dies named would govern me if the symptoms corresponded, and where the symptoms are not known, or there is no time to glean them, I should go it blind with these remedies.

Robert Boocock, M. D. 1003 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Globules.

-Dr. R. B. Leach of Minneapolis is certainly getting his fill of proper recognition among the journalistic profession. Scarce a journal have we received in the past two months flying the homeopathic colors which does not either at full length publish some of his articles on arsenization, or, at the least, gives him favorable mention, counseling assistance to our brother of the North. In all of which the said aforesaid we most heartily concur and join.

-Dr. W. A. Dewey of Ann Arbor, and editor of the Medical Century, visited Cleveland on the 30th and 31st of January, called at the hospital and college, he gave a bright little lecture on Coffea at the latter place, and upon local physicians. Dr. Dewey is very enthusiastic concerning his latest baby-The Medical Century-and there is no gainsaying the fact that the profession is rallying to his support with equal enthusiasm. Dr. Dewey was on his way to New York, where he expected to remain for a few days.

-A lady nurse, says the Medical Times, rushing fervidly to her patients in a Cape Town hospital ward, found her favorite soldier fast asleep. Pinned to his coverlet was a scrap of paper on which he had laboriously scrawled: "To il to be nussed to-day respectfully J. M." The trained nurse has many foolish things laid against her. One of the latest which greeted us on recommend ing such aid to a lady for whom we a general practitioner and therefore of that branch of medicine which had made no additions to science or bugteriology-for whom we had advised an operation, not for sarcoma of the liver, but for removal of the ovaries-this patient's mother said she would have no trained nurse in her house: for, said she, "we had one in the case of Mrs. Wimpelhammer when she was operated on, and aside from finding a lady in the parlor to be waited on, her laundry bill cost us more than the washing of all the rest of the family." There is a wide-spread distaste to the trained nurse, among the people. The severe surgical training of the hospitals seems, in the eyes of the laity, to have rendered her peculiarly unfit to take hold of just ordinary diseased conditions. There seems to be something dehumanizing in the constant sight of flowing blood, in the post-operative cry, and the

inhalation of iodoform. It is, also, a fact that, aside from the surgeons and gynecologists, the general practitioners, as a rapidly increasing class, prefer other nurses to those who have demonstrated their greatest utility in surgical hospitals and the like.

-Dr. Robert Boocock says, referring to the case of glaucoma in the December 1st number: "The medicines suggested, no doubt, are all good. I only wish to add one more that is worthy of great confidence. I had a case some years ago that was greatly relieved from suffering, and finally cured, by cedron 200th. This patient was sure that it was morphine I was using, the pain was so truly relieved and the comfort to eye and head and face so complete. This medicine is worth a great deal, for it relieves all forms of neuralgia, when the extremities of nerves are the seat of pain; also sciatica and ovaralgia."

-The Century Dictionary and Atlas-which, without our saying much about it, is a superb work and deserving of a place in every doctor's house gives a very fair definition of Homeopathy. But, alas, it says that the motto of the Order is similia similibus curantur! We would suggest, therefore, that the Resolution-makers of the American Institute of Homeopathy meet and memorialize the Century Dictionary people to correct this spelling, as Hahnemann never once wrote it that way, and that the inscription on the gold medal (which was found in his coffin and which was known to have been worn by him conspicuously and with great pride, although it spelled the word curantur) was a mistake and doubtlessly escaped Hahnemann's eagle eye. It should have been curentur as we all of us, Latin scholars and the like, now know and would be able to prove— if only Bill Jones were alive.

"Perhaps the most important addition to homeopathic literature since the publication of Goodno's Practice," says the Hahnemannan, “is the English translation of Jousset's Practice by Dr. Arshagouni of New York. It was our pleasure to have the manuscript in our possession for a short time, and we are therefore in a position to speak intelligently of the work. To our way of thinking, Jousset's indications for the application of drugs to the treatment of disease are always practical. His style has never been equaled, excepting by our own Farrington. Dr. Arshagouni's translation is not only with the consent. of the illustrious author, but also contains matter contributed by him to the American edition only. The book will appear in a few weeks, and then publishers are Chatterton & Co." we expect to give it a more extended notice. The

-Dr. Edwin W. Pyle of Jersey City gives, in the Medical Times, a rather gloomy picture of

therapeutic measures generally. He seems to be a specialist in hygiene, to the beneficent action of which he ascribes pretty nearly all cures. He is especially severe on the ingestion of sugars, of iron, and the like. That, however, which touches us more nearly is the following paragraph: "The materia medica of every period has been expounded with the greatest zeal by those who were behind the times." Thus giving farther cause for prophesying and jollifying to those who tell us that Homeopathy has made no additions to the great profession of medicine. But, say, brethren of the materia-medica portfolio, what think you of this allegation?

FOR SALE. A good practice in the best town in Southern California outside of Los Angeles. Good reasons for selling. For particulars and terms address Dr. H. B. Lashlee, Redlands, Cal.

-It is scarcely a superstition, it is certainly an error, to attempt to cure an irreducible hernia by a descent downstairs head first. I knew an old man who was persuaded to try and who came near to losing his life in the attempt.

It must be an error that a man can conceive or that a woman have a litter at a birth, yet recently I was asked to sign the following certificate:

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'This is to certify that John Cockran was confined in bed on February 28th."

I referred to the rector of the parish.

I was called up recently by a farm boy who brought me a message that "I was to come at once; missus was having children, she had had one when he came away."-From "Errors and Superstitions," by Sydenham.

-We note from a recent circular that the Antikamnia Chemical Company has extended its business into almost every quarter of the habitable globe. It has depots in the Philippines, in Central America, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Africa (North and South), in Australasia, in Turkey in Asia, in India, in the Antilles, in South America, in China and Japan, in Mexico, and in many of the principal centers of Europe. This bespeaks rare executive ability and exceptionally rare commercial instinct. Aside from the universally admitted excellence of the products of this enterprising firm, every editor and publisher who handles the advertisements knows that the correspondence of that firm is conducted with the most remarkable courtesy and affability: that the tenor of such communications invariably carry conviction wherever compliance is possible. The business end of a medical journal-that dealing with advertisements-does not often meet with advertisers who know as well what they want, and also know how to ask for it, as does this Antikamnia Company. There may be others back of

him, but the man who is visible to the editors and publishers is Mr. Frank A. Ruf, the president and treasurer; and he is certainly a pusher and hustler in the very best sense of those hackneyed words. Even a rabid homeopath can forgive a firm which employs the means and men of this famous Antikamnia Company, and admire them for their honorable way of soliciting trade.

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-Dr. Hahnemann C. Allen, dean of the Hering College, and editor of the Medical Advance, stopped off in Cleveland for a few hours on January 26th, en route for New York. Dr. Allen looks not a day older than when last we saw him some years ago. He is full of life and energy and homeopathy. He assured us that the Medical Advance would again take its place with the foremost journals of our school, and that his present pilgrimage was in great part in that inWe shall be glad to add the Medical Advance to our homeopathic Drei-Bund-The American Homeopathist, The Medical Century, and The Medical Advance-in the hope that we three or three such as we will always meet and agree to keep Homeopathy to the fore. Some of our early lessons in homeopathic editorial writing were learned while assistant editor of the Medical Advance. There is to be a renaissance of homeopathy all along the line. Gentlemen and ladies of the profession, drop the omphalic contemplation and admiration and adoration of the technique for a while and come back to pure homeopathy. This doesn't mean high-potency or moonshine theories, but it does mean Homeopathy. Begin at the beginning by reorganizing our alleged homeopathic colleges: examine their text-books; study the teachers; and overhaul their work. Refuse to recognize any college which gives preference to allopathic text-books over those made by our own writers. Dr. Allen is a stanch and stalwart homeopath. His name has been a household word in homeopathic literataught the truth. Its graduates are carrying on ture for many, many years. His college has the good work. Let us bend our energies to the study and promulgation of homeopathy first and foremost. Surgery and other mechanical devices need not be imperiled. Homeopathy does not, cannot change. Surgery has shifted and is continuing to shift constantly.

-Dr. Kraft's next European tour will include Queenstown, Cork, Lakes of Killarney, Dublin, Liverpool, Kenilworth, Warwick, Stratford-uponAvon, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, The Rhine, Heidelberg, Berlin, Vienna, Venice, Rome, Genoa, Lucerne, Strassburg, Metz, Paris, and other intermediate points.

Will sail from Philadelphia, in July. Absent forty-five to fifty-five days. Terms moderate. Apply early.

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OUR PORTRAITS.

GEORGE TAYLOR STEWART, M. D., New York.

HE Medical Visitor editor has the sympathies of a brother editor in the non-appearance of a star editorial in time for its most effective work.

The editorial in the February number urging the remaining at Niagara Falls of the American Institute, whether or no, failed to be seen by the profession until the end of February, a week or more after the whole question had been settled by the direct vote of the membership. Possibly, if this editorial could have been taken from the print-shop in time, and given wide publicity, it might have very sensibly changed the result.

skies, is the invention of a man who is a chemist and not a physician. That's the way bugteriology got its foothold-through a lot of chemists. An educated and well-trained physician, who has dealt with the imponderables of health and disease a few years, soon falls away from the gosling notion that disease is an entity, which may be removed with a screw-driver, a corkscrew, or a liege-halle. When one comes in direct contact with the laws of heredity and environment, then all the fine-spun theories of the sciences fail ussave as they may direct our minds into new channels. No one would be more happy than ourself could it be demonstrated that consumption was curable.

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ND when we use the word consumption we don't want any professor or over-learned writer to tell us they mean "if-it-is-taken-intime"! That won't work. That's too old a "gag." Any disease, if taken in time, can be changed or cured. Let us have some real cures TION! not lung weaknesses, bronchial catarrh, of consumption! CONSUMPTION! CONSUMP

and a half-hundred other difficulties with the

lungs, that are as frequently healed with the homeopathic remedy as with electricity.

cases of diphtheria, when he ordinarily treats a case of diphtheria homeopathically, does so with antitoxine, oxygen, and several other ponderable things-the carrying of all which the same requires a small express wagon.

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.)

Gastric Ulcer.

In the treatment of this condition Tremaine says:

Arsenicum is the chief remedy. Arsenicum inflammation invades primarily the stomach and intestines. All arsenical catarrhs are acrid and irritating; the mucosa is infected, and after a time may become eroded and ulcerated. In no other form of gastric disease does the general system suffer so much as in the arsenical. The pain is often confined to one spot. There is burning pain in the epigastrium, with thirst, restlessness, and anxiety, and the patient is often unable to take more than a little fluid at one time. Violent vomiting is excited by eating or drinking, and all nourishment is ejected as soon as it reaches the stomach. Vomiting of mucus and bile, often mixed with blood, is frequently present with violent pain and sudden prostrations. The stomach is always extremely sensitive.

Argentum nitricum.-The anæmic or sclerotic condition so often present will suggest this remedy. The great usefulness of this remedy in severe chronic gastritis calls our attention to its value in ulcer. Patient is excessively nervous; much flatulence, pain below the ensiform cartilage, often confined to a small place extending through to the spine; much distress and excessive tenderness at the epigastrium; vomiting of large quantities of ropy mucus; cannot bear least food on account of increased pain.

Belladonna is useful as an intercurrent remedy when much pain is present.

Nux vomica should be remembered for its great influence over gastric digestion.

Veratrum Viride in Puerperal Eclampsia.

Dr. coston", from his own experience and that of others, offers the following conclusions:

(1) Veratrum viride is a perfectly safe remedy. Even when used in extra large doses no

danger need be feared, so long as the patient is kept in the recumbent posture.

(2) It is almost a specific, when used early, for all cases of puerperal eclampsia.

(3) Those who inveigh against it have used it either not at all or too sparingly.

Senile Apoplexy.

Dr. N. B. Delamater" believes that, after the first three or four hours, arnica is probably the best remedy to use; give the 3x every two hours. This is the remedy, whether the attack be the result of traumatism or not. It is supposed to check additional hemorrhage and prevent the tendency to recurring hemorrhage. The patient should be given liquid nourishment at regular intervals.

If there be a sudden rise in pulse and temperature, aconite (tr.) in drop-doses every half-hour for two hours, then every hour, is probably the best remedy.

If there appears a marked divergence between the pulse and temperature, no treatment will be of avail. Under these circumstances there is no doses of the deodorized tincture of opium, once remedy that ought to do as much as five-drop an hour. If there appears a sudden pallor and weakening of the pulse, ferrum phos., 3x trit., every fifteen minutes, or if collapse seems very imminent, surround the patient with hot bricks, water-bags, or blankets, cover very warm and give three-to-five-drop doses of aromatic spirits of ammonia. After the coma has subsided the following remedies as indicated:

Aconite (3x).-Pale, sunken face; skin cool; pulse weak and slow; numbness and tingling.

Agaricus (3x).-In enfeebled state of the brain, patient is giddy, weak, apt to tremble, loss of memory, and dimness of vision. Is indicated in those cases that have been preceded by unusual wakefulness and excitement or irritation of the brain, especially if there is much twitching of the face and limbs with dilation of the pupils.

Arnica (30c).—In traumatic apoplexy and serous apoplexy especially. In the hemorrhagic it is useful to promote absorption.

Baryta iod. (6x).—In torpid chronic cases, to promote absorption of the clot. Is useful to prevent recurrence, especially from sexual excitement; especially adapted to delicate and old people.

Belladonna (3x).-Flushed face, a bloated appearance, violent beating of the carotids, pulse full, hard, and strong; eyes red and pupils widely dilated, muttering, distortion of the mouth, difficulty or inability to swallow, and obstructed respiration.

Cocculus (6x).-Emptiness and hollowness of

the head, dizziness, with great nausea and vomiting, and a tendency to faint; fornication of hands and feet and difficulty in speaking and thinking. Conium maculatum (2x).-Face bloated, purple, or livid; skin cool; pulse slow and feeble; pupils contracted and breathing extraordinarily difficult and oppressed. This remedy is decidedly homeopathic to the symptom paralysis.

Cuprum aceticum (6x).-When preceded or attended by convulsions, unusually pale, a marked general deficiency of bile.

Cyclamen-Pulsatilla.

Dr. Aug. Koerndoerfer, Trans. Homeo. Med. Soc. of Penn.: These two remedies afford a most noteworthy exemplification of the importance of Hahnemann's teachings in regard to the value of the modalities in the selection of the curative agent. A few comparisons of modalities governing each may prove both interesting and instructive. Cyclamen is characterized by great thirst, whereas pulsatilla is thirstless. Cyclamen manifests predominantly "dread of fresh air,, "feels better in a room," and "when sitting.' Pulsatilla, on the contrary, has "great desire for fresh air,” “feels better in the open, cool air," especially "when walking slowly." From these few examples it will be observed that, although the pathogeneses of these two remedies show a remarkable degree of similarity, it is equally true, nevertheless, that the modalities giving type to these symptoms invariably and unmistakably mark a distinction in the therapeutic sphere of each."

AFTER THE BATTLE, BRETHERN.

A calm review of the place-of-meeting difficulty and its happy and successful solution leaves no one in doubt as to the excellency of the means employed in its proper and thorough adjustment. Personally, we were for insisting that the Executive Committee obey the command of the Institute—i. e., if they had found the place selected by that Institute in a closing hour at the Washington sessions to be inadequate, they to make the change to some other point. To us their duty in the premises seemed clear. In the face of the strenuous objections urged by the few-some whereof seem not to be able to comport themselves with fairness in their defeat the Executive Committee devised a means which most effectually put all doubt at rest and secured the actual wishes of the Institute. This was done by means of a circular letter explaining their investigation, the inadequacy of the place selected, and the advantages and disadvantages of other places

investigated. Together with this was a return post-card asking for the member's vote. The membership thereupon had an opportunity to vote, and the vote was so decisive that Richfield Springs is unquestionably selected to be the next meeting place.

We look upon the large vote-969 ballots, with 569 for Richfield and 281 for Niagara Falls-as commendatory of the Executive Committee's action, as well as confirming the Committee's belief that the latter was not the best place for this year's meeting. No unfairness can be alleged in the matter, since for months the country has been "papered "—that is, filled with letters beseeching the retention of Niagara Falls for the meeting point. One, and later another, journal took up the cry for Niagara Falls; Falls; so that the profession and the Institute membership was fully aware of the struggle going on. There could have been no fairer proceeding than that of the Executive Committee, which is to be especially congratulated and commended for its wisdom and square-dealing. Every good Ameriunited, can now return to the work of making the can abides by the decision of the ballot, and, all American Institute meeting at Richfield Springs a notable one for homeopathy and allied science.

A closing word as to Buffalo and that contingood faith, because of a wish to attend the Pangent of the Niagara Falls voters which voted in American Exposition. A reading of President Norton's circular will disclose to them that a few hours carries them from Richfield Springs to Buffalo. It is not as if the Institute had been cast in a place remote. It is in the same State and within easy railroad distance. There can be no reasonable doubt of special rates being given on all roads going to Buffalo. Is not this infinitely better, first, to attend to our necessary business at the American Institute with quiet and comfort to aid therein, and then take our holiday at Buffalo and Niagara Falls? Will not the rest be the sweeter for having earned it, with the reflection that we are honestly entitled thereto, and are not playing while under promise to the Institute to attend its serious work?

The Institute will open June 18.

SURGERY AND POTENCIES.

The editor of the Charlotte Medical Journal copies an advertisement from a homeopathic journal offering a good opening for a homeopathic physician, with a good knowledge of surgery, in a thrifty town of California; and then adds: "Is it usual for the young homeopath to know nothing of surgery? Is he supposed to learn this branch after he graduates? We