with a weekly medical journal at four dollars a subscrip., and without any stick-of-striped-candy premium for each new subscriber. Dr. Gould isn't half decent in being alive when he ought, clearly, to be dead and buried. It was a very easy prophecy to say that Dr. Gould was only temporarily down, and would speedily reappear with the best medical journal in the world—the Medical Visitor, of course, always excepted.

-Dr. J. B. Gregg Custis of Washington has been elected to fill Dr. H. M. Smith's place as Treasurer of the Hahnemann Monument Committee. An excellent selection, but a difficult place to fill.

-Dr. A. C. Cowperthwaite of Chicago has been appointed Necrologist of the American Institute of Homeopathy, vice Dr. Henry M. Smith, deceased. Dr. Cowperthwaite requests that the membership kindly send him the names of such members of the Institute as have within the twelve-month been gathered unto their Eternal Rest.

-The Surgical and Gynecological Association of the American Institute of Homeopathy, through its president and secretary, has issued a little pamphlet-notice, under date of April 15, calling attention to the second Annual Meeting of this body, which has been set for ten o'clock Monday morning, June 17, in a hall adjoining the Hotel Earlington, Richfield Springs. These officers, in their circular, call attention to the fact. that this association is a child of the American Institute and that the members of the special society are bidden to remain over for the full meeting of the Institute. It says that Drs. Shears and Kinyon, respectively chairmen of the Sections in Surgery and Gynecology, will present programmes which alone will repay the membership of the special society for remaining throughout the week of the Institute meetings. Dr. James C. Wood of Cleveland is President, and Dr. J. Willis Hassler of Philadelphia is secretary.

-That cool One Million of Dollars, which some past master in newspaper interview writing and Monday morning mare's nest purveyor has donated to Dunham College of Chicago, has not been deemed of sufficient value to be noticed by any of the other daily papers or homeopathic journals of that city. It was a good "story," as such stories go in the office of the modern newspaper; and it was just as easy to give the college one million dollars as it was to give one dollar and fifty cents. So it got a million dollars-in the daily press. We are some distance from Chicago; still we have several trusty correspondents in that city who would have picked up this choice morsel of homeopathic information, had

there been any lasting qualities to the same. Even our level-headed contemporary, The Medical Century, gave the pleasant rainbow-chase print-room-though leaving a back door open for escape in case of fire or other need for sudden exit. If the story is true, it is needless to add that we will be most heartily glad; if it is not, then whoever did Dunham this shabby trick ought to be pilloried and cast out. Stories of this. kind do not feel the touch of the types without help from someone mainly in interest.

-There has been a little change in the graduating exercises of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College this year over former years, in that the Methodist Church shall now have the honor of properly outfitting the young doctors, instead of the Baptist Church.

-Western members of the American Institute of Homeopathy, in going to Richfield Springs from the West, will find the Nickel Plate road the ideal road to Buffalo; from there take the D. L. & W. to Richfield Springs. In this way, if there be any one-fare route to Buffalo and re

turn, the Institute member may have its benefit. The D. L. & W. is a quick line and accommodating. The exact time table we will secure in good time to inform our readers.

-The March issue of the Homeopathic Eye, Ear, and Throat Journal contains an editorial reviewing the Richfield-Niagara Falls situation. As President Norton is editor, the editorial may be accepted as authentic.

-The Fifth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board Medical Registration and Examination is upon our table. The record of the Board shows that there has been no idleness on its part in carrying out the law as now upon the statutes of Ohio. A cursory review of the applicants for license to practice upon regular diplomas shows a vast army of new men and women coming into Ohio, before the gates were shut down; Toledo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland are well stocked with physicians. Only nine applicants upon examination, six of whom passed. We will examine with much interest the next annual report of this Board in order to note how many applicants for examination have been filed, and how many failed. It is to be remembered that the classes graduated this spring still fall under the mere-registration-of-diploma act. So that there may be still a vast "slew" of them to register..

Some peculiar rumors reach us from Chicago. Is there, indeed, to be a new amalgamation of colleges at that point? Speed the day, if it is! We can safely say that our best wishes go with the condensation and amalgamation of colleges. colleges. This is not to be understood as saying

that anyone of the present lot is superfluous or dishonest: but it is to say that the combining of interests and finances and faculties of the colleges, here and there, will tend to increase the value to the community and the profession of the college so arising from the combine. But such combination must not be permitted to degenerate into a trust, with a "boss" in command.

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-The Syracuse Homeopathic Hospital Record makes a special plea for its sustaining. ladies are to give a musical. Great are our dear sisters in helping out any weak or lame charitable object-what would we do without them?

-Last week we remember to have noted one day when no new pharmacal company was incorporated for St. Louis. But it is a most prolific nidus for proprietary articles and medicines. Wonder where the loophole is in the Missouri statutes. It will presently have as unsavory a reputation for patent medicine foundries as New Jersey has for trusts.

-At the next session of the Institute it would be well to open anew the perennial question of the proper and most seasonable time for passing needed legislation. We note in the published Transactions, that a number of important measures were disposed of in the closing hours of the session; measures which were not seen nor heard of by the membership until they now see them in print. When shall this be done? At the very first would be objectionable, for then some of the hotel-bill-saving contingent, who do not appear upon the scene until the morning of the day when their section is due to be called, would be defrauded of the opportunity to attend and wind their plaintive plaint in opposition. In the middle of the term, when all the membership is present, would not suit the politicians, for they would not be given sufficient time in which to sound their carefully prepared speeches. So dilatory practices would be invoked, as now, in order to have only their own chosen band in attendance. Would not the better way be, if it could be done, to submit these necessary things to a committee, before whom all arguments could be heard, and then, when that committee reports in writing, submit it to the Institute for ratification or rejection, but without debate? Of course this will be fought most bitterly by the few jawsmith members who enjoy nothing so much as to hear themselves debate.

-The Governor of Colorado seems to be a second Daniel come to judgment. His veto (with reasons attached) of the Medical bill attempted to be foisted upon the public under the guise, as in many other States, of protecting that public from the evil designs of bad and undiplomaed medical men and women, has such a

ring of the true steel to it that it might well be read a second time and then remembered. Here is what he said—and we quote from the American Medical Monthly:

"The true intent and purpose of this bill is to restrict the profession of medicine to the three schools therein mentioned and then limit the number of practitioners to suit the judgment of the composite board. People desiring medical or surgical services may employ its licentiates, or die without the consolation of its healers. This is but to say that a medical trust is to be established which shall regulate demand and supply by absolute control of the product which. forms its basis; the General Assembly furnishing the appliances whereby the trust shall become effectual."

These are wise words, and tersely and truthfully paint the picture as it is seen in most of our barb-wired States. Our constant complaint is that the people are not protected by these laws. For what boots it how high the scientific standard is raised in the colleges, and against those physicians who try to break into our paradise, if the quacks with diplomas are allowed to travel from point to point and sell their hell-broths from band-wagons to a credulous laity? What does all legislative restriction amount to when the daily press is teeming and dirty with the Three-Day-Cure and other lightfingered gentry, who flourish and thrive and grow fat and unctuous, while the poor, protected, regular physician can't get enough to pay his office rent-to say nothing of running a two-story red-running-geared buggy, or wearing a mother-hubbard overcoat with yoke cut in scallops. If the medical politicians and legislators want to do something for the practitioner besides cutting off his base of supplies, let them turn their intellects into some channel of usefulness so that these sharks and hell-hounds, these suborners of newspapers and users of gasoline-torch band-wagons and gentry of that stripe, may be restrained of their license and liberty, both. For viewing the picture at its best; admitting that raising the standard will raise the intelligence of the profession; it can only make the student and the practitioner a bit finer and more scientific; but they will go into the money-making medical shystering business just as quickly, if they find that the laws make that avenue a source of abundant revenue, while they practically close up general and honest regular medical practice.

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.

cially minded printers and publishers have placed our learned brother, the editor of the Medical Visitor. After fighting the proposed removal from Niagara Falls to Cambridge Springs (where no one except himself had had any thought to put the Institute), that editor gracefully descends from his exalted Parnassian heights and writes an editorial commendatory of the Richfield vote. True there are paragraphs in this hurrah-editorial which sound insincere and wabbly. But let that pass; let us assume that his intention was good. Then note how he gives, in this same issue, several pages of printroom to the publication of a series of resolutions from the Western New York Homeopathic Medical Society,-fathered and feathered, spleened and signed by a doctor who is not in membership with the American Institute, nay, not even with his own State society,-which resolutions have but one purpose in the conceiving and borning: to wit, the smudging and disgracing of the American Institute-at least 569 thereof and the highest power in that Institute, the Executive Committee! The editor hereinbefore referred to, who is the Institute's Recording Secretary, is, therefore, caused to appear in the lamentably inconsistent rôle of patting the Insti

tute on the back with one hand, and with the other giving it a hot-seven in the solar-plexus. But this is a printer-mistake. It must be. The wicked partners, who pay the freight, are making ducks and drakes of the editor's peace-policy. It was they who slipped in those Helen D. Nation resolutions in deadly parallel with the goo-goo editorial on a later page. And they also printed that other editorial, in this same issue, damning Richfield with faint praise; referring to it as a way station, six or seven hours from Buffalo, and built near a sulphur spring.

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.)

Argentum Nitricum.

W. A. Smith, M. D.," in an excellent article on this drug, says:

Argentum nitricum has won its greatest spurs in ophthalmia in children. In purulent ophthalmia there is no remedy that equals it for excellent results. Dr. Norton pays the following tribute to the beneficial effects of this drug in purulent inflammation of the eye: "The greatest service that argentum nitricum performs is in purulent ophthalmia. With large experience, in both hospital and private practice, we have not lost a single eye from this disease and every one has been treated with internal remedies; most of them with argentum nitricum of a high potency, 30th or 200th. We have witnessed the most intense chemosis, with strangulated vessels, most profuse purulent discharge, even the cornea beginning to get hazy and looking as though it would slough, subside rapidly under argentum nitricum internally. The subjective symptoms are almost none. Their very absence, with the profuse purulent discharge, and the swollen lids, from a collection of pus in the eye, or swelling of the subconjunctival tissue of the lids themselves, indicate the drug." With such an indorsement, from such a competent observer, there is nothing left to be added concerning its effectiveness in the cases. Helonias.

Bourzulschky": A lady, aged forty-five, was successfully treated by me two and a half years ago for leucorrhoea. The genitals showed nothing abnormal. She had a return of the leucorrhoea last summer; it was acrid, green, with swelling of vulva. Nitric acid and injections cured it, as before. Some time after this she visited me and complained of feeling something in her abdomen that ought not to be there. She had no pain, but only the feeling that there was too much inside her. I examined her and found the womb projecting almost into the vulva. It was not enlarged; the vagina was relaxed. I gave her helonias I x, three times a day. I told her to keep her bowels open, with enemata if necessary; to have her dresses suspended from the shoulders, to refrain from hard work. Three weeks later she said the feeling of having too much inside her was better. Examination

showed that the womb was in a better position. In three weeks more she had no more complaints, and I found the womb in its normal place. Thinking she was quite well, she undertook some hard work and had a relapse, which was cured by the same medicine.

Marked Poisoning from Five Grains of Quinine. This is recorded by Dr. F. W. Bock."

The patient observed that he was unable to take quinine, for 15 grains given for malaria when he was twenty-one years old, followed by 20 grains, and again by 15 grains, on successive days, kept him in bed fifty-eight days, with the development of the same symptoms as those about to be described.

He was ordered 5 grains of the drug in 1-grain pills, one to be taken every hour. After three doses there was marked ringing in the ears and deafness, intense headache, and pains in the bones. Two days later an erythematous rash appeared and spread over the face and ears. He was now delirious and showed signs of collapse. The mouth was swollen, deafness was very marked, but the roaring in the ears was less. Á day or two later he was better, and exfoliation had commenced over the seat of the rash. Ten days after the cutaneous symptoms appeared, exfoliation was almost finished. The mind was clear and the appetite good. Two weeks later it was found that the power of hearing was reduced one-half.

The author considers that, had the drug been pushed, the death of the patient would have been inevitable.

Such a susceptibility to quinine is of course very rare, and is practically ignored. Nevertheless, the possibility of such symptoms arising should make us careful not to treat lightly any objection raised to the proposed administration of quinine which is the result of previous evil exthing as individual idiosyncrasy, though the fact perience of the drug. After all, there is such a of its occurrence is apt to be overlooked.

It is worthy of note that the patient had suffered much from malarial fever before this disastrous experience. No subsequent attack of fever occurred, so that the quinine apparently cured the disease, although at the expense of the patient's hearing.

VACATION FIELDS FOR STUDENTS.

By T. C. DUNHAM, M. D., Chicago.

If we were to go into this array of homeopathic remedies in detail, our brother might think we were engaged in a bit of malicious criticism; but we are not; we respect him too

for students during vacation.

1. First-course students have been busy with bones, and that would lead naturally to study of comparative anatomy and physiology.

2. Second-course students would be especially interested in the chemistry of common life and all the side studies and observations incident thereto. 3. Third-course students should study along the line of races, nationalities, effects of climate, soil, etc., that surround the question of ætiology. 4. Those who look forward to graduation might find it profitable to write up the history of cases that they will meet; e. g., family history, personal history, evolution of the case, etc., etc. Rare cases could be collected for the clinics.

Every student should bring back to his college some subject: bone, plant, book, or specimen. That would demonstrate that he was a "working student," even in vacation. Such an interest would help the cause more than one can tell.

ONLY THIRTY REMEDIES.

A good friend of homeopathy and a successful doctor, in contributing a paper to a homeopathic magazine, refers to a paper of ours presented upon another occasion, in which we spoke of annually decreasing the number of vials in our pocket-case. He wondered how this could be done, since he found, on the contrary, occasion, every now and then, for newer and more remedies. The answer is in his own paper, and not at all difficult to find, judging from the specimen of homeopathy therein exploited. He opens with laudations for chionanthus, which he honestly credits to the Eclectics, and, of course, knows has no standing in the homeopathic church, since it has no homeopathic proving. He gives colchicum upon the one symptom that the patient could not smell the cooking of food; if this were peculiar to colchicum, then the remedy would be a specific without price; but if he will examine any good repertory he will discover that there are others-other remedieswhich have the same symptom, just as leading and just as characteristic as colchicum. Jaborandi 1 x is given for "Bright's Disease." Veratrum viride is a sure remedy for the pathological conditions enumerated, but NOT in the homeopathic tincture; the best is Norwood's tincture! Cuprum is given for "a dry, hacking cough." And so on to the end.

arrant hypocrites in the colleges. But just see what an opportunity this could be made to show how much better it would be to study thirty remedies thoroughly,-very, very thoroughly,and then apply them homeopathically, rather than know a leading keynote here and there of some two hundred remedies; or give Eclectic remedies per se, in eclectic doses, with adjuvants from the old school. Our contention was, and is, that in our pocket-case we carried such of the homeopathic remedies as are well-proven, and had stood the test of time-most of them at least fifty, some nearer a hundred years; that having once learned the totality of these thirty, we were able to get along with that pocket-case in the general run of practice. But this was not to leave the impression that we never used the others. There are very few of the homeopathic remedies, known to the school, of which we have not one or more grafts; but outside of the thirty stand-bys, which we try to carry under our hat at any hour of the day or night, we find that the remaining several hundred require the use of a repertory for efficient work; and we do not carry our books to the bedside.

We do not give drop doses of chionanthus for turgid liver with yellow skin, nor aconite for fever; nor podo. 2x for constipation; nor mercurius for diarrhea; nor jaborandi (but one remove from the crude) for Bright's Disease. Let us all get back to the Hahnemannian homeopathy; and this does not mean moonshine potencies-for the giving of which we still stand pilloried in the chief places in Cleveland and Ohio. Some idle and malicious artificer in the to him unknown quantity of Truth once gave that lie currency, and we do not expect to live long enough ever to run it down. Hahnemannian homeopathy means the giving of wellproven remedies upon the totality of the symptoms, and not upon isolated characteristics, picked out here and there, from some clinical records. And it as certainly does not mean prescribing, even the best proven of homeopathic remedies, upon pathological names. Do we make that fairly plain? Possibly, if we were younger and had less professional business, we could add a few new bottles each year to our pocket-case. But our life has no very long lease remaining; and with the constant warfare upon allopathy, which has been intruding its unwelcome head into our colleges and our journals; and in keeping the newer and younger generation of cutters from totally destroying all remnant resemblances to homeopathy, pur et