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mann, when it was raised from its obscure and ignoble burial in Montmartre by Cartier and others, a gold medal, which had been presented to and worn by Hahnemann, on which the disputed word was engraved "curantur." And no one of the elect to-day questions that Hahnemann was not as good a Latinist as either Dr. Dudgeon or Dr. Hughes. How construe you that?

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ORER BROADNAX of Louisiana,-and who doesn't know and love this genial gentleman of the old school-(in medicine. and deportment) speaks in the "Medical Summary" of his anti-fat cure. While he was up in the mountains last summer he met a fat clergyman who was beginning to breathe hard. Directed him to sponge his whole body night and morning with Epsom salts one part and water sixteen parts; also to take a teaspoonful three times a day. A year afterwards his weight had fallen from two hundred and thirty to one hundred and seventy-eight. This is doubtlessly a good "receipt"; but is defective in that it gives a fat man too much to do; and fat men as a rule are lazy. Think of nine months of double daily baths and thrice daily teaspoonfuls of Epsom salts!

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R. W. M. THOMPSON, in an Address to the students of the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, follows clearly and lovingly in the footsteps of Park Lewis, who said that Homeopathy had added nothing to the Progress of Medicine; that it had the rather-says Thompson-stood at the door, hat in hand, and taken what the other branches had

wrought out and made perfect! And this in a homeopathic school before a homeopathic class in this closing year of the Hahnemann

even a quarter of a loaf of bread for each professional man.

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HE plea of the "Medical Century" for a greater laboring in the Southern profession for the upbuilding of the Southern Homeopathic Medical Association, and a consequent bettering of the condition of the homeopathic population of the Southern States, appeals to all right-thinking medical men and women. It is a singular fact that the graduates of our schools seldom, if ever, think of drifting to the beautiful South-land in search of possible locations. One would naturally suppose that the demand would influence the supply. But not so. There is something in a possible Southern location affrighting to the intending locater. What is it? The examinations in these States is no more difficult than in the most of the Northern States; and a student able to pass New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio could as easily pass the board of any State in the South. Can it be that politics keeps the young man away? A physician should have no visible politics. His business is to attend to his business, and let others attend to theirs. His right to vote is sacred and can be exercised by him anywhere in the South or North without stump oratory or transparencies. The new South is an ideal place for an enthusiastic young man, one properly prepared, first, with the necessary knowledge, and second, with the backbone. with which homeopathic pioneers are usually caparisoned. Far better go to these wide-open places, these points free from competition, than settle in a community in the North so thickly populated with doctors that there isn't

E have just glanced over the list of questions which were given by the Pennsylvania State Board of Registration and Examination; and after pondering a few sections of this wonderfully constructed formulary, we would like to bet several of the hats we won on the recent election, that there isn't to-day in the City of Brotherly Love a single practicing homeopathic physician who has been out of college fifteen years, not either on that Board or a professor in college who could pass that Board. Do we hear any takers? Yet every student just through with the bench-polishing process may slip under the wire with fair ease and success. And from this class the future doctors of the commonwealth will be made! A man, however, like Cowperthwaite, or Helmuth, or Dudley, or Timothy Field Allen, or Kippax, or Walton, or Dewey, or G. J. Jones, or Leight Monroe, or Biggar, would have to stay outside the sacred preserves of that State because of his incompetency to properly practice medicine under the Rules and Regulations of the State of Pennsylvania, New York, and now, too, Ohio. But it makes trade better in those States for the few who are in the State. For instance, in Ohio we shall after January 1, prox., be cutting coupons instead of our rivals or patients, in addition to drawing twenty per cent. dividends on pharmaceutical investments.

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N England recently a woman sued a car company for damages, says the "Homeopathic Recorder," in consequence of a car running off the track and giving her a severe shaking up, which caused an incipient ovarian tumor to rapidly develop; six physicians testified to this fact. The company's physician, like Brer Rabbit, "he aint sayin' nuthin," but let the case drag on until, at the appointed time, the woman was delivered of the tumor; a fine healthy child. This ended the case, as the attorney who was on the hunt for "damages' had not the nerve to charge the company with being the child's father.

Materia Medica Miscellany.

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

References in this department are made by number, as follows: Critique,'; Chironian,2; Clinique,3; Hahn. Adv.,4; Hahn. Mo.,5; Envoy,6; Jour. of Obs.,'; Am. Med. Mo.,8 Recorder,; Med. Student, 19; Clin. Reporter,"1; Arena,1o Minn. Hom. Mag., 13; Century,; Counsellor, 15; Era,16 Visitor"; N. E. Med. Gaz.,18; Times, 19; N. Am. Jour.,20 Pacific Coast Jour.,; Eye, Ear, and Throat Jour.,2; Hom. News, 23 Jour. of O., O., and L.,; Argus, : Revue Homéo.,26; Arch. für Hom.,; Allgem. Hom. Zeit.,28; Zeitschrift für Hom., 29; El Prog. Homeo.,30; L'Art Méd.,31; L'Homéo.,32; Hom. Maed.,38; Hom. World, 34; Hom. Review,35; Jour. Br. Hom. So.,36; Indian Hom. Review,37; Foreign Journals, not Hom.,38; Am. Journals, not Hom.,39.

An African Remedy for Dysentery.

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The Kafirs and Zulus make use of the root of the geranium, of which there is said to be a number of varieties, all, however, of equal therapeutic efficacy, in South Africa, in the treatment of dysentery. They simply chew the root, but the British army surgeons give it in the form of a decoction in milk. The remedy is reported by those who have employed it to be a real specific, no failure to cure within thirty-six or forty-eight hours being recorded.

Though the geranium root has not, so far as we are aware, been used in medicine, the only proving that has been made of it, and that a very slight and partial one-recorded in the Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter, by Dr. E. C. Beckwith-seems to show that it has a distinctly homeopathic relation to dysentery. For example, we find that "the most marked symptom noticed was a constant desire to go to stool; this symptom attended each attempt at proving geranium: went to stool often, and each time found myself unable to pass the least fecal matter; one powder of the second would produce the continued desire for stool; this symptom continued for some time, and, after the effects passed off, the bowels would move without pain or tenesmus; the stool natural and well lubricated. I should say, however, that one powder required hours for a passage.

A more complete investigation of its properties, when taken in physiological doses, instead of in such as are therapeutic, might result in our acquiring an accurate knowledge of a valuable remedy.

[Ellinwood in his new "Materia Medica" says, "In some acute diarrhea geranium exercises an immediate influence, a single full dose producing a marked impression and improving the tone of the entire gastro-intestinal tract from the first. In chronic diarrhea, no matter how stubborn, it may be given with confidence, and if the specific conditions are present. In doses

of ten drops every two hours, diarrheas of the above described character will promptly subside. Active inflammation must be subdued before the agent will act readily. It is the remedy for the above relaxation of the gastro-intestinal tract. in childhood with contracted diarrhea. Extreme activity or hyperactivity of the liver must be corrected, and this agent will usually do the rest.]

Phosphorus in Rickets.

An extensive literature is quoted by E. Kossowitz to support his view that with the introduction of phosphorus a new era in the treatment of rachitis has begun. Most authors are unanimous in the opinion that phosphorus aids the progress of ossification, and that the convulsions, laryngospasm, insomnia, and restlessness are better benefited by this than any other drug.

The records of over a hundred thousand teach the author that phosphorus is the specific in rickets. He recommends it dissolved in codliver oil, in which form it keeps well for months. [Why not give the remedy in homeopathic doses and under homeopathic indications?]

Pneumonia, Therapeutics of,
According to Gatchell.

Aconite.-To be of service aconite must be given early. Its place is in the treatment of acute, uncomplicated pleurisy. Indications: Acute pleurisy, coming on with chill, followed by fever; thirst; quick and rapid pulse; skin hot and dry; rapid respiration; great nervous restlessness; stitching pains in the chest; dry cough.

Bryonia. This is the leading remedy for plastic pleurisy; it is no longer of use after serous effusion has begun. Indications: Plastic pleurisy, with acute, stitching pains, greatly aggravated by breathing, or the slightest motion; respirations short and rapid. Also, for the "dry" pleurisies accompanying pneumonia and phthisis.

Cantharis. This is the most efficient remedy, following bryonia, when there is serous effusion or sero-fibrinous exudation. Sensation of heat and burning in the chest; characteristic urinary symptoms.

Apis. For the stage of effusion, to promote reabsorption, especially when the effusion is of recent origin; also, in pleurisy following scarlatina. Absence of thirst; dark and scanty urine; cedema of the chest wall; severe, burning pain in a circumscribed spot.

Colchicine.-Acute, general pleurisy, in rheumatic or gouty subjects. A peculiarity of the condition calling for this medicine is often: