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-We are in receipt of a leaflet from the Galen Hall Sanatorium, Atlantic City, N. J., with Drs. John R. Fleming and Alfred W. Bailey as attending physicians. Certainly a more lovely spot could not be selected for sanatorium purposes than Atlantic City; at least so it seems to an inland man and physician. Most of our sanatoriums are located on the top of high hills, or in valleys surrounded with flowers and manyhued foliage. But here is one which combines those elements for which we, as a profession, send so many of our patients to the seashore, or even abroad. We wish this Galen Hall Sanatorium well, and predict that under the care of our good friend, Dr. A. W. Bailey, and his associates, some credible results will be shown, and in due time.

-Dr. A. H. Blesh of Guthrie, O. T., in discussing Post-Partum Hemorrhage in the Medical Council, says, "When confronted by a case [of post-partum hemorrhage], the hand is immediately inserted within the uterine cavity and the organ is at once emptied of secundines and clots, and, without removing the hand, carbolized gauze is carried to it with a uterine dressing forceps, and the cavity firmly packed. This packing may, if desired, be carried down and through the vagina. This, however, I have never found to be necessary. A strip of the continuous piece in the uterus is left protruding from the vagina, to facilitate removal. Properly done, this is cleanly and surgical. I have never known it to fail of exciting uterine retraction, and the hemorrhage ceases immediately. In my practice I have never had to repack after removal."

-The reason why we did not include the Pacific Coast Journal of Homeopathy in our Dreibund was because we did not know that that journal was still in existence. We had received no copy of its issues since the beginning of this century. But we are glad to

In the matter of travel across the ocean, those who contemplate such journey will not go amiss to put themselves in correspondence with the proper officials of the Dominion Line. The principal port of sailing is at Montreal; but they also have two American ports, namely Boston and Portland. We have twice patronized this line, and each time have been pleased with its easy-riding vessels and its clever handling of patrons.

-The Century Magazine finishes "Her Mountain Lover," and does so in a very happy and satisfactory manner. Bertha Runkle is still spinning out her "Helmet of Navarre," with its splendid pictures; it is to be concluded next issue. Reminds us to say that the Rhine pictures are most natural. We had the pleasure to tramp across the boatbridge at Cologne, which, with an evening view of that city and its Dom, forms one of the pictures of the current issue. Elliott has another policeman story which reads well.

-The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé lines need but little mention on our part to bring them prominently before our readers. The system has been in existence so many years, and has become so well known and so popular, that we have little to add. Think of this line, if you want to reach any point south of Kansas City and west towards California. A very fine and comfortable trip can be made to Southern California over this progressive line. Bear this company in mind, also you Far-Westerners, when you propose to enter upon your American Institute pilgrimage this coming summer.

The American Homeopathist. ISSUED TWICE A MONTH. This journal is published for its subscribers only, and has no free list. Sample copies are never sent. Subscriptions are not discontinued until so ordered. A. L. CHATTERTON & CO., Publishers.

felt the bad influence upon his patients by the frequent visits of the pastor. That there are old chronics, or those tottering in old age on the grave with no special ailment infesting their physical bodies, who are benefited by such visits, goes without much saying. But in the majority of cases of acute troubles, and in the operated upon, where the patient has been rendered aseptic and everything about him is done on the hair-trigger plan, the introduction of a man, who has been visiting, most likely, a dozen or more of other homes of all sorts and conditions of people, into such carefully prepared sick room is a standing menace to the recovery of that patient.

WE note the fact that this year the Methodist

Episcopal Church is coming in for its share of the medical graduating exercises. The Cleveland class had the sheltering arms of the Epworth Memorial Methodist Church thrown about it, and the Denver class attended the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. But that old stand-bythe Chicago Homeopathic Medical Collegetook its class away from the perfunctory sanctity of the church building to Studebaker Hall, where its forty-nine graduates were made into fullfledged doctors with the aid of several medical men and one minister, and without flowers. The Cleveland class had one lone member with but two names, while the Chicago Homeopathic had three. All the rest, residue and remainder, had each three names. The female graduates in these two colleges are quite infrequent. What does this mean?

Materia Medica Miscellany.

Conducted by J. WILFORD ALLEN, M. D., 110 West 12th Street, New York.

References in this department are made by number. (See issues of January 1st or December 15th each year.)

Chelidonium in Whooping Cough.

Dr. Jean Dewee, in the Belgian Journal of Hom., says:

A boy of four years had been suffering for seven months from whooping cough; the little patient had a cachectic appearance, a yellowishgray complexion, and was emaciated to a mere skeleton. Besides the whooping cough the child had a general bronchial catarrh, and the bronchotracheal glands were enormously swollen. At every attack of the cough there followed vomiting of bile and food; besides this, the liver was swollen and there was an obstinate constipation. Chelidonium was plainly indicated, and the patient received it in the sixth dilution. In five days the irritation causing the cough was removed so entirely that the parents were frightened and did not dare to continue the medicine. At the conclusion of the second week the child was fully recovered.

Since then the child had every winter, especially on wet days, some attacks of congestion of the glands of the chest, accompanied with rattling and a cough resembling whooping cough, but a few doses of chelidonium always sufficed to remove the slight attack.

Chelidonium was well indicated in the case; for it has "a spasmodic cough which wakes up the child by night, the affection extending to the bronchia and attended with constriction of the

chest." A second indication was the congestion of the liver; although this is not one of the usual symptoms of whooping cough, it not infrequently attends long-continued cases of the disease, as the lungs in part become emphysematous and considerably impair the circulation. The physiological consequence of the congestion of the liver appeared in this case in the constipation and in the yellowish, icteric complexion of the patient.

Blinding Headache.

Dr. M. E. Douglas: Blindness, accompanying or as a precursor of headache, is found under several drugs. Gelsemium has it quite marked. Kali bich. has the peculiar symptom of blindness preceding headache, but, as the headache grows worse, the blindness disappears. Causticum has blindness, with headache differing from kali bi. in that the blindness does not diminish as the

headache increases. The blindness of silicea comes on after the headaches. There are some others, natrum mur., iris versicolor, and psorinum having blinding headaches. These six drugs will be most often indicated in blinding headaches.

Gels., Hepar Sulph., and Bryonia in Influenza." Gelsemium.-Catarrh of all mucous membranes with much watery discharge, especially from eyes and nose; "colds" from damp weather or from sudden changes; much chilliness and heavy feeling of head; pulse large, full, quick,

but not hard.

Hepar Sulphur.-In advanced stages: throat dry and painful, with sensation of a "splinter," sometimes a sensation as though a particle of food had gone into the larynx.

Bryonia. Contusive pains in the back and limbs and lameness in the walls of thorax; otitis media with accumulation of fluid in the tympanic cavity.

Ceanothus in Splenic Affections.

Dr. Fahnestock" relates his experience with ceanothus in a case of enlarged spleen. The organ was much enlarged and tender to pressure; patient unable to lie on left side; was thin, poor appetite, pale, and very weak. The patient, a

woman, had been under the action of several other remedies without any apparent benefit. After a few months' course of ceanothus she was cured. Dr. Fahnestock has recently made a proving of this remedy with three different provers and its primary action was upon the spleen, then the liver, and third the bowels. The spleen symptoms were: sticking pains in the spleen, aggravated by motion and inability to lie upon the affected side. These symptoms followed enlargement of the organ. It seemed to have the same effect upon the liver, producing enlargement of the organ with sticking pain, and compelling him to lie upon the back. This remedy should prove of great value in anæmic conditions which occur in malarial districts.

-The Medical Counselor is pleased to consider Dr. T. F. Allen's two cases of cures after surgery had done its best as freak cases, and not likely to be met with again. That's what our Brethren of the Knife usually say, and have said nothing in homeopathy but faith and little pills. from the beginning of homeopathy: there is When any cure is reported it belongs to the domain of the Dime Museum. For there is but one way in which to cure, and that is by the knife.

POLYORROMENITIS.

By D. MACNISH, M. A., M. B., Assistant Physician to the London Homeopathic Hospital.

Polyorromenitis, or polyserositis, signifies inflammation of several serous cavities. The serous cavities principally affected are: (1) Peritoneum; (2) pleura; (3) pericardium.

This disease is not rare. The name is new. Such diseases are usually classified under the terms influenza, septicæmia and pyæmia, tuberculosis and rheumatism. The causes of these diseases vary. Pneumococcus, streptococcus, or staphylococcus are different causes.

Polyorromenitis may be acute, subacute, or chronic. The disease is well known to every practitioner. The name is strange and new. It may be the means of drawing special attention to the disease,

oppós or opós signifies the watery parts of the ορρός blood or serum. Hence the term polyorromenitis. This disease usually appears first in the peritoneum, next in the pleura, and sometimes in the pericardium. When the pericardium is attacked, the prognosis is unfavorable.

Secondarily, we find it attacks the cerebral meninges, the lung, stomach, and liver, and other parts of the body. The following case may give a more complete idea of the nature of

the disease.

A. B., female, aged thirty-four, married, was first seen on November 9, 1899. She had been ill for sixteen years. She complained of feeling weak and giddy, of a fluttering at the heart, and having on several occasions fallen down. Her medical history consisted of the following diseases: Gastric fever, aged eight years; chorea, aged twelve years; acute rhematism, aged eighteen years from this attack of rheumatism she had never fully recovered. She had three children. She had seven miscarriages, the latest being three years ago. She menstruated every alternate week, as a rule, though now the menses were irregular. The menses lasted seven days, were very profuse, attended with almost no pain. Patient was exceedingly nervous, always apprehensive of something fearful happening. There were slight choreic twitchings in the hands and legs. Her appetite was poor. She had severe attacks of pyrosis, flatulence, and sharp pains on the right side over the liver. The bowels were open daily. She suffered continually from headaches. She said she never knew what it was to be free from some kind of pain in the head. She suffered also from insomnia, and fits of depression almost amounting to melancholia. Her mental condition was, at times, a source of

anxiety to her relations. Patient was always in a state of extreme nervous tension. She lived in constant dread of some fearful calamity happening to herself or to her family. Her face was always flushed, and often the whole body became flushed, followed by profuse perspiration. Night sweats were common. Shiverings and coldness of the body alternated with the flushes. She was peculiarly susceptible to barometric changes. Damp and cold affected her intensely. She was, as she herself expressed it, constantly out of breath. The slightest exertion brought on an attack of breathlessness. For some years she had been under allopathic treatment. Latterly she had given up all medical treatment, as she felt she was much better without it. On examination the chest was thin; violent pulsation noticed in the epigastric and left hypochondriac regions; the heart was dilated-the left border being half an inch outside of the nipple line. A loud systolic bruit was heard all over the chest, especially at apex. The action of the heart was intermittent. Lungs-vesicular sounds all over. At right apex, on percussion, the note was dull and the breath sounds harsh. There were no crepitations nor adventitious sounds heard over the chest. The liver was not increased in size. The stomach was normal. The patient was slightly anæmic. On examination of abdomen nothing abnormal was detected. The transverse colon was slightly dilated. The uterus was large-a condition of subinvolution. There were large external piles which, at times, bled profusely. Nothing abnormal in regard to the ovaries, etc., was detected. There was no evidence of ascites nor oedema of feet.

Bryonia 3x, mj, 4 hrs. a. c. was prescribed. On November 17 patient reported that the giddiness had been much less and the abdomen less distended after food. Patient continued with the medicine until December 2, and reported herself much better in every way; the giddiness and flatulence had entirely disappeared. The other symptoms remained much similar, but as she considered them a part of her usual health she was told to discontinue the medicine for a month, unless there were any return of the vertigo or flatulence.

January 16, 1900, I was called late in the evening to see the patient. The temperature was 103°, pulse 110, respiration 48. Patient was in a condition of orthopnoea. There were sharp pains over abdomen and heart, slight nausea, severe frontal headache, profuse night sweats, slight cough with clear phlegm. Bryonia 3x, 2 hrs., was ordered. Lin. bryonia was warmed and gently rubbed over the chest and abdomen. Hot india-rubber bottle applied to back-lower dorsal and lumbar regions. On January 17 patient said she felt much better, the pains were

almost gone. The bowels were freely open, no nausea nor vomiting. Temperature 101°. Pulse 90. Respiration 30. There was a few papules over the chest. Rep. bryonia.

January 18-A bright erythematous rash all over body; abdomen distended and tympanitic. Temperature 99.4°. Pulse 84. Respiration 26. There were pains all over abdomen, sharp and continuous during the day. The menses again appeared, after three days' interval from the previous period. The flow was bright red and profuse, no definite pain accompanied it. Patient was sleepless, very depressed and apprehensive, the slightest cough or movement gave her intense pain in abdomen. The heart and lungs were as usual.

Liniment of equal parts of ext. belladonnæ and glycerin was applied over abdomen. Belladonna 3x, mercurius corr. 3x, were given in alternation every hour. Diet consisted chiefly of milk, beef tea, soups, malted milk, light puddings, fish, cocoa, tea with milk, cream, skimmed milk, scrambled egg. The condition was diagnosed as peritonitis, the cause was probably septic. Several members of the household had been suffering from influenza. On account of the menstrual flow no vaginal examination was made. The discharges appeared natural, free from any odor. There was no history of direct infection. The primary cause was considered influenzal. The temperature varied from 99° to 102° until January 28, when it became normal, night and morning. The distention subsided, the menses ceased after five days, the digestion was fairly good, the headaches were much less severe, the bowels were open once daily, the urine was still full of urates, the chest symptoms remained much as usual, the nausea disappeared entirely. Patient, however, felt very weak and still suffered from profuse sweats.

January 29.-Patient felt much as usual; the abdomen was not tender on palpation, the distention was very slight. On examination of chest there was an area of dullness posteriorly, at left base of the lung, extending up to middle of scapula. Anteriorly the dullness extended up to the sixth costal cartilage. Breath sounds inaudible over this area. Vocal fremitus and vocal resonance very much diminished, almost nil.

Right-lung breath sounds louder than usual, no dullness except the slight dullness at apex, anteriorly, previously detected. Breath sounds were loud over upper part of left lung, no marked alteration over the dull region of the lung. Very slight cough and phlegm, clear and watery, as there had been all through the illness. The temperature was 99°, pulse 80, respiration 40. Bryonia Ix, mj, 2 hrs. Lin. bryonia externally. Gamgee jacket applied to chest. The belladonna liniment over abdomen

was discontinued. Stimulants: brandy 3 j, every two hours. Patient felt "very weak and very queer."

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January 30.-Temperature 100°. Respiration Pulse 84. Very little cough, no pain in abdomen, an attack of dyspnoea during the early morning at 3 a. m. Nausea this morning at all times, not aggravated by food or stimulant. Bowels open, fæces natural. Bowels open, fæces natural. Perspiration during the day as well as at night.

January 31.-Temperature 100°. Pulse 90. Respiration 40. Discomfort over left side of chest and heart, several attacks of dyspnoea. Nausea with retching during the day. Cold feelings alternating with hot. Appetite fair. Food every two hours; brandy 3j, every two hours. Slight dullness at base of right lung, phlegm streaked with blood. Temperature rose in evening to 102°; this rise was preceded by a rigor. Pulse 104. Respiration 50-but variable. Phosphorus 6x, 2 hrs. Lin. Phosphori n.

et m.

February 1.-Vertigo returned. Temperature 100°. Pulse 90. Respiration 44. Dullness diminishing on left side, breath sounds faintly heard over the dull area, bowels open, abdomen not distended and free from pain on palpation. In the evening temperature 101°. Pulse 92. Respiration 46. No nausea nor retching. Phlegm streaked with blood, cough slight.

February 2.-Temperature 98.4°. Pulse 80. Respiration 40. Patient felt much better, no vertigo, no nausea. Takes her food and stimulant well. Champagne 3 ij, every four hours. Brandy discontinued. Right lung posteriorly, dullness extends up to spine of scapula. Breathing: expiration prolonged, crepitations at end of inspiration. Phlegm comes up freely, no streaks of blood noticed. Occasional pain over right side. Left effusion gradually diminishing. Phosphorus 6x, 4 hrs. Lin. phosphori warmed and applied over right lung. Bowels open, no abdominal discomfort. The temperature remained normal until the 12th. Patient felt much better. The effusion on the left side largely diminished, the breath sounds heard all over lung, and no diminution at the base. Right lung: the pneumonia cleared up from the base. Dullness and bronchial breathing with crepitations heard only at upper third, anteriorly and posteriorly. Phlegm yellow, no streaks of blood.

February 13.-Sharp pains over heart, cardiac dullness increased fully one inch outside nipple line. Heart sounds muffled. Orthopnoea. Temperature 101°. Pulse 110. Respiration 50. Nausea and vomiting of food. Bowels open, fæces natural. Pains over body, shivering alternating with heat. Headache frontal and occipital, very severe. Patient drowsy, choreic twitchings marked. Enemata of peptonized milk,