he took a deep breath. The
4th rib was quite painful to pressure, but especially the muscles
between the 4th and 5th ribs. Nothing abnormal was discovered
in the lung itself, nor could I find any pleurisy. There was,
therefore, only an inflammation of the muscles, especially those
between the 4th and 5th ribs (Myosis intercostalis) At the same .

*With children, vomiting frequent at the commencement of an acute

is

fibrile disease. In adults a shaking chill takes its place.

314 Js Aconite a Remedy in Fever?

time the patient was in a state of sheer despair and extreme excita-
tion, so thathe had not shut an eye that night, but had continu-
ally tossedabout in his bed, as his wife stated. The pulse was
and hard, showing the vascular system to be in a state
quicks full
of extreme excitation. The stitching pain was most violent
during the impulses of dry short coughing which frequently
appeared. Owing to the acute inflammation as well as the
accompaning febrile symptoms, it was not difficult to hit upon
the appropriate medicine. I gave him Aconite 3 five drops in a

teaspoonful of water, atfirst every quarter of an hour, then every

hour. Cold water compresses on the painful spot had been
tried, but he was not able to bear them. Next day his state
showed a decided improvement. The pains could be born more
easily, so that he could respire more deeply. The feverhad
entirely disappeared. I continued Aconite, five drops every two
hours, and at noon and in the evening hot water compresses
were placed on the spot which continued painful, the compresses
being renewed every ten minutes. On the 3d day the patient
went back to his work.
3. A boy Z., twelve years of age, suddenly took sick of fever on

September 8th, 1 897 On the 9th of September the fever was mod
.
•

erate during the day, but toward evening he began to talk fool-
ish, rose up from bed and wanted to go out. {Excitation.} It was
stated that there were also convulsive twitches all over the body;
this was of course a consequence of the great heat and the rush of
blood to the head. The boy only complained of his head, saying
that he had no other pains. I examined the chest and the

abdomen, but found nothing additional finally I examined his

throat and found here a deep redness and swelling of the
mucous membrane and of the tonsils, and on the latter on each
side a white coating as large as a dime. This indicated diph-
theria. The fever was 39. 8° (103. 6° F.); the body was dry and
hot, the pulse much accelerated, hard. Many a one sould here have
thought Aconite the proper medicine, since the fever symptoms all
pointed to Aco?iite. —
But the local symptoms violent swelling,
—
deep redness and exudation were plainly contra-indications.
Aconite might have been in place twenty-four hours before, when
with the same febrile symptoms the neck began to be inflamed
and the color of the mucous membranes was still light red. But
after the process has advanced further and the redness has
become darker and a slight swelling appears, Belladonna claims
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the case. When later on the redness of tbe fauces passes over into
a dark and bluish hue, and the more the swelling has increased
the less will Belladonna prove effective, and so much the more
Mercurius is indicated. The stage of inflammation of the throat
for which Aco?iite is indicated usually passes unnoticed. Usually
attention is directed to it when the Bellado?i?ia or Mercurins stage
has already been reached. In this case I prescribed Mercurius
bijodat ruber 3 and Apis 5 every hour in alternation, as much
as would lie on the point of a penknife. It is not sufficient to
ascertain that there is an external similarity between the symp-
toms of the disease and the remedy to be selected; it is essential
that there should also be an internal agreement of the natural
disease with the medicinal disease with respect to location, kind
and character, an agreement such as is demanded by the homoeo-
pathic principles of cure. Only then do we practice scientific
homoeopathy. The similarity between this case and Aco?iite
was in this instance merely a superficial and external one. Be-
sides the remedy indicated, I had cold water compresses applied
to his head every five minutes and some water compresses at 18
R. (72. F.) to the body to diminish somewhat the intensity
of the fever.
September 9. The night had been a pretty quiet one. At noon
the boy complained yet somewhat about his headache, but, strange
to say, not at all about his throat, neither then nor later on. The
fever had abated entirely and the boy felt pretty well, also
showed some appetite. The swelling in the throat remained
the same, but the exudation had decidedly increased being half
as 1-arge again, and had reached the uvula. I ordered them to

give him lemon-water every two hours (one teaspoonful of fresh

juice to a tumblerful of water) to gargle his throat with, and
every 2-3 hours I ordered a water compress at 1S R. (72. F.)
well covered with flannel to be put around his throat.
September 10. The same condition, only the swelling had
decreased somewhat. On September nth. The swelling and
exudation had diminished by one-half. September 12th. The
exudation reduced to the size of a pea, The uvula quite free
from it. September 13th. Xo more exudation. The neck only
of a pale red. The child else well. Mercur. bijod. and Apis
were given in alternation every two hours from September n
onward.
4. On October 30, 1897, at noon, I was called to see C. B., a boy

of three years, who the evening before had suddcyily commenced

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to be feverish. The face was of a fiery red; at the same time he

was anxious, and the whole body was burning hot. Temperature
40 2 (104. F ) The pulse could hardly be counted, hard and
vigorous; accompanied with extreme restlessness; the little patient
at one time wanted to be moved from the bed to the sofa, or on
the arm, then again into the bed; in short, nothing suited him,
A careful examination showed nothing particular. I prescribed
Aconite 3 every hour five drops and toward evening a half-bath
of 8-10 minutes; as a beverage first of all, cold milk, fresh water,
eventually with some lemon-juice. Xo appetite, violent thirst.
October 31. The
night was more quiet than the preceding one;
the mother several times observed a slight perspiration. The
boy lay quietly in his bed, with an indifferent expression, with-
out asking for anything. The body was hot, but somewhat humid;
temperature 39. 8° (103. 6° F.). The pulse more quiet, less
excited. In the night a dry cough had set in. An examination
now showed an inflammation in the middle lobe of the right lung
(pneumonia) with symptoms, as a complete dullness, bron-
all its

chial respiration, only some crepitation (crepitatio indux) in the

highest parts, a sign that the inflammatory infiltration was not
yet complete here. With this change in the morbid character I
had to give up Aconite. The external morbid symptoms were
no more in agreement with it, and still less the interior symptoms
in the lung. For Aconite corresponds to an inflammation only
so long as this is essentially confined to the blood vessels, i. e., so
long as there is merely an enlargement of the blood vessels and
a simple fullness from a rush of blood. But when an exudation
into the surrounding tissue takes place, or an infiltration, then
Aconite ceases to be suitable. I now gave him Iod. 3 (made

from an allopathic tincture of Iodine D. I), five drops in a tea-

spoonful of water every hour. Nov. 1. The same state; tempera-
ture 39.9 (104 F.)« Nov. 2. The patient is more cheerful,
asks for one thing and another, a picture-book, toys, etc., tem-
perature 39. i° (102. F.). In the lower part of the inflamed
lobe a slight rattling with small bubbles, a sign of the com-
mencement of resolution (crepitatio redux.)- Nov. 3d. Tem-
perature 38. i° (100. 6° F.). Rattling now also appears in the
superior portion of the lobe. Nov. 4. Temperature 99. F.; the
child is merry, up in bed and plays. It shows appetite.
sits

Thus this case of pneumonia was quickly cured with Aconite and
Iodine.
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In connection with this case, I will describe a similar case in

a girl of seven \ears; this is of additional interest, as her older

brother, ill of the same disease in the adjacent room, was treated
allopathically.
5. B. A., the daughter of a locksmith, was reported to have
had, eight days before, an truption like measles, lasting for
twenty-four hours. During this she was not quite well, but
continued attending school. On the evening of March 15, 1897,
she showed a dry burning heat, a dry cough, in the night a
broken sleep, with fantasies, and toward morning she complained
of lancinations in the right flank and in the right side of the upper
part of the body. Xo appetite, stool normal. On the 16th of March
at noon her temperature was 103 F. The body all over was bunt-
ing hot, the pulse much accelerated, not easily suppressed. Expres
sion anxious, great restless?iess. On examination showed dry noises
(whistling and humming) over the right middle lobe; in a place
as large as a half dollar an increased respiratory sound, ap-
proaching bronchial respiration, while the sound was not quite
normal; all of these signs indicated the beginning of pneumonia
as probable. I prescribed Aconite 3, and Phosphor. 5, five drops,
alternating every hour. The first remedy was indicated by the
febrile symptoms, the latter by the strong indications of an ini-
tiatory pneumonia. For as soon as the pulmonary infiltration
begins, Aconite is powerless. It only corresponds to the first

stage of pneumonia, the hyperaemia of the lungs. Phosphorus,

however, can check infiltration, especially in the case of catarrhal
pneumonia or bronchial pnumonia, i. e., a pneumonia caused by
the propagation of a bronchial catarrh into the pulmonary cells.
On March 17 the general state was much the same; temperature
103. 6° F. She still complained of stitches in the anterior part
of the body. The cough was short, with a rare expectoration of
a rusty color. There was a dullness extending over the larger
interior half of the middle right lobe; over the smaller superior
part of the lobe there was a crepitating rattle, a sign that the
infiltration there was not complete. I stopped the Aco?iite.
Phosphorus was continued, 5 drops every two hours. March 18.
The whole lobe was infiltrated, the percussion quite dull, bron-
chial breathing; temperature 103 F. The breathing short, the
chest tight. stopped Phosphorus and gave instead Iodine D. 3,
I

five drops every two hours. March 19. The same morbid image;
temperature, 102° F. There is nowhere as yet any sign of a
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resolution of the pneumonic exudation (no rattling I con- "i.

tinued the Iodine. On March 20 the night was good, toward

morning a slight perspiration appeared. The patient felt much
easier, she breathed more freely, shaved appetite. Temperature,
100. 8° F. Rattling appears over the inferior part of the lobe,
the resolution is beginning. Match 21. The patient is sitting
in her bed, reading a school-book. The fever has disappeared,
hunger; the general state is good, the expectoration is yellow. I
stopped lodbie and gave Tartar, em. 3 to forward the expectora-
tion, giving every two hours as much as would lie on the tip of
a small knife. During the first days (till Maich 19) wet sheets
at 72. wrapped round the body to reduce the fever.
F. were
On the 17th of March, when I made my second call, I found her
brother, 16 years of age, a butcher's apprentice, in the house; he
looked bluish, shook from a chill and complained of stitches in
the side. In the afternoon they called in the physician of the
lodge, and he diagnosed it as pneumonia, and according to the

father's statement, was posterior on the right inferior lobe,

it

just as in the daughter. The same disease was treated, there-

fore, in the same family, in the one case homoeopathically in the
other allopathically. Naturally enough, I took great interest
in the treatment of the brother. The mother told me that my
allopathic colleague stated that the fever mounted every night to
104 and the nights were "simply terrible," as the
to 106 F.
patient continually tried to get out of bed and had to be contin-
ually watched. At the same time he was in a violent delirium.
On the 22d of March at 1 P. M. I found him in delirium and
noisy, as he thought he was driving a cow. As the course of
the disease with the daughter was so much milder, and she slept
the greater part of the night, the mother seemed inclined to give
her son also some of my brown drops (Iodz?ie), but I would not
allow that. On March 24. I again visited my patient, less on
her account, than to see how her brother was doing. He had
shown a violent heat in the night from the 23d to the 24th and
been in delirium, but toward morning perspiration broke out
and he became more quiet, the crisis having appeared. The
physician said there was hardly any more fever. The course oi
this case was a very severe one, lasting from the 17th to the 23d
of March, thus 7 days, while with the sister, under homoeopathic
treatment, the course of the disease was a mild one and only
lasted from the 17th to the 20th, thus only four days, for on the
 Curative Effects of Oils. 319

20th I could announce the commencement of the resolution as

well as a diminuation of the fever to 100. 8° F. I only give these
bare facts without attempting to draw any conclusion from them.

CURATIVE EFFECTS OF OILS.

Translated for the HomceopaThic Recorder from Med. Monatshefte fuer
Homoeopathic, May, 1898.

By accident rather than purposely, in my study of medicine I

was led to particularly study the effects of the various oils. The
simplicity and innocuousness of their application had something
attractive and prepossessing in my eyes; then there were various
other causes which led me to further investigate their effects.
In the first place I was attracted by the cures enumerated in the
oldest medical literature, and I almost instinctively felt their
correctness. Then again I was compelled to use various oils in
cases in which all other therapentic measures had proved in-
effectual, and finally I was compelled to draw logical conclusions
from my own experiments and experience. I can only state in
conclusion that the more I have used these substances the more
interesting they became to me and the more curative effects I dis-
covered in them. Since publishing my work " Die Oele als
Arznei und VolksheilmitteV ("The oils as medicines and as pop-
ular remedies") I have found out many new and valuable facts
about them in my practice.
I will here only particularize some of the best known oils, true

and genuine popular remedies, such as olive oil, arnica oil and
oilof turpentiiie, and first of all bring out their antiphlogistic
(anti-inflammational) properties, and at the same time endeavor
to explain the reason and mode of their curative effects.
Anointing with fatty oil is extremely useful in vascular inflam-
mations (especially those of the veins), in muscular rheumatism,
in inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue and even of the
periosteum. The more superficial such an inflamed spot may be,
and the more easily it may be reached, the greater are the
chances of a beneficial application of the oil. The most painful
and most obstinate inflammations of the veins and the various
indurations under the skin can be removed thereby.
Xow in what way does anointing with oil operate in such con-
ditions? In a few words: as an emollient and dispersive. In all
inflammory states of soft and parenchymatous organs and cor-
320 Curative Effects of Oils.

poreal partswe find indurations. A violently inflamed intestine

produces in the patient a sensation as if he had stones in his
abdomen and the single intestinal coil when felt from without
through the abdominal integuments feel like thick wire ropes;
in the same way the stomach and liver when inflamed are felt as
hard bodies. The lungs in an advanced state of inflammation
also become hard and thence impervious to the air; and in this
very condition lies the great danger of pneumonia. An inflamed
vein feels like a hard meandering cord, and the so-called hard
pulse (of the artery; is considered as a characteristic sign of a
general condition of inflammation and fever of the organism.
Swellings and abscesses of any kind also point to a state of indura-
tion. Either the parts concerned are tense or pronouncedly hard,
firm and knotty, in which state they remain until a crisis ensues
through their breaking open or through internal dispersion-
Also rheumatic inflammations are to be enumerated under this
heading. Through the external rubbing with oil or fat,
the skin and also the entire subcutaneous tissue is softened
and again becomes permeable for the circulation of fluids.
The blood that has been checked can pass off more easily
and it carries with it the products arising from inflamma-
tions. In this or a similar manner we must conceive of
the curative action of oils in such cases. Where bones and the
periosteum are concerned, we must consider the soothing of
irritationsproduced by oils as fatty substances.
Pure Sweet oil ox Olive oil is indicated in various vascular in-
flammations, as in sore mammae in cutaneous inflammations,
erysipelas of the face, erysipelas bullosum, painful haemorrhoidal
knots, etc.
Arnica oil has in general the same sphere of activity, but is

especially useful after mechanical injuries (contusions, blows,

crushing) and in the effect of such injuries. It is particularly
and inflammations of the periosteum, as
effective in irritations
also in injuries to the bones themselves where the cutaneous
integuments have not been broken.
Oil of Tztrpentine (or Spirits of Turpentine) corresponds
especially to rheumatic inflammations and indurations, also
swelling from the stings of insects or the influence of other poi-
sons. Often a single rubbing with it suffices to remove at their
very origin rheumatic pains arising from taking cold, and the
weakness remaining in the joints after acute articular rheuma-
 On Vaccination. 321

tismis favorably influenced by a repeated rubbing with spirits of

turpentine, which has a stimulating and warming effect. In the
same way an inveterate muscular rheumatism which kept re-
turning for years was gradually removed. That spirits of ter-
pentine are also an excellent remedy in that troublesome acne
which so often disfigures the face and appears especially with
young folks has been stated before.

ON VACCINATION.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from Med. Monatshefte fuer
Horn., May, 1898.

Professor Carlo Ruata has written an open letter in opposition

to vaccination, addressed to the University of Perugia, published
in the Corriere della Sera, of Milan, Italy. Hundreds of heads
of families in Milan had been lately severely punished because
they refused to subject themselves and their families to a reiter-
ated vaccination when there were some cases of smallpox in
certain parts of the city. The punishment consisted in imprison-
ment for thirty days. one of the most celebrated
Prof. Ruata,
of the Italian hygienists, declares that such punishments are not
only unlawful, but also unjust. They are unlawful because re-
peated vaccination is not prescribed by the laws of the State,
and unjust because the value of vaccination is itself very proble-
matical. This learned man considers that vaccination is, to say
the least, not quite innocucous, while its value amounts to noth-
ing at all.

At Moscow (1897) the Rus-

the twelfth medical Congress in
sian physician Dr. Bagiensky, of Wilna, described the normal
course of inoculation with vaccine virus to be the following:
"In the normal process of vaccination the redness should nut
appear before the end of the fourth day; the border of red in the
pustule should not extend to more than 1-1.5 centimeters (.4 to
.6 of an inch); and the reddened skin when touched should not

be swollen; the color of the pustule from the fifth to the eighth
day should be of a dark mother-of-pearl color, without any yel-
lowish admixture; there should be a total lack of any increase
in temperature."
In comparing actual experience with this normal process, it

will be found that vaccination corresponds only exceptionally to

this normal course, from which it is manifest that the vaccina-
322 External Use of Homoeopathic Remedies.

tors have really no control over the poison which they cornpul-
sorily introduce into the healthy bodies of others!
To this we would add nobody can be com-
that in Austria
pelled to have his children vaccinated. Access to the public
schools cannot be denied to any unvaccinated child. Xo child
can be vaccinated in any curative establishment or in any school
without the consent of the parents. Whoever does this is liable
to punishment.
What is possible in Austria, should that not also be attainable
in Germany? United efforts must eventually attain the goal.
In Breslau an anti- vaccination society was established some
time ago and between six and seven hundred persons at once
joined it. So that the anti-vaccination question is now being
mooted also in Silesia. May this example find many imitators!

EXTERNAL USE OF HOMCEOPATHIC REMEDIES.

By C. Peregrinus.

Translated for the HomceopaThic Recorder from Med. Monatsh.fiicr.

Horn., May, 1898.

The External use of Homoeopathic Remedies We

have before this referred to the fact that besides the remedies
commonly applied external, such as Arnica, Calendula, etc.,
there are still very many other remedies commonly only used
internally which are suitable for externally use. Such an ap-
plication of Belladonna in the case of a crick in the back is well
known. Less known, however, is the external application of
Bryonia, etc. Pharmaceutist Goret, in the Journal Beige, gives a
useful summary of such medicines, from which we excerpt the
following:
Bryonia alba also has developed external effect.
a well It is

applied successfully by rubbing with it in rheumatic attacks, the

characteristic of which is that they are worse from motion. It

is also useful in a "stiff neck." This rubbing is effected with

5 drops of the tincture in 100 drops of alcohol.
Calendula officinalis. A very valuable remedy frequently used
by Homoeopaths. It has a powerful antiseptic action, almost
like Corrosive sublimate, without its danger. In America it is

frequently used as an antiseptic, C. P. I

It may be used in the
tincture or mixed with water. When used as a tincture it is a
 External Use of Homoeopathic Remedies. 323

good substitute for Arnica tincture, which frequently causes ery-

sipelas with persons subject to it. When mixed with water
(25-50%) it serves to bind up bleeding wounds and abrasions or
chaps of the skin. As a salve (10%) it may be used in all cases
where a fatty substance is useful or necessary.
Cantharis. Cantharis tincture is to be recommended for rubbing
on in burns of the first degree. For this purpose a one per cent,
salve should be made with vaseline or lanolin. The bandage
should be renewed in the morning and evening. This salve is
also of excellent use in chilblains. In burns of the second de-
gree, where blisters have formed, the pains are rapidly removed
by washing with a i c/ dilution.
(/

Chamomilla vulgaris. Chamomilla, which is so useful as an in-

ternal remedy, is equally so as an external application. Oil of
Chamomilla, or, better yet, a mixture of olive oil and 5 to 10 per
cent. Chamomilla, is an effective remedy for the colic of in fants;
for this purpose their abdomen is rubbed with it, and this whether
the colic comes from teething or from other causes. It is also
effective in the pains preceding menstruation or consequent
thereon, in the soreness of the newly born, in violent rheumatic
pains especially at night, and finally in conjunction with inter-
nal remedies to relieve the colic consequent on parturition.
Clematis vitalba. A remedy very little used, but, nevertheless.
of great effect in caries of the teeth. A little ball of raw cotton
moistened with the tincture and introduced into a hollow tooth
frequently assuages almost in a moment the most violent pains.
Conium maculatum. This remedy is very useful in cancerous
diseases. Either a 10% salve may be made of it, or a compress
of a 10% dilution in water may be applied.
Condurango. This remedy is frequently used internally in can-
cerous diseases, but its action also appears on external applica-
tion and the appearance of ulcers rapidly changes under its
action. The best mode of applying it is as a 5% vaseline oint-
ment on a piece of cambric or some other soft material. The
bandage should be renewed 3-4 times a day.
Cuprum metallicum. The 6 C. dilution of this remedy mixed
with oil (15-20^ ) when rubbed in externally is a great support
to the internal use of the same remedy in violent convulsive
pains, especially in cases resembling cholera.
Euphrasia officinalis is very useful in diseases of the conjunc-
tiva and of the eyelids. Eyes chronically inflamed should be
324 Medical Hints.

bathed morning and evening with luke-warm water, to which

\-2 (/o of this tincture has been added. It is also useful when

inhaled in a violent cold, when there are violent stitches and

continual lachrymation of the eyes.
—
Gelscmium sempetvirens. This remedy has been found very
effective when inhaled during a cold and especially in the asthma
accompaning '"hay-fever." The mother tincture should be
poured into a wide-mouthed bottle and vigorously inhaled.
—
Geranium maculahun. Is a remedy but little known, but
deserves to be more so, as it is able to cure the most violent
epistaxis. We had an opportunity of trying its effects on a
young workman sent to us by his boss as being a desperate
case. His nose had been bleeding for over an hour, and the
bleeding could not be checked by all the remedies usually ap-
plied, such as cold water poured on the neck, sipping cold water,
props of raw cotton moistened with chloride of iron. A few
drops of the tincture in water dawn up in the nose, while the
same remedy was also given internally, stopped the bleeding in
less than a minute. External application: 20-25 drops; internal
application: 10 gr. in 150 gr. of water, a tablespoonful as a dose.
Graphites. — Too inert to force itself into notice and too un
known to be even mentioned in the official pharmacopoeia, Graph-
ites is nevertheless a remedy much used iti Homoeopathic treat-
ment. Besides its extensive internal sphere of action, every
Homoeopath will also be able to affirm its efficacy in cutaneous
diseases when applied externally. Ointment of Graphites, 1 gr.
of the 1 or 2D. to 30 gr. of lanolin, will quickly cure tetters,
eczema, little sores with an indolent scurf on the margin of

wounds, also itching nodules which often occupy the entire nose
or chin It is also a general cure for ulcers.

MEDICAL HINTS.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Med. Monaish. fuet
Hom., May, 1898.

—
Characteristic Symptoms. Niccolum, knackingof the knees
while moving the head. Xilr. acidum, great sensitiveness of the

head while out driving and stopping suddenly: sensation of

splinters in the nose and in the neck; attacks of diarrhoea recur-
ring every time on taking rold; ill-smelling or suppressed per-
spiration of thefeet, especially when such sweat causes the feet

to become sore, as also pinching pains; lancinating pains in the

 Medical Hints. 325

warts. Especial weight is laid on the ever recurring sensation

of a splinter (according to Lippe).
—
Small Doses. The value of small doses where the remedy'
is correctly selected consists in this, that through their aid we
are able so to modify the function of an organ which has been
morbidly changed through the irritant action peculiar to the
remedy, that finally a state similar or as similar as possible to
its physiological state is restored. Also the physician at the
Marienbad, Prof. Dr. Kisch (an allopath), recognizes the efficiency
of the small doses of the minerals contained in the mineral waters,
and thus occupies the homoeopathic standpoint. In general we
may say that the universally acknowledged efficacy of the min-
eral springs, which mostly contain only a trace of the acting
substances, e. g., Iodine, have ever served as an argument for the
correctness of homoeopathic principles of cure.
The Biological fundamental law, as enunciated by Prof.
Arndt is as follows: "Weak irritants stimulate the vital activi-

ties, (i. e., those by which we recognize the existence of life);

stronger irritants, such as are of moderate strength, quicken

i. <?.,

them, strong irritants checks them, and the strongest annul

them." This also gives an explanation of the efficacy of small,
i. e., homceodathic doses.

—
Effects of Phosphorus. Also the allopathic physician, Dr..
Hartrep, uses our great and mighty polychrest in small (homoe-
opathic) doses and is quite enthusiastic about the results. Ac-
cording to him the chief domain of Phosphorus is found in
rickets. Besides this he finds it of use in stimulating the intelli-
gence of children that are mentally backward, and removing
symptoms of cerebral irritation, as also in curing antzmia,
nervous states of irritation and weakness and headache recurring
irregularly or periodically. This is nothing new for Homoe-
opaths, for they know the potent influence of Phosphorics on the
brain and its close relationship to the spine and the life of the
nerves in general.
Remedies for Gout. — Gout is a pronounced dyscrasy or degen-
eration of the fluids, and therefore a general disease touching
the whole organism, a constitutional disease. The most impor-
tant homoeopathic remedies for gout are Sulphur. Silicea, Calcarea
carb. and Lycopodium. Conium maculatum is an important remedy
in gout, especially when it causes visual disturbances, such as
flickering and black spots before the eyes — everything seems to
be in a fog.
 — .

326 Another Form of Ethical Obliquity.

ANOTHER FORM OF ETHICAL OBLIQUITY.

The most insidious quackery is not outside of the profession.
The most culpable writers of testimonials to patent medicines
are not the clergymen. They are medical men, who. while they
may have a fair degree of mental astuteness, or may have im-
proved good opportunities for education and may hold prominent
positions, have a certain bias in their faculties which allows
them to twist themselves about, in stating scientific opinions,
in a way which opens their pocket on the side next to the
appreciative manufacturer. You read in a medical journal an
articlewhich purports to be purely scientific; or you listen to a
lecture from one you have been led to suppose devoted to the
study and elucidation of medical truth, and by and by you per-
ceive that science is being juggled with to produce certain illu-

sions. A
recommendation of a certain proprietary article is
dragged in, and you are chagrined and disguisted. Your confi-
dence has been imposed upon. Or, perhaps (begging your
pardon), you do not perceive the illusion; for there must be some
among readers and hearers who are bamboozled, else such tricks
would not continue to be practiced.
A lamentable feature is that journals can be found to publish
such articles and lectures. Possibly the editors do not perceive
the imposition upon the reader and the fraud upon legitimate
medical literature. Possibly they do. Probably they do not
care. But the discriminating reader will perceive it: and while
he laments it he will resent it as an insult to his intelligence, as
a traitorous attack upon truth, and as a disgrace to the profes-
sion which he loves. Cleveland Medical Journal

NAPHTHALIN
My experience with Naphthalin in whooping cough is a^ yet

limited, but the results obtained have very much exceeded other
remedies and I wish to cite a few cases in which the alleviation
of the symptoms was soon appreciable.
—
CASK I. Francis , a boy of 9 months, with a serere
bronchitis as a complication. The breathing was labored. The
respiratory murmur was feeble and a large number of sibilant
 An Involuntary Proving of Anacardiiun. 327

and sonorous were heard, when I was called to see the

rales
case. The become emaciated, had a cyanotic appear-
child had
ance, was unable to retain food for any length of time, because
of the frequent paroxysms accompanied by vomiting, and was
very much exhausted. Later, the moist rales became very prom-
inent over the entire chest. The paroxysms were of great
length, and accompanying was a free discharge of thick, tena-
cious mucus from the nose and mouth. Many of the favorite
remedies employed in this disease were prescribed, but with
little effect. Naphthalin was then given, four or five drops of
the tincture in one-half glass of water. In a short time the
paroxysms were lessened in severity and frequency, the expec-
toration was freer, the number of rales were lessened, and
shortly convalescence was well established,
Case II. John — 3^ years, with an accompanying bron-
,

chitis. Symptoms worse at night. Paroxysms very long and

severe; would hold his head to relieve the pain from coughing.
Great difficulty experienced in breathing. A number of rales
heard over portion of the chest, with little expectoration. After
Naphthalin had been given for a short time improvement began,
and terminated without further complications.
Case III. — Patrick -, a man 23 years of age, large
physique and healthy appearance, contracted pertussis from
other members of the family, and, although not accompanied by
the whoop, the paroxysms were very severe. They were not
frequent during the day but many during the night. He would
wake the entire house by coughing and would become purple in
the face. He had been suffering a week or two before I saw
him. I prescribed Drosera, Corrallium rub., Ipecac and Hyoscy-
amus, without appreciable improvement. He gradually grew
worse until Naphthalin ix in pellets was given. The spasmodic
condition was relieved very shortly, and although the cough re-
mained for a time it never became severe and soon entirely dis-
appeared. —
W.A. Weaver, M. D., in Hahn. Monthly.

AN INVOLUNTARY PROVING OF ANACARDIUM.

The fourth casewould bring before the members of this
I

society is by the tincture of Anacardium

that of a rash produced .

While running up this drug in my office, a few drops fell upon

my hand, and without thought I touched the left side of my
face. The next morning I found my left eye swollen and in-
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328 Book Notices.

flamed, having paroxysms every half hour of great burning and

itching, which would frequently last about five minutes, passing
off,leaving no other symptoms than a feeling of fullness and
heaviness.
The following morning, my face was greatly swollen, almost
entirely closed the left and partially the right eye producing a
leathery feeling of the skin. By the third day, the face was
highly inflamed, presenting a condition similating that of ery-
sipelas without the fever.
To the naked eye there appeared only a smooth, deeply red
surface of the epidermis (aggravated by cold air); but on touch
a sticky substance oozed out, which showed evidence of very
minute vesicles.
This condition lasted about five days, when the oedema sub-
sided, redness faded, the epidermis began to dry and scale off in
small flakes.
This scaling process took several days. The face and small
portions of the neck and back were the only parts affected.
No rash appearing on the hand which touched the drug, and
no other symptoms of Anacardium were experienced.
Remedies used in promoting relief were Apis and Arsenicum
which did good work in a short time. It was difficult to ascer-
tain whether this condition could have been produced by Rhus
tox. or Anacardhim, as they produced a similar rash.
But not having handled Rhus tox. for some time previous and
being fully aware of having used the Anacardium the night
before the rash appeared, left no doubt but that Anacardium did
the mischief which kept me somewhat retired from business for
nearly one week beside causing sleepless nights, and the intol-
erable burning and itching as before stated. I have on three
occasions been poisoned with Rhus tox., and though the oedema,
scaling, and itching were similar, there was no oozing of a sticky
substance as that produced in the poisoning by Anacardium. Af. —
L. Turton, M. D., in North Am. Jour, of Ho?n., Dec, iSgy.

"Babies do not have so much control of the intestines and

more often they require a persuader of some kind to remove the
milk curds and stink from the alimentary canal. For this pur-
pose there is nothing better than copious doses of pure olive oil
not common sweet oil; it is poor stuff. What oil is not needed
as a cathartic becomes a food and is digested. In fact, we be-
lieve pure olive oil can well replace cod liver oil at any time or
for any purpose." B. Medical Gleaner
 Book Notices. 329

BOOK NOTICES.
Diseases of the Skin. Their Constitutional Nature and Cure.
By J. Compton Burnett, M. D., Third Edition, revised and
enlarged. 264 pages. Cloth, $1.00; by mail, $1.07. Philadel-
phia: Boericke and Tafel. 1898.
"Third edition" on the title page, of a medical work speaks
stronger in its favor than any words a writer of book notices can

pen, for the majority of them never see a second edition. For
the benefit of those who have the previous editions we quote
the following from the preface:
" For this third edition, I have added Part Third, dealing
with the cure of alopecia areata by constitutional remedies without
any local applications whatever." Throughout the book the
author strongly takes the ground that skin diseases are the out-
ward manifestations of an internal disease condition, and that it is

highly detrimental to suppress them by external applications.

This is the position taken by Hahnemann in Chronic Diseases,
but Burnett introduces many new remedies that are not to be
found in the older work. Diseases of the Skin is a work that can
be read with profit, and ought to be read by every one who has
the health of human beings intrusted to his care.

Atlas of Legal Medicine. By Dr. Evon Hoffman, Professor

of Legal Medicine and Director of Medico- Legat Institute at
Vienna. Authorized translation from the German. Edited by
Frederick Peterson, M. D., assisted by Aloysius O. J. Kelley,
M. D. 56 plates in color and 193 illustrations in black. Price,
$3.50 net. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1898.
"There is, perhaps, no field of science in which the value of
illustrations is greater than in forensic medicine," writes the
editor, Dr. Peterson. " The problems which confront the coroner,
the post-mortem examiner, and the courts of law must be solved
by the presentation The numerous and
of indisputable facts."
book are made up from photographs and
rich illustrations in this
original drawings of actual cases making the volume a veritable
treasure house of information.
33° Book Notices.

Atlas and Abstract of the Disease of the Larynx. By Dr. L.

Griindwald, of Munich. Authorized translation from the Ger-
man. Edited by Chas. P. Grayson, M. D., with 107 colored
figures on 44 plates. Price, $2. 50 net. Philadelphia: W. B.
Saunders. 1898.
"The beginner," says Editor Grayson, "will find here a
series of pathological conditions, illustrated with remarkable
fidelity to nature, that it would undoubtedly require him a num-
ber of years to duplicate in actual practice; while the veteran,
however rich in his experience, will note a precision, a fiyiessexxi
diagnosis that cannot fail to be instructive and, perhaps, even
inspiring." The illustrations in this as in the precedingly
noticed 'atlas" are very rich and accurate.

A Text-Book of Gynecology. By James C. Wood, A M.. M.

D., Professor of Gynecology in the Cleveland Homoeopathic
Medical College.
This is a very handsome volume containing nearly 1,000
pages. That the second edition of so large a volume should
have been demanded in less than four years after the first is
sufficient evidence that the work is one which has found favor
with the profession. This is certainly the Homoeopathic work
on Gynecology. In this, the second edition has been thoroughly
revised. To a greater or less extent every chapter and almost
page has been altered. Some material has been expunged and
much has been added. The chapters on "Electricity," Antiseptics
and Asepsis Pelvic, Abscess, Malignant Diseases of the Uterus and
injuries resulting from childbirth have practically been rewritten.
A chapter devoted to those obstetrical operations which the ab-
dominal surgeon is so often called upon to perform has been intro-
duced. The volume, as a whole, maintains a high standard of
excellence, both as regards the matter, the illustrations, and the
general make up. It can but take a high rank in Gynecological
Literature. —
Charlotte Medical Journal.

The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of Diarrhoea, Dysentery,

Cholera, Cholera-morbus, Cholera Infantum, and all
other Loose Evacuations of the Bowels. By James B.
Bell, M. I). 4th edition.
It was in [869 that the first edition of this work saw the light,
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and in a short time "Bell on Diarrhoea" became, medically

speaking, "a household word " If Dr. Bell's book is less known
now than by homoeopathic practitioners of 20 years ago, we feel
inclined to say that it is rather a sign that prescribing is done
today more hurried and routine manner than formerly. No
in a
person of extensive practice is satisfied with the results which

are yielded by an empirical Homoeopathy, if the term is permissi-

ble, in "loose evacuations of the bowels." Perhaps there is a
danger of becoming willing to remain dissatisfied on account of
the time and trouble required for careful and individual pre-
scribing. Against these should be placed the results, for time
and trouble will ultimately be minimized by the rapidity and
thoroughness of a quickly curative prescription.
In the preface to the first edition, Dr. Bell informs us that his
little labor-saving treatise "has not been intended to include
every remedy that has been known to purge, but only every
remedy of which enough is known, either of its stools, or
conditions, or concomitants, to distinguish it from any other
remedy." This is just the point, and on this depends success
or failure.
In glancing over works of this kind we confess our tendency
is to enquire where all the symptoms in the text and the index
(Repertory) come from, and to reject all those which are not
strictly pathogenetic. But here the "higher criticism" has no
place. In a difficult or uncertain case we turn with the confi-
dence born of long experience to "Bell," and find, with compar-
ative ease, substantial and reliable aid. For the benefit of those
not acquainted with our author, it may be stated that the first

204 pages consist of the description of the action of 140 drugs on

the bowels, with aggravation, relief, conditions and concomi-
tants. Another hundred pages furnish a Repertory— the part
most often turned to in looking up a case in the practice of every
day.
We hope our readers will soon make personal acquaintance of
this little book. Monthly Homoeopathic Review.
 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.

AN OFFER.
The June number of the New E?igland Medical Gazette, pub-
lished by Messrs. Otis Clapp & Son, homoeopathic pharmacists
and publishers of the new Pharmacopoeia, contains a paper writ-
ten by the senior member of that firm, in which he insinuates
that the reason for the opposition of the Recorder to the Phar-
macopoeia published by his firm is owing to the well-known fact
that the publishers of the Recorder are also publishers of what
Mr. Clapp is pleased to term the " so called America?i Ho?noeo-
p athie Pharmacopoeia " This same insinuation was made also by
— to use Mr Clapp's own term — the only other journal besides
his own that " vehemently " supports the new work. We regret
that these gentlemen cannot see above the shop, and beg leave
to assure them that the fact that the publishers of this journal
happen to have a Pharmacopoeia on their large list of publica-
tions had absolutely nothing whatever to do with the opposition
of this journal. We were led to oppose the new work sol el 3
and only because, in our opinion, its universal adoption
would prove detrimental to the best interests of Homoeopathy.
The publishers (for the fight is made in each instance by the
publishers) of the two journals (each with a pharmacy) may not
be able to believe this statement, but we beg leave to assure
them that it is a fact. If the Recorder were guided by " the
shop," it would never have uttered a word against the new-
work, as its directions entail no difficulty in the preparation of
drugs, but, on the contrary, they can be (in many instances)
prepared under its rules at considerably lower rates, owing to

the fact that so made they are weaker; furthermore from the I

shop point of view), there is a fat profit in selling this exorbi-

 Editorial 333

tantly-priced work, and no risk must be run of incurring enmity

to " the house " by saying anything of its vital weakness on
several points. (True, it will hurt Homoeopathy, but business —
is business.All this from the shop-point of view.)
In order to put an effectual stop to these insinuations, the
editor of the Recorder is authorized by the publishers of the
American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, Messrs. Boericke & Tafel.
to donate to the American Institute of Homoeopathy the plates
of that work, provided that body will adopt the work officially
and publish it at cost, or near enough to cost to merely pay the
handling. This offer is made in good faith, and for the good of
—
Homoeopathy for even our critics cannot find in it any chance
for pelf.
While this phase of the subject is up we might ask: Who
gets the profits of the new work ? There is " big money " in it,
the price being very high for a book of its size. Does the
treasury of the Institute get them ? If not, why not ? If the
Institute gets them (the profits), is it not a mistake for a body of
its high character to tax students so much ? Per contra, if the
Institute does not get the profits, who does? And, if not, is it

ethical for those who do to hive so much money under cover of

that body's name ?
To the vital objection advanced by the Recorder to the new
work —that it is suicidal to teach students the pathogenesies of
drugs obtained from prescriptions that the would-be official
—
Pharmacopoeia condemns as inert Mr. Clapp makes the follow-
ing evasive reply:
"The second objection offered by Dr. Dewey and the Recorder to the
Pharmacopoeia of the Institute is that it fails to recognize as official prep-
arations dilutions made from triturations of insoluble substances.
" Without discussing the merits of this class of preparations, we would
ask if this can be seriously considered as a valid objection ? Can every
form of preparation used in the old school be found in the United States
Pharmacopoeia ? By no means: yet can anyone reasonably take exception
to that work because of such omissions, or consider them cause sufficient
for a general condemnation ? Have our friends not misinterpreted the
scope of a Pharmacopoeia ? "

What an answer is that ! Cannot Mr. Clapp, and others who

support the new work, see (aside from all miserable "financial
interest") that this failure "to recognize as official prepara-
tions " —
and their further condemnation as inert carries with it —
the practical condemnation of Homoeopathy ? It was the won-
334 Editorial

derful success of the earlier Homoeopaths, obtained by means of

the very preparations that the new work refuses to recognize, that
made Homoeopathy possible, and, consequently, the new Phar-
macopoeia Leaving out all personal considerations, " financial
!

interests," and everything but the naked truth, is not this posi-
tion of the new work a sheer absurditv ?

Irrepressible and pugnacious Mr. Hennig, publisher of the

Medical Visitor and homoeopathic pharmacist, comes to the fore
again. He says the Recorder uses "intemperate language,"
" villification " and " invective " which are the language of the
"nihilist and incendiary." Well! Well!! Well!!!
He also reiterates that Belladonna made according to Hahne-
mann's directions is "5.75 weaker than its drug power claims
for it," or, at least, he does not retract, but defends that state-
ment of his. So be it. We prefer to stick to the old Bellado?ma.
Surely that is not nihilistic?
Having read of Hahnemann's works, we were well aware
all

of the he used several preparations at different times

fact that
and that he incorporated into his pathogenesies matter taken
from various sources, but we always had the opinion that the
directions for the preparation of the medicine that he gave in his
published works were the ones to be followed by those who
prepare the remedies and this is all we have been contending for
— it may be "nihilistic and incendiary " on our part, but such

was not the intention.

In his latest Mr. Hennig abandons his "quibbling about
chaff" position on the vital question of the new pharmacopoeia's
condemnation of the dilution from insolubles and takes up the
following one which differs from that taken by Mr. Clapp (See
above). Mr. Hennig writes:
The question of the therapeutic activity, or inactivity, of the dilutions ot
insoluble drugs concerns only the physician and the editor of the RECORD] R
would have shown far less presumption had he, also, refrained from at'
tempting its discussion. It is painful to be compelled to thus clearly indi-
cate to him the
indelicacy, to say the least, of his position on this subject.
but necessary to thus illustrate the character of the critics of the new
it is

pharmacopoeia. The opinion of the humblest physician npon the efficacy of

such dilutions is worthy of serious consideration; but to presume to write
upon such a t<>j ic when one is not so qualified, not only gives evidence of
poor taste in disregarding tin- elementary principles of ethics, but one's very
unqualifiedness for such a task is very apt indeed to come into distressing
prominent <-.
 Editorial. 335
Mr. Hennig has turned out some wonderful copy since he
came out as a writer, but none that can surpass the foregoing in
brilliant argument and unintentional broad humor. But really,
friend Hennig, and all joking aside, if it is "indelicate" and
"presurnptious " on part of the Recorder
even discuss this
to
awesome question, what language would you apply
to that com-
mittee of pharmacists who dogmatically decide it by turning
Hahnemann and Homoeopathy down? If that committee had at-
tended to its business and given the method of preparing these
dilutions and left each physician to decide whether or not to use
them no one could have objected, but when it arrogantly decides
the question and in doing so casts the shame on all the homoe-
opathic pioneers from Hahnemann down to Raue of being in
error, and of reporting wonderful results with inert preparations,
w e think it time for all loyal Homoeopaths to emphatically pro-
T

test.

Editor Smith, after reproving the Recorder for the error of

its way in the pharmacopoeia matter, concludes as follows:
But really we have no fight with the Recorder man. We like him and
and his newsy way of writing, and only regret that
his live little journal,
he persists in building a man of straw and then furiously jumps in and tears
it down again. He will see it differently, too, as the years come and go,
and it will not be long until the American Institute will meet in Philadel-
phia and we can drink each other's health in bumpers of the Schuylkill
water and laugh at the remarks he has made concerning the Pharmacopoeia
of the American Institute, which, no doubt, he will then be heartily en-
dorsing. Here's to your health, brother editor!

The chief objection we have to the foregoing is the bumpers

of Schuylkill; that water is we can put Editor Smith
not bad, but
on to something better when he comes here which we hope will
be soon.

Dr. W. P. Howle, writes in Medical Brief: "I would as

soon undertake to pass judgment upon the character of a man
by looking at his clothing as to undertake to diagnose disease
by the quality of microbe I might find."
 PERSONAL.
The American Institute of Homoeopathy meets at Atlantic City next
year. Do not fail to go.

Sajous' Monthly Cyclopceia of Practical Medicine has discovered that

Natrum mur. is a remedy for intermittent fevers. Hurrah !

NOTIC E. A g°°d
opportunity for physician of experience, wishing
city practice. Will sell or rent. Address, A. B., No. 206
Morgan Building, Buffalo, N. Y.
7POR S.A.LE ^ 13'°°° practice in a very pleasant town of six
thousand inhabitants, eighteen miles from Philadel-
phia. Possession given at once. Address all inquiries to Silhx. CARE
P O. Box 921, Philadelphia, Pa. A good opening.
C. H. Hubbard, M. D., has removed from 1637 Arch street to 1420 Chest-
nut street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Dewey's "Essentials," with preface by Dr. Richard Hughes, is being

translated into Portuguese.
The Syracuse now the babv journal of Homoeopathy. Born May
Cli?iic is
1, 1898. It will keep you informed about the Syracuse (X. Y. Homoeo- )

pathic Hospital. 25 cents a year.

Dr. Parry's paper in this Recorder is worthy of careful perusal.

Dr. Ira L. Fe.terhoff has removed to La Fayette and Carroltou avenues,
Baltimore.
The railroad man remarked, after hearing a long winded preacher, that
he had " poor terminal facilities."

Patient aged 9 years, 6 months and 3 days, had been ill 2 years and 6
months; left 14 powders to be taken 2 times a day for 1 week. 2 powders
cured him in 3 days. — ( Verbum sap.)

Dr. J. O. Hendrix, formerly resident physician of Maryland Homoeo-

pathic Hospital, has opened an office at 737 North Ave., West, Baltimore
—
Married Jas. L. Hooper, M. D., and Flora Car>. At home. 220 North
Gilmore street, Baltimore.
Dr H. Benge Simmons has located at Chestertown, Md.
will be fully repaid in reading Burnett's Diseases
You of the Skin. 3d
American edition just out.
While science is every day penetrating deeper into the minutiae of mat-
ter, the new pharmacopoeia recently saddled on Homoeopathy tries to con-
fine that grand science of infinitesimals in the gross field of the micro-
scope !

Talk of selling your birthright for a mess of pottage !

Whenever in doubt betweeu two remedies consult Gross's Comparative

Materia Medica and a flood of light will thereby be thrown on the subject.
Messrs. Boericke & Tafel will have a translation of the 25th edition of
Schiissler's Abridged Theraphy ready for delivery about the end of July.
No old school work on the subject is as complete in all particulars as
Wood's Gynecology'^ it i^ the work par excellence.
Well, subscribe tor the RECORDER 5l.OO.
 THE
HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.
Vol. XIII. Lancaster, Pa, August, 1898. No. 8

HYGIENE.
By Anna Wood, M. D.*
The first lesson children should be taught is, that no human
being can do wrong without suffering for it. Doing wrong is
violating any of God's laws. These laws include what are called
laws of nature and moral law. Children should be taught that
we reap what we sow, and the law of the harvest is to reap more
than we sow. Young men are taught that they are expected to
sow their wild oats. The old teaching was, it is dreadfully
hard to do right. The only easy thing there is for us to do is
doing right; but we must know how, and we must form the
habit in childhood and youth of right thinking and acting. If
we obey the natural laws, an easy matter to obey the moral
it is

law; mental and moral power dependent upon physical health.

is

The literal meaning of doctor is to teach. The aim of intelli-

gent medical practice is to restore people to health and teach
them how to live so they will not need medicine. If people are
obeying the laws of nature they have perfect health. If during
the last century physicians had taught people to observe the
laws of health instead of simply dosing and chargi?ig them man-
kind would be in a much better condition. The first step in the
cure of any disease is to obey the laws of health which have
been violated. God's laws can't be repealed. Disease and
ill health are produced by a violation of some of the laws of

nature either by ourselves or some of our ancestors, and God

never made a system of medicine which will cure people and
keep them well while they continue to violate the laws of
health.
It is the birthright of every child to be well born. By this I
mean they should have a healthy body, a sunshiny and hopeful
*Read before the Indiana Institute of Homoeopathy, May 24, 189S.
338 Hygiene.

disposition and a good intellect. If children are thus born and

taught the golden rule by parents and teachers, and taught the
laws of health as regards diet, dress, etc., when they reach man-
hood and womanhood they will be healthy, happy, useful mem-
bers of society. But if during gestation, when a woman has the
privilege of producing a philanthropist, statesman, poet or
philosopher, she is sick, unhappy, and has mur-
cross, irritable
der in her mind and heart, is it strange if her children trample
upon her wishes and bring her in gray hairs and sorrow to the
grave bemoaning the ingratitude of her children and the lone-
liness of her condition? The liars, thieves, drunkards, mur-
derers, paupers and prostitutes of our day are less responsible for
their crimes against themselves, against society and against
Heaven than those who were instrumental in bringing them
into the world.
A majority of physicians dislike the practice of obstetrics.
The curse of fashion and the long list of perverting influences
are responsible for the terrible agony frequently attending par-
turition. If women would dress in the proper manner, eat
nothing but plain diet, drink nothing at meals and nothing but

pure water any time, take the right kind and proper amount
at
of exercise, breathe pure air, take plenty of sunshine, always
sleep alone and observe the laws of chastity they would suffer
no more in labor than the lower animals. I do not mean that
she should observe these laws simply the nine months previous
to parturition, but that she should observe them during life.

Women are taught to consider the menopause as a very critical

time of life. If they always observed the laws of health they
would have no trouble at this period.
I did not study medicine for the purpose of practicing, but for
the purpose of teaching people the laws of health. All suffering,
both moral and physical, caused from violated law. I teach
is

my patients it is as great a disgrace to be sick as to have served

a term in the penitentiary. The latter is an indication that some
man-made law had been violated, and the former that some of
Cod's laws have been violated either by ourselves, our ancestors
or perhaps by both. Man-made laws sometimes correspond to
God's laws and sometimes they do not. Unless we obey the laws
of nature we cannot obey the moral law.
The system undergoes electrical changes during the night's
sleep that are seriously interfered with where two persons occupy
 Hygiene. 339
the same bed. No two persons should ever sleep together, and
especially married people should not sleep together if they ex-
pect to always be lovers. Nothing but single bedsteads should
be manufactured.
The mouth is the filthiest part of the body. The teeth should
be cleaned half a dozen times daily. The goose- quill tooth-pick
is an indispensable article in the care of the teeth. We cannot
have good health unless we have good teeth and they are kept
perfectly clean. I should not keep a decayed tooth in my mouth
fifteen minutes. If it can not be filled it should be extracted.
If people would have perfect health they should avoid coffee,
tea, milk, butter, soup, pork, lard, cake, pie, biscuit, candy,
molasses, preserves, all kinds of butters made of fruit, custard,
pudding, pickles, everything containing vinegar, everything
canned in tin, everything made of white flour, ice cream, soda
water, pepper, spices, condiments, flavorings and all forms of
seasoning except a small amount of sugar upon fruit and a small
quantity of salt upon vegetables. Eat potatoes not more than
once daily. Drink nothing at meals and nothing but pure
water at any time. Drink an abundance of pure water and less
food will be required. Distilled water should be used for drink-
ing, cooking and bathing. The people of the United States are
starving themselves eating stuff made of white flour. If no
white flour was used there would be fewer inmates in the insane
asylums. Pure cream and milk may be used in seasoning rice,
oats, wheat, sago, tapioca, etc. It is best to avoid meat entirely,
but by all means avoid pork, lard, turkey, chicken, salted meats
and butter. It is the ferocious animals that live upon meat.
Live upon fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and eggs. Boil eggs
one or two hours and eat without salt.
It is said the Jews never have cancer because they don't use
pork. My mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-seven.
My preceptor remarked to me that she need not have died had
shebeen operated upon. Had she lived as I do she would not
have had cancer. She used pork, lard, milk, butter, stuff made
of white flour, coffee and her bowels were always constipated.
One authority says nine-tenths of neuralgia is caused from the
use of coffee and tea. Coffee is a frequent cause of rheumatism.
Rheumatism is a form of gout, and is usually the result of re-
tained waste and impurities.
Live upon simple diet and you will not have rheumatism.
34-Q Hygiene*

Avoid coffee, tea, sweets, pork, lard, milk, butter, stuff made of
white flour aud eat but little potato. Live upon fruits, vegeta-
bles, grains, nuts and eggs.
A large majority of the people of the United States are afflicted
with constipation. Improper diet and dress, the use of cathar-
tics, sedentary employment and neglecting nature's calls are
some of the causes. one of the most frequent
Constipation is

causes of foul breath. Taking physic is a dreadful habit.

I would not take a physic for a hundred dollars. Olive oil is a
good remedy for constipation. Live upon whole wheat bread,
Graham and cornbread, apples and walnuts and the bowels will
move freely two and three times daily. Yeast bread should be
at least twenty-four hours old before it is eaten. Use cream,
suet tallow or some vegetable oil as cotton seed oil and olive oil
for seasoning, instead of lard or butter. Children should be fed
upon milk until they have a sufficient number of teeth to chew
their victuals, after which they need no more milk except what
is used in making bread and seasoning. Apples are one of the
best liver tonics and are excellent for the complexion. People
frequently remark to me that they have to work hard and must
use coffee and meat to give them strength. If they will live as
I do they will not have to work so hard. The horse is one of
the strongest and most beautiful animals if he is properly bred
and cared for; he eats grain and grass either dry or green and
afterwards takes a drink of water. He enjoys his food without
vinegar, sugar, spices, flavorings, etc.
People sometimes tell me apples, walnuts, etc., disagree with
them. Such things disagree with them because they are eating
something they should not People frequently tell me that
eat.
grain food as wheat, oats, mush and cornbread, produces sour
stomach, flatulency, etc. It is the sugar they use with it or

something else they are eating that causes the indigestion.

Dr. Kellogg says: "American women suffer more from
diseases peculiar to her sex than those of any other nation. It

is impossible for a woman to dress in accordance with the re-

quirements of fashion without becoming seriously diseased."

Health, happiness, usefulness and comfort are all sacrificed to
fashion. It is a law in physiology that the slightest continued
pressure upon any organ, muscle or tissue causes the part to di-
minish in size and vitality. Women wear their shoes and
gloves from one to two numbers too small. Garters cause cold
 Hygiene. 341

feet, varicose veins, phlegmasia dolens and milk leg. Women

should never put on a garment except such as are made in one
piece so as to suspend from the shoulders, not with suspenders,
but with comfortable and loose-fitting waists. Women fre-
quently tell me their husbands require them to dress according
to the prevailing style, or as other women dress. Dress these
men up as they require their wives to dress, and they would be
as uncomfortable as I should be were I put into the stocks or
pillory. We frequently hear it stated that human beings are
free will agents. Nearly all persons are slaves to some bad
habit, from which they know not how to free themselves; they
are slaves to fashion, to popularity. No woman dresses in a
manner to be comfortable or healthy. The dressmaker's stand-
ard of neatness is that there must not be a wrinkle in the waist
at the time when the chest is the smallest or measured the least,
that is, at the close of expiration. The lungs contain six hun-
dred milllion air cells, which should be filled with pure air
twenty-five thousand times in twenty-four hours to relieve the
blood of waste and impurities and supply the system with
oxygen. The heart beats one hundred thousand times in
twenty-four hours. The food is digested by a peristaltic or
churning process produced by the movements of the diaphragm,
muscles of the stomach, intestines and abdominal walls. The
slightest restriction by a corset or clothing suspended from the
waist impairs the function of the lungs, heart and digestive
organs. The brain requires one-fifth the blood in the body for
its support. An amply developed chest is just as much an ac-
companiment of greatness as a large forehead, and intellectual
greatness is the product of both large vital organs to manufac-
ture the vital stamina and large intellectual organs to expend
this vital power. The upon the blood vessels
slightest pressure
of the neck impedes the circulation and impairs the function of
the brain. Were the neck properly dressed we would have
fewer throat and chest diseases. The neck should be left bare,
the same as the face, except when going into cold. Women
would be healthier if they wore their hair short. They should
go bareheaded, except in hot or cold weather; they then should
wear something that will protect and keep them comfortable. A
celebrated oculist says his house was built upon dotted veils.
People would be healthier if they went barefoot in warm
weather.
342 Hygiene.

Window curtains should be abolished. Dwellings should be

built with inside shutters, and keep them open the greater part
of the time. Each room should be thoroughly ventilated several
times daily. Of all the elements that occupy a high place and
exert an important influence in the great laboratory of nature
light is the first and most remarkable. Science has proved that
no substance can be exposed to a sunbeam without undergoing
a change. The red blood corpuscles are the oxygen carriers, and
if our bodies are not exposed to the rays of the sun several hours

during the day these corpuscles are rendered unfit to do their

work. No room is fit to live in without the sun's rays having
daily penetrated every nook and corner. Much of the ventila-
tion should take place from the top of the window. Curtains
and blinds interfere with this process. Window-blinds, wall-
paper and carpets are abominations. It is much healthier to live
up stairs. By all means the sleeping rooms should be up-stairs.
Dwellings should be built without basements or cellars.
Frequent change of underclothing is of greater importance
than bathing. Nothing should be worn at night that is worn
during the day. Wear cotton or linen next to the body, and
change several times during the week. A majority of people
take cold easily; this is usually an indication they have some
form of indigestion. The eliminative organs are the skin,
lungs, intestines and kidneys. Cover your body with gold foil
or some air tight substance, and you will die in a few hours from
the excrementitious matter retained in the system and prevented
from passing through the pores of the skin. There are millions
of pores upon the surface of the body. Each pore is the end of
a tube. These tubes are the drainpipes to rid our bodies of
waste matter. Colds are usually congestions and inflammations
of some internal organ or membrane. The action of the elimi-
native organs of the skin become impaired by being chilled, and
our system is not relieved of the waste and impurities as rapidly
as they accumulate, and the mucous membranes of the respira-
tory, alimentary and urinary tracts endeavor to do their work
and the extra work which is not being done by the eliminative
organs of the skin, and we have running at the nose, increased
mucus eliminated by the lining of the bronchial tubes and some-
times pneumonia. This waste and impurities I have referred
to is produced from two sources, viz., the worn-out particles of
the system and the food we eat. A majority of people in civilized
 Hygiene. 343
nations eat too much. They season their much and
food too
eat too great a mixture. Were I teaching hygiene I
a class in
should go to a fashionable boarding house and order a Thanks-
giving dinner. I should put it into a vessel and churn it for a

short time, dish it and pass it to my class to taste and examine

that they might realize what a task the poor stomach has to
perform in digesting such an obnoxious mixture. Much of the
stuff that is called food would give an ostrich indigestion. If
we always upon the right kind of diet we would have
lived
normal appetites and never overload the stomach. Much of the
stuff that is put into the stomach contains but little nutrition,
and makes extra work for the eliniinative organs. I have cured
severe colds with two doses of Hepar sulphur 200, or two doses
of Aconite, a sweat or hot bath, and taking nothing into the
stomach for twenty- four hours but water and apples. The best
way to cure diarrhoea is by fasting. Dr. Tanner cured his
rheumatism by He said no difference what disease he
fasting.
had, he would cure by fasting. Colds are produced by the
it

skin being chilled and the perspiration, sensible or insensible,

being checked. The blood, no longer cleansed and reduced in
volume by the drainage through the pores, sets to the lungs for
purification. That organ is oppressed, breathing becomes diffi-
cult and the extra mucus secreted by the irritated membrane is
thrown off by coughing. The mucous membrane of the nasal
cavity sympathizes, and we have catarrh. The excess of blood
seeks the weakest point and develops fever, headache, pleurisy,
pneumonia and rheumatism. Thousands of people die every
year of consumption. A very large per cent, of these first

had dyspepsia then took consumption.

If people would live upon the right kind of diet they would
not be crippled up with gout and rheumatism by the time they
are fifty years of age. People should do their best work between
the ages of fifty and seventy. Thousands of people die of gout,
and the papers state they died of paralysis or heart disease.
Blackstone, the great English commentator, and Spurgeon, the
great London divine, each died of gout at the age of fifty-seven.
If all persons livedupon the right kind of diet and took the
proper amount of exercise they would neither be too spare nor
too corpulent. Massage and salt baths is the best treatment to
build up debilitated conditions and reduce corpulency.
Marriage, parentage and prenatal influence are the most im-
344 Hygiene.

portant subjects mankind has to consider. Until we have insti-

tutions to educate men and women upon these subjects, and laws
prohibiting them from marrying until they understand the sub-
ject ofmatrimony, mankind will never become any better. We
should have institutions where women are taught hygienic cook-
ing, laundry work, plain sewing, the care of a woman and child
through confinement, and where they are educated upon
economy, hygiene, marriage, parentage and prenatal culture.
Every woman, before marriage, should be required to pass a
rigid examination upon these subjects. We should have insti-
tutions to educate men upon the subject of matrimony. We
should have a law prohibiting a man from marrying until he
has a thousand dollars that he has earned himself, and under-
stands a good business, and is free from the use of tobacco and
alcohol. I would not marry a man whose habits are not as
simple as mine. Ministers and officers who have the power to
officiate at marriages do not realize the great responsibility rest-
ing upon them. Had I that power, ninety- nine couples out of
every one hundred would be rejected upon the ground of incom-
petency and lack of qualification. But you say if people are not
permitted to marry they will do worse. They can't do worse.
The lack of chastity in the married relation is doing more harm
than any other evil. A Chinese maxim says, the greatest enemy
'

'

to the health of men is woman; the worst enemy to the health

of women man. Study deeply into the diseases of the two
is

sexes.
'

Love and not hist is the foundation of all true marriage.

'

If men would live upon the right kind of diet their bowels would
move regularly, and avoid tobacco and alcohol and choose an
employment that requires much exercise they would not be so
lustful. Coffee is one of the worst things to excite the passions.
But one other Nation uses more coffee than the people of the
United States, and that is the people of Holland. That govern-
ment had an array of thirty thousand men. Venereal diseases be-
came so prevalent that the government employed ten thousand
healthy native women for the use of these men.
If parents understood the laws of marriage, prenatal inllueuce
and hygiene children would be well born, then feed them upon
simple diet, they would have natural appetites and you could
not hire them to use tobacco or alcohol. It would be difficult to

estimate the amount of money that has been paid to teachers of

the public schools, preachers and doctors; yet, notwithstanding
 Removal of Hahnemann's Body. 345

this fact, the homes of the United States are naught. I doubt
if there are a hundred happy homes to the county in the United
States. Why is this true? Because the public schools are a
failure, the churches a humbug, the doctors, druggists, lawyers
and politicians a curse.
Terra Haute, hid.

REMOVAL OF HAHNEMANN'S BODY FROM

MONTMARTRE CEMETERY TO PERE-
LACHESE.
From the Revue Homceopathique Traneaise, Paris.

On the 24th of May, 189S, in the presence of the civil authori-

ties and thirty-five persons the solemn ceremony of the exhuma-
tion took place of the body of Samuel Hahnemann, founder of
Homoeopathy.
The ceremony began at half-past eight A. M #1 on arrival of the
Police Commissioner representing the civil authorities.
Were present: Dr. Siiss-Hahnemann, grandson of Samuel
Hahnemann, coming from England. Monsieur Cloquenin, Vice-
President of the Compagnie Transatlantique, representing
Madame the Baroness de Boenninghausen, adopted daughter and
heiress of Madame Hahnemann.
The International Committee for the grave was represented
by Dr. Richard Hughes, of Brighton, and Dr. Francois Cartier,
of Paris.
Were also present: Drs. Leon Simon, President of the French
Homoeopathic Society of Paris; Parenteau, Conan, Jousset, Sr.,
Jousset. Jr., Ximier, J. B. Faure,Guimard, Elie Faure, Tissot,
Dezon. Xuguay, Boyer, Love, Chancerel, Sr. and Jr.; George
Tessier, Trichou. Peuvrier, Heerman, Vautier, Kcenick, Girar-
deau, Ecalle and Bernard Arnulphy. of Chicago.
Dr. Gannal, who, fifty years ago, performed the embalming of
the bod\- of Hahnemann, as assistant to his father, was also
present. Five other laymen were also present.
Dr. Cartier was the first speaker. He said:
Ge?itlei?ie?i : Facing this open vault and in the presence of the

coffin containing the body of Samuel Hahnemann, our illustrious

Master, my duty will not be to retrace the work of this genius
who has stirred up the world by his ideas and doctrines. As
Secretary of the International Committee for the monument to
346 Removal of Hahnemann's Body.
be erected upon Hahnemann's grave and French delegate,
as the
the only authorized party to act on the spot, have to offer to
I

all those who are here present, to all those in the entire world

who are anxiously waiting for the result of to day's ceremony,

the palpable proofs and evidences in order to convince them that
we are really in the presence of the precious remains of Samuel
Hahnemann, and that the monument which is to be erected at
PC- re -Lachese cemetery will shelter the founder of Homoeopathy.

I am compelled to do this, especially since the appearance of

certain articles in some homoeopathic journals expressing doubt

and suspicions in regard to the genuineness of the body of
Hahnemann, and it is imperative to remove all doubts by offer-
ing every proof bearing authenticity.
Proofs are classified in two:
1st. The information furnisheo by the Registries of the Civil
Authorities and by the description of the family and the vault
and of the coffin.
2d. The opening
of the coffin containing the remains of Hahne-
mann, whose features must yet be recognized by those who
knew him.
Hahnemann is buried in Lethiere Vault. Hahnemann is the
first body which will be met in opening the grave. This is the
first part of the proofs to demonstrate.
The Registers of the Cemetery and of the Civil State one
part; the information furnished by the grandson of Samuel
Hahnemann, Dr. Siiss-Hahnemann, here present; by Madame
de Boeninghausen, the adopted daughter of Madame Hahne-
mann, born d'Hervilly; by the contemporaries of Hahnemann,
or by those who wrote his biography, attest that Chretien
Samuel Hahnemann died at Paris in 1843 and was buried in the
Vault Lethiere, indicated by a perpetual concession bearing the
Nos. 324, 1832, and 414. 1834.
The concession in the left side is Hahnemann's vault, bearing
the No. 231, 1847. This contains solely the body of Madame
widow) Hahnemann, born Melanie d'Hervilly. died in 1S78.
It was wrong when some homoeopaths here pretended that
Hahnemann's body was in this vault. Gentlemen, it is now
open before your presence, it contains one coffin, whose descrip-
tion corresponds to the civil state of Madame Hahnemann, born
d'Hervilly.
The picture of the Vault Lethiere, where lays Hahnemann's
 Removal of'Hahnemann's Body. 347

body, was reproduced in Dr. Schwabe's journal, Ho77ireopatisher

Kale?ider in 1892, and more recently in the Hak?ie?na?i?iia?i
Monthly, October, 1896. Since the picture was taken the zinc
roof was removed, but you can see, gentlemen, the identity of
the iron railing and the form of the gravestone, with the design
which I just show you. Finally you see, like an evident proof,
in the corner of the gravestone this inscription, C. P., 324 (per-
petual concession, 324). We
knew, furthermore, by the authori-
ties ofthe cemetery, and by the declaration of the family and
of homoeopathic physicians, that Hahnemann's coffin was the
last rested. The body was the first buried, the date
of Gohier
of this death is not recorded; the body of Lethiere, died in
1832, is in the middle; and the last one, that is the first one
under the stone, is the body of Hahnemann, interred in 1843.
The number of identity of Hahnemann's coffin, recorded in
the Register of Montmartre Cemetery, is Xo. 1252. First Ar-
rondissement, 1843.
Well, gentlemen, you just have confirmed to-day the authen-
ticity of these indications. We distinctly read on the first coffin,
made of lead, which you all see, separated from others by a
layer of cement, immediately under the stone of Lethiere's vault,
the following inscription, which has not been altered at all

by time:
''Xo. 1252, First Arrondissement, 1S43."

Little above on the coffin you see a plate, made of lead, read-
ing thus:
" Brevet d' invention,
Etubaument, Gannal."

We know that Hahnemann's body was embalmed by one of

the first specialists of that time.
The establishment Gannal is still in existence, 6 Rue de Seine.
I have seen Dr. Gannal, Jr., and successor, who assisted then
his father during the embalming process of Hahnemann's body,
and who still remembers the operation. In the books of the
establishment Gannal we find these words: " 3 July, 1S43, f° r
embalming of Dr. Hahnemann, 2,000 francs " To-day Dr.
Gannal is among those here present and had expressed the
desire to be present at the exhumation.
I shall therefore condense by numerical order the proofs of the

authenticity of Samuel Hahnemann's body:

1. Hahnemann is buried in the vault Lethiere and not in the
348 Removal of Hahnemann's Body.
vault Hahnemann, and this according to Register of the ceme-
tery and of the Civil State; according to the statement of an eye-
witness, Dr. Siiss-Hahnemann, grandson of Hahnemann; ac-
cording to the attestation of Madame de Boenninghausen, adopted
daughter of Madame Hahnemann (widow), and according to
the writings of all those who wrote Hahnemann's biography.
2. The coffin of Hahnemann in the vault is exactly that bear-
ing the Xo. First Arrondissement, 1843.
1252, 1st. Because

the No. 1252 very distinctly seen on the coffin; it is the same
is

as recorded in the Registers of the cemetery. 2d. Rue de Milan,

where Hahnemann died, actually the First Arrondissement, was
part of the First Arrondissement of Paris, in 1843.
3. Hahnemann was the only dead in 1843, put in the vault
Lethiere, where rest two other bodies, buried in 1832, and the
first before 1832.
4. The stamped plate bearing the mark of Gannal's embalm-
ing is another proof.
Finally, gentlemen, in order to further clear all doubts, I have

obtained from police authorties the permission to open the

coffin made of lead.
We are going to be able to witness a very exciting spectacle,
the only one in our life; we shall contemplate the remains of
the one who is our daily guide, our master. The features of
Illustrious Hahnemann, lost for fifty-five years, will again see
the light for the last time!
After speeches delivered by Monsieur Cloquemin, representing
Madame, the Baroness Leon Simon,
of Boenninghausen; by Dr.
President of the Societe Francaise d'Homoeopathie; by Dr.
Richard Hughes, of Brighton, representing England; by Dr.
Siiss-Hahnemann, representing Germany, and Hahnemann's
family, they proceed to the opening of the grave.
The workmen then exhumate the coffin. Dr. Gannal con-
ducts this performance, the cover is removed, after breaking one
by one the rivets. Hahnemann's, body covered and enveloped
with silk bands appears. Every thing seems well preserved.
Those present are struck with Hahnemann's small size. Those
who have known Hahnemann and were present admitted that
Hahnemann, in fact, was of small size. Dr. Gannal found a
long-plaited woman's hair around Hahnemann's neck, probably
his wife's.
 Removal of Hahnemann' s Body. 349
Dr. Gannal finds in the coffin several mementos, which, fortu-
nately, will confirm the authenticity of the body being that of
Hahnemann.
1. A wedding ring
still on the finger. Hahnemann's wedding
ring with " Melanie d'Hervilly engraved on." This golden ring,
which has been shown to those present, is formed of two small
united rings; with a penknife these two pieces are separated and
upon one of the rings it is read:
"Samuel Hahnemann — Melanie d'Hervilly,
Verbunden Coethen, 18 Janvier, 1835."

^0 % om <u^i^\_s

cst / &?? y i^%<^d i>r i^r ecs C*^3 9n^t^^>

S/e,c t^tfcr, i**,*^ ^^^ *SsJmJ »SS„ ^.j^/*,,,

This ring is again put back on Hahnemann's finger, by order of

Police Commissioner.
2. The gold medal presented by French homoeopaths. At
the feet of the body is found a glass stoppered and sealed bottle;
 "

350 Removal of Hahnemann's Body.

Police Commissioner permits to break it. It contained docu-

ments relative to Gannal's embalming process; the gold medal

offered by French homoeopaths to their master, and an autograph
letter of Madame Hahnemann (widow), which will form the
third piece for conviction found in the coffin. On the gold
medal, well preserved, there was Hahnemann's profile, work of
David d' Anger, the sculptor of Hahnemann's famous bust, from
which are taken the best of his pictures. On the other side the
following inscription:
"A leur Maitre, les Homoeopath istes frau^ais.
" Similia similibus curantur."

This medal also has been put back in the coffin.

3. Madame Hahnemann's autograph letter. Mr. Cloquemin,
representing Bcenninghausen's family, and Dr. Heerman (of
Paris) easily recognized the handwriting being that of Madame
Hahnemann, and with the permission of Police Commissioner
we have had a photographic reproduction as above, see page 349.

End of the Ceremony at Montmartre.

At 10 A. M. the ceremony is ended, having lasted an hour and
a half. The workmen put the lead cover back again, the lead
coffin is put in a new wooden casket, upon which the old plate
(No. 1252, First Arrondissement, 1843) is nailed; also a new,
very large copper plate with the name (Samuel Hahnemann)
engraved.
Both Hahnemann's and his wife's caskets are put on a hearse
and ten persons accompany to the cemetery Pere-Lachese.
Among them we notice Drs. Suss- Hahnemann, Richard Hughes,
L. Simon, Heerman. Cartier and Mr. Cloquemin.
At Pere Lachese Hahnemann's casket is lowered in the new
grave; the body is placed so that his head will be at the right
and the feet at the left of the monument, and at his feet Madame
Hahnemann's casket is lowered.
The workmen immediately after cemented the vault and
covered with beton in the presence of those who accompanied
the bodies. A provisory fence and a wreath will be fixed until
the new monument is erected upon this new location, which is

a splendid one. Auber, Donizetti are the musical

Rossini,
neighbors of Hahnemann. Racine is right by him; little
distant Moliere, Lafontaine, Gay-Lussac, Arago, Gall, Nov,
Davout and others.
 Why Spaniards Are Cruel. 351

Gleaned and translated by Dr. John Arschagouni, 743 Lex-

ington Ave., N. Y. City.

WHY SPANIARDS ARE CRUEL.

By Wm. Steinrauf, M. D.
Starting with bad blood from several sources, they are not to be
pitied because they are pitiless.
That the Spaniards are, as a race, exceptionally and notoriously
cruel taken for granted by the whole world. It is an opinion
is

universally received, and with most people argument would be

superfluous. The question of real interest is this: What has
made them so? For nature, it is claimed by scientists, is never
arbitrary, for even the seeming wilful perversities of man are
not without cause.
In the case of Spain some of the causes date very far back;
they began their work almost before the dawn of history. It is

a case of bad blood almost from the very beginning.

Although not wholly bad at first, the old Iberians were a
passionate fickle race, asis the Spainard of today. From them
he has inherited his bad and abominable temper, as also his
swarthy complexion. An infusion of this blood resulted in a
cruel and treacherous disposition.
That the Phoenicians, perhaps the most atrociously cruel of
the races of antiquity, did gain foothold in Spain in almost pre-
historic times may be passed by with mere mention. These are
the people who gave its name to Cadiz and who, in the height of
their alleged civilization, fed Moloch with human sacrifices.
We know but little of their influence, but we do know that this
influence was perniciously bad.
The all. have con-
intercourse with the Phoenicians did, after
siderable on the impressionable Iberian character is
effect
strongly suggested by the ease with which the Carthaginians
subsequently attained great and lasting influence in Spain.
This was practically the same thing, for these new invaders were
an offshoot of the same evil stock. They were as merciless as
our American Indians. These Carthaginians overran most of
the country. Very popular for a time were the Carthaginians
in Spain. Few traces of their blood probably remain, but it
was a bad start. The clay was still soft, and their example was
potent. " Like master, like man."
352 Why Spaniards Are Cruel.

Now came the Romans with a much greater power and

dominion, which lasted for many centuries. Here, although no
poison in the blood, yet the example was pernicious. Every
one has read of the rapacity and arrogance and inhumanity of
the Roman governors, who regarded their inferiors as merely a
source of gain and revenue, with no right that a Lordly Roman
need respect. These notions seem to have fallen on a fertile
soil, and poor Cuba is today reaping the fruits of such training.

No masters are so intolerable as those who have learned the

tricks of tyranny in the school of servitude.
And still the corruption of blood went on.
It seems as if

Spain was the penitentiary of the world. After the Romans

came the Vandals. We need not dwell on this class of people.
They were the most destructive brutes that ever walked the earth.
After the Vandals came the Visigoths, no less mean, abominable
and horrible than the Vandals.
Still this was not enough. The unlucky land was next over-
run by a horde of Moors from Africa. Under this regime the
Spanish Christians even became more intolerant than their
Moslem conquerors. The terrible racial and religious strife
which ensued lasted for the greater part of a millennium before
it received its final quietus by the expulsion of the Moors. In
such a conflict piety almost became, and did become, bigotry,
patriotism but another name for cruelty and loyalty to friends
synonymous with treachery to foes.
Out of this fiery ordeal the Spaniard emerged with just one
commendable quality. He became a fieice fighter. For a sea-
son this ferocity, especially in war, made Spain one of the foremost
nations of Europe. In everything else, though, with a few ex-
ceptions, Spain was backwards. The great Reformation had no
influence in this benighted land. Spain's boasted art was, and
is. of foreign importation. Her literature is bombastic and full
of mendacity and exaggeration. For the discovery of America
she is entitled to but small credit. To this period belongs the
terrible inquisition, a purely Spanish institution. The abomina-
tions and injustices and cruelties practiced in Spain on Jews, in-
fidels or heretics have never been duplicated on this earth. The
horrors of the inquisition were the outcome of Spanish history
and Spanish character, coupled with their civil and religious
training. So, while the world advanced, Spain lagged behind in
mediaeval darkness, and she is still far in the rear.
 Why Spaniards Are Cruel. 353
That is the trouble to-day. With Phoenician cruelty and
Carthaginian duplicity, and Roman
arrogance and Vandal greed,
and Moslem intolerance, Spain of to-day belongs to the dark
ages. It may well be doubted whether Spain was ever prosper-

ous in any proper sense of the word. In her best days the num-
ber of beggars in her country was appalling. I don't like to

quote the figures, for they are Spanish, but one hundred and fifty
thousand beggars are on the list. And this in a land where it
requires but little for the average man to keep body and soul
together. During the same period there were scarcely any
manufactures. The exports were the products of a soil practi-
cally untilled, such as wool, hides, raw silk, minerals and olives.
What does this signify ? It means that Spain in her palmiest
days was largely occupied by mining camps and cattle ranges.
The popular ideas about pastoral life are in the main absolutely
wrong. Far from being one of the most peaceful occupations,
as pictured by poets, it is one of the roughest and most savage.
The real shepherd goes about armed to the teeth, often fol-
lowed by a pack of fierce dogs, always ready and often forced to
fight for life and property. What he becomes under the most favor-
able conditions may be seen in the modern cowboy. In earlier
times we simply find the knife and spear, in place of the revolver
and rifle, while the shepherd himself is rather more like a wild
animal. The same may be said of the miners. In such a state
of society laws are ineffective, brigandage runs rampant, and
lynching, as the only means of restraining crime, becomes a sys-
tem. All this is familiar to us in the history of the wilder parts
of our own west, and all this, and worse, was the condition of
Spain for centuries. In this connection it is rather interesting
to note that just as our own cowboys sometimes string up a horse
thief on the nearest tree and make him a target for their
revolv-
ers, so the Spanish lynching parties used to hoist their victim up

on a pole and shoot him full of arrows. History repeats itself under
similar circumstances and conditions. That the Spaniard was
also largely addicted to a seafaring life did not tend to soften his
temper. Here, again, he worked up a great reputation for fero-
cious cruelty. Much more might be adduced, but quite enough
has been cited to show why the Spaniard is what he is. The
character of a nation, as of its individual members is largely the
product of heredity and environment, and in both these particu-
lars the Spaniard has been phenomenally unlucky. He is just
354 The Free List Question.

what his history has made him. We could pity him were he
himself not so pitiless.
That he should especially pride himself upon his lineage
seems rather extraordinary in view of these facts. But we
should not wonder at it. The worse the stock the more insuf-
erable the pride of blood.
But all this will change with poor Spain as time goes on.
Already the doctrine of the immortal Hahnemann is being
preached and practiced in this land. In the larger cities there are
numerous homoeopathic doctors. Journals of our school are pub-
lished and eagerly read by the masses, and as Hahnemann's sys-
tem of medicine not alone changes and heals and purifies the body,
but indirectly through the body also the mind, the spirit and the
soul of the individual, so will eventually Spain be a good, pure
and moral nation, a nation where, also on account of its climatic
conditions, it will be a delight to dwell.

St. Charles, Mo., April 4., il

THE FREE LIST QUESTION.

Editor of the Homoeopathic Recorder.
Whyour friend, the author of "Professional Etiquette," in
your last issue, should hide his light under a bushel and appear
mearly as M. D is a mystery.
,
Any one who can
,

take up the cudgel and write such an article should have his
name blazoned iti letters of gold. He is a benefactor to his pro-
fessional brethren, and I would that I knew him that I might
take him by the hand and say, " Well done !"
There is no question that the free list is an ever-growing
evil. The Dispensary Question has been taken up at our So-
ciety meetings, and we have talked and talked the subject
threadbare about pauperizing the public and so on ad libitum.
The question is, how are we to correct an evil in public which
we foster in our own private practices? We all agree, no doubt,
that the free list should go, with the one exception of the imme-
diate members of physicians' families.
Letter carriers, policemen, and firemen are paid by the city.
They should not therefore be treated free by those who in a
large majority of cases help to pay their salaries.
As for the trained nurses, that is by far the worst imposition
of all. Their own hospital and its resident physicians are at
 "Are They All Daft ?" 355
their disposal, and the cost of the medicine does not come out
of the physicians' pockets. In this running to a physician's
office the nurse loses sight of one very important fact. She ad-
vertises her weakness to the very ones from whom she seeks
employment. This is very short-sighted, as no physician wishes
to employ a nurse who is not strong and healthy. These quali-
ties form a large part of her stock in trade. The trained nurses
now number hundreds where a few years ago they were few,
and so this free list grows. A while back they were women of
twenty- five or thirty, and came of a superior class. It has now

become a fad, and young girls rush to the training-schools in

preference to standing in a store or going into domestic service.
The class has detoriated in growing. But to come back to the
question of free treatment of this group; we must depend upon
time and the head nurses of the training-schools to remedy.
I think M. D., should have his article struck off
,

by hundreds and scattered broadcast.

But the part that delighted me most in the article written by
our anonymous friend was the faculty for staying and gossiping
which our free listers develop. The time wasted is indeed ap-
palling. Let each, then, take heart of grace and do his best to-
ward remedying the defect.
Last week I met a patient who happened to be a lively " old
maid." She said, during the conversation: " They all call me
an old maid at home, and try to put me on the shelf; but I just
roll off again, and that's what I intend to keep doing. I won't

stay up."
Now , M. D., should take this advice to himself and
" roll off" again. It is just such men that we need to bring

about a reform, the neglect of which cost the physician so many

dollars never taken into consideration by the public. Then
when the doctor comes to lie down and die, and his estate is set-
tled up, this same public all exclaim at the smallness thereof.
What strange things human beings are !

J. A. McC.

-ARE THEY ALL DAFT?"

I am surprised to see that the Recorder stands by Hahne-

mann so faithfully. Don't you know that there are dozen's of

men today who know more than he ever knew? Just ask them;
or, if you dislike to see them swell out, read what has been
 .

356 Therapeutical Hints.

written. You will infer from them that Hahnemann did not
understand the law of cure; did not know how to build a materia
medica; did not know how to prepare medicines, and that he is
'
'a back number. A hundred years ago he tried to tell us about
'

'

the microbic origin of disease — which

was derided for years.
Now we hear a good and the baccillar
deal about bacteria
theory of disease. That is a new discovery, of course! Hahne-
mann was not a discoverer, oh, no! He simply emphasized what
some old-school physician had written before his time. The
spirit of today is to ignore Hahnemann, the basis of homoeo-
pathic pharmacies, journals, books and college, and still these
defamers are out of the asylums. They are boys and will know
more when VETERANS.

THERAPEUTICAL HINTS.
By Leopold Grossberger-Branberg.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Leipsig Pop. Z. fue%
Horn., July, 1898.

In intermittent neuralgia of well defined periodicity, i. e. t

nervous pains of well defined duration, which come at a certain

time and disappear at a certain time every day, I found in the
last seven years of my practice Chinium sulphur 1 D. in tritura-
tion a specific 0/ the first degree, which never failed me in such a
case, unless the patient had before taken Chinium sulphur in
massive allopathic doses. I prescribed this remedy in the above
mentioned potency only for three or four days and always at
those periods in which there is ?w pain. The first day I pre-
scribed it two to three times, the second day three times, the
third day two times and the fourth day only once; the dose
being as much of the trituration as would make the size of
a pea, to be taken in a small wineglassful of sugar-water.
Usually this causes the pain to vanish permanently. In ho-
moeopathic manuals Arsenic alb. 5-6 D. is said to be an
equivalent in such intermittent neuralgias; but I have but rarely
seen this. Also in pronounced intermittent fever of various
kinds. I have for years given with the best results only Chinium
sulpk., without caring for the accompanying symptoms, if
Quinine has not been given before in allopathic doses. Especially
 Therapeutical Hints. 357

have I found this remedy in the above mentioned trituration

almost infallible in the intermittent fever of small children from

eight months to five or six years old, if the disease was not of
too long standing and has not yet consumed the strength of the
little ones; and the patient must not have been allopathically
dosed with Quinine. In many cases of headache appearing and
disappearing every day at fixed hours, Chinium sulph. 1 D.
proved an unfailing remedy. Even a nervous pain in the hip of
four years' standing, very violent, which appeared ever) evening 7

at 9 o'clock and disappeared every morning about 4 o'clock, dis-

appeared in the first night after taking the size of a pea of
Chinium sulph. D. at 7 p. m.
1 This case occurred in winter
with a widow of 40 years, who was inclined to corpulence and
anaemia. As a precautionary measure, the patient continued
this remedy for two or three days, and the cure was permanent.

II.
In whether with or without fever, the treatment
erysipelas,
recommended by Dr. Behrend, in Sangare, is a sure and quick
cure. This treatment consists in rubbing the part affected (the
face) three times a day with alcohol of 90—96 per cent, of
strength. Such alcohol can rarely be found in allopathic drug
stores, which usually only sell diluted alcohol, but it can be
bought in any homoeopathic pharmacy. The common alcohol
used for burning is poison to the skin if there is any lesion, and
must not be used. I have used this treatment in several cases
of erysipelas of the face, even in very violent cases attended
with high and the results were strikingly favorable and
fever,
rapid. The quick action of alcohol is, no doubt, due to its
property of killing fungi; for it is well known that erysipelas is

due to the presence of a certain fungus (streptococcus) in the

blood, which may find its way there through any small lesion,
even though this may be quite unnoticeable. The effect of this
treatment is most manifest and evident; for in a feie mi?iutes
after rubbing with alcohol there is a cessation of the local pro-
cess and in three to four days the recovery is perfected. This
treatment is continued every day three times, until the disease
has wholly disappeared. Internal medication is not needed in
this treatment.

III.

In the malignant scall of older children, which frequently re-

fuses to yield to any internal homoeopathic remedy (perhaps
3
;
B Graphites Cures.

because inould-fungi are present;, I have found washing with a

decoction of Equisetum arvense very effective. Daily washing
of the head with this decoction cured a very obstinate case of
scall in a girl of 11-12 This washing is even
years of age.
more effective when one
two tablespoonfuls of the decoction
or
are also taken internally three or four times a day for the sake
of purifying the blood. Eqisetum arvense contains a bitter ex-
tract, salts formed with equisetic acid, some sulphates and 90
per cent, of silicic acid. In small doses it purifies the stomach
and is a mild diuretic. Kneipp has much to say in praise of
this plant. For external use ^ablution) take a tablespoonful of
Equiseta to a pint of water and boil it ten to fifteen minutes;
for internal use, take about three grammes (about as much as
will be grasped with three fingers) in a teacupful of water and
boil it about ten minutes. One or two tablespoonfuls of the
decoction should be taken three or four times a day. A gentle-
man town told me that one of his colleagues (an ofheer on
of this
the railroad) was cured of his obstinate beard tetter by means of
the decoction of Equisetum, used externally and internally. If
we consider the impossibility of curing this disease (both the
one caused by parasites and the non parasite form) by means of
homoeopathic remedies, and that the salves used by specialists
for its cure are both painful and uncertain in their effects, it is
very manifestly our duty to give Equisetum a trial. Dr. Boehm
in his Lehrbuch der NaturheUkunde (Manual of the Natural
Method of Healing) reports on p. 14S9 that he has found excel-
lent results from moistening the parts affected with bread-tetter
with diluted lemon juice.

GRAPHITES CURES.
By Dr. H Goullon in Weimar.
Translated from the Lcipz. Pop. Z. fuer Horn., July 1st. 1S9S. for the
Homceopathic Recorder.
On April 6th, 1S9S, Miss C. wrote to me: The student in
Th. was quickly cured by your Graphites. She had written me
on February 3d:
" My nephew Siegfried, aged 16 years, studying in the Gym-

nasium, has had an eruption on both his middle fingers for four-
teen days. These eruptive vesicles are of the size of millet seeds,
they do not itch, they get sore and heal again, when they return
 Graphites Cur, .

359
on another part of the finger. My sister saw in Dr. Casj r -

book that the eruption does not amount to anything; she gi

him Sulphur^ and puts vaseline on it. Shall we ase n I

remedy, perhaps borax-salve ?

" Some years ago all his finger tips cracked open and b :

again. He is a large, vigorous young man. without any ten

;; "
dency to scrofula * ;:;

It was the cracking open of the finger tips which determine I

me to select Graphites, which is the specific in the dyscrasy at-

tending plica polonica, the characteristic symptoms of which
are: brittleness, dryness and cra:ki::c open of the skin; from
this spring herpetic eruptions, the particular curative sphere of
Graphites.
In my Monograph, entitled "What does Graphite' promise
and effect in Homoeopathic practice?" the reader will find on
page So: " Graphites has been found effective in herpetic sores

manifesting themselves as raw place- between the fingers, some-

times moist. In one case this eruption appeared in the face, ana
reappeared after all the various remedies used, but was per-
manently cured by Graphites.
Further: Soreness existing for several years on the perineum,
the sexual parts and between the thighs. Five doses of
Graphites 7 cured the case: Sepia. Petroleum ana Sulphur had
refused to act.
Graphites is also indicated when there are many small rhagades
on and in the anus.
I cannot better conclude this eulogy ad graphitis majorem

gloriam than by the following case from my own observation:

Laura H., 20 years who had been treated by me the
of age.
year before in chlorosis and suppression of the menses, and
chronically suffering from a somewhat hoarse and clouded voice,
was seized three weeks ago with an eruption on the dorsum of
the left hand. There was a small spot, containing vesicles which
secreted an acrid water, causing a disagreeable fretting. The
moist exanthem. forming of crusts extend peripherically farther
and farther until it occupied nearly the whole of the dorsum.
A vesicatory of Cantharis, which she had applied of her own
accord to her left arm. showed no effect on the local cutanc
ailment. On account of the sieve-like dots of the eruption, re-
sembling dots of pus the patient received Silicea, but no progress
had been made in ei°:ht davs, but the exanthem began to dry
360 Effects of Phosphorus,
he ascribed a knotty eruption on the right forearm to the
action of the powder. Now a distinct indication for another
remedy appeared, namely, the chapping of tht parts hitherto
affected with the eruption which had hitherto showed an inflam-
mation like a furuncle. At the knuckles (the origin of the first
phalanges there formed a wreath of chaps, a sort of a sun
with diverging rays. This, with some of the other symptoms
given above, gave a clear indication of Graphites, and a thorough
cure followed in eight days on using this remedy in the 30th
potency.

EFFECTS OF PHOSPHORUS.
By Dr. Rischer, Aix-la-Chapelle.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Leipz. Pop. Z.fuer
Horn., July, 1898.

I desire to give a short account of the following case: A

business man has complained months of a total in-
for three
somnia, which could not be removed even by the largest doses
of Morpliium, Bromide of Potassium, Biomidia, Sulfonate Codeinum
phosphoricum, Trional, etc. The patient had no other ailment.
A careful examination of the internal organs only shows a slight
enlargement of the heart, and particularly of the left ventricle.
I could not get any urine at the first examination; and when the

patient was asked about it he stated that it had been frequently

examined, but always found normal. As no cause for his ail-
ment had so far been detected the patient received Tinctura
Valeriana-, ten drop in the evening; at the same time I requested
him to bring some urine at the next consultation. This was
done, and the examination showed a high percentage of albumen,
which I confirmed by several subsequent examinations. The
patient, therefore, was suffering of chronic inflammation of the
kidneys with occasional appearance of albumen in the urine
(cyclical albuminuria). In this way the negative results of
former analyses of the urine could be explained. While the
medicine first precribed remained without any effect some doses
of Plwsphorus d. 4, given during the day, had the result desired.
The patient now could again sleep well. Whether the medicine
used will have as favorable an effect on the fundamental disease
has to be seen; but there is no question but that the patient was
relieved in a very short time of a very disagreeable symptom.
 Practical Hin ts. 361

PRACTICAL HINTS.
From Leipziger Pop. Z.fuer Horn., July, 1898.

The Formation of Gall stones is not prevented in all cases

by the use of olive as might perhaps be supposed from the re-
oil,

peated statements of the value of this oil. That remedy was first
recommended a hundred years ago by English doctors, but they
did not discover it, but borrowed it from folk-lore. It is only

of use in the so-called cholesterine stones and acts partly

from the fact that oil which easily produces an emulsion essenti-
ally increases for several hours the secretion of bile; and, sec-
ondly, by its reaching the biliary passages and facilitating the
passage of the stones incarcerated in the biliary passages. It is
important that the best olive oil should be used, neither old nor
rancid; it is best to take it from a flask that is well stoppered and
not before opened. In the making of olive oil there are many
adulterations practiced, and there is oil in the market
even olive
containing admixtures of cotton-seed which is difficult to
oil,

digest, etc. Nor should we use olive oil gained by pressing the
whole fruit and the seeds of olives, but only the oil gained by
a gentle pressure of the soft part of the olive; this is not very
cheap, of course.

EMIN PASHA AN OPPONENT OF QUININE.

By Dr. Gullon.
Translated for the HomcEopathic Recorder from the Allg. Horn Zeit.,
July, 1898.

The Illustrirte Deutsche Monatschefte contain Emin Pasha's last

journals in letters to his sister. We read there in the letter
written on May 2d, 1891, from Camp Cavingo, on the Cagera at
the ford to Mporo:
"I have finally arrived here, and may God now help me
further. The annoyances and the excitements of the last days,
the consciousness that I am here wasting away valuable time,
the terrible nights,all this together has caused me to fall into a

decent fever, which especially delighted me on the 30th. These

attacks usually pass quickly with me with strict dieting, i.e.,
water and coffee. I never take quinine."
362 Translations from the French.

This communication from the mouth of Emin himself has a

double interest. For the first, it has been and is still considered
injurious to drink water during malarial fever; and then again,
quinine, the much lauded specific in malarial fever, is here given
the quietus. Arsenic has before this been largely used in the
tropics as a substitute or complement to quinine. And almost
all travelers take with them into those ill-famed fever regions
arsenic pills together with quinine; not so Emin Pasha at this
stage makes us stop
! that to think. A third item is added in
the value given by Emin to coffee. Coffee contains caffeine,
which, like quinine (and also theine and the theobromine of the
cacao fruit), is counted among the tonic alkaloids, i. <?., they are
the active principles of the above-mentioned plants. The sup-
position thus seems justified that coffee in certain circumstances
may be a complete substitute for quinine; yea, may excel it, as
the injurious attendant effects of quinine are not found in it to
the same degree.
I will here add another observation of Emin Pasha, found in
the same letter, which will rejoice the heart of the vegetarian.
He writes in the same letter:
"The negresses in the Soudan, both the slaves and the free
ones, have learned to anoint themselves with geranium oil

(spurious attar of roses), or with the mixture called Mcdjuma,

the chief fragrance of which is due to cloves; in the countries
which properly belong to the negroes, there is no appreciation of
fragrance or perfumes. And still the application of fragrant
ointments might be highly useful, considering the peculiar odor
clinging to all negroes, and which is sometimes very disagreeable.
Agricultural and nomadic tribes are much less infected with this
odor than those which live exclusively on fish and more espe-
cially LESS THAN THE MEAT EATERS."

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH

By H. P. Holmes, M. D., Omaha, Neb.
Similia Similibus. —
In his " Cours de Chemie " Lemery *
relates an experience which it seems to us may interest the
reader:
" The flesh of the viper and that of the scorpion cures the

Nicholas Lemery, a noted French chemist, author of "Cours de

Chemie," etc., born at Rouen, France, 1645, died at Paris 1S15.
H. P. H.
 Translations from the French. 363

wounds that these animals make while living," and in support of

that assertion, he adds: " I one day placed two live scorpions

in a glass jar, and then threw in a little mouse, also alive. The
mouse stepped upon the scorpions and annoyed them. They
stung it so deeply that it squealed. Half an hour afterward I

saw it die in convulsions; I waited a few hours, and then I

threw upon these same scorpions another mouse a little

in
larger than the first, and also alive; it leaped upon the scorpions,
as the other had done, and they stung it; it squealed quite
loudly, and we saw that its agitation was increased by its
anger; it did not wait long to avenge itself, for it ate both of
the scorpions, excepting the head and tail.
" I wished to see the end of the tragedy; I left the mouse in
the jar for the space of twenty-four hours, and during that time
it did not show the least appearance of injury, other than being
restless at not being at liberty. I had intended to dissect it to

see if there were not some change in the parts or in the blood but ;

someone, too rudely handling the jar, broke it, and the mouse
escaped. One might say that the volatile salts which are found
in the flesh of the scorpions prevent, by their agitation, the
coagulation of the blood which should take place in the veins of
the little animal after it is stung, but each one will reason on
that experiment according to his own views."
Does not one have the right to be astonished that the savants
of that epoch allowed these eloquent facts to pass unnoticed and
that they did not think of renewing similar experiments ?
Baron, a doctor of medicine, who re-edited and annotated the
chemical works of Lemery, underlined the passage that we
have reported with the following note: " I have not examined it
to see if it be true, as is believed to this day, that the flesh of cer-
tain venomous animals is an assured specific against the bites
of these animals; but supposing the fact to be really verified,
I will make this remark, the volatile salts contained in the flesh
can contribute nothing to that effect."
Evidently it was important to control these facts from the first

so as to establish their reality in an absolute manner. Dr. Baron

wholly neglected to do this, and preferred to admit them by al-
lowing it to be understood, meanwhile, that one could place
only a limited confidence in it. In return, he examined the
chemical theory formulated by Lemery and refuted it without
trying to substitute another for it.
364 Translations from the French.

It was the best way to pursue to forget the significant facts,

and the idea did not occur to any person that the observations
presented by Lemery did not proceed in any way from the
theory which he had tried to formulate. Such was the mode
so generally employed and which succeeded admirably.
That scientific integrity manifested itself grandly when
Hahnemann presented to the learned world and to the faculties
his admirable discovery. They were careful not to repeat his
experiments, and they closed their eyes to the innumerable re
coveries which he presented in support of the therapeutic law
which he had found, but in the name of common sense they
criticise the treatment of similar by similars [similia similibus]
and the infinitesimal doses.
To day they still refuse to experiment with his method, for
they would find themselves under the necessity of verifying the
recoveries it brings about, but they violently criticise it because
certain ones have dogmatically declared that it was impossible
such results could be obtained by it.
Dr. Mersh.
[La Therapeutique Integral.]

Pharmacopke Homceopathique Francaise, by MM. Kcalle,

Delpech and Peuvrier, under the patronage of the Societe Fran-
chise d'Homceopathie. —
J. B. Bailliere, 1898.
This work, which comes out under the fathership of Jousset
and V. L. Simon, is the first French homoeopathic pharmacopoeia
that has been issued since 1862. This new book contains 496
remedies, considered under the three heads: Vegetable, animal
and mineral, forming a work of 400 octavo pages, with a three-
page preface signed by J. P. Jousset and L. Simon, and is spoken
of as the most complete publication of its kind coming from the
homoeopathic press.
The book-work will satisfy the most exacting bibliophilist; it
is a beautiful book throughout, and worthy recognition of all

homceopathists of the French language.

[Abridged fr< >wl/ou mat Beige if Ho matopath ie.]

MATERIA MEDICA CuNICA FOR EL Dr. FarRINGTON, trans-

lated from the 2d editionby Dr. Francisco Castillo, of Mexico.
We have received the first volume of this work, which is a

Spanish translation of Farrington's Materia Medica. We

 CliJiic Chat About Erysipelas. 365

heartily congratulate Dr. Castillo on having placed within the

reach of his confreres of the Spanish tongue one of the best
treatise on materia medica which we possess, and which should
figure in the libraries of all homoeopathic physicians.

[Journal Beige d' Homoeopathie .]

CLINIC CHAT ABOUT ERYSIPELAS.

By Dr. Goullon in Weimar.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Allgem. Horn.
Zeitung, June 23, 1898.
We have in view here, especially erysipelas facie with its
usual excursions to the scalp, varying in its extent. It is well
known that according to the trend of the times the streptococcus
erysipelatis is made responsible for this disease. A scratch on
the skin suffices to enable this vegetable parasite to effectually
make its entrance, which is immediately followed by the symp-
toms of erysipelas, with the well known sequelae according to
the individualities of the case.* The cyclical course of the
disease, which frequently leads to a distinct crisis after five to
seven days, may be disturbed or protracted, and even a fatal
issue is not excluded. Such a fatal issue may, in my opinion,
be either unavoidable (as in the case of an epidemy of malig
nant scarlatina, such cases with an absolutely fatal issue may be
observed), or it may be caused by the fault of the physician.
As an especially faulty treatment, we may mention the applica-
tion of ice. Erysipelas cannot bear the application of cold in
this form, and moisture must only be applied in parts of the
body distant from the seat of the disease. An experienced alio
pathic physician wrote to me with respect to this feature:
" Packing the calves or the body in wet sheets has been found
very useful in my practice." I, myself, have never applied

water, i. e., the hydropathic treatment, in this disease. But

I am ready to acknowledge that ablutions may be found very

useful in this disease as in typhoid fever. Also Dr. Kafka, Sr ,

*In his classical work on "Diseases of the Skin and of the Sexual
Organs," Prof. E. Lesser-Bern says: "Not only in the erysipelatous skin,
and especially also in the lymphatics, do we find these micro-organisms,
but we have also succeeded in propagating them in a pure state outside of
the body, and by inoculating men and animals therewith typical erysipelas
has been caused thereby."
 —

366 Clinic Chat About Erysipelas.

has made use of such ablutions; and he informed me that

depress the high temperature of the fever,
they sufficed to
and that he did not find it necessary to resort to the pouring on
of cold water or to cold baths (especially used during the
French war of 1870, even in the hospitals). I could myself
observe the blessed effects of ablutions with cool water when
two were seized with a violent diphtheria and a
girls (twins)
correspondingly high fever. The thermometer must decide in
such cases whether cold water should be used or not. Tem-
perature of 40 C. (iot Fahr.) and over call for it and justify
it, especially when the sensorium of the patient is benumbed
and the symptoms show no diminution.
We have in Homoeopathy remedies which are said to act anti-
phlogistically and especially to counteract the erysipelatous pro-
cess. Belladonna, Apis, Rhus, Arsenicum, Mercur. sol etc., ,

have surely their use in the course of an attack of erysipelas,

yet, as to quickness of action, they cannot compare with the ap-
plication of water, either as packing or as ablution, especially
where there may be danger in delay. And at the present day
we have to yield something to the urgency of the patients, or of
those around them, if we do not desire to see the case pass into
other hands. Of course, we shall hear many say: " I do not
care about having such patients anyway, if they are not ready
to be guided blindly by my will and my experience." This is
quite right from the position of the old, renowned physician
who has grown old in his practice, but it is otherwise from the
point of view of humanity, tolerance, progress in science and
I intentionally mention this last —
from the point of view of
policy.
Whoever, in his practice with erysipelas, only keeps in view
the little gnome streptococcus will in his pathological narrow-
ness and shortsightedness have but little success. We must
learn to take a larger view and see in certain cases of erysipelas
the fact of a far extended and complicated disease. First of all
the liver is to be considered,which in a typical case of erysipelas
is drawn into a close sympathy. Frequently it can be shown
that vexation, intense, repeated annoyance, has preceded its

appearance. Then vomiting of whatever is partaken of appears

in the eruptional stage of erysipelas of the face and head, also a
bitter taste, discoloratian of the skin, icteric spots in the face,
brownish spots in the face, also violent thirst, dryness of the
 4 —

Clinic Chat About Erysipelas. 367

tongue, entire loss of appetite; these symptoms do not always

appear in consequence of fever, but also as a consequence of
hepatic affection. Of late it has also been found that alterations
in the kidneys and anomalous functions of the kidneys are in-
volved. The allopathic colleague mentioned above, a very
liberal practitioner, who warns and w ho
against the use of ice, T

does not permit the use of opiates even in cases where there is
excitement, tells of two fatal cases, both of them physicians.
Striking symptoms were 'somnolence and yellow spots."
They could not be saved but died of Nephritis acutissima.
It will also be found on close examination that a dry skin,
disinclined to perspiration — this great antagonist of the kidneys
— disposes to erysipelas, and is closely related to the gravity of
man and woman, where the
the case. In the climateric years of
organism which originally was mounting upward is about to
descend on the other side of the step-ladder, in this stage the
characteristic cases of erysipelas usually develop, totally un-
mindful of the manifestly unworthy pretender to the throne
—
the streptococcus whose rights to his position will no doubt be
disposed of at an early date. The period indicated is about the
fiftieth year of man's life,more or less.
I will here give a case which fully confirms these reflections:
A lady, a widow, aged 60 years, had consulted me a few days
ago about a cutaneous affection, which consisted of lancinations
in various parts of the skin. Although she had been suffering
from this ailment for a long time, it disappeared in about eight
days after the use of Apis. A few weeks later she suffered from
influenza. Bryonia removed the cough by which she was tor-
mented so quickly that she urged her brother, who was also
coughing, to ask me for the same remedy. Perhaps, also, other
doctors have found out that Homoeopathy cures too quickly;
i. e., the patients, encouraged by the rapidity with which the
single symptoms have been removed, think themselves justified
in resuming their ordinary vocations and leave their bed and
room too soon. So it was in this case. The patient received
visitors and did not take the proper care of herself; though just
recovered from the grippe, she went out in stormy weather and,
in consequence, I was called in again on March 5th and found
erysipelas of the face, which, in spite of Belladonna, Apis,
Mercury, Rhus, etc., increased for five days. The temperature
mounted to 40. 0.(104.7° Fahr.), the sensorium was benumbed,
368 Clinic Chat About Erysipelas.

the swelling extended over the right side of the head, there
was also a certain hardness of hearing, the tongue was coated
and dry, insomnia and restlessness appeared; the question now
arose whether it would not be well to diminish the temperature
with water in some form. The brother of the patient who. also
was a physician, and, indeed, an allopath, removed all doubt.
Informed by his relatives of the severe illness of his sister, he
appeared on the evening of March 9th and, naturally enough,
he acted ascording to his views. And the results sustained him;
not, indeed, the result of his medicines, but of hydrotherapy.
He prescribed ablution of the whole body, a thing the patient
had instinctively desired the day before. Though there was yet
another increase of temperature up to 40. 6° C. (105. i° F.), on
the subsequent day the ablutions were continued and the
erysipelatous process diminished. This was about the seventh
day of the disease. Though it required eight more days before
she could leave her bed, nevertheless what was to be expected
in the most favorable turn of the disease was attained; and
what homoeopath would be so blinded by prejudice to refuse to
combine our method of cure with the antifebrile application of
water, excluding, however, the ice, which can only paralyze and
cause a dangerous metastatis to the brain ?
The severity of the case is shown by an additional circum-
stance, which I must not omit to mention. When the patient,
later on, visited me as a reconvalescent she asked me for a
remedy to stop the falling out of the hair, a symptom which, to

her sorrow, had appeared after her recoveryfrom erysipelas.

Beside her catching cold, it was shown that vexation was also
one of the causes of her attack of erysipelas; for especially in
this disease, inwhich the liver is affected from the very begi li-
ning, there no doubt about the p?vpter-Iioc.
is

Lady R., the patient, related and emphasized the fact that
her brother, as physician, had insisted very particularly that
the whole room and all within it should be thoroughly disin
fected, very much as if malignant diphtheria or cholera had
been in the house. He especially used corrosive sublimate.
It is remarkable at the same time that we never before heard of
epidemics of erysipelas, and the streptococcus erysipelatous can
hardlv have the infecting power of the micrococcus dipheticus or x

of the gonococcus etc. It remains, anyway, one of the chief

 Soreness of the Breasts. 369
duties ofmodern pathology to draw a rational boundary between
the over-estimation and the under- valuation of these notorious,
microscopic fomentors of disease.

SORENESS OF THE BREASTS.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Mediz. Monatshefte,
May, 1898.

During the first period of nursing the soreness of the ?iipples is

one of the most common ailments, causing a premature weaning.
The nipples become painful, especially while the infant is suck-
ing, and a closer examination shows that the epidermis in various
places has been loosened, and that these places are inflamed. If
this is not soon relieved the pains continually become more
violent and cracks are formed on the nipples which often bleed
while the infant sucks. Often this is attended with a feverish
state. The remedies are the following:
Arnica used externally is of use when the nipples get sore
during nursing, but often Sulphur is required. The two reme-
dies may be combined, the one being used internally while the
other is used externally, the one thus assisting the other.
Drops 10-15 of Arnica tincture into a wine glass of water and
moisten the nipples with it thrice a day, at the same time Sul-
phur 3 D. is given internally twice a day.
Symptoms indicating these remedies are: Inflammation of both
the nipples and chaps all over them, the left nipple being swollen
and ulcerated. On the left breast there are several indurated
glands of the size of a nut. The mother is very much excited
and cannot sleep for pain.
Calcarea will cure a high-grade of soreness of the breasts as
also Graphites. Lycopodiu?n and Sepia, Causticum cured very sore,
cracked nipples with tetters around them.
Nux vomica is indicated by the following symptoms: Im-
mediately after delivery, violent drawing pains in the nipples,
especially severe after nursing. The nipples are a little sore,

whitish in their center, but without suppuration.

Sulphur. Considerable painful soreness of the nipples.
Symptoms: In the first days of nursing the nipples become sore
with deep cracks. The margins of the cracks bleed frequentlv
and burn like fire. On the bottom of the nipples and partly
also in the areola there are deep chaps. Before a full develop-
3 jo Ccdendala.

ment of the soreness there is frequently oppression of the heart

and asthma. The remaining
soreness and the small moist
vesicles that had formed on the nipples were removed by G?aph-
ites.

Sulphur. Soreness and induration of the mammae even during

pregnancy. Symptoms: Occasionally a slight drawing in the
indurated mammae. In the 4th month the mammae were swollen
and sensitive to the least touch. The nipples and areolae were
cracked open and thickly covered with straw-yellow scales,
under which an acrid fluid oozed out. In the sore places fre-
quently at night itching, which after scratching turned into
burning pain.
After Sulphur the nipples healed and became painless. The
induration yielded to Graphites, and the remaining soreness and
the scales on the left mamma were removed by Lycopodium. The
latter remedy must not be taken below the 6th potency neither in
this nor in any other case, as its curative effects only begin with
this potency.
In conclusionI would call attention to the healing effects of

with which the inflamed and sore places should be

olive oil,
rubbed several times a day. The mammce should be carefully
cleansed every time before the child is put to the breast, so that no
new irritation may arise.

CALENDULA.
Appendicitis — In reviewing the general medical literature
of this decade I mention made of Calendula offici-
find but slight
nalis, the common garden marigold; some text books dismissing

it with four or five lines.

A year ago I determined to give it a thorough test; I had used

it occasionally ever since graduation. The first case in which I
used it was a little out of the common. In February, 1S97, I
was called to see a man who thought that he had the "colic."
I immediately diagnosed appendicitis, operated on the seventh
day, pus came welling out as soon as peritoneum was cut, disin-
tregation had taken place in the appendix, and it came away as
soon as handled; the cavity was well walled off and abdomen
was closed in the usual way. The man rallied nicely, tempera-
ture below ioo° during the next four days; in the afternoon of
fourth day was called in a great hurry; went at once and found
 Calendula. 371

the dressings covered with fecal matter, and realized that I had
a formidable complication — a fecal fistula.

I cut the stitches and removed drainage tube, letting opening

gape as much as it would, partial union having taken place at one

or two points. I then washed out cavity with two quarts of bi-

chloride mere, solution 1-1000 in a fountain syringe; had the

douching repeated every six hours and ordered small doses of
sulphate of magnesia to be given; also a small enema. I was

not altogether satisfied, feeling that I wanted a wash for the

cavity that would be healing as well as cleansing. I then thought
of this aqueous extract of Calendula, and though having no
precedent for its use in such a case I determined to use it. At
my next visit I added a half ounce of the Calendula to the steril-
ized bichloride solution, and had similar solutions used every
four hours, unless patient should be sleeping.
At the end of the fourth day fecal matter ceased to pass through
the cavity. During the next four days a slight bubbling of gas
was noticeable when washing the cavity. I then stopped the bi-
chloride and used a sterilized calendulated wash only, making
the solution stronger as the cavity grew smaller. I kept the

man on his back until cavity was completely closed. He left his
bed in the early part of April.
This I consider a remarkable case. Having found no record
of the spontaneous closure of a fecal fistula complicating an
operation for appendicitis, I believe that Calendula must be given
the credit.
Since then I have used Calendula imaginable solution
in every
of continuity and it has never failed to benefit, though
I have

had occasionally to combine it with other remedies to effect a

perfect cure. Six cases of gonorrhea have been perfectly cured
by using it as an injection in solution varying from 20 to 50 per
cent, strength. Combined with Hydrastis, equal parts, I have
cured five obstinate cases of gleet. It is invaluable as a local
application in vaginal solutions of continuity and in diseases of
the cervix. In obstinate catarrhal discharges from the vagina
a few tampons saturated with Calendula usually accomplish a
great deal.
Reviewing the past year I cannot now recall the many cases
in which I have used it successfully. The last case in which I
used it was following an amputation of arm. On account of
pain I removed the dressing several days sooner than I other-
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372 Hie New Pharmacopoeia,

wise would have done. After removing the stitches there was
some gaping in the centre and at the angles. I filled the places
with Calendula, applied adhesive straps and gauzes, and at the
next dressing the stump was nicely healed.
It prevents suppuration and stops it when present. In fact, I
sometimes think that the appearance of suppuration is the in-
dication for its use.

It is my intention to use this remedy, full strength, in the

next suppurating tubercular joint affection that comes under my

care. If that fails I shall combine it with Iodoform as an injec-
tion. H. \V. Conrad, M. D., Pan's, Ky. in Medical Gleaner.
y

THE NEW PHARMACOPCEIA NOT A GOOD HO-

MCEOPATHIC WORK BECAUSE IT IG-
NORES THE ORGANON.
By Charles Bacon, M. D.
It is written in the Good Book, "Cursed be he
that removeth
his neighbor's landmarks," and it would seem that the editors
of the Pharmacopoeia of the American Institute of Homoeopathy
had laid themselves open to the malediction.
A study of this new authority (?) reveals several important de-
partures from the established homoeopathic pharmacy which
ought not to be allowed to pass without a protest.
To call attention to two of these is the purpose of this paper.
First: We have the general principle distinctly announced, that
"All insoluble or only partly soluble substances should be made
into triturations only." This is surely news to the majority of
the profession and in open opposition to the distinct statement
and practice of Hahnemann. "With the exception of sulphur,
which, of late, has been used only in the form of highly diluted
tincture (30), all other substances destined for medical use, such
as pure metals, their oxides or sulphurets, and other minerals:
also, petroleum, phosphorus, and many animal and vegetable
substances, which are only to be obtained in a dry state; neutral
salts, etc., are all first to be potentized to the million-fold (6x)

dry or powder-dilution, by triturating them for three hours: there-

upon, one grain of the trituration is to be dissolved, and diluted
in twenty- seven successive vials, up to the thirtieth potency, or
development of power." Organon, paragraph j~/.
 The New Pharmacopoeia. 3J3
The wonderful results that have been obtained ever since the
discovery of the Law with the metals, calcarea, silicea, and num-
berless other ''insoluble" remedies, have, in the vast majority ot
cases, been reached by liquid potencies. We must therefore
choose between the testimony of the great masters and our own
observation and the dicta of the committee. There are some of
us who are conceited enough to belive that we are competent to
recognize the action of a drug when we see it, even if the wise
men American Institute deny that there is any drug power
of the
in the remedy prescribed. Theories are worthless in the face of
facts, and every true homoeopath knows that the efficacy of fluid
attenuations of insoluble remedies is a fact.
Second: The new Pharmacopoeia directs a departure from the
established drug strength of verymany remedies, so that with
few exceptions the tincture represents one-tenth part of the
medical substance. The editors of the Pharmacopoeia of the
American Institute candidly admit that "it is evident that many
will be required to change their present methods, notwithstanding
they have become familiar." As a theory this is very pretty, and
possibly there is some occult potency in the decimal system, but
practically it is a serious matter. Homoeopathy is based on an
elaborate system of provings, seconded by careful clinical observa-
tions. To change the strength of the tincture, or, as is directed
in the case of aconite, to use the whole plant and root, is to change
the nature of every succeeding potency, possibly the action of
drug itself. an essential departure from the teachings of the
It is
Master, and the introduction of an element of confusion into
practice. Every physician will be confronted by the difficulty
of having on his shelves remedies of different strengths but la-
beled as the same potency, and the uncertainty as to which he will
receive when he next orders.
The triumphs of our school have been won by a strict adher-
ence to the methods of Hahnemann. New and useful remedies
have been added by means of careful provings according to his
directions, but every departure from his teachings has been
marked by a falling off of cures. If we are to hold the ground
that we have won and go on to fresh victories, we must be loyal
to the great author. Every case must be carefully individualized
and the symptoms carefully covered by the remedy, which can
only be done with a remedy which has been proved and adminis-
tered in the same form in which it was proved. Some other
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374 Thallium for Baldness.

method of preparationmay be equally good, or even better, but

we do notknow it, and cannot know it without re- proving. The
allopath may speculate as to the effect of his drugs, and pre-
scribe according to his guesses; but the homoeopath, if he is enti-
name and loyal to his principles, must know, and he
tled to the
can only know when he is prescribing remedies prepared in the
old way. — The Big Four, July, 1898.

THALLIUM FOR BALDNESS.

In the " French News " column of the Chemist and Druggist
we came across a note on the effect of Thallium, which we have
no doubt homoeopaths will soon turn to good account. Here is the
paragraph :

Curious Effect of a Remedy.

"Dr. Huchard read a paper at the last meeting of the Paris
Academy of Medicine on Acetate of Thallium, which was formerly
advocated by Dr. Combemale, of Lille, as a medicament against
profuse perspiration in certain cases of serious illness. It appears,
however, that its useful influence is counterbalanced by the fact
that it causes the hair to fall off with great rapidity. Dr. Huchard
exhibited at the meeting several photographs of patients who had
become quite bald in several days. He was consequently very
emphatic against the use of the remedy. "
There is all the difference between the two schools in this note.
To the allopath this is a " curious effect " merely, and serves to
condemn the drug. To the homoeopathic it brings to light a new
remedy for a troublesome affection which is by no means too well
provided for.

Thallium is a rare metal, whose atomic weight is 204.2, its

symbol being Tl. It receives its name (0ail6- a green shoot)
y

from the green line it gives on the spectrum, through which it

was discovered by Crookes in the residuum left from the distilla-

tion of selenium. Thallium has a bluish white tint and the lustre
of lead; is can be scratched by the ringer nail.
so soft that it

Specific gravity, ir.8. belongs to the lead group of metals but

It

has peculiar reactions of its own. It is used in the manufacture

of a glass of high refractive power. Homceopathic World.
 Iris Versicolor. 375

IRIS VERSICOLOR.
Previous to 1886I had never used Iris as a single remedy.

Since that date has been much used and carefully studied, and
it

only as a single remedy. Previous to that date I had prescribed

many a pound of Comp. Syr. Stillingia, to which was added §j
of Iodide of Potash. Iris is one of the ingredients of that old
abomination. But either the poor quality of the drug or the
counter-influence of company prevented any marked beneficial
effect. Month after month patients were doped with that comp.,
and I verily believe in many cases they were more harmed than
benefited.
In the spring of '86 I was called to treat a case of eczema in
a woman who had been treated for nine years, and by as many
doctors, and grew steadily worse every year. It came in waves
or cycles, each one covering about six months, to be quickly fol-
lowed by another. She was nearly fifty years old and near the
middle of one of these cycles when I was called. As she " had
taken everything" internally and externally, without any notic-
able relief, the case seemed hopeless. Her garments would lit-
erally be glued to her entire person, and the itching was agon-
izing. A noted Boston Eclectic was in town, and I invited him
to see her and offer suggestions, as nothing so far had given her
any relief. But his suggestions were only similar to what I was
doing. About that time the April number of the Eclectic Medical
Journal came to hand, and on page 188, from the pen of the im-
mortal Scudder, I read " Let me say that Iris is the best i?iternal
:

remedy I have ever employed in chronic diseases of the skin.'' That

was a ray of light in a dark place and the physical salvation of
that wretched woman. I commenced with gtts. v every two hours
internally and a twenty-five per cent, mixture of the same in
warm water to the surface. It relieved the itching as nothing
had done before. The dose was gradually increased to ten drops.
The tormenting eruption at once began to wane, and in a few
weeks was gone. But as there was a tendency to return the
lady kept the remedy in the house and used it three times a day
occasionally. She is still living, and fairly well, in Oklahoma.
In the same editorial mentioned above Scudder wrote: "I use
Iris as an anti-syphilitic more than all other remedies." From
 .

376 Negundo.

that day to have used no other remedy internally for

this I

syphilis. It will in three weeks what the old com p. often

do
failed to do in three months. Most of my eases have been in the
secondary stage, and the rash vanishes in two or three weeks.
A young man stepped into my office one morning, soon after
reading Scudder's words last quoted, with a look of distress on
his countenance, and his face and neck freely sprinkled with the
red and bronzed pigments peculiar to syphilis. Dr. \V had
discouraged him by saying it would take six months to get rid
of that rash, and, " to be honest," he said, " it would go about
as quick if left alone as from anything he could do." But the
young man would lose his place unless something was done to
hide his condition. Perhaps I hypnotized him, for with Iris in
ten-drop doses, six times a day, and a strong solution of
" asepsin " to his face and neck, the rash rapidly faded, and was
not noticeable at the end of three weeks. He was happy, but
continued the Iris three times a day for about three months. Xo
tertiary symptoms developed in that or any other case thus
treated. Therefore, I conclude after long and careful observa-
tion that Iris is nature' s antidote for syphilis O. S. Laws, Cali- —
fornia Medical Jour 71 al

NEGUNDO.
O. S. Laws, A. B., M. D., Los Angeles, Cal.

California Medical Journal.

Isuggested that we have a "Symposium," in Our Journal, on

single remedies. They are the backbone of whatever science
there is in therapeutics, and should be kept in view. As a
starter I offer one that is entirely new to the medical fraternity,
as I cannot find any medical work.
it in
In botanical language it is known as Negundium Americanum.
The common name is "box elder." It is a native of Kansas.
It is a distant relative of the Acer family. I had just fairly be-
gun to test its value when I left Kansas for California, and not
finding it here, except as a shade tree on the sidewalks, I can

not get any of the root bark, which is the part used. Prom the
short experience had with it I conclude it is the best internal
I

remedy we have for hemorrhoids. I have used colinsonia, and

aescultlS without ever being impressed with their prompt action.
 Ferrum Picric urn in Warts. 3JJ

But negundo goes at it as colocynth does in its specialty, so

that the victim who has been writhing with an engorged rectum
" will arise up and call you blessed." So you see this is not
only a single remedy but a "fundamental" one. The bark of
the root of the yearling plants is what I prefer.

Recent cases of hceemorrhoids can be completely cured in this

way, and the old hard cases temporarily relieved. So, gentle-
men of the medical profession I hereby introduce to you my
friend Negimdo. — Cal. Med. Jour.

FERRUM PICRICUM IN WARTS.

Some years ago I saw in one of our journals, name forgotten
now, an article in which Ferrum piericum was recommended for
warts, but I had never had occasion to use, until the following
cases came into my hands.
Cise I. Nellie McC, age 5 years, blond, well formed plump
child. A close examination failed to elicit any symptoms ex-
cept this: Her hands were both literally covered with warts; from
the tips of the fingers to above the wrist there was not a space
the size of a silver dime that was not covered. These were con-
fined to the dorsal surface, and ranged in size from a grain of
corn to a pinhead; some were smooth and many were rough and
hard, while many were conglomerate; two or three united to
form an extra large one.
Thuja was given high and low, with no appreciable change,
then remembering Fer. piericum, I gave her the 6th potency, a
dose four times a day. —
Result in four weeks the warts had en-
tirely disappeared, and her hands were as smooth as her face.
Case II. Willie B., age 12 years. Rather large of his age,
and of lymphatic temperament. Face very freckled, and has
tendency to tonsillitis and pharyngeal catarrh, but no other symp-
toms that I could get at, except both hands on dorsal surface
completely covered with warts of the same kind as Case I, ex-
cept warts were larger and rougher, single and conglomerate.
Gav-e him Fer. piericum 6th on 50 pellets, and had him take one.
four times a day. —
Result his mother reported that in about
three weeks warts had all disappeared, and he was the proudest
boy in Kokomo. I have not seen him since giving the Fer.
piericum, and have not had opportunity to observe what effects
he medicine had on the throat or freckles.
 —

37 s Book Notia .

From the results obtained in these two cases, Fer. picricum

impresses me as being a very useful anti sycotic remedy, and
one well worth proving —
A. W. Holcombe in Medical Advance.
The Xovember and December, 1896, numbers of the Homoeo-
pathic E?ivoy contained record of the cure of a case of warts, on
an engraver's hands, of fifteen years standing, which finally grew
so bad as to compel him to give up his occupation. The cure was
complete and the remedy was Ferrum picricum. Editor Homceo- —
pathic Recorder.)

BOOK NOTICES.
A Repertory to the Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy, com-
piledby Richard Hughes, M. D. Part II. Eyes Ears —
—
Face Digestive System. Pages 97-192. London: E.
Gould & Son. 1898.
Part II of this great work of Dr. Hughes' is now ready for de-
livery. It is an index of inestimable value to all who wish to

go to the original sources for their symptoms, and the scholars

of the homoeopathic profession owe Dr. Hughes a debt that can
scarcely be paid, for his laborious and, we fear in too many in-
stances, thankless task. It is a work, too, that the high potency
men can use quite as well as their less extreme brethren.

The American Eclectic Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

By John M. Scudder, M. D. Twelfth edition. 748 pages.
8vo. Sheep, $5.00. Cincinnati: The Scudder Brothers
Company. 1898.
All that need be said about this standard book is, that if any
one wants the best eclectic materia medica itf is the book to buy.
We hope that when the 13th edition appears the publishers will
add a therapeutic index; it would be a great convenience to the
reader.

CONSERVATIVE GYNECOLOGY AND ELECTRO-

THERAPEUTICS. —A Practical Treatise on the Dis-
eases of Women and Their Treatment by Electricity.
Third Edition, Revised, Rewritten, and Greatly Enlarged.
By O. Betton Massey, M.D., Physician to the Gynecic Depart-
 Book Notices. 379
ment of Howard Hospital, Philadelphia; Late Electro Thera-
peutist to the Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, Philadel phia;
Fellow and ex President of the American Electro- Thera-peutic
1

Association, of the Societe Francaise d'Electrotherapie, of the

American Medical Association, etc. Illustrated with Twelve
Full-Page Original Chromo-lithographic Plates in Twelve
Colors, Numerous Full-Page Original Half-tone Plates of Photo-
graphs taken from Nature, and many other Engravings in the
Text. Royal Octavo 400 pages. Extra Cloth, Beveled Edgesl
$3.50 net. The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-16
Cherry St., Philadelphia; 117 West Forty-second St., New
York City; 9 Lakeside Building, 218-220 S. Clark St.,
Chicago, III
When a medical work gets into a third edition, and not from
plates, but enlarged and revised, it is something of which the
author may well be proud. This edition is unusually wel,
printed and is very rich in colored, and other, plates illuminating
the text.

Our esteemed and most "regular" contemporary, The Atlatna

Medical and Surgical Journal, has fallen afoul of Burnett's Dis-
eases of the Skin, and deems it necessary to admonish the flock
of which it is the shepherd that the book is dangerous and that
it " is necessary to give warning against its pernicious teach-
ing." In a nutshell, the book teaches that a diseased skin is
the external evidence of a constitutional disease, and that if the
physician cures the constitutional malady the skin disease is
cured with it; and that to " cure " the external disease by means
of ointments and lotions is but to drive it in and make a life-
long invalid of the patient in the majority of cases. So far from
this being " pernicious teaching," it seems to us be, in the
popular tongue of the land from which the Journal hails, good
" hoss " sense. To be sure it conflicts with the microbe theory,
but then we may look for that battered theory to go out before
long. With all due respect we still hold that Burnett's book is
not " pernicious," but is most healthful, helpful and sane.

Publishers Boericke & Tafel have in press another work by

Burnett, Change of Life in Women. It is very original, as are
all that writer's works, and full of wise suggestions. It will be
out in September.

Scudder Brothers Company, of Cincinnati, announce a

new edition, rewritten, revised and enlarged, of King's Ameri-
can Eclectic Dispensatory. The work will be done by Harvey W.
Felter, M. D., and John Uri Lloyd. King's was a great old
work and we hope the new editors will not cut out too much of
the old matter.
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The Medical Century for July says, anent the Omaha meeting:
There was more of an outcropping of true homoeopathic suggestion
at this meeting than at any in recent years, and it was observed that
whenever a speaker had the courage to plant himself squarely upon the
old platform he was accorded heany applause. The revival of homoeo-
pathic loyalty seems to have come to stay. At any rate, there is a tide drift-
ing that way with irresistible force despite the desire of a minority of the
membership to become sodeucedly ''liberal" in their tendencies as to over-
throw all orthodox Homoeopathy in sight. It may be stated that there is
a small number of more or less prominent members who have no rightful
place in a homoeopathic body. If they belong anywhere it is with their
beloved "modern allopaths, " or at least with the conscientious eclectic
convention. Homoeopath)' has no rightful place for straddlers.

Yet nowhere can a comparatively "big man" so completely

drop out of the swim, as he with a homoeopathic degree in an
allopathic convention. It is good, this awakening to the fact

that they have a grand birth-right, and it is also timely, for if

Homoeopathy flirts too long with that chameleon "scientific
medicine " it will have no standing with the public. Homoe-
opathy grew to its present proportions because in the eyes of
the public it stood for something distinctive; if, however, that
distinctiveness is to be replaced with kowtowing to the rapidly

succeeding fads of the so-called " scientific " end of the medical
outfit the public will soon size us up and drop the whole con-
cern. Andfew more blows from within, like the Boston
a
Pharmacopoeia " making foolishness of Homoeopathy, will rap-
idlv hasten the evil daw

The Pharmacopoeia of the American Institute is receiving

some very adverse criticisms. The careful thinkers are oi the
opinion that this innovation will have the effect, it" generally
accepted, of upsetting the entire homoeopathic system. It is
 -

Editorial. 381

certain to lead to ranch confusion, contention and trouble of

various untold kinds The men who have compiled this work
couid not do a wiser thing than to retract and call in the book.
— Editorial in Big Four, July, 1898.

At a regular meeting of the Kings County Homoeopathic

Medical Society the following preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted.
WHEREAS, The bigotry of the allopathic branch of the medical pro-
fession still and shows itself in discrimination by self-styled regulars
exists
against the appointment of homceopathists as surgeons or assistant sur-
geons in the Army, Navy or Marine Hospital service of the United States;
and
Whereas, The appointment as Division Surgeon, U. S. V., of Dr. M. O.
Terr}-, who has served with distinguished success for two terms as Surgeon
General, N. G N. Y., serves as a precedent and a proof that it is practic-
able for practitioners of Homoeopathy to serve their country in their pro-
fessional capacity;
Resolved, That the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of
Kings, State of New York, respectfully urge upon the House of Represen-
tatives, the Senate and the President, the enactment of the Joint Resolu-
tion [Senate File 164. introduced by Senator Allen, of Nebraska] now be-
fore the Senate to the effect that: "'Graduates in good standing of any
medical college, regularly chartered under the laws of any State of the
United States, and eligible to practice therein under the laws of such State,
shall, on application, be entitled to examination for appointment in the
medical corps of the Army, Navy and Marine Hospital service of the
United States, any statute or departmental ruling or regulation to the con-
trary notwithstanding."
Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to every member of the
Senate and of the House of Representatives, to President McKinley, to the
German Homoeopathic Society, to Dr. A. B. Norton, Chairman of the
Interstate Committee of the American Institute of Homceopathv, and the
homoeopathic journals of the country.
Respectfully yours,
E. Rodney Fiske, M. D.,
Secretary.
4S4 Bedford Avenue. Brooklyn, X. Y.

A contributor to an old-school journal writes, anent " com-

pounds": "Every drug is of itself a compound, formed by a
master hand for some useful purpose. Advanced therapy teaches
that this single remedy has a special, well-defined field of action,
and is only hampered in its work by the addition of other com-
pounds."
382 Editorial.

And yet there are homoeopaths, who should know better, with
their shelves full of idiotic "compound tablets" concocted by
pharmacists who know as much about the use of remedies as a
Spanish gunner does about gunnery! With homoeopaths taking
up with " scientific compound tablets " and with a brand new
pharmacopoeia that, while true science is just beginning to ex-
plore the wonders of divisability, would tie the school down to
the gross particle visible through a microscope, Homoeopathy is in
a fair way of losing some of its laurels.

The table of contents of a prominent old-school journal re-

cently showed " serum " treatment recommended for mushroom

poisoning, influenza, grippe, rheumatism and tuberculosis; all

this in one number. An
examination of the volume would
probably reveal the fact that " serum " has been recommended
in every known disease. This crude form of Homoeopathy, it
seems, must run its course, like a self-limited disease, and
eventually from its crudities may spread a more scientific
knowledge of the use of nosodes. Men who understand them
even now use them with powerful effect, but they do not first
dilute their nosode through the veins of an old horse. Some
day this form of dilution will be cited among the curiosities of
medicine.

TflE pace is getting fast. Here is the Medical Record of July

1 6th giving a leading editorial to the treatment of roup in chick-
ens, with antitoxin, "with the most satisfactory results." But,
gentle reader, if you are ever called upon to treat a chicken sick

with roup, before you give him (or, more probably, her) an in-
jection of antitoxin, try the case on a dose of Spongia, 15th potency
or higher. It is not so scientific as the antitoxin, perhaps, but
it will cure the patient quicker and better and will not endanger
his or her life. It is old-fashioned Homoeopathy and safe to tie

to.

I.\ his report of the meeting of the homoeopathic society o\

Ohio in the American Homaopathist, Dr. Frank Kraft makes the
following very gratifying statement: " In this connection I

want emphasize what was apparent throughout all the bu-

to
reaus, namely, the determined homoeopathic spirit which pre-
vailed. It was always there and broke out on the least occasion.
 Editorial. 383

It appeared, as already written, in the bureau of gynecology, in

surgery, in clinical medicine, and in other bureaus. I am sorry
I did not hear Dr. Martha Canfield's paper, for I have been
assured it was a worthy one, dealing nicely with the homoe-
opathic remedies most commonly called for in uterine disorders."

CHAMPAGNE FOR THE WOUNDED AND SICK.

Surgeon- General George W. Sternberg was tendered and has
accepted the generous donation by Messrs. G. H. Mumm & Co.,
France, through their agents, of 1,200 bottles of their famous
Extra Dry Champagne.
The Treasury Department has allowed this wine to be de
livered from bond, free of duty, and part of it has already gone
to Santiago on board the steamship Olivette for our sick and
wounded, while the balance will be sent where it will do the
most good.
As champagne is very highly esteemed in the treatment of
yellow fever, and will greatly add to the comfort and health of
the sick, as well as the wounded, this magnificent gift will be
greatly appreciated by the sufferers, especially as such delicacies
cannot by any possibility be afforded by the Army and Navy
Commissary, and it is hoped this donation will stimulate other
firms to similar contributions

The Recorder is indebted to Dr. Arschagouni for the inter-

esting account of the removal of Hahnemann's body.

We have often said that the Recorder is a homoeopathic and

medical forum open to all. In this number Dr. Anna Wood
speaks from the shoulder on the subject of Hygiene and other
things. The Doctor makes some good points, and also, some
that are emphatic. Some day, perhaps, she will open her eyes
to the fact that of all ways devised for managing the human
race, driving is the worst.

If not already bespoken, send your paper to the Recorder.

We will give you a very large circle of readers. Also feel free
to express your opinions in these pages —
so long as they are not
too personal.
 — — —

PERSONAL.
The Russian Minister of Public Instruction has issued a decree prohibiting
the Russian women from wearing corsets. Nervy man !

It is intimated that gonorrhoea has more to do with appendicitis than

grape seeds.
" Our party did not hang itself by its necktie." From Omaha visitor's
letter.
" Calcarea carbonica —
is one of the best tonics in the homoeopathic
materia medica !" Ex.
A Professor warns persons with an " iron constitution " against water, be-
cause it rusts iron,
We suspect that the ''dear old seniors " would prefer to drop that three-
letter adjective. When you pass fifty it doesn't seem "old." " Seniors " is
enough.
" The diogonese was worms," remarked the old gentlemen.
Do not fail of the Skin. Worth it.
to read Burnett's Diseases
To be half-toned these days is not so much of an event as in days agone.
Napoleon said four newspapers are more dangerous than an army.
Ye gods, what power doth lie in the editorial gray goose quill !

" In some hands the pen is mightier than the sword." Bulwer.
And the biggest in the world's outfit is not so tall when you get near him.
Guess it's principles that make men great and not the other way.
Subscriptions for Journal Beige d' Homosopathie received by Messrs.
Boericke & Tafel. $1.50 per annum.
Arndt's Practice of Medicine w ill be out this coming
T
fall; it will be in one
—
volume the latest and the best.
" What will the Allopaths think !" is still a power.

M mum's champagne is the one to prescribe.

The 40-page pamphlet, Physiological Treatment of Disease ',
is to be had
on request at B. & T.'s pharmacies. Send for a copy.
A nU-A* hits is the best thing yet discovered to allay the intense itching and
inflammation of the skin following Rhus poisoning. Boericke & Tafel
sell it.

The dollar of the subscriber is always cheerfully received.

The 47th Annual Meeting of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of N. Y.
will take place at Syracuse, on September 22nd and 23rd.
Dr. Urania Tyrrel has removed from 18th and Pine Streets to 154 North
20th Street, Philadelphia.
Dr. J. Wilford Allen has succeeded to the practice of Dr. F. G. Oerte 1

no West 12th Street, New York.

Dr. Francis Peak has removed from Pelham Rapids to Alexandria,
Minn., having purchased the practice of Dr. II. C. Wood, of that place.
The "Christian Scientist " seems to have come out on top in the Rhode
Island Supreme Court.
It is said, with due respect to Dr. Shenk, that the best way to beget a
boy is to try, try again.
 THE
Homeopathic Recorder.
Vol. XIII. Lancaster, Pa, September, 1898. No. 9

"YE CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS."

We New Englarid Medical Gazette has lost its
regret that the
old-time courtesy on the question of the new pharmacopoeia
recently brought out by its publisher, and with courtesy its
temper also. The Recorder has repeatedly pointed out wherein
this new book differs so radically from the Homoeopathy of
Hahnemann that the one or the other must be wrong, and has
wanted these radical differences discussed, but the Gazette ab-
solutely ignores them and only reiterates that the book was
" indorsed before the largest representative body of homoe-
opathists in the world, the American Institute of Homoeopathy."
Unfortunately for the future welfare of Homoeopathy this is
true, and it constitutes the one strong point of the book, or
rather, of its publisher, for the book, though bearing the per-
functory endorsement of the Institute, is in reality, as the Gazette
says, a private venture and seems to be so regarded generally, as
may be inferred from the following, clipped from Dr. Fisher's
great, and, we may add, fair, journal, the Medical Century:

It might easily be inferred by reading late issues of the New England

Medical Gazette, the Homoeopathic Recorder and the Medical Visitor
that the profession is rent in twain and lying awake o' nights over its
American Institute Pharmacopoeia. Not a bit of it! While the Institute
has not made a brilliant success of its book publishing schemes it has
nevertheless issued a valuable Pharmacopoeia, in which are contained
many very good values. With the pharmaceutical problems and phar-
macal technique let the pharmacists wrestle. The profession, which does
not make its own medicines in the first place, but which often makes its
dilutions, triturations, etc., and which desires general knowledge about
the remedies it employs, will confine itself to these topics and find the
new book of inestimable value to them. Other pharmacopoeias, also, have
like uses.

"The other pharmacopoeias are just as good, or have like uses,

 !

386 Ye Cannot Serve Two Masters.

but the new oneis endorsed by the Institute therefore we will

support seems to be the prevailing idea. If this were true,

it,"

the Recorder would never have said a word on the subject,

for we fully realize the strength of the New E?igland Medical
Gazette' s only strong point, "Endorsed by the
Institute," and
it no
is light matter to go contrary to even the perfunctory
endorsements of that body, but the idea is not true. The new
work is simply revolutionary, and we are firmly convinced that
ifthe members of the Institute realized where it will lead them
they would not only not have endorsed the work of their com-
mittee but would to day withdraw their endorsement.
It would be well if the homoeopathic physicians of this and
other countries could read, in this connection, one, of a book of
essays, written some years ago by, if we remember correctly,
Mr. A. Birrill, and published under the title of Obiter Dictu.
The drift of this particular essay was to demonstrate the ex-
treme importance of bodies of men, organized on certain prin-
ciples, being logical to those principles, and that so long as they
were so they were a power, but when they went contrary to
their fundamentals weakness and dissolution entered. It is,

essentially, the old scriptural law, " Ye can?iot serve two masters."
Hahnemann's books are the premises of Homoeopathy. In
the matter of pharmacy, and especially in principles, the new
pharmacopoeia contradicts those premises and, sooner or later,
the inevitable divine law that two masters cannot be served will
surely compel the choice between the new pharmacopoeia and
the old premises. There can be no escape from this, for it is
involved in the irresistible logic of events. Where both books
are taught the question will arise which master must we serve ?
for we cannot serve both
The Gazette says: (< Neither the publishers of the Recorder
nor anyone else, to date, have advanced any argument in op-
position to the new pharmacopoeia worthy of consideration."
Is not the fact that the new work not only does not, as it
should, give the method of preparing dilutions from the insolu-
bles as directed by Hahnemann, but goes out of its proper
sphere as a pharmacopoeia to condemn them, worthy of con-
sideration ? Hahnemann says: " In order to convert the potent
trituration into the liquid state, and still further develop its

power, we avail ourselves of the experience, hitherto unknown

to chemistry, that all medicinal substances triturated to the
 Ye Cannot Serve Two Masters. 387

third are soluble in water and alcohol." The new work says:
Ai
Triturations of substances insoluble in water or alcohol should
not be used for dilutions." Who is right, Hahnemann or the
new pharmacopoeia ? And cannot the Gazette see that if the
position of the new pharmacopoeia is correct then it follows
that the old school men who pronounced the wonderful suc-
cesses, following the use of the "insoluble" drugs potentized
according to Hahnemann's directions, to be merely the work of
nature, were also correct ? The worst assault Homoeopathy
ever received was not so terrible as this tacit repudiation of the
work of homoeopathic physicians in the past; it carries with it
the tacit assent that the old school men were right and the
earlier homoeopaths were mere dreamers. This is one argument
against the new book that seems to be worthy of consideration,
at least by those who believe in the Homoeopathy of Hahnemann.
Here is a quotation from the new work worth considering:
Divisibility of Soluble Medicinal Substances.— Before stating the
method of making dilutions, the pharmacist should be reminded that up
to a comparatively recent period of the present century matter was con-
sidered infinitely divisible, and hence there was no objection to the in-
finite dilution or attenuation of medicines. But since more recently the
older monadic atomic theory has been developed into molecular science,
now forming the basis of physics, chemistry and other branches of science,
the infinite divisibility of matter is no longer upheld, and the limits of
divisibility, for our purpose at least, are more than approximately placed
in the neighborhood and somewhat below the 12th centesimal or 24th
decimal degree of attenuation of soluble substances. While we are bound
to ignore nothing which modern science has revealed, and while we are
desirous of keeping abreast of it, it is not incumbent upon us as pharma-
cists to limit by any arbitrary rule the degree of dilution or trituration
which might be desired.
As we read the foregoing, it means that after you pass the 12th
centesimal potency you are no longer administering medicine to
the patient, and that every success reported in our literature
with remedies above that degree of "attenuation" the new —
—
work repudiates " potency " was the result of a vivid imagina-
tion. We do not know whether the Gazette will consider the
shame and dishonor cast on physicians who report successes
with remedies above that point a matter worthy of consideration
or not. Hahnemann says that the 30th potency is the one from
which the best success may be obtained; the new pharmacopoeia
says that "science says" there is no medicine in the 30th
potency and " we are bound to ignore nothing which modem
 —

388 Ye Cannot Serve Two Masters.

science has revealed." The question is, which master shall ye

serve ?

If Homoeopathy, after waxing great and lusty, flouting

"science" and schoolmen, is now to be bound hand and foot
and delivered up to her ancient enemies we imagine the pub-
lisher of the new book will hardly be able to sell enough of it
to pay for the plates and the sixteen type-written pages of cor-
rections they need. Will not the star-eyed goddess and be-
w igged schoolmen say unto the committee that has denied
T

the works and beliefs of the fathers of Homoeopathy: "If you

admit there is nothing in your remedies above the 12th you ' '

will also be compelled to admit there is precious little below

that. You deny the doctrine of Hahnemann (it always stumped
us), that the curative powers of the drug was brought out by
potentiation, consequently the world has no more use for your
Homoeopathy. We were unable to conquer the Homoeopathy
of Hahnemann, but yours is easy."
Another point in the quotation given above from the new
pharmacopoeia somewhat curious
is in the inevitable " logic of
events." " While we are bound to ignore nothing which
modern science has revealed its our master — and while we are
desirous of keeping abreast of it, it is not incumbent upon us.
as pharmacists, to limit by any arbitrary rule the degree of dilu
tion which might be desired." Why not ? You arbitrarily dic-
tated that dilutions "should not " be made from triturations of
the insolubles as directed by Hahnemann, so why not obey your
master and refuse, like honest pharmacists should, to label vials
with the name of drugs which contain not even a "molecule"
of them? What will the world think, what ought it to think.
of a pharmacopoeia which in one breath tells its readers that
there is none of the drug in the "dilution" above the 12th, yet
says it is permissible to supply any " dilution or trituration
which might be desired," even the 30th or higher, and. of
course to label them with the drug's name while teaching there
is nothing in those dilutions or triturations but alcohol or milk
sugar ? Is not that bit of curious dishonesty on part of the new
work worthy of consideration ? And would a pharmacist who
follows the new pharmacopoeia not be justified in supplying all

dilutions above the 12th from his alcohol bottle, or the tritura
tions higher than the 12th from his powdered sugar of milk
stock? If not, why not? There is nothing in either, according
to the new pharmacopoeia !
 — — a

Ye Cannot Serve Two Masters. 389

The above contains arguments " worthy of consideration,"
and we sincerely hope the Gazette will not take refuge in its

usual fortress, "the Institute has officially adopted the new

—
book and that settles it," for as shown above it does not settle
it. Neither the Institute, the Gazette nor any man or body of
men can escape inexorable logic. You cannot deny your own
premises and convince the world that you are other than —
rather singular person, or body.
Apropos of the official dictum of the new pharmacopoeia, that
the limit of our medicines is reached at the 12th centesimal, the
following is rather thought-inspiring:

This is the great sphere of the action of Calcarea. But it has other uses,
which seem independent of power over assimilation. One of these is
its

of a very curious kind; and, if I had not repeatedly seen it (and also felt
it) myself and had it vouched for by excellent observers like Drs. Dud-

geon, Drury and Bayes, could hardly have credited it. It is its power,
when given in repeated doses of the 30th dilution, of relieving the pain
attending the passage of biliary (Dr. Bayes says also renal) calculi. It has
for me and even of the hot bath.
quite superseded the need of chloroform
***. The higher from the 12th to the 30th, are those which ap-
dilutions,
pear to be most in favor, and which I use myself. " Pharmacodynamics pp.
j45-#6, by Richard Hughes, M. D.

(Curiously enough, too, Calcarea carb. dilution is one of those

made into dilution from the trituration in the manner forbidden
by new pharmacopoeia.)
The quotation from the Pharmacodynamics, as we said before,
is thought-inspiring. Are Hughes, Dudgeon, Drury and Bayes
wrong, or is our new pharmacopoeia in error ? They cannot all
of them be right !

Shall we draw the censors blue pencil through this, and other
parts, of the Pharmacodynamics, through Farrington's works,
Dunham's, Constantine Hering's, Jahr's, Bcenninghausen's and
all the other practitioners up to Hahnemann ? Or shall it be
through this pharmacopoeia which repudiates the Homoeopathy
of the Fathers ?

" Ye cannot serve two Masters.'''

—
Mezereum. ''Red, itching, miliary rash on the arms, the
head, and the whole body, partly single, partly in clusters, very
troublesome and obstinate." Hahnemann.
390 Doctor Puck.

DOCTOR PUCK.
By A. F. Randall, M. D., Port Huron, Mich.

The legend has come down to us that old Diogenes habitually

went about the streets with a lighted lantern in the daytime,
seeking an honest man. So sarcastic his speech, so bitter his
irony to the selfish crowd that he was surnamed The Cur,
and his very unreasonableness probably saved his life, while
the cultured and gentlemanly Socrates had to drink the hemlock
because he lacked these cranky qualities.
It is my pleasure to introduce a critic of a different stamp,
and he ought to be favorably received.
for several reasons
If he were of our race his observations might be supposed to
be prompted by envy or some other selfish motive, but as he
seems not to have a mission, and to be perfectly unconcerned as-
to what he sees among us, merely recording as a clear sighted
and unprejudiced observer whatever comes before his eyes, he
ought to be, as I said, acceptable to us as a critic, seeing that he
manifests no disposition either to help or hinder.
I propose that he be given a degree —
in fact, without waiting
for a convocation I have decided, single handed and alone, to in-
—
vest him with the title of say Doctor of Uncommon Law.
I remark that I know very little of his history, attainments or

standing but this is not the first instance of graduation by de-

fault, as it were.
However, he is credited by our mutual friend, William
Shakespeare with a remark so singularly clear, fair and pro-
foundly true that it ought of itself to outweigh all objections, if
there be any.
Said remark finds an answering chord in every doctor's heart,
and I expect them to ratify with great unanimity ray action. A
critic from the ranks of us mortals would have selected a class
or certain individuals on whom to put the seal of his disappro-
bation. Or he would have seasoned his critique with adjectives
strong, suggestive of personal feeling. But when we are all in-

cluded no one can feel that he is singled out as an object of

spleen — " What fools these mortals be !"

Observations of Dr. Puck: Of all the people seen in my

travels to and fro in the universe those inhabiting earth are the
most strange. Their lives the briefest, limited to a few years,.
 I
Doctor Puck. 391

subject to misfortunes dire and various, would seem that from

it

the day that Adam and Eve

realized his mortal condition he
would have made themselves a Committee on Public Health,
experimented and observed until they had ascertained with
tolerable accuracy the kind, amount, compounds and varieties of
foods that would insure the most vigorous health, the greatest
enjoyment, and defer to the latest, possible date the inevitable
dissolution. What are the facts ? The art of eating for health
they seem never to have discovered, their only rule being to eat
until fullof whatever suits the taste, avoiding only that which
experience has tanght them to be followed by immediately dis-
agreeable consequences. Accordingly, very few live a hundred
years, most die in childhood, and nearly all suffer most annoy-
ingly from weakness and disease. The custom of this people
regarding the treatment of disease is no less peculiar.
While in general they recognize the necessity of special
training in the different avocations of life, they except the heal-
ing and believe that utter ignorance and inexperience do not
art,

disqualify one for healing disease, so that it may be said that

the numbor of physicians is fourteen hundred millions that —
being the number of inhabitants, and every one with an incur-
able itch for prescribing. Indeed, so little importance is attached

to accurate knowlege that some of them will take a drink from

any bottle found in a fence corner, with the belief that it con-
tains a magic balm for their particular ills.
It would seem that their dabbling in a practice of which they
know nothing would be sufficient to justify the title of " fools,"
which it is said I bestowed upon them, but there is much more
in evidence. There is no lack of physicians, proper, and they
compare favorably with the rank and file, if their superior ad-
vantages be not considered.
Of course it would be expected that, having made a special
study of the causes that determine disease and untimely death,
they would be found excellent examples of correct living,
whereas the truth is that the majority are intemperate in eating,
smoke and drink, are profane and lewd, and their length of life
is somewhat less than the general average.

Apparently, then, they are entitled "by honorable distinc-

tion " to the title of " fools."
These peoples of earth are very sensitive to truth-speaking;
they have the bump of " approbativess," as their phrenologists
392 Doctor Puck.

say, very largely developed, and like to be praised and well

thought of, and averse to a personal application of wholesome

facts to themselves although they are fond of cutting up each

other.
Personally, the old doggerel is their creed, condensed:
" I am willing a man should go tolerably strong
Agin sin in the abstract, for that sort of wrong
Wuz always unpop'lar, and never got pitied,
For 'twas that which wuz never committed."
One of the amusing contentions of these humans is that they
are endowned with reason, and they claim that as chief distinc-
tion between them and the lower animals.
In considering the stuff that is offered in evidence of this
claim but informed of a satisfactory kind. That there are
little

the rudiments of a faculty for reasoning in some of them I do

not deny, but it is exercised so little that a robust, well-trained,
well-balanced reason is about as rare as a hen's tooth is said
to be.

Dr. Puck on Law.

Certainly, evidence of the existence of calm, dispassionate
reason ought to be found in the code of laws governing a peo-
ple; but in general their laws relating to murder, for example,
show very little of it. If a man be missing it is apt to be sur-
mised that he has been murdered, and if circumstances point
to someone as the probable offender he is "arrested " and if
a jury of the most ignorant men in the community decide the
case as proved against him this man is torn from his family and

strangled to death. Wherefore ? Apparently from a savage in-

stinct —
not reason —
in the human breast for revenge. It may

be that no murder has been committed, or some other person

proves to be the murderer, it matters not; they continue to de-
prive men of that sacred thing, "life," as well as "liberty and
the pursuit of happiness " —
which is said to be " guaranteed by
the Constitution of the United States " on purely circumstantial —
evidence. Again, it is not denied that an insane man is irre-

sponsible; admitted that under the influence of drink any

it is

man may do that which he would not do when not sober, yet
the drunken murderer is executed just the same as the sober
murderer, and many an innocent man has been sent into eternity
by a relentless, unpitying, unreasoning law. If the man did a

murder when drunk that he would do when sober he was

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not guilty. If he were guilty then so was the man who sold
him the drink, and the men who licensed the and the
seller,

people who voted the license are particeps criminis, and they
should all be hanged for aiding and abetting the crime if one is.

Look at the spectacle of great nations allowing, aiding and en-

couraging this drunkard making business, which is sapping the
nation of its money, its intellectual and moral stamina, looking
quietly on, unconcerned or unable to resist it. Any evidence of
reason here ? No, stark, staring madness and idiocy.

Dr. Puck on Human Theology.

But there is a higher, nobler, grander attribute of the mind-
religion. Surely, here we shall find reason enthroned. Let us
see:
My guide, one of the humans, honored on earth by his kind
as being one of the brightest, grandest and best of their num-
ber, opens a door and permits me to gaze out into eternity. I
—
see a lake with gentle billows, and it is red it is liquid fire!
And, horrors! Tossing up and down upon those billows are men
and women groaning, shrieking, blackened, crackling, but not
consumed. Multitudes, that no one could number who are —
these unfortunates? How long will this last? ft
They are the
wicked and it will last as long as eternity lasts." You cannot
mean it —why, these are the boys and girls that you played with
in your happy boyhood days, your neighbors and friends
surely, it will be over in a minute. " No, it will never cease."
Never? Never? Never? Will this indescribable suffering
never end ? Why it freezes the blood in my veins, and I feel that
the memory of this and the thought that it never ends will
drive me mad !

Why does not God put an end torments? " He can-

to their
not." He cannot! " Even so, foris immortal."
the soul You
mean to say that God cannot destroy that which he has created?
"Yes, that is the teaching of the nineteenth century."
But here I am taken in hand by another " guide," who says
that "that was the teaching fifty years ago. but all that is
changed. Thank you, thank you I am so glad to be relieved
!

of that dreadful nightmare. Then God can destroy the incor-

rigible? " No, no, not that; but you see when people began to
reason and to feel they realized that human nature could never
endure such a belief, and so we cast about for a reasonable belief
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394 Doctor Puck.

and we have reached a conclusion it is this the agent of pun-

; :

ishment is not fire but mental punishment remorse." But it —

will come toan end, will it not? "No, it can never end, for
the soul is immortal."
I remember a painting —
a man on his knees, hair disheveled,
chained to the floor, looking upward with utter hopelessness in
his gaze —
the artist's idea of despair. This is the revised
theology of the nineteenth century unending suffering and —
misery for multitudes.
Who immortal ? "Why, everybody knows
says the soul is

that." I do not know it, and I call for proof.

beg pardon. I

The anatomist, the physiologist, the pathologist, has never

found a soul and does not even find any proof of its existence.
11
Well, the Bible teaches it." I beg pardon again; it says that

God only hath immortality, and that his servants are seeking it,
and that " this mortal shall put on immortality," and man is
said to be mortal.
I don't believe that your Bible teaches the existence of any

such thing after death as the soul. " O, yes, it does! Then
shall the dust return to the dust as it was and the spirit to God
who gave it."
But, my friend, see what a mess you have fixed up for your-
self. You say that means that the spirit goes to Heaven, the
body goes to the ground, while the soul, if it is wicked, goes to
hell —
the body in the ground, the soul in hell and the spirit in
—
Heaven this conclusion is inevitable if your belief is right.
Here we have too equally learned, bright, honest men affirming
two different beliefs, although the Bible has not changed and
both absolutely unthinkable. Do humans think ? Nay, verily,

and if the foregoing are the results of their ripest scholarship

afterthousands of years of experience and research it seems idle
to expect much in the future, and it would be far the best to
wipe out the worthless, give the truly deserving their promised
immortality, and let them begin a renewed existence with en-
larged capacity or rather confirmed habits of thinking.

MEZEREUM, — "Quite cold, externally for thirty six hours

with great thirst, without desiring to get warmed, without dis-
like to the open air, and without subsequent heat." Hahne-
mann.
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A Phytolacca Sketch. 395

A PHYTOLACCA SKETCH.
Thomas C. Duncan, M. D., Prof. General Medicines and
Diseases of the Chest, National Medical College,
Chicago.
Phytolacca is a queer drug. Its chief use was in sore throat
and inflammation of the breast, now it is the anti-fat remedy.
How does it work is a problem that scientific diagnosticians and
pathologists should explain. Those who use it to lessen adipose
find that it makes the stool semi-solid and there is a profuse
flow of urine. To lessen fat deposition the food must be limited
as in the Banting system of starvation, or the excretions must
be increased. Phytolacca acts by (1) lessening the appetite and
(2) by increasing especially the urine.
One physician I know who wants to hasten the cure in
chronic cases gives a dose of Phytolacca at night. The patient is

obliged to get up once or twice at night to urinate. This

stimulates the sympathetic system and must in some cases
hasten recovery.
Any one familiar with the growth of the poke root knows
that it luxuriates in a very rich soil; that is, one that contains
much nitrogenous matter. It is a bulbous root and must take
up much of the soil ingredients. New land that contains much
potash is where it grows in all of its fulness. It is said that
the root contains much potash {Kali hydro, or Kali card. which , ?)
The mental symptoms correspond to the Kalis. Phytolacca is a
lazy drug —just Kali and fat folks. It has vertigo on
like
motion. The muscles are sore and weak. The muscles of
deglutition are off duty, so that there is a feeling of a plug in
the throat and at the rectum also. There is a metallic taste in
the mouth suggesting a sluggish Evidently the patient
liver.
is not up to his digestive capacity, but the drain is not by the

bowels for they are constipated. Instead there is "violent

urging to urinate." " Profuse urine at night." It is not pale,
watery, nervous urine but "albuminous urine. Deposit like
chalk. Dark red urine leaving a deep red stain in the ves-
sels." Like Sepia it has defective assimilation and metabolism,
hence the urine and myalgia. Some people have to stop the use
of this remedy on account of the myalgia and especially an
alarming cardialgia that develops when taken to reduce fat,
396 Homceopaihic Cases from India.

especially in patients with hypertrophied heart. It cannot be

taken with impunity, and patients who take it should be under

medical snrveilance.
Like Mercurius, it affects the back and liver, and like Kali, it

effects the glands, especially the mammary gland. It is not a

suppurative remedy, per se, but produces a lessening of the
hypertrophied indurated gland by retrograde metamorphosis.
Not by fatty degeneration like Phosphorus, but by tissue reab-
sorption. It fat and fibrous tissue and then seems
absorbs the
to attack the muscular fibre, hence the myalgia from weakness
or rather muscular drain. That explains the general muscular
—
pains and stitches the so-called muscular rheumatism found
among its symptoms; so the Phycolacca patient "desires to lie
down" and has "indisposition to move." He is lazy because
it hurts to move. That is the secondary effect.
The bad effects of Phytolacca are antidotes by "milk and
salt" (both nutrition agents); Belladonna, coffee (vomiting);
Ignatia (especially), Mercurius, Mezerium, Sulphur (eye symp-
toms) and Opium (large doses).
Its comparative remedies, according to Hering, are Camphor,
Arsenicum, Arum, Iris, Guiacum, Kali bich., Kali jod., Rhus
and Ipecac. This drug like many others deserves more attention
and provings.

HOMCEOPATHIC CASES FROM INDIA.

By Dr. A. W. K. Choudhury, Calcutta.

I. Silica in a case of soft stool with difficult expulsion.

A Mahommedan, named Kafiluddeen, aged about 20 years,
came to my
dispensary the last day of January, 1S9S. The his-
tory and symptoms of the case were as follows: Daily one soft
stool passi?ig with difficulty; thread-worms; spitting of saliva
during day, but more so before evening; appetite good; sleep
good; urine reddish; taste in mouth insipid; spleen somewhat
enlarged; stool narrow, flattened; incessant discharge of fetid
flatus in the morning.
The illness commenced since our patient commenced to ob-
serve the lasting of the Ramdan (the fasting month of the Mo-
hammedans I.
 Homoeopathic Cases from India. 397
Given Silica 12, one dose to be taken just after evening be-
fore any substantial food taken. The next day his bowels
moved once rather freely and the medicine was repeated. The
third day of his attendance, the second of February, he was glad
to tell me that he had passed two soft free stools. He recovered
without any more medicine.

II. Hepar Sulph in a case of soft stool with difficult

EXPULSION.
The patient, a Mohammedan of about 33 years, came to my
dispensary the 30th December, 1897, f° r tne treatment of a
chronic intermittent fever of about three months' duration. He
improved under Pulsatilla. At the latter part of the treatment
his complaints were: "Bowels open daily once, twice or thrice;
stool soft y
but passes with difficulty; downward passage of fetid
flatus, relieving flatulent distension of abdomen; was salivated:
used quinine."
He was given one dose of Hepar S. 30, and he got relief of
the symptoms. A certain irregularity in living called back the
symptoms, though not well pronounced; got rid of again by
the same medicine.
Remark: We see in Bell on Diarrhosa; "Expulsion difficult"
of soft stools has Alum., Calc. ph., Gels., Hep., Psor., Sil., and
Sta?in. for its medicines. Of the above symptom (expulsion
difficult) I gather here two cases from my case-book for my
readers, each of which, as shown above, was treated with a dif-
ferent medicine. Sil. in one and Hep. S. in the other was given,
and both of these cases got rid of the symptom with their re-
spective medicine. Why in one case I presciibed Hepar, and
why in the other Silica, may be questioned here. In the Hepar
case the history of being salivated made me select the medicine
Hepar and in the next, the Silica case, the patient's thread-
worms indicated Silica.
Now, we must be guarded very carefully not to permit routine
work in homoeopathic practice, which may effect often in
failures.

Carbuncle.
To a novice in medical practice it is not always an easy mat-
ter to diagnose a carbuncle, especially in the commencement of
the disease. However, a carbuncle may well be characterized
by the following symptoms and signs: Like the boil, but not
398 Homoeopathic Cases from India.

wholly, it is a dermal affection, the carbuncle having a deepen-

ing and spreading disposition, the boil having always a smaller
size and somewhat conical, while that of the carbuncle is larger
and on the surface, the skin over the carbuncle being of a
flat

dusky red hue and the tumor being of a doughy feeling, fluc-
tuation not clear in carbuncle, and when discharging that of
the boil being a pus of central core, carbuncular discharge not
free, often with pores or openings on the surface of the tumor.

These points differentiate the carbuncle from the boil. A super-

ficial abscess may be mistaken by a beginner, if not by an older

practitioner, for the carbuncle.

I have seen carbuncles on the back, neck, face, lips, abdomen

and on the thigh, but in more cases on the back.

Man is more liable to this affection than woman.
I remember no case in infants; adults and old persons only

suffer from this.

I remember one case that had the carbuncle on the abdomen,

and one case on the thigh.
In treating carbuncles I have found Ars. }
Sil. }
Rhus tox. and
Sulph. doing good service.
I do not remember even a single case of failure since I have
become a convert to Homoeopathy. The difficulty and danger of
the patient have fallen much lower down with the rise of the Ho-
moeopathy. I can assure any one there would be no need of the
surgeon's knife in the treatment of a carbuncle if Homoeopathy
gets admission earlier.
I don't use any external application, poultice, etc., save water
dressing or some oil, in its treatment. Select the proper homoeo-
pathic medicine and that's all.

Not than a dozen of cases can I collect from my case-

less
book, but that would take time and may be considered super-
fluous. So to avoid all these I prefer here to present a rare case
of carbuncle. It is a case of a carbuncle on the thigh. John
Eric Erichsen, in his work on the Science and Art of Surgery,
6th edition, Vol. page 540, in describing the situations of the
I.,

carbuncle, writes he has seen them occurring on abdomen, the

shin, forearm, forehead, lips and cheeks, failing to mention the
thigh. vSo, thinking it an extreme rare case, I take pleasure to

publish it:

An old Mahonimedan lady was the patient. She came under

treatment June 7, 1S9S. She had a puncture on her left palm;
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thewound ended in suppuration. When I first saw her the
wound was suppurated, another ulcer with hard encrustation
was found on the dorsal surface of the left wrist, and the ulcer
having some pustules around.
A carbuncular swelling of a dollar size was found on the outer
side of the upper part of the lower third of the left thigh.
She was given two doses per diem; used four doses.
Silica 12
Slight improvement of the left hand and wrist followed this

treatment producing no improvement of the thigh- inflamma-

tion, instead we found bleeding therefrom. This bleeding was
not constant, but followed walking a few steps; whenever she
walked a stream of blackish blood flowed down to her heel. The
tumor was raised up, and flat on the surface, with three or
four small openings. She complained of burning of the thigh
ulcer.
Thinking the bleeding might have been owing to aggravation
of the medicinal effect of Silica, I stopped it for twenty- four
hours, but without any good resulting. So I was compelled to
change Silica for Sulphur 200, giving her one dose on the 9th
inst. No bleeding followed the admistration of the first dose
reappeared the next morning, when another dose of Sul-
till it

phur 200 was given. Palpable improvement followed the first

dose. On the 12th inst., morning, bled once more, and she was
given another dose. Haemorrhage stopped after that of the
1 2th inst. Last time I saw her, on the 15th inst., when there
was no swelling of the tumor, only a small ulcer remaining.
She took medicine and took leave of us.
Remark The situation and the bleeding give the carbuncle
:

a rarity. There is no need of the knife in the treatment of the

carbuncle if you practice Homoeopathy. Sulphur, the best of our
medicines, did not hesitate to produce a satisfactory good result
in the treatment of our present case.

Zincum. — " Very violent drawing, tearing in the middle part

of almost the long-bones, so that they have hardly any firm-
all

ness for sheer pain."

" Piercing, shooting in all the joints, shooting and tearing in
allthe limbs, extending into the finger tips, worse after getting
heated, while sitting down." Hahnemann Chro?iic Diseases.
400 Homoeopathic Cases from Italy.

HOMCEOPATHIC CASES FROM ITALY.

By Dr. Bonino. Reported by Dr. Mossa.
Translated for the HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER from the Allg. Hottl. Z
July, 1S98.

Plantago Major 6.

A series of cases lately observed go to prove that Plantago is

useful in prosopalgia supraciliaris, whether on the right or the
left side, whenever this assumes a periodical, quotidian char-
acter, beginning in the morning between 6 and S o'clock and com-
pleting its decrease by 2 p. M., accompanied with photophobia,
lachrymation and violent pains, radiating toward the temples
and the lower part of the face. The action of the remedy is
strikingly sudden and there is no relapse if it is continued
for twenty-four hours from the beginning of the attack.

Ferrum phosphoricum.
Continued observations confirm a certain analogy of this
remedy with Aconitum, although it shows a more passive char-
acter in the phenomena of congestions, especially in the lungs.
A man of 74 years, formerly a smoker and a drinker, had suf-
fered from an obstinate gastric catarrh. He, nevertheless, felt
measurably well until he was seized a few weeks ago with
respiratory troubles and cramp of the bladder. He went to bed,
and on examination showed an ar\ thmic intermittent pulse;
little, red urine; a dry cough, and total anorexia. Aurum r\,
Terebintlii7ia and Digitalis did little or no good, until on the
sixth day of the disease the cough became more troublesome,
the pulse still more irregular and the respiration assumed the
cheyne stokish form. In the lungs on both sides there was a
dulness, a light delirium during the temporary somnolence,
heat and congestion to the head, the urine scanty, turbid, al-
buminous. In view of these symptoms which threatened an
imminent catastrophe since there were no definite indications
for any particular remedy, Dr. B. thought of Ferrum phosphori-

cum and left >ix powders, one to be given every hour.

The effect was wonderful. After the second dose, the storm
was allayed; the patient quietly slept tor several hours. The
pulse \va> regular, although --till accelerated; tlie urine was dis-
charged in greater abundance, the respiration became much
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Homoeopathic Cases from Italy. 40

freer and the patient received him overjoyed and thankful.

Nor was this favorable result delusive; recovery commenced
from that day, and it only remained to bring the digestive
organs into better activity. " If any one of my colleagues, when
in similar distress, should repeat my clinical experiment, he
would very probably share my admiration for this preparation
of iron."
(We see from this that the action of Ferrum phosphoricum is

not, as stated by Schuessler, limited to the first stage of pneu-

monia. Farrington says (p. 273): " It acts on the blood-vessels,
producing a state of semi-paralysis, causing them to be dilated, as
in the second stage of inflammation. The pulse is full and softer;
not hard or tense as in Aconite. It is indicated in congestions

of any part of the body when the excretions of this part are
streaked with blood. This may occur in dysentery, in haemoptysis
and in secondary pneumonia. It is manifest that Dr. Bonino's
case contains several of these indications of Farrington,
although the pulse did not quite agree with it. In any case the
remedy removed the passive stasis in the lungs and thereby in-
creased the heart's activity and thus removed the threatening
asphyxia. — Reporter.)
Colchicum 3.

A tanner, otherwise healthy, had

thirty-two years of age,
suffered for eighteenmonths from diarrhoea of an extreme fetor,
with violent pains before every discharge, especially by night.
The customary treatment had hitherto been unsuccessful. In
view of the long duration of the ailment and of the fact that the
stools were more frequent toward morning I first prescribed
Sulp/i7ir, which caused no change. A closer inquiry showed
that the liquid stools were accompanied with copious mucus,
which looked like scrapings of the intestines. This at once led
me to Colchicum, which in two days restored the evacuations to
their normal state.

Lolium temulentum 3.

A carpenter, aged twenty- nine years, had been suffering ever

since his eighteenth year of trembling in both hands, especially
in the morning; of late also his legs began to tremble. It is re-
markable that both his father and his brother were subject to
the same ailment, while no definite cause could be indicated.
He was first given Mercurius zivus, then Agaricus, which
402 Homoeopathic Cases from Italy.

brought a partial but only transitory

improvement. Finally I
prescribed Lolium tern., which time effected a cure.
in a short

(The pathogenetic effects of this remedy which has not yet

been proved at all are only known to some degree from its ef-
fects when it has been mixed with grain and baked into bread.
It has caused chest troubles, vertigo (thence the name darnel-
grass, in German Taumellolcli) trembling, paralysis with anguish
,

and distress, vomiting, failing of the memory, blindness, head-

ache, epileptic attacks, deep sleep and insanity. The good suc-
cess obtained by its use in the case given above shows what
curative effects may be expected from it in severe affections of
the brain or spinal marrow. An Italian physician, Fantoni,
has tried it in cephalalgia, meningitis rheumatica and in
ischias.)

Causticum 30.

A lathe-worker in iron, aged eighteen, had suffered for three

years from an ever-increasing atrophy of the right arm, which
in consequence of stiffness of the joints or of weakness of the
muscles had made him unable to work. The use of Caustiaim in
rare doses restored within a year the activity of the arm and
partially removed the atrophy of the muscles. Very many and
various had been the efforts made before for its restoration.

China 3.

A woman mother of four children, had

of forty-four years, the
suffered from pleurisy with exudation a number of years ago
and a paracentesis had been made. In the year 1S91, in conse-
quence of a disease of the liver, ascites developed, which had
been removed in the polyclinic at Turin by means of China. In
the year 1897 she came again with ascites, oedema of the lower
limbs, scanty and turbid urine, an occasional vomiting of a
bitter fluid in the morning; the heart was normal, the menses
excessive. Apocymnn cannabinum increased and made clear the
urine, but the ascites would not yield; and so I wont back to
China, and this remedy, continued for two months, again cured
the disease.

Arsenicum jodatum 3 (made with ether .

A woman, aged fifty-three, without children, though she had

twice had an abortion, had been infected with syphilis when
thirty-seven years of age. After a series of morbid phenomena,
 Briefs from Practice. 403
now in the bones, then on the skin, there appeared almost all
around the neck a series of grandular swellings which passed
into suppuration and also fretted the skin, so that the muscles of
the neck lay exposed, causing unbearable, burning pains, and
discharging an extremely fetid pus. Now, all these sad and
repulsive sequelae vanished completely, while the skin was per-
fectly restored, simply by the internal and external use of
Arsenicum jodatum for five months.
(These are excellent achievements, filling us with joy, and
giving honor to the Homoeopathy of Italy and must secure for
it an ever-increasing extension. —
Reporter.)

BRIEFS FROM PRACTICE.

By Dr. H. Goullon.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Leipz. Pop. Z. fuer

Horn., June, 1898.

1. Cures from Cina.

If we had as specific remedies for all diseases as we have for

incontinence of urine our practice would be a very easy one. I

would not say that all forms of this ailment, so troublesome for
all who come into contact with such youthfnl patients, may be
cured by the remedy in question, but surely most of them, be-
fore another is indicated. This disease, which is to be consid-
ered as a weakness of the bladder, is often found in scrofulous
children. With such children we often find swellings of the
tonsils, also the lately discovered "tumefaction of the gland of
the fauces," also adenoid tumefactions (polypi) in the nostrils
To this circumstance incontinence of urine has been ascribed,
i. e., to the defective respiration (snoring) resulting thence,
whereby the blood is said to become surcharged with carbonic
acid, so that a poisoning of the blood from carbonic oxide gas
would ensue, resulting in a partial paralysis of the sphincter of
the bladder, thus causing this incontinence. This hypothesis
has, however, a very unsafe foundation. For the children
affected may be scrofulous, or they may not.
More frequently may be found attended
this particular ailment
with the presence of worms, and to the irritation from the worms
404 Briefs from Practice.

as the cause I ascribe the efficaciousness of Cina in this ail-

ment.
As a case in point, I quote from a letter dated on the 18th of
last February from Mr. K.:
"As you may remember, I consulted you by letter dated, the
23 ultimo., about my little daughter's wetting the bed. I can

now state that her ailment has been very considerably improved.
By day, as well as by night, she can better control her micturi-
tion. She usually goes to bed at 7 p. m. and needs not be taken
up before 10 p. m. to attend to micturition. We have only to
wake her once more during the night for the purpose. I
would request you to send me another supply of medicine, so that
the ailment may be radically removed. The medicine sent
lasted till to-day."
The prescription had been Cina and, indeed, Cina 1. Even
the centesimal attenuation selected for this case (two drops of
the tincture to ninety-eight drops of alcohol) shows its strength
both by its smell and its color. Its smell is so peculiar that it
can scarcely be mistaken for any other medicine. The color is,
even in the first centesimal scale, so intensely yellow that a
minute quantity adhering to the leather case of the bottle shows
a color between green and yellow (almost the color of the yolk
of an egg); it also stains the paper in which the sugar of milk
moistened with Cina 1 was enclosed.
In the case of scrofulous children itis well to also give them

some Calcarea card., which will contribute indirectly to their

power of resisting the weakness of the bladder and even the irri-
tation that may be caused by worms.

2. Chronic Ailments.

There are two opportunities of strongly confirming the faith

in the positive action ofhomoeopathic doses. The first is the
cure of chronic diseases by such doses, and the second, the
medicinal aggravations produced by such doses. It is all the

more interesting and instructive to meet with these two ele-

ments in one and the same case, as occurred in the following in-
stance:
A gentleman of the most vigorous age, broad-shouldered, tall
and of great staying qualities, in a fatiguing calling, involving
long and arduous journeys, finally began to show the effect of a
mode of life calling for such an expenditure of vigor. He
 Briefs from Practice. 405
began to look unhealthy, rather sallow and pale, suffered from
vertigo, nervous palpitation of the heart, convulsive conditions,
and for five years he and pressure in the left side.
felt stitches
Some time before, owing newly built house, he
to living in a
had suffered from rheumatism, showing itself mainly in the left
foot. Vertigo usually appeared after lengthy foot-tours. There
were no physical symptoms of the heart, except a somewhat
languid beat, as is apt to appear in neurasthenia. A physician
had given a diagnosis of enlargement of the heart, but without
taking the trouble of investigating the case by means of per-
cussion and auscultation.
The first consultation took place October nth of last year,
and the second on January 23 of this year, and I had the satis-
faction of hearing my patient report considerable progress. Pal-
pitation and oppression have disappeared, "a stupendous appe-
tite" had set in (this shows that this had before been lacking).
He was no more troubled with vertigo. As he had not changed
his mode of living, the homoeopathic medicine must have
effected this change. A peculiarity worth noting is, that he
had felt quite considerable aggravations from taking the medi-
cine. Usually I give a different dose, but owing to the continual
journeys of my patient I had directed him not to dissolve the
powders but to take the whole dose at once; to be more exact:
four drops of the medicine used were dropped on sugar of milk,
and this was to be taken at one time, one powder every third
evening. The powders contained Phosphorus and Calcarea carb.
The patient stated that he always felt an aggravation imme-
diately after taking the powder. He calls it a peculiar effect.
Once he felt just as if a string had broken inside of him. Self-
deception with him is out of the question, as this occurred re-
peatedly, and the gentleman is by no means hypochondriac.
He had really no time for such indulgences. The conundrum
maybe solved by remembering the "highly sensitive natures"
observed by Reichenbach, or the "reacting individuals" reported
by Jousset, i. <?., the morbidly exaggerated reactive faculty, in-
finitely sublimed of certain —
we can hardly say favored indi- —
viduals when exposed to an irritation that others pass by with-
out observing it.
We ought to mention here also his simultaneous deliverance
from another ailment. When he first consulted me he had also
complained about one of his ears. For weeks he had suffered
406 Briefs from Practice.

from "a fearful earache" and hardness of hearing. An inspec

tion of the externalmeatus auditorius had shown an inconsid-
erable accumulation of cerumen. I thought it best, however,

to make a few warm injections. They helped little or nothing,

but had one noticeable effect. Even during the injection, the
patient was very disagreeably affected by the proceeding, nor
did his hearing improve. But on the second day all these
symptoms had disappeared, i. e., there was ?io more earache and
the hearing was restored. Who will explain this? Did it require
also in this case a homoeopathic aggravation of symptoms Was
it already the effect of the medicine — independent of the injec-
tion? The medicine was Phosphorus. I can merely state that
this is not the first time that I succeeded by the mere injection
of lukewarm water in obtaining such an effect, even in cases
where there was no accumulation of cerumen. But we must be
careful when patients complain of a feeling of fulness; we must
not suppose that they can be freed therefrom by injection
merely. A careful examination of the tympanum may under
such circumstances lead to a diagnosis of otitis interna. This
frequent disease, which leads to the perforation of the tympanum
(either artificial), has a pathognomic sign:
spontaneous or
striking hardness of heari?ig together with the sensation as if
something would break through outward in the meatus audi-
torius, and as if this was stopped up.

3. An Indication for Bellis.

Bellis Perennis, our common
seldom used homoeopath-
daisy, is
ically, Von e. g., does not mention it at all in his Man-
Gerhardt,
ual of Therapy. On the other hand, it has found admirers
among our English colleagues, and one of the most excellent of
these English physicians, Dr. Burnett, in his work, " Tumours
of the Breast" and their medical treatment, calls attention, in
speaking of the successful treatment of a tumor in the left breast,
to a useful indication. On page 101 he remarks: "I would here
give an important clinic hint with respect to Bellis. It is of fre-
quent use when the symptom is: Wakes early in the morning
and cannot get off again." This phenomenon is frequently
found, and strange to say it is usually connected with abdominal
troubles. So also in the above mentioned case we read: "The
chest sound; the abdominal tumor still
is isvery large and the
patient has altogether the appearance of a woman with child."
 Homoeopathic Antidotes in Cases of Poisoning .
407
After taking Bellis 1 she sleeps well and feels easier in the abdomen.
Dr. Burnett continues. "In cases of pregnancy and of tumors of
the uterus (also in enlargement of the heart) Bellis gives great
relief, i. e., it removes the effects of mechanical pressure." I can
only confirm that also have observed that when Bellis was
I

given owing to such an indication, the tumor existing in the

chest considerably decreased in size.

HOMCEOPATHIC ANTIDOTES IN CASES OF POIS-

ONING.
Ay Ad. Alf. Michaelis.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from. Mediz. Monatsh. fuer

Horn. u. Allg. Heilkunde, June, 1898.

An exact knowlege of antidotes is important, yea, absolutely

necessary, to the homoeopathic practitioner if he uses so called

double remedies, or remedies taken in alternation; for without

such knowledge it might happen that the one remedy may anti-
dote the effects of the other, and his patient, in spite of his taking
much medicine, really would receive no treatment at all.
But it is not our intention to treat here of antidotes in this
sense, but only to adduce some cases in which the prescription
of some medicine or other has led to a more or less dangerous
case of poisoning, requiring a quickly acting remedy and ener-
getic treatment. The medicines acting thus must be of such
an aggressive nature that of themselves they are hostile to the
human organism. Prominent in this class is Mercury (quick-
silver); on account of its specific and many-sided effects this
remedy is used very frequently, but, we are sorry to say, in
large, poisoning doses. There is then frequently allotted to
Homoeopathy the difficult but useful task of curing chronic
poisonings from mercury, the so-called mercurialism or
hydrargyrosis, and thus to restore what others have spoiled. It
is fortunate that Homoeopathy possesses many an excellent arm

for this warfare. The chief enemy of Mercury is Iodine and

various preparations of Sulphur, which are also used by allo-
paths for this purpose.
We may enumerate among these: Pure Sulphur, Antimonium
sulphuricum, Hepar sulphur, calc, Iodine and Kali jodatum. The
latter is the chief remedy in mercurial salivation which gener-
ally introduces and accompanies the acute stage. Mercurial
4o8 Saw Palmetto.

fever may become a very threatening phenomenon, quickly re-

ducing the patient's strength; its specific remedy is Arg. nitr.
If both these symptoms are simultaneously present it is often
well to alternate these two remedies. Acid, nitric, is much
lauded in cases which the mucous membranes of the throat
in
are especially involved in this morbid process. I have not,

however, found it effective in such a case. Dr. Zopfy, the late

Swiss physician, recommends for this purpose Dulcamara observ- t

ing that bittersweet has proved a most excellent antidote to the

action of mercury o?i the mucus membranes. Auram (gold) and
Mezereum have also been recommended, especially in mercurial
diseases of the bones.
A very aggravated state of poisoning is also caused by lead,
which chiefly manifests itself as lead-colic. Certain pursuits
(those of compositors, printers and workers in earthen ware)
are especially exposed to this danger. Aluminum is the nat-
ural and best antidote to Plumbum, and is therefore also able to
cure the much-feared lead-colic. Prof. J. T. Kent, of Philadel-
phia,makes the following very appropriate remark about this:
" The two metals are so similar, one to the other, that they can
not stay in the same house, i. <?., one antidotes the action of
the other."
Invalidism caused by Arsenic or Quinine is cured by Ipecacu-
anha, so also poisoning from Morphine.
Of late Strychnine has been found to be an antidote to Curare
(arrow-poison.)
Natmm perma?iganicum has been lately used by allopaths with
good success in cases of acute poisoning with Phosphorus.
Every poison has some natural antipode in nature, and where
we do not know this counterpart it is merely a sign of the in-
completeness of human knowledge. Often some mere accident
has led to the discovery of such an antidotal relation, as, in-
deed, to manv other cures.

SAW PALMETTO.
"Better is the reproof of a friend than the kisses of an enemy."
runs an old and truthful adage, hence I trust that no Kentuckian
in this society will shoot me on the spot when I say that a few

years ago, when this society met in Louisville, a very short

paper was read on Saw Palmetto, giving a very meager account
 Saw Palmetto. 409

of its application in certain forms of urinary troubles. And I

blush to record the fact, the writer excepted, not a single

member present knew enough about
the drug to discuss it at all
in an intelligent and instructive manner. Before that meeting
I made the statement that saw palmetto, in my hands, given in

ten-drop doses before meals and at bedtime, had cured a hundred

cases of sexual weakness in men, when given according to the
following indications: Depression of spirits, lack of mental vigor,
a general letting down of the nervous and muscular system,
associated with an enlarged prostate, with throbbing, aching and
dull pains, weakened sexual power and loss of thrill.
Saw Palmetto in impotency, when given as stated, will never
disappoint you. In cystitis and irritable urethral troubles in
females, which has been produced hy her soft fingers lingering
you will find it an excellent
too long in caressing the clitoris,
remedy given internally and by injections of ten drops to the
ounce of warm water.
In reflexed headaches, from ovarian and uterine irritations or
disease, it ranks with sepia, sanguinaria, bell., etc. The patient
will complain of sharp pain on top of head, running down and
across the forehead, worse in right temple; with this condition
there will be pain across the lower part of the back, heaviness of
the abdomen and stinging pains in right ovary. Its indications
in threatened or mammary abscess are: Glands feel sore, very
tender; sharp, cutting, radiating pain in the gland; nipples sore.
In abscess of the breast the discharge is creamy in color, slightly
brownish, with a faint odor as of starch. Apply tincture on
brown sugar locally, and give internally 6th to 30th attenuation.
The drug has a wide range of action in ovaritis, endometritis,
flexions and prolapsus uteri. Its indications are: sharp pains in
right ovary, running down to thigh; breast sore and tender; pain
in temples and forehead, worse in right side, in afternoon and
after-part of night. An uncomfortable feeling all over the body,
with stinging pains in the abdomen, in front, low down; slight
pains in the top part of the head; and severe stinging pains in
right ovary. Discharge from vagina yellowish white, smelling
like semen.
As Aconite has been fitly termed "the homoeopathic lancet."
so Saw Palmetto has been named by me "the homoeopathic tissue
builder," for it is marvelous in its action when given to the un-

naturally thin person. And a person who is lean because of

4-io Medical Examinations.

some grave chronic disease can gain from ten to forty pounds
by the use of saw palmetto. This is true of persons who have
been thin during life and are descended from lean ancestors.
It improves the appetite promptly and effectually and increases
the weight very quickly. It increases the strength of weak
debilitated, anaemic persons more quickly and thoroughly than
any preparation of iron, quinine, hypophosphites or cod liver
oil. It invigorates the digestive processes quicker and better
than pepsin or caroid. In this condition it is best to begin with
ten-drop doses in one- third of a glass of water before meals and
at bedtime, rapidly increasing the amount until the dose reaches
two or three spoonfuls
in a glassful of water four times a day.
however, safe to give it for this purpose in females,
It is not,
as upon them it quickly shows a marked pathological effect,
producing many unpleasant symptoms of uterine and ovarian
origin.
This has been given to you for your most careful consideration,
hoping that each of you will make yourself well acquainted with
its wide range of action by consulting my proving of the drug in

1892 "Transactions of the American Institute," and also a care-

ful reading of the monograph on saw palmetto by my friend,
Dr. E. M. Hale, of Chicago. —
W. Scott Mullins, M. D., Louisville,
Ky., in American Hom&opathist.

MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.
(The following very sensible remarks are by Dr. Chas. O'Dono-
von, of Baltimore, in the Charlotte Medical Journal. Examining
Boards everywhere should read them.)
At this time of the year hundreds of young men, who have
spent from three to seven years in preparing themselves for the
practice of medicine as a life work, come before the various
licensing boards of the different States for permission to prac-
tice. Let us suppose that they have worked faithfully in their
preliminary training, as well as in the medical schools from
which they have received their diplomas. What kind of treat-
ment have they to expect from the State Boards who are the
courts of final appeal ?

We must confess that in every instance the examinations by

the board seem harder than fairness would require. Many of
 MediM Examinations. 411

the questions would puzzle an expert to answer, and too often

we have noticed catch questions. This is not fair to the ap-
plicant. When a graduate of a reputable medical college comes
before an examining board he has a right expect every op-
to
portunity to prove himself able to practice medicine, and should
not be compelled to pass such an examination as would probably
stump nine-tenths of the physicians in the State. Take, for ex-
ample, the published questions of the North Carolina State
Board, and let any physician, no matter what amount of ex-
perience he may have had, try to answer them one by one, and
we are sure that few could pass successfully. On Anatomy, on
Physiology and on Chemistry the questions are fair; on Ob-
stetrics, on Gynecology, on Practice and on Materia Medica the
questions are very comprehensive and often very difficult to
answer satisfactorily in a written examination. The questions
on Surgery would require a book to answer properly, covering
as they do nearly the entire surgery in one way or
field of
another. In Pediatrics we two questions, one a very
find but
good one, but the other evidently a catch question that would
trip nearly every one. Very few physicians could describe
" Noma " without recourse to the text books; it is a very rare
disease, and far more rarely described by that title. It seems
to us unfair to make half of the examination on this branch
hinge on that catch question. We have noticed similar instances
in other examination papers, but this comes closer home to us,
and so we consider it most worthy of mention.
Let the Boards treat the applicants with fairness. It is not a
criminal offence to want to earn a living by the practice of
medicine; and it is a very serious matter for a man who has
spent all that he could save in his endeavor to get his diploma
to be told that he cannot practice his profession because he does
not know all of the refinements and technicalities that the board
examinations too often call for. We admit that the profession is
overcrowded; we admit also that there are too many schools
many of which give diplomas to unworthy candidates; these can
readily be detected b)' much less rigorous examinations than are
now in vogue. We wish too to uphold the dignity and authority
of the State Boards, but we feel compelled to warn those bodies
that they can injure themselves by being to rigorous and exact-
ing, and so bring into discredit an institution that should work
for the good of the whole profession.
412 Olive Oil i)i the Treatment of Hepatic Colic.

OLIVE OIL IN THE TREATMENT OF HEPATIC

COLIC.
Dr. Barth (Semaine Medicate, No. 56, page 441, 1897) states
that the work of Chauffard and Dupre in France, and Rosenberg
in Germany, have established beyond a doubt the therapeutical
value of large doses of olive oil in hepatic colic, and have partly
elucidated the method of its action. When a considerable vol-
ume of olive oil, say one hundred or two hundred cubic centi-
metres, is introduced into the stomach of a patient suffering

from hepatic colic, the stomach throws it off and the spasmodic
contractions cause the liquid to spread over the whole surface
of the stomach and a part is driven into the duodenum; thus the
lubricating action of the oil makes itself felt over the entire irri-
tated surface. Willemin and others have noted cases when this
remedy acted like a charm, and almost as quickly as an injec-
tion of Morphine. When the oil is once in the duodenum it
comes in direct contact with the orifice of the ampulla of Vater.
If the passages are permeable, it may penetrate into the bile duct,
but if a calculus blocks up the way capillarity comes into play,
and the mucous membrane absorbs the oil and conducts it to the
foreign body. According to Chauffard and Dupre, the oil can-
not dissolve the calculus. Brockbank, by employing a bath of
oil at the temperature of the body, has seen a calculus of 1.6

grams lose 1.21 grams in weight in four days, and in another

case he has seen a loss of forty-four centigrams in the same
time. While the oil remains in the canal it is submitted to the
action of the digestive juices and is resolved into fatty acids and
glycerin; a part is incompletely saponified and is expelled in the

form of small concretions which are often mistaken for calculi,

but they are only fatty matter, rich in palmitin and palmitic
acid. This digestive process is accompanied by an abundant
secretion of bile, which commences about three-quarters of an
hour after the ingestion of the oil and persists for about three
hours. Rosenberg thinks that this phenomenon is reflex.
Stewart and Ferrand think, on the other hand, that it is due to
the passage through the liver of the glycerin and the fatty acids
formed and absorbed in the intestine. However this may be,
the abundant secretion of bile and its passage through the
biliary duct favor the progress of the calculus toward the intes-
 —

Cistus Canadensis. 413

tine. This hyper-secretion also cleanses the intrahepatic pas-

sages and expels the mucus, epithelial masses, and dark bile.
The usual dose is one hundred and fifty or two hundred grams,
taken before breakfast in the morning; a few drops of essence of
anisemake the oil pleasanter to take. Medical Recorder.

Some time ago, when making a study of Cistus Canadeyisis , I

was struck with one characteristic developed in the provings.

The common names of Cistus, as you know, are " Rockrose,"
" Ice plant," and " Frost weed." Hering quotes from the
United States Dispensatory this description : "It grows in low,
dry, mica-slate hills and serpentine rocks. It is abundant at

the foot of Pine Rock, New Haven, in the barren plains, and
seems to be dependent on the presence of talc (magnesia). It
is said
"— and here is the point to which I wish to draw partic-
ular attention
— " that in the months of November and Decem-
ber these plants send out near the roots broad, thin, curved ice-
crystals, about an inch in breadth, which wilt in the day and
are renewed in the morning."
Now, you may ask, what possible connection can there be be-
tween the physicial appearances or peculiarities of a plant and
the effect on the human organism of the same plant after it has
been macerated with alcohol or boiled down into a decoction?
That I cannot answer; all I can say is that in the provings of
Cistus a sensation of coldness is one of the commonest symp-
—
toms met with. Here, for example, is a selection: " Forehead
cold, and sensation of coolness inside forehead, in a very warm
room; cold feeling in nose; sensation of coldness of tongue,
larynx, and trachea; saliva is cool; breath feels cold; empty and
cool eructations; cool feeling in stomach before and after eating:
cold feeling in whole abdomen." It may be said that sensations

of coldness are common to scores of medicines, and that is true.

But coldness of the tongue, of the saliva, and of the breath are
not common symptoms; and I cannot help feeling that there is
some occult connection between the electric properties of the
plant which favor the production of ice about it, and the chilling
effect of the drug on the body when taken. At any rate, I put
down in my private materia medica "unusual sensations of
coldness "as a keynote for the use of Cistus; and curiously
enough, I did not have long to wait before an opportunity arose
 —

414 Let Him Get Well

for testing it. A patient came to me about that time complain-

ing of coldness of the whole left side of the body, and she
feared that paralysis was coming on. I prescribed Cistus, and
there was soon an end to the one-sided coldness, and the fear of
paralysis along with it.

The rule " Let likes be treated by likes," as we generally un-

derstand it, between drug effects and dis-
refers to the likeness
ease effects on the symptom plane. But I do not see why we
should not extend the meaning of the rule and include within
the sphere of the correspondence plant or drug appearances and
organ- or disease appearances. If we take this view of it, the
doctrine of signatures may fairly be brought within the four
walls of the homoeopathic formula. JolviH. Clarke, M. D.

LET HIM GET WELL.

Dr. W. W. Keene, of Philadelphia, in discussing appen-
dicitis at the Denver meeting of the A. M. A., concluded his re-
marks as follows:
I protest against the use of opium, except in rare cases, as it

has a tendency to mask the symptoms of the disease and leads

the patient to the grave. I protest against the argument of Dr.

Niles, that every case ought to be operated upon and the ap-
pendix is never to be left. Out of 300 post-mortems on as many
bodies itwas found that 100 of the individuals had had appen-
dicitis at some time in their lives and had all recovered from the
disease. They all died of some other disease. I challenge the
assertion that through surgical operations all but two per cent,
of cases can be saved. I challenge any operator in the room to

take 100 well persons and operate upon them without killing
more than two per cent. We all fail, gentlemen. I do not
know why, but we all fail. I do not believe in operating on all
cases of appendicitis. I'd rather have a live man with an ap-
pendix than a dead one without one. (Applause.) I do not
believe with the witty Frenchman that no case is complete with-
out a post- mortem. (Laughter.) If the patient is no worse
after forty-eight hours of observation, let him alone; let him get
well."

Blatta Orientalif in Asthma with Emphysema. Mr. — C. K.,

thirty-nine. Employed at post office. Had suffered for five
years. Has been treated for two years, to my knowledge, with-
 —

Gelsem in ))i-Headache. 415

%
out any benefit. Main remedies were Phos /pec, Rhus.*.
, I

then saw him, and after physical examination recorded the fol-
lowing: Clinical symptoms: Heaviness on the chest on lying,
< stooping. Dyspnoea. Hard cough
in morning on getting up.
Cough after sleep, > by dry and sunshine. Wheezing;
air
heard even at a distance. Expectoration white, lumpy > by
hot drinks. Remarks: I began with Ipec.*, which relieved for
a month. Kept him on it (6th and 3d) for two months. Five
months later gave him Blatta 6th, and he returned in about
two weeks much better, and says the medicine is "grand."
Gave him more at intervals for slight relapses. Met him last
month and he is practically cured. Now nearly four years.
Dr. John Arschagouni in North Am. Jour, of Horn.

GELSEMIUM-HEADACHE.
By Dr. Berlin in Guben.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from the Leipziger Pop.
Z. fuer Horn., Aug., 1898.

Miss von P., about 36 years old, has been suffering ever since
spring from a chronic headache, which last week came every
day. It begins in the morning as a pressure in the occiput a?id
neck, then gradually draws up over the head until it reaches the
forehead and remains fixed over the eyes. Here the patient feels
the pain pressing like a hundredweight. At the same time her
head has a benumbed feeling and she is often incapacitated
from thinking. The head is hot, the face red, and this the more
according to the violence of the pain. The appetite is change-
able; the patient also suffers from venous congestions of the
abdomen and from haemorrhoids, which, however, cause her no
trouble. During the headache there are frequent visual disturb-
ances, everything before her eyes becoming black, and for a time
she sees nothing at all. Toward evening the pains gradually
cease. Since last September she has suffered much from cold
feet. In the course of the summer she had repeatedly taken
allopathic medicines, including Quinine, Phenacetin and Migr<z-
nin. These remedies had occasionally brought some slight
temporary relief, but the next day the pain returned all the
same. The general health had always been disturbed for some
days by these remedies; there appeared great weariness, buzzing
 6

41 Cl hem iu m-Headai lie.

of the ears, lack of appetite, nausea, etc., so that not much good
resulted from the use of these remedies, and the patient finally
altogether dispensed with the taking of allopathic medicines.
She had before this learned to know the efficacy of homoeopathic
remedies, and accordingly she then came to me for help. On
the 4th of September, 1897, ln accordance with her symptoms, I
gave the patient Gelsemium D. 3, giving daily four doses of five
drops each. To remove at the same time the coldness of the feet,
I ordered her to take warm foot-baths, and foot steam baths of
fifteen to twenty minutes' duration, and cold foot-baths for one
to two minutes. When her feet were cold, a hot application,
when they were hot, a cold foot bath, once a day.
On the nth of November the lady consulted me again on ac-
count of some other ailment, stating that as soon as she had
taken the Gelsemium her headache was ameliorated and on the
third day had entirely disappeared and had not since returned.
Gelsemium, or the yellow jessamine, is a North American
climber and occupies a prominent place among the more recent
homoeopathic remedies. The headache to which it corresponds
is especially of the hyperaemic kind, i. <?., they are due to super-

abundance of blood in the brain; I shall not here decide whether

this hyperaetnia is of the active or passive kind. In headache
we may compare this remedy with Aconite, Bclladon?ia, Cimici-
fuga, Glonoin., Nux vom., Sanguinaria, Iris versic., etc. All
these remedies have the peculiarity, that they cause congestion
of blood to the head.
The SEAT is especially the neck
of the Gels( ??iium-hea.da.che
,

and the occiput. Here the pains generally originate and then
pass over the head into the forehead and settle over the eyes.
Owing to the specific action oiGelseminm on the eyes, especially
on the nervous oculomotorius (heaviness or paresis of the upper
eyelids, dilatation of the pupil, diplopia), also the eyes may be
affected. There are visual disturbances, objects appear to be
swimming about, things turn black before the eyes and the
pains are aggravated by moving the eyelids. In Spigelia we
find a like direction of the pains, while in Thuja the pains
draw from the face toward the occiput; both of these remedies,
however, correspond more to rheumatic pains. The kind of
pains must be described as benumbing and as heaviness, full-
ness, and as a dull, stupefying pressure. We must not in

general lay too great weight 00 the variety of the pains in the
 Therapeutical Notes. 417

therapy of headache, though its indication may become very

valuable when it is pronounced. In many cases there is no
definite kind of a pain and it changes frequently; often it is

quite difficult to describe the variety of the pain in a manner

precise enough to be a guide in the selection of a remedy.
Often it is said that the Gelsemium- headache increases and

diminishes with the height of the sun, as in Glonoinum\ an

alleviation of it is said to be introduced frequently as in other —
—
Gelsemium- ailments by the copious passage of clear urine
{Aconite, Szlicea, Veratnun alb., Ignatia). Also in nervous
headache (megrim) with the symptoms given above (hyperaemia),
Gelse?nium has often been used with success.

THERAPEUTICAL NOTES.
By Leopold Grossberger-Bromberg, M. D.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from the Leipziger Pop. Z.
fuer Horn., Aug., 1S98.
" Arzneischatz'"
(1) In his (12 ed., 1878, p. 161.) Dr. Hirschel
states that Homoeopathy gained very many through the
friends
success of suitable remedies in toothache. According to my
opinion the success of Homoeopathy in curing the so-called Crusta
lactea (milk crust, or impetigo) in infants, an ailment appear-
ing even while nursing, sometimes only a few weeks after birth
continuing for an indefinite, often a very lengthy period, much
more cogently serves to convince doubters or opponents of Homoe-
opathyof its efficacy. For in many cases of toothache, where car-
the cause, even the most suitable homoeopathic
ies of the teeth is
remedies leave us in the lurch and only a scientific local, i. <?., a
dentist's treatment, can cause the pains to disappear quickly and
permanently. In the milk crusts of infants, however, according
to my experience, striking effects will be seen in by far the great-
er number of cases, even within fourteen days, by the use of the
following remedies: Give for a week twice a day (morning and
evening) Lycopodium 3D. trituration, about the size of a pea, and
in the second week give Graphites 3 D. trituration in the same
manner. The infant should be kept from scratching the itching
skin of its face, else a relapse will take place.
I have also several times seen a striking improvement even
after 6-8 days by using Rhustox. 3 D. attenuation, once or twice
418 Therapeutical NoU

a day, i drop in a teaspoonful of water. I have not, however, for

several years used the 3 D. attenuation with infants less than a
year old, because in giving the remedy to an infant of 6 months,
in such a case, even after the second dose of Rhus tox. 3 D. with-

out any cause that could be assigned, and without any demon-
strable disease of an internal organ, a fever of 104 set in; this
so frightened the parents that they refused to continue the homoeo-
pathic treatment. I do not think it quite impossible that the
Rhus 3 D. so affected the skin of the infant as to have as its

consequence the abnormally heightened temperature. In Dewey's

"Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia Medica," p. 115, we read of
Rhus that "it affects violently the skin, the mucous membranes
and the fibrous tissues." Lycopodium and Graphites also affect
the healthy skin if they are used for some time in material
doses, as has been shown by the provings of Hahnemann and his
pupils; on these provings, indeed, the therapeutic effect of these
two remedies in minute homoeopathic doses in various chronic
cutaneous ailments rest; but this is not the case in as high a
degree in these remedies as in Rhus, also Calcarea earbonica 3-6 D.
trituration, every other day a dose the size of a pea, is a remedy
not to be undervalued in milk crust, as in all eruptions on the
face and head of children (and of adults).
(2) In convulsions resembling those of epilepsy and recurring
every day with a young married woman, who owing to an un-
happy fate had for two years lived separately from her husband,
but who had two children, I found Zincum metall. 6 D. trituration
and Magnesia phosphorica ( Schuessler) 6 D. trituration, given
alternately every day twice a dose of each, of the size of a pea,
to give splendid results. Two relapses, the one caused by mental
emotion, the other by an error in diet, quickly passed by on re-
peating these remedies. Zincum metall, is the only homoeopathic
"
remedy of which Heinigke, in his Handbuch do homaopathischen
Arzneiwirkungslehrc" states that "it is par excellence a nerve-

remedy, for it not only influences the functions of the brain-cells

but also of the spinal marrow and of the ganglia (f. e. the nerve- }

centers of the vegetative nervous system ). And of Magnesia

phosphorica Schuessler states (24 German ed, of his Abridged
Therapy, p. 15) that it is contained in the blood-corpuscles, in

the muscles, in the brain and spinal marrow, in the nerves, Ihe
bones and tin- teeth. A frequent use of Zincum metallicum 6 1).
trituration in various ailments of the nervous system has convinc-
 Book Notices. 419

ed me of the great truth respecting this remedy enunciated in

Nos. 3-4 of this journal (1898), p. 32, namely, that "Zincutn and
its various preparations hardly ever remove nervous disturb-

ances in a gradual manner, but either remove them quickly or

not at all."

BOOK NOTICES.
Ophthalmic Diseases and Theraputics. By A. B. Norton,
M. D. With Ninety Illustrations and eighteen Chromo-
Lithographic Figures. Second Edition. Revised and En-
larged. 647 pages. 8vo. Cloth, $5.00; by mail, $5.35.
Half Morocco, $6.00; by mail, $6.35. Philadelphia: Boericke
& Tafel. 1898.

Ever since the Ophthalmic Therapeutics, by Allen and Norton,

appeared in 1876 the name Norton has been almost synonymous
with the word " ophthalmology " in homoeopathic circles. The
original work by Dr. G. S. Norton and Dr. Allen, of which this
book may be said to be the lineal descendant, had 269 pages and
in the next edition 342 pages. When Dr. A. B. Norton took
up his brother's work he enlarged its scope to include ophthal-

mic diseases as well as the homoeopathic therapeutics of those

diseases, a change, the wisdom of which was fully shown by the
remarkable popularity of the new work which was published in
1892. And now, after a lapse of six years, and with ripened ex-
perience, Dr. Norton has given us the second edition of his
work, enlarged by a hundred pages and in every respect a
thoroughly modern and a complete work on the diseases of the
eye and their therapeutics. It has no rival among works by
homoeopathic writers and no superior in its field among those of
the old school.

An Abridged Therapy. Manual for the Biochemical Treat-

ment of Disease. By Dr. Med. Schuessler, of Oldenburg.
Twenty-fifth edition, in part re-written.Translated by Prof.
Louis H. Tafel. 178 pages. Cloth, $1.00; by mail, $1.07.
Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 1898.
Twenty-five editions in the German attests the wide spread
interest in Dr. Schuessler's life, work and the publishers of this
420 Book Notices,

authorized translation were fortunate in securing what will be,

alas, the last one from the pen of the good old doctor, who,
after revising the lastproof sheets, was gathered unto his
fathers. Needless to say that any one at all interested in bio-
chemistry, or in the " biochemic remedies" cannot well afford
to be without the book on which the whole science is built.
This translation met with the hearty and cheerful approval of
Dr. Schuessler who was glad to have what he wrote given to the
English speaking world as he wrote it.

Essentials of Homoeopathic Therapeutics. Being a Quiz

Compend of the Application of Homoeopathic Remedies to
Diseased States. A
Companion to the Esse?itiats of Homoeo-
pathic Materia Medica arranged and compiled especially for
the use of Students of Medicine by W. A. Dewey, M. D.
Second edition. Revised and Enlarged. 285 pages. Cloth,
$1.50; by mail, $1.59. Flexible morocco, $1.75: by mail,
$1.84. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 1898.

Probably no more popular quiz compeud though, by the —

—
way, it is the only one on homoeopathic therapeutics was ever
published than this of Dewey's, and the host of '98 students
will assuredly heartily welcome this new edition, the second,
revised and enlarged, that is now at their service. It will also
be found, as was the first edition, a great help to physicians in
practice. The book takes up the various diseases by name,
alphabetically beginning with "abscess" and ending with "yel-
low fever," and puts the student through a course of questions
on the therapeutics of each that is very complete. It gives the
points, like its companion volume, The Essentials of Materia
Medica, that the student must know to pass his examinations,
and gives them in a clear, yet terse manner. The second edition
has been increased over the first by nineteen pages, and like its
predecessor is blessed by an excellent index.

The Plague and its Prophylactic and Curative Treatment. By

Dr. D. N. Kay, M. D. Calcutta. 1S9X. Paper, 32 pages.

Happily, the subject of this pamphlet does not especially in-

terest the people ofEurope or America, but should any of them
want to understand this tearful disease Dr. Ray's work will be
 Book Notices. 421
of great use. It is to Dr. Ray that the world is indebted for the
great remedy for asthma, Blatta orientalis, which was brought
out in the pages of the Recorder in 1890.

Atlas and Epitome of Operative Surgery. By Dr. Otto

Zuckerkandl, Privat Docent in the University of Vienna.
Authorized translation from the German. Edited by J.
Chalmers DaCosta, M. D., Clinical Professor of Surgery in Jef-
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, with 24 Colored Plates
and 217 Illustrations in the text. Price, $3.00 net. Philadel-
phia: W. B. Saunders. 189S.
Another of the Medicinische Handatlanten series, though not
so profusely illustrated with colored plates as the others. Sur-
gery is receiving considerable attention by the Saunders's press
as this and DaCosta' s work show.

Atlas of Syphilis and the Venereal Diseases, including a

Brief Treatise on the Pathology and Treatment. By. Prof.
Dr. Franz Mracek, of Vienna. Authorized translation from
the German. Edited by L. Bolton Bangs, M. D., with 71
colored plates. Price, $3.50 net. Philadelphia: W. B.
Saunders. I898.
It is needless to say more of this book than it is another of
the world famous Lehmann Medicinische Handatlanten series
that Mr. Saunders is translating and printing by authority. The
text is terse and 'to the point, but of course the chief value of
the series lies in the illustrations, colored and true to life. Next
to seeing the disease the best idea may be had of its appearance
by means of these fine plates.

A Manual of Modern Surgery, General and Operative. By

John Chalmers DaCosta, M. D., Clinical Professor of Surgery,
Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia, etc. With 386 Illus-
trations. 911 pages. Cloth, $4.00. Half morocco, $5.00.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1898.
Although not so stated on the title page, this is a second
edition of DaCosta's work. The purpose of the author "was
to makebook that would stand between the text book and the
a
compend," a purpose in which he has fully succeeded. The il-
422 Book Notices.

lustrations are not very elaborate, but are practical, mostly line
work showing surgical procedures.

A Text-Book Upon the Pathogenetic Bacteria for Students

of Medicine and Physicians.
By Joseph McFarland, M. D.,
Professor of Pathology in the Medico-Chirurgical College,
Philadelphia, etc. With 134 Illustrations. Second Edition.
Revised and Enlarged. 497 pages. Cloth, (2.50 oet. Phila-
delphia: W. B. Saunders. 1898.
We have always had the idea that Bacteriology made more
noise in the medical world than its importance justified a good —
deal more noise. Writes Dr. McFarland: "Although syphilis
is almost as well known as it is wide-spread, we have net yet

discovered for it a definite specific cause." Judging from other

diseases of which it is claimed that a definite specific cause has
been discovered, it will make no special difference in the death
rate, whether such cause is ever discovered. Dr. McFarland's
work ranks, however, among the very first on the sobject of
which it treats.

The Office Treatment of Haemorrhoids, Fistula, Etc., with-

out operation, together with Remarks on the Relation of Dis-
eases of the Rectum to Other Diseases in both sexes, but
especially in Women, and the Abuse of the Operation of
Colostomy. By Charles B. Kelsey, A. M., M. I). 68 pages
12 mo. Cloth, 57 cents. New York: E. R. Pelton. 1S98.
Dr. Kelsey was Professor of Surgery at the New York Post-
Graduate Medical School and Hospital of New York and may
be presumed to know whereof he speaks, and he speaks strongly
against turning every case of rectal disease over to the knife,
and he is right.

A Royal Commission's Arithmetic. A Criticism of Vaccina-

tion Statistics and Fresh Figures and Fair Infer-
a Plea lor

ences. By Alexander Paul. 48 pages, paper. Sixpence.

London: P. S. King & Son.
This is a calm and dispassionate analysis ol the report of the
Royal Commission on Vaccination that is worth reading by all
who are interested in the subject. It is. needless to say,
written by one who does not approve of that prophylactic
measure. ''It behooves the public to remember," writes the
 Book Notices. 423

author, " that the anti-vaecinationists are the most disinterested

parties in this controversy. With the exception of those among
them who are in the sad position of having lost their children,
or had them seriously injured by vaccination, they have had
nothing to gain in this discussion but obloquy." Since the
pamphlet was written England has practically abandoned com-
pulsory vaccination, following in the footsteps of Switzerland.
So it looks as though the vexed question was more open than
ever before.

The Ga. Ec. Med. Journal'in a page and a half notice of Bur-
nett's Diseases of the Skin says: " Thorough familiarity with the
subject is evinced and the author is certainly entitled to be
heard."

Messrs. Boericke & Tafee have assumed charge of the sale

of Dr. K. H. L/innell's excellent work entitled The Eye as an
Aid in Ge7ieral Diag?iosis. It is a work of 250 octavo pages

that no one interested in diagnosis can afford to ignore. The

price $2.00; by mail, $2.16.
is A careful review will appear
next month.

A Text-Book of Gynecology. By James C. Wood, A. M.,

M. D.
It is but a simple matter of justice for us to say that Prof.
James C. Wood has produced the best text- book on gynecology
that has ever been offered to the medical profession. The old
school has nothing to compare with it in its adaptation to the
uses of the teacher and the student. The second
which edition
is now some
before us has been considerably enlarged and in
respects improved, making it a most complete and comprehen-
sive volume. Wood's Gynecology has always had first place in the
Denver College and has proven entirely satisfactory to teachers
and students. It is eminently practical in arrangement and
scope; the entire field of gynecology is wisely and succinctly
presented in a most attractive manner, and the reader is im-
pressed with the fact that the author is thoroughly informed on
all that pertains to gynecological methods.
Wedesire to make our acknowledgments also to Messrs.
Boericke and Tafel for their enterprise and success in the produc-
tion, not alone of this grand volume, but of many other im-
portant homoeopathic works, under conditions of a comparatively
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424 Book Notices,

limited demand and at some considerable risk. The homce-

opathic profession is under great obligations to these publishers,
and we hope Wood's Gynecology will command the large sale
which it deserves. There is no other work that can fill its place,
and no homoeopathic practitioner can afford to be without it.
The Critique.

Diseases of the Skin; Their Constitutional Nature and

Cure. By J. Compton Burnett, M. D., etc. Third Edition.
Dr. Burnett makes out a strong case in favor of the internal
origin, and therefore of the internal treatment of skin diseases.
In this he agrees not only with Hahnemann but with the French
school of dermatology, and opposes the views of Unna and the
modern German school. This book is no exception to the other
products of Burnett's pen — it is well written and very readable.
Why does not Dr. Burnett, in lieu of disjointed monographs,
give us a systematic work on practice ? We know it would be
interesting, and we believe it would be useful. This is a sug-
gestion not only to Dr. Burnett but also to Messrs. Boericke &
Ta fel .
Clin ical Reporter.

The Prescribes A Dictionary of the New Therapeutics.

By John H. Clarke, M. D.
This new book, the first we have received in the new year,
is not a stranger to many American no doubt
physicians. It

found a large sale in one of those

the earlier editions, for it is

little works which are good and full of meat from the beginning

to the end. In our opinion this is one of the best books to place
in the hands of an allopathic physician who has a desire to look
into Homoeopathy. Full directions as to the dose and the
potency is given, and to one who has been brought up to such
accuracy in prescribing to find this in a book of our school it
assists in getting them away from the old method. Dr. Clarke
has a happy way of presenting the peculiar symptoms, or char-
acteristic ones, whichever you are pleased to term them, in clear
language. The chapter on coughs is worth the price of the
book, for the indications of the remedies are so clear that it
Should be no trouble to select the indicated drug for any cough
which one will meet in ordinary practice. Then this is the
time of the year for COUghs, anyway. A timely edition of a
good book. The publishers have done, as they always do, made
their part, the mechanical, as perfect as printer and binder can
do these things —
The Medical Visitor.
 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.

Dr. Clapp, publisher and proprietor of the remarkable phar-

macopoeia that by some hook or crook received the endorsement
of the American Institute of Homoeopathy (certainly the mem-
bers being homoeopathic physicians, holding diplomas of hom-
oeopathic colleges, took the work on faith alone, for had it been
understood few, if any, homoeopaths could have accepted it),

Boericke & Tafel's offer of

says in his journal, anent Messrs.
the American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia to the Institute, as
one who speaks as a master, "The Institute is not in the old
junk business."
Define your terms.
The America7i Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia is a faithful com-
pilation of the pharmacy of Hahnemann and of those who,
later,introduced new remedies; it gives preparations of the
remedies precisely as they were used or directed to be made
by the provers. If it is " old junk " so is all that is brightest,
best and most honored in homoeopathic history.
Is the Org anon " old junk ?"
If it is, then is the American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia also
truly old junk, for that book is based squarely on the Orga?io?i,
heretofore supposed to be the corner-stone of Homoeopathy.
It is not precisely a question to be settled by vote, for majori-
ties have no influence on true science (though they are the life
of false sciences), but it is a question of truth. Is the Orga?io?i,
or is the new pharmacopoeia " old junk?" The fight is between
those two masterpieces.

Our respectable and respected contemporary, The Buffalo

Medical and Surgical Journal, for August, gets off the following:
42') Editorial.

The HOMOEOPATHIC RBCORDBB for June contains an article denunciatory

—
ofvaccinatw.il. entitled Vaccination, a fallacy its compulsion, a crime!
In the same issue the publishers print this card: " Vaccine points, always
fresh at ." Truly, belief aud business do not run on the same
narrow gauge track in Homoeopathy.
We
arc rather proud of the fact that the B. M. and S. J. reads
the Recorder even down to its advertisements; but are not
much surprised thereat, for many others do the same. As to
the quoted squib we would suggest that it is the duty of the
publishers of this journal, being both publishers and pharma-
cists, supply physicians with the goods they want and of
to —
the best quality —
and their personal opinion on the use to be
made of these goods is of no consequence, and its intrusion
would be an impertinence. The Recorder, however, is another
matter; its pages are open to all who have anything of interest

to communicate. Dr. Cross had something interesting to say on

the subject of vaccination, and said it. If the editor of our
Buffalo contemporary does not like it let him write a refutation.
We will print it.

Apropos of the above we find in the " Literary Notes " of our
beautifully printedBuffalo friend one (a half page note) on a
"beautiful brochure" " which is being issued to physicians by
The Chemical Co., of ," and the readers are

urged to send for a copy of the advertisement (its that even if

it is a brochure) before " limited edition " is gone.

Go to! Go to! thou Buffalo man.

When you are short of a subject on which to jump think of

your water supply, and you have a stock, and a fashionable one,
always ready. One of our esteemed contemporaries has been
doing it. Hear him:
Yet the stone filter in the editor's dwelling, replenished daily with the
" pure " and sparkling Croton, is also daily served with a teaspoonful of
saturated alum solution which daily coagulates and reveals organic pre-
cipitate in floating clouds all through the water, in scum on the surface,
and in yellowish paste on tin- sides of the filtering chamber. True, this is

an extreme situation, dm- to recent heavy rains following drought. Hut

tlurr is a time in
never the year when the priceless service o( the
nlant not demonstrated by more or less ^( such disclosures. Of
i^

e, the coagulant (properly graduated is wholly absorbed in the pre-

cipitate, and none of it passrs out in the filtered water.

We sometimes idly speculate on what would be the result ii

 Editorial. 427
the mighty editors, lay and medic, were given the yearly appro-
priation and allowed to run things! As for the above mentioned
E. C. we should like to bet him a bottle of Tonicum against
one of Bovinine that the man who draws his Croton from the
hydrant spigot has a better water than the one who quaffs the
alum saturated water from the filter. All that glitters is not
gold, neither is all the stuff you find in water disease breeding.

At a meeting of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Ger-

mantown, held Monday evening, May 16, 1898, the following
resolution was approved:
Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to ascertain
if it be possible to obtain recognition of homoeopathic physi-
cians by the poor board of the township of Germantown.
Jas. H. Closson, M. D.,
Job. R. Mansfield, M. D.,
Russell T. Hart, M. D.,
J. Chapin Jenkins, M. D.,
James Tyson, M. D.
The president appointed the signers of the resolution as mem-
bers of this committee.
(Signed.) Jas.Harwood Closson,
Corresponding Secretary.

Our esteemed friend Dr. Puck speaks his mind in this num-
ber of the Recorder, and his is, it seems, decidedly radical on
some points. If he can even in a little reform mankind we bid
him God-speed. We have an old-fashioned idea that the best
use to make of certain men is to hang them, but do not insist
upon it; in fact, we have long since given up any idea of reform-
ing the world and are content to let wag as it will. But that is
no reason why others should not make the attempt, and so Dr.
Puck is welcome to the hospitable and free pages of the
Recorder.

"When Von Helmholtz was in this country a few years ago,"

says a writer in the Atlantic Monthly for August, " he said that
modern science was born when man ceased to summon nature to
428 Editorial.

the support of theories already formed, and instead began to

question nature for her facts in order that they might thus dis-
cover the laws which these facts reveal. I do not know as it

would be easy to sum up the scientific method, as the phrase

runs in simpler words." That is what Hahnemann did and
modern science was born with his work, which questioned the
highest forms of nature, the human, for facts and thence learned
the great therapeutic law.

Health, of London, quotes " a pugilist," anent the treat-

ment of "black eyes," as follows — but whether there is any-
thing in it is another question: "'Massage treatment of the
region affected,' he said, 'will beat paint and raw beefsteak all

hollow. But should be applied immediately after the injury

it

is received in order to prove thoroughly efficacious. It does not

require an expert to do it. All that is necessary is to move the

fingers rapidly and firmly over the bruised surface, and to keep
it up until the last vestige of discoloration has disappeared. The

explanation is easy. Where the blow has been received the

blood becomes congested. It is the clots of blood showing
through the transparent skin that produces the black effect.

The pressure of the fingers gradually loosens the clotted blood,

which passes off into the general current of circulation, and
"
fresh and properly colored blood takes its place.'

At a regular monthly meeting of the Homoeopathic Medical

Society of Germantown the following resolution, offered by Dr.
J. W. Heysinger, was adopted:
That the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital
Resolved,
of Philadelphia,who have title in and to the last resting place
of the immortal Hahnemann, be requested to communicate with
the proper authorities in France, with Dr. Siiss Hahnemann, of
London, the grandson, with the Committee on Hahnemann Mon-
ument at Washington, and learn if it will not be possible to
have the remains of Hahnemann transported to America and
placed beneath the National Hahnemann Monument now being
erected in the Capital City of the United States.
Signed) J as. Harwood Closson,
Corresponding Secretary.
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Editorial. 429

There is another insuperable difficulty which bacteriology

has met in the battle with tuberculosis. It is assumed that
tuberculosis is a germ disease. If it were a germ disease,
rationally considered, it could be met with germicides or the
alkaloids of germs. being a germ disease, rationally con-
It not

sidered, germicides, or alkaloids of germs would be of no value.

Whether the disease be due to a germ or not, I leave to an intel-
ligent profession; this much is certain, bacteriology has thus far
found no cure for the disease." H. H. Spiers, M. D., in Medical
Record, August 20th.

In the leading editorial of the March number of Sajous'

Monthly Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine it is said, in reference to
—
the tincture of Digitalis and the same is true to a greater or
less extent of other tinctures —that " every practitioner should
realize that the average tincture as had in the shops is usually
inert, being, on the score of cheapness, derived from dried and
pressed leaves of uncertain age," also "tinctures made with
the aid of fluid extracts do not, by any means, represent the
properties of the drug in the same degree as those had by means
of maceration and percolation of the freshly gathered leaves."
But there will always be those who take the inert tincture be-
cause it is cheaper. The fact that it is worthless cuts no ice, for

the price alone is considered.

"B," which stands for Bloyer of the Eclectric Medical Gleaner,

has had his confidence in Staphisagria renewed. Several cases
of prostatorrhcea and spermatorrhoea recently came his way
and were met with one drachm of Staphisagria in four
ounces of water, one teaspoonful every four hours. "We
prescribe no other remedy with greater confidence, and
we add no other to it. It relieves the blues, and gloomy
forebodings. It quiets disturbances and uneasy feelings
about the bladder, urethra, testes, vesicular seminales.
It is often the remedy for gonorrhoea, especially in the
later, or gleety, stages. Use Staphisagria in ordinary doses, in-
ternally, when your injections do not seem to act as you expect
them. The nervous effects of gonorrhoea frequently counteract
all the effects of medicine. This remedy quiets the nerves, and,
besides, it acts upon the kidneys, so that a freer flow of water
 43° Editorial.

follows, and the local applications, in the form of injections,

have a better opportunity to relieve or cure urethral irritation."

Apropos of the " what-will-the-medical-world-think " atti-

tude of some of our English friends in regard to Dr. John H.
Clarke's paper on "signatures," the following from Von
Grauvogl (page 169-70), one of the most truly scieyitific homoe-
opathic physicians of modern times, maynot be without interest:
" Proud of its physiological acquisitions in modern times, the
physiological school labors to repudiate everythijig old, apriori, as

ifour predecessors had been incapable of making observations

and practical experiences. It rejects them, however, as it does
everything not brought forth by itself."
"Nothing in the history of medicine does it condemn and
despise more than the signatures of old physicians, who are said
to have drawn conclusions from the external characteristics of a
substance as regards its effects in disease. Thus, according to
the ancients, Digitalis must be of use in blood- diseases, because
its flowers are adorned with blood-colored dots; Euphrasiawas
famous as a remedy for the eyes, because it had a black spot in
the corolla which looked like the pupil. The lungs of a fox
must be specific against asthma, because this animal has a very
vigorous respiration, and, forsooth, what is called nettle tea
must afford relief in nettle rash, etc. The physiological school
of the present day, on the contrary, knows no other point of sup-
port than the biological and ^etiological conditions, or the
pathological products, in order to find a substance which may
serve as a remedy. But are its conclusions a whit better than
the conclusions of the ancients from their signatures ? Because
fever has the signature of heat, remedies must be used which
conclusion the same in form and value as
ab.straet heat; this is a
that, because nettle-rash burns, stinging nettle-tea must be
drank. I am free to confess that I have more respect for the

physicians of earlier times, and presume that they made those

so-called conclusions from signatures a posteriorly though incor-
rectly. It is very probable that they first observed the SUCC
of these remedies, and then sought, from some of their external
peculiarities, a suitable characteristic according to the notions
of those times; that thus the result was the main thing and I

explanation entirely a secondary matter; that consequently, in

 —

Editorial. 431

the making of new experiments with such substances, a guiding

principle, not at all useless, is presented; for, to subordinate ac-
cidently observed facts to the necessary laws of ?iature ever remains a
maxim of science. Thus the only question is, to institute new
experiments and observations to be able to meet the demands of
this maxim rather than to reject them with self-complacent
conceit of wisdom."
To we might say that the signature of true
the foregoing
11
science " (to know) is that it is contemptuous of nothing save

the " self-complacent conceit of wisdom."

" We gain possession of the powers of indigenous plants and

of such as may be had in a fresh state in the most complete and
certainmanner by mixing their freshly expressed juice immediately
with equal parts of spirits of wine of a strength sufficient to
burn in a lamp. After this has stood a day and a night in a closed
stoppered bottle and deposited the fibrinous and albuminous sub-
stances the clear super-incumbent fluid is then to be decanted
off for medicinal use." Hahnemann.

The new Boston " homoeopathic " pharmacopoeia grows more

remarkable the longer it is studied. The glory and the strength
of pure homoeopathic pharmacy as received from Hahnemann
was that it would take an inert substance and by trituration and
potentiation develop in it a high power for the cure of disease.
The truth of this has been demonstrated at ten thousand sick-
beds. The new work with the word "homoeopathic" on its
title page pitches all this overboard and engages in the ridicu-

lous task of measuring the power of homoeopathic POTENCIES

by the number of molecules one can count through a glass !

You cannot measure the power of a homoeopathic potency by

molecules or millimetres and those who try to do so will make
themselves ridiculous. Apropos of this a writer in the Septem-
ber number of the Georgia Eclectic Medical fournal, praising the
Schiissler remedies, but denying the Schiissler theory, says:
" The writer thinks that the designated '
tissue salts '
act by vir-
tue of their dynamism and not upon the conjecture of supplying
deficiencies."
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PERSONAL.

When we see the "wicked " flourishing and the "good " languishing we
should not be too cock sure that our diagnosis of character is accurate.
At its present gait " serum " will soon distance the loudest patent medi-
cine in the number of things it will "cure."
" I think homoeopathic physicians are like poets; they are born, not
made." C. Carleton Smith, M. D.
The day of compulsory vaccination is over in England, and the citizen
can now do as he pleases in the matter.
Behring's " Antitoxine " is patented; so is phenacetine, sulphoual, anti-
pyrine, salol ami a dozen others of like ilk.
It is said that the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that
the one believes in mascots and the other in hoodoos.
Dr. Wm. Spencer has removed from 1617 to 1820 Chestnut street, Phila-
delphia. Eye, ear, nose and throat.
A New York cooking school girl kneads bread with her gloves on, and
an impecunious editor says that if his subscribers do not soon pay up he
will need bread without anything on.
—
Homceopathist. One of the best openings in Vermont or New England
States for a Homoeopathic physician can be found by addressing M. J.
Hayes, Chelsea, Mass., 26 Sagamore Ave.
Twenty to thirty drops of the tincture of cantharides in a pint of water,
apply externally, will surely cure rhus poisoning, according to Dr. S. E.
Reed, of Middletown, Ohio.
Koch says: No mosquitoes, no malaria. But what about Alaska and the
far north? More skeets there than anywhere else, but no malaria, save an
occasional case of the sort that prevails in Washington, D. C.
Herr Koch should remember the pitcher that went to the well too
often.

Dr. A. F. Smiley has removed from 1106 Arch street to 117 North nth
street, Philadelphia.

Authorized translation of the 25th and also last edition of Schuessler's

" Abridged Therapie" is out.
Second edition of Norton's Ophthalmic Diseases and Therapeutics is out.
Second edition of Dewey's Essentials of Homoeopathic Therapeutics is
out.
Burnett's Change of Life in Women, a new work by that author, is
out.
Lutze's Therapeutics of Facial and Sciatic Neuralgia is out.
Mitchell's Renal Therapeutics out about the 15th.
II. C. Allen's characteristics of some of the Leading RmccJies out by Oc-
tober 1st.
Bradford's History of Hahnemann College out in October.
Nash'8 Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics out in October.
Arndt's splendid one volume on Practice rapidly running through the
press.
Pretty good list? is Homoeopathy dying ouW Not around Boericke &
TafePs establishments!
 THE
HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.
Vol. XIII. Lancaster, Pa, October, 1898. No. 10

SOME CARDIAC HINTS.*

Possible Effects of Tobacco and Crataegus.

T C. Duncan, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Chest, National Medical Col-

lege Chicago.

I feel highly honored in being an honorary member of your

great State Society, and feel it my duty to contribute to its in-

terests as I may.
Casting about for some topic of special interest, I am naturally
led to a cardiac one —
something of general interest in these war
times, when weak hearts stand in the way of patriotism.
Xarrow chests are due, I find, not so much to tobacco and
cycling as to lazy expansion. Do we, as family physicians, em-
phasize the necessity for lung expansion three times a day ? The
blood needs forcible aeration as much as the body needs food.
Air and water are forms of food and few people get the physio-
logical amount, hence the mass of narrow chests and rapid
hearts. Tobacco injures along this line smoking tends to;

empty the lungs and stagnate respiration; the blood is also les-
sened in volume, but is increased in circulation by the nervous
tobacco heart. The war has emphasized this physical weak-
ness. Rapid heart (tachycardia) tends to develop hypertrophy,
dilatation, valvular insufficiency and cerebral weakness. Obstet-
ricians and paedologists are interested for fecundity and develop-
ment are hindered thereby. "Tobacco smoke and whiskey
make small dogs," it is said. Whether this is a fact and is
counteracted by other factors some of you may be curious and

*Read before the Kentucky Horn. Medical Society, May, 189S.

434 Some Cardiac Hints.

able to investigate. This is of interest to the young soldier

and young citizen as well as mothers.
" She who rocks the cradle rules the world."
You are all regular physicians, I have no doubt — educated
and qualified. I, therefore, take pleasure in calling attention
to the newest heart remedy. It was born with a breech presen-
tation, as old Dr. Hering styled it — referring to those remedies
that came to us through clinical fields.

You all know the history of this remedy. The old Irish Dr.
Green acquired fortune and fame in the north of Ireland by a
prescription that seemed to have a wonderful effect upon all the
heart cases that came to him. He refused to reveal his secret,
so the story goes, and he was tabooed as an irregular. After his
death the heirs told the profession that it was Crataegus oxya-
canthus (the common English haw). A Chicago regular phy-
sician, Dr. Jennings, exploited the remedy with several cases.
It would never do to admit that it could supplant " the old and
reliable heart remedy, Digitalis." So we find them in double
harness. At my earliest opportunity I obtained some reliable
tincture and made a proving upon myself, and the students of the
National (students, like physicians, are not the most daring
always or we would have more provings,) but specialists should
know all the new drugs bearing upon their specialty so we can put
them at work in single harness. Every new addition to our
armamentarium should be tried, tested and proved. We know
that Crataegus cannot cure all heart cases but should have its
own field). In our experiments we found that, like Digilatis, it
quickens the heart action at first. Not so much as BelladonJia,
nor that explosive, Glonoine, that works this force pump until
the cerebral vessels almost burst. Crataegus causes a rapid heart
with all that implies; then comes the slacking up, but the relax-
ation is not as severe as that of Digilatis. It exceeds, how-

ever, the good effect of "smelling salts," that keeps so many

hearts going in moist, gouty Great Britain. In one lady prover
the menses appeared three days too soon and was too profuse.
She had despondency as a result.
One student whose heart bothered him was afraid to test Cra-
taegus. The Professor of Physical Diagnosis had made out mitral
stenosis, with its perisystolic thrill! He came to me badly fright-
ened especially fearing that he would fail in his final examina-
tions. Tachycardia was marked. Cratagus ix, one disk every two
 Some Cardiac Hints. 435
hours, soothed that excited, frightened heart so that he soon forgot
all about and passed the examinations triumphantly. I have
it

tried to outline itsguiding symptoms in my little hand-book on

diseases of the heart, p. 60. This is illustrated also by an
interesting case on p. 107.
It is said that impulsive, palpitating Belladonna is the national
remedy for the typical Irishman, but perhaps Crataegus may
dispute that place. Let us study and see. If I interpert it
aright, the cases that will be benefited by Cratcsgus have this
history Overwork, excitement, rheumatism complicated with
:

mitral insufficiency. Such a heart will be subject to erratic

action: Now slow, with weak sinking feeling at the praecordium,
and again with rapid painful action (cardialgia) centering the —
attention upon this vital organ. These symptoms convince them
that they have heart disease. Now fear of sudden death robs
life of its pleasures and sends them to us, who are supposed to

know all about hearts. They may suffer on, however, until
cardiac weakness is emphasized by dropsy beginning at the
feet.

Such cases, aggravated by Digitatis given strong, may be

helped by the newest heart remedy, Crataegus. In your generous
Blue Grass State you must meet many bad heart cases, and I
should be pleased to know what CratcBgus will do.
The characteristic heart symptoms that I deemed reliable and
given in my hand-book on Diseases of the Heart are :

"Shocks of pain in cardiac region. Angina pectoris. Pains

go into right arm " {vide p. 60). This last symptom is charac-
teristic. however, evidently myalgic, and not transmitted
It is,

along the artery as when the pain^^ down the left arm. (See
Aco7iite, Kalmia, Rhus.) The myalgic feature is further em-

phasized by the symptoms: " Awakens with lameness near the

heart, worse during expiration and on motion.* Rheumatism
of the lower intercostal from exposure to cold and dampness."
" Pleurodynia. {Kali carb. has similar pain stitches on the right
side simulating pleurisy. Kali carb. "gets out of breath on as-
cending stairs." Fatty weak heart.)
According to the study of Prof. Woodward, Phytolacca affects

*Prof. H. Barton Fellows, who obtained that symptom in August, 1864,

saw that it reappeared occasionally for months. He said that " the pain
began on the left side of the back b^low the shoulder blade." It was evi-
dently due to spinal hyperaemia. (^See Hale's New Remedies, 2nd ed.)
436 My Trials With Veterinary Homoeopathy,

first the digestive organs, next the spine, circulation, genito-

urinary organs and then the skin and sensorium. The action
on the glands distinguishes this remedy, however.

MY TRIALS WITH VETERINARY HOMCEOPATHY.

By Wilbur J. Murphy, Veterinary Surgeon, 230 West 58th
Street, New York.
Often have been asked the question how I became a homceo-
I

pathist. became a homceopathist by accident. I graduated

I

from one of the older schools of veterinary medicine. So far as

I am aware, the homoeopathic creed cannot yet boast of a
single school of veterinary science. During my college days I
never heard Homoeopathy referred to, except in ridicule or con-
tempt. Many times I joked at its expense myself. Frequently
I condemned its use, although entirely unfamiliar with its at-

tainments, laws and teachings.

In the course of time I became a veterinarian, but in name
only. I had a diploma but no experience. I was authorized

by law to treat the horse when in disease. I did not yet under-
stand the horse in health. Some time after graduation I became
associated in practice with a gentleman who was a homceopath-
ist. I had plenty of time to attend my own embryonic practice
and be of service to him besides. Had it not been my good
fortune to have met this gentleman I probably never would
have had the opportunity to observe the advantages the art pos-
sessed in the practice of veterinary medicine.
A few words about this venerable man. He was a true homce-
opathist — the only one I knew. He enjoyed a well-established
practice. He also had embraced its teachings after graduating
from an older school of medicine. He had traversed the same
road that I was traveling. He had undergone the same strug-
gles before he could be convinced that Homoeopathy was superior
to the practice he abandoned, and in many ways his experience
had been the same as mine would be in time. While in his em-
ploy I became familiar with homoeopathic medicines as they are
Used for the various animal ills.

This man was about as difficult a problem as ever tried to

I

solve. lie was surely an unknown quantity. I could not criti-

cise his ability —
he had more than expect ever to possess.
I I
 My Trials With Veterinary Homoeopathy. 437
could not say that he lacked medical training, because he was a
graduate of my alma mater, though many years ago. I could
not dismiss him had been engaged
as an idle dreamer, because he
in practice a score of years and was a man of wide and varied
experience. He was a devout follower of the law of Homoe-
opathy, but a silent enthusiast. Never would he laud its vir-
tues. Seldom he conversed upon the subject, except when
asked a question. In manner conservative, he was at all times
capable of silencing any argument which I advanced without
the least apparent effort. A more intimate association revealed
liis several traits. I found him a vast reservoir of knowledge

as time progressed.
Every young practitioner meets cases in practice whose dispo-
sition is perplexing. I met them, and as they presented them-

selves we discussed them together, and in every instance when I

followed his advice my efforts were invariably crowned with
success; but still I could not satisfy myself that his mode of
treatment was the most successful. Often I encouraged argu-
ment upon the merits of Homoeopathy, more to be amused by
his peculiarly guarded statements than for any benefit I hoped
to derive from the discussion.
Although I had known my associate for some time, and at-
tended to his practice in his absence, and used homoeopathic
medicines at his request from a chest which he kept for the
purpose and for the exclusive use of an assistant, whoever it
might be, never did he advise me to adopt their use in the prac-
tice which I was struggling to establish. He never referred to
the subject except at my invitation. I led a Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde life. In the morning an allopath, but growing less rabid
— —
and heroic in the afternoon in his employ a homoeopathist —
by compulsion.

Allopathy vs. Homoeopathy in Pneumonia.

One day I lost a valuable horse with pneumonia. I did every-
thing I could to save its life, but death triumphed over my ef-

forts. It was the third I lost within a month from this disease.
I told myassociate of my unsuccessful efforts, and he conserva-
tively remarked why not try Aconite and Bryonia if Quinine and
Alcohol are not effective ? After many thoughts upon the sub-
ject, I advised myself that I would give the treatment a trial.
The next case of pneumonia was to be an experiment. I rather
438 My Trials With Veterinary Homoeopathy.

feared to take the leap. Suppose that some of my classmates

should homoeopathic medicines. What
find out that I used
humiliation it would cause. Imagine my chagrin should some
of my colleagues take the case off my hands in the event of its
not yielding rapidly to the treatment.
Afew days brought the opportunity which I desired, yet
almost feared to take advantage of. This one trial was to decide
the virtue of a practice of medicine to which others had devoted
a of study.
life This single instance would be sufficient for me
to judge the merits of an art with which others toiled for years.
A horse with catarrhal pneumonia was the first subject of my
venture. Aconite and Bryonia took the place of Alcohol and
Quinine for the first time in my own practice. I had used them
before, but not in an instance when I was responsible for the re-
sult of their accomplishments. x\s I put the medicines in their
respective glasses I argued, to myself, that water of itself would

do just as well. I cannot recollect another picture so grotesque.

I thought if the sick animal should survive nature alone had
withstood the onslaught of disease. Recovery had taken place
in spite of the treatment given to relieve. I thought myself in

league with death, so little faith had I.

Three or four days with Homoeopathy did not bring convales-
cence. No other treatment cured within a week, but I expected
unusual results from this concession. From day to day, to me,
the horse grew worse. I began to regret my rash adventure.

How foolish I had been to use such simple drugs. What was
Homoeopathy? A will-o'-the-wisp. Now I could see why it was
condemned by those who spoke against its use. It required but
a few days of such misgivings to make me abandon my new ad-
venture. The experience of my many colleagues and the uni-
versal condemnation of the practice should have been sufficient
evidence of its incapability. How I regretted my departure
from the original faith. The years of successful practice which
my homoeopathic associate enjoyed was not considered for a
moment. I did not make a confident of him as I should have
done. I did not seek his presence and tell him that Homoeopathy

had failed in the initial effort, but quickly abandoned its use
—
and returned to Medicus Allopath icus my first love the theory —
of the majority. I congratulated myself that none of my asso-

ciates — my colleagues in heroicy — yet knew of my indiscretion.

With the change of treatment the patient grew rapidly worse
 My Trials With Veterinary Homes opathy. 439
from day to —
day so much so that I myself despaired of its re-
covery. was sorry that I had been engaged at all. I con-
I

cluded that my future demanded that I immediately divorce

myself from my homoeopathic associate and his satauic art.
The sick animal was yet within my charge, but I dreaded the
time approach for my daily visit. I hoped the owner would

suggest some course which would relieve me of so grave a re-

sponsibility to the art which I assumed. Anything would be
preferable to suspense. At last, in desperation, I informed the
owner of the animal the probable outcome of the case. He did
not seem surprised, neither did he urge me to continue with the
charge. He did not appear anxious about the result, or ask of
me what had been done in behalf of the patient. My position
was most embarrassing. I felt that my services were unsatisfac-
tory, and only the conservative manner of my client prevented
such an expression of his views. However, I advised a consul-
tation — —
my only hope; but as I expected had hoped against yet
wished the charge was taken from my care. In a manner diplo-
matic, he told me that he had a friend whom with my permission,
he would consult in reference to the animal's state. My pride
was hurt, but I was satisfied that death would not grace my
efforts in this particular instance. I had lost a client, but not a

client and a patient. I almost felt sorry for my successor. Who

—
he was concerned me little then a hopeless case. I was thank-
ful that the responsibility for the animal's death would not be
laid at my door directly.
Time brought curiosity. My work took me
daily routine of
past the equine residence daily. Almost involuntarily I would
look for the prostrate form of what had been my equine charge
lying lifeless in the street. He must have died. Death surely
claimed this animal for a victim with the aid that I had been.
Who could have been engaged after my departure ? A thousand
similar questions rushed in quick succession through my brain.
One day I accidentally met the owner of the horse the —
subject of my homoeopathic trial. I feared almost to greet the
man, but his jovial disposition dispelled all dread. His attire
did not betray financial loss — the money value of the horse. His
conversation in no way touched upon my rash endeavor. Curi-
osity made me ask the outcome of the case so interesting to me.
The animal had not died — death had not followed my prediction
— no miracle had been wrought — no divine aid had been in-
voked — Homoeopathy only had been employed.
 —

44° My Trials With Veterinary Homoeopathy.

What a shock After my departure my venerable associate

!

had been called, and he escorted back to health the charge that
I abandoned. To him it was but an ordinary ill such as he —
had met a thousand times before and with the usual treatment
the same that I employed with insufficient time pursued the —
usual course to health.
I felt abashed —joyous, yet sorry — thankful, yet chagrined.
Ofttimes since then have thought how fortune smiled upon me
I

then. What I thought misfortune was but a blessing in dis-

guise. Had anyone but my associate been employed, and death
or convalescence —
it matters little which —
been the outcome of
my efforts, Homoeopathy would have probably been blotted for-
ever from my memory. I might in time have wandered back

into its realm, but, if I had, it would have been with the knowl-
edge that I wandered there and stumbled once before, and then
—
the venture would be handicapped my convictions prejudiced
— my attainments doubtful, and the entire proceedings clothed
in misgivings and unbelief; but fortunately I was not wrecked
upon this rock of unbelief, and from that time, in quick succes-
sion, came more convincing proofs of the art's superiority in vet-
erinary practice.

A Colic Case.

One afternoon, while lounging in the office of my homoeo-

pathic preceptor, there came a message for his hurried presence
to the property of a client. In his absence I acted in his stead.
It was to a large storage warehouse in a crowded part of the
city. The day was close and sultry. On the way I feared I
might encounter some grave disorder where my presence might
be less satisfactory than would he whom I went to represent.
My apprehensions were not realized they were exceeded.—
Never have I, before or since, encountered an animal so violent
in pain. The stable, a dark and dingy place, offered but little
aid to properly confine an animal with such a grave disorder. I
took advantage of the only box stall in the place, and then pre-
pared my homoeopathic remedies demanded by the condition of
the horse.
I was but an assistant now — an agent for another — Homoe-
opathy was obligatory — shorn of all discretionary power. I

knew that the venerable old gentleman would tolerate no varia-

tions from the treatment he advised. More than once he had
 —

My Trials With Veterinary Homoeopathy. 441

very forcibly insisted upon his directions being carried out while
in his employ, so with orders so explicit the course was very
plain.
I never saw a case so bad. The violent paroxysms of acute
pain followed one another in quick succession. The poor,
afflicted beast threw himself against the stall and floor, as if he
cared not for the dangers which he risked; his frame was in a
dripping perspiration. He looked piteously at his flanks in the
brief cessation of his agonies, asif to tell the gaping crowd the

region of the violent pain. Never was a picture more pathetic.

His mute appeal for human aid would affect all but the heartless
wretch, and I stood idly by and saw a willing hard-worked brute
suffering agonies and pain untold and offered to relieve the ill
horse with a sea of water and a trace of Nux at intervals of half
an hour. What a farce such treatment seemed. I knew an ex-
cellent anodyne. Chloral might assuage the pain. Rather irri-

tant to be sure —
often I had seen it fail —
hard to give, but an
emergency such as this required some heroic effort. Yet my
hands were tied. On two occasions I had turned from Homoe-
opathy in spasmodic colic because the suffering seemed too
severe for such mild efforts to overcome, and though they both
had died I felt as though they did not suffer as if abandoned to
their fate.
Gathered round the equine bed were roustabouts from the
neighboring wharves, curious passers-by and those that worked
—
about the place a motley crowd, and I a stranger to them all.
To the horse so sick I had not given a single remedy that they
had suggested. I could not if I would. I knew that whisky
would not aid — did not give a drench — did not push a " ball "
I

into his throat — did not relieve the bladder of contents its

'twas plain to see that I did not enjoy the confidence of those
present who only hoped to aid.
My course of treatment was not according to my views, as I
have said could have given a dose of Chloral or some
before. I

other antispasmodic, but I was carrying out the orders of

another and my duties were but to fulfill the offices of an
assistant. With pronounced regularity I gave the medicine to
the horse. The animal was up and down. Time lingered on
my hands. Several times I thought my watch had ceased to
run, so slowly did the hours pass.
Close to midnight the horse seemed to be more quiet. He
 —

442 My Trials
T

\\ itli Veterinary Homoeopathy,

perspired, but not so free as before. He rolled back and for-

ward in his stall, but did not throw himself so violently about.
The paroxysms seemed interrupted by a state of ease.
of pain
Finally he picked a —
hay lay down was quiet got up
little — —
—
no sign of pain did not look anxiously at the flank did not —
—
paw was cool, and seemed inclined to partake of a little food
that had been offered. The drooping eyelids regained their nor-
mal place, and soon it plainly could be seen that recovery was
surely on its way.
I was amazed, yet uncertain —
surprised, yet not convinced.
Calm deliberations, however, laid prejudice aside. I had to ad-
mit its ability. The time-worn argument that the animal re-
covered in spite of the treatment that had been employed had
to be abandoned. What a conquest How pronounced it
! —
—
seemed incredible a revelation in the face of opposition and un-
belief. Used only by compulsion, its attainments surpassed the
fondest expectations. This was the second trial, and still I could
not accept the art as a mode of veterinary practice.
Soon afterwards I entered the employ of a surface railroad
and for a period of about two years I prescribed for several
hundred horses daily. Here Homoeopathy was obligatory. I
accepted the position with that understanding. What a field
for practice ! Any illness could be found with which to make
an experiment. Again I had another tussle with the creed. It
seemed as though I would not be convinced I was not a
convert yet at heart. Its recent demonstration had been so forcibly
impressed upon my mind that its abilities demanded recognition;
but one slight failure would undo all the good that had been
done, and again [ would be launched upon the turbulent sea of
—
medical infidelity a skeptic to the homoeopathic virtue of the
heal in'6
gf art.

A Case of Lockjaw.

I had been connected with the concern about a month. One

day a big brown horse, never known to have been ill, came a
patient to the building used for animals sick and lame. All that
the attendant knew was that the animal would not eat, and
seemed a little stiff if moved about. lie thought a little medi-
cine "would do him good," and so the animal came into my
charge. It needed but a superficial glance to diagnose the
trouble. The Stiffened gait, the rigid muscular form, the pro-
 —

My Trials With Veterinary Ho77iceopathy. 443

truding nictitans, plainly told the illness. How he had be-
come so no one could tell, for he had worked all the day
affected
before, yet there was no mistaking the identity of mine host.
I did not dread to treat lockjaw with Homoeopathy. All that I
had ever met before had died. With other veterinarians its his-
tory was the same. Recovery was not expected when so grave
a malady gained possession of a victim.
Homoeopathic treatment was demanded by the corporation, so
I felt that the responsibility for the animal's death would not
rest —
with me. No Chloral could be used heroic Belladonna was
—
debarred all allopathic measures were excluded. Passiflora
and Nux vomica were to guide the animal back to health.
I looked for nothing else but death. Convalescence from a
disorder so benign would be a very agreeable surprise. Tetanus
is not a disease of an acute type. Medication cannot cut its

progress short when once it has invaded an animal's system.

It's different symptoms follow one another in marked succession.
From day to watched the patient and the treatment; the
day I
rigid muscular form did not seem to change. The movements
of the jaws were very slight. The nictitans, protruding, seemed
to mock the simple efforts that were being made.
—
A week passed slowly by no change. A little food was
taken but not enough to satisfy the beast's demands. I tried in
—
every possible way to aid gave the medicine myself was —
cautious in my movements round the horse, lest my presence
might occasion a violent spasm, so characteristic of the ill
—
kept the surroundings dark and quiet nothing else could be
advised.

Recovery From Lockjaw.

Another week rolled by. The medicine had been given every
hour in the day and night. I fancied I could see a slight im-
provement. The violent spasms which sapped the animal's
strength had dimished greatly in severity. The nictitans
seemed to recede a slighter degree. The movements in the stall
—
were less an effort than before seemed inclined to pick a little
hay, and mastication, impossible before, could plainly be ob-
served.
I never saw lockjaw get well before, yet I hardly could give
the credit to the treatment at the time. It seemed so far beyond
the bounds of reason that some other aid must have been in-
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444 ;dar Remedies in Brazil.

voked. The month

passed quickly by. Homoeopathy, and
that alone, brought the unlooked-for convalescence. Chloral
had been outdone Belladonna had been banished to the rear,
and I admitted its superiority only with regret. Truth had pre-
vailed at last, and I was ready now to accept the verdict from the
evidence I had seen. Here in quick succession with danger- —
—
ousdisorders Homoeopathy had demonstrated against my wishes,
surely against my hopes, that it could cope successfully with
—
tetanus that it could overcome the violent pain in spasmodic
colic, and that it could —
unaided and alone escort to convales- —
cence the animal with lungs inflamed and near to death. Thus
I became a homceopathist, and now, as I lookback at my early

struggles against the art and think over the doubts and the
prejudices which I so unjustly entertained against its use — of
the arguments which had with my venerable associate and the
I

accidental way in which I finally became an advocate of what I

so frequently ridiculed and condemned, it brings to my mind the
many reminiscences of days forever gone of battles never to —
—
be fought again and makes me think that those who talk
against its use are more to be pitied than censured.

POPULAR REMEDIES IN BRAZIL.

By Dr. Staeger, in Allg. Horn. Z., Aug., 1898.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder.

I lately worked my way through the large work in three
volumes, now rare, ofSpixand Martius, describing their journey
in Brazil,* and I was struck by the copious material for pharma-
cological research contained therein. Many of the items men-
tioned have in the long period since elapsed been introduced
into medicine, other items have again been banished thence and
still other items lie forgotten and unused in these dust-covered
volumes. Many grains of gold may be found among the many
worthless grains of sand; some of the notices about well-known
drugs may also be found interesting. We, therefore, determined
to gather the material in these three volumes and present it in

•Travel in Brazil, made and described by order of hia majesty Maximilian

Joseph 1 of Bavaria in the years [817-1820, by Dr, Rapt. V. Spix ami I>r.

Friedr. Phil. V. Martins. Munich. 1S23.

 Popular Remedies in Brazil. 445
extracts. For the purpose of facilitating the survey we shall
divide the material into two parts:
1. Vegetable Remedies.
2. Animal Remedies.

1. Vegetable Remedies.
The greatest merit for discovering and using curative plants in
view of von Martius, does not, as might
Brazil, according to the
have been expected, belong to the aborigines, but to the Spani-
ards who have settled there and especially to the inhabitants of
the state of S. Paulo. The Indian has but few remedies; his
extreme indolence keeps him back even from searching out
curative material.
With the colonists of S. Paulo, who had to rely solely on their
own mindedness and the abundance of surrounding nature,
single-
the science of medicine began with mere practical experience
and traditions and assumed the same character which it bore
during the dark ages in Europe, in witness of which we still
find in antiquated pharmacopoeias, elk-claws, the Scincus officina-
lis, etc. As every where in the development of medicine, so also
with' these Paulists, they proceeded quite instinctively according
to the rule of the " Signatura rerum."

An Application of the Doctrine of Signatures.

"So in every deep-red color it was thought that there must

be a relation to the blood, as in yellow colors, to the bile and
the liver; they attributed especial virtues to the scarlet Urupe
{Boletus sanguineus), which suddenly makes its appearance on
rotten trees and often only lives a month, using it in checking
hemorrhages from the womb. In the yellow wood of the Butua
(Abuta rufesceus) they saw a hint of its efficacy in diseases of the
liver; in the root of the Darsteuia Brasiliensis, shaped like the
testicles, and in the cordate leaves of the Coracao de Jesus (Mik-
ania officinalis) they saw a hint of their strengthening effects on
the nerves or the heart." And, strange to relate, Martius
found confirmed in many cases the truth which Prof. A. Imbert-
Gourheyre emphasizes in his " CEffentliche Vortrage ueber Hom&o-
pathie" (Public Discourses on Homoeopathy), namely, that
many a remedy discovered in this rude empirical manner proved
itself, on investigation, to be a really useful remedy.

In the manner indicated, and probably also in many other

44^ Popular Remedies in Brazil.

ways, the Brazilian people acquired its medical treasures which

I shall briefly review here, enumerating the plants and adding

then their alleged effects:

The Remedies.
Paratudo (Gomphrena officinalis —
This plant, owing to
Mart.)
its large deep-red shining flower, one of the most splendid
is

ornaments of the plains. The thick, tuberous root is valued by

the husbandman as a universal remedy for general debility,
dyspepsia, spasms of the stomach, intermittent fever, diarrhoea
etc. It is rather striking to find so medicinal a plant in the
family of the Amaranths^ as only very few species of this
family show any medical virtue.
Casca d Auta (Drymis Winteri L.) is said to occupy a foremost
place among the aromatic-tonic remedies of Brazil. The bark
is used.
Periparoba (Piper umbellatum). The root of this stately
pepper- plant occupies a famous place among the Brazilian domes-
tic remedies. In constipations of the abdominal organs with
general debility, a frequent consequence of the intermittent
fevers, this root has been used with great effect. It exalts the
activity, especially of the lymphatic system, has a quick action
and promotes all secretions. The leaves are often used as a tea
in glandular swellings. So also the seed-capsules of the similar
plant, the Piper peltatum, called Caa-peba, i. e., broad-leaf, are
used in a decoction as a powerful diuretic.
Fumobravo or Suassuaya (Agerati species) is praised as a mar-
velous remedy in inflammatory catarrhs and affections of the
chest. The fresh expressed juice is said to act as a Lithontrip-
ticon (?).
Douradinhadocampo (PalicoureaspeciosaHumb.). — The leaves,
on account of their yellowish color, have given to this plant the
name of golden-bush, and have a great reputation, being much
used as a sure (?) anti-syphilitic. The action of the infusion of
tea,which in large doses shows itself as a real poison, shows itself
mainly in an increased activity of the skin and the kidneys; the
digestion is in no way disturbed by moderate doses. This plant
is which manifest them-
especially used in those forms of syphilis
morbid transformation of the skin.
in a

Sassafras (Lauras sassafrass L. is one of the plants which

I

found entrance into European pharmacopeias ever since the [6th

 —

Popular Remedies in Brazil. 447

century. Martius found it used in S. Paulo as with us, as an

abluent, then also as a diuretic and sudorific. Especially in the
form of a decoction it is frequently used by the settlers.
Carqueja dolce e. amarga are two related forms of Bacc/iaris,

genistelloides L. and venosa, Pers. —They recommend themselves

by their considerable contents of a bitter extractive material
which is combined with a specific aroma and used in chills and
fevers in cases where in Europe we use Artemisia.
Carapixo de caloada (Triumfetta Sappula and semitriloba L.)
The mucous, and at the same time somewhat astringeut, consti-
tuents of the leaves and fruits of this shrub recommend them-
selves for injection in chronic gonorrhoea.
Erva de Andourinha (Euphorbia linearis Retz and hypericifol
I,.) — The milky juice of these small plants is dropped into syphil-
itic ulcers. Strange to say, Martius found the legend spread
through all Brazil, that if this juice is applied to a wound of the
pupil of the eye as soon as it occurs it will produce an instan-
taneous cure. He was often assured that this effect has been
verified in chickens.
Jatahyox Jatehy is the resin of Hymenaea Coubaril L. It is used —
in long-continued cough, in weakness of the lungs, hemoptoe
and incipient Phthisis pulmonum.
Erva Pombinha (Phyllanthus Niruri L. and Ph. microphyllus
Martius) is said to be a specific in Diabetes. The decoction of
the crushed plant and seed is used.
Figueira da India (several kinds of Cactus) are used in the
domestic medicine of the Brazilians, the juice being given in
gastric fever.
—
Perdicium brasiliense L. A decoction of this plant (of the root)
is considered to be an unfailing remedy in too copious menses.
Acajii (Anacardium occidentale I,.) —The freshly expressed
acid juice of the tumid peduncle is used for lemonade; peculiar
isthe sympathetic action of the nut when worn on the body, in
chronic inflammations of the eyes, especially those of a scrofulous
nature.
Orelha d'onca (several kinds of Croton), in its root, offers an

efficient substitute for and promotes the secre-

Senega; it excites
tions, especially those of the membranes. It is used in atonic
catarrhs, in asthma and even in Phthisis pulmonalis.
Carachichu (Solatium nigrum). --The common black nightshade
is one of the few plants which have spread all over the world with
4 4 ,s bular Remedies in Brazil,

the: Europeans. In Brazil the crushed plants are

applied to painful wounds; in spasmodic retention of urine, and
generally in states of inflammation with predominant excitation
of the nervous system, it is applied in warm cataplasms or in baths.
These examples may show how the common people quite em-
pirically stumble on the right path; for this use the remedy is
quite correct also according to homoeopathic principles. This
may indicate that there is a scintilla of truth in the application
also of other popular remedies approved by experience.
Par \
<— This shrub or tree
Simaruba versicolor St. Hil.

grows in the plains of the districts of Coutendas and Salgado.

The bark and the leaves have an extremely bitter and somewhat
disagreeable taste and are used externally as a wash in im-
petiginous ailments of the skin, especially when of a syphilitic
nature. When the decoctions are too strong they drive in the
eruptions in a ??w?ne?it and frequently cause violent fever, dropsy
and death.
Sarsaparilla, the chief constituent of the world-renowned De-
coction of Zistermann, adduced by Martius as being of decided
is

use in syphilis not yet become inveterate.

Momordica purgan, similar to Colocynth in its effects, has been
found very curative in the case of chronic inflammations of the
eyes and in drop-v.
The seeds of the cottoyi-plant (Gossypiurn barbadense. herba-
ceum, etc.) are frequently used in fumigations in cases of lym-
phatic swellings, in emulsions for softening injections and for
cooling drinks in fevers, etc. The leaves, dipped in vinegar.
are a highly valued domestic remedy in one-sided headache (meg-
rim), in this respect resembling the leaves of Rtcinus communis,
Ambaiva ( Cecropia petata). —The inhabitants of the valley of
San Francisco assured Martius of the truth of the curative vir-
tues ascribed long ago by Piso to the juice expressed from the
leaves of this tree. It is a decided refrigerant, suitable on ac-
count of its mucous constituents which are simultaneouly
astringent, in cases of acute diarrhoeas, gonorrhoea, metror-
rhagia, etc
Guarana i produced from Paullinia sorbibilis, one of the
contains, as is well known, some Caffein, together
with other constituents, and is much used as h beverage in South
rica, like as the Paraguay tea and Mate I

Guarana affects especially the nerves of the abdomen and acts

 Popular Remedies in Brazil. 449
very efficiently as a depressing remedy in diarrhoeas and dysen-
teries originating from colds or from mental emotions, or, in

general, from states in which a morbidly augmented sensitive-

ness of the Plexus coeliacus is present. It is not, however,

indicated in congestions or saburra. In larger quantities it ex-

cites the whole nervous system, causes diplopia, sparks before
the eyes, insomnia, an unusual excitation and other similar
states. In metorrhagias and other passive haemorrhages it has
been of excellent service. Somewhat peculiar is the notion
spread through all Brazil that it acts, indeed, as an aphrodisiac,
but takes away the "Vis fcecundaus seminis virilis." This
double action need not surprise us in a remedy used as a bever-
age. A Homoeopath will at once understand such a diverging
action of a remedial agent.
With reference to the Peruvian bark Martius also mentions
that he has not infrequently heard the complaint that it some-
times even augments the fever. On this account he found it but
rarely used in Minas Geraes. Who, in view of such facts ob-
served by the uncultured people en masse, would contiuue to
doubt Hahnemann's discovery as to Chitia, as is done even in
our own camp ? If there still are any such doubters, I would
urgently recommend for their perusal " Lewin, the Secondary
Effects of Medicines."
Still more than by these vegetable remedies are we surprised
by the following remedies taken from the animal kingdom,
which are used as well by the aborigines as by the European
settlers. Still these curious animal preparations ought not to
surprise us too much, considering that we live in the time of
organotherapy, where doctors seriously set about the restoration
of the wasted physical virtue of males by means of tablets
made from testicles and endeavor to cure with "cerebrum"
neurasthenia and mental disturbances.
Nor should we forget that Thyrco'idin is used to cure myx-
edema, cretinism, struma, adipositas universalis, etc.; so also the
preparation " ovaria " is used to cure chlorosis, climacterium (?);

lieu isused for cachexy from malaria; hepar for cirrhosis of the
liver; renes for nephritis; only by remembering this can we ap-
preciate the doggerel:

" Gone is gone "

In spite of " Ovadiu "
And " Supradiu."
450 Popular Remedies in Brazil

II. Animal Remedies.

The inhabitants of Sertao, on the Rio St. Francisco arid, al- I

most desertlike, regions as also the Sertanejos suffering, from

.

an obstinate syphilis in which they have in vain used all the

•table remedies and a quantity of Mercury all in vain, some-
times take their refuge to a remedy from the animal kingdom.
They cut off the head and tail of a rattle-snake; the middle
part is then taken and, together with a young chicken, is boiled
into a jelly. Eating this preparation at one meal, the patient
is put to bed, and there ensues a copious sweat, through which

the materia peccens is at once eliminated from the system. A

number of Sertanejos assured us that they had experienced this
curative virtue on their own body.
So also various kinds of lizards are used in syphilis, jaundice
and in cutaneous eruptions. The whole animal is boiled and
the broth is drunk, or the animal is reduced to ashes and these
are taken as a powder.
Many Indians take the powder of crushed Cava vAstur
cachinnaus Sp.), a small vulture, as a preservative against the
bite of serpents.
These antidotal properties belong in a much higher degree to
the bird Inhuma (Palamedea carunta L). and especially to the
horn it bears on its forehead. A few scruples of this powder,
taken with wine or water, are said to have caused a cure even
when total unconsciousness had supervened owing to the bite of
a serpent.
The horny points with which the tail of the roach (or ray) is

armed are frequently used as an antidote to the wounds caused

by this fish or against snake bites.
From the antlers of the roe-bucks the Indians make another
remedy for this purpose by toasting pieces of the same on coals
and dropping upon them some of the musk which is secreted by
alligators in two glandular sacs on the lower part of their neck.
This powder is taken internally, and the whole piece of the
antler is tied on the wound, from which it is said to suck out the
poison. The musk here mentioned, which has a most penetrat-
ing smell, is said to be of extraordinary effect in deafness when
dropped into the ear.
Another raw medicinal substance is furnished to the Indians
of Brazil by the Boto Delphinus amazonicus
i
No other dol- .

phin is found in such numbers and preferring the sweet waters

 Popular Remedies in Brazil. 451

as its habitat.As its name indicates, it is chiefly found in the

Amazon. From the highest vertebra of this animal a powder
is made which is said to be very efficacious in hemorrhages.

In Paraiba incipient struma is treated with cataplasms of hot

pumpkin-mush and by drinking water which has been stand-
ing for several days on the stamped mass of large ant-hills.
Martius remarks: '' The constituents of the ant-hills, which are
5 to 6 feet in height, and in constructing which the insects use
a peculiar animal mucus as mortar, w ould seem to have some
r

qualities which may counteract the pathological relations of the

goiter; perhaps also the formic acid may exercise a beneficial
effecton the relaxed nervous system as well as on the debility
of the lymphatic system of such patients." Also the negroes
in Africa frequently use mucous substances with good effect in
goiters, e. g. y
gum arabic.
In Casabranca. Brazil, the goiter, according to Burmeister
(see his " Brasilien-Reise"), is treated with Spongia.
Martius seems to have found monstrous goiters on the Paraiba
river, far surpassing even those we find in the valleys of Valais
in Switzerland.
" Frequently the whole neck is occupied with the great swell-
ing, giving a horrid appearance to these people, mostly colored
people, not having a predispossessing appearance at best. Yet
in thiscountry this excrescence is rather viewed as a peculiar
beauty than as a disfigurement; for we often see women, their
monstrous goiter decked with golden or silver ornaments, and,
as it were, making a show of it, sitting with a pipe of tobacco
or a spindle in theirhand spinning cotton before their huts."
In a note Martius points to the custom of North American
tribes, who lay a cotton-thread on snake-bites, " quod glandi
virili circumvolutum peculiarre illarum smegma gravi eoque

ammoniacali odore polleus imbiberat." So also the Indians

dwelling on the Yupura assured our travelers that when the
hands are stung by ants, scolopendras or scorpios, the most
certain and reliable remedy is " illarum in vaginam muliebrem
immissi." Martius suggests that most of these animal reme-
dies may owe their virtues to their ammoniacal contents.
With this we conclude our extracts from the travels of Spix
and Martius. Whoever feels himself impelled, to make physi-
ological provings of new remedies, has furnished to him here a
variety from which to choose, and these remedies have the addi-
452 Organ Diseases of Women,
tionalrecommendation that many of them have for a long time
enjoyed the popular favor and still enjoy it; and even this is of
some value as compared with the modern machine-products of
our enlarged chemical factories, for the judgment of the com-
mon people in such matters is by no means the least reliable.

ORGAN DISEASES OF WOMEN.*

By Dr. Compton Burnett, London, Discussed by Dr.
Mossa.
Translated for the Homoeopathic RECORDER from the AUg. Horn. Zeti. %
August, 1898.

Dislocation of the Uterus in Consequence of a Fall.

A married lady had been suffering from abdominal troubles for

eight years in consequence of a on a tour in Switzerland.
fall

There was sensation of a drawing down with frightful pains

through the hypogastrium. She had the sensation as if the
uterus and everything in the abdomen was being pulled out;
this was accompanied with a leucorrhcea. appearing every four
or five days in "small discbarges of a thick yellowish liquid,"
as also a great irritation of the bladder. She had suffered these
tortures for three years before she applied to a physician, a gyn-
ecologist of world-wide renown. But he could not afford her
any relief, nor a second physician who delivered a very un-
favorable prognosis. Thus she first came under homoeopathic
treatment in the eighth year of her disease. Dr. Burnett pre-
scribed Secalc comuium 3, which cured the case so quickly and
completely, that the discoloration must rather be viewed as an
entanglement of the uterus with the intestines. The author
adds in conclusion: "That Secalc was here homeeopathieally
indicated will not be doubted by any competent critic, espe-
cially if he has ever seen the effects of a full dose of this
remedy on a woman in parturition with a strong spine and ful-

ness of the muscles."

Enlargement of the Uterus, of Both Ovaries, Aphony. Re-

tention of Urine, Etc.
A married lady <>f 26 years, mother <>!" three children, was af-

flicted with two disra<r<. She was a full built, hut with v

'Published l>\ Philadel] hia.

 Organ Diseases of Women. 453
delicate tissues, burdened on her father's side, as her father died
of phthisis in his 29th year. Twice she had measles, twice also
influenza, had been vaccinated thrice and passed through scar-
latina the year before. At her first delivery the peritoneum
was fearfully torn, so that it had to be sewed in five different

places. We made the following observations:

1. Complete aphony since several weeks, she can only whisper
softly.
2. The left lobe of the liver is considerably enlarged and very
sensitive to pressure.
3. The tongue is coated like a chart and pappy.
4. The spleen is moderately inflamed.
5. Very much constipated; much pain in the back and the
sides.
6. Pretty bad hemorrhoidal varices.
7. Enlargement of the uterus.
8. In the right ovarian region there is a large swelling of the
size of the fist; another on the left side which is very painful.
9. Sharp leucorrhcea, at times intermitting.
10. The menses appear too frequently and too violently.

11. What exacerbated the sufferings of the patient to the ut-

most, she had not been able to void any urine for the last two
months, so that she had been obliged to use a catheter.
12. To this were added several more or less troublesome ner-

vous symptoms. As these seemed more or less to have been

caused by the preceding attacks of influenza, the author opened
his therapeutic campaign, as he calls it, with Cyripedi?i 3 dil.,
giving six pellets three times a day.
{Crypedium pubesons, Cyripedin and Scutellaria lat. and Scu-
tellaria have long been Dr. Burnett's sheet-anchor in neuroses
after influenza; these are remedies which have been but little
proved and hardly ever used in Germany.)
This remedy refreshed her nerves, relieved the nervous part
of her aphony and her constipation.
Since her spleen was swollen, and the patient showed at times
intermittent, feverish movements, the author gave her Urtica
urens (twenty drops a day), as this remedy (according to him a
spleen-remedy) also corresponded to the retention of urine.
Then there appeared a critical diarrhoea; the spleen became nor-
mal, the haemorrhoids disappeared and the aphony advanced
somewhat towards a cure; but the retention of urine showed no
454 Organ Diseases of Women.
improvement. (Dr. Mossa is of opinion that he would sooner
have attained his end if lie had used a well-known remedy,
really indicated homceopathically, such as Nux vomica, instead
of these questionable remedies. He thinks that Dr. B. is too
much given up to organotherapy.)
Since the retention of urine was, as he supposed, due to a
swelling of the tissue surrounding the urethra he gave saw
palmetto Sabul ser?ulata) five drops four times a day, without
(

effect. He now studied the case more closely, and as the patient

waked up from pains between 3 and 4 o'clock a. m. and the

tongue was coated like a chest he gave Mai. (Malva ? Dr.
Mossa) 30 in rare doses. The tongue lost its peculiar coating,
but the pupils became very prominent; toward evening an ag-
gravation set in; the voice failed again twice. In the morning
the tongue was very strongly furrowed.
Prescription: Arnica 1, ten drops in water, morning and even-
ing.
August 14. The voice had been good for four weeks, the
stools normal, micturition still difficult, though less painful, and
the quantity of the urine more nearly normal. The profuse
much trouble. Insomnia.
leucorrhoea causes her
Medorrhin 1000.
September nth. The voice normal, the sleep better, the pain
in the sides returns at night; the leucorrhoea is still very trou-
blesome; the urinary discharge is still difficult; the left lobe of
the liver sensitive.
Chelone glabra 6 made little change.
Zincum acet. 9
November 24. Menses scanty; anorexia, dyspnoea, palpita-
tion of the heart; micturition not yet free.
Hydrastinin mur. 3, five drops morning and evening.
January 22. Pain in the side has disappeared; micturition
without trouble, but not always so. Haemorrhoids and consti-
pation very severe.
Sulphur 30 in rare doses.
March 2. Haemorrhoids and constipation have disappeared;
the flnor albus worse; micturition normal.
Med. 1000.
This brought a complete cure. The lady remained in
health and was delivered of a child in November. No further
troubles appeared.
 Organ Diseases of Women. 455

Pessaries.
As tothe use of pessaries Dr. Burnett (p. 42) says: " I do
not disapprove of pessaries when nothing else can be done (in a
prolapsus); but a pessary only a makeshift of a very ques-
is

tionable kind. It is always better to acquire by means of it

the ability of moving about rather than to remain in bed, and
thus gradually to become a useless mass of tissue. But a
pessary does not cure anything, and not only this, but it may
even make a large and heavy organ larger and heavier. The
true indication is, so to reduce the size and weight of the
uterus that it becomes light enough to again occupy its natural
position. This is actually possible, but it cannot be done with-
out organ-remedies, nor on the other hand wnthout constitu-
tional remedies if the hypertrophy is due to constitutional
grounds.
In answer to the objection made by many critics and also by
Dr. Mossa that the use of organ-remedies, which we have de-
rived largely from Rademacher, is Homoe-
a departure from
opathy, Burnett answers that he learned to know the works of
Rademacher and of Hahnemann at the same time and that he
has found both systems approve themselves at the sickbed.
Frequently he had not been able to cure simple organic diseases
with dilutions (these alone do not constitute Homoeopathy. Dr.
Mossa); nor on the other hand has he been able to cure deep
constitutional diseases with organ-remedies. From a copious
experience accompanied with careful examination he asserts
that Rademacher's organic therapy is an elementary Homoe-
opathy, as in it the degree of similarity is a very low one, mak-
ing small but material doses in frequent repetition a requisite.
The higher the degree of similarity, the higher must be the
attenuation given. As an example of what he means by a con-
stitutional case he adduces the following case of

Subinvolution of the Uterus.

A married lady of 29 years, mother of an infant of nine
months, sought Dr. Burnett's help on account of a severe ail-
ment of the which had not yielded to any of the various
uterus,
treatments tried. The
uterus, in consequence of her single
delivery and adherent placenta, was considerably enlarged; the
rectum was stuffed full of hsemorrhoidal varices which fre-
456 Organ Diseases of Women.
quently bled violently; the menstruation was also profuse. The
vulvar and rectal regions showed much pigment; the inguinal
and cervical glands were like marble-balls. Great debility, con-
siderable emaciation.
Although there was here an enlargement of the uterus, this
affection was manifestly only a part and not even the essential
part of the disease. The primary element in this case was to be
found in the constitutional case indicated by the Placentia prceoia.
This appeared more manifestly when Bellis perennis H and Sepia
5 were able to do but little. (That was in 1892.) In the begin-
ing of August the patient was very poorly off and had lost more
flesh. The dark color of the skin and the emaciation caused the
author to give her Bacillin (c.c. ), on which the fever diminished.
After Thuja 30 she retrograded again, so that he returned to
) and left the patient for several months under the
Bacillin (c.
influence of this remedy. Then he prescribed Fraxinus Ameri-
ca?ius in small material doses, which also in
a uterine remedy,
this casebrought back the uterus to its normal size. Now the —
lady is rotund and sound. (We do not know whence our au-
thor found out that Fraxinus Amer. is a uterine remedy.)
As a counterpart, a simple example of an excessive enlarg-
ment of the uterus and of its treatment the following case may
cerve:
A woman of 38 years, the mother of 6 children, was brought to
the author on account of a hypertrophy of the uterus of high
degree. The latter was so large that it could only be in some
degree retained in place by a very large pessary. The uterus
was scraped by an excellent surgeon, another had used the curette
on it secundum artem, while a third had thoroughly cauterized
it— but this seemed only to make it thicker. According to the
unanimous opinion of these and other consulting physicians
there only remained the ultimate resort of extirpating it, and
a day had already been set for this purpose.
A careful interrogation showed that at one of her deliveries
the uterus had received an extensive tear, later on the placenta
had adhered, succeeded by several hemorrhages. The uterus
now appeared large, hard, heavy and thick.
The patient was well nourished and was in good health, with
the exception of her uterine trouble and anaemia in consequence
of too frequent menstruation.
It was difficult to get her consent to a merely medical treat-
 Organ Diseases of Women. 457
ment after she had made herself familiar with the idea of an
unavoidable operation. The pessary was removed and I gave
her three times a day five drops in water of the strong tincture
of Fraxinus Amer. After seven weeks the patient could travel
to Scotland, and take long journeys on foot even without any
pains in the back. The uterus had been reduced almost to its
normal size and taken its direction toward its normal place and —
this merely under the influence of the one remedy, Fraxinus
Amer., given in doses first of five, then of six and lastly often
drops.
We must remark, in addition, that the patient had formerly
received a quantity of quinine, and felt quite chilly and feverish;
this symptom was removed by Natr. Mur. 6. trit. She had
been vaccinated three times and was sycotic (? Dr. M.); Thuja
occid. 30. and Mat. c. removed this state. She also once received
Ignatia amara. But all this took place after the cure of the hyper-
trophy of the uterus by means of Fraxinus. The author was
able to testify to the excellent health of this lady for three
years after this cure.
Well! we must respect this success and this remedy! even
though the doctor may not have proceeded by the regular high-
way of Homoeopathy.

Varicose Lower Limb, Enlarged Uterus, Occasional Leu-

corrhcea, Swelling of the Spleen, Headache
in the Forehead.
A spinster of 48 years had a varicose vascular swelling about
her left ankle; this was raised about a quarter of an inch above
the level of the skin, and in this varix there was a considerable
burning toward night. Since fifteen months she had entered
into her climacteric period, also suffered at times from leucorrhcea,
and whenever the leucorrhcea appeared the burning in the varix
was considerably aggravated; her general health was excellent,
excepting frequent flushings of heat. The uterus was moderately
enlarged and the spleen also was enlarged. The patient had
suffered from intermittent fever 10 years before in India.
Dr. Burnett, following a French investigator, considers the
spleen as the organ which, even more than liver and lungs, has
the power of oxidizing; and when it is disturbed in its function
there arise considerable disturbances in the organism. He,
therefore, ascribed the intermitting lencorrhcea as well as the
 8

45 Organ Diseases of Women*

varicose burning swelling to the affection of the spleen. Never-
theless he commenced the treatment with
first Pulsatilla in the
mother tincture, because when used thus it is a very useful
remedy in theenlargement of the uterus in the climacteric pe-
riod; while during the menstrual period of woman it must be given
in dilution, whenever it is homoeopathically indicated, in order
that it may not disturb the menstruation.

The young lady, therefore, was given Pulsatilla 9 t

five drops
every morning and evening for a month. This acted well on the
uterus; fluor albus and the flushes of heat were somewhat moder-
ated; the patient now complained much of chilliness. (Dr.
Mossa ascribes this to the Pulsatilla given too long and in too
great doses).
Now Dr. Burnett, in view of the swelling of the spleen, which
he considered as the main focus of the disease, prescribed Urtica
urens 6 in water, five drops every morning and evening. Then
the swelling actually diminished, the chilliness disappeared and
the varicose swelling vanished. After Urtica had performed its
use, while there had not yet been effected a full cure, Dr. B.
investigated the cause of this obstruction and found it in the fact
that Miss X. had been vaccinated four times. Pulsatilla had
much improved the headache, but it returned later on; Urtica
did not affect it at all. Thuja 30. in rare doses cured the head-
ache quickly and completely.
Then Ceanothus Avier. 1. was given for several months, and
the state of the patient became quite satisfactory and the varicose
swelling had disappeared all but a small remnant.

A Case of Pleurodynia on the Left Side.

"The neuralgic pain below the mamma, especially on the
left side,and the chief remedy corresponding to it, Cimicij:
show a certain relation between the uterus and the upper parts
on the left side of women." In the following case the pain was
localized below the ribs on the left side, i. c, in the splenetic
region (the spleen was enlarged), it was augmented every third
day, but never ceased entirely. Formerly the patient had suf-
fered from perspiring feet. had but little effect.
Bcllis pcrcyinis
Cimicijfug a 1, Thuja 30, Sabi?ia 30, Tub. t. (Tuberculin?^ C.
brought the spleen back to its natural size and the pain was re-
moved.
 Organ Diseases of Women. 459

Phthisis with Night-sweats from Suppressed Leucorrhoea,

with Subinvolution of the Uterus.
Dr. B. regards vaginal injections in leucorrhoea as very harm-
ful and to be rejected, being false in theory and injurious in
practice. He
adduces the following case as an illustration:
A young woman of 30
years, mother of one child, presented
herself on February 5th, 1891, with a severe affection of the
lungs; a malignant cough, nightsweats, a bloody expectoration,
a sensitive spot in the right lungs. The patient had spent a
winter in southern France and Algiers. Her
state had thus
been held down but not improved; on the contrary, the disease
had continued its process.
Bacillinum 6.

March 2. She had been better, but on catching a new cold

it was worse than ever.
Bacillinum 30.
March 17. Urine thick, sedimentary; cough; nightsweats
about 3 a. m.; menses normal, as also the stools; but the patient
is pale and cold.

Urtica ure?is 6 seemed to have a decided effect; but on May 14

haemorrhage from the lungs again appeared. In a closer study
of the case Dr. B. came to the conviction that the affection of
the lungs was not primary, but a consequence of the suppression
of the Fluor albus through vaginal injections. To find the origin
of an ailment is doubtless of the highest importance in its treat-

ment.
He prescribed Medorrh cc.
This brought on a very disagreeable pain in the back from
12-2 in the afternoon; as also a flow somewhat colored and look-
ing like slivers of skin. A piece of fibrous ragged tissue of the
size of a bean was discharged, covered with mucus and blood.
A piece just like it had been discharged by the patient 8-10
weeks after her delivery, and she had then made injections of
Zincum sulph. and Alum, which had soon relieved her. The
flow this time took place one day after the cessation of the men-
struation, and after it the pains in the small of the back were
much relieved. She took the rest of this medicine June 2.
There is still cough, especially early in the morning. The ex-
pectoration is yellow and thick, the tongue white.
Med. 1000.
460 Was it Cancer of the Stomach/

A complete cure followed. The woman has since born in the

course of five years two healthy children.
We see from this that the author in appropriate circumstances
knows how to use isopathic remedies and how efficient these
may be in high potencies. In a similar way he also treated
several cases of sterility by a combination of these remedies
with organ-remedies after the uterine ailment had been removed
by this remedy.

Helonias in Enlargement of the Uterus.

In all simple organic diseases one of the greatest difficulties
is to find out the organ-remedy that exactly fits the case. The
provings made so far are generally Rademacher,
insufficient.
following Paracelsus, asserts that the organ- remedy cannot be
determined before the cure is attempted, especially because the
ge?iius epidemicus morborum often comes into play in such cases.
We meet with many cases of urinary troubles in which the
primary ailment is an enlarged and too heavy uterus, which on
that account has become dislocated; this is then followed by an
irritation of the cervix of the bladder with urging to urinate.
In such cases Heloyiias is frequently the right remedy. So in
the case of a young lady of 32, who suffered from a troublesome,
frequent urging to urinate. This was accompanied with pains
in the small of the back, the uterus was heavy, the urethra in-
flamed. The urine contained mucus. Heloyiias 3d in doses of
6 grains soon removed all these symptoms, though the ailment
had been of several years' standing.

WAS IT CANCER OF THE STOMACH?

By Dr. Mueller-Kypke.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Leipzigcr Pop.
Z.fuer J lorn., Aug., [898.

On October 8, 1897, I W:ls called to a little village in the

" March " to Mrs. W. I found my patient, 48 years o\ age,
lying in bed with violent pains in the region of the stomach.
Her husband me that his wife had now been sick for three
told
years, that she had used every kind of treatment and of doc-
tors; that last Spring she had been in Carlsbad, but had con-
tinually gone from bad to worse, and now lor months had been
 1

Was it Ca7icer of the Stomach f 46

unable to leave her bed. On closelyexamining her I found a

tumor in the pyloric region of the stomach of the size of half an
orange, and from this spot the pains darted forth. The woman
could hardly eat anything, and whatever she partook of, she for
the most part had to vomit up again. In consequence she had
become so emaciated, that she literally consisted of nothing but
skin and bones. I also found out that she was suffering from
piles.
I was firmly convinced that the woman was suffering from
cancer of the stomach, especially as she also had the cachectic,
i. e. ,sallow and hollow-eyed appearance of those afflicted with
cancer. In accordance with her symptoms I prescribed
Bismuth trit. 3 D. and Belladonna dil.4 D. in alternation, and I
gave exact prescriptions as to her diet, forbidding, in spite of
her weakness, all meat, spirituous drinks and coffee.
On the 22d of October her husband wrote to me, that there
had not been any sign of improvement; that his wife on
as yet
the contrary had now also particular trouble from her piles.
This latter point especially led me now to view the ailment
more especially from this side, and I therefore gave her Fluor,
calc. trit. 6 D. and Nux vom. dil. 6 D. in alternation. I made

no change in her diet. After this prescription the woman slowly

and steadily improved, as her husband, who now called on me
frequently reported. The vomiting ceased, the pains diminished
and she could eat more. The haemorrhoidal knots, indeed,
continually became more prominent, but after applying some
Hydrastis salve they gave her no more trouble. The internal
use of Fluor, calc. and Nux was continued. I only interposed

some doses of Arse?i. dil. 6. I gradually added some delicate

meat-dishes to her diet and she bore them well.
On the 21st of January. 1898, her husband came to me, beam-
ing with joy, reporting that his wife was now really well. She
had then been up for weeks, had no more trouble, and enjoyed
her food; only occasionally, when she ate too much, to which
she was inclined, she felt a pressure in her stomach.
On the 8th of February I accidently had an opportunity of
again seeing the woman, as I was called to the neighborhood to
see another patient. My astonishment was great when the
woman greeted me gladly at her door. I examined her again.
There was no more any trace of a tumor. The woman was
quite well again.
462 A Crocus C ase.

This case gave me much food for reflection. Could it have

been a case of cure of cancer of the stomach ? All symptoms
pointed in that direction. Still I do not believe it, but am
rather of the opinion that it was a case of chronic catarrh of the
stomach in a m >st aggravated form, combined with hemor-
rhoidal congestions. would explain the case in this way, that
I

the tumor was really caused by remains of the food which had
collected at the pyloric orifice and in consequence of the atony
(feebleness; of the muscles of the stomach could not be ad-
vanced further. By the remedies given the stomach had recov-
ered and these congestions were removed.

A CROCUS CASE.
By Dr. Mossa.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from. Allg. Horn. Zeit.,
July, 1898.

An unmarried lady of 42 years, short of stature and well sup-

plied with fat, has had much to suffer from her menses which

appeared at irregular intervals, often 2-3 times a week and some-

times very profuse. Owing to this she had become anaemic,
with a decided weakness of the heart, together with congestive
rushes of blood to the heart and the head, so that the face often
takes the color of carnation. This is attended with a high
degree of nervousness, with extreme sensitiveness to the
weather, a great mobility of the thoughts and of the tongue,
desire for company and a tendency to exaggerate, so that if she
does not make an elephant of a mouse (which she is as much
afraid of as the cat is enamored of it she would yet call a
I,

shower of rain a cloud-burst. Though on the whole of a

bright temperament, nevertheless, having had many bitter ex-
periences, she by oieterence looks at the shady side of life, is

much interested in obituaries and accounts of minders and likes

to read funeral discourses. sudden transition from sad-
Still her

ness to merriment is rather striking. Her appetite is good and

.she eats unusually often and much, and on accotttlt of the feeble-

ness of her heart, as .she Says, she takes ^ .rial times a day
some wine. The stool inclines more to diarrhoea than to consti-
pation. She has had formerly actual hysteri "crises," owing il
 A Crocus Case. 463
to menstrual colic, when the pains reached the ovaries and
radiated into the extremities. Her sleep is very restless, with
many heavy dreams.
often
In the beginning of last April this young lady had some fur-
unculous eruptions on the right cheek and also in the neck.
These were not, however, allowed to mature and to dry up, but
she sought to choke them off with collodion. But this led,
probably through the absorption of the poison contained in such
ulcers, to the continual new formation
of such eruptions.
Finally a feverish state set shudderings and chills in the
in,

evening and heat at night; the right cheek and the upper eyelid
were swollen and dark red. At the same time the gums in the
upper and lower jaws on the right side became inflamed; the
teeth, which were much decayed, became painful, the tongue
was coated white, so that she had much trouble in eating; then
a violent thirst appeared compelling her to drink much water.
With all this her menses, which in the last weeks had been
sparing, now set in again with a copious flow of dark, tough and
ill-smelling blood. A pulsating headache was now also added.
Her state seemed to me, though not an erysipelatous inflam-
mation, yet a phlegmonous one, springing from her furunculous
cutaneous eruption.

Therapy.
The patient was given some doses of the 30th potency of
Belladonna. This remedy had, however, no appreciable in-
fluence. Whether a lower potency might have proved more
effective? Still, when I viewed the psychic state of the patient,

and when she also told me that pretty frequent diarrhoeic stools
had set in, and she had suffered during the last nights much
from the fact that her limbs, especially her arms, went to sleep;
while the fever was less in the forenoon and more violent in the
evenings, with a darker red on the cheeks; while the blood from
the uterus continued to be of the above mentioned character,
my choice fell on another remedy, Crocus sativus, and I gave the
patient in the beginning five drops every three hours; the
strength and frequency of the dose being partly due to the fact
that she thought she could not do without repeated potations
of wine every day, owing to her weakness.
The remedy was accompanied with good results; the feverish
symptoms disappeared within twenty-four hours; the redness
464 A Crocus Case.

and swelling of the face diminished, so also the swelling of the

gums, the tongue became clean, her old, good appetite returned,
the diarrhoea ceased and the metrorrhagia diminished in the
course of a few days. The furuncles healed without any secre-
tion, and after about 14 days, after the lady had already some
time been out of bed and had been going out, there appeared a
slight peeling off of the skin on the places which had been
affected.

Additional Critical Remarks.

As to the diagnosis of the case, the decision whether this was
a genuine or a pseudo-erysipelatous process is difficult, although
the finally resulting desquamation inclines the balance to the
side of erysipelas. Still we also find in some toxic remedies as,

e. Rhus toxicodendron, that they may originate erysipelatous

g.,
as well as phlegmonous processes.
That which here determined my choice to Crocus was less the
pathological anatomical substratum of the ailment, especially
since our provings of this remedy have not as yet disclosed
much. These provings only show with respect to the skin,
—
" scarlet redness of the whole body circumscribed red spots in
the face, with a burning pain, a painful inflammation and sup-
puration of a contusion on the finger healed long before." Of
course, if we were at liberty to consider the good effects of the
remedy which it has unfolded according to experience as a sup-
purative agent in furuncles, panaritia, indurations, styes and
chilblains the law of similarity with our case would be more
plainly manifested.

The Action of Crocus.

The strong action of saffron on the vascular system plainly

appears from its pathogenesis. It causes rushes of blood all

over the body, with heat, restlessness, anxiety in the chest and
about the heart, during which the vessels may be so much sur-
charged with blood that this is finally discharged in the form
of haemorrhages. This appears most plainly in the vascular
system of the nose, the uterus, the Lungs and the urinary
ins, and, if we consult also Rademacher's school, also in that
of the intestinal canal in form of a dysentery in a peculiar affec-
tion of the liver. The blood discharged
is mostly tough, thick,

at tiir.es coagulated, of dark or even black color.

a This state
not SO much resembles an active hyperemia it rather rem:
,
 A Crocus Case. 465

us of the plethora prevailing with women in their climacteric

period. In the one case as in the other a violemt sensation of
heat all over the body, especially in the face and on the head,
mostly with redness of the face and violent thirst. In Croats
there is a pricking of the skin, as if perspiration would break
out, while with women in their climax a copious perspiration
actually breaks out all over the body. The latter frequently
complain of the pulsation of the arteries, now here, now there.
This symptom is only found again in Crocus, so also a rhythmical
pulsation in one-half of the head or face; with this we may also
count the strokes or pulsations felt in various parts. That the
congestive headache will also be found in such a case is easily
understood.
We may well assume that in the climacteric period, where the
blood formerly used or discharged in menstruation, pregnancy
and delivery finds no more use nor free passage outward, there
should arise a superabundance of blood in the female organism.
Besides this, saffron has a sufficiently demonstrated specific re-
lation to the uterus as appears from physiological and clinical
experience. Now, although
our patient there had been no
in
antecedent childbirth, nevertheless her menstruation had been
so copious and frequent in the years preceding that the diminu-
tion and especially the cessation of these discharges must have
caused a fulness of blood, not only in the uterus, but also in the
system of the portal vein, yea, in the whole organism, which
then caused the occasional violent discharge, as during this
disease, of a blood very similar in its charactor to the Crocus-blood.
The transition from such a congestive fulness of blood to fev-
erish, inflammatory affections of particular organs is not diffi-
cult, especially if a special impulse should be given by a cold, or
by becoming overheated, or by violent emotions. The latter
cause very likely contributed in the case of this highly excitable
lady. This leads us to the consideration of the effects produced
by Crocus on the psychical state.
Although this remedy is chiefly distinguished by its production
of a state of exaltation in the emotional as well as the mental
activity, it, nevertheless, alsocauses peculiar kinds of melancholy,
of depressions which are, however, quickly relieved by states of
exaltation, so that anxions sadness and woefulness quickly alter-
nate with extravagant merriment, frequently accompained with
un restrain able laughter and singing. With some of the female
 )

466 Senecio Aureus,

there a; m with joy, accom-

rt of ititi

panied with motions as Very characteristic with

in chorea.
some of : is the highly increas -to
music and singing; of one of these we read: she had to sing nolens
*ts, especially when she heard another person singing; Arias
long forgotten, whole pieces of music come vividly hack to her
memory. In saffron, however, music does not exercise a calming
influence (as it does per contra in Tarantula .

The psychical state of our patient was not, indeed, changed

that much. A certain excitement, with extraordinary loquacity,
an unusual desire for making and receiving calls, also for writing
letters, and still a poring over dark hued images, making her
disconsolate, and the quick transition from a sad to a cheerful,
—
merry wood all this taken together might, indeed, bring up the
image of the psychical effects of Crocus. Then, again, she can-
not sit still, and while sitting is inclined to swing at least one
hand up and down.
One other symptom appearing in the patient, which is also
manifest in Crocus, seemed to me of importance in the choice of
the remedy: The going to sleep of the limbs at night, while she
was asleep.
Although I have not hitherto mentioned the great word hys-
teria, it, nevertheless, plainly shimmers through in this case as
well as in the pathogenesis of Crocus.
If we have chiefly kept in view in these additional critical
remarks (which have been prolonged beyond our intention
especially the therapy, and in this the relation of similarity be-
tween the pathological phenomena in the patient and the patho-
genetic symptoms of the remedy, this corresponds with the prac-
tical tendency of the homoeopathic mode of curing.

SENECIO AUREUS.
Case. Miss M., a lady twenty-five years of age, had suffered
with periodic attacks of bronchitis which generally left her in a
debilitated condition; she rarely found relief except from cli-

matic changes, and had therefore spent much time in traveling

about for the sake of her health. She determined to remain
here last year despite her past experience. In the midst of one
of her catarrhal attacks 1 was summoned to give her temporary
 —

Notes. 467
relief. Her acute condition seemed to respond to the usual
remedies, but her recovery did not seem to be complete.
In studying her case found as she improved in the bronchial
I

affection that she sufferedmore from a nervous depression typi-

cal of neurasthenic exhaustion. At times she became quite
hysterical, and if worried or unusually excited a spasm simulat-
ing hystero-epilepsy generally followed. After this experience
she would remain in a semi- stupid state for a few days, when
the irregular and variable symptoms of hysteria intervened.
Insomnia disturbed her daytime, she was
at night; and, in the
moody and despondent, so much
was unbearable to
so that it

live with her. There were alternate zones of anaesthesia and

hyperesthesia, occipital headache, lumbo-sacral backache and a
persistent tremor of the hands were symptoms observed in the
physical examination.
I found that a menstrual suppression preceded the bronchial
attack for which was consulted, and that she had been quite
I

irregular in this No remedies had

respect for several years.
heretofore afforded her more than temporary relief, and the case
dragged along under my care for some time. I happened to
read in one of our current medical journals of the value of
Senecio aureus in hysterical conditions when attended with in-
volvement of mucous surfaces. For some reason every case
quoted had a clinical comparison with mine and I resolved to
try it.

I was surprised to see how it relieved the catarrhal condition

and how my patient showed unmistakable signs of improvement.
I continued the remedy, in the third potency, for some time.
I am now pleased to state that she is better in every respect

than she has been for some time, and more than all the patient
admits it and gives credit to my remedy. The anaemia and ner-
vous debility have gone. She has no more hysterical convul-
sions, and is of some comfort to herself and family. Dr. H. V.
Halbert, in Clinique, September, 1898.

Dr. Albert Robin and Dr. Mendel (Medecine moderne, May

nth; Medical Bulletin, July) extol Cimicifuga in this complaint,
and cite, among other cases, one in which a plug of wax, the
obvious cause of the buzzing, was purposely left, while the
buzzing disappeared in two days under treatment. Here are
468 Notes.

their conclusions: 1. Buzzing of the ear may be considered as

the reaction of the auditory nerve to direct or reflex irritation.
2. Cimicifuga racemosa possesses an action upon the auricular
circulation and upon the reflex irritability of the auditory nerve.
The average active dose is thirty drops a day. 3. Buzzing
which has existed more than two years appears difficult to influ-
ence by Cimicifuga.

A headache that was refractory in a recent patient, due to

overheat approximating sunstroke, has been relieved by Passi-
jiora. In this patient the great tendons in the back of the neck
were and sore and the ordinary motions of the head in sid-
stiff

ing cotton, put things on theswim and made my man feel drunk
and strange. The vision was poor, and the base of the brain
was the seat of a constantly dull pain. I gave it to this case
conjoined with Gelsemium.
In young women of sedentary habits who have no work to
draw upon a highly charged nervous system, with sluggish
pelvic circulation and pain at the menstrual epoch, Passitlora
in conjunction with Macrotys is needed. An excess of vitality
that throws children into fits, as is instanced sometimes in cases
of high arterial tension or fever, are remedied by Passiflora. I

do not believe it to be a very potential drug, hence have little

faith in a home-made article. It is as reasonable to suppose
that I could make my own shoes competitively as my own
drugs, and to say that could extract the drug power from a
I

plant as well as a pharmacist with competent tackle is a little

piece of vanity I had rather not indulge in. — R. T. Hillman,
M. D., in Ga. Ec. Med. Jour.

" There is Ptelca trifoliata. How many of you have that

remedy and are using it? Don't all stand up at once ! To the
best of my
no drug in use has a richer symptomatology
belief
in the stomach and liver region, not excepting such drugs as

Nux vomica Carduus, Podophyllum or CJiclidonium. audit has

}

one key-note that is priceless. Just tnrn to your He ring (con-

densed and underscore it and emphasize it by putting a e;reat
1

big l^T pointing to it. One of the most effecti xiptions 1

I ever made, whereb) a seemingly hopeless invali red

 Book Notices. 469
health, was done with Ptelea ix on Weight,
this indication: '

aching distress in hepatic region, dull pain, heaviness, better by

lying on right side; turning on left side causes a dragging or
pulling as if liver was pulling on its ligaments.' So far as I

know Magnesium muriaticum is the only other drug having a

similar symptom. Then as you take your pen and underscore
in Ptelea 'dull and stupid,' dazed, confused 'muddle feeling
in the head,' just read along and see how every last trivial
symptom points to a congested, enlarged, inactive liver. Then
comes the value of your individuality you have learned and you
would only think of this remedy when the liver is at fault." —
H. K. Leonard, M. D. in Medical Visitor.

BOOK NOTICES.
The Change of Life in Women and and Ailings Inci-
the Ills

dent Thereto. By J. Compton Burnett, M. D. 185 pages.

Cloth, Si. 00; by mail, $1.06. Philadelphia: Boericke &
Tafel. 1898.
The author says in his preface that he has never heard a clin-
ical lecture, or read a medical work, on the menopause that was
satisfactory, or of any use to him in his clinical work. He has,
therefore, been compelled to go into the subject as an original
discoverer and the results are given to the profession in this lit-

tle book. As in the case with his other works, all will agree
that it is readable but, as, also in the case with his other works,
not all may agree with his conclusions. Many things that are
done to ailing women, and accepted was once
as universally as
venesection, is unqualifiedly and emphatically condemned in
new
this departure, and this fact, it is easy to foresee, will cause
many to protest. But, even as the men who once commenced
nearly all their treatment with bleeding, strenuously objected

to the condemnation of their practice, were finally forced to ad-

mit that they were in the wrong, and the small minority in the
right, even so may it be in this case. At least it will be well to
know what the new way is, for this is an age of rapid change
and a man may soon be left stranded. The Change of Life is a
fitting companion to The Organ Diseases of Wome?i by the same
47° Book Noti

author,brought out a year ago (Boericke <S: Tafeli. and all

who that book ought also to have this one. Everyone
knows, who keeps in touch with things, that there are incr*
ing murmUringS against the way women are medically treated at
the present time, and no books are more apropos to a change for
the better than the Change of Life and Organ Diseases of
Women.

The Therapeutics of Facial and Sciatic Neuralgias with

Repertories and Clinical Cases. By F. H. Lutze, M. D. 297
pages. Cloth, $1.25; by mail, $1.32. Philadelphia: Boericke &
Tafel. 1898.
When one considers how helpless all proceedures are in the
presence of the intense agony of neuralgia, all save the genu-
inely indicated remedy, one is led to believe that a book, gather-
ing all that is known of the homoeopathic treatment within its

covers, ought to meet with a warm reception from the profession.

Dr. Lutze has done this work for his professional brethren and
done it well. A reading of the illustrative cases scattered through
the book clearly reveals the fact that routine treatment will not
do in this disease, but the physician, to be successful, must chose
between many remedies, guided by the symptoms which stand
out clear, or obscure, as the case may be, in each case. Belladonna
will reach many casesworse from touch or motion,
with its

and its sudden coming and going, but it will not touch the
Ccuisticum patient, with the feeling of wind blowing in the ear;
on the Capsieum patient, who can bring on the paroxysm by
merely touching the afflicted part, or that of many other remedies.
The book is well worthy of study.

An American Text-Book of Gynecology, Medical and Sur-

gical, for Practitioners Edited by J. M Baldy,
and Students.
M. D. Second Edition, Revised, with 341 Illustrations in the
Text and 38 colored and half tone plates. 71 S pages. Cloth,
O; half-moroCCO or sheep, $7.00. Philadelphia: YV. B.
Saunders. [898.
This is tlie second edition of this well-known volume of the
American text-book series. Dr. Baldy was assisted by Hrs.
 Book Notices. 471
By ford,Cragin, Etheridge, Goodell, Kelly, Krug, Montgomery,
Pry or and Tuttle. The book is sold by subscription only. It is
gotten up in the usual good style of all of Mr. Saunders' works.

An American Text-Book of the Diseases of Children, In-

cluding Special Chapters of Essential Surgical Subjects;
Orthopaedics; Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat;
Diseases of the Skin; and on the Diet, Hygiene and General
Management of Children. By American Teachers. Edited
by Lewis M. D.
Starr, Assisted by Thomson S. Wescott, M.
D. Second Edition. Revised. 1244 pages. Cloth. S7.00;
half-morocco or sheep, SS.oo. Philadelphia: W. B. Saun-
ders. 1898. For sale by subscription only.
Another second edition of the Standard American text-book
series. A number of entirely new papers have been added and
others re-written and all of them revised. A very complete
work. Sold by subscription only.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel have in press:

The Porcelain Painter' s Son, by Dr. S. A. Jones, of the famous
Grounds of a Homceopatft s Faith fame. It is a charming bit of
truly homoeopathic literature and it ought to be very popular
with all classes.
Repertory of the Urinary Orga?is, by A. R. Morgan, M. D., of
Waterbury, Conn. A very useful repertory that will fill a gap
in our list.
Some of Our Leading Rem-
Characteristics or hidividualities of
edies of the by H. C. Allen, M. D., the well-
Materia Medica,
known homoeopathic writer and teacher. This promises to be a
very popular, primary work, giving the keynotes of the various
remedies.
Also, the previously announced works, History of Hahnemann
College, by T. L. Bradford, M. D., a work of over 900 pages with
man}- illustrations. It will be ready for delivery about the 15th
of October.
Also Nash's Leaders in Hoynceopathic Therapeutics, one of the
most readable and unconventional works that has appeared since
Jahr's Forty Years' Practice. It is hoped to have this out by the
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47 2 Book Notices.

end of October, and every one ought to secure a copy fur it will
help every practicing physician, even though he may not be-
lieve in all of Dr. Nash's claims for what can be done with the
truly "indicated remedy."

Mr. Saunders, medical publisher of Philadelphia, announces

as soon ready for delivery the following books:
Yierordt's Medical Diagnosis.
Griffith's Care of the Baby, 2d edition.
Butler's Materia Medica a?id Therapeutics
Slengel's Text- Book of Pathology.
Hirst's Text- Book of Obstetrics.
De Schweinitz and Randall's American Text-Book of Diseases
of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Church and Peterson's Mental and Nervous Diseases.
The American Pocket Medical Dictionary.
And also a continuation of the series of Hand Atlases of the
various diseases.

—
Pioneers of Homoeopathy. Dr. Bradford has very fitly and
most successfully followed up his biography of Hahnemann by
bringing together all the information that is to be obtained con-
cerning those who shared his labors and who must share his
glory; and those who took up his work and spread his doctrines
and his practice all over the world. The Pioneers of Hoynceopathy
is indeed a Book of Heroes; and reading the records of what

these men went through, whilst filling us with admiration for

their achievements and endurance, is also sufficient to raise a
blush that with our easier times and increased facilities we do
not accomplish more. Dr. Bradford has done a notable service
not merely to Homoeopathy, but to medical history in collecting
these fascinating records from many journals and other sources
inaccessible to the great majority of readers; and in years to
come when the great truth for which one and all laboured has
been acknowledged, as it must eventually be, it will be to Dr.

Bradford's pages that the medical world will turn for the full
elucidation of the rise and progress of the greatest reform in
therapeutics the world has yet seen. But Dr. Bradford and his
publishers must not be allowed to wait for posthumous honors
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Book Notices. 473

to crown their work. The homoeopathic world is already vast
and constantly extending. This work of Dr. Bradford's is one
which should be in the library of every homoeopathic practitioner,
and also of every lay homoeopath who has a soul capable of being
stirred by the stories of great deeds. Homoeopathic World.

A Text-Book of Gynaecology. By James C. Wood, A. M.,

M. D.
A work of one thousand pages, of high standard, uniformly
maintained throughout, is a great undertaking. This Dr. Wood
has done and done well in his excellent Text-Book of Gynecology.
The second edition of this popular work has been throughly
revised; so much so that it is practically a new work. One of
the most striking and very excellent features of the book is the
number of illustrative cases given in lieu of statistical tables.
It enhances greatly the clinical value of the work, and will be
appreciated by all interested readers of gynaecology. Another
feature greatly to be commended are the valuable indications
given for the use of homoeopathic remedies. The subject-matter
ishandled in a masterly manner, and it is especially adapted to
the requirements of the student, practitioner and specialist alike.
The illustrations are prodigal,but none the less valuable.
Taken unquestionably the best Text Book of Gyne-
all in all, it is

cology on the market. Boericke & Tafel are to be congratulated

on this handsome specimen of book-making. Hah?iema?inian
Monthly.

Organ Diseases of Women. By J. Compton Burnett, M. D.

This is another of those inimitable brochures of Dr. Burnett.
This together with his "Ringworm," his " Gold as a Remedy
in Diseases," his " Fifty Reasons for Being a Homoeopath," his
" Delicate, Backward, Puny and Stunted Children," together
with his " Ecce Medicus," etc., etc., form a library all to them-
selves from which much may be learned. There is no sound of
uncertainty about the writings of Dr. Burnett. He is certain;
in fact, his positivenesssometimes becomes dogmatism. How-
ever, the writing of such men is always interesting. The book
under consideration is not only interesting, but well v;orth con-
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474 Book Nott

sultation in cases resembling those depicted by the author. It
is well worth its price, and no homoeopathic practitioner should
be without a copy. Southern Journal of Homoeopathy,

Bell ox Diarrhcea. —
Bell's "Therapeutics of Diarrhoea," in
1869, was received with such unstinted praise and proved of
such value to the homoeopathic prescriber, that successive edi-
tions of the work were not only readily sold, but became the
pattern of similar monographs treating upon the therapeutics of
other diseases. The new fourth) edition presents no new feat-
I

ures, but has all the old excellencies. As the author well states
in the preface, "Homoeopathy is not making that kind of
1
progress '
that renders a whole medical library obsolete every
ten years, but instead of that is all the time laying up in its

storehouse treasures new and old."

enlarge upon the practical value of this mono-
It is useless to

graph. Almost everybody knows all about it and owns a cony:

those who have not seen or used it had best send at once for a
cop} of it.
7
Pacific Coast Journal of Homceopathy.

A xkw edition of Hawke's Characteristics, the fourth is out.

The full title of the book is:

Characteristic Indications of Prominent Remedies for the I 'se of

Students of Materia Jfedica and Therapeutics by W.J. Haickcs,
M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics i)i Hahne-
mann Medical College^ Chicago. Fourth Edition, Revised and En-
larged.
This edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged, bears the
author's name on the title page as publisher, but the sale of it
will be controlled by Messrs. Boericke & Tafel. The book is
so well known that it hardly needs description here; for a
primary student in Materia Medica there is probably no better
work. It is essentially a note book having the right hand page
printed with the fully accepted characteristics of each remedy
and the left hand page blank for notes.
Tile book contains [43 pages ami sells for Si. 00 per copy.
Postage .05 cents.

A.LL of Hahnemann's writings in Homoeopathy are now in

print excepting the "Lesser Writings," and some day, if the
profession is willing, that bonk, too. will be brought out.
 Horraoeopathic 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 following from Horn. Monatblcztter, June, 1898, by the

late Dr. Bruchner, is worth noting:
" Dr. Sprenger reports in an American Homoeopathic Journal
that for a long time he had no confidence in the provings of
Lachesis, but he has lately found out that in blood-poisoning
Lachesis is first remedy!
absolutely the It is adapted to gan-
grene. have seen the action of Lachesis in scarlatina,
Since I

this disease has lost all terrors for me. I have never been able
to do with other remedies what I have done with Lachesis.
Therefore in any cases of scarlatina which look at all serious,
I always give Lachesis dissolved in water, when necessary every
half hour. In 24 hours the patient is quiet, the fever decreases,
the eruption assumes a lighter color and the recovery proceeds
rapidly. During the last 15 years I have given Lachesis in
every case of scarlatina as a prophylactic to make the disinte-
gration of blood impossible, and during all this time I have not
lost a single case of scarlatina, all the cases running a mild
course. The remedy I here recommend is not a new one, but
at this time,when every day sees new magical remedies arise to
swindle the people, and when they are exalted into the heavens,
it is useful to be again reminded of our old reliable remedies,
which are, so to say, our sheet anchor."

By a communication from the Burgomaster of Meissen, dated

May 1 Homoeopathic Central Society of Germany
8th, 1895, tne
had received the promise that in the case the birth-house of our
venerable Master Hahnemann should
be taken down an oppor-
tunity should be given at a?iy time to put up again the bust of
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476 Editorial.

Hahnemann in an appropriate part of the building erected in its

place or in some other appropriate place in the city. We are
glad to read in a late number of the " Leipziger Tageblatt,"
under the heading of " Meissen," the following item, which will
no doubt be of interest to the representatives and adherents of
Homoeopathy: Meissen, July 22. In the newly built house of
Restaurateur Klesberg, on Hahnemann Square, which has been
erected on the place where Hahnemann was born, the old me-
morial tablet in honor of the founder of Homoeopathy has been
again put up. At the request of a citizen of Meissen, the Coun-
cillor of Commerce, Dr. Willmar Schwabe, in Leipzig, has kindly
offered to place there another bust of our renowned townsman,
and one made of a nobler material than the preceding one.

4<
I requested Dr. Schwabe's Central Pharmacy in Leipzig
eight weeks ago to sendme some extract of Hatnamelis, as it had
been recommended to me in haemorrhage from the kidneys.
This haemorrhage was afflicting my father, then 63 years of age,
having been caused by renal gravel, and had already lasted ten
weeks. In vain three physicians had given him the most care-
ful treatment; the haemorrhages could not be stopped, so that

my father had become very weak. A teaspoon ful of Hamamelis

extract taken internally five times in one day checked the
haemorrhage, so that we were almost struck dumb at this effect.
And this splendid effect was permanent; my father has fully re-
covered during the past two months; his urine is quite free from
blood or albumen. Be so kind as to publish this cure as many
— —
even physicians may be benefited by a knowledge of this
remedy." Paul Ruckot in Sch. Voksarzt, Xo. 8, 1S9S.

Dr. O. K. Maddox, secretary, sends us the programme of the

Marion County Homoeopathic Medical Society Indianapolis,
I

Ind.) for season of i.soS-'oo. He writes "We are always

pleased to learn <>f tlie progress of others through the journals
and take this occasion to advise them of our plans." All such
brief notices and the papers are welcome to the RECORDER'S
pages. Tin- programme of the Marion county men promises to
be interesting.
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Editorial. 477
Oh, men and women, followers of Hahnemann; you have learned the
old and veritable Homoeopathy as your preceptors got it from men who
sat very near the feet of the Master, will you make no effort to save the
Homoeopathy of your Fathers? Will you sit idly by while many of the
modern hermaphroditic colleges thrust Homoeopathy from their boards or
dally with it as an antiquated notion, hanging the hat the while to catch

every new breeze in chemistry and microscopy? Will you not examine
the school before you send your son or your daughter or student to be
—
ruined for life because he will return to you neither homoeopath nor allo-
path ? Strike at the faculty of your schools and there will soon be no
longer much need for this insistent clamor of a Revision of the Homoeo-
pathic Materia Medica. Let the Boards of Visitors, and Boards of Censors
lay aside their tinsel crowns for the nonce and really visit and examine the
schools and tell the profession if Homoeopathy is being taught, or whether
it is simply read off in a few deadly, monotonous materia medica lectures

of a generation's mildewing. That is not Homoeopathy! That is allopathy

diluted! Grind that into your souls, gentlemen of the modern homoeo-
pathic college. The time is at hand for a change. Homoeopathy is or it
is not. If it is, then let it appear in all its pristine glory. If it is not,
why, look you, take the silly thing out of the title, and let us call ourselves
Eclectics, with no intended offense to the Eclectics." American Homce-
opathist, Sept. 13, 1898.

TO THE HOMCEOPATHIC PROFESSION AND THE

PATRONS OF HOMOEOPATHY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Philadelphia, Sept. 16, 1898.
The Homoeopathic Medical Congress, held
last International
in London in 1896, decided to erect a memorial tablet or statue
over the remains ofthelateDr. Samuel Hahnemann, and accord-
ingly appointed a commission of five to solicit and collect funds
for the same.
As the American representative of the Commission appointed
by that Congress, I hereby solicit such voluntary offerings as
you desire to contribute toward this object, in memory of the
illustrious founder of Homoeopathy.
The funds are now being contributed, and I would be glad to
have all who feel inclined to aid in this matter send in their
subscriptions at an early day, either to me, or direct to the
Secretary, Dr. Francois Cartier, 18 Rue Vignon, Paris, France.
The adornment of the tomb will depend on the amount of
cash received, and the Commission desires to proceed at once
47 s Editorial.

with the work in order that it may be finished before the session
of the next Homoeopathic Medical Congress in Paris in 190 ».

Fraternally and sincerely yours,

brod W. Jam

The California Medical Journal says: The bacteriological the-

ory offers the only tangible explanation of the cause of the specific
infections diseases that has ever been presented, and it is a pity
if the entire structure be a fad. That it has been pursued into
the field of delusion and folly there is no denying, but there
ought to be some truth in it, after all. It gives the subject a
very black eye, however, when one who has taught it for ten
years declares that it is all a fad.

The man who nightly puts his head in the yawning lion's
month is reasonably sure that it will not be bitten off, yet he
must always experience a slight trepidation. Similary must
those who inject antitoxin into children — if they read the medi-
cal journals. Dr. R. Abrahams {Med. Record.) contributes his
experience with this tricky and dangerous stuff as follows:
F ,
on a Friday. Satur-
six years old, developed tonsillar diphtheria
day, at about five o'clock in the morning, I was called because croup ap-
peared. The child was examined; diphtheritic membrane was found cover-
ing the tonsils. Although the child was decidly croupy, the breathing
was far from alarming. Temperature, 102 degs. F., with a pulse in propor-
tion. At half-past six o'clock I injected between the shoulder blades fifteen
hundredth of a cubic centimetre of the antitoxin of the New York board of
health. The reaction was marked by a rise of temperature of one degree;
otherwise the child fell asleep, as most of them do after serum treatment.
At eleven o'clock the temperature was the same, but there was evidence of
improvement in the breathing and the cough. Nourishment was taken
without protest. At one o'clock the report was still more gratifying. At
'

tWO o'clock the child suddenly began to gasp for air and became very
with cold extremities, poor pulse, and profuse cold perspiration. This
alarming condition lasted but ten minute-. Then the child began to
breathe quietly, pulse weak, and temperature sub-normal. A slow but
gradual paralysis of the limba and relieves set in, and by five o'clock, in
spite of the most vigorous treatment, the child died in a condition of total
collapse and paralysis. The mo9t curious feature of this case was that the
quiet though slow breathing was preserved until the last moment, and,
weir it not for the ghastly appearance of the face, oue could not by mere
inspection tell the approach of death There 1- no d »ubt in my mind, and
in thai of anothei physician whom showed the case, thai the antitoxin
1

sponsible for the speedy and fatal termination.

 Editorial. 479
Better stick to the homoeopathic remedy, especially as it shows
far better results than antitoxin at its best and never kills the
patient.

Quoth the New York Medical Times:

" says the native Africans never have malaria, and their exemption
Koch
is due to hereditary immunity, but when he says persons who have suffered

from an attack of malarial fever and have recovered without quinine have
acquired immunity he evidently does not know what he is talking about."

The latter part of this is beginning to be a rather self-evident

fact, but that persons can recover from malaria without routine
quinine is also almost a self-evident fact. Quinine is probably
prescribed by physicians or taken without prescriptions five
hundred times to once when it is really indicated.

The following by Dr. H. A. Hare, of Philadelphia, clipped

from a paper printed in Domi?iio?i Medical Monthly of September,
must give pause to the cock-sure on appendicitis either way:
I have recently published in the Medical News some interesting cases of
apendicitis which show how one may be harassed by conflicting experi-
ences. In one case I implored, besought, pleaded and insisted that a
young fellow with a history of nine attacks in six months should have an
operation. He had an immense mass of inflammatory material about his
appendix. He finally consented. One of the most eminent surgeons liv-
ing operated. Stercoraceous vomiting speedily ensued, with collapse and
death. I forced this man to an early death. In another instance I advised
delay, because after this experience I had lost my nerve, for it came to my
hands a few days after. Death met me again. Another case had a sharp
attack of pain, with every classical sign of the disease. A surgeon said
operate. The weather was excessively hot, the patient a feeble woman of
fifty, and I felt sure the operation would kill her. I called a medical con-
sultant who agreed with me. No operation was done, and the patient is
now well and has had no attack since. I could go on with such cases in-
definitely and reach no clearer ideas as to the subject.

According to the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette {ox August, Dr.

Ussery recommends bananas as an excellent food for typhoid
patients, inasmuch as the banana, though a solid food for all
practical purposes, containing, as it does, some ninety-five per
cent, of nutritive matter, does not possess sufficient waste to
the ulcerated mucous membrane.
irritate Nearly the whole
amount taken into the stomach is absorbed.
 —

PERSONAL.
Will not those who know all about antitoxin tell us what they mean
when they say its "strength " varies? In what does its strength consist?
You are right, John Henry, it is better to prescribe Sac. lac. in material
doses.
Dr. J. L. Miller says that the bacilli of smegma may be controlled "by
cleansing the external meatus." Live and learn!
Some of our old school exchanges are talking about the "over produc-
tion of doctors," just as though they were a factory output.
"Homoeopathy is the winning horse in the medical derbv." says Bur-
nett.

There are other horses more showy and that prance more, but Homoe-
opathy can distance them all when they get down to business.
Can, and will, any reader send us brief particulars of any good location
for a homoeopathic physician ?
Charles Leslie Rutnsey, M. D.,has removed from 819 to S12 Park avenue,
Baltimore, Md.
Dr. J. S. Barnard has established a sanatorium at 21 12 N. Charles street,
Baltimore, Md., for surgical and chronic medical cases.
Dr. D. F. Shipley has opened a private sanitarium at Westminster, Md.
J. O. Heudrix, M. D., physician and surgeon at Frederick, Md.
A. Marie Arringdale, M. D., has located at 2315 N. Charles street, Balti-
more, Md.
A new edition of Hawke's Characteristics is out. Boericke &
Tafel con-
trol the sale of it. Good book and well known. First edition, B. T.. &
1882.

Lay your plans for the next institute meeting, Atlantic City, the Ameri-
can seaside metropolis, and stay the full time.
" It is so much easier to cut than to cure!" Kraft.
The buyer always pay a big price for cheap tablets, triturations and tinc-
tures — but he doesn't know it.

Every one gets "results" from the cheap medicines — the patient gets
well or dies or goes to another doctor.
The soap maker ought to do the clean thing every time.
How to have a beautiful complexion: Be born with one.
W. Smith, M. D., 1). <>., < Osteopath, has sued the Medical Age for $:
dam.;.

Beware <>:"
the I Osteopath, ye editors.

There are two hundred unlicensed doctors in the Klondike region; why
camming boards put a stop to this outre
An ( \<-l ly asks, " Are brains unne<
" We live by a] tion," writes another, quit
 THE
HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.
Vol. XIII. Lancaster, Pa. November, 1898. No. 11

FERRUM PICRICUM IN WARTY GROWTHS.

By Robert T. Cooper, M. A., M. D., London.
In your Homoeopathic Recorder for August you give an
article by A. W. Holcombe, from the Medical Advance, which
begins thus: "Some years ago I saw in one of our journals
(name forgotten now) an article in which Ferrum picricum was
recommended for wrrts."
As, however, I have the honor to have been the first to point
out this very valuable and interesting feature of the action of
Ferrum picricum, and as I have written several more or less
lengthy paragraphs on the subject during the last fourteen years,
I hope you will allow me to add a word or two.
In 1884 I read a paper before the Homoeopathic Congress on the
Hiterick Natural Mineral Water and some of the newer artificial
preparations of iron, in which reference is made to the Ferrum
picricum-, in a paper read at the 1881 Congress I refer to the
action of Picric acid, and paper
in a read at the Congress of 1896
I specially refer to the action on warts of Ferrum picricum.
In the Homoeopathic World, June 1st, 1887, and in the Janu-
ary number, 1888, I also referred to its applicability to epithelial

growths, and, besides, if memory serves aright, when permitted

to write for the —
Monthly Homoeopathic Review an honor from
which I am —
now deprived I made more than one reference to
the same subject.
So that I really begin to look upon Ferrum picricum and its
action upon warts as a child of my own. And not an illegitimate
one, either, seeing that it was revealed to me by the holy cere-
mony of a proving, the pathogenesis consisting of the feeling as
though a wart were growing upon the thumb of a patient.
482 Oligodynamic Phenomena in Living Cells.

When ti. many warts on the hands it seems never to

fail, but on one occasion I thought it had.
During the spring of 1897 treated our housemaid, a girl of
I

summers, Tor a crowd of warts on both hands; /

5

pier. 3d dec. was given in repeated doses, then Cakarea card.

and 30, then Thuj. Occid. locally and internally, but to no
purpose. I then, after about three months' treatment, gave
uiii pier. 2X instead of the 3d, but Still no change. The girl
then went away for her hoi id ly, and on her return ved
me triumphantly her hands the warts had all gone — Yes," !
l<

said I, " and the corns on your feet, if you had any, ar
and you are feeling stronger," to both of which she gleefully re-
plied in the affirmative. The fact was that for some unaccount-
able reason the influence of the Ferrum picricum did not tell
until she left which she had done during the holiday,
it off,

having neglected to take the bottle with her. I mention this,

as with less confidence in this remedy one might be inclined not
to give it a full trial. But it is in lupoid warts, pure and simple,
that I anticipate a great future for it

In my " Serious Diseases Saved from Operation "' is a -rand

case of lupoid growth taking the form of a large wart 011 the
face that turned black and finally disappeared al

Ferrum picricum.
joa George Street, Hanover Square, London.

OLIGODYNAMIC PHENOMENA IN LIVING CELLS.

By Carl Von Nageli, of Switzerland.

Reported by W. P. Wesselhoeft, M. I).. Boston, Mas

Charles Darwin astonished the scientific world in [875 by the

publication of experiments made upon insectivorous plants, in

which he showed by repeated experiments the -

he himself was forced to acknowledge almost against his wi

that the absorption of less than one thirty-mill onth of a grain of
phosphate of ammonia had the power of carrying a motoi impulse
to tlie tentacle of the Drosera rot undi folia, exciting a movem< 1

degrees. Darwin ex] his wonder at the action of such

minute quantities " in organisms devoid of a nervous system.*'

London: John Bale & Sons. [887.

rom Transactions of the I. H. A., reprinted with permission of auth
 Oligodynamic Phenomena in Living Cells. 483

Since then another scientist has arisen in Europe whose exper-

iments with so called insoluble substances have convinced him,
and a number of pupils, that a new force must be invoked to ex-
plain the deadly, and sickmaking, action of metals on lower
animal and vegetable organisms.
Carl von Nageli called this new force, Oligodynamis, by which
he wished to express the action of minutest particles of metals in
aqueous solutions beyond the power of chemistry to establish.
In his studies he established the fact that the action of these
metallic solutions on Spirogyra di fife red from chemical poisonings,
not only in degree, but in the kind and manner of their action.
His experiments were begun in 1881 and continued with some
interruptions till his death, in 1892. Among his posthumous
papers the one I am now discussing was found nearly ready for
publication. This patient labor reminds us strongly of Hahne-
mann's work, who, with a few followers, experimented for nearly
twenty years before he published his discoveries in the Organon of
the Healing Art.
Xageli's experiments had their origin in the revelation, that
water drawn from a brass faucet, or water distilled in copper ves-
sels, had a fatal effect upon Spirogyra. He then began to " po-
tentize " this water, i. e., reduce the amount of poison. He dis-
tilled one liter of water in glass retorts, suspended four clean
copper coins in this water during four days, and found that this
solution killed his plants in a few minutes. When this water was
poured away, the glass rinsed and washed carefully, and again re-
filled with neutral water, the Spirogyra also died in a very short

time. If, however, the glass was washed out with diluted nitric

acid, and refilled with fresh neutral water, the plants flour-
ished and remained healthy. This proved, conclusive^, that
a copper force was imparted to water from the walls of the glass
vessel Rinsing, washing, brushing, and even boiling had little
effect upon the glass; not till a mineral acid had been used did the
glass vessel lose its oligodynamic properties.
Again he found that this oligodynamic water poured into a new,
clean glass vessel transferred its poisonous properties to the walls
of the glass, and in turn was again able to medicate neutr 1 dis-
tilled water.
He says: " Glasses with oligodynamic aftereffects (naehwirk-
ung), lose their power very slowly after being repeatedly refilled
with neutral water, which is allowed to stand in them for a while,
and somewhat more rapidly if they are boiled in neutral wat er "
484 Oligodynamic Phenomena in Living Cells.

These experiments were frequently repeated, and with many

same results. The facts were irrev-
variations, with precisely the
ocably established.
It now became a duty to endeavor to explain these facts. It

seemed impossible to Nageli's mind that this force could originate

from a soluble combination. How could it be possible that such
an incredibly minute quantity of almost insoluble metals should
have such deadly effects upon living cells? How could it be
possible for even a soluble substance, which adhered to the sur-
face of a glass, to have such potency in its aftereffects (nachwirk-
ung) which had been repeatedly washed out, rinsed and boiled,
and still be able to transfer to neutral water, for weeks, its death-
dealing qualities ?

Nageli further records an attempt to ascertain the amount of

copper dissolved by suspending twelve small copper coins in
twelve quarts of neutral water during four days. These twelve
quarts were slowly evaporated and the minute residue, supposed
to be hydroxyd of copper, was found to be in the proportion of
one part of copper to nearly one hundred million of water.
Therefore this solution of 1: 100,000,000 was capable of trans-
ferring its medicinal qualities through a series of glasses, each
of which had been washed, rinsed, and each glass retained its
power to transfer oligodynamic copper properties.
Nageli also demonstrated the difference between chemical
poisoning and the action of oligodynamic water upon Spirogyra,
observing the symptoms of the plant while under the influence
of copper solutions in which no copper could be chemically
demonstrated.
He says:
li
There is not the least doubt that the stronger con-
centrated solutions of copper have a chemical poisoning effect,

while those of the weaker solutions have a sickmaking effect"

(before they kill).
He considers the chemically poisonous effects to lie from the
proportions of one part of copper to one thousand up to one
part of copper to ten thousand of water. The oligodynamic
effects lie between one part of copper to 100,000,000 up to one
part of copper to 1,000 million of water.
The discoveries of Nageli are exciting much interest among
scientists in this field of observation. It is very singular and
however, that the experimenters, so tar as
Significant, know, I

have confined their observations Only to the first solutions of

 . :

Oligodynamic Phenomena in Living Cells. 485

copper one 100,000,000 and have nothing to say about the trans-
ference of oligodynarais to vessels inwhich this solution has
«5tood
Thus F. Locke {Journal of Physiology, 1895) says: " A
S.
piece of bright sheet copper 4.5 x 1.5 cm. placed in 200 c.c. of
water distilled in glass produced complete disintegration of the
tubifex in less than twenty hours. Under exactly the same cir-

cumstances in a parallel experiment, three tadpoles lived only

nine hours. The marked influence of contact of distilled water
with copper, either as such or in brass, amply explains the de-
structive 'aqua destillata,' and points to the advisability of
avoidance of all contact with this metal of water to be used in
physiological experiments. The result points to Spirogyra
being more obnoxious to traces of copper than tubifex, for a
water containing one part of copper to 77,000,000 of water kills
the plant in one minute at most."
Here you will observe no mention is made of experiments
with contact potencies mentioned by Nageli, who declares he
found poisonous (or sickmaking) effects in solutions which he
calculated in proportions of one part to 1,000,000,000.
O. Israel and Th. Klingmann ( Virchow''s A? chiv , cxlvii, page
293) say in their experiments corroborating Nageli's observa-
tions:
"We used metal foils which are more easily cleansed and
measured, and extended our experiments not only to different
species of Spirogyra, but also to bacteria (typhus, cholera, etc).
Those experiments proved that infinitesimal quantities of metal-
lic salts absorbed by water produce most marked disturbances

in the life of lower organisms. The dissolved quantities are so

extremely insignificant that they can be demonstrated chemi-
cally only by evaporating vast quantities of the solution, and
every drop of this infinitesimal solution is capable of producing
injury."
Then they try to prove that this action nevertheless must be
chemical, but they experimented only with the first solution of
1:77,000,000 and mention nothing of experiments made with
contact potencies which Nageli lays so much stress upon and
which cannot be demonstrated by any quantity of zeros behind
the unit. How would it be possible to demonstrate the amonnt
of copper molecules or atoms contained in a vial in which a solu-
tion of 1:77,000,000 had stood for a while, then this vial care-
486 Oligodynamic Phenomena in Living ( ells,

fully cleansed by washing and wiping and refilled with neutral

.1 this contact made the secon . even third and
fourth) solution injurious to the plant. I think Israel and
Klingmann would have found some demonstrating
difficulty in
the presence of copper such proportions by chemistry
in
It is the old story repeated, and Hahnemann's words should

ring in our ears: " Machts nach, aber machts genau nach."
This subject is evidently interesting a number of scientis
the present time, and I hope to be able to add more observations,

which may have accumulated, at our next meeting.

It seems that " science " is gradually advancing to our prin-

ciple and doctrine in recognizing forces and energies inherent in

substances which cannot be grasped by the hand, seen by the
eye, measured by rule, or weighed in scales, forces inherent in
matter made potential by trituration and potentizing.
I am well aware that these solutions have little in common

with our high and highest potencies except this one fact, viz to ,

account for the potency of such a division of matter, Xageli

obliged to invoke a new force in order to explain the energy of
these solutions. His experiments were confined to a low order
of plants, organisms devoid of a nervous system. Hahnemann
discovered this infinitesimal power of insoluble substance while
observing organisms not devoid of a nervous system, and carried
his potencies up to the 30th centesimal, and even higher. Still
more w onderful was his discovery that substances, which in their
7

crude state do not evince the least medicinal effect upon the
human body, become potential by dynamization.
Nageli has called this new force, " Oligodynamic," which,
translated, means "minute power," or "power of the minute."
Hahnemann more than eighty years ago wrote, pp. 2
Organon : " The homoeopathic healing art develops for its pur-
poses the immaterial (dynamic) virtues of medicinal substances,
and to a degree previously unheard of, by means of a peculiar
and hitherto untried process. By this process it is that they
become penetrating, operative, and remedial, even those substances
that in a natural or crude slate betray not the least medicinal
power upon the human system " Nageli calls this force by one
name, Hahnemann by another; they both were on a similar
scent. Hahnemann called it medicinal force 1 arzn I be-

cause it ran be observed only in its action upon living organisms, but
not by chemical, physical or microscopical test.
 Oligodynamic Phenomena in Living Cells. 487

Let me quote a few words from a paper by Dr. B. Fincke,

which think is in point:
I
" Infinitesimal is that quantity which is so minute as to be un-
assignable. It is, nevertheless, something which has a reality,
though it escapes our observation. * * * There is an inex-
haustible supply of infinitesimals in nature which the human
understanding will never be able to use up in its endeavor to
peep behind its mysteries. Thus it is that an essential contra-
diction prevails in the claims of mathematics for infinitesimals,
and which they receive at the hands of physi-
in the repulsion
cists and chemists in their opposition to Homoeopathy, though
they themselves seem to have great need of it, as the artificial
atomic and molecular hypothesis proves, which is built up to
fill the void felt by their branches of science. * * * As soon
as the infinitesimal can be assigned, as the greatest mathemati-
cians of this age have calculated the hypothetical atom, it loses
the quality of infinitesimality. It becomes a mere minutule,
* * * but the thus assigned and calculated minutule, be it
ever so small, its very determination points to still smaller enti-
ties which escape, as yet, alike observation and calculation and
recede into the depths of infinitesimality, though we have an
idea of their existence. * * * By the progress of science,
our observation discovers new values. * * * The most fa-
miliar instances in physics and chemistry are the discoveries of
new substances by the spectroscope which had escaped the so
farknown instruments of research, and the radiant condition
which matter seems to assume under the influence of electricity
in a most attenuated state."
" Crookes carried the rarification of air to 0*0 °f an at-
a
mosphere, which therefore compares to a little more than the
third homoeopathic potency. By Bunsen's spectroscope matter
can be seen as far as the ninth or tenth centesimal potency.
This is all that physicial science so far has accomplished in gain-
ing minitular values from the world of infinitesimals. Why
should Hahnemann and the homceopathicians be so bitterly as-
sailed, who by their process of potentiation of substances, and
by the application of preparations thus obtained upon the human
organism in health and disease, have succeeded in showing
values which far exceed the wonderful feats of modern science ?
* * * It is, therefore, a great injustice that not only physi-
cists but also members of the homoeopathic profession ridicule
488 Notes and Comments.

the Hahneraannian infinitesimals and try to persuade the peo-

ple that advocates of such ridiculous remedies deserve no credit
or confidence, * * and yet the reproach that homoeopaths
were dealing in infinitesimals was not even a valid one, because
the remedies being assigned and determined by their crude) |

medicinal action lost the characteristics of infinitesimality.

In 18S0, our colleague, Dr. Buchmann,
in Alvensleben, Ger-
many, carefully cleansed ten-mark gold pieces, placed
fifteen
them in a glass vessel, carefully avoiding any friction. Then
fifty grammes of distilled water were poured into the vessel and

allowed to stand for half an hour. He proved his solution on

himself and on a lady, who was especially sensitive to the influ-
ence of metals. He records fifty symptoms observed, which
correspond almost exactly to the symptoms of Hahnemann's
collection in the pathogenesis of Aurum metallicum. The dose
taken by each prover was one spoonful of the solution. He de-
sired to show that gold was soluble in water, even after having
been exposed a very short time. Dr. Buchmann' s experiment
preceded Nageli by one year. Buchmann knew before his ex-
periment was made that metals were soluble from his knowledge
of the action of high potencies, and this has been known by him
and many others for over half a century.
Prof. Nageli' s experiments are recorded in the Neuc Denk-
schrifte?i allegem. Schweitz. Gesellschaft, Vol. XXXIII., Part I.,

1893, published in Zurich.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

By Professor T. C. Duncan, Chicago.

About Ferrum Phosphoricum in Pneumonia.

I have been trying to find out why, when Ferrum is added to
Phosphorus, that they should be promoted to the front rank I first

stage) in pneumonia. Has these two combined drugs the chill,

the high fever, the pain, the anorexia, the flushed besotted face,
delirium, and bounding pulse of the first stage oi pneu-
full

monia, with dry cough? That is the dictum ofSchiissler, who

its

throws Similia to the winds and makes it a rival 01 Aconite in

the onset of pneumonia. We admire the "gall," as the boys
would say, of making a claim for a remedy that it is not entitled
 Notes and Co?nments. 489
to! The abridged therapy proves to be " short clothes " unless
it can have a fever drug. The problem is attempted to be solved
by Ferrum Phosphorica. If it cannot meet the fever of the first
stage of pneumonia it cannot supplant Aconite or Veratrum
viride, in fine, is not a fever drug. I have read with deep interest
most of the cases reported showing this double ender in action.
The interesting case on page 400 does not support Schiissler's
claim. Let us review that case. "Man aet. 74, a smoker and
drinker," (should have a hypertrophied, dilated, fatty heart as
well as "gastric catarrh"). Was "seized with respiratory
troubles and cramp of the bladder" Just what form of chest
trouble we are not informed. " He went to bed, and on exam-
ination showed an arythmic (intermittent) pulse, little red
urine, a dry cough and total anorexia." Loss of appetite, I tell
the students is diagnostic of pneumonia. (In bronchitis the
appetite remains.) In this case at this stage no record is given
of the temperature or appearance of the patient. The dry
cough and the other acute symptoms would suggest Bryonia.
The cramp of the bladder finds a remedy in Aconite. The
remedies given, singular to say, were Anrum t. and Terebinthina,
and Digitalis. The bladder and pulse received the most atten-
tion, and we are not surprised that these remedies, not indicated
in the first or second stage of pneumonia, should have done
" little or no good." On the sixth day, when resolution became
established, we read that "the cough became more troublesome,
the pulse still more irregular, and the respiration assumed the
Cheyne-Stokes form. In the lungs on both sides there was dul-
ness, a light delirium during temporary somnolence, heat and
congestion to the head, the urine scanty, turbid, albuminous."
Had Aconite been given and Bryonia when indicated it is
doubtful if "these symptoms which threatened an imminent
catastrophe" would have appeared. Now the attending physi-
cian thought of Ferrum phos. Phosphorus was indicated at this
stage, and we are not surprised that "the storm was allayed
and the patient slept quietly for several hours. The pulse
was regular, although still accelerated; the urine was discharged
in greater abundance, the respiration became much freer." The
crisis had come that usually appears at the eight or ninth
day, and the patient recovered.
This case is supposed "to confirm a certain analogy of Ferrum
phos. with Aconite, although it shows a more passive character
49° <*nd ( omments.

in the phenomena of congestions, especally in the lungs." That

is true.
Tiic translator correctly drawn the conclusion "that the action
of Ferrum pJios. is not, i by Schiis>k-r, limited to the first
stage of pneumonia." If we draw any conclusion from the study
of this drug, it is that its good effect should be limited to the
third stage of pneumonia. As Farrington states: " It acts on
the bloodvessels, producing a state of semi-paralysis, causing
them to dilate as in the second stage of inflammation." It is but
indicated in the state of active congestion. Phosphorus corre-
sponds to the type of pneumonia following bronchitis (broncho-
pneumonia.)

Some Singular Phytolacca Effects.

There are some recorded Phytolacca effects that seem foreign

to the drug, still who will dispute their value? It is a question
whether they are primary or secondary effects.

Mental.
Wecan believe that this lazy drug will produce " great indif-
ference " (like Phos. acid.). " Indisposition to mental exertion;"
"disgust of day on waking early in morning"
for business
which will lead to "
melancholy and gloom " with " indifference
to life." But it seems foreign to this drug to read of " com-
plete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her person."
It does not seem that shamelessness is the proper term, but
should be rather careless indifference. Still that may be its
primary effect, for it has produced doubtless as secondary effect
" complete loss of sexual power for weeks," "impotence." It

produces " too early and profuse menses," like the alkaline pot-
ash and lime. Calcarea has no lasciviousness, but intense melan-
cholia with some sexual desire. Both have enlarged breasts.
Well- developed breasts and passion go together if the cardiac
action is also strong. We will turn over the solution of that
mental problem of Phytolacca to the nerve men and take a look
at a peculiar heart symptom.
Heart.
II. There is a cardiac problem to solve quite as difficult. We
.: "Shocks of pain in cardiac region; angina pectoris, pain
into the right arm" Why? Who can explain that 5
We
read on " awakens with lameness near the heart I
side not
 Notes and Comments. 491

stated), worse during inspiration, cannot go to sleep;" that is

evidently myalgia and hypertrophy.

With drug we can understand why the " heart's
this lazy
action is weak, with constipation," " pulse small, irregular, with
great excitement in chest, especially in cardiac region;" "pulse
full, but soft." To understand those symptoms we go to the
respiration, back or head. Under respiration we read: "Res-
piration difficult, oppressed; loud mucous rales;" "constant
moaning and gasping for air." That is a local stenosis noticed
in diphtheria. " Faint with sighing, slow breath," doubtless
due to the cerebral effects of Phytolacca. We read that in addi-
tion to the mental weakness it has " vertigo with danger of fall-
ing; with dim vision when rising from the bed, feels faint;
staggering." " Sick headache, worse in forehead with backache;
comes every week." That does not afford much information,
so we will go to the back, where we find " convulsive action of
muscles of face and neck" (tetanus), "stiff neck," "rheuma-
tism in lumbar muscles." " Pain streaking up and down the
spine." Is that nervous or muscular? "Both scapulae ache
•continually." "Shooting pain in right shoulder joint, with
stiffness and inability to raise the arn-." Now if we connect
the chest pain attending the angina with this arm ache we can
understand the peculiar cardiac symptom quoted above. It is
undoubtedly myalgic, and differs from that of Acoyiite, Kahnia,
Rhus, Cactus, etc., where the anginose pain seems transmitted
down along the bloodvessels of the left arm.
III. How and why Phytolacca involves the glands of neck or
mammae is also an interesting problem lo study. Doubtless
through its primary action; but that is a problem for gynecolo-
gists.
I think that the modus operandi of drug action is the most
attractive field yet unexplored. What study more profitable ?
Some Antidotes.

On p. 407 we read in an article on " Homoeopathic Antidotes

in Cases or Poisoning" that "the chief enetn}' of Mercury is
Iodine and various preparations of Sulphur."
When we give Merc. iod. or Merc. jod. are we getting a dual
effect or only that of Iodine after all ?

Cinnabar is Merc, sulph., I believe. Is it any good ? Old Dr.

Hering used to say that Merc, worked inward while Sulphur
49 2 Two Cases of Intermittent Fever Cured.

worked outward. When we we only get-

give a compound, are
ting the effects of one drug, while the rest goes to the
druggist ? Arise, ye Mat. Med. giants and explain.
D.

TWO CASES OF INTERMITTENT FEVER CURED,

i. One With Cactus Grand.
By A. W. K. Choudhury, Calcutta, India.

Naseem, a Mahommedan boy of eight years, came to my dis-

pensary January 23, 1898, for treatment when he had been ill

about a fortnight. The characters of the case were as follows:

Type: Quotidian (till four or five days previous to his first
attendance to dispensary).
Time: 11 A. m.
Prodromata, yawning, stretching.
Chill severe, thirst, headache, no aching of limbs, body hot.
Heat: No separate heat.
Commences while yet under cover.
Sweat:
Was
given Cactus grand. 30, one dose, to be taken immedi-
ately; advised to take Khoi, milk and sugar candy and ordered
no bathing.
Very slight feverishness and two soft stools the same day he
took the medicine. After the medicine was taken had no sweat
with that paroxysm. Xo change of thirst, cough (which he
had), tongue and spleen as before.
One whole dose was given the next day, but had slight fever
that day, with chill, with no thirst and with no sweat: tongue
better the third day morning. Placebo was given him the third
day, the 25th inst., and no more fever.
He discontinued attendance — had no more fever.
This is the only case of intermittent fever I have ever tl

with Cactus grand.

To remark on this Cactus case of intermittent fever, 1 must
admit that it is a rare case, inasmuch as the ease h.is a pecu-
liar feature in not having the hot stage at all. sweat following
chill. II. C. Allen, :i^ I see, tails to teach us the abs
In- it in his Cactus intermittent lexer, which, on the other hand,
Bonninghausen has the above symptom in his Therapeia. We
 Two Cases of Intermittent Fever Cured. 493
get occasions to praise our older writers.) The time of acces-
sion being 11 A. M. in our present case indicates Cad. g.

2. Case With Clematis.

Patient, Woommed AH, Mahommedan, aged about 32 years,
color black, came to my dispensary for treatment of intermit-
tent fever September, 1897, when he had been suffering since
nine days back. The case was as follows: Type, quotidian, or
double tertian, a pair of fever paroxysms, mild and strong alter-
nately; 10 to 11 A. m. was the time of the last paroxysm, which
was a strong one, and the previous day the mild paroxysm was
about 3 p. m.; prodromata, stretching, burning of eyes and heat
from eyes, chill severe with the last paroxysm; thirst with chill
but did not drink, aching of limbs and headache during chill;
no heat followed chill, but sweat commenced, while yet under
cover, with no thirst, and the sweat was slight. —
Apyrexia was
complete.
Daily one stool; stool soft, free and with no bad smell; urine
reddish, with no burning in passing; no threadworms; appetite
good; insipid taste in mouth; bad smell of mouth; heaviness of
head during fever.
He had to sit near a furnace to boil paddy, to which work he
had not been accustomed. When he finished the work he found
himself covered with sweat. To get rid of this sweating and to
cool himself he soaked his gamcha (native for towel) in cold
water and wiped away the sweat with this cold, wet towel. This
wiping with the cold, wet towel did not produce the desired cool-
ing effect on him. So our patient bathed immediately after.
Tightness of head followed this bathing. The following day
he got feverish heat, both internal and external, with eyes burn-
ing, but followed by no sweat. The feverishness continued with
unvarying severity all along, save with an aggravation day be-
fore his attending dispensary. Uncovering producing shivering.
Though his eyes closed continually and he was very tired, he
could not fall asleep all night. He felt internally as if there was
a dry heat. {Clematis, S. 139, Chro?iic Diseases of Hahnemann.)
He was given Clematis 6. One dose for the first day of treat-
ment, and khoi and sugar candy for diet.
No fever followed this dose; had two or three formed stools
the same day he took the medicine, another stool the following
morning; urine less reddish; insipid taste in mouth disappeared;
good sleep following night.
4'» \
oj Tntt rmittent Ft

given the next day. This dose was fol-

lowed b} -

v Q of fever of less d\: i\ g p. m.:

dream disturbed ion of dust in the hen
id, and when open running of tears: three knotty
3

urine slightly colored; two knotty stools the next morning I

the
16th inst. .

X i medicine was given the 16th inst. and rice and milk were
given for diet.
i fever after the medicine had been stopped;
ter sleep the following uight; three stools the day m
- stopped, and one stool the following morn:
no lachrymation after the medicine was discontinued; appetite
improved; humming in ears and a sensation of pressing on both
tern if pressed by the head of a nail on each temple.

17th inst., got placebo and diet as above, adding Dal He

attended dispensary two or three days more, getting only
placebo, with gradual improvement of the symptoms. He re-
covered.
one of the rare medicines for the treatment of in-
Clematis is

termittent fever, somuch so that Dr. H. C. Allen deemed it not

worth a place in his valuable work on Intermittent Frier.

Value of Old Homoeopathic Books.

Our old Bonninghausen did not fail to describe it. and in

treating this case I •
ed by him. The other*.
& Tafel were attacked by some one for having published the old
Williamson's Children Diseases for no good, but only to remem-
ber that good old gentleman. But I. for my part, should say a
word such an old homoeopathic work, and such pul
for
as Boericke & Tafel; our young authors sometimes leave
isly, precious things f om their works which \

fitly claim a them; and B. *.V T. should

place and belong in

show no hesitancy
t<> Layout hundre liars

to republish such old and useful homoeopathic work-. We af-

filed by old homoeopathic w »rks, when the new ones

fall US.

Prescribing in Intermittents.

I usually give two doses of the selected medicine to pa-

's with intermittent fever, one dose per diem; in rare cases
tion follows. In the above case there wasno fever after
 — —

Two Cases of Intermittent Fever Cured. 495

the first dose; after the second dose, the next morning, a
slight rise of temperature showed the following evening for a
short while; the following night the patient had his sleep
disturbed and eye symptoms as above narrated. Thinking
all the above symptoms, the evening short rise of tempera-
ture, the lachrymation, and sensation of sand in the eyes when
closed, to be a result of the aggravation of the medicinal effect,
I stopped the medicine the following day and then continued
with placebo with gradual disappearance of symptoms and gradual
improvement of our patient.
What led me to select such a rare medicine of intermittent
fever? The patient had no heat, intervening chill and sweat which
indicated Clematis besides others; and the next symptom -fever
from taking cold, getting wet, by bathing while sweating — again
indicated Clematis.

Hahnemannian Method Illustrated.

I made an analysis of the symptoms in the following manner:

Chill, then sweat (without intervening heat) has the following med-
,

icines: Amnion, m., Bry., Cact.g., Caps., Card, an., Carb. v.,
Canst., Chamom ,
Chclid., Clematis, Diadem., Digit., Helleb.,
Hyos., Lye, Merc, cor., Merc, v., Mezer., Nat. m., Nat. s.,

Nitrum.. Nux. z/., Op., Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac. Rhus iox.,
Sabad., Sep., Spigel., Thuja and Verat.
Fever from taking cold, getting wet (by bathing in our case)
while sweating has the following medicines: Aco?i., Calc. c.
Clemat., Colch., Dulc, Rhus tox., and Sepia.
By sifting the medicines we get only three of them, namely,
Clematis, Rhus-tox. and Sep. in both the lists. The peculiar
symptom though his eyes closed continually and he was very tired,
he could not fall asleep all night, and he felt iyiternally as if there
was a dry heat — found with our patient made me consult Dr.
Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, and found it under Clematis in
the symptom 139. So I selected Clematis.
Here I ask Dr. H. C. Allen to insert Clematis in his next edi-
tion of the work on intermittent fever.

General Remarks.
Both of the above two cases were cases of intermittent fever
having chill and then sweat, and no intervening heat, and yet
required two different remedies which restored health. Unlike
 — I

496 What Homoeopathy Would Have Do)ie.

the allopath, we have no routine treatment of intermittent

fevers. An allopath brother might have treated both of the
above two eases with his intermittent fever panacea —the qui-
nine.

WHAT HOMOEOPATHY WOULD HAVE DONE.

By William J. Murphy, V. S., 230 W. 58th St., N. Y.

Not long ago I met a beggar in the street. I thought this

poor decrepit wretch with one arm gone might be a hero, desti-
tute.
Ithought perhaps his missing arm had been shot off while in
the front rank of the charge. Here might be one in dire dis-
tress who in his prime had risked his life in order that the
Union might be saved. What hollow mockery is patriotism
when such becomes the soldier's fate ?
How did you lose your arm my good old man ? said I, handing
him a coin. Did you lead a cavalry charge? On which side
were your efforts thrown ?
Well, young man, I'll tell you, though its seldom that I
speak upon the subject now. I never led a cavalry charge —
—
never faced the leaden hail no cannon ball tore away my
—
strong right arm a surgeon took it off one day.
I used to be a handy man about a horse. Lightning Joe
everybody knew the name. I could shoe as well as any smith.
A useful man — you understand.
One day a neighbor's horse took sick. They came for
"Joe." I left my work, looked at the nag and quickly made a
" ball." None could equal Joe " them " days in giving horses
balls. Someway my fingers slip and the strong and massive
I let

jaws broke below the elbow. All my fingers had been

my arm
crushed. I hurried to a doctor, and with this result.

When I "got" well no one could use a one armed man. I

drifted here and there, from place to place. Fortune seemed
against me from the start. Discouraged, I lost ambition, and
with that went pride. I have no home. None are dependent
— —
on my efforts I don't expect to struggle long my end is near
— good bye, young man, and quietly he journeyed on his way.
What a pity that this life was wrecked. This victim's fate
turned me more against the art in its heroic form than any other
failure I had seen.
 Homesickness. 497
Homoeopathy never lost a man his arm. No fingers crushed
or torn can be arrayed against its use. That single massive
" ball " launched this man upon his downward course to pov-
erty and want.
I never saw the art which I abandoned in this peculiar light

before. I knew it —
was incapable a disappointment, and in prac-
tice often unsuccessful; but I did not know that its employment
made cripples of strong and hardy men nor that the dangers
associated with its use brought poverty and want when honest
toil should merit something more.
Other customs when they operate against the public good are
held within their proper sphere by rigid laws against their use.
What a blessing it would have been if to give a " ball " had
been a misdemeanor when " Lightning Joe," now broken in
spirit and in health, was still the vigorous, robust man he once
had been. How different would have been events. If Colocynth
or Nux had that day been employed we would not bad a
wretch, living but from day to day, but in his stead a happy
home, a hardy husbandman, a loving wife and little ones to
cheer the autumn of a well-spent life.

HOMESICKNESS.
Editor of the Homoeopathic Recorder:
Dear Sir: I enclose you an article from the N. Y. Medical
Journal, Sept. 17, 1898, on " Homesickness Among Soldiers " :

Homesickness Among Soldiers.— The Corpuscle for September quotes

from the Chicago Tribune for August 22d the followiug pertinent remarks
of Lieutenant-Colonel Senn, concerning the importance of keeping up free
communication between soldiers on foreign service and their friends at
home, which is particularly necessary where a large proportion of them are
amateurs in military life. As we have repeatedly urged, a man is not nec-
essarily a good soldier because he is a plucky and determined fighter.
Soldiers are a distinct class of beings, and, sneer as we may at the idea of
a military caste in other countries, it is just that military caste which gives
the special qualities that are called for in a good army. For a campaign
against any weighty antagonist is in its result a complex of very many de-
tails and conditions, and not merely a question of pugnacity and pluck.
Colonel Senn says:
"Nostalgia (homesickness), a common affection among unseasoned
troops, becomes more prevalent in proportion to the distance between
home and the seat of war, as we had abundant opportunity to observe dur-
ing the present war. The depressing effects of this common ailment have
4.98 Homesicktu

a decided influence in increasing the rate of mortality of the sick an<l

wounded and impairing tin- effectiveness of the fighting line. Nostal-
in
gia is a contagious disease, not in the sense we use the word contagion
ordinarily, but when once established in camp it in ipidly by sug-
gestion. The onset and spread of this common ailment of camp life are
promoted by interruptions of the mail service, the only medium of communi-
cation between the soldier of the command and bis distant home. Among
the many sins of omission of those in charge of management of the
present war was a glaring neglect to provide for the much-needed and anx-
iously-looked-for mail facilities. If those who have the management of
this branch of the government service in charge could be made to under-
stand what an occasional letter from home will do in keeping up the
spirit of the citizen soldier, nostalgia would have been less prevalent and
its effects less disastrous during the present campaign. From the time I
left Fortress Monroe for Cuba, July 3d, until I arrived in New York from
Porto Rico, August 19th, I received only two letters of the probably two
hundred sent to me during this time."

This article proves clearly what terrible havoc this simple

trouble is causing amongst the troops. As the article says " It

has a decided influence in increasing the rate of mortality of the

sick and wounded and in impairing the effectiveness of the fight-
ing line " —
and, further
—
" it is contagious and increases rapidly
by suggestion." I suppose the only remedy offered at the onset
is a dose of salts "just to start the liver," and nothing when the
man is in the blues. Does this not show more clearly than ever
that they need homoeopaths to dispense to the soldiers? How
simple these mental disorders are to the homoeopaths, and how
seriousis seen by their own reports {vide Col. Senn ft alia) it is

when only combatted by Allopathy. When will our time come ?

You are a good, —
brave fighter why not enter the lists and de-
mand that homoeopaths are attached to every regiment ? We. as
homoeopaths, pay nearly one third the taxes of the country and
have a right to be represented, especially when it can be shown
that our methods are so much more economical.
As a lay brother, I offer you this proof of the infinitesimal, and
one which is in daily use by these short-sighted allopaths, and
which I have never seen mentioned before. How they scoff and
and sneer when Hahnemann says that a single (lose of this or
that will have effect for 40 days (or even 14) and yet! (\o they
not claim that a single dose of vaccine virus inserted into a body
will have effect and render immune which it does not
1 for fromI

c to 7 yearsl Great Scott! if a homoeopath had said that he

would never hear the end of it. Whilst it is clear to many of us
 William Heinrich Schuessler. 499
that the vaccine virus does not immune against small-pox, it is

very clearly demonstrated that this palpable pus this rotten- !

ness! does make itself horribly manifest, not only for 4 or 7 years,
but often, where there is great sensibility, for a life time. Vide
Burnett's " Vaccinosis." And I may call parents' attention to
the fact that it is more serious when it appears not to take, be-
cause the organism has not had power to throw it off. Yours in
the cause, E. Petrie Hoyle,
2321 Central Avenue, S. F.
Sa?i Francisco, October 2, 1898.

WILHELM HEINRICH SCHUESSLER, M. D., IN

OLDENBURG.
By One of His Friends.

On March a physician whose name is frequently

the 30th of
mentioned Homoeopathic literature entered into his eternal
in
rest. He formerly belonged exclusively to our curative
method and in times past defended it even against its bitterest
opponents, as e. g. against the late Professor Dr. Bock, in Leip-
zig; but later on — it was soon after 1870 —he put forward a new
curative method, which holds to the form of remedies as used in
Homoeopathy (i. e., triturations and the fluid preparations made
from them), but in the choice of the remedies is not based on
the provings of the remedies on healthy persons. What caused
Schuessler to found a new therapy he has laid down in the
preface to his work, to which we refer those who desire the par-
ticulars.
In his biochemical method of cure he lately only uses 11 rem-
edies (the so called functional remedies, which are homogeneous
with the inorganic substances found in the tissues of the human
organism). The principles laid down in his pamphlet are in
brief the following:

Principles of Biochemistry.
Blood consists of water, sugar, fat, albumens, Chloride of
Sodium (common salt), Calcium fluorate Silicic acid (Silicea),
y

iron, lime, magnesia, soda and potassa. The latter are combined
with Phosphoric acid ox with Carbonic acid and Sulphuric acid.
The salts mentioned above are the inorganic constituents of
500 William Heinrich Schuessler.

blood. The blood contains the materials for all the various tis-

sues or the cells of the body. This material enters into the tis-
sues through the walls of the capillary vessels, and thus makes
up the losses which are suffered by the cells in the transmuta-
tion of their substances.
Within the albumen destined for the building up
tissues the
of new up through the influence of oxygen. The
cells splits
products of this splitting up are the substances forming the
muscles, the nerves, the gelatine, the mucus, also Keratiyi and
elastin.
The substance forming gelatine is destined for the connective
tissue, the bones, the cartilage and the bands; the substances
forming mucus, muscles and nerves are destined for the mucous
cells, the cells of the muscles, the cells of the nerves, the brain
and the spinal marrow; Keratin is destined for the hair, the
nails and the cells of the epidermis and of the epithelium; the
elastin for the elastic tissues. When the albumen is split up,
mineral substances are set free. These are used for covering
deficiencies which may have arisen in the cells from their func-
tion or from pathogenic irritations; they also serve to stimulate
the formation of cells; this is especially the case with lime.
Those mineral however, which are set free
substances,
through the retrogressive metamorphosis of the cells leave the
organism as detritus by way of the excretory passages.
When a pathogenic irritation touches a cell its function is
thereby at first increased, since it endeavors to reject this irrita-
tion. If the cell through this activity loses a part of its min-
eral means of function it is pathogenetically changed
The cells which have undergone such a pathogenetic change,
i. <?.the cells which have suffered a loss of their minerals, need
,

to recover this through a homogeneous mineral substance. The

loss may /. e. through the curative
be recovered spontaneously, ,

through the entrance of the substances required

efforts of nature,
from the intercellular space into the cells. If the spontaneous
cure is delayed a therapeutical help becomes necessary. For
this purpose we give the mineral substances required in a
molecular form.
The biochemical method of cure, therefore, supplies nature
with the natural means, /. r., the inorganic salts which are lacking
in the part affected. Biochemistry, therefore, has as its end the
correction ot physiological chemistry when it lias deviated from
 Willia?n Heinrich Schuessler. 501

its normal order. Biochemistry reaches its goal in a direct

manner, by covering the deficit. The other curative methods,
which use remedies which are heterogeneous to the substances
constituting the human organism, reach their goal in an indirect
manner.
The biochemical remedies, when properly selected, suffice to
heal all diseases that can be cured through internal remedies.
These remedies are given in minimal doses.

Homoeopathy vs. Biochemistry.

after Schuessler put forth his new ideas there arose a

Soon
conflict about them in the homoeopathic press, and Homoeopaths
insisted that we could not so lightly give up Homoeopathy in
favor of Schuessler's biochemistry, first, because Dr. Schuessler
was the man who for many years, with the weight of a full con-
viction and based upon the extraordinary cures, which he de-
clared he had accomplished, had defended Homoeopathy, and he
could not afterwards equal his former successes; and secondly,
because his method was founded on facts from biology and its
relations to chemistry; but neither one of these scientific do-
mains at this time form perfectly developed sciences, but are still
awaiting a further development. Much had been advanced in
favor and against biochemistry in the days that are past; but
Dr. Schuessler has not succeeded in pushing Homoeopathy from
its and substituting biochemistry in its place. But it
position
must be granted that most Homoeopaths have learned much
from Dr. Schuessler, although the majority can scarcely be said
to have accepted his theories. His theory, as is often the case
in medicine, limped after his practice; and results generally
showed that we might do without the theory, and also in many
cases do without the differential diagnose of remedies which is
often attended with great difficulties in Homoeopathy, by simply
following in practice the indications laid down by Dr. Schuessler.
Schuessler's method, which at first confined the choice to only
twelve remedies, was from the first much more simple, and even
in remedies like Natrum muriaticum, Natrum sulfrhuricum, etc,
which had been sufficiently he had either essentially
proved,
enlarged the original homoeopathic provings and the indications
which had been practically verified or he had endeavored to
give them a more exact basis, so that his biochemistry seemed
even to many Homoeopathic physicians as at least an acceptable
502 William Heinrich Schuessler.

addition. For the method, on account of its simplicity,

laity this
seemed to be the very thing,especially also from its addition of
several new very useful remedies not before used by Homoeo-
paths, e.g., Magnesia phosphor, in certain forms of neuralgias.
Those desirous of more detailed information should consult the
25th edition of his work, edited shortly before his death, and
corrected by him even while on his sickbed; it is entitled
"Abridged Therapy, a manual for the biochemical treatment
of diseases, by Dr. Med. Schuessler, Oldenburg and Leipzig."*
It is to be hoped that his treatment of diseases may find a fur-
ther development after his death, and this by competent hands.
Among such we would specially refer to Dr. Ostwald, who is a
progressive chemist, having given up the antiquated chemical
prejudices which still rule almost universally in medicine and
physiology.
Concerning the life of Dr. Schuessler, we have been in-
formed by one of his intimate friends in Oldenburg, that
the deceased was a "self-made man," a fact which was
known to very few of his colleagues. As an autodidact, he had
acquired extensive knowledge, especially also in philology, so
that he could give instruction in the languages, and especially
in French, by which he supported himself. It was only at a

mature age that he finally acquired the means which enabled

him to study medicine in Paris, Berlin, Giessen and Prague,
receiving his diploma eventually in Giessen. In order to ac-
quire the right of practicing medicine in Oldenburg, Dr.
Schuessler had to undergo a special examination before the
medical college in Oldenburg. This took place on the 14th of
August, 1857. As he was born in Zwischenahn, Oldenburg,
on the 21st of August, 1821, he was then in his 36th year. Be-
fore he was admitted to his medical examination he was at this
mature age subjected to an examinatson at the gymnasium (col-
lege) at Oldenburg. His course of life, beset by so many diffi-
culties, throws some light on the rest of his life. He remained
unmarried, and his pen retained even in old age a satirical vein;
and without caring for Others he went his own way and pressed
those against the wall who put themselves in his way of prog-
ress. Nevertheless, he ever remained what he was. a good man.
a character sufficient to itself, least of all eager to acquire

Translated into English by Prof, I.. H. Tafel and published by Boericke

 Sulphur as a Pulmonic Remedy. 503

riches, noteven when he had gained a wide reputation as phy-

sician. To the end of his life he retained his simplicity and
did not allow himself any comforts, not even when he began
to be an invalid, until he was overtaken by a stroke of apo-
plexy on the 14th of March. To this he succumbed on the 30th
of March, after having been unconscious for several days.
About one- half of the property he left behind him he willed to
the City of Oldenburg for an institution for the care of deserv-
ing indigent persons, without distinction as to faith. The rest
of his property he willed partly to his nearest relatives, while
he disposed of 15 900 marks (in legacies of from 900 to 3,000
marks) to persons to whom he felt himself under personal obli-
gations. Dr. Schuessler's memory, therefore, will also be an
honored one in his more proximate house.

SULPHUR AS A PULMONIC REMEDY.

By Ad. Alf. Michaelis.

Translated from the Medizinische Monatsh, f. Horn., October, 1898, for the
Homoeopathic Recorder.

In Sulphur we possess a pulmonic remedy of considerable

power, which on account of its other prominent characteristic
effects is easily overlooked and in all cases undervalued. In
acute pleurisy, which is distinguished by violent stitches, Sul-
phur in alternation with Bryonia produces valuable effects. So
also it may
be used in the chronic catarrh of the lungs, which is
%
apt to creep in after repeated attacks of pneumonia; it is espe-
cially called for when the patient does not recuperate and be-
comes cachectic, and there is thus danger of catarrhal phthisis,
the so called cheesy degeneration of the lungs or when this has
already taken place. But it is also of use when this chronic
process sets in after repeated recoveries of catarrh in the apices,
or in advanced states of genuine pulmonary phthisis, when in
such a relapse (caused e. g., through a transition thither of an
influenza and favored by defective nutrition and perverse diet)
the preparations of Arsenic and Iodine which had formerly been
of use unexpectedly becomes ineffective. In such a case Sulphur
will prove a friend in need. Urged on by necessity and not
from my natural impulse I had to fly to Sulphur in such a case
after my well-known and trusty pulmonic remedies had failed,
i. e.
y
had only produced a temporary cessation or improvement.
504 Sulphur as a Pulmonic Remedy.

An Illustrative Case.

The real and final occasion, the accidental cause, was an in-
fluenza in consequence, having taken cold; this had, indeed,
been removed by the specific remedies, but it was not noticed
that it had covertly and insinuatingly passed over into the lungs,
in which the process now settled down and developed. For
months nothing was to be noticed but a more or less copious
mucous cxpedoratio7i and excessively pale complexion; as it was
winter this was little noticed and supposed to be merely a catar-
rhal appearance. Suddenly, after three months, in the next
spring, there were manifest though transitory dyspnoea, and soon
after that the patient was frightened, early one morning, by
coughing u-p pure blood. When respiring deeply a sensation of
obstruction in the region of the diaphragm, as if the lungs had

grown fast there, appeared and occasional stitches in the left side
of the chest, anteriorly, about the left lower pulmonary lobe.
It was manifest that the process in this case had settled on the

lowest part of the lungs, while no symptoms appeared in the

apices.
This statehad developed itself in spite of the fact that Kali
jod. id. had been given for some time (to counteract the sequelae
of his cold).
The course of the disease from the 24th of March, on which
day a regular strict treatment of the recognized danger was
begun, I shall now describe here in its particulars, as it is in-
structive in more than one direction.
March 24-31. Arsen. jod. 3d, at first in frequent small doses,
later two to three doses a day. The lungs immediately began to
improve. The stitches, anteriorly, in the left lower lobe became
rarer during this week and the respiration became free. He took
a pint of milk (i. e. }
not boiled) every day, and also some lager
beer.
April r-6. The same remedy. The lung continued to heal; the
stitches were hardly noticed any more. On the 6th the symp-
toms in the lung were no more perceptible. The appearance
had improved, the general health better; a considerable incn
in weight.
April 7-16. Arsen. jod. 3d, to make Mire of the lungs, and
between times Xittum id, daily one or two copious doses, to

improve the digestion. IK- drank much beer.

April S. There was again oppression of breathing while walk-
 Sulphur as a Pulmonic Remedy. 505

ing; in the morning considerable mucus and cough. April 9,

early in the morning, before rising, blackish- brown blood was
coughed up (z. e., a symptom of congestion), doubtless due to
the affection of the lung. He looked badly. The quantity of
lager beer consumed and the smoking were to be considered the
causes of the delay in the cure.
April 17. In consequence of a slight cold a decided relapse;
violent catarrh of the throat and of the larynx, secretion of
mucus from the lungs, transitory stitches anteriorly, on the left

side below, the oppression of the respiration very noticeable.

April 17-30. Arsen. jod. 3d, in Iodide of Potassium, in fre-
quent doses. Immediate improvement and removal of the symp-
toms within a week.
May 1-7. Sta?in. jod. 3d, twice a day, in consequence of a re-
newal of the lung symptoms (stitches on the leftside, dyspnoea).
No effect.

Bad, defective nutrition, even to suffering want and mental

worries, were circumstances which helped to explain the re-
peated relapses. The whole course of the disease showed, how-
ever, that Arsen. jod. is a powerful pulmonic remedy.
May 8-14. Arsen. jod. was again given, but entirely refused
to act. The most prominent symptoms were: Pain and sensation
of being checked when taking a deep breath, felt as if at the base
of the lungs and in the region of the stomach.
Now I passed over to preparations of Phosphorus and gave a
week each, first Calc. phosph. 3d. and then Calc. hypophosph. 2d,
without any real effect, although in the beginning a decrease
of the symptoms temporarily appeared.
After having tried again in vain Ars. jod. and Kal. jod. and
viole?it pains in the chest appeared, I could only conclude that
this affection of the lungs could not be cured in this way. So,
in the middle of June, I commenced with preparations of Sulphur,
and these, I may premise at once, proved very effective.
June 12-18. Sulphur 3d, every day two large doses, each time
what would lie on the point of a knife. The lungs improved at
once.
June 25. Ant. sulph. aura. 3d, daily two large doses, as above.
The lungs continued to improve.
June 26. As cloudy, rainy weather set in there was again con-
siderable dyspnoea. Such an effect of the weather was frequently
noticed by the patient as being peculiar to his case.
June 26-30. Calc. sulph. 3d. Considerable dyspnoea continued
and he was evidently sliding back.
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506 Smallpox in Germany.

July 3-9. Sutphur 3d, daily two to three large doses. He at

once commenced to improve again. Rainy weather only causes
slight obstruction of the respiration.
After two days' use of Ant. sulph. aur 3d, his lungs again
.

became worse (lancinating, pressive pain, trouble in respiration I

we again returned to Sulphur 3 D. as before, when the lung

symptoms at once became milder and gradually disappeared
entirely.
After Sulphur had been used for one month longer, the patient
might be considered as saved. Relapses became weaker and
more transitory and the health of the patient became more con-
stant. Pure Sulphur given in large doses had proved itself a
powerful remedy in catarrhal pulmoyiary phthisis.
This result is not negatived by the fact that in the subsequent
month (August) there was a relapse, owing to a return of
injurious influences; this case also led me to a complementary
(z. e. parallel) remedy to Sulphur.
,
This remedy in the patho-
genic process is Kreosot. 3d, to be taken in homoeopathic doses
of five drops. With these two allies which were given in re-
peated alternation of one week each, the lungs were thoroughly
healed and became, at the same time, more capable of resistance
and firmer, in fact, they became normal and returned to their
full health, so that we may now consider the danger of a relapse
from a slight cause as excluded.
The patient had had repeated attacks of pulmonary phthisis
some years before, and had always recovered by quickly apply-
ing the remedies indicated in my work: " The Cure of Pulmon-
ary Phthisis." But in this instance, probably, owing to an ac-
quired disposition and in consequence of the changed catarrhal)
(

nature of the disease, he had no success in its treatment.

Forsooth! evil consequences of a cold and a tedious, but
finally successful treatment.

SMALLPOX IN GERMANY.
An Outbreak of Black Smallpox.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder, from Horn. M filer,
< October, [898.

In Brucfa near Recklinghausen, Westphalia, on the 3d 01 June

there was an outbreak of black smallpox and this lias not yet
beet! exterminated. So, also, cases of genuine smallpox are
 Smallpox in Germany. 507

reported from Rochlinghausen, Halle a. S.. Seehausen (Kreis

Wauzleben), Kirchhain and Lauterberg: in several of these

places deaths have ensued. In Berlin a member of the troup of
Africans exhibiting in the Panopticum was taken ill. Nota bene:
The Africa?is had been "protected" by vaccination before their ap-
peara?ice in Berlin! What explanation will now be offered by
the friends of vaccination to prop up their "compulsory vac-
cination " thus shaken? Notably, such cases are apt to be ex-
plained as, imported from Russia! But in Russia they have for
a long time been vaccinating severely and ferociously! then these
imported cases are vacci?iated Russians, who are seized with
smallpox here, well, that is sufficient We must remark, how
!

ever, that it was by no means in all these instances " immigrants"

who were seized with smallpox, but also indigenous persons
(e. §-., at Bruch!) How is this to be explained ?

Death From Vaccinations.

The " Impfgegner"(Foe of Vaccination) in its last two
numbers reports again cases injured by vaccination, i. e., cases
of severe illness and death succeeding vaccination. But the
friends of vaccination will say, these are isolated cases! But if
only one person out of a thousand becomes fatally ill immediately
after vaccination — for the friends of vaccination are unwill-
ing to take any account of chronic morbid states consequent on
vaccination! —
this is sufficient to condemn any compulsion to such
an operation over which this sword of Damocles hangs sus-
pended. For every father and mother will at once anxiously
say, but if my child should happen to be this one among a thou-
sand that falls as a sacrifice to vaccination?
The Wurtemburg 2d of September contains
Volkszeit. of the
an article against those who fail to appreciate our good luck in
having "the blessing of vaccination." In it we again find the
ever recurring stupid objection, that the un vaccinated are a
danger for those who are vaccinated! The Volkszeitung does
not seem to have as yet become aware of the fact, that this is
the very worst sort of a compliment to pay to " protective vac-
cination." For if vaccination could really effect what its friends
promise, they themselves would be guarded and protected
against all contagion ? How then can they be endangered
through the unvaccinated ? But if they actually deem them-
selves endangered, it is plain that they do not really believe in
the infallible protection of vaccination! It is true, indeed, that
 5 '

508 Iodine Cases.

at this day there are none, excepting some credulous " laymen '

who believe in the infallible protection of vaccination. The

initiated have long ago dropped this faith as a mere superstition.

IODINE CASES.
Frank G. was seen, in consultation with another physician,
May 9, 1893. He had been suffering from catarrhal pneumonia
nearly a month, and, although the acute symptoms had subsided,
the lung still remained hepatized. He was losing strength, and
had an irregular fever, with occasional sweating spells. Iodine
was prescribed, and he made a rapid and uninterrupted recovery.
Mrs. H. contracted croupous pneumonia in the summer of
1894, while visiting friends in Vermont. The attack was a
severe one, and it was fully three months before she was able to
come home. She consulted me soon after her return, complain-
ing of weakness and a feeling of general malaise. Slight exer-
tion caused palpitation of the heart, dyspnoea and profuse perspir-
ation. She felt worse in a warm room and better in the open air.
The lower third of the left lung was still hepatized. Iodine
caused resolution in two weeks, and Chin, arsen. completed the
cure.
Roy B., a rather delicate boy, ten years old, was attacked
with whooping-cough about the 1st of March, 1893. Some three
weeks later an imprudent exposure brought on catarrhal pneumo-
nia. Under Verat. vir., followed by Bryonia, the disease pursued
the usual course, and by the 1st of April the patient seemed to
be convalescing, when he took cold and had a relapse. He again
improved slowly under the usual remedies until April 15th, when
the furnace fire accidentally went out during the night. He a-
woke in the morning thoroughly chilled, and had a second re-
lapse. This time he did not rally, but grew steadily worse. At
the end of the fifth week of the disease one-third of the left lung
was still hepatized, and there were also scattered patches of con-
solidation in the right lung. The cough was slight and expec-
toration scanty. The sputum, examined under the microscope,
showed mucous corpuscles, broken-down lung tissue under go-
ing fatty degeneration, and a few Koch's bacilli but no pus;

could be detected. F.vcry morning he had a chill, followed by

high fever, the temperature, which was 96° at the beginning of
the chill, rising to 105 105.
,
ami on one occasion to K
,
 —

The Belittling of Medical Science. 509

This, in turn, was succeeded by profuse perspiration, during
which the temperature gradually until it again reached 96
fell ,

about 9 or 10 p. m., when the cycle of chill, fever and sweat was
repeated, and lasted through the night. Sulphur, Hepar. sulph.,
and Sang7ii?iaria were given without effect. Another physician
was now called in consultation, and at his suggestion Calc. p/ios.,
and afterwards Calc. carb., was tried, but with equally unsatis-
factory results. At the end of the sixth week the patient was in
a critical condition, and was slowly but surely losing ground.
Iodine was now prescribed, ten drops of the tincture in a glass-
ful of water, a teaspoonful every hour. Two days later he had
only one chill during the twenty-four hours, and the range of
temperature was reduced one-half, the maximum being ioo° and
the minimum 97 The medicine was now given every two
.

hours. In three days more the chills, fever and sweat dis-
appeared, resolution commenced, and just twelve days after the
first dose of Iodine was administered the boy was discharged
cured. W. T. Laird, M. D. Watertown, N. Y.From paper read
before Medico- Chirurgical Society of Central New York. Hahn.
Monthly, Nov. 1898.

THE BELITTLING OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.

(The following leading editorial from the October number of
the fo2irnal of Medicine and Science, Portland, Me., is worthy of
consideration as showing another drift towards the principle
laid down by Hahnemann, that the physician should treat the
patient and not the disease:)
11
Professor Oswald Vierordt, after long years of experience as
a teacher of diagnosis in the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Heidelberg, and after having become grounded in his
opinion by a clinical experience second to none of all the talented
physicians of Germany has, in his recent book Diag?iostik der
hinerer Krankheiten — founded the whole superstructure of his
work upon the single proposition, that '
every disease, accord-
ing as it develops in this or that person, manifests a different,
an individual character. The objective point of the phy-
sician's investigations at the bedside, is therefore, an individual
diagnosis, first on purely scientific grounds, but still more im-
portant from the practical consideration that it must form the in-
dispensable basis for individualizing the treatment.'
510 The Belittling of Medical Science.

"One and most successful teachers of

of the most talented
Maine in a down the broad principle that
recent discus-ion laid
the physician exists only for the good of the patient, and that
aside from this purpose there is no good reason lor his existence.
" Now, these two propositions are so well founded as to be al-

most self-evident truths, and yet, at the present time, there seems
to be a strong tendency working within the profession which
often militates against the benefit which would arise to the
patient if both were carried out in practice. It was not so very

long ago that a very celebrated gynecologist laid down a rule in

one of his books to the effect, that he is the most successful gyne-
cologist who is the boldest one. Before and since that day this
heroic gynecologist has had many brave followers. At a
recent meeting of the American Medical Association, at which
the treatment of typhoid fever was under discussion, a teacher
of world wide reputation arose and gave utterance to the as-
tounding dictum, that the physician who did not employ the
Brand treatment in every case of typhoid was guilty of some-
thing little short of criminal negligence. These two are but
glaring examples of what we hear all about us. All over the
country eminent surgeons are shouting themselves hoarse in
mouthing the declaration that every case of appendicitis should
be operated on as soon as diagnosed; the air is full of the cries
of eminent authorities who instruct us that every case of abor-
tion should be curetted at once; and that the forceps should
always be applied when the head has ceased to advance; and
yet, with all due respect to the very eminent authorities from
which such wise proverbs have emanated, we all know that
modern medical science has no other reply to all these bald state-
ments, than that very expressive word which Victor Hugo
placed in the mouth of the French captain, Cambronne, at
Waterloo, to show his unlimited contempt for the English than —
which no other word in any language so well expresses supreme
disgust.
"The merest knows that while such
tryo in medical practice
unqualified statements may sound very smart when delivered by
a man of reputation with .an assumption of honest conviction,
whetl carefully analyzed, all SUCh dictatorial utterances are
lacking in good judgment and amount to little more than the
veriestbuncombe. In fact, the number of men in the profession,
who have been able to lay down infallible rules of procedure in
the treatment of any disease, is very small, and, in spite of the
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The Belittling of Medical Science. 511

great progress which has been made along all medical lines, we
are still obliged to accept with many qualifications the dicta of
even very eminent authorities, no matter how great their repu-
tation, and no matter how much inflated they may be with con-
ceit, egotism, self-sufficiency and enthusiasm.
" The number of questions in medical science still demanding
solution is so large, and the true answer to these questions is of
such importance in directing practice, that most of the profession
are more in touch with the man who gives a somewhat guarded
and modest opinion, backed by investigation and experience,
than with the so-called leader of the profession, who delivers
his fiat as one having authority, in the Olympian-Jove, the
Bombastes-Furioso, and I-am-Sir-Oracle, or the ex cathedra man-
ner. To
be sure the ipse dixit method is very successful in im-
pressing laymen with the practitioner's profundity and skill, but
not yet has medical science become such a poor, mean, con-
temptible thing that neither brains, judgment nor common
sense enters into its teachings. The delivery of fiats and the
mouthing of dicta may make a man a much quoted and very
eminent authority, but it alone can never succeed in making
him a wise counselor or a safe leader to follow.
"That was, indeed, a very sarcastic scamp who said that a
great deal of the surgery of the present day seemed to be ani-
mated by the same spirit which prevailed at Donnybrook Fair
if you see a head, hit it —
and yet, we know, that after the dis-
covery of anaesthetics and the development of asepsis had tended
to make of surgery a more easily acquired art, that many surgi-
cal operations were performed that had better never been done,
and that in the later eighties and the earlier nineties surgery
seems to have been dominated by boldness and by a tendency to
follow general rules rather than by that wise judgment and in-
dividualizing of cases which would have ensured to each patient
the best good which the art offered.
" No one will question but these surgeons were suited to the
times in which they worked, and that they did a great deal for
the advancement of surgical science, but neither is it a matter
for doubt but that modern surgery demands other accomplish-
ments of its devotees. Courage and boldness are very excellent
things for any man to possess, so also good judgment, plain
common sense, and the ability to fit the remedy to each indi-
vidual case are qualities not by any means to be despised.
" Certain surgeons are all the time complaining that general
512 Book Notices,

practitioners do not sooner turn over their surgical cases to the

surgical expert, and those who shout these complaints the loud-
est are those,who, by their teachings and their methods, have
shown themselves unwise counselors and unsafe guides, and,
when all the requirements of modern surgery are considered, un-
skilled operators.
"Not yet can medical men afford to guide their practice by
the dictatorial statements of any man or any set of men — en-
thusiasts who make of medicine a series of bald statements with-
out sense or reason; not yet can any physician, however bold,
however talented, afford to fail to bring to every patient's bed-
side that calm, dispassionate judgment which is the result of
careful study, patient investigation, and a judicious weighing
of the several factors and conditions which enter into every case
of disease."

BOOK NOTICES.
History of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsyl-
vania and of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hos-
pital, of Philadelphia. 904 pages. 8vo. Cloth, $3 50; by
express, $3.75. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 189S.
This is an exhaustive history of the oldest homoeopathic
college in the world The book is divided into five parts as
follows: Part I. Contains the history of the college proper from
its beginning in 1848, in the old room at 635 Arch street: it is a
careful account of the various vicissitudes to which it was sub-
ject, and is complete up to May, 1898. Great care has been
taken to include all the charters and other legal documents re-
lating to this history, and to illustrate the steady advancement
from an educational standpoint in which it has always kept in

line with other medical schools.

Part I. Also contains short biographical sketches of all the
physicians who have at any time acted as professors in the insti-
tution.
Part II. Is divided into four sections devoted to the history of
the hospital, museum, dispensary and Library.
The history of the hospital is complete and includes all the
data of the- hospital on Chestnut street, founded in 1S52. that of
the Soldier's Hospital of l862, the Cuthbert Street Hospital and
 Book Notices. 513
the inception, growth and magnificient result of the present hos-
pital. A
record is given of the endowed beds, the rules govern-
ing the institution, a list of the hospital staff arranged alpha-
betically, giving at a glance the years of service of each, list of
the contributors, honorary members, life patrons, life members,
there is a chapter on the training school for nurses, giving a list
of the nurse-graduates, also an account of the Uaterbity Home.
The dispensary is fully described, a list of the various physi-
cians who have served is given. There is a chapter upon the
museum, illustrating its growth, its practical value and its re-
markable collection of specimens. The library is fully described
with titles of some of the more rare books therein.
Part III. Contains five sections: Alumni Association, Hahne-
mannian Institute, Alpha Sigma Chapter, complete
list of
graduates, list of graduates who are teachers in other medical
schools.One hundred and fifty pages are devoted to the
Alumni Association, giving an account of the earlier associa-
tions, and an account of each meeting of the present association,
inclusive of the Jubilee of 1898.
There is a list of the officers and members with their present
addresses. The two college societies, the Hahnemannian Insti-
tuteand the Alpha Sigma Chapter, are also described fully.
There is a complete alphabetical list of graduates for the fifty
years, giving name in full, place of residence at the time of
graduation, date of death of diseased alumni. There is a list of
graduates now teaching in other colleges with name, year of
graduation, present college office and chair.
Part IV. Contains list of the officers of the college, list of
faculty and lecturers, synopsis of commencements, dates of
introductories and rosters. The list of officers, faculty and
lecturers is alphabetical and is inclusive from 1848 to 1898.
The commencements gives the following data of
synopsis of
each since 1848, where held, when, name of valedictorian, name
of chaplain, music and by whom, name of person conferring the
degree, number of graduates, medals conferred, banquets when
and where held forming a tabulated account of the commence-
ments of the college. The date of every introductory lecture is
given with the name of the speaker. Rosters for three years
are given, that for 1850-51; that for 1878-79, when the first
graded course of three years was adopted, that for 1897-98
showing studies of the four years graded course now required.
Part V. Is devoted to the Fiftieth Jubilee of May, 1898, con-
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514 Book Notices.

taining a complete account of the exercises, with quotations

from the papers read and a resume of the discussions.
The book was intended to contain about 600 to 700 pages, the
actual number of pages is 904, besides the preface. It has been
the intention to make the book entirely complete in all its

details.
It is profusely illustrated with pictures of the college and hos-
pital buildings, and interiors, and portraits of the earlier pro-
fessors. The frontispiece contains pictures of the three daring
and persevering men, Hering, Jeanes and Williamson, who
were the founders of the college in 1848.
The book is dedicated to the Alumni. Every Alumnus of the
college should certainly have a copy and when he reads the
story so well told of the days of trial and the resulting success,
he may well be proud that he is an alumnus of the oldest homoeo-
pathic college in the world, and one that to-day stands high as
a medical school.
In this work, as those which preceded it from the same pen

The life of Hahne77ia7m,The Homoeopathic Biography and The

Pioneers of Homoeopathy the —
part of the author has been a labor
of love, strange as that may seem in an age so largely charac-
terized by the " every one for himself" motto, but it is a useful
and needed work, this of gathering the history of Homoeopathy
and the author can rest in the assurance that the future will ap-
preciate his labor even if too much ignored by the present.
Homoeopaths all over the world owe a dept of gratitude to Brad-
ford — may he live long and continue his good work.

Renal Therapeutics. Including also a study of the Etiology,

Pathology, Diagnosis and Medical Treatment of the Urinary
Tract. By Clifford Mitchell, M. D. 365 pages, 8vo. Cloth,
$2.00; by mail, $2.16 Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 1898.
It seems to us that the chief title of this book is too limiting,
for, while therapeutics is its leading feature, it also includes
everything else in connection with the diseases, from etiology to
diet, and not only of kidneys, but, also of the bladder, prostate,
etc., making it a very complete book on all diseases of the urinary

tract. Dr. Mitchell's long experience in his speciality is a guar-

antee of the goodness of the contents, and. if any reader wants a
text book on the subject, he cannot find a better. The work is

quite fully illustrated and beautifully printed.

 Book Notices. 515

Characteristic Indications of Prominent Remedies for the

Use of Students of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By
W. J. Hawkes, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Thera-
peutics in Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. Fourth
edition. Revised and Enlarged. 142 pages. $1.00; by mail,
$1.05. 1898.
This book is a jewel of condensation as the thousands of prac-
titioners who got their first introduction to homoeopathic materia
medica by means of its clear cut " characteristics " can testify,
and the fourth edition will be welcomed by all. The book is now
controlled by Boericke & Tafel, and orders for same must be sent
to them.

King's American Dispensatory. New edition. Entirely re-

written and enlarged. By Harney W. Felter, M. D., Adjunct
Professor of Chemistry in the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cin-
cinnati, O.; Co-editor Locke's Materia Medica and Therapeut-
ics; President Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association; etc.,

etc., and John Uri Lloyd, Ph. M., Professor of Chemistry and
Pharmacy in the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, O.;
formerly Professor of Pharmacy in the Cincinnati College of
Pharmacy; Ex-President of the American Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation;Author of the Chemistry of Medicines; Drugs and
Medicines of North America; Etidorhpa; etc., etc. Two vol-
ume edition, royal octavo, each volume containing over 950
pp. with complete Indexes. Cloth $4.50 per volume postpaid.
Sheep $5.00 per volume post-paid. Volume I now ready.
The Ohio Valley Co., Publishers, Cincinnati, O.
Of this book it can be said that it is the undisputed authority
with the Eclectics, being officially adopted by them in 1879.
The first edition appeared in 1854, and this is the third revision
of King's old work, of which there have been 18 editions. It is
needless to say that if any one wants a work on Eclectic pharm-
acy and dispensing, this is the only one to buy.

The Principles and Practice of Medicine. Designed for the

Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. By William
Osier, M. D. Third edition, entirely revised and enlarged.
1,181 pages. 8vo. New York. D. Appleton & Co.
The first edition of this now famous work was copyrighted in
516 Book Notices.

1892, the second in 1895 and the third in 1898, each one being re-
vised and altered, for, as the author says in his preface to the
third edition, " At the present rate of progress in all depart-
ments a text-book six years old needs a very thorough revision,"
which must be rather discouraging for anyone seeking a solid
and fixed basis for his mental feet —
if the term be permissible.

Be that as it may, we can safely say that if anyone wants a com-

pact work on the practice of " regular " medicine he will not go
astray in selecting Osier's.

A ClinicalText-book of Medical Diagnosis for Physicians

and Students, Based on the Most Recent Methods of
Examination. By Oswold Vierordt, M. D., Professor of Medi-
cine at the University of Heidelberg, etc. Authorized trans-
lation, with additions, by Francis H. Stuart, A. M M. D. ,

Fourth American edition, from fifth German, revised and en-

larged, with 194 illustrations. 603 pages. Cloth, $400.
Half morocco, $5 00. Philadelphia. \V. B. Saunders. 1898.

The period between the first and the fifth edition of this work
was nine bespeaking merit more than ordinary. The
years,
present edition fully up with the progress in the study of
is

diagnosis, and this edition ought to be as successful as were the

former. It is the accepted authority on diagnosis.

A Text-book of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and

Pharmacology. By George Frank Butler. Ph. G., M. D.,
Professor of Materia Medica and Clinical Medicine in the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of the
University of Illinois, etc.Second edition. Revised and en-
larged. 860 pages. Cloth, $4.00. Half morocco, $5. 00. Phila-
delphia. \V. B. Saunders. 1898.

The author says: " Since the publication of the first edition
there have been many advances
pharmacology, rather in the
in
direction of clearing from obscurity the action of old remedies
than in marvelous new discoveries. In this respect therapeutics
has but followed the normal line of the evolution of science."
Of Pulsatilla, we are told, "The drug may be employed lor the
same purposes as .Aconite, though as a cardiac sedative it is less
mcient. It has been recommended as a useful emmenagogue."
 Book Notices. 517

Therapeutics of Diphtheria. By C. M. Boger, M. D. 82 pages.

Paper, 90 cents. Vellum, $1.00. Lancaster, Pa. T. B. &
H. B. Cochran. 1898.

Avery excellent little Materia Medica, with repertory, for the

homoeopathic treatment of diphtheria. The author, Dr. Boger,
of Parkersburg. W. Va., is a member of the I. H. A., who make
a specialty of the study of pure Homoeopathy, and his work can
be depended on. The price, however, seems to us a little high-
pitched, but if the book can be made the means of saving the
life of a patient it is cheap at any price.

Diieases and Their Cure. Fifty years' experience. By O. H.

Crandall, M. D., Quincy, Published by the author.
111.

Two hundred and sixteen pages are devoted to general treat-

ment, and eighty seven pages paged separately — to "bio- —
chemistry." The book is not designed as a what shall we —
—
say ? set work on medicine, but is simply jottings on the various
diseases, giving the author's experience as to best treatment,
and when it is known that he has had fifty years' experience the
possible value of the work will be appreciated.

Cyclic Law. Its influence over man in both health and disease.
Determining the sex, its influence upon births, deaths, etc.
167 pages. Cloth, $1.00. Middletown, Ohio. Thomas E.
Reed, M. D. 1898.
A curious little book, dealing with a curious subject; one that
will cause the man who does not jump to his conclusions, and
his condemnations, to think a bit. Every one familiar with
coast people knows that they have a "superstition" that if a
dying person can hold on to life until the tide turns and runs in
he will not die until the next ebb. Dr. Reed maintains that
this is fact not fancy and that these cyclic waves exert just as
much power inland as on the coast, and if understood and an
accurate chart of them made they can be of great use to the
physician in many ways.

Treatment of Skin Cancers. By W. S. Gottheil, M. D.,

Professor of Dermatology at the New York School of Clinical
Medicine. 67 pages. i2tno. Cloth, $1.00. New York.
International Journal of Surgery Co. 1898.
518 Book Notices.

The subject is treated in a practical manner, from the stand-

point of the general practitioner as well as the specialists, and
while every prominent modern method in the non- operative
treatment of cutaneous Cancer has received mention, the author
elaborates especially upon the caustic method which experience
has commended him, and dwells upon the two essential points;
to
recognition and treatment.

"Thoughts Concerning an International Latin

Academy" is the title of a treatise respectfully addressed to
men and women, who, amid their various vocations, duties and
occupations, command some leisure. "Now the object of this
pamphlet" is to invite those who will "to join into a learned
body to be called Academia Gentium Latina or International
Latin Academy," and thus forward the movement towards mak-
ing Latin the language of learning and science.
inter?iatio?ial
Those who would know more of the matter should address
" Latin Herald Printing Office, 608 Arch street, Philadelphia,
Pa.," for a copy of the above mentioned pamphlet.

In 1878 the firm of Boericke & Tafel published an Analytical

Manual for learning to understand, speak a?id write the Latin
La?iguage< by Dr. Leonard Tafel. For a beginner in the study,

and for who wishes to acquire the language without the aid
one
of a teacher, we know of no better work. The first part consists
of dialogues, fables, biographies, letters, etc., in parallel columns,
one Latin and the other English, and so numbered that anyone
can get the true Latin for each, and can understand it. The sec-
ond part is a " Logical Latin Grammar," a great improvement
over the heart-breaking grammars that must be learned by what
might almost be called brute force. The book contains about
180 octavo pages, and sells for $1.00.

A Text-Book of Gynecology. By James C. Wood, A. M., M.

D., From New England Medical Gazette,
In the preface to the first edition of this work, published in
1894, the author has described the ideal text-book as "one
Which Should DOt only embody in concise form for the specialist
the most advanced teachings of the American and European
schools of gynecology, but which should also present these
 Book Notices. 519
teachings in such a way and
as to enable the student of medicine
knowledge of the
non-specialist to obtain at least an intelligent
subject without exhaustive research." That Professor Wood had
very nearly approached this standard of excellence in the edition
referred to must have been acknowledged by its more critical
readers, and by the rewriting of the chapters on Electricity,
Antisepsis and Asepsis, Pelvic Abscess, Malignant Diseases of
the Uterus, and Injuries resulting from Childbirth, as well as the
introduction of a chapter on certain obstetric operations, there is
left little of any moment to be desired. There has been also an
increase in the number of illustrative cases (of which, by the
way, a number instruct through failure), and one hundred and
twenty- three illustrations have been added, bringing the who e
number to two hundred and ninety-five.
The eminent characteristic of this work is practicality. Not
only is the specialist informed in a concise manner of the latest
theories and procedures in gynecological science, but the general
practitioner also is not forgotten, and the various methods of
diagnosis, the palliative treatment of non-surgical cases, and the
after-treatment of those which have been operated upon are re
duced to the plainest terms of simplicity and directness consist-
ent with a properly technical treatment of the subject under con-
sideration. Notable examples of this might be given.
In the chapter treating of the anatomy of the pelvic organs,
very little space is devoted to their embryology, the author con-
sidering that subject to belong rather to obstetrics than to gyn-
ecology; but the description of the pelvic structures is clear and
concise, that especially of the pelvic floor being a thoroughly
good preparation for the later instruction in its repair.
It is hardly necessary to make the statement that theory as to
the origin of disease is not always essential to its intelligent
treatment. None knows that fact better than the conscientious
homoeopathic prescriber, yet whenever Professor Wood needs to
defend an opinion as a logical basis of treatment he does so with
boldness. In other cases he shows equally well his wide view of
the theoretical by laying impartially before the reader the
field

various theories and allowing him to choose for himself. For in-
stance, he gives, without commiting himself to either, both the
ovarian and the Fallopian theories of menstruation, and the var-
ious views regarding the origin and nature of cancer.
Scarcely any up-to-date knowledge has failed to find its way
either by reference or by detailed account into this text-book.
520 Book Notices.

In treatment in general, the author stands for conservatism

wherever radical measures are not positively demanded for the
welfare of the patient, but when the latter is the case he pro-
ceeds directly and without delay. It will of course be a recom-
mendation to the homoeopathic members of the profession that
the internal medication given is in accordance with the law of
Hahnemann. While the author is not so sanguine as some re-
garding the cure of growths by internal remedies, he reports il-
lustrative cases in which such cures are claimed.
The general appearance of the volume is good and many of the
plates and illustrations are excellent, though one could wish that
some of the latter were more distinct in the detail. On the whole,
one can only say that Professor Wood has carried out to an admir-
able degree the plan which he has himself outlined in the pre-
face to the first edition. That it has been adopted as the lead-
ing text book on the subject in nearly every homoeopathic col-
lege in the country should be in itself a sufficient guarantee of
excellence.
G. E. C.

Ophthalmic Diseases and Therapeutics. Bv A. B. Norton,

M. D.
This work, now in its second edition, was first presented to
the profession six years ago, and at once took its position as the
best publication on the diseases of the eye in our school. That
time has not lessened the esteem in which it is held by the lead-
ing ophthalmologists, is shown by the fact that it has been
adopted as a text-book by twenty- one out of the twenty- two
homoeopathic medical colleges of this country. In the second
edition of so much value has been added while the original matter
has been so thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date in every
particular as to make it practically a new book. Among the
new features of this edition, aside from the portraits of some
well-known physicians, are the chapters on the Refraction and
Acommodation of the Eye, and on Dioptometry, by Dr. Helfrich;
and a Tabulated Statement of Diseases with More or Less Char-
Bye Symptoms, by Dr. Linncll. The author lias ad-
acteristic
ded, among other things, chapters on The Examination of the
Eye, The Use of the Ophthalmoscope and on The Hygiene of
the Eye, the latter discussing the Influence of school life on the
development of refractive errors. In his consideration of heter-
Ophoria Dr. Norton takes a position midway between the ex-
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Book Notices. 521

tremists who, deprecating all operative treatment, pin their faith

to the development of the weak muscle; and that other smaller
class, who claim all loss of balance to be due to muscles con-
genially short with no possible means of restoring equilibrium
without a graduated tenotomy.
The subject matter is well illustrated by means of numerous
cuts, and in addition to the usual chromo lithographs showing
changes in the fundus, there are six studies in color, made espe-
cially for this work by Dr. Hart, of diseases of the lids, cornea
and iris.
The book, as a whole, is a contribution to our literature of
which the profession may feel proud, and in its second edition

will doubtless receive an appreciative welcome. McD., in

Hoynxopathic Eye, Ear and Throat Journal.

A HINT.
The following seems to show that there is considerable truth in
the theory of the " physiological system," that many so-called
diseases are simply the result of a deficiency in certain earthy
elements:
The question to what extent the alkaline-salts in drinking-water affect
the decay of teeth has oflate been studied in several quarters. Statistics
have been collected by Rese in several localities in Bavaria, and by Foer-
berg in Sweden. These have revealed the interesting fact that the extent
—
of decaying teeth bears a definite relation to the hardness of the water in
other words, to the quantity of calcium and magnesium salts in the earth
through which the water passes. The harder the water, the better the teeth;
the smaller the quantity of these salts, the greater the decay of the teeth.
Sudd. Apoth. Ztg.
Those interested in the subject would do well to send to Boer-
icke & Tafel for a free copy of their pamphlet on Physiological
Remedies. It is worth reading.

Lime frequently causes great pain in the eyes, yea, it some-

times destroys the sight. A simple remedy, which at once re-
moves the pain, is to wash out the eye with sugar-water. The
lime in this case enters a chemical combination, which soon
takes away its corroding action. Monatsh. f. Horn.
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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.

"MODERN SCIENTIFIC TINCTURES."

Our esteemed contemporary, the New England Medical Gazette %

for November, says, anent a paper read before the Society by Dr. J.
W. Clapp,on the tincture end of the New Pharmacopoeia that "we
at least have respect enough for the great founder of Homoe-
opathy to believe that were he alive to-day he would have made
his tinctures by modern scientific methods and not by the best
methods known a century ago." The alternative seems to be
that if Hahnemann did not think as " we" do he would be ig-
nored as being " unscientific."
The best part of this curious
paragraph is solemnly speaks of " modern scientific
where it

methods" of making tinctures as contrasted with "the best

methods known a century ago."
What is the difference ? Do not get cranky, gentle reader, or
be blinded by partisanship, but honestly ask yourself: What is
the difference between the "modern scientific methods" and
" the best methods known a century ago," of making tinctures ?
We have carefully gone into the matter and find that Hahne-
mann directed that, in the case of certain plants, the juice^be ex-
pressed from them and this juice be mixed with equal parts of
alcohol, this constituting the tincture, or, as the Germans term
this class of tinctures, " essence; " in the case of other plants, or
vegetable substanres, the tinctures were directed to be made in

ways suited to the plant, or substance to be treated: in other

words, the plants were individualized as patients are in ho-
moeopathic practice.
Per COntra, what are tlie "modern scientific methods'
making which are SO much of an advance that
tinctures if

Hahnemann did not agree to them, the Gazette would not

think so highly of him as it does ?
 Editorial. 523

The " modern scientific methods," as we read it — and if this

understanding iserroneous the Recorder's pages are open to
corrections — is the adopting of one of the several methods em-
ployed by Hahnemann and apply it to all tinctures. The plant
Bryonia, for instance, has not been scientifically improved during
the century, it is the same thing now as it was in the days far
back of Hahnemann. The Hahnemannian method was to ex-
press the juice and preserve it with equal parts of alcohol. The
" modern scientific method "is to macerate the whole plant in
alcohol instead of expressing its juice and then mixing the pure
juice with alcohol. That is the difference, and we ask why is
macerating the whole plant "scientific" and the Hahnemannian
way unscientific.
Really, and at the risk of being considered not "up to date,"
we must say that, in view of the fact that the provings were
made from tinctures prepared in the old manner, that the new
modern scientific method of preparing the tincture must intro-
duce more or less of certain elements into the tinctures which
renders them untrue to the proving; and that the new tinctures
are therefore in a greater or lesser degree unproved remedies;
in view of these undisputed and self-evident facts, we are con-
vinced that were Hahnemann alive to-day he would not accept
"modern scientific methods" of knocking all the individuality
out of his old polychrests.

A MAN.
(This is by Kraft, Am. Horn., November 1. Amen !)

Who would the Institutes of Homoeopathy teach must have

an abiding faith in the truth of the Organon.
It does not include a damning with faint praise.
Nor the throwing of doubt and dirt on any part of it.

Nor in deriding the religious belief of Hahnemann.

Nor in pitying him and his dotage.
Nor in selecting a paragragh here and another one there
To teach the Institutes of Homoeopathy.
A Man must himself believe in and practice the truths of the
Organon.
A Man must be honest with himself before he can be honest
with his class.
A Man who uses the dictionary only to find the bad words
needs no dictionary.
524 Editorial.

A Man who
says the Bible contains many beautifal thoughts,
but alsomay exploded notions, had better leave the Bible alone.
A Man who says Hering" s Co?idensed is a good book but filled
with much rubbish is not the proper teacher of He ring' s Con
densed.
A Man who says Hahnemann was the author of similia, but
that his Organon contains many thomas-fool theories is not the
most fit to teach the Orga?ion.
A Man who derides the dynamic theory and says it is the
child of Hahnemann's dotage ought to be made to step down
and sit down for " keeps."
A Man who picks out paragraphs here and there in the Or-
ganon is no better than an allopath. Even the devil could find
some unobjectionable passages in the Bible.
A Man should be fitted to teach the Institutes of Homoeopathy
and not be merely the one who drew the marked ballot from the
faculty hat.
Put Orga?ion believers in Organon chairs !

Who would fat oxen drive should himself be fat !

11
Whatever one may think of Dr. Burnett as an author on
account of his use of so many odd remedies, it can safely be
affirmed that few writers have the ability to make the reader
think which he possesses and the fellow who has this gift is a
good writer, always. One would be able to testify that a book
without some odd remedy in it was not Burnett's. This point
is well established in his suggestion of the use of erythinus in a
case of pityriasis rubra. This remedy is a fish, native of the
waters of some Pacific islands, and it was found to produce an
eruption similar to this affection. Its use resulted in a perfect
cure. His idea, the constitutional treatment, is believed in by
every homoeopath and is followed by them. The book is
worthy of a place in every library, for all the discouraging affec-
tions one has to deal with those of the skin lead all the rest, and
one is likely to find in the work something which will prove ot
benefit in these intractable
cases. The work is excellently
gotten up, the printing and binding being up to the Stan lard of
the old honse issuing — Medical
it."- Visitor% on Diseases of the
Skin.
 Editorial. 525

THE PROPOSED NEW GERMAN HOMCEOPATHIC

BOOK OF MEDICINES.
From Allg. Horn. Zeit., September, 1898.
The voices in opposition to the new American Pharmacopoeia
are continually multiplying.
We take the following excellent article from the last (August)
number of the Archiv fuer Homoeopathic:
"The New North American Pharmacopoeia does not by any
means meet with that recognition in the United States which
the American Institute gives to it.
'
While this American
'

Institute desires that all homoeopaths in the world should unite

on the basis of this Pharmacopoeia, Dr. W. A. Dewey, in the
'Medical Century' (March, 1898, p. 87), declares that he
cannot accept the new Pharmacopoeia and that it would not be
received in the University of Michigan as the basis of instruc-
tion,adducing eight reasons, among them also: 7. "The book
contains toomany chemical and botanical errors to be used as a
manual." It then quotes the article by Dr. Charles Ba on in the
Big Four, entitled "The New Pharmacopoeia Not a Good Ho-
moeopathic Work, because it Ignores the Organon," and then
concludes:
'

These opinions and dicta of experienced American physicians

'

ought to receive consideration also in Germany, for the Commis-

sion for the preparation of the new German Homoeopathic Book
of Medicines is also about to make changes in the preparatio?i of
medicines in their strength, which differ widely from the original
directions of Hahnemann, and thus they are about to introduce
medicines different from those that have been proved into our
medical treasury. Even if the majority of the votes cast have
been in favor of this new tendency, they rest on error and on
ignorance concerning that which is in question; they can not
therefore be considered as decisive.
The new Pharmacopoeia will be sure to receive no recognition
from the stale, if it differs so widely from Hahnemann 's prescrip-
tion, and if it fails in this, the whole work is without any aim.
The voices of experienced experts are disregarded; the conse-
quences which can easily be foreseen, will then have to be borne.
William Steinmetz.
Leipzig, September, 1898.
—
(That is a strong point that, if the proposed new German
" Homoeopathic " Pharmacopoeia ceases to be homoeopathic it will
526 Editorial,

receive no recognition from the state. Let ns hope that Hahne-

mann's native land will be spared, a work that is neither ho-
moeopathic, nor allopathic, hot nor cold, neither fish, flesh nor
fowl, nor good red herring. — Editor Recorder.)

A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE.

The Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal and the Tri State
Medical Journal are "grieved to notice" that a number of their
contemporaries are running an advertisement of " Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral." We turn to the advertising forms of these two emi-
nently respectable journals and find therein "Chionia," " San-
metto," " Antikamnia," and so on, and on, and on to the end.
"
We are not saying that it is not proper to print the " Chionia
and the others, but are puzzled over the reason that would
kick out Ayer yet let them in; why is a preparation of wild
cherry unethical and one of Chionanthus, Saw Palmetto or
" Phenacetine " not? You pay five or six prices for them all.
To be sure the journals tell you (reading notices) that the
" large manufacturing chemists " supply you with a " more re-
liable preparation " than will the pharmacist, but that is " read-
ing notice" and not If you want the action of, for ex-
fact.

ample, Saw you can surely get it better from the pure
Palmetto,
tincture than from one containing a lot of other things; but you
may want the other things, want a mixture, then why not get
up one of your own ? Surely you know as much about drug
action as does the "large manufacturing chemists," who are
sometimes not so large when seen close as when viewed in print
perspective.

POTENCY QUESTION IN AN ALLOPATHIC

JOURNAL.
The following is suggestive in view of the new pharmacopoeia's
declaration that there are no " molecules " of the remedy in

dilution above the 12th potency. We find it in the Medical

—
World for October the World is not a homoeopathic journal:
When Hahnemann declared that the thirtieth dilution of a ding would
cun- disease, it was unreasonable in the light of the science of his d.iv. and

the d<H-t<>rs persecuted him. To day thousands of men whose scientific and
medical education is the equal of any in the world declare that Hahnemann
was light. Come, then, and let us reason together, Prove all things, and
hold fast to that which was good.
 —

Editorial. 527

This is by a Dr. Alumbaugh. Worse still is this by Dr.

Harkon —they are discussing " The Thirtieth Dilution:"
Case, Mr. S., aged 18. —
Strong and healthy, was at work cleaning out an
old fence row, and became poisoned with ivy; face, left hand and arm to
elbow, both feet and limbs to knee; all badly swollen and containing the
usual rash. Rash also appearing upon various parts of body; temperature,
103 tongue badly coated; appetite gone and quite free vomiting. He had
;

been through the sugar of lead, butter milk and cathartic treatment before
coming to me.
—
Externally a six ounce bottle of water colored with hydrastis, flavored
with a little carbolic acid; to apply when itching was bad. Internally
Rhus tox., tzvo hundredth potency, five drops, three hours apart. Reports
show a gradual improvement and soon at work again.
Really it looks at though our despised birthright would not
long go a begging, when old school journals will publish 200th
potency cures, and the new work will then be " out of date."

HOMOEOPATHY AT THE PARIS WORLD'S FAIR

OF 1900.

On 1 2th June, '98, by an

official act, Drs. Simon, Love, Marc

Jousset, homoeopathic practitioners, and Mr. Weber, homoeo-

pathic pharmacist, all of Paris, have been elected as members
of the jury for the coming great fair. For the first time, the
French Government has officially invited homoeopathic physi-
cians to join such boards. At the World's Fair grounds will
also be held the Homoeopathic International Congress, in 1900.
— Revue horn. Frayicaise, October, 1898. Dr. Arcshagouni, New
Yofk City.

WARD'S ISLAND ALUMNI.

The third annual dinner of the Alumni Association of the
Ward's Island and Metropolitan Hospitals will take place
Wednesday, December 7th. The committee are endeavoring to
surpass the previous meetings which were very successful, and
would request that every Alumnus endeavor to be present.
Prominent speakers will respond to toasts, and the evening
promises to be very enjoyable. Alumni who have not joined
the association are earnestly requested to do so.

Dr. G. T. Stewart,
Secretary.
Metropolitayi Hospital, Blackwell s Island, N. Y.
 "

PERSONAL.

A Canadian doctor was disciplined by his Medical Society for fraud in

promoting " the Hindoo remedy."
A cheerful editor of a homoeopathic journal wants " to add the name'*
of every homoeopathic physician to his subscription list. So do some forty
or fifty other quill drivers. And all will continue to " want."
Dr. W. C. Richardson has removed to 5359 Cabarre ave., St. Louis.
The vaccination question got into politics in England. "Anti" was
elected every time, hence " compulsory " went where the woodbine twineth.
You are right, John Henry, Ergot is not indicated in post mortem haemor-
rhages.
The ignorance and prejudices of the learned are far worse than those of
the unlearned.
Dr. C. Eurich has returned to 633 E. 137th street, New York city.
Dr. J. M. Patterson, Pulte, '87, has opened an office in Commerce Build-
ing, Kansas City. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Saith our wise Dr. H. C. Aldrich, "it is impossible to suit everyone."
Even so. By the way, Dr. Aldrich has been appointed surgeon of Minne-
apolis City Hospital, which will suit the patients there at anyrate.
Dr. E. Mather has removed from Paterson to 79 Grand street, Jersey
City, X. J.
What, oh learned ones, will " evolution " do with man ? Or does it stop
with him of its own volition ?
When a man writes " According to Stumpkins," etc., etc., we all regard
Stumpkins as an authority, though we never heard his illustrious name
before.
Dr. Nicholas Mitchell has removed to 1505 Spruce street, Philadelphia.
J.
For Salk. — A physician's revolving medicine case. Cheap. Address
J. Ait/. M. D., Cramer Hill, X. J.
Alfred, N. Y., needs a homoeopathic physician. Address Dr. J. P. Hunt-
ing.
A
digger of wells always begins at the top in his profession Wells are
old, and so is everything else, even Part I. of this paragraph.
No, John Henry, you should not apply the term "entomologist" to a bac-
teriologist, it might not be considered quite the right thing.
Mumm's used in christening the Illinois. Good send oil. Good stuff.
The History of Hahnemann College of Philadelphia Is out Buy it, ye
men with libraries.
Your papers, and notes, and comments are always welcomed by the Rk-
o >B m-.K. Send em in.

That paper by Dr. Wesselhoeft in this number is a wonderful continuation

of Hahnemann's " dynami/ation " theory; won't do to let it go now,
wouldn't be scientific to do BO,
Saith our fashion exchange: " IV iris, coral, rhinestones, cantille, spangles,
Chenille and silk all figure on B Single number of B fancy chiffon. And # 1

what may " chiffon " be that is so much figured on ?

[t has been suggested that "Thingumbobbine" would be good name
for a " medicine " to to catch the reader's eye.
 THE
Homeopathic Recorder.
Vol. XIII. Lancaster, Pa, December, 1898. No. 12

HOW SHOULD MATERIA MEDICA BE TAUGHT IN

COLLEGE?
P. S. Replogle, M. D., Chicago.

(Lecturer on Materia Medica, National Medical College.)

In looking over the field of Materia Mediea it seemed to the

committee on "Course of Stud}-" in the National Medical Col-

lege, Chicago, that this important department should be taught
during the four years, and. if possible, graded. How was the
difficult problem to be solved? Could not certain related drugs
be considered each year? Were not some easier to comprehend
than others were not some really elementary ? It is believed
;

that drug pathology should be comprehended as a foundation.

This is given under the head of Toxicology when properly pre-
sented.
The advice of old Materia Medica teachers was sought, and
one suggested that Hahnemann's polychrests be given to the
first year students. A teacher of experience with beginners be-
lieved that such a list would prove too heavy for the first year
work, and suggested a list which was finally adopted with little
change. How should we divide the remainder of the drugs for
the next three years? We learned that in certain colleges, that
boasted to be strong on Materia Medica, they divided the drugs
alphabetically into three lists in other colleges each professor
;

made his own selection. A conference of the Materia Medica

teachers was called, and, after many meetings, the principal
drugs in the Materia Medica were divided up for the four years,
as follows :

First Y ear. Second Year. Third Year. Fourth Year.

Aconite. Gelsernium, Veratruni Viride. Baptisia.
Arnica. Hypericum, Ledum. Calendula.
Apis m.. Iodine. Kali. Iod., Graphites.
Alcohol, Arsenicum, Argent inn, Carbo Veget.
 :

Should Materia Medico, be Taught in ( ollege

rt Year. Third irth Year.

una. ore, Stramonium
•ia. Kali C ChilidoiK-utn. Alumina.
hor, Cuprum, Lach< Conium.
Chamomilla, this.
China. im Mur„ Ferruiu.
Opium, : ia. Knta.
An nun. Mercnrius, Nitric Acid.
Nu\ \'oinica, Plumbum, [gnatia, phyllum.
Terebinthina, Phosphoric Acid. Phosphorus. Buphi
Cina. Silicea. Pulsatilla.
Rhus. Tox., Croton Urtii Kanuncula.
•lie. Can-ticum. Phytolocca.
Lycopodium. Sulphur, Sanguinaria. - >te.

Tobacco. Cicnta. Clem

Veratrum Alb.. Ipecac. Antinionium.
Zinc. am, Cocculus, um.
Thuja, Platina. ia.

Cactus, Cimiti
.lis. Strophanthus, Apocynum.
Secale. Hydn
Caidophy!lum. Cant/.

The plan for the such works as Dewey's

first year is to take
Essentials of Materia Medica (perhaps the best we have now
and use it for recitation, winding up the study of each drug
with memorizing its chief characteristics. The class devotes
two hours each week to this branch.
The second year lecturer considers the drug under the follow-
ing outline : I. Names. II. Sources. III. How developed.
IV. How it acts. V. Pathology.
VII. VI. Characteristics.
Related drugs. IX. Therapeutic guiding
VIII. Antidotes.
symptoms (secondary). Under the head of related drags, he
reviews the corresponding drugs given to the Freshn:. :its.

and shows how they compare. In addition to this review he is

expected to have the students memorize the characteristic guid-
ing symptoms. He is also given, it will be seen additional
drugs.
The third year professor, having the chair of Clinical Gyne-
cology, is given a large number of drugs I cially upon
women. He is also expected to compare tfa lie lectui
on with those given in the first and -ear, e. g., alter -

lecturing on Verat he compares it with Aconite and Gt

I
'.

mium, etc.

The lecturer in the fourth year gives, not only his own list

of remedies, but makes a comparison with similar ones of the

nous three years. 'Pic- senior student in that way .^et< a

comparison by three different men. each emphasizing the pecu-

each drug
liarity of in his own way.
 Wake Up. 531

In addition to these lecturers we have one man who gives the

principal drugs in an elaborate manner, and also a lecturer on
Physiological Materia Medica, as given in the old school col-
leges. (Besides there is a lecturer on Organon, who has all the
classes. The Organon in this college is classed as teaching the
elements of practice, the stepping-stone to homoeopathic thera-
peutics.)
The Text Books selected for the advanced classes were Her-
ing's and Farrington, with Breyfogle Epitome as a compend for
class- work.
This division of the work of teaching the Materia Medica as
given above may not be the best, and experience may change it,
but it seems to us as a step in the right direction.

WAKE UP!
Dr. O. Edward Janney, of Baltimore, in The American Medical
Monthly for November, urges homoeopathic physicians to arouse
from their lethargy and let the world know what Homoeopathy
is and what it can do.
41
Now let us have a change from all this. Let us practically
encourage the distribution of proper literature teaching the prin-
ciples of Homoeopathy and showing the splendid results of their
application in the cure of disease."
4
'
Fortunately this ammunition
is already prepared and at hand.

So supply that selection only is necessary to

rich, indeed, is the
ascertain which, out of many, will prove most helpful. Let us
glance at a few of the best of these writings."
"Dr. Samuel A. Jones, of Ann Arbor, some years ago wrote
a little book which has been read by more people, probably, than
any homoeopathic publication. '
In the pages of The Grounds
of a Homoeopathic Faith,'' many people have for the first time
understood the reason for the results of homoeopathic treatment.
It may be regarded as First Lessons in Homoeopathy.' "
4

" To follow this tract one could do no better, perhaps, than to

selectAmeke's History of Homoeopathy; which tells in an inter-
esting and popular manner the struggles and trials of Homoe-
opathy and the heoric life of its founder, Samuel Hahnemann."
44
A brilliant sketch of the life of Hahnemann is that by Dr.
J. C. Burnett, of London, admirably adapted for those who con-
template the study of medicine. It is entitled Ecce Medicus."
532 Chlorine in Diphtheria,

"Sharp's twelve Tracts on Homoeopathy are popular, having

reached their 14th edition. They are full of facts and are con-
vincing, though a little heavy in style.
"A recent publication, suitable to hand out to the public, is

Answers to Questions Concerning Homoeopathy, by Dr. J. T.

Biddle, oi Monongahela City, Pa. It is a brief, full of convinc-
'

ing fact-.
11
The Truth about Homoeopathy was written by Dr. Win. II.
Holcombe, of New Orleans, not long before his death, in answer
to an attack on Homoeopathy, instigated by Dr. Geo. Gould, of
Philadelphia, which like all attacks of this character, has but
served to more firmly establish our cause. This tract is well
adapted to enlighten the public."
" Those know the foundation on which our sys-
who desire to
tem of cure should be advised to read Homoeopathy, the
rests
Science of Therapeutics, by the late Dr. Carroll Dunham, of New
York. As a second book, the Organon of Hahnemann is sug-
gested."
11
Several years ago a most instructive and spicy discussion was
carried on in the columns of theLondon Times by friends and
foes ofHomoeopathy. These articles have been collected and
published in book form under the title Odium Medicum. They
furnish interesting reading, as the subject is viewed from many

points, while the unfair attitude and bigotry of our opponents

may be clearly discerned in their writings."
And to the foregoing we would add that it would be an excellent
plan for every waiting room table to be liberally supplied with
this class of literature in place of dog-eared magazines and old
copies of Puck,

CHLORINE IN DIPHTHERIA.
The New York Times of Nov. [ ith contained a column with
big head, wonderful new discovery. This brought
about a

forth the following response by Dr. Gillingham:

T<> tin- Editor of The New York Times.
In your issue of The Times of to-day is an article entitled
" N«-w Cure for Diphtheria,' which is valuable and interesting
1

to both physicians and laymen. The headline and the text

r to the cure of diphtheria by the use 1 ine as new,
while, in fact, it has been in common use by a large proportion
 CJdo rifie in DiphtJieria. 533
of the medical profession for the treatment of that disease for
thirty or more Dr. Constantine Hering, of Philadelphia,
years.
at least thirty yearsago experimented with Chlorine, and pub-
lished his observations and deductions at the time. Since then
in every homoeopathic college in the. land the virtues of Chlorine
have been taught. Dr. Hering, a friend and pupil of Dr.
Samuel Hahnemann, respected and venerated by learned men of
all schools of medicine as an unusually close and accurate ob-

server and careful teacher, found Chlorine to have a disorganiz-

ing effect upon the blood to a profound degree, localizing its
effects chiefly upon the mucous membranes of the throat and
nose.
Dr. T. F. Allen, of this city, recording in his Hand Book of Ho-
moeopathic Materia Medica (published in 1889, being condensed
from his larger "Encyclopedia") the effects of Chlorine upon
the healthy, mentions among other symptoms, fever with fre-
quent, then diminished, heart action, particularly severe
dyspnoea, cyanosis, choking from constriction of upper air pass-
ages, discharge of corroding water and mucus from nose,
stoppage of nose, tongue dry, ulcerations of the mouth, and
soreness of throat from uvula to bronchi. This is, even in its
condensed form, a picture sufficiently resembling the ordinary
undrugged case of diphtheria to insure its use by the intelligent
homoeopathic prescriber in cases where the symptoms agree on
the authority of the natural law of similars.
In the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, Dr. E.
A. Farrington taught during the seventies as follows: "Chlorine
has a special affinity for mucous surfaces, making the nose, both
inside and about the alae, sore. The mouth and throat, too, ar,e
affected with putrid-smelling ulcers. It profoundly affects the
blood, producing typhoid conditions, and through the blood
acts upon the nervous system."
Homoeopaths, then, have been administering Chlorine for
diphtheria for the past thirty years, not blindly in every case,
but carefully selecting it in those cases in which the drug
seemed to be indicated, and with satisfactory results. And one
does not take a very great risk in predicting that the advocates
of the "new" remedy will find in all epidemics, and under all

circumstances, Chlorine will not save 96 per cent., for it is not a

"specific," as there is no one specific for any one disease. The
new method of preparing it and exhibiting it may increase its
53 1
Notes and Comments.

efficiency. We have used it for thirty years in all strengths,

from the raw gas to the millionth potency, and prepared in many
w.t\ s.

But I will skip over the observations that might be made upon
the parts the Camphor, Menthol^ Eucalyptol K
etc., play in the
cure, and come to the point, viz.: that, because our friends,
those who make the most stir in the scientific world of medicine
turn only deaf ears to the world of scientific medicine, they sub-
ject themselves to the mortifying situation of publishing them-
selves the discovers of remedies that scientific Homoeopathy has
been using these many years. During this year medical journals
and the general press have told the story of two ingenious doc-
tors who had recently discovered that the poison of the honey bee
was a valuable remedy in certain forms of disease. Apis mellijica,

the poison of the honey

been one of the most com-
bee, has
monly used remedies in the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia for as
long a time as, or longer than, Chlorine. And the two widely
heralded discoverers of this wonderful new drug prepared their
remedy in the same way we have done for the third of a century.
We will soon be hearing of some brilliant savant discovering the
circulation of the blood.
H. P. Gillixgham, M. D.
Xew York, Nov. n, 1898.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

By Thomas C. Duncan, M. D., Chicago.
The Phytolacca Fatty Heart.
To understand the effects of this remedy upon the heart we
stud\- the pulse symptoms first. We read from Allen's great
storehouse, the encyclopoedia:
" Pulse slow and feeble after one and a half hours ."
I

•'
Pulse small and di after one and a half houi
" Pulse very -loir towards evening 1
alter a few hours
That is the first effect to show the pulse and heart, but after-
ward we read:
" Pulse rapid and very feeble after five hours •

" Pulse hard and mil at 7 a. Di. (second day

" Pulseeighty four after third dose second day," and remained
S<).
 —

Notes and Comments. 535

"Pulse tense, strong, full, of about 100 per minute after be
had ceased to purge."
" Pulse over 100."
" Pulse no full but soft at 3 p. m. (second day)."
These are the secondary effects and should be the therapeutic
guides without doubt.
Here are some interesting chest and pulse symptoms pro-
duced by the drug within half an hour (after severe nausea and
vomiting, bordering on unconsciousness).
"Pulse small and thread-like, irregular and with very much
agitation in the chest, especially about the region of the heart."
There was also here " extreme faintness, countenance pale and
hippocratic. Head thrown backward to its utmost extent."
These symptoms are interesting but will not prove safe clinical
guides I fear.

Taking up now the cardiac symptoms as given in Allen, we

read:
"Constrictive feeling at the praecordia, with pressure in the
temples."
That belongs with the full pulse and is secondary, and, there-
fore,from a therapeutic point curative.
"Great pain in the prsecordial region, very much worse by
walking." " Could feel the heart very distinctly."
" Occasional shocks of pain in the region of the heart, and as
soon as the pain in the heart ceases a similar pain appears in
the right arm."
This last symptom was developed by old Dr. Walter William-
son, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Hering, and is surely reliable. It
is secondary and therefore clinical.
Dr. Hering was doubtless justified in changing the expression
in his condensed Materia Medica to "shocks of pain in the car-
diac region; angina pectoris; pain goes into right arm."
He also adds:
"Awakens with lameness near heart; worse during expira-
tion; cannot get to sleep again."
That symptom is met in progressive failing compensation
hypertrophy with dilatation and fatty degeneration. Phytolacca
should do for these hearts what the carbonic Nauheim baths and
passive exercise have done — reduce the fat and tone the heart.
Try it and report.
N. B. — The last paragraph on p. 435, October Recorder,
refers to Phytolacca and not to Cratcegus.
536 A Few Remarks on Veterinary Homoeopathy.

A Valuable and Unique Homoeopathic Work.

In looking over a copy of Pathogenetic Outlines of Drugs, by
Herincke Iwas rather surprised that I had not before seen its
great value. Perhaps it was on account of the title. It is essen-
tially an outline of the effects of drugs upon the healthy body.
Remedy studies: Not theoretical, but a fair condensation of the
symptoms and those arranged by organs ]\is\. as we study disease.
It is true that the condensation does not always show the pri-

mary and secondary or consecutive action as it should. But it

comes nearer to being a pathological materia medica than any
we have yet, and I wonder that our pathologists have not given
it more attention.

The clinical outline under the head of "Employment among

the sick" is valuable, notwithstanding its awkward heading.
This outline work can be studied with profit by all who would
successfully master the genius of the remedies.

A FEW REMARKS ON VETERINARY HOMOE-

OPATHY.
'William J. Murphy, 230 West 58th Street, New York.
There are not very many arguments advanced against veterinary
Homoeopathy. Ridicule the missile of the uninformed is the
almost universal weapon employed by opponents of its use.
At most veterinary colleges the standard work on Materia
Medica is by an English author, Finlay Dunn. He devotes
several pages of his book to the subject of Homoeopathy. He
says the doctrine appears strange and unreasonable (no more so
than the explanation of the efficacy of tuberculin), and if sound
would stamp most diseases as hopelessly incurable, for it is only
in a few exceptional cases that any similiarity can be detected
between the symptoms produced by large doses of the remedy
and those of the disease for which it is given. He says no
known medicines are capable of developing symptoms such as
those of thick wind, roaring, pleurisy, strangles, distemper or
hydrophobia.
Ihave practiced veterinary medicine for about ten years and I
know of no allopathic remedy that can cure thick wind or roar-
in-. Then follows the time worn subjects, the similarity of cure
and the minimum dose. Let us say again that Homoeopathy does
 —

A Few Remarks o?i Veterinary Homoeopathy. 537

not insist upon the small dose, but why use much when little

will suffice?Most of the drugs employed by veterinarians, with

any degree of success, act in accordance with the homoeopathic
law.
In this work on veterinary Materia Medica, known to every
one who has studied veterinary medicine, we can find a remark-
able article against Homoeopathy, written by one who never
made the subject a study, who is unfamiliar with the remedies
of the homoeopathic Materia Medica, one who has had no ex-
perience with the art condemned and his writings against its
—
use not his observations, but from convictions prejudiced and
—
erroneous which are others' view others, who like himself, were
unfamiliar and inexperienced with the subject of their con-
demnation.
I have never met an opponent of veterinary Homoeopathy

who has ever had any experience with the subject. I have
never heard any one antagonistic to its use say I used Aconite
when it was indicated and it failed, I employed Bellado?ina in
the watery discharge of influenza and it was void of action, I
tried Sulphur in the disordered cutaneous integument and it was
inert, I used Arnica on the bruised and lacerated limb and the
inflammation spread, Bryonia failed to relieve the dry and hack-
ing cough, the overtaxed heart failed to respond to Digitalis.
No opponent ever said I gave Camphor and the diarrhoea con-
tinued. Never have I heard it condemned by a student of its
doctrines. Its opponents can criticise a subject without any
knowledge of its laws or abilities.
What can the homceopathist say in reply to the criticisms of
his art ? He can say I have used quinine and alcohol for pneu-
monia in horses with prescribed regularity, the regular old
school treatment for the malady and the animals have died. He
can say I have used Sulphate of Magnesia for bovine impaction,
yet death trinmphed over my efforts and relieved the ailing cow
of all earthly cares. He can say I have given the prescribed
allopathic remedies in canine distemper and the dog succumbed.
He can say I have treated the horse ill with tetanus heroically
—
with Ch to ral and Belladonna and the contracted muscles never
relaxed, and he can say that when he treated them thnsly, he
was satisfied that if they died they had resisted all human efforts
and thought their death was but an instance where skill was
directed against an unequal foe.
 A Little Pepper.

Now pneumonia is a remedial disorder. To day bovine

Impaction does not carry with it the same fatal prognosis as it
did in times gone by. Canine distemper has become but a
slight indisposition and the almost hopeless tetanus bows in
meek submission to the remedies of the homoeopathic faith.
I have practiced veterinary medicine for about ten yea:
have practiced according- to allopathic principles and according
to homoeopathic principles, so I should be famaliar with the
capabilities of both in the field of which I speak, and experience
has taught me that Homoeopathy is vastly more successful and
to a veterinarian far more preferable, because he cannot a^k his
patients to partake of remedies intended for their benefit and a
practice which permits of easy administration is of superior
value, provided it attains the desired results. A practice which
can suggest a remedy beneficial in diseased conditions and void
of toxic possibilities is preferable, provided it is successful. A
practice which brings convalescence without the drugs exerting
irritant or poisonous influences is far more desirable than is one
w hich has these drawbacks. Remedies inexpensive are more
r

desirable than those expensive if they are efficient, and a

practice of medicine whose Materia Medica offers remedies which
cure when others fail is worthy the patronage of all who make
the healing art life's study.

A LITTLE PEPPER.
Dr. Lawrence, in Medical Brief of November, thus discusses
the present attitude of the medical " learned :"
"If we are to believe the dicta of our modern pseudo-scientists,
the occupation of the physician is gone, sanitary laws are abso-
lete, and the use of medicines for the cure of disease must be
relegated to the limbo of the past.
" Disease, according to our wise men, is not the result of the
violation of natural laws, but the product of bacteria, microbes,
1)uli>, mosquitoes and flies.

A man i-- with consumption.

afflicted Our learned micro-
examines his spntnm, finds therein certain bacteria, and
SCOpist
ightway declares that the bacteria is the cause ol the disease.
He examines the casl oft' membrane of the throat o\ a child suf-
fering with diphtheria. He discovers that the membrane teems
with living germs, and at once concludes that they are responsi-
 Letter From Jamaica. 539

ble for the diseased condition, and administers antitoxin, not to

cure the disease, but to kill the bacilli.
''These wonderful discoveries of the causation and cure of
consumption and diphtheria were but the harbingers of the
brighter day of our modern medical science.
" They were but the faintest suggestions of the great success
that awaited the practice of fakism and charlatanry in the medi-
cal profession. The gold that clinked in the money bags of those
who first profited by these false doctrines excited the cupidity
of other so-called wise men, aud they have given up all efforts

to discover in Nature the remedies for the ills of the flesh, and
are now devoted to the more lucrative, if not more benevolent,
employment of killing bugs.
" Our readers have heard of the latest discovery of the cele-
brated Doctor Koch. This learned man found, what every
rustic knew, that mosquitoes usually abounded around malarial
swamps, and adopting the false reasoning of his school, that
post hoc ergo propter hoc, he solemnly announces to the world
that it is the mosquito that produces malaria."

LETTER FROM JAMAICA.

Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.
The climate of Jamaica is delightful, ranging the year around

from 60 to 90 degrees. Eastern portion it mountainous. Trees

constantly green and roses bloom the year around. Kingston,
with its beautiful harbor and mountain scenery, is situated on
the south side on a sandy plain, seven miles by ten, with a
gradual slope of seventy feet to the mile. Kingston has a r?iny
season in October and May, but the ground is so sandy that in
an hour after the rain the ground is dry. Good bicycling, ocean
breeze by day and cool mountain breeze at night make Kingston
one of the best winter resorts. In January people here wear the
lightest summer clothing. Ninety-five per cent, of the popula-
tion is colored, Sabbath observing, church going, and speak the
English language; very hospitable to strangers, especially Amer-
icans. Bananas, oranges, cocoanuts and all tropical fruits grow
abundantly. On the mountains Northern garden vegetables
grow.
The Boston Fruit Co. steamers leave Boston, New York, Phil-
adelphia and Baltimore on Wednesday, arrive in Jamaica Mon-
54° Hundreds Who Think the Same.

day morning. Good hotels, board reasonable; cottages in su-

burbs, $10.00 per month upwards. The people have had their
diseases suppressed for years, so the nosodes are frequently indi-
cated. Intermittent fever is frequently met with along the coast.
I cured some cases of long standing with Boericke & Tafel's 200
potency.
Julian Taylor (colored), laborer, on northeast side
lives
Jamaica, sick with ague twelve months. Had
taken Quinine in
large and small doses in allopathic hospital two months. Chill
from 1 2-1 p. m. No thirst. Fever long distressing. No thirst:
pains in arms, legs; better walking. Sweat scanty, relieves
when starting to walk; legs are stiff, heavy; pains in ankles,
always better walking about. Itching on undressing, worse
from scratching; stretches, yawns frequently, saliva runs out of
mouth. Rhus tox. 200, one dose on tongue cured.
Lixx.Krs A. Smith, M. D.
Kingston, Nov. 76, 1898.

THERE ARE HUNDREDS WHO THINK THE SAME.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel.
Gentlemen : Having taken the Recorder ever since gradu-
ating in '92, I feel as though I must write and commend the
stand you have taken on the Pharmacopoeia question, for I
heartily agree with you that Hahnemann's ways of preparing
and using our remedies were right, consequently we should
stick to them.
Dr. Bacon's short article in the August number was splendid,
and I wish we had more of them published.
T. W. Stephens. M. D.
Wilkinsburg-, Pa., Nov. 21, 1898.

OPENINGS IN THE SOUTH.

In the October number of the HOMCBOPATHIC RECORDER, on
the " Personal " page, I note your query regarding good loca-
tions for a homoeopathic physician.
I ran name not less than fifteen cities of r 0,000 or more in-

habitants in the two States of South Carolina and Georgia where

there arc splendid openings for competent men.
I shall be pleased to give more definite information to anyone
 .

Actcea Racemosa. 541

who will send me his address, but must request that the writers
be in earnest as I have no time to spare the merely curious.
Yours truly,
L. Curtis, M. D.
Augusta, Ga. Nov. j, 1898.
}

ACT^EA RACEMOSA OR CIMICIFUGA IN THE

TREATMENT OF NOISES IN THE EARS.
By Dr. Marc Jousset.
Translated from V Art Medicalby H. P. Holmes, M. D., Omaha, Neb.
Here is another one of our remedies which has made its en-
trance into the allopathic practice and, like Hamamelis, Hydras-
tis, etc., is imported from America, where the homoeopathic
and eclectic physicians employ it daily.
In France the homoeopathic physicians have used it for many
years, not,it is true, in noises in the ears. MM. Albert Robin
and Mendel gave a report to the Societe francaise d''otologic at the
meeting of May 5, 1898, which was reproduced in Medecine
modern entitled: Noises in the ears and their treatment by Cimi-
cifuga racemosa.
Here is the portion of that report which takes up the treat-
ment of several cases with Cimicifuga:
We have wished to treat the symptom of noises in the ears,
we have employed for it Cimicifuga in every case where the
symptom presented itself, independently of the condition of the
ear. We
have in the meantime grouped our different cases ac-
cording to the auricular affection which the patient presented;
that classification seems to us artificial, for the symptom of
noises in the ear is always identical in itself; a single consider-
ation appears to us to be important from a diagnostic point of
view, that is, the date of appearance of the subjective symptoms,
that is, their antiquity; in effect, this symptom will yield as
much more readily as and the cases in which we
it is recent;
have obtained no result are precisely those in which the noises
have extended over a period of many years [five, ten, forty-eight
years]
In nine other cases the results were rapid and complete. We
should, however, make an exception in two of these cases, which
we shall briefly explain.
54 2 - \ct&a Rficemosa.

The first is ol a man of 59 years, who has suffered from in-

tense buzzing noises for the last two years; these violent and
continual sounds coincided with a classical auricular sclerosis of
both sides. The patient had been treated according to the
classicalmethods and had experienced no relief from his condi-
tion. We prescribed for him from the first 15 drops of Cimici-
fuga daily without any result: the dose was then increased to 30
drops. At the end of two days the patient noticed the complete
disappearance of the noises; he stopped the use of the remedy
and the sounds returned. Returning to the drops, the noises
again ceased.
The buzzing having ceased, the patient's hearing was much
improved, without any other treatment of the ears. Unfortu-
nately this patient, who at this time led a quiet existence, was
obliged to accept a very laborious and fatiguing position; follow-
ing this complete change of life, his general condition became
worse, he suffered from digestive troubles and the noises were
not slow in returning, in spite of the use of Cimicifuga.
In the second of these cases the success of the medication
was a little less complete, but at the end of a longer time than
usual. It was a patient 50 years of age, who, at the time of the
death of her husband, was so emotional that she fell into a very
pronounced state of nervous depression. She was at that time
attacked with intense and continual subjective noises; she felt a
continuous purring in the left ear, and in both ears sharp
whistling and roaring. The noises distracted the patient by
their continuousness; she felt like committing suicide. Exami-
nation of the ears showed us slightly diminished hearing; the
tympani presented lesions which were common and ordinary to
the age of the patient [a slight depression of the membrane and
mortified color of the tympanum] .

We prescribed fifteen drops of Cimicifuga daily, a dose which

we have adopted the custom of doubling later on: it took the
remedy a long time to produce its effect: it was only at the end
of five months that the noises ceased. Hut we have reasons to
believe that the treatment was not regularly followed.
Following a contusion on the eye the whistlings returned in
both ears; the treatment was returned to and Stopped the noises
in a month.
In our opinion thai case should be separate
it was a case of subjective noises ol nervous origin ami main-
 Actcea Racemosa. 543
tained by a very pronounced neurasthenia. The ear itself
probably had nothing to do with it. That case also shows us
that if the action of Cimicifuga is ordinarily extremely rapid it
may, in certain cases, be much more slow.
In all our other cases, in effect, the cessation of the subjective
noises took place the second day after the beginning of the treat-
ment. We have also been able, in certain cases where there was
at the same time intense congestion of the tympanum, or of the
drum, to verify a very rapid decongestion under the influence of
the Cimicifuga. The same may be said of the sensation of heavi-
ness and tension on the corresponding side of the head, fre-

quently complained of by the patients affected with suppurative

otitis.

We will close this article by citing a little experience which

we practiced upon a patient who complained of roaring in the
ears, the cause of which was an old ceruminous plug, which, by
its presence, irritated the external auditory canal and tympanum;
without touching the plug we prescribed for the patient
thirty drops of Cimicifuga daily; at the end of two days the
roarings had ceased. The plug was afterwards removed.
In closing we will present the following conclusions:
1. Roaring in the ears may be considered as the reaction of

the auditory nerve irritated directly or by reflex.

2. Cimicifuga racemosa possesses an action upon the auricular

circulation and on the reflex irritability of the auditory nerve.

The medium active dose is thirty drops daily.
3. Noises of more than two years' duration are with difficulty
influenced by Cimicifuga.
The homoeopaths have not yet, so far as we have known, em-
ployed this remedy in noises of the ear, for we have other reme-
dies which appear better indicated than it does by their patho-
geneses. Meanwhile, if we refer to Allen's pathogenesis, we
will find among the .symptoms produced upon the healthy person
appropriate to the ear:
11
Pains in the ear; roaring in the ears."
One might then say that Actcsa racemosa is indicated by the
law of similars in the treatment of noises in the ears.

then quite evident that our confreres, in recommending

It is

this remedy, are only following the teachings of Homoeopathy

and that they practice Homoeopathy as M. Jourdain made prose,
without knowing it.
544 Reminiscence of an Old Soldier.

REMINISCENCE OF AN OLD SOLDIER.

Hungarian campaign,
In the severe winter of 1849-50. after the
we had to make march of six weeks from Transyl-
a frightful
vania, passing over the Carpathian Mountains into Bukowina,
and thence to Sauok in Galicia. Ever since then I suffered
every winter and also in spring from a severe bronchial catarrh.
The doctors usually gave me calomel, but they always stopped
it soon again, as the cough kept coming back, so that it gener-

ally took six weeks before recovery. I had no success with

hydropathy, for in active service that can only be applied at

night, and not even then with any regularity. This led me to
Homoeopathy. I was also led to it from a successful treatment
of chills and fever, of which I was permanently cured by Homoe-
opathy.
After a time, when I had become familiar with Homoeopathy,
I was especially benefited by Phosphorus in the 6th potency, thus
one millionth part of a gramme. Of this I would take 15 drops
in two days with excellent results.
In 1882, when I was lieutenant-colonel, commanding in the
reserve, and was enrolling recruits at Rann, neither this nor any
other remedy availed me. I had to give up and call in the staff-

surgeon. But a few days later the illness became so violent that
I had suffocative attacks, greatly frightening my wife.

In my despair I finally took a vial from my medicine box con-

taining little homoeopathic pellets, given me on my journey by
Dr. Streinz as I was passing through Graz; it contained Arseni-
cum in the 30 centesimal potency, i. e., as good as nothing at all.
This removed all my symptoms. Nevertheless, I did not from
that become a believer in high potencies. Even since then my
cough rose twice to bronchitis, once in 1SS9 and then again in
the >ear of the prevalence of influenza. Both these attacks were
soon relieved by Homoeopathy without worse consequences.
The cough stili returns twice a year, but under homoeopathic
treatment quickly runs its course. -Colonel E. von S., in l.cip.
pop. /'. /,. Horn., M<i\\ 'Sp.
 Cases of Hczmoptce. 545

CASES OF HiEMOPTCE.
By Dr. Robert Staeger.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Allg. Zeii. Horn., Feb.,
1898.

1. On the 25th of February, 1897, I was consulted by a

sculptor, 29 years of age, on account of haemoptce attended with
a dry cough, from which he had been suffering for three weeks,
during which time he had fallen off a great deal. At times the
saliva was only tinged with blood, at other times it was all
of blood-color. There was no scorbutic state of the gums, the
blood came from the lungs.
An examination showed a dull sound in the supra-clavicular
and the infra- clavicular regions on both sides, with a dry rattle of
small bubbles, attended with some metallic tinkling on the right
side. On both sides there was bronchial respiration. The
diagnosis was clear; there was a tuberculosis of the lungs and
the blood, i. e., the bloody sputa, came from a* small cavity
which, according to the examination, was on the right side.
Looking to the aetiology of the haemoptysis, I prescribed
Arsenicum Jod. 4, a piece as large as a pea, taken dry three times
day. The effect was truly striking. When he returned in a
week he complained neither of spitting blood nor of cough. His
appetite also, which had failed him entirely, was coming back.
Percussion, indeed, still showed a dull sound on both sides, but
ausculation showed no more rhonchi, only bronchial respiration.
On continuing the remedy, the patient became well and the
spitting of blood ceased entirely.
2. had another case last October. A cabinet-maker, 38
I

years of age, who had before consulted me on account of a

phthisic cough, was seized on October 20, with haemoptysis,
which, though slight, was of frequent recurrence. Arsenicum
jod. together with confinement to his bed at once checked the
haemoptce, and the dry cough, which had also returned for some
days, disappeared at the same time.

THE WILL OF DR. SCHUESSLER.

Dr.Med. Schuessler has made the city of Oldenberg his
legatee. We read concerning the transactions of the Municipal
Council as reported in the Oldenburg Zeitung of the 12th of
April the following:
546 Treatment of The Eyes W'itJi Children.

"From the property of the deceased 93,700 mark are to be

paid out in legacies the city itself is to receive 3.000 mark.

The remainder shall remain as the capital of a fund under the

care of the magistracy for the support of deserving and indigent
pei sons without distinction of faith. The property consists of
145,000 mark besides a house on Peter street, with its furniture.
The magistracy moved the acceptance of the heritage and the
sale of the house and furniture.
11
As to this fund the president communicated the further con-
ditions as found in the will, namely, that the persons thus aided
should have lived at least for three years in Oldenburg, and the
deceased had fixed on 300 to 400 mark as the amount to be paid
to each individual.
11
Oberburgermaster, Dr. Roggeman, remarked that the city
thankfully receive this fund. The house on Peter street and
everything belonging thereto would be sold at public sale as
soon as practicable. He did not advise that those to be sup-
ported from this fund should be moved to this house. The value
of the house as appraised in the insurance office was 18,000 mark.
" The president, Judge Rund, then pronounced a warm eulogy
on the deceased: It is a duty of gratefulness to here make
'

mention of the founder, whose will showed great generosity and

a noble philanthropy. Many needy ones will be aided by this
fund, and he hoped that those aided would ever gratefully re-
member the departed. He had shown great confidence in the
magistracy of the city in giving it a free hand in the disposal of
this fund. Honor to his memory!'
"All present assented to this eulogy by a standing vote. It
was resolved that the city councils should at once accept the
cj and their determination to dispose of house and furniture
at a public sale was approved of."

TREATMENT OF THE EYES WITH CHILDREN

Prom the Med. Monatskefte f. Hon;., October,

stinguished oculist gives the following rules for treating

1
»f children:
1. Do not allow the light to fall on the face of children while
tin > re sleeping.
2. Do not alio a- children to direct their eyes on one and the
same < bject tor t<u> long a time.
 Treatment of Cystitis and Catarrh of the Bladder. 547

3. Do not allow children to study too much with artificia

light.
4. Do not allow children to use books with small print.
5. Do not allow children to read in a railroad train.
6. Do not suppose that headache necessarily conies from the
stomach, it may come from the eyes.
7. Do not allow an optician or any peddler of spectacles to pre-
scribed spectacles, but let the children's eyes be examined by
an oculist.
8. Children ought to have sufficient exercise in the open air,

and if possible on green meadows or fields, for the green color

is favorable to the eyes.

TREATMENT OF CYSTITIS AND CATARRH OF

THE BLADDER.
In the session of the Societe frangaise cC Homceopathie of Febru-
ary 9th, 1898, the treatment of cystitis and of catarrh of the
bladder were discussed.
Besides the better known remedies
Cantharis and Terebinthina
Dr. Jousset recommends
tenesmus (painful urging to urinate)
for
in nervous people, Tarentula. Pains after micturition, accord-
ing to Dr. Cartier, point to Cubeba.
Ferrum phosph. is only useful where the pains appear only
while standing.
In cystitis with women, during the menses, Eupatorium pur-
pureum is suitable, and in cystitis with gouty persons, Nux
vomica.
Equisetum has, according to Dr. Simon, the following symp-
toms Painful sensitiveness of the bladder, which does not
:

cease after micturition, sensitiveness of the region of the bladder

and pain extending from the inguinal region toward the abdo-
men. Painfullness of the testicles and of the seminal vessels,
very frequently after painful urging to urinate, not always
assuaged by satisfying the demand. Urine, small in quantity.
First effect: polyury (copious micturition) with clear urine, ac-
companied with many erections, burning in the urethra without
any discharge. (Revue Homoeopathique Frangaise) .
548 Olive Oil in Typhoid Fever

OF THE VALUE OF OLIVE OIL IN THE TREAT-

MENT OF TYPHOID FEVER.
The Lancet publishes an article on this subject by Owen F.
Paget, M. B., B. C, Cantab., a portion of which we quote as
being a decided novelty in the treatment of typhoid fever:
"Typhoid merely an inflammation of Peyer's patches
fever is

usually followed by ulceration. It will be a long time Cif ever)

before we can prevent this taking place. The onset is so insid-

ious that even were we able patients would not come early
enough to the physician to give him the opportunity. The
problem, therefore, resolves itself into treating an inflamed and
possibly ulcerated surface, and the same laws hold good here as
in —
any other part of the body namely, rest and protection from
irritating substances and collection of discharges.
" As a proviso
it is necessary to remember that the patient must not starve.
Now, to keep these ulcers at rest, and to remove irritating sub-
stances, all that is needed is salad oil. This is given as an injec-
tion by the bowel, a large breakfast cupful I
from a quarter to
half a pint) being used for the first four or five days at intervals
of from twelve to twenty-four hours. Its benefits are distinct
from the first, the temperature almost always falls 1 deg. F., and
the patient, instead of being irritable and restless, becomes calm
and composed. After the fifth day it may be given every second
day, or left off entirely if the patient is having natural motions
at least every twenty-fourhours and if the temperature is stead-
ily falling. There
however, a certain proportion of cases
are,
which do not respond to injections; nothing comes away and
the bowel is apparently empty, but it is in these very cases that
the accumulation is worst. Suddenly the temperatue runs up
and the patient is seriously ill. Now it is the very virulence of
the accumulation which, paralyzing the gut, prevents its coming
away.
"The remedy is simple.
Give olive oil by the mouth, a large breakfast cupful at a time;

there is no need to be frightened, no harm will result, but the

bowels will almost certainly respond, and in; able
to manage the rest. If the first dose is without effect repeat alter
twelve hours
 The Tobacco Habit. 549
"Olive oil in is a perfect boon to the general
typhoid fever
practitioner. He
can leave his patient fearing neither high tem-
perature, delirium, insomnia, heart failure nor tympanites. I
have never used the wet pack or other appliances for lowering
the temperature (except sponging with vinegar and lukewarm
water), nor have I ever used any of the vaunted intestinal anti-
septics, never having had a high temperature or other complica-
tions which did not respond to salad oil, except in two cases.
The first was that of a boy with haemorrhages whose father and
mother were always drunk and neglected him disgracefully.
The second was a case of mitral stenosis which came under my
care in the late stage of the disease. The patients in both cases
ultimately recovered.
" Lastly, I would say that there seems to be no danger in con-
scientiously palpating and percussing the abdomen for the first
week of the disease, and it is a valuable aid in estimating the
disappearance of accumulations, though the temperature and
now my usual guides."
general bien etre of the patient are —
Health.

THE TOBACCO HABIT.

When a man tells me that he cannot stop using tobacco I
know that he means he will not. Of all habits this is the easiest
to break, and exercise of will power.
calls for the least The
physical sensations withdrawal of the weed are
following a
trifling, and at no time does the craving for a smoke approach

to a fractional degree the desire of the drunkard for his dram.

It seems to me, therefore, that when a hypnotist takes credit
to himself, or to the power of suggestion, for having in one week
or less broken the tobacco habit in a patient he is congratulating
himself without cause. There is nothing to break. The tobacco
habit is not worthy to be called a drug habit.
A man smokes because it is pleasant, and he is unwilling to
let apleasure go by, having none too many. Moreover, tobacco-
using gives to the sedentary, inactive man the sense of being em-
ployed, of doing something, of existing for some purpose, even
if it be only to blow rings of smoke into the air.
I express no opinion here upon the ethics of smoking that —
isno affair of mine, since each man must be a law unto himself
upon the point. But upon the effect of discontinuing the use of
tobacco I may claim to know something, having used tobacco for
550 yy<r Tobacco Habit.

smoking purposes in and cigarettes for the

pipes, cigars •

eighteen years. I was what is called "a heavy smoker," pre-

ferring strong tobacco and rank old pipes. For the past two
years, however, cigarettes have been my choice, and the
consumption has been about thirty a day.
Obviously, if there is such a thing as " The Cigarette Habit"
I must have contracted it, but I am convinced the whole thingis
a myth, and that anyone who makes up his mind that he does
not wish to use tobacco any more can cut free at once and with-
out difficulty or suffering.
About three weeks ago I laid down a half-finished cigarette
with the remark that I would stop smoking if a certain person
present would agree to stop drinking. The bargain was struck
and no more was said.
Then I found out the reason why they who stop smoking for a
time r< lapse. There was nothing to live for. There was no
physical craving for the taste of tobacco, but there was a blank-
ness, an incompleteness about life that was very marked.
The tobacco-consumer does not eat because he is hungry; he

eats because he can enjoy a smoke after eating. So when I gave

up tobacco I found that although my appetite immediately re-
turned, there was nothing to look forward to after a meal, and
the day seemed wasted and unfinished.
This means that the man who gives up tobacco must reor-
organize his life. It isand smoke; he must learn
easy to sit still

to without smoking. It is easy to be happy and smoke;

sit still

he must learn to be happy without smoking.

The temptation to return to tobacco is simply the laudable de-
sire to employ the idle moments to the fullest advantage. A man
may enjoy idleness, but he cannot be contentedly idle unless he
is doing something.
This sense of incompleteness in living without tobacco wears
off in less than a week, and in its place comes greater physical
and mental activity, keener appetite, a zest, an enjo} ment in
being alive, and a pernicious habit of waking early in the morn-
ing.
1 am not altogether clear that tin- advantage liesdecidedly 0110

way or the other, but am free to confess that the use ol cigarettes
is a bar to aspiration and the realiz ttion of ideals. It is, on the
other hand, :i spin toward tin- expression of a dry humor which
is to the parched spirit as lemonade to the picnic-goer.
 —

Treating the Unborn. 551

But as to the danger of the tobacco habit fastening its clutches

upon the young man, to drag him to an early and a dishonored
grave, I cannot see, friends, how this contention can be sus-
tained, seeing that the habit is as easily broken as a suit of
clothes is easily changed.
There is neither nervousness, nor pain, nor strivings, to be ap-
prehended, merely a slight restlessness, which is scarcely import-
ant enough to demand attention.
How many mothers blame tobacco for the downfall of their
sons ! The blame should upon the weed, but upon the
fall not
indecision of temperament, in the shaping of which the home
training in years before tobacco had become habitual was the
predisposing cause. Sidney Flower\ in Suggestive Therapeutics.

TREATING THE UNBORN.

Mrs. C. lost her first three children in their early infancy.
One, a few days after the birth, was found dead in bed beside
the mother, death having come so quietly as not to attract atten-
tion. The other two died a few hours after their birth, it was
said, from no known cause except lack of vitality.
Learning the above facts from the father, who consulted me
for epileptiform attacks from which he suffered, I advised
prophylactic treatment for both prospective parents. The father
was cured of his convulsions, chiefly through the agency of Nux
vomica, before the next conception of his wife; and the mother
was given Sulphur on account of its anti psoric properties, and
later, Calcarea phosphor ica, partly on general principles, but
chiefly because of its indication in conditions of low vitality, es-
pecially in children. The child that was born is now four years
of age, and her health has been such that she has practically re-
quired no medicine since her birth.
Mrs. D.'s first born died at the age of twenty- three months
from chronic hydrocephalus. Her physician said that if she were
to have a dozen children they would all be idiots. Upon what
he based this prediction I do not know.
She was a large woman of leuco-phlegmatic temperament.
Calcarea was obviously the remedy to prevent idiocy or hydro-
cephalus in Xo. 2. This remedy has the recommendation of
Grauvogl and the endorsement of Farrington in this connection,
 .

5$2 Passiflora Fncamata*

and was accordingly given. The boy is now six years of age,
has never been sick, and a brighter intellect cannot easily be
found
The family history of Mrs. K. was bad, having lost several
members of her family from tuberculosis. Her first child was
very frail from birth. The fontanelles were large and the cranial
bones thin and delicate. During the whole of the first summer
thelittle one was in a precarious condition. Several times it
came very near dying from cholera infantum or enterocolitis.
During its second year it developed tuberculosis of the spine and
finally died.
In the two subsequent pregnancies of the mother she took
Caharea, and the children, now nine and twenty-two months of
age respectively, are healthy.
From the foregoing cases, and others not named, I am con-
vinced that there is a truth at the bottom of this subject well
worth attention, yet very little is said of it in medical literature.
If disease and death can be prevented by prophylactic medi-
cation, is it not our duty to arouse ourselves to a realization of
the possibilities before us in this direction ? We should not
allow our attention to be called to physical defects of parents by
the death of several of their children, but rather be prepared to
detect and combat physical weaknesses and taints in prospective
parents before such taints become entailed upon their first born.
— U. A. Sharrell, M. £>., in Am. Med. Monthly.

PASSIFLORA INCARNATA.
I was called to see a lady, aged 44, presenting the following

symptoms: Temperature 102; a general feeling of numbness;

aching in the back of the head, extending down the cervical
region, with a tendency to draw the head back: a heavy feeling
and a sharp pain in the epigastrium, the pain darting to the
ovaries and then to the lumbar region. Patient told me she was
passing through the change of life, had not menstruated for four
months, had trouble in passing urine, and feared she was about
to become paralyzed.
Directed Passiflora to be given in doses of one drachm every
hour till three doses had been given. The first close made a
great change in her feelings, and in three hours I found her in a

gentle perspiration, bowels moved, a free and comfortable pass-

 —

Senecio. 553

age of urine, a menses and all pain gone. I con-

free flow of the
sidered that the medicine had acted upon and through the sym-
pathetic nervous system, and also relieved the portal congestion
which was manifest in the case.
I believe this agent will be found a laxative by its action

through the sympathic nerves, thus relieving portal congestion

quicker than any agent I am acquainted with. I have repeat-

edly proven this action with a certainty not common to any

other agent known to me in this condition of disease.
It also soothes the irritation of haemorrhoids, which result I

think comes chiefly from its influence on the portal circulation.

From this and its action on the sympathetic nerves it becomes
one of our most suitable remedies for mucous and irritable diar-
rhoea. Have had good results from its use in flux, where it
allays nervous irritability, and gives quietude to the patient.
Dr. Reed, in California Medical Journal.

SENECIO.
Lyman Watkins, M. D., Blanchester, Ohio.
Senecio is a remedy which the writer's experience has led him
to believe of use in difficult menstruation. We sometimes meet
with cases in which there is much pain and distress in menstrua-
tion, so much indeed that the patient is compelled to remain in
bed during all or part of the menstrual period. In some cases
ladies form the morphine habit by taking that drug at first to
allay menstrual pain. It may happen that the patient hardly re-
covers from one attack before it is menstrual time again, and
thus she becomes a chronic invalid. The menses may be either
scanty or profuse but in every case the flow is attended by great
pain and discomfort. It is in such cases as these that Senecio is
valuable, not to be given at the time of menstrual distress, for
present relief, but for administration during the intervals to pre-

vent the painful periods.

Under the use of Senecio all pain is usually prevented and fre-
quently the patient will " come around " without premonitory
symptoms, being agreeably surprised to find herself "unwell"
and without pain. Even in those cases in which the pain is not
entirely prevented, the patients are very much better. Many of
my patients express their gratitude for this remedy and say they
would not be without it. In some instances after the remedv
 — .

554 The Two Grindelias*

has relieved painful menstruation and has been laid aside, in a

year or inful periods have returned, but the administra-
tion of Senecio for a time, has again relieved them, and the
patients have expressed themselves to the effect that they would
rather take the remedy constantly than suffer as formerly.
Females taking Senecio generally improve in health and
strength, accumulate flesh, become light-hearted and cheerful.
This may be due to some tonic influence of the Senecio or to
natural recuperative efforts, a reaction from the depressing effects
of painful and difficult menstruation.
I feel that I can urge the efficiency of Senecio in ordinary
dysmenorrhoea, but would not attempt to say that it will cure all
some there may be obstructive organic lesions which
cases, for in
cannot be relieved by medicine, but require surgical treatment.
These Senecio will not cure.
have used Senecio in about one hundred cases of difficult
I

menstruation and have succeeded in relieving all of them, more

or less; many of them are entirely well. Of course one hundred
cases in the hands of a single experimenter are not enough to
establish a remedy. I would like to hear that a thousand of

my professional brethren had used the remedy as suggested and

to read their reports. Something reliable and useful might then
be evolved. California Medical Journal

THE TWO GRINDELIAS.

Dr. H. T. Webster, writing under this heading in the Novem-
ber California Medical Journal, says: "I confess that I am a little
tangled upon this subject. Grindelia squarrosa and Grindelia
robusta, while seemingly therapeutically distinct, seem physi-
cally very much confused. Pharmacists seem to be very much
at sea in the matter, as well as physicians, and many of them
have quit offering Grindelia squarrosa as a separate product at
all "
The Squarrosa, he says, I learned to value "above all
other anti malarial agents I have ever used." Grindelia robusta x

which by the way he had great difficulty in procuring owing to

the fact that several houses supplied the Squarrosa when Robusta
was ordered, was found in practice to he a most excellent local
application in all forms of malignant ulceration.
 Homoeopathic Successes. 555

HOMOEOPATHIC SUCCESSES.
By Dr. Hesse in Hamburg.
Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Horn. Monatsblcetter
of October, 1898.

A six year old child had under my treatment successfully

passed through scarlatina with diphtheria, followed by Bright's
disease with a moderate dropsy. The disease of the kidneys
had been indicated by vomiting, and this vomiting also con-
tinued after the disappearance of the albumen in the urine.
Then there followed a state, continuing without change, for four-
teen days, and this seemed to be carrying the child to a certain
death, somnolence by day and by night, only occasionally
interrupted by taking food and frequently hy vomiting. T 1
-re
was vomiting of all the ingesta or of mucus six to eight times a
day with a torturing retching.
Before the vomiting there is great anguish and restlessness,
troubles which the child cannot describe; after the vomiting
there seems to be an alleviation. No appetite, a moderate thirst,
stool constipated, urine dark, becoming turbid with a red sedi-
ment of sharp odor. Pulse of striking slowness, about 50 a
minute.
The case was very perplexing. The remedies selected effected
no change became daily more threatening from
at all; the state
the increasing debility.
In again taking up my
study of the case, I started from the
alleviation of the state after vomiting,and searched among the
remedies which Bcenninghausen indicates therefor. Among the
seven remedies indicated, (to which, from other sources, I added
Ipecacuanha and Glonoin) Digitalis most excited my attention
from the slow pulse which is a striking characteristic of this
remedy; and in reading up in Jahr and Hering, I found the
symptoms very suitable for my case; somnolence also intermixed
with fits of convulsive vomiting; also vomiting day and night;
continuous vomiting, even to death; vomiting and then allevia-
tion of the ailments; pulse retarded extraordinarily; urine dark,
becoming turbid on standing; brick dust sediment in the urine;
ammoniacal smell (v. Bcenninghausen). The child received five
powders of Digitalis io, one powder in the morning and one in
the evening.
556 . / Substitute for Antitoxin.

At once,
after the first powder, a radical change of the state
followed. Next day the somnolence, vomiting this appeared 1

only once more on the third day and the lack of appetite had
I

disappeared. The child wants to eat every moment, and can

id food. After the fourth powder, I counted the pulse at 80.
The urine is much more copious, pale yellow without either
smell or sediment.
The more medicine.
child needed no
was undoubtedly the simillimum, and there was no
Digitalis
other remedy that could take its place in this case. This is the
second time in my homoeopathic practice that I used Digitalis;
the first time with success (lasting at least for several year- I
in
a case of ascites described years ago in the Allgeyncine Horn.
Zeitung; in this case the retarded pulse and the whitish diar-
rhoea led me to this remedy.
The above case indicates that general symptoms, such as
somnolence and vomiting should not be taken as starting points
in selecting a remedy. Von Boenninghausen mentions Digitalis
only as the fourth in his list, and yet I found under Digitalis the
symptoms so peculiarly suited for my case. " Somnolence, also
with intermixed fits of convulsive vomiting."

A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANTITOXIN.

Dr. J. W. Lawrence writes:
l<
Clinically, it has been found
that the hypodermic use of this solution produces the same
effects claimed for antitoxin, namely, a lowering of tempera-
ture, and amelioration of the inflammation in the throat.
When used early, before extensive blood changes occur, and in
patients having a reasonable amount of vitality, it often aborts
the disease. This is a valuable item of knowledge which we
have gleaned from our experience with antitoxin. Having ex-
tracted this single grain of truth from Behring's fad, it makes
no practical difference to the profession whether he succeeds in
maintaining his patent or not."
The solution here referred to is one of carbolic acid, with
which antitoxin is preserved and in which Dr Lawrence claims
resides whatever curative virtue there i> in antitoxin and dis-
tilled water.

Whooping Cough. I have been in practice now for over

forty-two years (Hahn., Phil., 1856), and have had to treat
 Cases Fro vi Homoeopathic Practice. 557

many cases of this disease, and, with two exceptions, have cured
them all with Mephitis 4X. If you give the 3X they will
think they are taking onions. One case had violent epistaxis,
and another was so severe I gave a few doses of Amyl nitrate, 2x,
in water, then followed with Mephitis. —
A. M. Cashing, M. D. f

i?i Halm. Monthly, October, 1898.

CASES FROM HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Med. Monatshefte
fuer Horn., Nov., 1898.

A Bryonia Case.
1. Mr. G. for several days had had stitches in the costal re-
gion. As he supposed that the lungs might be touched he
called in a physician. He found the lungs perfectly sound and
diagnosed the case as rheumatism, and thought that he recog-
nized the cause of this in the moist wall by the side of the
patient's bed. He ordered him a bottle of medicine and a salve
for rubbing in. A few days later the pain extended from the
left side into the arm and even down into the fingers, and a few

days later into both feet. Here the pains increased and became
tearing, drawing, twitching, lancinating and shooting. On the
ankles and on the soles of the feet a swelling formed. It be-
came almost impossible to walk, for the ankles pained as* if they
were sore and ulcerated and the patient had a feeling as if he
were walking on the bare bones. The allopathic remedies used
had no effect. Now they sought help in Homoeopathy. Bryonia
4 D., three drops in a spoonful of water every two hours, brought
an improvement next day, and after 8 days all the pains and
the swelling on both feet had disappeared and Mr. G. had as
good use of his feet as before.
A Natrum Mur. Eye Case.
2. A young man had an inflammation of the eyes, tears being
secreted in abundance these colored the linen compress which
;

he tied on his eyes on account of his photophobia a dirty grey

color. The photophobia was most sensible with respect to arti-
ficial light. The white of the one eye was especially deep red,
and the sensation of a fog before the eyes made all work impos-
sible. I selected Natrum mur. 6 D. in the trituration, especially

since the patient stated that his eyes had for some time before
had a tendency to lachrymatioi; especially in the morning on
558 Concerning Women,

awaking. On the second day he was able to remove the band-

age as the photophobia had sensibly diminished. Also the fog-
giness before the eyes disappeared more and more the redness ;

of the white of the eye did not, however, disappear before the
eighth day. On continuing the use of the remedy also the
troublesome lachrymation gradually ceased.

A Surgical Case Needing Homoeopathy.

3. Miss L. had been treated allopathically for a long time

owing to a painful glandular swelling in the lower jaw. They

had been unable to dissipate it either by ointments, hot-water
compresses or poultices, and it had finally been handed over to
the surgeon. The wound was very long in healing up, and
when this was at last effected the patient was not yet free from
pains. She continually felt a pulsating, burning pain radiating
toward the shoulder from the place of the cicatrix. The physi-
cian consoled her that time would heal this. But this comfort
was not realized. The patient finally sought help from Homoe-
opathy. Alleviation, improvement and finally a complete cure
were effected by means of Hepar sulph. and Meairius sol. The
first remedy w as taken in the morning before breakfast, the
r

second remedy at 1 1 a. m. and in the evening before going to bed;

4 drops in a spoonful of water were given as a dose, the treatment
lasting^three weeks.

CONCERNING WOMEN.
(From the Aphorisms of Hippocrates.)

When a woman vomits blood she will recover when the menses
appear.
If a woman, whose menses arc retained, has epistaxis, it is

good for her.

If the mammae of .1 pregnant woman suddenly shrivel up she
will have an abortion.
W women who are unusually corpulent do not conceive, it is
because with them the omentum compresses the os uteri, and
they will not conceive before then obesity has diminished.
If much milk flows from the breasts ol a pregnant woman
this points to :> weakly foetus, but if the mamr se it

points to a healthier foetus.

 On Vaccination. 559
With women in whom the foetus is threatening to die the
mammae shrinks together, but if they regain their tei:.-.eness

pains will appear in the mammae, in the hips, the eyes >r the
knees, and the abortion will not take place.
If pregnant women, without any appreciable cause, are seized
with fevers and become emaciated, they will have a hard delivery
attended with danger to their life, or they will have a dangerous
abortion.
If women during their menses are seized with coi as and
fainting fits, they are in dang it.
If the menses appear in a pregnant woman the foetus can
hardly be in good health.
If the menses stop in a womjn, without any chill- or fever,
while she loathes food, she may be sure that she is pregnant.

ON VACCINATION.
Translated from Horn. Monatsblatter^ Nbveml - 3 or th Homceo-
pathic Recorder.
The following observations of the Imperial C r and
Member of the Diet, Prof. Jo-. Schlesinger in Viei -
are rec
mended to the es .onsi deration of all the frien
opponent- of vaccination:
11
1 look at the man who is to be v
cuts on the upp and the vacci :he vac-
cinating lymph. Now, sn]
and of the lymj b 1 proceed ac:
physician, then th ?re b

the vaccinated person. The constitution of the person zaccinated

has defended itself agai?ist the vaccine poison introduct has
ejected the substances v:o
pustules. Thi- defensive ict of man
for the pustules are ,,.
\
roof of it. Bv
'lis constitution is not
strong enough to throw off the vaccine poison;
mains in the bo 1 m
vaccinated, according to
are often sc

accine poisons in the ordinar

mutation of I tances
560 On Vaccination,

taught that in epidemics of vaccination

the '

very considerable numbers

Lted in frequently
fection better than persons not vaccinated; thence
the been drawn th lation has protected
and the friends of vaccination hold to this
\llpox l

belie belief we find the great danger to the life

it in this
and health of innumerable nun.
I would beg the reader to consider:

That in a vaccinated person, where the formation of the vac-

le runs its normal course, this is a sign that such a

ORGANIZATION WHICH IS NOT INCLINED TO SMAI.L-

.

hose constitution elimi : poison of smallpox from his

body.
What then is vaccination ?

One should think that everyone who at all considers the

matter must find out what vaccination really i>! I am not sure
iher what I now say has been advanced anywhere else in
vaccinating literature or not.
Vaccination is mkrkly a trial to see whether the per-
vaccinated has the power to resist smallpox.
If. therefore, in an epidemy of smallpox, the persons vac-
cinated do not become sick of the smallpox or only have a mild
form of it the cause of the exemption is not vaccination, but the
favorable state of health, which, in spite of vaccination protects
:he vaccine poison. Such persons would have been just
- ife from smallpox without vaccination as they were with vac-
cination.
^soever is vaccinated, therefore, only undergoes an ex-
ami nati< whether his state of health is of such a nature
as to be receptive of the vaccine poison. If his constitution is
•ptive of it jt throws off the smallpox poison by means
of the vaccine pustules. Thus such a constitution is already
inun not made
through vaccination.
so
If. tl re, the friends of vaccination wish to prove by
tli.it the vaccinated persons are much less apt to take
-mallpox than those not vaccinated, and ascribe this to their
I error; for those who show their
their successful vaccinal
•
•
th '

because they still posj

to wit:: they ha I

l. We should, the put the

 Artemisia and Epilepsy. 56]

number of the vaccinated persons who do not take the smallpox , or

-who only take it i?i a mild form, to the side of the unvaccinated
persons and to their credit. rhe Stat

of vaccination are. therefore, r >f at all thf :1

protects, and this we m I I
".
the
statistics of vaccination. These do nothing else than throw
sand into the eyes of the public so that it may not find out the
nselessness of vaccination."

ARTEMISIA AND EPILEPSY.

By Dr. Moeser.
Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from Horn. MonatsblaetUr,
November, 1898.

Homceopathic physicians in treating of epilepsy have repeat-

edly called the attention of their colleagues to a remedy which
does not, indeed, belong to the so-called polychrests, but. never-
theless, deserves more attention than is actually given it. namely,
to Artemesia. Of this plant three specie.- are used medici-
nally. There is Artemesia abrotanunt, which was especially
used with preference by the well-known late Dr. Deventer. of
Berlin 'who also wrote a peculiar Pharmacopoeia but he used it ,

not in epilepsy, but in the atrophy of children having increased

appetite but defective digestion; then also in gout and in cases
of freezing (in chilblains, where he also applied it externally ! .

Artemisia abrotanu?n may not be considered in epilepsy. The

other two species of this plant, however, compete in this disease.
and especially the species called Artemisia vulgaris, in common
life mug-wort. From the fibrils of the root, dug up in the latter
half of November, a tincture is made, having an agreeable smell
of malic acid, and which is also given undiluted in doses of one
to two drops at a time. It has been found that the plant grow-

ing wild in overgrown fields and in fence- corners is more effect-

ive than plants raised in gardens.
Dr. Schweickert with this tincture cured an epilesy caused by
fright with a lying-in woman in a very short time. Also the
earlier physicians have considered Artemisia vulgaris as an
actual specific in epilepsy. It is said to be most suitable in cases
connected with menstrual troubles and where the attacks take
place several times a day with brief intermissions. Also other
physicians have found Artemisia very useful in epilepsy and in
 Chronic Swelling of the Knee Cured*

the ites of young people, but exclusively in cases

where tl ks appeare I with striking frequency. So far as I

know there his not yet been made any homoeopathic proving of
this remedy; but it might be well worth while still to institute
a proving.
i the third species, Artemisia absinthium — wormwood —
h is b leu tried and recommended in epilepsy. We have a homceo-
pathic proving of Absinthium, as also of Abroianu?n, but I am
that it is incomplete and affords no characteristic
symptoms which might form a certain guide in its selection. But
it is well established that from the use of absinthe epileptic at-
tacks may arise- it has also an influence on the womb, pro-
moting and increasing the menses, but it is said to weaken
at the same time the sexual functional activities and to cause the

body to become emaciated.

In a case of violent epilepsy that lately came under my treat-
ment, I h id an opportunity of comparing the effects of these
two remedies, and I received a decided impression that Ab-
sinthium surpasses in its effects Artemisia vulgaris; for while

wed
only a slight improvement after Artemisia vul-
garis the improvement after Absinthium was decided and contin-
uous. The attacks ceased and have not since returned. It is true

tb it tlie time that the case has been under my observation is brief,

but it was considered as an unheard of event by the relatives

that the attacks had been checked at all, because this had never
beer, obtained with any other remedy.

CHRONIC SWELLING OF THE KNEE CURED.

Arsenicum 30
By Dr. V. Villers, Sen.

Translated froiH Horn. Monat blatter 'November, [898,) for the Homoe-
opathic Recorder.
VI.
T., 41 years of age, married and the mother of live

ulous children, of medium

dark brown hair, healthy
size,

col< ire build and of limited muscular development, regu-

lar in her OH nStmation, has been Suffering since her sixteenth

from a swelling in the knee, recurring periodically,
ound out as to the external cause at the first
 Chrome Swelling of the Knee Cured. 563

appearance of the trouble; nor about any previous diseases. In

the first years the patient had violent pains every nine days,

later every twelve days, with the exception of the months of

pregnancy; these pains were at first tearing pains in the ex-
tremities and pains roving about in the head, with loss of appe-
tite, a strong smell from the mouth and quickly alternating

changes of chilliness and heat, without any perspiration, with

unchanged pulse. After about twelve hours the pains fixed on
the right knee, from which they extended to the ankle and the
hip-joint, scraping along, as it were, on the long bones. At the
same time the knee commenced to swell, at first the heads of
the muse, vasti int. and extern, and gradually the other parts
surrounding the joint, extending below the lower part of the
patella. With the increase of the swelling, which usually at-
tained the size of the human head, the pains increased to an
extraordinary degree of violence.
These pains were most bearable if the patient, standing on
the sound leg and leaning with her back against the wall,
allowed the right leg, half bent, to swing freely; the pains were
most violent when lying on the back, and when covered with a
feather bed. It became quite impossible for her to walk, as the
swelling made it impossible to bend the leg. The skin over the
high swelling was tense and shining, but unchanged in color
and in temperature. The swelling felt elastic to the touch and
could bear a moderate pressure without any considerable in-
crease in the pains.. There was no trace of oedema or of fluctua-
tion. After twenty- four hours, which were spent without sleep,
the swelling and the pains began to decrease even as they had
before increased; the appetite returned, the odor from the
mouth disappeared, and there only remained dull pains, occupy-
ing the whole of the head, and a general weariness. After three
days everything w as over, returning again after twelve days.
T

Numberless sorts of treatment, even the careful treatment of a

celebrated homoeopathic physician, extending over several years,
had been without any effect. For two years the patient had
used no remedies, as she had lost all hope. During one of these
customary paroxysms I was first called into the family owing to
a case of measles with one of the children. Though none of
those present calledmy attention to the patient, who was groan-
ing with violent pains on a sofa in another corner of the room, I
could not help inquiring with sympathy after her, and since I
 m

<' thi Knee (

pprove of the stolid her relatives I

M\ thankfully accepted.
China, Pulsa-
tilla. Rhus. »i acet me after the other in
of the disease without any other effect
than that some mptoms disappeared; as to the
main symptoms, the lined the same. My choice now
fell gave her three drops in the 30
on Arsenicum, of which I

centesimal attenuation when one of her attacks hadjust ceased.

The second dose I gave her on January 3, 1849, the evening be-
her next attack was expected. From that time on my diary
•
tins the following brief notices :

January 4. Without any premonitory symptoms, and without

any concomitant pains, the right knee began to swell at the
place where the Musculi vasti begin. There was no sensitiveness
to pressure at all.
January 5. A slight increase of the swelling without any sen-
sitiveness to the touch, with only a slight pain while walking;
she could occupy any position and was not hindered from sleep-
in-.
January 6. Since yesterday evening the swelling has decreased:
it had never risen to half its ordinary size and had disappeared
by the evening of the 6th. No headache.
During the duration of this attack, which had been so visibly
milder, I had given her a dose of the 15 cent, attenuation of
tincture of Arsenicum album every day; after the attack was
over K aVL the same dose only every four days.
I '
This was con-
tinued to the end of Febrnary. Up to that time the trouble had
reappeared four times (one time before its usual period), but the
attacks became continually milder, and even the first attack did
not hinder the patient in her usual domestic vocations. The
fourth attack was manifested merely by a quite insignificant,
and entirely painless swelling of the origin of the Musculi
/, which disappeared within twenty-four hours. Since that
time the woman has remained free from this very painful trouble,
which had embittered twentv-five vears of her life.
 The Tongue in Simple Dyspepsia. 565

THE TONGUE IN SIMPLE DYSPEPSIA.

With regard to the medicines suggested by the appearance of
the tongue — a thick, moist fur, creamy white in color, indicates
Antimony; while a dryer tongue of the same character calls for
Pulsatilla, and a thin, white coating, through which the enlarged
papillae show, indicates Belladonna. A yellowish stripe down
the middle indicates Hydrastis; a thickly coated, yellow-brown
tongue, with red edges, Kali bichrom.; a yellow coating to the
base while the fore part is clean, Nux vom. or Mcrcuiius iod.

/lav.; a dry tongue, brown down the centre, and shining red
edges, Baptisia; a dry, brown tongue, with a red, cracked tip,
indicates Lachesis; a coated tongue, with moist, clean tip,
Bryonia; the same, with a triangularly shaped red tip, Rhus tox.
A beefy red tongue, or a tongue with two brown or yellow
streaks with red centre stripe and red edges, indicates Arseni-
cum; a white coating, with tendency to formation of black
crusts, Phosphorus. Mercurius sol. also has a thick moist coat-
ing, the upper layers tending to be blackened in patches. A
mapped tongue suggests Taraxacum or Natrum mur. The sen-
sation of hair on the back part of the tongue is given as a reason
for the administration of Kali bichrom.; on the fore part, of
Silicea; indifferently, of Natrum mur. I have had cases which
have confirmed these three indications. —
T. G. Stonham, M. D, t

in Journal of British Horn. Soc, Oct., i8gS.

BOOK NOTICES.
The Porcelain Painter's Son. A Fantasy. Edited with a Fore-
word. By Samuel Arthur Jones, M. D. 126 pages. Cloth,
$1.00; by mail, $1.05. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1898.
The contents of this artistic little book proves that the pen
that wrote The Grounds of a Homoeopath' s Faith, the most power-
ful argument in favor of Homoeopathy ever published, has not
power or charm. The Porcelain Painter s Son
lost its old-time
is something more, much more
a Fantasy, and, —
it is the spirit

of Homoeopathy and the great founder, and every reader will

read and re-read it and arise with a truer and higher conception
of what Homoeopathy really is.
566 k Notu

;.
>aper. " Under which K ozonian,* 1
of tl titnting the earlier work
and it. too, is .something to be read and read again
who knows good
literature will be disappointed in this little volume.
•up of the work is very pleasing.

Practical Urinalysis and Urinary Diagnosis : A Manual for

Surgeons and Students. By Charles
W. M. I).. LL. D. (Queen's University
Purely, Fellow of :

the Royal College of Phys aid Surgeons, Kingston;

r of Clinical Medicine at the Chicago Post Graduate

:cal School. Author of " Bright's Disease and Allied

ctions of the Kidneys:" also of "Diabetes: Its Causes,
Svmptomsand Treatment." Fourth, revised edition. With
numerous illustrations, including photo-engravings and
colored plates. In one crown octavo volume, 365 pages,
bound in extra cloth, $2.50 net. The F. A. Davis Co.,
publishers, Philadelphia. New York city and Chicago.
When it is known that three large editions of this book were
sold within three years and that it is the text- book, on the subject
treated, in sixty medical colleges, it will be realized that it is the
book you should get if wanting one on uranal;

A Primer of Psychology and Mental Disease for Use in

Training-schools for Attendants and Nurses and in Medi-
cal Classes. By C. B. Burr, M. D.. Medical Director of Oak
ital for Nervous and Mental Flint. Mich.: I

nerly Medical Superintendent of the Eastern Michigan

'.11111; member of the American Medico -Psychological As-
ition, etc. Second edition, thoroughly revised. 5 .x; 1
•

inc:: ges ix-116. Kxtra cloth. Si. 00 net. The F. A.

Co., pul Philadelphia, New York city and
go.
following bit of psychological humor from the preface is

of the book: "The association of the

sment and the concept commisseration has pro-
I thejudgment to write this unambitious little book. The em-
at has been incident to simplifying in teaching what is
 Book Notices. 567

at bestan abstruse subject. The eommisseration I have felt for the

members of the Training-school Class, who have been compelled
to stand 'quiz' on the subject of a lecture without aid to
memory other than imperfect syllabus." It will be a useful
book to enable students to "pass," but, without the least dis-
respect to the learned Professors of Psychology, we think that
none of them have discovered the secret of life nor ever
will. Life, Space, Time and Eternity are things beyond the
mental scope of the created.

A Practical Treatise on the Sexual Disorders of Men. By

Bukk G. M. D. 169 pages. Cloth, $1.60. New
Carlton,
York: Boericke, Runyon and Ernesty. 1898.
This little work gives description and treatment of the various
sexual diseases of men, not including syphilis or gonorrhoea,
and concludes with a very excellent homoeopathic Materia
Medica, or chapter on therapeutics, applicable to the diseases
considered. The work is designed for physicians only.

The Physician's Visiting List for 1899. Philadelphia: P.

Blackiston, Son & Co.
This the forty-eighth year of publication of this elegant little

work, one of the neatest published.

A Text-Book of Pathology. By Alfred J. Stengel, M. D.,

Instructor in Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsyl-
vania, etc.With 372 illustrations. 848 pages. Cloth, $4.00.
Half-morocco, $5.00. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1898.
Dr. Stengel's aim has been to present the subject of pathology
in as practical a form as possible and always from the point of
view of the clinical pathologist. Prominence is given to patho-
logic physiology, and discursiveness and citation of authorities
avoided. The illustrations are numerous and mostly good, some
of those in color are especially fine.

American Pocket Medical Dictionary. Edited by W. A.

Newman Dorland, A. M., M. D. 518 pages. Flexible bind-
ing, gilt edges, $1.25. Philadelphia: W.B.Saunders. 1898.
 k Noti

little pocket hook for althi utaining

a marvel of c con-
tain in a I terms and 6
pelling, pronunciation and
deffinitioi For instance, "Hysterectomy
(his-ter-ek'-to-m< •' Uterus." So
.
rk.

eviewer of the translation of the 25th edition

>i S raPy says: "The physicion whohas
thin therapeutics pr< R of drugs in general should be-
come familiar with Dr. S huessler's method." From the word-
>ne would infer that such faith was very rare to day.

A.BOUT i,i" pages of Arndt's Practice are printed or in type

and the publishers hope to have it ready for delivers- in January.
When completed the work will be one of about 1,200 octavo
r about the size of Osier's work. It will contain a full

tion on nervous diseases, and in all respects will be a complete

and modern work on the practice of medicine. Dr. Arndt has
put an immen e amount of hard work in this book, and it will
not be a mere rehash of the older works, but fresh, live and up
with tli-. times.

The Prcscriber: Dictionary of the New Therapeutics.

A
By John H. Clarke, M. D., F. R. G. S.
Of all the little books which are excellent in principle and
se that these good publishers have given us recently none
Icome than Dr. Clarke's Prescriber. Its plan is
simple and its Scope is indicated in the following extract from
its pi 1

"The indications for the remedies generally will be found to

be more symptomatic and less pathological than formerly.
v in< 3 have no regard to the names of diseases, either patho-

Dosological, but only to the symptoms of each indi-

I patient. A repertorial work, who.se basis of arrange-
ment is clinical 01 nosological, has, in strict Logic, no •

in homoeopathy; but practically it has a by no means an-

imporl Names of diseases correspond to well defined
 — —

Book Notices. 569

groups of symptoms, which find analogous groups in the symp-

tom record of the various medicines. A clinical repertory like
The Prescriber shows at a glance what these medicines are, and
how they are to be distinguished from each other. If the most
similar remedy is not found under any of the medicines named,
recourse must be had to the Materia Medica itself and the reper-
tories of its symptomatology. It is not intended to be a substi-

tute for a knowledge of the materia medica, but only as a help to

the successful use of it.''
The Clinique.

The Change of Life in Women, and the Ills and Ailings

Incident Thereto. By J. Comptom Burnett, M. D.
Dr. Burnett has given us a readable work —
and are not all of
his works most delightful to take up and read —
on that subject
of women's ailments that is so often made a scapegoat by both
the patient and the doctor, and he strives to impress upon his
readers the necessity of proper appreciation of the condition and
the internal use of remedies. In speaking of treatment, the
author says, "the very largest amount of success is obtained
when we abstract ourselves from the name of the ailment and
study the constitutional bearings of the case, and treat the
woman's organs on general principles." We predict for the work
a wide sale. -J. B. G. in Homoeopathic Eye, Ear and Throat
Journal.

The Clinique, a journal that is not afraid to speak right out

in meetin', says of Norton's Ophthalmic Diseases, second edition,
that it "contains 647 pages of the best arranged, most complete

and most modern thought upon diseases and therapeutics of the

eye ever published in America. We believe it to be the best
text-book upon opthalmology published to-day."

An Abridged Therapy Manual for the Biochemical Treat-

ment of Disease. By Dr. Med. Schuessler, of Oldenburg.
Twenty-fifth Edition.
The twenty-fifth edition of Dr. Schuessler's manual presents
many points which can not be emphasized too highly. The in-
creasing amount of attention which is being paid to the bio-
 — —

f the to nment of disease and the biochemi-

cal is] 'the mechanism of I m make evident
the value of such a work, especially when prepared
The present little volume is a \

compact arrangement of points in medicine which can be of

;
ractitioner, and we are confident that it will
e a position in any physician's library. Mtdical

Renal Therapeutics, Including Also a Study of the Eti-

ology. Pathology, D. .^r.osis and Medical Treatment of
Diseases of the Urinary Tract. By Clifford Mitchell, A.
M., M. D.
have long felt the need of a work on renal therapeutics.
Mitchell has made
primary object of his book.
this the
complete structure of the kid-
ted to the
rich is so Be to an understanding
of its function. The plates are carefully selected and well illus-
trate the pathology to which the] The book is admirably
arranged, giving homoeopathic treatment and adjuvant m
and is '.come addition to our library.
. It should be in the

:ioner. Am. Med. Monthly.

A CORRECTION AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

\THIC R:
ugh an inadvertence on my part the price of the
- of D quoted too high in the
i" is

it retails at 65 and 50 cents respectiv-

vou kindly make the correction in the next number of the

Rk And will you also announce that I have about
r publication a translation of " Bonninghauscn > Reper-

liticanc. tie Remedies

m to the printer as sou:
scribers at f :red to pay I The
valuable to be losl and unless
h readers
>on appears thu- -_-
entirely disappeared from our
literature.

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THE INDICATED REMEDY

those wh; s::ouli re: — in our on:n::n i: ie..s: — but it .my ;:/..

show a better method of treminc iise2.se th.m bv the inuiostei

 ial.

heartfelt welcome than

the RECORDHR. [f a man fa up with wax or
his bowels impacted, or in similar cases, he certainly immedi-
ately ne Ise than a fa ithic drug, but this
i admitted and i ssly pointed out in the
\non.
But, after all, it is only a personal thiug. "The truth is

mighty and will prevail." If Homoeopathy is the truth — and

unwavering history would indicate that it is — it does not
I support, for it is truth that supports man and not the re-

vers< man refuses the support of the truth, or cannot

Qtally comprehend it, that is his individual misfortune.

A POINT TO BE CONSIDERED.
Hahnemann, and all others since his day, excepting the
author, or authors, of the new pharmacopoeia, say that Aconite
should be prepared from the whole plant gathered in time of
flow nd, of course, fresh, with all its life juices at their
The new work, apparently on its own authority, directs
the pharmacist, or physician, to prepare the tincture from the
because they are "stronger."
fact that such a tinct- The
ure would and therefore useless for
also be different, unproved,
homoeopathic practitioners, does not seem to have been thought
of by the makers of that work. Any one who comprehends the
first principle involved in the w ord " Homoeopathy " can
r
readily
see that such changes in the preparations of our drugs (and the
above is but a specimen) will be a serious menace to the whole
profession.

RESPECTFULLY REFERRED TO DR. S. A. JONES.

A ubscriber writes :

'The paper 'On a Certain Custom of the Druids' that was

published in the February number, 1898, of Homoeopathic
ordeb suited me, as am very much interested in all such
I

Irenes. hoped that more would appear from the same pen
I

during the year, but as nothing h:is made its appearance since
tile sain,- source
:
thought would write about it."
I I

We WOUld state that a delightful little "fantasy." The Peree-

l*in Son, by the writer of the paper on the Druids, has
 Editorial. 573

just appeared, and every lover of good literature should hasten

to get a copy. For your own reading (if a lover of good books)
and for the waiting room table there is no better book published
during the year. As for our correspondent's query, we answer it
in the heading of this.

PITTSBURG PERSONALS.
Dr. W. Cook, of Pittsburg, and Dr. A. C. Clemens, of
C.
Wheeling, West Virginia, will spend the winter in Germany
Studying up their specialty, the eye.
After a year spent in Philadelphia and New York studying up
r

the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, Dr. T. W. Stephens has

opened up as a specialist in his new office at 814 Wood street,
where he will devote himself to his specialty.

Herbert Spencer says: "Eife is the definite combination

of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in
correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.' '

Now, gentle reader, if you know any more on the subject than
you did before you are a profounder man than most of your
fellows. We sometimes think the most truthful answer to the
problem of life would be " give it up."

MORAL: MONTHLY BILLS.

"But in collecting doctors sometimes exhibit an amazing
ignorance of human nature. Young graduates often think all
they have to do to get ahead in life is to attend a few cases,' '

have some from a steel plate on nice paper, and

bills printed
when they want money fill one of the blanks and send it to a
patient and wait for the next return mail to bring them a check.
This delusion does not last long. Other physicians, whose years
of experience should have taught them wisdom, never send bills
till they need the money. If they happen to want one hundred
dollars they will look over their books and find some one who
owes them about that and send a bill. They never send bills to
patients who are good until they actually need money, and
4
'

then are surprised to find some have moved away, some forgotten
that they were ever treated at all, and others inclined to claim
that the bill was paid long ago,' because it is so old and 'gray-
'
 Editorial.

haired,' and it is not their custom to allow bills to remain un-

As a result the doctor finds that he is lucky if he
can collect 25 percent, or perhaps even 10 per cent, of the amount
on his ledger.*'— The Medical Examiner, cVov. 1898. t

'Phi. Homoeopathic World {ox November says:

()•. .vill be pleased to learn that our eminent representative in the
••nary world, Mr. J. SutclifTe Hurndall, M. R. C. V. S., has been elected
ilent for the year of the Central Veterinary Medical Society, whose
headquarters are 10 Red Lion Square. We offer our warm congratulations
to Mr. Hurndall, and are glad to find that the prejudices which disgrace the
world of human medical affairs are unknown among those who care for sick
animals.

Mr Hurndall is best known in the United States by means of

his work published here a few years ago on Veterinary Homoe-
opathy in its Application to the Horse, which is now the accepted
authority on the subject. We also congratulate Mr. Hurndall
on his new honors.

LOCATIONS ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

Bditor Homoeopathic Rfxorder.
<»:"

October Recorder, you ask for par-

In your issue of 15th
ticulars of a good location for a homoeopathic physician. If a
physician is desirous of such, and you will refer him to me, I

will gladly attempt to put him in the way of securing a location,

if he wishes it in th*s part of the country.
Yours very truly,
Dr. F. W. Southworth.
Tacoma Theatre Building, Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 7, tSqS.

OBITUARY.
Dr. J. Heber Smith.
J. Heber Smith, M. D. , of Boston, died in this city of heart dis-
Oct. 23. He was born in Bucksport, Me.,
and was the son of Rev. Joseph Smith widely
; j,

known Methodist clergyman o( New England.

in early life Dr. Smith was prevented by ill-health from com-
pleting il course at Harvard College for which he was
prepared. IIi> health afterwards improved ami he entered with
 Editorial, 575

enthusiasm upon the study of medicine. He was graduated at

the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, in March,
1864, as the valedictorian of his class. Almost immediately he
entered upon a successful practice in Melrose which continued
till 1882, when he removed to Boston, where he had been often

previously called in consultation, and where he had since con-

tinued in practice.
In 1873, on the foundation of Boston University School of
Medicine, Dr. Smith became one of its original members as Pro-
fessor of Materia Medica, a position he filled with great ability
to the present time. Since 1878 he had been one of its Excu-
tive Committee and its secretary.
—
He leaves a widow and two children Mrs. Horace G. Loben-
stine, a married daughter w ho resides in Detroit, and a son,
T

Conrad Smith, who has nearly completed his medical education.

The Eclectic Medical Gleaner for December, in reviewing the

field, says of the past :

"Old-time eclecticism barely held itself together up to the

time that Doctor John Milton Scudder fell into leadership. He
found the E. M. Institute out at the elbows sud knees and well
nigh pauperized. The subscribers to the E. M. Journal num-
bered a baker's dozen but not morn more, and the debts of the
College were enough to scare a millionaire. Eclecticism all
over the country seemed zo be in a marasmic condition, and the
outlook w as dark indeed. Theic was- needed a brainy, ambi-
T

tious and commanding medical general; and Doctor Scudder

supplied that need."
That is all true, and Dr. Scudder was a noteworthy man
meriting great praise. It is also true that he was deeply tinc-
tured with Homoeopathy, as any one may see from his journal
work; and may it not have been the homoeopathic truth that he
brought to almost defunct eclecticism that gave it a new lease
of life ?

The great She man — Rider —

Haggard is writing a novel the
plot, or results, ofwhich hinges on vaccination. Probably the
villain will be an anti, and at the proper moment the hero with
his lance (et), tipped with pure lymph, will rush to the rescue,
and the curtain will go down on a happily vaccinated group.
 PERSONAL.
1 ways " of, say, peopling the earth, is not
ad liberality.
ne " seem d without even a smile or twitch of

And now it is coming to pass that many dweller-- in Pnnkville omit the
m their letters just as though they dwelt ii ."',
ago.
Dr. Ralph I.. Sonderhas located at 1300 North Fifty-fourth street, Phila-
delphia.
It miforting to think that " if Hahnemann were alive to-day lie

would believe as I do."

The world knows all about the ancestry of its grei t ones, while for
the ancestors of the rest of us it cares not a bawbee.

Stick to the old Hahnemanniau tinctures; they have carried us safely so

far and it is unsafe to change.
If the flood gates of folly are opened a little wider Homoeopathy will be
submerged. Guess, from the looks of things, that they are closing.
You may be right, John Henry, evolution involves devolution, and this is

the scientific r.easpn.why so many men make monkeys of themselves.

" BirWlfn^. 'irbln a 'Healthful Standpoint," is the title of a recent paper.
.
i
t<htn& Tor its writer' at.any.rdte. t

in days of old llie/'fest cure u v©*uld»*have been termed "loafing."

Then- is not a great deal of difference hetween the new pharmacopoeias'
l-lo| j
mO.the, Hahnemanniau ix dilutions.

I
':

m
lk. 'Cl'iai'lc'-' Leslie' lOwit-ey and, Mary Hamilton Wailes. Balti-
more, October 19, 189^'.
•

Dr. Chas, B. Roth, Hahn., Philadelphia, '9S, has located at 519 North
Charles street, Baltimore, Md.
Dr. Geo. K. Houek has opened an office corner Biddle street and Madison
avenue, Baltimore.
Dr. W C. Comstock, specialist in Eye and Kar, has opened consulting
IS at 513 Cathedral street, Baltimore.
Dr. ;.. Gordon Valk has located at W. Arlington, Baltimore.
The Pennsylvania State Hoard of Health has inaugurated a three month"
dog quarantine in .1 town under their jurisdiction.
An editor recently said that he had gained the attention of " the thought-
u
ful people," but wanted a larger audience."
Hon does one distinguish .1 "thoughtful man from the other BOlt?'
1

And thus endeth Vol xin of ye Homceopathic Recorder.