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AMERICAN JOURNAL
OF
PHILADELPHIA:
J. M. Sronmurr & Co., Punusuuns, 720 Susan STREET.
1673
190577"
482 Index.
PAGI PA“!
Fxperiments with Glucose, . 3S Gilchrist's Surgical Diseases, 318
Glucose, Experiments with, . 3S
EDIT 1R1‘L. Glaucoma, by Alfred K. Hills, M.D., 3'2
The Approaching Lecture Sea Guernsey‘s Obstetrics, 119, 147.
son, . . . . Gunshot Wounds, by F. Hiller, M.D., 41
The Secrets of Success, . . 36
Volume Seventh, . . 37 Hahnemann Medical College, of
Improvements, . . Missouri, . . . . 359
A New Homoeopathic School, . 75 Hale, E. M., M.D., Phytolacca—
Ann Al‘llOl‘.—Th0 Hommo Aching of the Heels, .
pathic Question in the Uni Hale, E. M., M.D., Influence of
versity, . . . Mind over the Heart, . .
The Preliminary Course, . 77 Haywood, John W.,Taking Cold, 152
The Physician as a Student, 117
Preliminary Course of Lcctures,118 Heavy Child, A, . . . 342
Harpel, Dr. F. E..Chronic-Arthritis, 4.52
1Vantcd, . . . . 119 Headache in Syphilis, . 154
Prof. Guernscy’s Obstetrics, . 119 Hering. C., M.D., A Correction, 262
Medical Colleges and the N. Y. High potencies, Cases treated by,
Medical Union, 154 Hiller, Dr. F. Gunshot Wounds, . 41
The Michigan University, 158 Hills, Dr. A. K., Glaucoma, . 32
Webster’s Dictionary, 159 Holcombe, Wm., The Cholera of
A New Illustration of the 90
Power of Infinitesimals, 198
1873, . . . .
Homoeopathic Literature Abstract
Southern
pensary,Homoeopathic
. . .Dis v199 of, 27, 63, 110, 139, 180, 229, 299
The Michigan University, 237 342, 465,
Homoeopathy, The Pathological
Police Surgeons, . . 238 movement in connection with,
A New Homoeopathic Hospital, 27.3 by C. Ncidhard, M.D., . 121
Annual Commencement of The Homoeopathic State Lunatic Asy
Hahnemann Med. College, 275 2
lum, . . . .
Our Annual Recruits. . . 317 Hoopes, Dr. L, Euphrasia in Con~
Gilchrist’s Surgical Diseases, 318
stipation, . . . 168
The Great Pyramid, . . 318 Apocynum Cannabinum, 3-10, . 169
Cremation, . . . 355 Cole. 0. in Motrnrrhagia, 169
The Hahnemann Med. College, Hydrophobin in Dysentery, . 169
of Miss., . . 359 Howard, Dr. Elmira 5., Chronic
~ The University of Michigan, 360
Metritis. . . .
The American Institute, 360 Hot Water for Uterine Hoemor
Notice, “ Who was it?" . 360 rhages, Dr. G. M. Boynton, 372
“ “ Physician Wanted,” 360 Hot Water for Uterine Hmmor
Institute Proceedings, 407 rhages. Dr. T. H. Mann, 130
Resignation, . l. 407
Specialties in Medicine and Improvements, . . . . 37
Ixn ortance of Light, . 357
Surgery, . 441 In iana Institute of Homoeopathy, 185
A Correction, . 442
P rof. Farrington’s Mat..Medica, 442 Indiana Institute ofHomoeopathy,
by 0. S. Runnels, M. D., . 267
Which Medical Practice? 475 Indigo in Epilepsy, by L. M. Ken
Born. Medical Soc. of Penn., 475
0 . ., . . . . 210
Pay your return Postage, 476
Induction of Premature Labor b
Facial Expression of Remedies, by Electricity, . . . 319
Dr. H. B. Fellows. . Inflammation of the Bowels, 183
Farrington, Dr. E. A., Ruta in Dys Insane Asylum, N. Y. State 1.10m
pepsia, . . . . 25 mopathic, . . . . 38
Farrington’s, Profi, Mat. Medica, 442 Intermittent Fever, . . 144
Feathered Centenarians, . . 358 Institute Proceedings, 407
Fisher, A. L., Elkhart, Indiana, . 146
Invalid Climates, . . . 160
Fracture of the base of the Skull-- Involuntary Proving with Gels.,
Death, by Charles W. Karsner, by Dr. J. C. Morgan. . 170
. . . 331
'1 Johnson, T. D., M. 1)., Bright’s
Freckles, . . . . 476 Disease of the Kidneys, . 28
Fungus Haematodes; Lach., 300
Jones, Dr. S. A., Section Plan for
the Institute of Homoeopathy, 32
Galvano-Thernpcutics, . . 313
Gelseminum Scmp. in Puerperal Kac'tzkowski, Dr., Prevention
Convulsions, by Homer 1. Os and Cure of Small-Pox, by
Variol. and Vacc. . 110
tron, M.D., . . . 434
Index. 483
PAGE use:
Laryngitis, Syphilitic, by Dr. E. Nn-sal Catarrh, Chronic, . . 140
J. Whitney, . . . 111 Nebraska State Homoeopathic
Lactation late in life, . . '476 Medical Association, . 109
Larynx, Irritation of, for exciting Neidhard, C., M.D., The Patholo
inspiration in Asphyxia, . 467 gical Movement in connection
Lectures on Clinical uses of Elec with Homoeopathy, . . 121
tricity, . . . . 313 “ Remarks on the Use of Chlo
Lilienthal, Dr. S., Treatise on Skin ride of Lime in Diphtheria, 452
Diseases, . . . 28 New Method of Operating in Cer~
Lippe, Dr. Ad., Saccarum 06"., . 30 tain Cases of Strangulated
Lister's, Prof., Antiseptic Treat Hernia, by Thomas Annan
ment, . . . . . 442 dale, M.D., . . . 290
Livingstone, Dr., . . 238, 358 New York State Horn. Med. Society, 304
MARRIED. New Midwifery Forceps, . . 319
Bradley—Blanchard, . . 80 New Work on Surgery, . . 159
Custle—Maull, . . . 408 New Dispensary, . . . 159
Crater—King, . . 279 Notes on the Ear, . . 139
Springer—Harry, . . 279 Notes, Queries and Answers, . 37
Thatcher—Blakeley, .' 280 No Sex in Education, . . . 312
Wareheim—Faust, . . 160 Notices.—“Who was it ?" “ Phy
Waugh—Reynolds, . . 40 sician Wanted,” . . . 360
Mann, T. H., Hot water in Uterine Northeastern Homoeopathic Dis
Hasmorrhage, . . . 130 pensary, . . . 238
Malarial Poison, by Dr. Wood, 358 Nux as an Antidote to Opinm, 184
Materia Medica, Prof. Farrington's, 442 N. Y. State Homoeopathic Insane
“ “ The Study of, by Asylum, . . . 38
A. C. Cowperthwait, M.D., 435 N. Y. State Homoeopathic Medical
Materia Medica of Hahnemann, by Society, . . . . 104
T. F. Pomeroy, M.D., .
Man’s most Active Period, . 442 Oatmeal, Bone and Muscle, . 443
McGeorge, Wallace, M.D., Puer Observations of Solar and Lunar
peral Fever, . . . Influence, and its relation to
10
Medical and Surgical, The, History Matv Med., . . . 232
of the War, . . . Obstetrics in the Vienna Hospital, 249
113
Medical Colleges and the N. Y. Oehme, Dr. F. G., Carbolic Acid in
Medical Union, . . 154 Burns, . . . . 67
Medical Directory of the U. S., 358 Ostron, Homer L, M. D.. Gels,
Metcalt', J. W., Esmaroh's Ban Semp., in Puerperal Convul
dage in Amputation, . 2S8 sions, . . . . . 434
Mental Symptoms, of Drugs, by Operation for Cleft Palate, . 47
J. Heber Smith, M.D., . 263 On the Universality of the Hon].
Memhranous Cronp, . . 183 Law of Cure, . . . 353
Metritis, Chronic, by Dr. E. S, Otitis, . . . . . . 24
Howard, . . 110 Our Annual Recruits, . . 319
Michigan University, The, 360, 237, 158 Ovariotomy by Enucleation, . 237
Miller, H. V., M.D., Ulcerated OBITUARIES.
Teeth, . . . . Dr. Alfred Zantzinger, Phila., 40
Mitchell, J. N., M.D., Value of Oh Myra N., wife of Dr. W. C.
jective Symptoms, . . 466 Dake, Nashville, Tennessee, 40
Miss. Vullcy' Hom. Med. As Dr. Auguste Nelaton, (French
sociation, . . . 142 Surgeon). . 80
Modification of Esmarch’s Elastic Isnac James. M. D., . . 240
Bandage, . . . . 289 Dr. Miles W. Wallens, . 280
Mortality of Philadelphia, . 200 Dr. Louis G. Ha'ch, . . 280
Morgan',.lol1n C., M.D., Cause of Dr. Walter M. Williamson, 359
Sudden Death, . . 48 Paralysis, . . . . . 53
Morse, L. D., M.D., Case in Peculiarities of Headaches, by D.
Practice. . . . 24 S. Kimball, M. D., . . 292
Monre, F. R., M.D., Disease of Perforation of Abdominal Walls in
the Ear,. . . . 292 Typhoid Fever, . . . 144
Mycloil Tumor of the Jaw, M. Personals, . . . .
Mact'arlan. M.D., . . 46 Persistence of the hymen, ‘. 319
Muller, Dr. Clotar. on Cutaneous Phytolacca in Aching of the Heels,
Diseases. . ‘ . . 341, 261 by Dr. E. M. Hale, . . 272
Medical Union, . . . 238 Pharmaceutio‘Processes, . . 181
484 Index.
FAQ!
Physicians’ Visiting List f0r1874, 114 Some Remarks upon the Treatment
Phrenological Journal, . 1l6 of Skin Diseases, by Dr. Clotar
Physician as a Student, 117 Muller, . 321, 361
Physicians’ Dose and Symptom Southern Homoeopathic Dispen
Book, . . . . 354 sary, . . . . 199
Plants in Sleeping Rooms, 159 Speir’s Artery Constrictor, . 184
Pomeroy, T. F., M. D., The Materin. Specialties in Medicine and Surgery,441
Medica ot' Hahnemann, 81 Spontaneous Combustion, 38
Police Surgeons, . . . 238 Sphygmograph, The, . . 2735
Post-Mortom Examination of Son Statistics of Russian Empire, 38
ator Sumner, . 279 Student, The Physician as a, 117
Post»Partum llznmorrhnge. 319 Success, the Secrets of 36
Price, Dr. E. (1., Carbolic Acid, . 65 Substitute for Quinine, 159
Protosnlphide of Mercury in Small Pox, Prevention and Cure of
Typhoid Fever, . 301 by Variolinum and Vaccinum
Preliminary Course of Lectures, 77, 118 by Dr. Kactzkowslti, 110
Preston, Dr. Coates, Dyscntery and Saccharnm 091, by Ad. Lippe. M.D., 39
its Treatment, . . . 28 Smith, J. Ilcber, M. D., Mental
Puerperal Fever, by Dr. Wallace Symptoms of Drugs, 63
McGeorge, . . 10 Taking Cold,by J. W. llazlewood, 1.52
Pulmonary Phthisis, C. C. Smith, Tietzc, Emil, M D., Case of Plac
M.D., . . . . 27 enta Przevin, . . . 214
Pustular Exanthcma of Face, R. Tietze, Emil, M.D., Tolle Cansam,
C. Smerllcy, M. D., 89 .‘ltil, 409
Pulmonic Candles, 278 Theory and Practice of Medicine, 196
Pyramid, The Great, 318 Treatment of Sprains, . . 180
Trouble in Harrisburg, . . 33
RanulmThuja, by. W. H. Bigler, Treatment of Dyspepsia with Medi
M.D., . . . . cine, . . . . . 38
Rat Bane, 408 Typhoid Fever from Watered Milk, 38
Resignation. . . . . 407 Treatment of Sore Nipples, 219
Repertory t0 the Eyes, Berritlge’s, 399 Ulcers of the Cornea, by Dr. Geo.
Removals, etc., 40, 80, 160. 200, 239, S. Norton, . . . 302
279, 320 Ulcerated Tooth, by H. V. Miller,
Rheumatism, . . . . 24 M. ., . . . .
Rhus in [ntcrmittent Fevers, 37 Uterine Disoharges, Therapeutics
Rutherford, Dr. Wm., on Sot't Tis of, by Henry Minton. M.D., 17,
‘ sues for Microscopic Purposes, 358 55, 95, 134, 172, 222, 254, 294, 333,
Ruta. in Dyspepsia, by E. A. Far 373, 425, 46".
rington, M. D., . . . 25 Uterine Displacement, ( . . 52
Uterine Haemorrhagt-s, Hot Water
Sartor Resartus, by Wm. H. Bigler, for, by T. 11. Ma in, M.D., 130
M. D., . . . . 241 Uterine Haemorrhages following
Sarc "11810118 and carcinomatons Abortion, by Dr. E. E. Harpcl, 330
Tumors, a New Method of re Veratum Viride, by 11. M. Dayloot, 65
moval, by Prof. G. Simon, Verdi's, Dr. T. S., Report as
Schnsslcr's Twelve Remedies, by special Sanitary Commissioner
E. A. Farrington, M.D., 233 to European Cities, 193
Secretion of Bile, . . 440 Verified Characteristics, by G. R.
Secondary Electric Battery, 358 Knight, M. D., In Neuralgia,
Siamese Twins, The, 238, 27s Bell. and Sepia: llaemorrhoids,
Singular Will, _ _ 358 Ignatia and Nux Vom.. . 129
Sixth Annual Report of the Horn. Visiting List, Faulkner it Blake
Mutual Life Insurance Co., of ley's, . 153
New York, 236 Vocal Phenomenon, . 358
Sleep as a Medicine, _ 200 Volume Seventh, . . . 37
Skin Diseases, the Treatment of“, S. Vomiting During Pregnancy, b
Lilienthal, M.D., 28 Dr. S. Lilienthal, . 32
Skin Grafting, . . . 301 Wanted, . . 119
Smith, C. C., M.D., Pulmonary \Vcbster’s Dictionary, 1529
Phthisis, . . 27 Weight of Brains. . . . 2558 -
Smedley, R. (1., M.D., Pustular Wood Dr., on Malaria] Poison, 35S
Exanthema of Face, 89 Whitney, E. J., M.D., Sypliilitic
Soft Tissues for Microscopic Pur Laryngitis, . , . 111
poses, . . . 358 Youlin, Dr. J. J., 359
The American Journal
J::7..‘;:~1:Fr ; SEPTEMBER, 18 7 3
(CALIFORNIA STATE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL
SOCIETY.
THE Annual Meeting of the California State Medical
Society of Homoeopathic Practitioners, was opened Wed
nesday evening, April 9th, 1873, at 8 o’clock, in the Parlor
of the Young Men’s Christian Association Building, 232
Sutter street, the Vice-President, Dr. J. K. Clark, of Sacra
mento, in the chair.
The roll being called, a majority of members were found
present. Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read
and approved. The following physicians were reported
by the Board of Censors, as candidates, properly qualified
for admission to the Society: C. W. Breyfogle, of San
Jose, M. T. Wilson, G. E. Davis and F. Hiller, Jr., of San
Francisco. On motion, the Secretary was directed to cast
the unanimous ballot of the Society for their election.
The remainder of the session was spent in informal dis
cussion as to the interests of the Society and the profes
sion on the Pacific Coast.
On motion, the election of officers was postponed until
the closing session of the meeting, to be held April 10th,
P. M. Adjourned
SECOND DAY, Thursday April 10th, 1873, the Society
met, pursuant to adjournment. The President, Dr. I. 5.
Shepherd, of Petaluma, occupied the chair.
VQL. VII.--No. 1.
2 Calzfarnia Stale Homeopathic Med. Sorielfy. [Sept,,
Roll called, and the following members found present:
J. K. Clark, Sacramento, C. W. Breyfogle, San Jose, S.
Porter, Napa, T. C. Coxhead, Oakland, J. P. Dinsmore,
John Esten, G. E. Davis, E. J. Fraser, G. Goepp, W. N.
Griswold, F. Hiller, F. Hiller, Jr., A. A. Thiese, M. T.
\Vilson and M. J. Werder, of San Francisco. On motion,
Dr. Chamberlin, of Worcester, Massachusetts, was invited
to take part in the exercises of the Society. Dr. W. N.
Griswold, presented and read a lengthy paper on “ Putre—
faction and Fermentation, their Nature and Treatment"
when found as conditions of disease in the animal system.
On motion, Dr. Griswold was requested to prepare the
paper for publication in the Eastern Journals.
Dr. E. J. Fraser, Chairman of the Standing Committee
on Surgery, presented the following report : involving the
constitutional and local symptoms of the bite of a veno
mous spider, together with its medical and surgical treat
ment.
BITE OF A VENOMOUS SPIDER.
“ On the 215': of September last, a gentleman of this
city, while sojourning in the San, Joaquin Valley, was
bitten at night while in bed, by a large black spider, on
the dorsum of the left foot, about an inch above the junc
tion of the fourth and fifth'toes.
“ The pain from the bite aroused him from sleep. The
foot felt as though it had been rudely lacerated by some
dull instrument. He found, however, upon examination,
only a small red spot, resembling a flea-bite] Upon search
ing for the cause, a large black spider was found, re
sembling in appearance, the katipo or venemous spider of
New Zealand, of which species, considerable numbers are
found in the San Joaquin Valley.
“ Although no swelling followed, severe shooting, burn
ing pains ran from the bite on the foot, up the limb, to
the back, accompanied by a nervous twitching all over his
body. A cold clammy perspiration covered the left lower
extremity.
“ The symptoms seemed to increase until morning,
when the perspiration covered both lower limbs, accom
panied by the additional symptoms of a very severe draw
1373_] Calzfornia State Hamwopat/zic Med. Society. 3
ing or crampy sensation in the abdomen. Being in a
locality where competent, medical and surgical aid could not
be had ; his wife, who was with him, took the precaution
to give him whiskey, which he drank freely and in large
quantities. The stimulant seemed to produce but little
impression upon him, except a feeling, as he described it,
as though the affcéted side was drunk. Before evening of
Sunday, September 22d, the pain was felt almost equally
in both limbs, and seemed to centre about the heels. He
hastened down to this city, on Monday. I saw him soon
after noon of the same day. The cold sticky perspiration
on the limbs and body, the pain in the limbs and heels,
the pains in the back and the drawing sensation in the
abdomen, together, with an anxious expression of counte
nance, delirium half smothered by imperfect intoxication,
combined to present a pitiable and distressing object,
indeed. There was however, no swelling of the foot, where
it was bitten. I, at once, administered Bel/., in aqueous
solution, which controlled the darting pains and nervous
symptoms admirably. The alcoholic simulant was con
tinued.
“On Wednesday the 25th, a. bright scarlet papular ir
ruption appeared upon both lower extremities, which stung
and burned like fire. Ara, R/zus., Amm. card. and Ledum
were administered, but nothing seemed to be of much ser
vice, except Bell. The pains and nervous symptoms how
ever, gradually diminished, and, as there was no swelling
of the foot or limb that was bitten, a. safe and rapid re
covery was anticipated.
“On the morning of October [St, the tenth day after
the accident, the joint that was bitten, which had up to
this time remained a. small purple point, began to swell,
turning white, like the swelling which follows the sting of
the wasp or bee. The swelling was painful and so rapid
that within three hours, the white spot was nearly as large
as a. twenty-five cent silver coin.
“ The whole dorsum of the foot and 'ankle became very
much swollen, and a red streak was observed running up
the leg. Seeing that there was serious trouble ahead, and
that there was no time to be lost, I immediately applied
strong nitric acid, over the ClEVEtiZCd white spot, to destroy the
cuticle. This being thoroughly done, sulphate of zinc was
applied, in substance, in order to produce an eschar. As
soon as the escharotic began to adt with energy, the ten
4 Calgfirnia State Hamwopat/zir filed. Society. [56,»,
dency of the swelling to extend up the limb ceased. In
about three days, the eschar sloughcd, but in removing it,
being covered by adhesive plaster, fully a teaspoonful of
straw-colored fluid escaped. In less than five minutes
after the removal of the eschar, the cavity filled again with
the same kind of fluid. This discharge continuing, the
wound was dressed with bread and milk poultice, which
readily absorbed it. The swelling diminished rapidly, and
all his symptoms improved, so that in about ten days, he
was able to go to his office. The wound, however, did
not fully heal, but was covered over, by a dark red film.
On the 22d of November, two months after he was
bitten, I opened it, when several drops of reddish fluid
escaped. I then gave Lac/zesz's, and there has been no
trouble since. The gentleman seems to be as well now, as
he was before the acccident. This gentlemen, is a plain
history of the case. In reporting it,I have ignored my
general rule, to “ never report a case.” A belief, however,
that its features are new and peculiar, and that some
valuable information may be drawn from it, is my only
apology for presenting it. The peculiar features are:
[fir/sf. The constitutional symptoms produced by the
aetion of the poison upon the nerve centres. And, second,
the severe local symptoms which only began to make
their appearance nine days after the bite.
“ I would say in conclusion, that, if I had another case
of the kind to treat, I would produce an eschar at' once,
and allow all the poisonous matter that might be secreted
there, to escape, and then, with the constitutional treat
ment, I would expect a quicker successful issue.”
Dr. F Hz'ller.—This case is full of practical interest. Fz'mt.
The patient suffered from the bite of the inseét. Second.
From fear of its consequences. And, t/n'rd, from the
amount of whiskey administered.
\Vhen Dr. Fraser saw the patient, he found him deliri
ous; inflammation had ensued, and many other symp
toms, demanded the administration of Bell. and other
remedies, which govern such conditions.
It is my opinion that a dose of Lac/zm's instead of the
whiskey would have arrested the effeéts of the poison, in
a very short time, perhaps preventing all the morbid con
ditions, as they appeared on the tenth day.
18731 California State Homeopathic Med. Society. 5
Dr. Yalm Estcrz.—\Vould Dr. Hiller, in such cases adopt
a local treatment 1’
Dr. F. Hi/lcr.—I have in a great measure abolished local
applications. Ammonia is generally considered an effective
anti'dote, and has been used with some success, but it does
not prevent blood poisoning.
Dr. Fraser—The view that I take of the case is, that the
poison was dormant beneath the cuticle, and it was from that
that the aggravated local symptoms developed after so
long a period. Vaccination is somewhat similar in its
course. The pustule does not appear when it works
properly, until the ninth or tenth day, but when it does
appear, it is at the point where the virus was inserted, and
nowhere else. This is uniformly the case, notwithstand
ing the usual intervening constitutional symptoms. The
wound made for the introduction of the virus is always
healed thoroughly, before the pustule appears, so that the
wound at that particular point could not favor the location
of the pustule there. If then, animal virus does really lie
under the cuticle for a period of nine days before it pro
duces local symptoms, I see no obstacle in the way of its
removal by surgical means. This is why I would in the
future, apply the escharotic as early as possible. In the
medical treatment, in future, I would profit by the expe
perience of the past, administer Lac/zesz's, earlier than I did
in that case.
Dr. Erma—I would like to ask Dr. Fraser, whether an
escharotic would destroy vaccination P
Dr. Fmsrr—It is an experiment that I have never tried_
I see no reasons why it should not do so, especially if
applied early.
Dr. Hillard—Gentlemen, we are here entering upon a
topic, upon which we are not prepared, and which I fear,
diverts our attention from our business. If the topic of
vaccination is to be brought before this Association, I
hope the members will be prepared for it ; because it is a
very perplexing subject, one which requires much study.
6 Calzfornia State Homeopathic Med. Society. [Sept,,
REPORT ON SURGERY.
U
ZOI
BY HENRY Mm'rou, M. D.
ACONITUM NAPELLUS. -
Monk’s Hood.
zzESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM.
Home Chestnut.
AGARICUS MUSCARIUS.
A Cryptogalnous Fungus.
AGNUS CASTUS.
Chute Tree.
ALOE SOCOTRINE.
Aloea.
ALETRIS FARINOSA.
Star Grass.
ALUMINA.
Oxide of Aluminum.
AMBRA GRISEA.
Gray Amber.
CLINICAL, MEDICINE.
CASES IN PRACTICE.
RHEUMATISM,—-Bsyonia.
Mr. D. had suffered for a long time with rheumatism,
apparently involving nearly all the muscles of the chest.
Sometimes the pain and soreness were so severe upon
the least motion, that taking a long breath, was almost im
possible. The patient had made numerous applications
of liniment, plasters, etc., with little or no relief. I found
the respiration signing, great disinclination to move on
account ofpain and fear of being touched, especially on the
affeéted parts. I gave a single dose of Big/onia 200, dry
on the tongue, Saa, Lao., to be taken every hour. In two
days the patient was entirely well. No return after eight
months.
OTITIS.—Sulpfiur.
RUTA IN DYSPEPSIA.
_ BY E. A. FARRINGTON, M.D.
Mr. F. at 46, had for fifteen years suffered from dyspep
sia. His general health seemed good, but his pulse was
soft, and every attempt to eat meat would be followed by
26 Cases in Praltiee. [Sept.,
BY B. FRANK BETTS, M. D.
CORRESPONDENCE.
WHAT Is THOUGHT OF 1T.—\Ve cannot refrain from pub
lishing the following extraét from a private communica
tion recently received, showing as it does, what is thought
of the new appointments in the faculty, by one whose
judgment in the matter, we are disposed to put a high
estimate upon. ‘
* * * “ I wish to add, by way of postscript, thatI have
received the Hahnemann Medical College Announcement,
for 1873 and 74, and note some changes and additions to the
faculty. The unfortunate circumstances which produced the
vacancy, instead of weakening the College, must result in
materially strengl/zenz'ng it, since the vacancy has been
filled by one who is not only well qualified now, but whose
ambition will lead him to put forth every exertion, to
equal the very best in the land, and I know of no one
more likely to attain the end at which he aims.‘
“ Such branches as physiology, pathology and chemistry,
etc., may well be trusted to the hands of young men of
known attainments and great ambition. They will not
only teach accurately and thoroughly, but they will keep
up with the very latest discoveries in these branches, and
thus give _to tilt-Ill“ teachings the charm of freshness ;
besides, these young men get much nearer to the students
in their sympathies. All who know Drs. Farrington and
Betts, will congratulate the college in having secured their
services.”
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THE HOMCEOPATHIC FAMILY GUIDE, FOR THE USE OF
twenty-eight principal remedies in the treatment of the more Simple
forms of disease—By George E. Shipman, M. D. Together with
directions for the treatment of Dengue and Yellow Fever. By
W. H. Holcombe, M. D., of New Orleans, La. Chicago: The
Western News Company, 1873.
Of the many works for domestic use, which are in the
market, we esteem this one of the best. It is written in a
clear, forcible and interesting. style, is beautifully printed
on fine white paper, and while less voluminous 'than some
other Family Guides, is sufficiently full, and is exceedingly
well arranged.
The book is divided into three parts.
Part 1 treats of diseases by their name—ofsuch diseases as
are suited for domestic praétice. A brief description of
each disease is given, so that it may be distinguished from
34 Book Notiees. [Se pt.,
other diseases, and then a few direetions given as to the
treatment—medical and hygienic.
Part 2 is in the form ofa repertory, in which is found a list
of some of the most important symptoms (y‘ disease, with their
appropriate remedies.
Part 3 is on the Materia Medica, and here the most import
ant and charaéteristic symptoms of each drug may be
found.
The book is enriched by a chapten on Dengue and
Yellow Fever, by Dr. W. H. Holcombe, of New Orleans.
Dr. H. is a well-known writer and physician, and having
resided at the South for many years, is fully qualified to
speak of its diseases. These papers add much to the
value of the work for those who live at the South.
The book contains the photograph and autograph of the
author, and the profits of the sale are to be given to the
Chicago Foundlings’ Home.
A MEDICAL HANDBOOK FOR MOTHERS, OR HINTS FOR
the Management of Health, and the Treatment of the Disorders
common during Pregnancy and Infancy, by Alfred C. Pope
M. D': Henry Turner & C0., London, I873.
As the author says in his preface, “ this book is de
signed to assist the young wife and m'other in the manage
ment of her health, and in providing for the wants of her
infant,” and written as it is, in a plain and lucid style, free
from all unnecessary technicalities, and embracing every
topic of importance relating to those subjects, it is most
admirably adopted to the end for which it was designed.
No better work of its kind exists, and physicians will do
humanity a service, by recommending it for the careful study
of the young wife and mother. For sale by BGZRICKE &
TAFEL.
THE SANITARIUM.-A Monthly Journal, A. N. Bell, M.. D.,
Editor. A. S. Barnes & C0., New York and Chicago.
This valuable publication has now reached its fifth '
number, and has. fairly established for itself a reputation, as
an able exponent of sanitary science. The August number
contains articles on School Poisoning, Illustrated; Cholera
Stamped Out; Animal Refuse of Large Cities; Defective
Drainage. On the Aétion of Tea on the Human System ;
Cholera; the Morbid Effects of Alcohol ; The Public
Health; Editor’s Table, etc. Suitable for both professional
and popular reading, it should receive a liberal support.
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL
OF
_ given it above the 3d, I-Io. If the Allopaths would use it until there
were clear intermissions, and then give Quin., in theintermission,
they would drive fewer patients into a typhoid condition than they
now do.
ELKHART, IND., Aug, 4, 1873, A. L. FIsIIER.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. \
THE total number of deaths from cholera in Cincinnati, between
the I4th day of June and.the 14th of july, was 15}.
THE WHOLE medical staff of an English hospital recently resigned
because a lady physician had been eleéted house surgeon.
A PECULIAR weed growing in the vicinity of Cairo, by striking
against the face of the cattle when grazing, is said to have the pecu
liar property of causing temporary blindness.
A WEALTHY citizen of Indianapolis has given $500,000 for the en
dowment of a medical college to be attached to the Northwestern
Christian University.
DR. FONTAINE, of Spencer, Mass., has been held in $2,000 bonds
for manslaughter, in causing the death of a child by using small-pox
virus for vaccination, instead of vaccine matter.—1V. Y. Tribune. .
EXPERIMENrs by M.M. Estor and Saint Pierre, show that when
glucose is injeéted into the blood-vessels it is consumed; its disap
pearance being attended by a consumption of oxygen and a pro
portional produétion of carbonic acid.
"STATISTICS OF the Russian Empire show that the children of
faftory hands are affefted with Richets to a deplorable extent. The
sick rate among the hands is from 60 to 70 per cent. Factory
Yj/phus being the most prevalent disease. The mean duration of
life is only 20 years—Popular Science Monthly.
THE AMERICAN ARTIsAN gives an instance in which typhoid fever
attacked one-half the families that used milk from a certain dairy.
On making investigation. it was found that the cows drank water
from an old underground tank of wood, which was decayed, and from
which water, doubtless, found its way into the milk-cans in other
ways than through the udders of the cows.
TREATMENT OF DYSPEPSIA WITHOUT MEDICINE—Dr. Brown
Sequard has employed successfully, in the treatment of dyspepsia,
the method of giving the patient every twelve or fifteen minutes, a
few mouthfuls of solid food, chiefly meat and bread, with wine and
water every thirty or forty minutes, instead of the regular three meals
a clay. The improvement was prompt and decided.
1873,] Miscellaneous Items. - 39
A CURIOUS instance of spontaneous combustion is reported from
New Hampshire. A physician had prescribed linseed oil and cam
phor for a severe pain in the chest, and the patient complained of
the heat soon after its application on cotton batting. In about an
hour he protested he could bear it no longer, and before it could be
removed it took fire, aftually blazing up and burning the poor fellow's
neck severely.
TROUBLE IN HARRISBURG.—The new hospital'enterprise in Harris
burg has had a cloud thrown over it by the resignation of the entire
medical faculty. The trouble sprang out of the homoeopathic physi
cians of the city tendering the service of several of‘ their number in
case any of the hospital inmates preferred homoeopathic treatment. A
case of such medicines was allowed to be taken into the institution bythe
Board of Trustees ; but the original medical faculty objefted to this
course and now have resigned. The trustees promptly accepted the
resignation of all but two of the physicians, and it is believed they
will retire, whether they receive permission to withdraw or not.
TO BRING A DROWNING MAN To SHORE—Approach the drown
ing man from behind. Seize him with your left hand by the hair,
coat collar or Shoulder. Turn him on his back, and then place his
head upon your Chest, and with your right arm free, swim upon
your back to the land. (If by the left hand alone it be too difficult
to turn him upon his back, apply, in addition, the right hand to his
right shoulder, and the turning will be easily accomplished.) If he
be conscious, encourage him, and direft him to straighten out his
legs.
If the drowning man be out of sight under the water, watch care
fully for the rising of a bubble upon the surface; he will probably-be
found direftly below it.
N. Y. STATE HOMCEOPATHIC INSANE ASYLUM.
The annual meeting of the board of trustees of this asylum was
held recently in Middletown, Orange county. Eighteen of the twenty
one members of the board were in attendance. The officers eleifted
were: Fletcher Harper, Jr., president; Grinnell Burt, vice-president;
‘Peter S. Hoe, treasurer; M. D. Stivers, secretary.
Executive committee— John Cowdry, Dr. Draper, james G. Gra
ham, M. D. Stivers. _
Finance Com.—E. P. Wheeler, H. R. Low, VV.Wales, A.B. Conger.
Building committee—Grinnell Burt, Dr. Draper, E. P. Wheeler,
D. Thompson.
Dr. Henry R. Stiles, secretary of the bureau of sanitary inspefition,
of the city 'of New York, was appointed medical superintendent in
lace of Dr. Henry D. Paine, resigned.
The members of the board inspefted the central or executive buil
ding, as it is designated, now nearly completed, and expressed them
selves greatly pleased with the plan of the building and its beautiful
external appearance. This struClure is expedted to be completed,
ready for the reception of patients, in September or Oftober.
The building committee were instruCted to commence at once the
excavation for the basement story, and to procure plans for an addi
tional building of substantially the same size as the present one,
three stories high, and costing about $75,000.
As soon as the plans are obtained, the contraé't for the new building
will be let at once, and it is expeCted that the building will be inclosed
before the setting in of cold weather.
40 ~ Personals. [Sept., I873.
PERSONAL.
We would feel obliged if our subscribers would aenrtus for insertion. under this head, notices of removall
marriages, or deaths nfllemmopallhlc Physician.
DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY.
GUNSHOT WOUNDS.
CLINICAL CASES.
BY H. V. MILLER, M. D.
ULCERATED TOOTH.—Nux most/2., Laeh.
A lady had severe prosopalgia, right side, from ulcera
ation of right upper bicuspid tooth. This had continued
two days; worse when recumbent; chilliness from move
ment; face distorted by swelling, without relief; vesicles
on inside of upper lip; pains implicate upper and lower
teeth of same side, but they are severest in first bicuspid,
extending thence to the eye; pulsating pains, indicative of
suppuration; extreme sensitiveness to pain; during se
verest paroxysms, yawning, sleepiness and swooning, fainting,
with pains not so severe, Hep. JVux nzosch. 2c, one dose
immediately took effeét, and in a few minutes, almost
completely relieved the pain, so that she rested well the
succeeding night. The second night afterwards, since
there was a decided aggravation of pain after drowsing,
she got Laeh. 2c, and after that time, rested comparatively
well. Finally under the ac'tion of Hepar s. 2c., the abscess
soon discharged.
DIARRHCEA.—Aloe.
A case of acute diarrhoea, with sudden urgency and
burning in anus, worse ‘at ahout 7 A. M, was promptly
cured by Aloe 2c.
UTERINE DISPLACEMENT.—Flatulent Colic and Globus
Hysterieus.
A married lady, had among other complaints, obliquity
of the uterus, to right side, with great sensitiveness of 05
i 1873.] Clinical Cases. 53
PARALYSIS.—Silz'eea.
Dr. I. F. Baker, of Batavia, reports, that with Silieea
high, he once cured a case of partial paralysis, of the
motor and sentient nerves, in the lower extremities of a
patient, occasioned by the suppression of profuse and of
fensive foot sweat. The latter complaint, was soon re
stored, and ultimately cured by ‘the same treatment. Sup
pression of foot sweat, indicates Apis, Chain, Cupn,
Mere, Nate, Nitr. ae., Puls., Sep, 527., Rhus.
RANULA-THUJA, 30.
BY W. H. BIGLER, M.D.
BY HENRY MINTON, M. D.
AMMONIUM CARBONICUM.
Carbonate of Ammonia.
AMMONIUM MURIATICUM.
\ Murlata of Ammonia.
Menstruation—Premature and profuse, (Cal. c.,) with
pain in the abdomen and small qf the hack, the flow being
Seanty a’arh urine. Urine often burns and smarts as it
passes. Exceptionally too profuse secretion of urine.
1873] Therapeutics of Uterine Discharges. 57
more profuse at night; in the morning and day time it is
better.
During Menstruation—A quantity of blood is passed
with each stool. Diarrhoea and vomiting, with pressure
and contractions in the back. '
Leucorrhcea.—Discharge albuminous, like the white of
an egg, preceded by pain around the navel. Brown, slimy
discharge after making water; painless or preceded by
pinching around the navel. Leucorrhoea with~ distension
of the abdomen, without accumulation of wind.
Concomitants.—Apprehensive and melancholy, as if
caused by care and grief. Feeling of fullness in the head.
Lacerating pain in the head, darting from below upwards.
Burning in the corners of the eyes. Prosopalgia. Burning
in the face. Languor, especially of the lower limbs. Lac
' crating pains in the thighs. Shooting and lacerating pains
in the tips of the fingers.
Bitter taste in the mouth and bitter eructations passing
off after eating something. Nausea after dinner and when
walking in the open air; frequent and violent hiccough.
Vomiting and diarrhma during menstruation.
Stools hard and crumbling. Several loose stools during
the day. Stinging pains in the renal region. Pinching
colic, hindering respiration. Rumbling and emissions of
flatus. Pain around the navel previous to stool. Dis
charge of blood at stool during menstruation. Sore pain
in the rectum. Increased secretion of urine, especially at
night. Inclination to urinate at four o’clock, A. M.
Pain in the small of lhe hack, especially at night. Cold
ness of the back between the shoulders. Coldness of the
feet in bed. Pain in the left leg, as if the muscles were too
short. Aggravations during menstruation in the morning;
at night in bed, and often after rising from bed.
Especially adapted to fat, bloated, and lax women, who
are indolent and sluggish.
'58 Therapeutics 0/ Uterine Discharges. loci"
ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE.
Malacca Bean. ’
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.
I. . . Crude Antimony.
APIS MELLIFICA.
Poison of the Honey Bee.
APOCYNUM CANNABINUM.
Indiuu Hemp.
ARALIA RACEMOSA.
American Spikenard.
ARNICA MONTANA.
Leopard’s Bane.
BY B. FRANK BETTS,'M.D.
102
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHOLERA INST. LOUIS.
A. R. Thomas, M l).
DEAR SIR :—In answer to your request to- give you
some information about the Cholera in this city and
the Southwest, I would say that at no time this summer
has the Asiatic cholera been epidemic in this city. There
has been however, a great deal of cholera morbus and
cholera infantunz, of a very fatal character. There have
also been quite a large number of very virulent and
malignant fatal sporadic cases of Asiatic cholera, but at
no time have the fatal cases exceeded from'eighteen _to
twenty-five per week, being a very small per centage,
and for the last two weeks from six to eight per week.
There is no apprehension felt of its becoming epidemic in
the city this summer. It has been seemingly much worse
in the country and other towns and cities than here.
As to its origin and migration from place to place, I will
append what Dr. I. C. Peters, of New York, in his report,
says on the subject, which is very interesting at this time, and
68 Correspondenee. [rm .,
which will go far towards explaining its sudden appearance
in different parts of the country, and as suddenly disappear
ing again. Regarding its treatment, I have no fault to find
with the results of the usual Hahnemannian method.
Dr. Peters says: “In advance of a more full report, I can
state that to my personal knowledge, cholera was conveyed
from New Orleans and Memphis by steamboats to Louisville
and Cincinnati. The Health Officer ofEvansville also reports '
that the first three or more cases were landed there from
steamboats from below. The same has happened at St.
Louis. I also have very positive information that cases were
brought by railroad to Nashville and died there. In Gal—
latin, Woodburn and Bowling Green, the first cases, some
times three in number, were imported ones. But the mo
mentous fact stands out very strongly that, however the
disease may have been brought to or have originated in
Murfreesboro, Nashville and Bowling Green, and many
other places, the pestilence quickly and almost exclusively
localized itself in the filthiest parts of these towns, while
the cleanest portions almost entirely escaped. _
“In Murfreesboro no direét importation of the disease is
yet acknowledged, but it is well known that among the
earliest cases in the neighborhood was that of a negro
who arrived from Nashville and died in a house near the
town; the woman who nursed him, washed his clothes,
died, and two others in the same house. In Murfreesboro
the physicians generally admitted that the disease was true
Asiatic cholera, like that of 1866; but were also fully im
pressed with the Southern theory,,viz.: That a long, severe
winter, changing suddenly to a very warm summer, had
produced such a rapid growth of vegetation that all the
grasses and vegetables were very watery and unwholesome ;
the filth accumulated during the winter was suddenly ex
posed to a very hot sun, and bred a peculiar indigenous
malaria ; that the drinking water became affected, especially
in the lower portions of the town,which received sewerage
and drainage from above; that the disease crept along
the creek and water courses, wherever drainage, mists and
malaria most prevailed, and affected principally, or almost
exclusively, the‘black and low-class white who lived in such
places. These localizing influences were so great and
manifest that importation was not thought of or looked forI
especially as almost all the better and higher parts of Mur
1873.] Correspondence. 69
BOOK NOTICES.
WE would call attention to the " Practice for sale," in our adver
tising pages. So favorable an opportunity for securing a good busi
ness, seldom offers.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
ADVICE T0 BATl-lERS.—AVOid entering the water within two hours
after a meal; or when exhausted from any cause; or when the body
is cooling after perspiration.
Stay in the water usually not more than fifteen minutes.
Leave the water always with promptness, and dress at once. Do
it immediately on suffering from chilliness, especially if there be
numbness of hands and feet.
The best time for bathing for strong persons is before breakfast.
For the young or weakly the best time is two or three hours after
breakfast.
Bathing should be entirely avoided by those in whom it habi.ually
causes faintness, giddiness, or disagreeable palpitation of the heart.
' Exposure of the head to the sun during bathing is attended with
special danger of sunstroke.
ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS—A uniform position for anatomical
figures is absolutely necessary in the plates of works of medical
instruction. The neglect of such uniformity is the cause of much
perplexity to students, and the position with the head to the left is
advocated because it is more natural in dissection and drawing, and
because Professor Agassiz has for many years adopted it in his
plates.
’78 Miscellaneous Items. [Oct.,
MORTALITY STATISTICS OF THE WAR—The Medical History of
the War, just published by Sergeant-General Barnes, gives the fol
lowing figurcs :
Killed in Battle ......................................... .. 44,238
Died of Wounds and Injuries ............... .. .. 49,205
Suicides, Homicides and Executions ............. .. 526
Died of Disease ........................................ .. 186,216
Unknown Causes ..................... ..
Total ................................................. .. 304 369
A YOUNG LADY, in Missouri, recently dislocated her arm on both
sides, during a violent attack of vomiting.
THE Medical Department of the Boston University, opens its first
course of leétiires on the fifth of November.
DR. FONTAINE, of Spencer, Mass, has been held in $2,000 bonds
for manslaughter, in causing the death of a child by using small-pox
virus for vaccination instead of vaccine matter.
EXPERIMENTS by M. M Estor and Saint Pierre, show that when
glucose is injefted into the blood-vessels it is consumed, its disap
pearance being attended by a consumption of oxygen and a pro
portional produdtion of carbonic acid.
AT Evansville, Ind., recently a. young man who had suffered for
some time with a cough, found entire relief after coughing up a gold
dollar. He remembers having several of these coins in his mouth
one night in bed, and that one of them disappeared, but he was not
conscious of having breathed it into his lung.
THERE is a fly in Cayenne, Guiana, known as the man-eater,
which is the-cause of many deaths in that penal colony of France.
M. Coquere], who has investigated the subject, describes the insect
as laying its eggs in the mouth or nose of asleeping person. The
offspring in their larvel state usually bring about the death of the
victim.
THE AMERICAN ARTISAN gives an instance in which typhoid fever
attacked one-half the families that used milk from a certain dairy.
On making an investigation, it was found that the cows drank water
from an old underground tank of wood which was decayed, and
water from which doubtless found its way into the milk-cans in other
ways than through the udders of the cows.
THREE LADY MEMBERS have recently been admitted to the Michi
gan State Medical Society, one to that of Rhode Island, and one to
that of Kansas. These were all graduates of the Pennsylvania
\Vomen’s Medical College. In England all the restriftions on the
admission of ladies to the advantages of the Pharmaceutical Society
of London have been removed.
STARcHY FOOD FOR YOUNG CHILDREN—Experiments made by an
Italian physcian go to Show that the saliva of young, new-born ani
mals has not the power of converting starch into sugar, and, that
the pancreatic secretion obtained from young kittens, puppies, &c"
was also unable to accomplish this change. The fallacy, even in_
jury to young children, done by giving them starchy food, is
apparent. -
O
1873] Miscellaneous Items. '79
A CURIOUS instance of spontaneous combustion is reported from
New Hampshire. A physician had prescribed linseed oil and cam
phor for a severe pain in the chest, and the patient complained of
the heat soon after its application on cotton batting. In about an
hour he protested he could bear it no longer, and before it could be
removed it took fire, actually blazing up and burning the poor
fellow‘s neck severely.
QUALITY or AIR IN DIFFERENT LOCALITIES.—An interesting
paper, valuable in a physiological point of view, on the quality of air
taken from various localities, was lately read by Dr. Sigerson, at
Dublin, before the Royal Irish Society. In air from an iron factory,
he found, on examination, carbon, ash and iron; the latter sub
stance was in the form of little hollow balls, each about two-thous
andth of an inch in diameter, the iron being so thin that the light
passed through it. In shirt factory air were found filaments of linen
and cotton. Antimony—from the type metal, probably—was dis
covered in the air of printing rooms. Stable air was ascertained to
contain floating hair and scales; and in the air through which
tobacco smoke was passing, nicotine, the :poison of tobacco, ap
peared in little globules.
HAY FEVER.—-The latest theory in regard to this disease, the hay
fever, or rose cold, is that it is caused by “ vibriones," as a miscros
copical examination of the fluid, discharged from the nostrils of a
person suffering from the disease detected the presence of minute in
fusorial animalculze of that description. The gentleman who claims
to have made this discovery describes himself as a sufferer from " hay
fever" for twenty years, but is now entirely relieved from the malady.
His cure is to get a saturated solution of sulphate of quinine in water,
in the proportion of one part of quinine to 740 of water, lie down
upon his back, dip a small camel's hair brush into the solution, apply
the brush to the inside of the nostrils, moving the head about gently
so as to make sure that the fluid reaches all parts of the nostrils until
it is felt in the throat. He describes the relief as immediate. and says
that three applications a day, when threated by a return of the dis
ease, is sufficient to prevent a return.
DR. EDWARD SMITH, F.R.S., by experiments upon himself, finds
that different kinds of muscular exertions are attended with agreater
or less amount of vital change (tissue metamorphosis) in the ratio
represented by the following table, which he bases upon the increased
volume of air inspired under the several circumstances mentioned.
The lying posture (devoid of muscular efi'ort) being repre
sented by ........................... ......... ....... .. 1.00
The sitting posture, will be represented by.. 1.18
Reading aloud or singing ..................................... .. 1.26
The standing posture .......................................... .. 1.33
Railway travelling, in the lst class... .. 1.40
n u :1 2d :1 I. 50
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O G) I i
MENTAL AFFECTION-S.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A FEW OF THE REMEDIES.
BY F. R. MOORE, M. D., St. Louis, Mo.
JVux V0m.:—A kind of fainting feeling, with nausea and
flushes of heat, going off when lying down.
Compare, Acon., Ammo-m., Arm, Ara, Cal. card, Caps”
90 The Cholera of 1873. [Nov.,
China, [gn., Mar. ac'z'd, Opium, P/zos., Puls., (pecan, Lac/1.,
Charm, Sulplz.
Nat. Ilium—He likes to dwell on past unpleasant occur
rences, with depression of spirits.
Compare, Arm, Ars., Carb. veg, C/zz'na, Lyc., Nux. 21.,
Pals.
Puls.:—Early in the morning, depression of spirits and
full of cares about domestic affairs. ‘
Compare, Agar., Ant. 01, Arm, Aur. 112., Bell, Com, ($12.,
Lye, Lac/1., $217., Sulp/z.
C/zelz'donz'um.:—Full of sad thoughts about the present
and the future ; cannot remain long in any one place.
Compare, 7711921., 52411712. a., Opii.
Lycop.:—VVeeps the whole day; cannot calm herself;
worse from four to eight o'clock, P. M. -
Compare, Ars., BU, Cal. card, Crap/2., Plum, Pals, Sep,
52'].
ARSENICUM ALBUM.
Arsenlous Acid.
ASSAFCETIDA.
Gum Resin of Farah.
ASARUM EUROPZEUM.
Asambacca. Haselwurz.
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA.
wua Indigo.
Menstruationr—Too soon and too profuse.
Leucorrhma,—Acrid, fetid leucorrhoea from ulcerated
vagina and OS uteri; virulent leucorrhoea with frequent
miscarriages. , -
GOnCOmitantS.—Sleeplessness ; she cannot go to sleep
because “cannot get herself together;” her head feels as
though it were scattered about, and she tosses in bed to get
the pieces together; dull, stupyfying headache; soreness,
as if in the brain. Great dryness of the mouth and tongue
in fevers; tongue coated, dry and brown; pasty tongue,
1873,] Therapeutics of Uterine Discharges. 99
heavily furred; putrid offensive breath; violent, colicky
pain in the hypogastrium, before stool.
BARYTA CARBONICA.
Carbonate of Baryta.
BELLADONNA.
Deadly Nightshade.
BOOK NOTICES.
THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE WAR
of the Rebellion (1861—65), prepared in accordance with Acts of
Congress, under the direction of Surgeon-General J. K. Barnes,
U. S. A., Washington. Government Printing Office, 1870.
We have received from the office of the Surgeon-Gene
ral, for. deposit in the library of the Hahnemann College,
copies of Part First of the Medical, and of Part First of
the Surgical History of the War. ~The former of these
ponderous folios is devoted wholly to the medical history '
. of the war, and consists of a series of statistical tables
presenting a summary view of the facts embodied in the
monthly reports made to the Surgeon-General, with regard
to the sickness, deaths, and discharges during the four
years of the war, with an appendix containing reports of
medical directors and other officers, and contains many
maps and plans of battle fields, making altogether a volume
of 1091 pages. _
Part First, of the Surgical History, makes a volume of
650 pages of letter-press. In this are found many statis
tical tables, besides chapters on injuries of the head,
face, neck, spine and chest; each of these chapters being
I14 Book Notices. [Nov.,
CROWDED OUT.
NOTICES of the following works are crowded out of the
present number :
Repertory of the Materia Media, for the Eyes, by E.
\V. Berridge, M.D.
Quarantine on the Southern and Gulf Coasts, by H.
E. Brown, M.D. ‘
The Application of the Principles and Practice of Hom
oeopathy to Obstetrics, by H. N. Guernsey, M. D.
Taking Cold the Cause of half our Diseases, by John
Hayward, M.D.
The Dependence of Life on Decomposition, by Henry
Frecke, M.D.
An Appc‘al to Physiologists and the Press, by H. Frecke,
M.D.
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OF
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
THE late Dr. Nelaton, the eminent French surgeon, left a fortune
valued at $1,400,0co.
THIRTY-SEVEN young ladies have matriculated in the Medical De
partment of the University of Michigan.
THE National Foundling Hospital, at Moscow, is said to cost
$3,000,000 a year, and to contain 10,000 babies.
THE Oldest Lunatic Asylum in America, is at Williamsburg, Va.
It was opened October 11th, 1773. There is but one older institution
ofthe kind in Europe.
DR. J. R. LOUIS, of the Sanitary Commission, in India, states that
in all the cases of Chyluria he has examined, minute aftive worm
like creatures were found in the blood.
THE FIRST COURSE of Lectures on Anatomy, in the University of
Edinburgh, illustrated by a dissection of the human body, was given
in 1697, and was completed in ten leélures.
MEDICAL EDUCATION or WOMEN.—Miss Jex Blake has recently
read a paper before the Social Science Association, at Norwich, Eng
land, in which sl e ably defended the affirmative of this question.
THE ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.-The Chamber of Commerce, of
Galveston, Texas, has appointed a commission to make an exhaust
ive investigation into the origin or importation of yellow fever. The
result of their labors will be published.
FEMALE PROFEs50RS.—~The University of Bologna has had three
female professors in its Medical Faculty: Dorotia Bacca, Professor of
Medicine, in 1400; Anna Mazzolini, Professor of Anatomy, in 1760;
and Maria della Donne, Professor of Midwifery, in 1800.
NEW BOOKs.—Bcericke and Tafel have issued the following new
works this fall: Guernsey‘s Obstetrics; Second Edition. Burt's
Characteristic Materia Medica; Second Edition. And Bonning
hausen's Intermittent Fever. Translated by A. Korndoerfer, M. D.
YELLOW FEVER.—This disease has been prevailing for two months
past, at Shreveport, and is now prevailing in Memphis, Tenn. In
the former place, a city of about five thousand inhabitants, halfofwhom
have fled since the outbreak of the disease, there have been over
six hundred deaths, a mortality representing one fourth of the re
maining population ! -
120 Persona/s. [Nov., 1873.
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CLINICAL MEDICINE.
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
BY A. C. COWPERTHWAIT, M. D., of Nebraska City.
VERIFIED CHARACTERISTICS.
BY G. R. KNIGHT, M.D.
NEURALGIA.-BELL., SEPIA.
BORAX VERRETA.
Blborate of Soda.
BOVISTA.
Pufl' balls.
BROMINE.
Menstruation.—Too frequent and too profuse, the flow
being bright-red blood; passive haemorrhage, attended
with great exhaustion; menstruation supressed.
Before Menstruation.—Headache, pain in the fore
head, with asensation when stooping, as if the eyes would ~
fall out. Violent, contraEtive spasms on the appearance of
the menses.
During Menstruation—Violent, contraétive spasm
in the abdomen, beginning previous to, or at the commence
ment of the flow, and continuing some hours after it is fully
developed, with subsequent soreness of the abdomen.
Emissions of large quantities offlatus duringr the menses.
Pains in tlte abdomen and small of the lack; soreness in
the vagina.
Leucorrhaea.—Constant leucorrhoea.
Concomitants.—Cheerful mind, very active, disposed
to mental labor. Sad, low spirited, and out of humor. Illu
sions of sight. Weak and worn~out feeling after all pain has
ceased; great exhaustion; very drowsy in the daytime,
especially toward evening, when reading. Sleep disturbed
by unpleasant dreams, suchflas of quarrels, murders, dead
bodies, and long journeyings. Headache, especially in the
left side; pain in the sinciput, worse in the hot sun, going
off when in the shade; headache from drinking milk; feel
ing of heat in the face; darting pain through the left eye;
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a sensation, when stooping, as though the eyes would fall
out. Pressure in the stomach as from a stone; colic as if
the abdomen would burst; sharp stitches in the left breast.
Much rattling in the larynx when coughing. Palpitation of
the heart. Swelling and induration of glands; hard swel
ling in ovarian region ; dull, and constant-pain in left ovary.
Lack ofsensibility, feeling, during coition. Blind, intensely
painful varices, worse from the application of cold water.
Adapted to females with light hair, blue eyes, fair skin,
and those affeéted with diseases 0f the chest.
BRYONIA ALBA.
White Bryony
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CORRESPONDENCE. '
Prof. Morgan.
DEAR Docronz—The 12th and 13th of this month,I
spent at Indianapolis with our State Institute, and a royal
good time we had too. Dr. Eggert, whose guest I had the
honor to be, is one of the most enthusiastic workers I ever
knew. Notwithstanding a yearly business of about $13,000,
he devotes a great deal of time to study. His medical
library is extensive, and up to date, he takes and reads
sixteen medical periodicals; American, English, German
and French. Materia Medica is his hobby, and I think he
is the best teacher I ever knew.
I asked him about how to handle remittents. He, too,
finds it often difficult to prevent-the disease running into
intermittent.* His main remedies this season, are Gelsem.
and Bryonia, in early stage, and often sufficient to complete
the cure. He gives his remedy allthe time, not merely when
the fever is lowest. This is my plan also; have never tried
the latter.T I am certain that the proper drug administered
in repeated doses during height of fever, will tend to
shorten the febrile stage and lengthen the remissions.
Both the cases I have taken notes of were cured with
Gelsem, and the indications were such as you gave me
nearly two years ago. I think the great prostration, the hest
indication for its use in many diseases, and especially in
fevers. We also find the drowsy stupid condition with
little thirst, and the crimson face.
When there is a tendency to typhoid, Bry. has helped
me out almost every time this season. Lately Rhus tox.
did the same. The indications for their use are such as
we all know well. The dreams of both these remedies are
of importance in the seleétion. Dr. Eggert thinks the
mental symptoms of the highest importance. Last year,
154
1873, J Editorial Department. ' 155
But what an introduction to the second article, what an admission
as to the doubtful competency of this Board of Examiners, have we
in the last paragraph ! How little better will it serve the public than
the poorest of college-faculties, if the following sentences mean any
thing; and we would not accuse their author of a meaningless ver
bosity ! He says: “There is danger that much of the good which a
State Board of Examiners might produce, if rightly constituted, may
be prevented by the construflion of the Board itself. The Board, to
have any weight, should be made up from the ablest men in the various
departments of our profession; otherwise, it becomes the broadest
farce and sinks below the level of contempt. If the student is to en
counter mediocrity, he will prefer meeting it in college faculties to en
countering it allied with stupidity in State Boards." But perhaps,
when this was written, the members of the State Boards had not yet
been designated. Still, in our humble opinion, no set of rusty
doctors, half-of them provincial, and none of them teachers, is half
so competent to examine, as the metropolitan physicians who, as‘
teachers, constantly give themselves to'the special studies involved.
We have yet to be convinced that the faculty of any college, of
any school, is not a fairly representative body. Self-interest is about
as strong in dictating the selection of professors as it can be in any
other particular, and as the writer has shown, good students, and we
may particularly say, homoeopathic students, go, as a matter of busi
ness, tofwhatever college will best teach them their profession ; (except
the foolish few whom appearances, as already remarked, may divert
to their hurt, as it does in too many cases in all spheres of life). We
speak particularly of our own school because, whilst holding the largest
charity for every true man of the other school, we are yet, notwith
standing the labors of the [Medical Union, firmly of the belief that
theie is a dgflen‘nre, of vast import to humanity.
But these reflections are proper rather to the tenor of the second
article. And here again, we find another closely following, full of
(deserved) praise of the Boston University Medical Faculty, which
we find it difficult to reconcile with such splenetic phrases as the fol
lowing : “ There is not a medical college in existence in this country
that does not include among its faculty some who are notoriously in
competent for the positions they hold, either from positive ignorance
or from lack of teaching ability, and generally from both. Upheld
by the force of one or two eminent names, these faculties issue their
announcements and attract as many students as possible to attend on
the instruction of incompetent teachers."
How much all this sounds like the “ ancient clarion " of the politi
cal "outs!" How much of the ring of a disappointed ambition,
how much of the plaint of neglected merit! Of course, the writer
156 Editorial Department. [Dec.,
has refused numerous invitations to become a professor, and would
never serve with such men as now are professors, on any conditions.
There are many such, unhappily standing about the doors of every
college, of every School. One can but wonder, that such signal
ability has not organized itself, as signal ability has successfully done
before now, under our liberal laws, as a rival school—and surely,
on business principles, its success would long ere this have rendered
such a tirade needless. ‘
But the writer avers that “ when the faculty grant a diploma, they
certify not only to the ability and learning of the candidate, but also
to the learning and ability of themselves. Thus it happens that
degrees are easily obtained. This would be amusing if it were not
disgraceful."
The last sentence is our sorrowful comment on that which precedes
it. Is it not, however, very plausible that professors will certify to an
_ignoramus as the work of their hands, in order to certify to their own
quality I" .
He continues :—“ In their hands the honor of the profession has
been placed for safe keeping. * * * * They have accepted the
trust. * * * We have supported them by sending students, by
contributing time and money, and by permitting them to represent
the profession." (We give him the credit of impartially including
the best and oldest of the old school colleges). And again :--“What
are the medical colleges? Are they the masters or the servants of i
the profession? * * * They are in fact servants of the profession.
As servants, then, is it reasonable that they should furnish their own
testimonials of ability and charafter? * * * The facts of the
case are so plain that there is no necessity for a confession on
their part of a betrayal of trust. None are so well aware ofothe
general incompetence of medical teachers, of the deficiencies of
medical education, and the worthlessness of medical diplomas as
the faculties of these very colleges, and they must meet this question
of ahigher education, either by silence or evasion. Meanwhile, * * *
we must agitate * * * until we force the colleges to adopt such
methods and such men as will meet the wants of the profession."
It is comforting to remember what excellent company we are in,
when we get such a pen-lashing as the above. In view of this, we
ask no revival of the “ducking-stool." .
The order ofthe day is reform. Heaven speed the work, in medi
cine as well as politics. We can suggest a very short route, at least
to medical reform; viz. : make it pay. Organize a fund which will
at once prove the greatness of your sincerity, and gain the material
power which always secures desired service. Guarantee to such
colleges as may adopt your plans, so liberal an endowment, condi
1873.] Editorial Department. 157
tioned thereupon, that the inevitable withdrawal of pecuniary support,
by the hasty and superficial doctors with whom, you tell us, we have
crowded the profession, may not bankrupt and destroy us. And
give us the power fittingly to rebuke such members of “ the profes
sion," as may beg us to admit ignorant students and graduate them
without study. But to this, honesty and self-respect compel us,
without your support.
And we by no means admit the justice, not to say decency of the
foregoing indiétment. We speak knowingly, only of our own, the
Hahnemann College, but in all charity are bound to include the rest
until we know otherwise; and for ourselves can freely and con
scientiously say, that the character and success of our pupils and
graduates being the criterion, it is false in every essential particular.
Not that we are so conceited as to believe ourselves immaculate and
unimprovable ; far from it. But we can fearlessly appeal to the men
who hold our diploma, and say to them—“ye are our epistle." We
can assure the profession that that diploma is a certain evidence—so
far as human fallibility can make anything certain—of hard and
well-tested study, and of substantial knowledge of the healing art;
and the profession have a right to this assurance.
The charge of a betrayal of trust, we spurn with honest indigna
tion, born of the consciousness, that (as the faculty-minutes will also
prove, being ourselves trustees also), we have every year recently. so
remodelled our own body, as to put every man of us more exaftly in
his right place; have struggled for the best attainments ourselves,
and have secured the best talent obtainable in re-inforcement; in
creased the number of chairs, expended large sums for improved
facilities, assigning matriculation and graduation fees to this purpose ;
and in fine, have labored, not for mere personal ends, but frequently
at personal sacrifice, for the lasting honor and practical welfare of
the profession, and especially of our pupils, as well as for the public
good.
As to who are servants, we believe that true greatness consists in
service—that is our highest aspiration. But service does not imply
the right of those who are benefited by it, to abuse with wholesale
and false accusation, the men who do the work. And for what a
pittance! Think of the paltry sum received as the proceeds of a
winter's work, such as every medical professor is this moment
engaged in ! This is the fashion in which we have been “ supported"
by the writer and his friends. Surely he has earned the right to
falsify and decry! But we are still happy to be judged “by our
fruits."
And if the current criticism have any praflical value whatever, it
will speedily assume the same practical shape that is recognized as
158 Editorial Department. [Dec.,
needful to secure every other good object; large sums of money
must be forthcoming; for this, like every other, has its price. Fairly
enough, the price of such medical reform as we read about, is heavy;
and it is not in reason that medical teachers themselves should bear
any more of the brunt than they already do. * * *
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A CHILD was recently born in this city, weighing seventeen and
three-quarter pounds at birth. -
ANIESTHETICS.—On6 death in 2,872 cases occurs from the use of
chloroform, whereas, only one in 23,204. occurs from the use of ether.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON, an English surgeon, is said to have a
larger income from his practice, than any other member of the
profession.
DIsLOCATED NEeK.——A man was recently received into the Penn
sylvania Hospital With a dislocated neck. Reduftion was effected,
but the man lived for a few days only.
A New WORK ON SURGERY.—~Carle &'Grener, of New York, have
just issued Prof. Helmuth's System OfSurgery, which makes a hand
some volume of 1,228 pages, illustrated by 571 engravings on wood.
An extended notice will appear in the next number of this Journal.
PLANTS IN SLEEriNdROOM$.-Experiments made by Dr. Rodzie,
of the Michigan UniverSity, go to show that the carbonic acid was not
increased in a closed room, where there was more than 6000 plants ;
and consequently that a few plants in a sleeping room cannot be un
healthy as heretofore supposed.
A SUBSTITUTE for quinine is reported to have been discovered in
the echises plant, which grows abundantly in the Philippine Islands.
It is said to be a remedy for all kinds of fever, that the use of it in
volves none of the unpleasant after effects of quinine, and that it can
be prepared at one-half the cost of the latter drug.
160 Persona/s. ‘ [Dec., 1873.
NEW DISPENSARY.—A new Homoeopathic Dispensary has recently
been opened, No. 1520 North Fourth Street, and is already in a
most flourishing condition. The attending physicians are Jos. C.
Guernsey, M. D., Geo. H. Clark, M. D., Jas. Wandell, M. D., T. F.
Wood, M. D. Consulting physicians: Constantine Hering, M.
1)., Ad. Lippe, M.D., H. N. Guernsey, M.D., C. G. Raue, M.D.,
C. Carleton Smith, M.D., M. Macfarlan, M.l). Donations for the aid
of the dispensary will be received by either of the above.
CHAPPED HANDs.--Take common starch and grind it with a knife
until it is reduced to the smoothest powder, put it in a clean tin-box,
so as to have it continually at hand for use. Then, every time that
the hands are taken from the suds or dish-water, rinse them thor
oughly in clear water, wipe them, and while they are yet damp, rub
a pinch of the starch thoroughly over them, covering the whole sur
face. The effect is magical. The rough, smarting skin is cooled,
soothed and healed, bringing and insuring the greatest degree of
comfort and freedom from this by no means insignificant annoyance.
INVALID CLIMATES.—A comparison of four places of invalid resort,
Mentone, France, Aiken, South Carolina, Anaheim, in Southern
California and Colorado Springs, for the months of December,
January and February, has been made with the following results. I
Alamo. Clear days. Bad or cloudy.
Colorado Springs ......................... .. 70 2t
Aiken ..................................... .. 53 37
Anaheim... 81 9
Mentone... 67 23
Colorado Springs, is at the foot of Pike’s Peak, where the Govern
ment has just established a signal station. Last year the winter in
Colorado was an exceptionally severe one.
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AND .
CLINICAL CASES.
BY L. HOOPES, M. D., ofPottstown, Pa.
CLINICAL CASES.
BY R. s. PERKINS, M.D., of A’orfolh, Va.
CHILD of Mrs. S., aged twenty-seven months, has had a
diarrhoea all the summer and fall ; discharges frequent, pain
2 .
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202
THE
CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS.
Night Blooming Cereus.
CALCAREA CARBONICA.
Carbonate of Lima.
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA.
Phosphate of Lime.
CANTHARIS.
Spanish Fly.
CARBO ANIMALIS.
Animal Charcoal.
CLINICAL MEDICINE.
PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS.
SECOND DAY.
BUREAU OF SURGERY.
BUREAU OF OBSTETRICS.
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BOOK NOTICES.
DR. T. S. VERDI‘S REPORT AS SPECIAL SANITARY COM
missioner to European cities, Washington, D. C., 1873.
In April last, the Governor of the District of Columbia,
appointed Dr. Verdi as Special Commissioner to visit Euro
pean cities, for the purpose of investigating their Sanitary
laws and regulations, with the view of,obtaining informa
ti0n to assist in perfecting a sanitary system for that Dis
trict. This pamphlet contains the results of the doctor’s
investigations, and has been published by the Board of
Health as an appendix to their forthcoming annual report.
In the discharge of the duties of this Commission, Dr.
Verdi has accumulated much valuable information on
various sanitary questions, including the subjects of the
removal and utilizing of night-soil, garbage, etc.; slaughter
houses; unhealthy habitations; lodging and tenement
houses; public bath-houses; public wash houses, etc.,
etc., all of which is clearly set forth in this pamphlet.
Dr. Verdi has done himself credit, as well as performed
a valuable service to the community in this report.
tion of how quickly his composite machinery can work. Then the
agency which afls upon him must be taken into account, and also
the cause of that agency, for they both belong to the same order of
activities. When we look upon a source of illumination, as a candle
or a star, we are affected by something that is done at thOSe points.
The light originates in the vibration of the molecules of matter.
These vibrations are communicated to some medium which can
convey the impulses at a demonstrated velocity of nearly 200,000
miles per second. The luminous waves strike the retina of the eye,
and they are a ain translated into the molecular vibrations of nerv
ous matter, an the physical influence is turned into a sensation by
the organ of consciousness. The act of seeing thus involves the
constitution and action of the visible object, the mode of movement
of the force, the operation of the organ of vision, the changes of the
nerve-line, and the cerebral aft of recognition. There is a dynamic
chain connecting thought and the objeft seen through a nether
world of minuteness, but where all is correlated in a common scale
of relations; and, whenever we see any thing, this whole train of
transformations is implicated in the efl'ec't. The molecular tremors of
Sirius, the ethereal thrills of space, and the rhythmic swing of the
nervous elements, are but parts of a unified system of subsensiblc
dynamics. Bearing in mind, then, what is involved in a single aft
ofvision, let us now trace the course of experiment which has led to
the latest results regarding its duration."
He then proceeds to give an account of some ingenious experi
ments, by means of which the duration of a flash of lightning was
accurately measured; and finally, by a modification of the same, the
duration of the spark of the Leyden jar was most carefully ascertained.
As a result of these experiments, he observes: “'the duration of
the first aft of the eleftrical discharge is in certain cases only forty
billionths of a second, an interval of time just suflicient to enable a
ray of light to travel over forty feet.‘ The duration was twenty-five
times smaller than had ever before been measured. In this infinite
simal portion of time a strong and distinct impression upon the retina
is made, so that ' the letters on a printed page are plainly to be
seen; also, if a polariscope be used, the cross and rings around the
axis of crystals can be observed with all their peculiarities.‘ Nor is
this all; 'as the obliteration of the micrometric lines could only take
place from the circumstance that the retina retains and combines a
whole series ofimpressions whose joint duration is forty billionths of
a second, it follows that a much smaller interval of time will suffice
for vision. If we limit the number of views of the lines presented to
the eye in a single case to ten, it would result that four billionths of
a second is sufficient for human vision.'
" We saw at the outset how much an act of vision involves, and
we have now some idea of how long it takes. Ifthe discharge of the
thunder-cloud occupies, as was stated, the one five-hundredth of a
second, the ‘ interviews“ of our philosopher with the ' amber-spirit‘
were at least fifty thousand times 'quicker than lightning.“ "
SOUTHERN HOMCEOPATHIC DISPENSARY.—Thi5 institution was
opened on the I5th of December, at 1314 Bainbridge Street. It 15
under the management of the Homcnopathic Hospital, the attending
physicians being]. Arthur Bullard, M.D., and E. B. Stephens, M.D.
It is already doing a flourishing business.
200 Persona/s, etc. [I1111-. I874
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
MORTALITY OF PniLADnLPHIA.-The total deaths in the City
during the year 1872, were 20,544, while in the year 1873, they were
but 16,776, showing a difference of 3,768, in favor of the year just
closed.
FISH DIET.-—The theory that fish diet is promotive of brain work,
is supported by the {aft that seals and otters, which live exclusively
on fish, are among the most intelligent of animals, while storks and
other aquatic birds are equally distinguished among the feathered
tribe. ~
JAconI’s FOOD FOR CHILDREN, is prepared by cracking a tea
spoonful of barley in a coffee mill, then boiling fifteen minutes in a
gill of water, with a little salt. Then strain, and,»for a young child,
add one-half as much cow‘s milk as there is of the barley water,
sweeten, and give warm from bottle. If the bowels are costive, use
oat meal in place of barley.
SLEEP As A MEDIctNE.—The cry for rest has always been louder
than the cry for food. Not that it is more important, but is often
harder to obtain. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two
men or two women, otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the best,
will be the most moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep Will do much
to cure irritability of temper, peevishness. uneasiness. It will restore
to vigor an overworked brain. It will build up and make strong a
weary body. It will cure the headache. It will cure the heartache.
It will cure a broken spirit. It will cure sorrow. Indeed we might
make a long list of nervous and other maladies that sleep will cure.
The cure of sleeplessness requires a clean, good bed, sufficient exer
cise to produce weariness, pleasant occupation, good air and not
too warm at room, a clear stomach, clear conscience and avoidance
of stimulants and narcotics. For those who are over-worked, hag
gard, nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we commend the adoption
of such habits as shall secure sleep; otherwise life will be short,
and what there is of it sadly imperfeft.-- Tlze Science qf [frail/z.
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INDIGO IN EPILEPSY.
BY L. M. KENYON, M. D., ofBufialo, N. Y.
the boy some six weeks, using Bell, Cale. card, Cina,
Ignatin, Hyos., Sulp/i., but with no results. One day in
conversing with his mother, she remarked, that oqfoie he
had these attacks, he was of such a furious disposition,
excitable, easily angered; since then, he had become so
mild and even timid, and that now, if he went a few days
beyond the usual time without a recurrence, he would
show his old disposition again. I gave him that day, May
3d, Indigo, 3d centesimal, in two grain doses, four doses a
day; the boy continued to take it for nearly a month, each
week dropping off one dose a day, and he never had another
convulsion. In November following, he had typhoid
fever with mild delirium, which ran its course in about
three weeks; during this fever, the boy passed a large
number of lumbrici, in fact, they crawled away from him
and would be found in the bed, and several times, he
pulled one out of his throat. The next season the boy
went to school, and I knew him four years after, and he
remained a sound healthy boy, his old time disposition
returned, and his mental powers were as good as most
boys of his age.
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THE
CARBO VEGETABILIS.
Vegetable Charcoal.
Menstruation,—Premature and profuse, or too scanty,
with pale blood. The menstrual discharge is l/zie/e, am'd
corrosive, and has a strong smell.
Before Menstruation—Abdominal spasms; colic from
morning till night; headache; itching of the skin about
the neck and shoulders; leucorr/zwa and smarting at the
vulva.
During Menstruation.—Cutting pain in the abdomen,
drawing pain from the abdomen to the small of the back ;
pains in the back and all the bones, as if bruised ; vomiting.
Violent contraétive headache; colic especially when the
blood ceases to flow; burning in the hands and soles of
the feet; apthze at the pudendum. itching, owning sore
ness, and smarting at the vulva and anus; swelling of the
pudendum, red sore spots about the parts resembling little
ulcers, with much burning and itching; menstruation
accompanied with leucorrhoea ofa mucous, whitish, milky
or thick, yellowish discharge, Or it may be greenish, pro
$74,] Therapeutics of Uterine Discharges. 223
fuse, and excoriating. At the time the menses should
appear, violent itching of old tettery eruptions. Passive
metrorrhagia, with great itching at the anus and vulva.
Leucorrhma,——Morning leucorrhoea, discharge very
acrid, excoriating the parts; leucorrhoea before the men
ses, white leucorrhoea, corrosive, tliick, greenisli leucorrhoea,
or yellowish-white; leucorrhoea afler mic'iurition; discharge
of white mucus from the vagina; profuse leucorrhoea, milk
colored; excoriating the parts ; flowing only in the morning
when rising, disappearing during the remainder of the day;
oostinate leucorrhoea; oloody mucus from the vagina; sore
ness and rawness of the vulva during the leucorrhoea.
Concomitant5.—Angnisli and restlessness, especially in
the afternoon, from 4 to 6 P. M.; dread of ghosts; falls
asleep late, owing to restlessness of the body; very drowsy
in the day time. Great and sudden weakness of memory
periodically; slow ideas; extraordinary rush of voluptuous
thong/its; oppressive headache, spasmodic tension in the
brain ; heaviness as if a weight were on the eyes; vertigo
when moving the head quickly; sensitiveness of the scalp
to pressure; falling out of the hair; rush of blood to the
head. Drawing from the nape of the neck upwards and
forwards.
Greenis/i color, or great paleness of the face; cracked
lips ; chronic looseness of the teeth, gums recede from the ’
teeth and bleed easily. Bleeding of the nose from straining
at stool.
Desire for coffee; food has a saltish taste; aversion to
meat and fat things; weakness of digestion, the plainest
food distresses her; flatulent distension of the abdomen,
particularly after eating, as though it would burst.
Redness and burning, or rawness in the throat; profuse
and constant salivation ofstringy saliva ,- frequent and violent
eructations ; evening vomiting. Emissions of large quanti
ties offlatns, inodorous orpntrid. She eructates involunta
rily tough glairy mucus, which runs continually from the
mouth; contractive, or burning, aching, cardialgia; bruised
224 Therapeutic: 0f Uterine Discharges. [Feb
feeling in the hypochondria; stitching pain in the region
of the liver; pinching in the abdomen, shifting from the
left to the right side; flainlent colic; burning hemorrhoids ;
stinging, itching and burning at the anus; constipation,
with hard, tough, scanty stools.
Thin, pale-colored, or light-colored slimy stools; slimy
fecal diarrhoea in scrofulous persons; frequent and anxious
urgingr to pass urine; nocturnal emissions; urine dark-red,
as if mixed with blood. Varicose veins in the vulva, also
about the external genitals, itching, painless ulcers on the
pudendum.
Dry nasal catarrh; evening, fluent coryza; sneezing,
dyspnoea; laryngeal and tracheal phthisis; morning and
evening, hoarseness; cough in the evening wit/rout expec
toration ; sputa has an unpleasant odor, and a sour or salt
ish taste; cough, with greenish or purulent, sometimes
brownish expectoration in the morning; great and very
lasting lzaarseness; burning pressure and itching in the
chest; palpitation of the heart; feeble pulse; flashes ofheat;
rheumatic, drawing, tearing pains in the muscles of the
back and neck; burning pains in the limbs; tearing pains
in the forearm, wrist and fingers; icy cold fingers. Lame
drawing pains in the lower limbs; cramps in the legs, and
especially in the soles of the feet; numbness of the limbs;
the limbs go to sleep easily; great debility and weakness
from the least exertion. Lymphatic swellings, with sup
puration and burning pains.
CARBOLIC ACID.
Menstruation—Delayed and profuse, and the discharge
ofa darker color than usual.
After Menstruation—Great nervous irritability and
headache.
Leucorrhtea ——C0pious discharge of fetid, greenish,
acrid matter from the vagina, with uterine catarrh. Drag
18M] Therapeutics of Uterine Discharges. 225
CASTOREUM.
Castor.
CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES.
Squaw Root.
CAUSTICUM.
Kali Causticum.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
DR. Lrvmosrone.—News said to be authentic, has been received
of the death of this celebrated African traveler.
THE SIAMESE TWINS—Th6 bodies of these twins have been brought
to this city, and the mystery of their peculiar union will soon be
solved by a post-mortem examination.
Tue MEDICAL UNION commences its second volume, with new
type and paper, making a decided improvement in its appearance.
The name of H. M. Paine, M.D., appears also added to the corps of
editors.
NORTHEASTERN HOMCEOPATHIC DISPENSARY.—-This institution
makes the following report for the first three months of its opera
tions: Number of patients, 850. Prescriptions, 1,867. Out-door
visits, 180.
WEIGHT or Brutus—The brain of Prof. Agassiz, was found to
weigh fifty-three and one-quarter ounces; Cuvier's, weighed sixty
four ounces; Dr. Abercrombie’s, sixty-three; and Dupaytren's, the
great French Surgeon, sixty-two and-a-half ounces.
BUTTERMILK.—-A paper was recently read before the French
academy extolling the virtues of buttermilk. It claims for this article
a good share of the acid which destroys the incrustations which form
on the arteries, cartilages and valves of the heart, and believes a
constant use of buttermilk will free the system from troubles which
inevitably cause death between the seventy-fifth and one hundredth
years of man‘s life.
1374-] Persona/s, Etc. 239
OVARIOTOMY BY ENUCLEATION.—Pr0f. R. Ludlam, in the January
number of the U. 5. Medical and Surgical Yournal, reports a suc
cessful removal of an ovarian tumor, by this method. The patient
was twenty-two years old and a mother of one child. Upon opening
the abdominal cavity, adhesions were found of so extensive a char
acter, as to preclude the removal by the usual method. A slight
opening was made through the peritoneal covering of the tumor,
when, by a careful use of the handle of the scalpel and the fingers,
the cyst was finally turned out of its bed without the use of a single
ligature, or the loss of any blood. The patient made a good re
covery.
THE DRY EARTH METHOD OF TREATING EXCRETA.——Dr. Cun
ningham has proved the existence in cholera excreta of an animal
cule termed eug/enia, which is developed in countless myriads in
putrcfying cholera material. The most efficient of all agents in the
development and multiplication of euglenia is, undoubtedly, wet or
water sewage in hot climates. The real destroyer will be the system
of dry sewage. Dry earth, with the aid of vegetation, prevents all
further chemical change of an injurious nature. Our experience in
Lower Bengal proves the resultant to be a valuable manure, and the
same experience shows that in some jails which were formerly de
cimated by cholera the disease is now nearly unknown.-—-SAMUEL
LEAVITT, T/ze Sanz'larz'an, for February.
THE EFFICIENCY OF ENEMATA.—Gustav Simon ha! succeeded in
demonstrating that a stream of water forced into the reftum by means
of a syringe may be made to penetrate the entire length of the large
intestine, and possibly extend also into the small intestine. His ex
periments were performed upon two separate patients, each of whom
happened to have a fistulous opening in the ascending colon, near
its junction with the cacum.—Arc/zz'1/furKlzhzlrr/ze Chirurgie; from
Boston Medical and Surgical journal.
CASE OF NEURALGIA OF THE TESTES CURED BY ELECTRICITY.—
A young man free from all syphilitic disease experienced such intense
pain in the testes that he urgently asked Dr. Felippi to perform cas
tration. The case was carefully made out to be neuralgia, inde en
dent of any affection of the testicle or of any accumulation of ecal
matter, and in five sittings the patient was entirely cured. Dr. Felippi
made use of a weak and direct constant current.—-L‘1m;>arzz'ale, No.
16, 1873.
PERSONAL.
We would feel obliged lf our subscribers would send III for insertion, under this head, notices of removal:
marriage! or death: of Hmuoplthlc Physlclms.
m
OBITUARY.
Isaac JAMES, M.D.--This venerable and much esteemed member
of our profession has been taken away. He attained a ripe old age,
and was adtive, both in his profession and in the work of evangeliza
tion, until within a few years, when the infirmities of age made it no
longer possible for him to work. Even after he was obliged to re
linquish these aftive duties, he always had a cheerful word for all he
knew and saw, and never missed an Opportunity for droppinga
warning word to the careless, or an encouraging one to the well
doer.
The editor of the Hahnemannian Monthly, who is intimate with
the family, says : " Departed this life at his late residence in Bustle
ton, Philadelphia, on Thursday, January 22d, 1874., the Rev. Isaac
James, M.D., in the ninty-seventh year of his age. Dr. Isaac James,
was born at Radnor, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, at the ‘Old
Mansion Holise,‘ the home of his ancestors for three generations.
He graduated in medicine at the University of New York, in 1825,
and commenced the praétice of HomoeOpathy in 1844. He became
a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy in 1846. Dr.
James had the honor of being up to the time of his decease, ‘the
oldest methodist in the world,’ having joined that religious body in
1790. He was licensed to preach in 1800, and was therefore one of
the oldest ministers of that denomination. Dr. James was well and
hearty, and in possession of all his faculties, up to the age of ninety
four. From that time onward, he gradually failed in health and
strength, although he was about the house as usual, up to within a
few weeks of his death. He was a man of great aétivity of mind and
body, quick of thought and of remarkably rapid utterance. Dr.
‘James had a large family of children, sons and daughters; of the
former, were the late Dr. David James, Thos. P. James, now of '
Boston, one of the most celebrated botanists in the United States,
specially famous for his knowledge of lichens and mosses ; the late
John F. James, for more than a quarter of a. century, the arftuary of
the Girard Life, Annuity and Trust Company of Philadelphia, and
Samuel N. James, formerly a druggist of Philadelphia. Dr. Isaac
James, was the grand-father of Drs. Bushrod N. and John E. James,
of Philadelphia."
He leaves a widow, his second wife to whom he was married for
over thirty years, and who carefully watched over him during the
period of his adolescence.
During the last few weeks of his life, his memory at times became
unusually acute, and he conversed freely with his family about
scenes, incidents and individuals, that were familiar to him in his
early manhood days, retaining a wonderful memory of circumstances
whicdh it was thought had been entirely obliterated by age from his
min .
The American Journal
0}.“
i G} ' I I
SARTOR RESARTUS.
BY WM. H. BIGLER, M. D., ofPkz'lade/filzia.
CLINICAL CASES
CHRONIC OSTEO-ARTHRITIS.
BY F. E. HARPEI., M. D., ofDanw'llz, Pa.
INTERMITTENT FEVER.
101
101
THE '
THERAPEUTICS OF UTERINE DISCHARGES
BY HENRY Mln'rou, A. M., M.D.
CHAMOMILLA.
Common Chamomile.
CHINA.
Cinchona Ofl‘lcinnlis.
CICUTA VIROSO.
Water Hemlock.
Menstruation—Delayed.
During Menstruation.~—Tearing and Jerking in the os
cocc)/gis.
Concomitants.—Excessive moaning and howling; she
‘ does rash and absurd things ; she is violent in all her afiions,
and has strange desires. She gets excited and apprehensive
about the future. Wants to be entirely alone. She con
founds the present with the past; thinks she is a child
again.
, Epilepsy and catalepsy, where the attacks are very vio
lent. Spasms of pregnant or parturient women; eclampsia;
hysteric spasms. She lies in a state of weakness and in
sensibility like one dead. Lascivious dreams. Repeated
movements of the head, such as twitching, jerkings, and
throwing the head backward ; violent jerkings of the mus
1374,] Therapeutics of Uterine Discharges. 261
cles ; all motion is convulsive. Violent shocks through the
head, arms and legs, which causes them to jerk suddenly.
Semi-lateral headache; heaviness of the brain; violent
vertigo, so that she falls down; contraftions 0f the pupils,
followed by considerable dilatation ; she sees things double.
Deadly paleness of the face; grinding of the teeth; ina
bility to swallow, the throat seems to be closed. Perverted
taste, she desires to eat coal and chalk. Burning pressure
at the stomach. Frequent emissions of urine, propelled
. with force.
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA.
Black Snake'root.
CORRESPONDENCE.
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT.
The Twenty-sixth Annual Commencement of the Hahnemann
Medical College of Philadelphia, was held at the Academy of Music,
on the 10th of March, at 12 o'clock, M. This immense building, as
usual on such occasions, was crowded in every part. Hassler‘s Or
chestra entertained the audience with an excellent selection of music
for a. half hour previous to the entrance of the Trustees, Faculty and
students at 12 o'clock.
After the overture of "P_oet and Peasant," by the orchestra, the
exercises were opened by prayer, by the Rev. H. W. Warren, D. D. ;
when, after another piece of music, Prof. J. C. Morgan proceeded to
give the Valedictory address which accompanies the present number
of' the Journal, and which will be found to contain much valuable
statistical matter, besides sound advice to the graduates.
275
276 Editorial Department. [iviar..
Following the address, the orchestra gave a grand selection from
“ W'z'llz'am D11,” when the President of the College, Howard Mal
colm, l).D., L.L. D., proceeded to confer the degree upon the fol
lowing candidates :
v MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
PERSONALS.
We would (eel obliged if our subscribers would send us for insertion, under this hull. lotlcu at remavnll
marriage! or death: of Homoeopathic Pb; sicians.
_ OBITUARY.
MILES W. WALLENS, M. D., died at Somerville, N. 1., of pulmon
ary consumption, Jan. 4th, 1874. Dr. Wallens graduated from the
Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania, in the Spring of 1862, and
soon after settled in practice at Woodstown, N. 1., where he was held
in great esteem for his many sterling qualities of head and heart, In
manners he was unobtrusive and modest, qualities which not unfre
quently indicate real excellence. For several years past it had been
too evident to his friends that his health was declining. He removed
from \Voodstown to Somerville in the hopes of improved health, but
the change, if at_ all beneficial, was of brief duration. He lived long
enough to endear himself to quite a large circle of friends in his new
home, who will greatly miss his gentle but faithful ministrations.
Dr. Louis G. HATCH, of Minneapolis, Minn., died at Philadelphia,
March 61h, 1874, of angina maligna, aged 22. Dr. Hatch was the only
son of Dr. P. L. Hatch, of Minnesota. He attended his first course of
lectures in the Hahnemann Medical College, of this city, duringr the
winter of {871-2. The next year he spent in California in the study and
praftice of his profession, and returned to this city for his second course
in Otftober last. In the last week of the course he was suddenly
seized with an attack of malignant angina. The disease appearing
to be checked, he too early and imprudently resumed attendance
upon lectures. A relapse, with greatly aggravated symptoms fol
lowed; extensive sloughing took place; he became unable to swal
low or speak. Although nourished by enemata, great debility and
rapid prostration followed; hemorrhage set in, and nature succumbed.
Dr. Hatch was, by universal consent, acknowledged one of the
best students of his class. His superior scholarship, with his uniform
gentlemanly and high-toned conduct, won for him the respect and
esteem of every one with whom he came in contact, and his sad fate
touched deeply both his instructors and classmates, and cast a gloom
over the otherwise happy occasion of the annual commencement.
At a special meeting of tho Hahnemann Medical Institute, held in the lecture
room of the College building, Philadelphia, March 9, 1874, the following resolu~
tions were unanimously arlo ted:
Whereas, It has pleased ad, in His infinite wisdom, to remove from our midst
Louis GENE Haroa, of Minneapolis, Minn., our friend and fellow student; and
Whereas, We desire to ex ress our esteem for our departed classmate, who
both b gpneral conduct, an careful attention to ins duties while amongst us,
securei t e respect and approbation of all ; therefore \
Resolved, That we tender our every symp thy to the family who have been so
suddenly bereft of a. son and brother. -
Resolved, That we individually wear at. the College Uommencement, on March
10, 1874, a small bouquet draped in mourning, as a token of our loss.
Resolved, That the Secretary is hereby instructed to enter these resolutions
upon the records of the Society, to transmit a copy of the same to the family of
the deceased, and also to have them printed in the College Journal, the Minna
spells, and San Jose, 02.1., papers.
By order of the Society.
a. snowman rownsun'n, no.
JAMES R. nouns, PENN’A. ('ommitlee.
ous'ravus n. runs-Barnum, mon.
The American Iournal
101
A CALL
Upon all Homwopatlzic Physicians for f/reir Ca-opzra/fnu in tile
Proving of [Medicinal Subslances upon Healthy
Human Beings and Anz'ma/s.*
Homoeopathy can accomplish its task, to cure human
beings and animals of their diseases,- only in the measure
in which it has more or less exhaustively completed the
provings of medicinal substances upon the healthy organ—
ism, as regards the diseases artificially produced by them.
Homoeopathy is founded exclusively upon the ground of
these provings, and with their scarcity or discontinuance,
its further healthy development is arrested.
How could one even think of attempting to cure homoe
opathically, in all those cases for which the diseases, similar
thereto, [law not éem produced as yet'arlgficz'all] by means of
dnrg-pro'z/z'ugs either on lzealtlzy animals ar/mma/z wings ?
Thus, how could one, in case of the return of certain
diseases, such as Asiatic cholera, for instance, entertain
any hope of mastering that malady more and more surely,
if by provings he has not elaborated the more and moré
sharply defined characters of our present cholera- remedies
and their analogues.
However, what does it imply, by provings to elaborate
the more sharply defined charaéters of a remedy?
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perfectly in the arm and in the lower part of the leg; but
in carrying the bandage over the popliteal space the flexor
tendons prevent the artery being effectually compressed.
A firm pad in the space would probably answer the pur
pose.
To remove the bandage, it may either be unrolled by re
versing the action of the reel, or the twine connecting its
two ends may be cut with scissors—Lancet.
ZOZ .
PECULIARITIES OF HEADACHES.
BY D. S. KIMBALL, M. D., qf Sacketts Harbor, N. 1’.
Cup" Coccul., Hyos., 1gn., and Tart. amen, give involun
tary nodding, shaking, or trembling of the head.
Cup—The head inclines to bend forward.
Cin, Cup, Dzlg‘itq Hell, Hep, Ign. and Sambun—The
head is bent backward.
.3744 Therapeutics zy‘ Uterine Discharges. 293
Cina. and Sgt—The head falls to the side and is jerked
backward.
Caulk—Burning in the sides ascending from the neck.
C/zelid.—Cola'ness in the occiput, ascending from the}
:neck.
Cuprzmz.-—Drawing from one side to the other.
Ferr.--Sensation-of drawing to the right side.
Bell, 119., Gels, Glam, Sang, Verat. win—Give headache
ascending from the neck upward into the brain.
Verat. al.—Headache, with stiffness of the neck.
Cz'mz'c. rac.—-—Fullness in the vertex, throat, and stiffness
of the neck.
Benz. ac.—Gives pressure on the vertex, extending to
the spine. .
Phyto. den—Pain in back of head and neck; pain in the
back of neck, running down the spine.
ingOleum. {lg—Headache
a strange, extending down the neck, leav~I
muddled feeling.
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THERAPEUTICS OF UTERINE DISCHARGES.
BY HENRY Mmrox, A. M., M. D.
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA.—Continuea'."
Black Snakeroot.
C I N A.
, Wormseed.
C I N N A B A R I S.
Red Sulphuret of Mercury.
CINNAMON.
Cussiae Cortex.
COCCULUS.
0
Indian Cockel.
COCCUS CA'CTI
Menstruation—Too early and too profuse discharge
of dark thick blood.
During Menstruation—A sensation of constriction
and tension about the abdomen, and of something ascend
ing toward the stomach, which makes her think she will
vomit.
Leucorrhma.——Consisting ofm ucous, preceded by draw
ing, thrusting pain in the inguinal, vesical and pubic.
region.
Concomitan s .Irritable,ill-humored,giddiness. Sweet
ish metallic taste in the mouth. Canine hunger; dry,
brown-coated tongue. A sensation as if a plug were
lodged in the throat. Spasmodic, empty eruEtations; a
sensation as if something indigestible were lying in the
stomach. Frequent miéturition. Sediment in urine like
brick dust.
. Morning cough, at first dry, then followed by expeéto
ration of viscid mucus. Frequent waking during the
night with great excitement. Vivid dreams. 7
[Ha/tncmannion Monthly/.1
' Skin grafling.——Dr. J. C. Burgher has successfully trans
- planted portions of skin from the arm ofa white person to
that of a negro, who by an accident had a large portion of
the arm stripped of its integument, and by the aid of a
current of eleétricity, induced by placing a. piece of zinc on
302 Abstratt of Homaopathic Literature. [Apr-fl,
the healthy skin and a similar piece of sheet silver on the
grafts, then connecting them with isolated copper-wire, had
a variagated cuticle produced with beautiful white patches
surrounded by dark integument. “The smaller the pieces
used for skin grafting the more satisfactory the process."
[Medical Investigator]
Experience with Potencies and Doses—Dr. A. L. Fisher,
says of the following remedies :—
Actea race/nosa failed in the 200th to benefit cases of
cerebro-spinal meningitis, given on account of the severe
jerking pain in the back of the head and neck with opis
thotonus, when the 2d X cured promptly. In all cases
where symptoms are reflex from uterine irritation the
200th is preferable, .
Cannahis sat—After repeated failures to cure gonorrhoea
with a dilution of the remedy, he finds one to five drops of
the tincture every four to eight hours to be nearly specific.
Kreosotmnjd, has stopped obstinate vomituritu in a child
suffering with cholera-infantum, and cured the case; whilst
in other similar cases the higher do no good.
Gelsenzinuin He gives low in cerebro-spinal meningitis,
high in intermittents, and in involuntary seminal emissions.
304 N. T. State Homeopathic Med. Soniely. [Aprir
201
CORRESPONDENCE.
Boston, March 30th, 1874.
DEAR JOURNAL :-—-Called here on professional business,
I have “interviewed” a number of our professional brethren,
and sisters, too. At Dr. Talbot’sI met Drs. Woodbury
and Bell, of Maine; called on Dr. David Thayer, (by the
the way, I hope our doétors will use his remedies for
organic heart disease, [Bram] and for gall-stone [China]).
Had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with Mrs. Mercy
B. Jackson, M. D., and Mrs. Mary J. Safford Blake, M. D.,
both of whom seem to be well patronized, and deservedly.
Visited the college; saw two gentlemen disseéting at one
table, and two ladies at another, with nothing but science
between them. And all their leétures are listened to in
common, with, as, friend Talbot says, the best efi'eét.
‘ Their session has, all say, been marked by perfeé’t
harmony and satisfaétion throughout. I did not think to
ask for the museum. Twenty-three leéturers attended the
Faculty meeting on Wednesday evening, including those
from abroad. The New England students have largely
come here, the past winter. I suppose as is the case with
allopaths everywhere, some will want to spend a winter at
least of their time, in Philadelphia.
Plans for a hospital building are drawn, and the fund is
to be increased by means of a “calico-party,” next Monday
310 Correspondence. I [April,
BOOK NOTICES.
NO SEX IN EDUCATION: OR, AN EQUAL CHANCE FOR
Both Girls and Boys. Being a Review of Dr. E. H. Clarkfs
“Sex in Education." By Mrs. E. B. Duffey. Philadelphia:
J. M. Stoddart 8: C0.
Seldom has a work, prepared with so much care. and
containing upon first view, so many plausible arguments
for sustaining the peculiar theories of the author, been so
vigorously assailed, and so thoroughly demolished, as that
of “ Sex in Education,” by Dr. Clark of Boston. Starting
with the assumption that, as woman has a physical, (sexual)
organization different from man, her early training, both
mental and physical, must be different from his, and that
her invalidism is largely the result of attempts to give her
a man’s education, he labors to sustain this view by an
array of faéts, arguments and illustrations, many of which
have been turned against him with telling force, and others
easily shown to have no relevancy to the case.
One of the most effeétive protests to the views of Dr.
Clark, we find in the volume with the above title. Mrs.
Duffey, the author, wields a ready and effeétive pen, and,
taking a position direétly the opposite of that of Dr.
Clark—that the defeEtive health of our women is rather the
result of her receiving a different training, both physical and
intelleétual, from boys—in this review, she has,in our'opin
ion, fairly sustained her position, and shown that if “ a boy's
way of study means a limited number ofhours per day devot—
ed to lessons, these hours well divided by opportunities for
rest and recreation, if he is permitted and encouraged to“
strengthen his muscular system by frequent and vigorous
exercise in the open air—if his dress serves the purpose of
warmth and covering, and nowhere cramps and pinches,
nor by its fineness and flimsiness of texture and liability to
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GILcnRIsr's SURGICAL DISEASEs.—We learn that the sale of this
work has been such as to demand a new issue. We need scarcely
say that for all reasons we are glad of it. We hope it will not be a
mere reprint. Some time has elapsed since some of the matter was
written, and some matter of great importance we fail to find at all; all
ofwhich, it is due to say, ought to be brought up to date, in justice to
the demands of our cause, and the needs ofbusy men. Let us have
a reconstrufted and perfetted edition. Perfeftion! perfection! that
is what we want everywhere. M.
PERSONALS.
We would feel obliged if our unbucrlbers would and n! for insertion, under this head, notloos of removals .
marriage! or death: of Homoeopathic Physicians.
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COFFEA CRUDA.
Crude Cofl‘ea.
COLCHIUM. '
Meadow Saflron.
Menstruation—Too early.
During Menstruation—Snppression of the menses
which have just made their appearance, with dropsy of the
uterus, and sudden sinking of the vital forces.
Concomitants_-—Peevish ; absent‘minded. Disgust of
the smell of cooking meat Painful lacerating drawing in
the left side ofthe head. Bleeding of the nose. Great heat
of the body at night. Loss of appetite. [nereased secretion
of saliva, often profuse. Aversion to the smell offood. Great
thirst. Nausea with inclination to vomit. Burning in the
stomach, or icy coldness. Flatulent distension of the
stomach. Stools watery, jelly-like mucous, or bloody and
mingled with a stringy substance. Arthritic pains in the
joints. Gout. Urine dark and scanty, discharged in drops,
and despositing a whitish sediment.
COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS.
. Stone Root.
COLOCYNTl-IIS.
Bitter Cucumber.
CONIUM MACULATUM
Spotted Hemlock.
CREOSOTUM.
Creoaoto.
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[Hahnemannian Monthly]
E. W. South, M. D., reports the following interesting
case. Mrs. W., zet. 3o, complained of dull aching pain
(without tenderness) over the epigastric and right hypo
chondriac regions, accompanied by nausea and. frequent
paroxysms of vomiting ; pulse normal and bowels regular.
[pec., Nux a, Verat., Alb, Arsen. and Cuprutn afforded
no relief, although apparently well indicated. Arsenz'te
of Copper, 2x., in powders every two hours, cured the case
permanently and speedily.
[Medical Investigator]
Asthma; Lachesis.—Dr. C. L. Hart reports a case of
asthma, with the following symptoms: sharp pains through
the lungs with dyspnoea; pains and dyspnoea aggravated
by sitting ereet or by lying down; ameliorated by bending
forward and throwing the head back; constriétion in the
chest as if the lungs were being pressed up into the throat;
constriéted feeling like a cord about the neck; necessitating
loosening of the clothes at the neck and epigastrium.
After several remedies had proved themselves ineffeEtual,
Lachesis, 5m. afforded speedy relief.
(This case calls to mind, that of a middle aged lady of
leuco-phlegmatic temperament, who recently made appli
cation for “something to relieve her of violent attacks of
asthma.” Ars.,30, and 1pm., 30, afforded her no relief.
Her physician was now called to visit her, and obtained
from her the following symptoms: Asthmatic attacks
worse at night; violent paroxysms of cough with rather
'profuse expectoration ; dyspnoea always WOrse after sleep
ing; better when in the knee-elbow position with the head
buried in a pillow, in which position she assured him she
344 Special Notice. [May,
spent most of the night. She was in the fifth month of
her fifth pregnancy. Lac/c., 200, in water every hour
brought speedy relief.’ The same lady suffered from
asthma during a former pregnancy; the attacks were
worse after the first nap, rendering her unable to articulate
or move a muscle. Lachesis brought speedy relief of all
her sufferings, except a very unpleasant sticking sensation
in the region of the stomach, worse after eating. This
symptom remained to trouble her until after the birth of
her child, when it was forgotten for several months. Then
a hard lump was noticed in the right mammary gland,
through which there were occasional shooting pains; in
two weeks the lump had disappeared, and only a very
small nodule was visible beneath the integument. Being
satisfied that there was some foreign body there, the nodule
was grasped with a delicate pair of forceps, and a small
circular incision was made around their points just through
the skin, when an old rusty needle was removed. She
now remembered having had her mouth full of pins and
needles at one time, and thought she swallowed one just
as she was drawing in a full inspiration perparatory to
speaking.) B. F. B.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Thirty-first Anniversary and Twenty-seventh Session (y'the American
Institute of Hoinwopathy.
The Twenty-seventh Session of the American Institute
of Homoeopathy will be held at the INTERNATIONAL HOTEL,
.NIAGARA FALLs, N. Y., commencing TUESDAY, JUNE 9th,
1874, and continuing four days. The “ PRELIMINARY MEET
ING " will be held on the evening of Monday, june 8th, at
the same place.
Reports and papers will be received from the following
Bureaus, on the subjects indicated :—
Bureau ofMateria Jl/ea'ica, etc., T. F. Allen, M.D., Chairman,
3 East Thirty-third St., New York.
1874.] Special Notice. 345
SUBJECTS. I. Provings of Calabar Bean. 2. Verifications
of Lilium tigrinum. 3. The significance of Primary
and Secondary Symptoms. '
Bureau of Clinical Medicine. L. E. Ober, M.D., Chairman,
La Cross, Wis.
SUBJECT. Meningitis Cerebro-Spinalis.
Bureau of Obstetrics. J. C. Sanders, M.D., Chairman,
Cleveland, O.
SUBJECT. Puerperal Fever.
Bureau of Gynacology. S. R. Beckwith, M.D., Chairman,
Cincinnati, O.
SUBJECT. Uterine Hemorrhage.
Bureau of Padology. T. C. Duncan, M.D., Chairman, 287
West Randolph St., Chicago, Ill.
SUBJECT. Cholera Infantum.
Bureau of Surgery. E. C. Franklin, M.D., Chairman,
1402 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
SUBJgCT. Fractures and Dislocations.
Bureau of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. J. D. Buck,
M.D., Chairman, Cincinnati, O.
SUBJECT. The functions and disorders of the Lym
phatics.
Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics. T. S.
Hoyne, M.D., Chairman, 817 Wabash Ave., Chicago,
Ill.
Full reports from all homoeopathic medical societies
institutions and other organizations are requested, that a
complete report may be made to the Institute.
Bmeau of Psychological Medicine. G. W. Swazey, M.D.,
Chairman, Springfield, Mass.
I. Psychological'Diseases in Relation to Homoeo
pathy,by Dr. J. H. P. Frost. 2 Hospitals for the In
sane, their Organization and Management, by Dr. S.
Worcester. 3. Influence of the Mind in the Cure of
Disease, by Dr. T. L. Brown. 4. Psychical Nosology,
by Dr. Geo. F. Foote. 5. Popular Psychology, by
Dr. G. W. Swazey.
Bureau of Ophthalmology and Otology. M. Macfarlan, M.
D., Chairman, I 721 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
SUBJECTS. I. Cataraét. 2. Catarrhal Inflammation of the
Middle Ear.
3
346 Special Notice. [May,
CORRESPONDENCE.
Mr. Editor:
The undersigned members of the New Bureau of Dis—
eases of Children, believe that they could select no more
important subject for discussion at the next meeting of the
American Institute, than that of “ cholera infantum; its
nature, causes and treatment.”
To enable them to make such a report as the import
ance of the subject and occasion demands, we would most
respectfully but earnestly solicit the views, observations
and experience of your many readers in America, Canada,
Europe, or the Isles beyond the sea. Is this disease
American or universal?
T. C. Duncan, M. D., 287 W. Randolph St., Chicago;
H. N. Martin, M. D., 500 N. Eighteenth St., Philadelphia;
F. R. McManus, M. D., 98 Saratoga St., Baltimore ; Emma
Scott, M. D., 51 W. Thirty~second St., New York; C. H.
Nibelung, M. D., St. Louis, Mo.; N. R. Morse, M. D.,
Salem, Mass.
202
BOOK NOTICES.
LIGATION OF ARTERIES, by Dr. L. H. Farabeuf. Translated
by John D, jackson, M. D., with Illustrations. Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., 1874, pp. 157, 12.m0.
This handsome little monograph will be found a most
complete treatise upon this important branch of surgery,
giving as it does, careful and detailed directions for the
several steps of the operation on all the arteries, as well as
the surgical anatomy of the different regions and vessels.
The book is well illustrated, most of the cuts being new
and handsomely printed on extra fine paper.
1874.] Book Notices. 353
ON THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC LAW OF
Cure. By Charles Neidhard, M. D. Second Edition. Boericke &
Tafel.
In his preface to this paper, the author says: “Some
twenty years ago, by invitation of the Rhode Island Hom
oeopathic Medical Society, we made an attempt to place
the truth of this law on an impregnable basis.”
Since then, numerous new facts have been collected by
the lecturer and added to his former essay. In this reno
vated improved form, the lecture was delivered as a prelim
inary discourse to the students of the Hahnemann Medical
College of Pennsylvania, during the winter of 1872.
With great care, Dr. Neidhard has here accumulated a
large number of faéts and illustrations, designed to prove :
“ I. That the homoeopathic law is not merely a rule de
vised by man, like allopathy, hydropathy and other methods,
but a divine law of nature. It is and was praeticed uncon
sciously by physicians, and the people from time im
memorial. long before Hahnemann proclaimed it to the
world, and will be practiced to the end of time.
“ 2. That all the greatest powers of nature are of the most
subtle kind, but must have some affinity to man or his dis
eases, in order to produce a powerful and striking effect.
“ 3. That both being thus related to each other, the dose
must be necessarily small, and consequently the law
‘ similia similibus,’ and the homoeopathic dose must stand
or fall together.”
This lecture will not fail _ to interest all readers, and
homoeopathic physicians are under obligation to the author
for placing at their command so many forcible illustrations
of the law of cure.
CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE SURGEON-GEN
eral's Office, U. S. Army. In three volumes, Washington, 1873.
The library of the Surgeon-General at Washington,
which has been accumulating for the past three years, has
now reached proportions that can be fully appreciated only
by our examination of the volumes before us. The body
ofthe catalogue consists of two large quarto volumes of
authors and titles, of 1193 and 956 pages respectively,
and of an appendix of 309 pages, the latter being devoted
to I. Anonymous Works, II. Transactions, III. Reports,
IV. Periodicals.
Particular care has been given to the collection of the
periodical medical literature of the country, of every kind.
Of homoeopothic periodicals, we find the titles of 46, nearly
a
354 Book Notices. may,
all American, of which there are specimens in the library,
while the titles of 17 are also given, which it is desired to
add to the colleétion as opportunity may offer. Our
standard works and text books on homoeopathy are also
well represented.
The librarian, assistant surgeon J. S. Billings, to whom
great credit is due for the completeness of this catalogue,
tells us in his preface, that the library now contains 25,000
volumes and 15,000 pamphlets, and the present catalogue
gives 50,000 titles. A fourth volume, containing an Index
of Subjeéts is to appear in a few months.
OF
C REMATION.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
IMPORTANCE OF LIGHT.——It has been shown that the number of
patients cured in rooms properly lighted, is four times more than
those confined in dark rooms.
358 Miscellaneous Items. ]M ay,
YOCAI. PHENOMENON.—A singer in Vienna is said to have a
curiously abnormal formation of the vocal organs, by which he is
able to sing two notes slmultaneously.
PERSONALS.
We would feel nbllged if our subscribers would send us for inlertlon, under this head, notlces of removal:
murrlages or deaths of Homoeopathic Physicims.
_
OBITUARY.
D1ED.—-ln this City, on the 5th inst., WALTER M. WILLIAMSON,
M. D., aged 38 years. Dr. Williamson was the eldest son of the late
Dr. Walter Williamson, and brother of Dr. Matthew S. Williamson,
of this city. Graduating at the Homceopathic Medical College in i8 57,
he settled in praflice the following spring at Appleton, Wisconsin,
r 360 Obituary. [May, 1874.
At the end of three years, he returned to this city. and entered into
practice with his father.
Dr. Williamson was an old and active member of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy, having been ele€ted in 1857. He has at~
tended most of the annual meetings since that time, and has for
several years been chairman of one of its Bureaus. He has also been
an aftive member of the State Society, and was the last President of
the Philadelphia County Homoeopathic Medical Society.
About a year ago, he had a violent attack of pneumonia; from
that time he was annoyed with a troublesome cough, with much dysp
ncea, occasional haemorrhages, and symptoms of emphysema of
the lungs. On Sunday the 3d inst., as he was about starting to make
his round of visits, he was taken with a fearful haamorrhage, which
left him greatly prostrated. Rallying considerably during the next
twenty-four hours, hopes were entertained that the worst had been
passed, but the bleeding recurring on Tuesday evening, he suddenly
passed away.
At the autopsy made 48 hours after death, the right ventricle of the
heart was found greatly hypertrophied, valves normal. Both lungs
greatly congested, with vesicular emphysema of their edges; bron
chial mucous membranes extremely congested; smaller bronchial
tubes filled with blood; lungs free from cavities, tubercular de
posits, points of ulceration or hepatization. No large vessels were
ruptured, the haemorrhage evidently having been from the air cells and
small bronchial ramification, the result of increased pressure upon
the pulmonary circulation from the hypertrophied right ventricle.
Dr. Williamson’s warm and genial nature, secured him many
friends. He leaves a widow and four children to mourn his loss.
At a meeting of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County
of Philadelphia, held Thursday evening, May 7th, the following pre
amble and resolutions were submitted and unanimously adopted:
Whereas, This society has heard with deep regret of the decease
of our fellow-member and former president, Dr. Walter M. William
son, who has been taken from his family and friends in the prime of
life ; therefore,
Resolved, That we recognize in his death a loss to the community
of an able physician, and to ourselves a warm-hearted friend, an
honest man, and a genial, adtive, and intelligent pradtitioner,
Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with his bereaved family in
this, their great afiiiétion.
Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of
this society, and that an engrossed copy of the same be furnished the
family of the deceased.
,M ‘WM ,
PSORIASIS.
WE possess three remedies ofwhich, not only fl'equently,
but regularly, I have seen good results in this cutaneous
afi‘ection of an eicceedingly obstinate character. Of these
I must first mention Arsenicum as the remedy highest in
rank. Without any assistance of local adjuvants, I have
radically cured with this remedy very many and very severe
cases several times; even such as were of many years
standing, and had resisted the most different curative
.methods. In faét, I have never yet seen Psoriasis in any
other form than the chronic, and do not quite understand
how Blake and Suss can recommend flkrcurz'us for acute
Psarz'asis. No mention is made, moreover, of an acute form
by Hebra and other dermatologists. i
IO:
TOLLE CAUSAM.
IOI
101
THE
THERAPEUTICS OF UTERINE DISCHARGES
C R E O S OTU'ML—(Continued.
Discharge of dark, coagulated blood, or of a pungent
bloody ichor—perhaps from cancer of the uterus—with
violent pains in the back, and burning, itching, and swell
ing of the external and internal labia. [Wild and painless,
as well as putrid, amid and corroding leucorrhoea.
Corroding, yellow, offensive, thick mucous discharge,
which produces great itching, and redness, of the
vulva and pudendum, and excoriation of the thighs.
Stitches in the vagina from above downward, causing her
to start.
Ineffectual urging to urinate; this being finally accom
plished, is accompanied by chilliness and milky leucorrhoea
discharge. Leucorrhoea of pregnant females. Leucor
rhoea always attended with great debility, and. especially
of the lower extremities.
374 ‘T/zerapeutics of Uterine Dischargesf \ Hung,
Lochia,—Oflensive loc/lia, wit/z excoriating disc/large.
Intermittent loc/iia; it almost entirely ceases and then fees/lens
up again.
Concomitants.-—Ill humor, with disposition to weep.
Low spirited; music and subduing emotions causes her to
weep. Weakness of memory.
Drawing headache. Lacerating lzeadac/ze. Painfulness
of the scalp when combing the hair; the hair falls out.
Hardness of hearing; humming in the ears; bleeding of
the nose. Great heat and redness of the face; dry lips ;
livid complexion. Toothache, extending to the temples,
to the left side of the face.
Eruétations after dinner. Vomiting of pregnant women.
Vomiting of sweetish water in the morning. Sympathetic
vomiting, from irritation of the uterine organs. Cancer of
the stomach. Sensation of contraftion in the abdomen.
Constipation; stools hard and dry. She cannot bear tight
clothing about the waist.
Moist cough, apparently caused by something crawling
behind the sternum.
Cancer of the mammae. Cancer of the uterus, with pro
fuse discharge of dark, coagulated blood. Awful burning
in the pelvis as from red-hot coals, with discharge of clotted
blood, having a foul smell. Corrosive itching within the
vulva, and biting between the labia and thighs, with great
burning and soreness after urinating. Continuous haem
orrhage from uterine tumors. Complaints after menstru
ation. Complaints of females at the change of life. Pro—
lapsus uteri. Great itching in the vagina, inducing rubbing
in the evening. Frequent desire to urinate, wit/i copious
emissions. Urine has a bad smell. Labor-like drawing
pain in the small of the back, pressing down in the
lumbar vertebra. Herpes: humid, scaly, pustulous, on
the ears, eyelids, cheeks, lips, and fingers.
Creosotztm is especially adapted to putrid diseases.
13744 Therapeutics of Uterine Discharges. 375
CROCUS SATIVUS.
Common SntIron Crocus.
CROTON TIGLIUM.
I Croton Oil.
CUBEB/E.
Cubehs. I
CUPRUM METALLICUM.
Metallic Copper.
CURARE.*
Indian Arrow Poison.
CYCLAMEN.
Sow Bread.
was then called up, and the following papers were pre
sented by Dr. ]. P. DARE, of Nashville, Tenn., acting
chairman of the Bureau : “A Vindication of the Bureau of
Materia Medica,” by j. P. DAKE, M.D., of Nashville;
“Verifications of Lilium tigrinum," by Drs. D. S. KIMBALL,
of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., and S. C. WHITNEY, of Vin
cennes, Ind.; “A College of Drug Provers for the
Cultivation of Materia Medica," by Dr. J. P. DARE, M.D.
These papers were read, accepted, and referred to the
Committee on Publication.
The Treasurer then presented his annual report, which
showed that the receipts had been upwards of three
thousand dollars, and the expenses nearly the same amount.
The Secretary presented the report of the Committee of
Publication, which stated that the proceedings and papers
of the 30th anniversary, held at Cleveland, june, 1873, had
been published in a volume of 763 pages. The Board of
Censors then read a partial report, and a number of ap
plicants were admitted to membership. Adjourned to
meet at 8 P. M.
TUESDAY EVENING’S SESSION.
BUREAU OF OBSTETRICS,
CORRESPONDENCE.
BOOK NOTICES.
A TREATISE ON THERAPEUTICS, comprising illateria lVEdZ'CIZ
and 70.1'z'eology, with especial reference to the application of the
physiological aaion of drugs to clinical medicine. By H. C.
Wood, Jr., M.D., Professor of Botany, &c., in the University of
Pennsylvania, &c. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1874.
Forgiving and forgetting all the “ little flings” which the
author's bias leads him to make against us, homceopathists
will here find some of the richest material for their own
edification, and for the corroboration of their main positions
that has been furnished us this many a day.
Take, for instance, the copious and excellent clinical
index. Here, for constipation, is mentioned the astringent,
Alum, besides Stij/c/tnz'a; for cystitis, Cant/tarts; for diar
rhoea, Rhubara and Castor Oil, as of old; chronic, Magne
sia; for diuresis, Turpentine; for erysipelas, Bel/adonna;
for haamorrhoids, Aloes; and so on.
402 Boo/t Notires. Hume,
After writing Belladonna above, 'we felt some misgiving,
lest the author in the body of the work, had tried to dis
prove its manifest homoeopathicity to scarlatina fever, one
of Hahnemann’s prime facts. But instead, we read: “I
think this use of Belladonna offers a very inviting field for
therapeutic investigation.” But how does this fit with the
preceding sentence, “as a stimulant to the circulation,
Belladonna has probably not been employed as much as it
ought ?” And with this, under Aconite? The first indi
cation for Aconite is “to lower arterial action, and often
with it, excess of temperature.” For this purpose, Aconite
is almost invaluable. * * * *
In the early stages of scarlet fever and other exanthemata.
when not decidedly adynamic in type, it is very useful.”
How sad, in the light which shines on the path of the
Hahnemannian, or in the shadow which the author re
morselessly in his preface, throws on the boastful and ex
clusive school to which he belongs, is this hodge-podge; ‘
claiming, as he does, to exclude from science, the truth
upon which he has nevertheless so freely drawn; rejeét
ing, as he does, the Only medical system based on law;
law, too, which is demonstrated, outside of medical pheno
niena, in every field of note/nal science ,' and at best, looking
with pitiful charity on the temptation we suffer in the
common need of something fixed; and thus accounting
regretfully for the phenomenon, that “ homoeopathy and
other similar delusions are eagerly embraced and honestly
believed in, by men who rest their faith on experience.”
In all the so-called “absurdities and delusions of hom
oeopathy,” no such scientific inconsistency and absurdity
can be found, as the above. A stimulant to the circulation is
Belladonna, and therefore, or else in spite of it, Belladonna
is good in scarlet fever; a sedative to arterial aetion is
Aconite ,' and therefore, or in spite of it, Aconzte is good in
scarlet fever! And this is “ scientific medicine !”
What wonder that he should, with an honesty now far
from rare among old school therapeutic writers, referring
in his preface to the vaunted “ experience” of two thousand
years, write thus: “Experience is said to be the mother of
wisdom. Verily, she has been in medicine rather a blind
leader of the blind; and the history of medical progress is
a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming
gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to
cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles, that
n their day had also been mistaken for verities.”
1874] Book Noiz'ccs. 403
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS.-~The twenty—seventh annual meeting of
the American Institute of Homoeopathy—t0 the proceedings of which
we have given much ofthe space of this number of the JOURNAL—was
one of the most pleasant and profitable ever held by that organiza
tion. This result, probably in no small degree, was owing to the
excellent management of the presiding officer, Dr. J. ]. Youlin.
Many valuable papers were presented, and interesting and profitable
discussions held upon the same. To the enterprise of the Buffalo daily
papers, we are indebted for the completeness of this report.
The communication of “ Dixi," giving many interesting particulars
and personalities of members present, will be read with interest.
RESIGNATION.—\Ve regret being obliged to state that Prof. H. N. I
Guernsey, who, for the past four years, and most acceptably to his col
leagues and the class, has filled the position of Dean and Professor
of Materia Medica in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel
phia, has found it necessary to resign his Trusteeship, and retire from
an aflive position in the faculty. The impossibility of doing full
justice to his numerous patients, and attending at the same time to
the duties of the position, has rendered this change imperative. He
carries with him the best wishes of the faculty and alumni of the
college, while he will continue to feel an interest in the prosperity of
the school. Prof. E. A. Farrington, author of the Comparative
Materia Medica, now being published in this JOURNAL, and who is
peculiarly well fitted for the position, has been appointed to fill the
chair thus made vacant.
407
408 rWiscellaneous Items. Personals. Uune,
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
PERSONALS.
We would feel uhligod if our subscribers would send us for insertion, under this head, notices of removals
marriages or deaths of Honimopathic Physicians.
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@umrwpaflgrr fistula 4 rims
RECORD OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.
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*TOLLE CAUSAM.
BY EMIL Tra'rza, M. D.
ZOZ
ECZEMA.
Among the various species of Eczema, it is especially
the Eczema rubrum, and particularly that on the legs and
hairy scalp, which most frequently comes under treatment
in our dispensary. The Eczema on the legs, the so-called
salt-rheum, is one of the most obstinate, and at the same
time, most annoying eruptions; because it is often, (almost
as often as are the varicose enlargements on the legs—two
affections which appear now and then in combination—)
the original cause of extensive ulcers.
I have already mentioned that Mereurius is the principal
representative of eczematous eruptions, and I must add,
moreover, that, according to my experience, it is also their
principal remedy, especially when they appear on the
extremities, and particularly on the lower. In such
cases, probably only Sit/fi/tltt’ ranks equally with it.
However, as long as the eczematous form predomi
nates, I always prefer Meicurius. I have in various
* Continued from page 365.
13”] Treatment qf Culanmu: Direases. 419
cases, in which already intense infiltration existed, and
where, on account of the depressing conditions of life, it
was impossible to rest, and nurse the foot, achieved with
it now and then, an improvement, or a cure comparatively
rapid. It is only when considerable swelling and varicose
enlargements exist, that I principally employ Sulphur;
because, according to my experience of many years stand
' ing, there is no other remedy equal to Sulphur, in this
affection, so frequently presenting itself in our dispensary.
And, although I have in ulcers of the leg, sometimes seen
curative results from [Wm-amt, Lac/1L1, HamamcL, Clap/zit,
and Pulsat., I yet return to Su/p/mr, again and again. One
needs but have observed how rapidly an improvement
often takes place after its application, and how soon, espe
cially, the unendurable burning pain disappears. And
this, moreover, under the most unfavorable external con
ditions, which allow, of no change in the customary way
of living, e'.g., among compositors, printers, cooks, &c.,
and no chance for keeping clean, and dressing the ulcers.
Hence, we must in such cases, almost always do without
the aid of external adjuvants, which, as is well known, are
of great value in treating ulcers of the leg. The hori
zontal position of the extremity, and dressing with adhesive
strips can never be attained; only the application of beef
tallow, thinly spread upon linen, and probably, cold-water
dressings during the night, are within our reach. Although
the 30th dilution of Sulphur, has not failed to show its '
aétion in some cases of such ulcers treated under very
unfavorable conditions, yet I give almost exclusively, from
3 t0 5 drops of the mzdz'lurea’ lz'nfiurr 0f Sulphur, morning
and evening, because I have observed of that dose, results
more rapid, posz'liz'e and sure.
I must omit here to single out the cutaneous symptoms
of fliemurz'us, pointing to Eczema, since they may be found
in our Materia Medica, e. g., in that of Noack and Trinks
Vol. 11, very well marked, and in so large a number, that
indications may be obtained for each single form. In
420 Treatment of Cutaneous Diseases. Hilly,
Eczema of the hairy scalp (Tinea capitis), which we fre
quently observe here among children, especially as Eczema
impetiginodes, in connection with swellings of the lym
phatic glands, Mercurius is less sovereign. Against this
'form, as well as against most of the facial eruptions, if they
are forms of eczema or lichen, and not too much compli
cated with impetigo, or even form real ulcers; R/zus [0.14,
above all, is the principal remedy. In the latter, Alrrcur.
and Sulphur again deserve preference, the former especially
in impetigo, on or behind the auricula. In genuine Favus
however, I have not seen any effect of Rims. This
affefition is very obstinate at any rate, and requires a proper
external treatment, by the frequent washing of the parts
affected, with soap and water, and the softening of the
crusts with oil. Internally, Spongia, Crap/122., and Caly
ledon, are the remedies most to be recommended.
Eczema rubrum acutum of the face, is also an exceedingly
obstinate disease. Not only that the burning and itching
in this trouble are exceedingly tormenting, and the serous
secretion frequently is so copious that it drops off continu
ally, (especially among women after childbed and weaning)
but the relapses occurring every 6, 8 or 14 days, are also
very difficult to prevent. I have, at least, not seen any de
cided effect, in this trouble, of Apis, Eup/zorbz'um, and Ran
zmculus. ‘
For Eczema scroti et genitalium, Aim, Gray/117., Rhodod.
and Pulsat. are recommended above all; yet I must con
fess that I have not seen any great effeét of-any of those
remedies, and still have more confidence in Mercurius and
Sulphur. Finally, I will remark yet, that Eczema accord
ing to my experiences, especially belongs among those
exanthernata, the rapid removal of which, no matter
whether occurring spontaneously, or being brought about
by imprudent external treatment, not rarely shows very
momentous consequences by causing affections of internal
organs; just as we may notice sometimes, on the contrary,
that chronic diseases improve or entirely disappear upon
1374,] Treatment of Cutaneous Direases. 421
the eruption of an eczema. We have, therefore, sufficient
cause to be careful in the application of external remedies,
especially in the latter case. Whether we may infer from
this the directly constitutional nature of eczema, or whether
the metastases must be considered only the result of the
suppressed secretion, especially profuse in eczema—a differ
ence which I have pointed out already in my introductory
remarks—I am not able to decide. Among infants, I have
several times seen that a severe attack ofmeningitis followed
the spontaneous and rapid drying up of discharging erup
tions upon the face and head; yet I had the impression, as
if this drying up process was more the effect than the
cause of the subsequent attack of meningitis. Besides,
we not rarely observe alternating exacerbations of asth
matic heart and lung troubles with chronic eczema of the
feet.
HERPES.
The various forms of Herpes, such as Herpes p/zlyfiw
noia'es, cz'rcinnatu's and zoster, also find their remedy in Mercu
rz'us and Sulphur; and in especial cases in 13/2115, Rammeulus,
Graplzz'tes, Amen, etc. Some of these exanthemata, such
as Herpes labz'alz's in acute diseases, (mostly in inflam
matory conditions of the lungs) and Herpes preputz'a/zlr,
for instance, require no medical interference. But an
affection, usually very troublesome, on the other hand, is
Herpes zoster, on account of the often exceedingly violent
burning pain, and the occasional sequela of intercostal
neuralgia. For zoster, Rims, fliereur.,.Arsen. and Du!
eam., above all, are recommended; the cutaneous erup
tions of all of which present certain concordances with
this peculiar cutaneous disease. However, I cannot say
that any of these remedies has proved to me a special
curative action; the affection simply ran its course, at
one time more rapidly; at another more slowly; now
with more, now with less burning pain, no matter3whether
I gave this or that remedy. I would still place the most
confidence in Mercurius. The subsequent neuralgic pains
422 Treatment of Cutaneous Diseases. [july,
which I have been called upon to treat but in a few cases,
did not exhibit any violent character, (probably a result
of the remedies employed against the eczema). Dolir/ws
pruriens and Zincum, are recommended for this affection.
Moreover, we observe not rarely a herpes-form on the
fingers which looks quite innocent, but causes violent itch
ing; sometimes drags on considerably, and then is apt to
have a bad effect upon the finger-nails and joints. I have
usually given Rammculus bulbaus, in the 6th or 3d dilution,
for this trouble, with considerable success.
Herpetic exanthemata, especially in comparison to ecze
mata, upon the whole are lighter affections, often rapidly
and spontaneously healing, in which we need fear but
rarely or not at all, the appearance of so called metastatic
diseases. Attacks of pemphzlgns, on the contrary, among
the new-born, bear now and then a very obstinate and
dangerous character. I have treated several cases in which
new blisters were shooting up incessantly, producing with
unusual rapidity, spots as large as the palmar plane of the
hand, which were deprived of epidermis and secreting. In
consequence of the incessant crying, the refusal of food, of
the fever, and the entire suppression of the urinary secre
tion, these infants ran down so much, that their death could
be expected every moment. I have applied in such cases
several remedies, such as Apz's, Urtz'ca, Cam/lurid. and
Lyra/10¢, and, although the disease did eventually take a
favorable course, I am unable to say whether the happy
termination was owing to any of these remedies, and still
less, to which of them. \Varm baths, and the soothing of
the burning pain by an artificial substitute for the lost
epidermis, by means of cotton, starch, flour, &c., probably
accomplished the most.
URTICARIA.
It is exceedingly difficult in this affection, especially
among dispensary patients whose visits almost invariably
are very irregular, to decide what influence the remedy pre
1374_] Treatment of Cutaneous Diseases. 423
THE
THERAPEUTICS OF UTERINE DISCHARGES.
DAPHNF. MEZEREUM.‘
Spurge Olive.
DICTAMNUS.
White Dittuy.
{DROSERA ROTUNDIFOIJA.
Sun Dew
DU LCAMARA.
Bitter Sweat.
ELAPS CORALLINUS.
Between the Periods.—Discharge of black blood.
Weight in the uterus and vagina, with pressing down ;
itching in the vagina, formication at the vulva. Hysteria.
Concomitants.——Absence of mind; desire for solitude.
Dread of being left alone; does not wish to be spoken to.
Congestion of blood to the head; pain and weight in the
forehead, hungry headache. Vertigo, inclined to fall for
ward; redness and swelling of the face; fiery spots before
the eyes; aversion to light; rheumatic pains in the back
and extremities; the pains begin on the left side. Yellow
spots on the hands and fingers. Prolapsus ani. The
conditions are aggravated on awaking, on drinking, when
st00ping, and by cold air.
EPIEMA DIADEMA.
Menstruation.-—Too early, too profuse, and of too long
duration; the discharge consisting of bright blood.
1374_] Therapeutic: of Uterine Discharges. 429
Concomitants.—Headache relieved é)! going out in the
open air; hxmorrhages in general; chilliness every day
at precisely the same hour. All the symptoms are worse
every other day at p; ease/)1 the same lmur.
ERECTHITES HIERACIFOLIUS.
Fire Weed.
ERIGERON CANADENSE.
Flea Bane.
FERRUM.
Iron.
FLUORIC ACID.
Fluoride of Hydrogen.
' GELSEMINUM.
Yellow Jessamine.
101
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A REMARKABLE Case—A child, 4% months old, in this city, swal
lowed a silver fruit knife, 2} inches long. Four months afterwards,
the knife passed the bowels. During the interval, the child suffered
much, but is now in good health.
PROF. LISTER's ANTXSEPTIC TREATMENT.-—Dr. C. M. Thomas.
in a recent letter from Edinburgh, writes :—“ I am very much interested
in Lister's antiseptic treatment of surgical cases, and believe it to be
a splendid thing. As applied here, it is altogether different from
what I knew of it at home or in Germany. Over a week ago. he
amputated a penis, with plastic operation for meatus urethra, which
involved the application of many stitches. On last clinic day, we
were shown the case with stitches still in, and with no sign of ulcer
ation, and although the last dressing had been on for five days,there
was no smell a! all about the. parts, not even a urinous one. A
resefted knee also healed without suppuration.”
MAN‘S MOST ACTIVE PERIOD.—A recent writer says: “ From
twenty-five to thirty-five is the true time for all the enjoyment of a
man's best powers, when physical vigor is at its highest, and human
passion is at its full strength. During the last half of this decade, a
man should be assiduous to construct a system of philosophy I)
which to rule his life, and to Contract a chain of habits intelligent] ,
so that they should not sit too lightly upon him, and yet cautiously,
1874-] Miscellaneous Itcms. 4 43
0
so that he should neither be their slave nor too easily cast them
aside. The exact proportion of physical and intellectual strength
should be gauged, and the constitutional weakness, or, in other
words, the disease towards which a tendency exists, should be ascer
tained."
OATMEAL, BONE AND MusCLE.—Liebig has shown that oatmeal is
almost as nutritious as the very best English beef, and that it is
richer than wheaten bread in the elements that go to form bone and
muscle. Professor Forbes, of Edinburgh, during some twenty years,
measured the breadth and height, and also tested the strength of
both the arms and loins of the students in the University—a very
numerous class, and of various nationalities, drawn to Edinburgh by
the fame of his teaching. He found that, in height, breadth of chest
and shoulders, and strength of arms and loins, the Belgians were at
the bottom of the list; a little above them, the French; very much
higher, the English ; and highest of all, the Scotch and ScotchJrish,
from Ulster, who, like the natives of Scotland, are fed in their early
years with at least one meal a day of good milk and good oatmeal
porridge—Sanitarz'anfar 911718.
A GERMAN SCIENTIST has invented a new mode of disposing of
the dead, which has all the advantages of cremation, without any of
its objectionable features. His proposed method of disposing of the
bodies of the dead, provides against injury to the living, while it
offers no violence to the feeling which shrinks from destroying the
corpse of a beloved friend or relation. Decomposition is, of course,
an inocuous process, provided its results cannot infect the air. The
inventor, therefore, proposes to cover the body with Roman or Port
land cement, which hardens into a solid mass, and renders the
escape of noxious gases impossible. According to this plan, the
corpse would be placed in a sarcophagus of already hardened ce
ment; the cavity in which it reposed would be filled up with the
same material, and both would harden together into a thick slab of
a substance resembling stone. Thus the deceased, buried in this
manner, would rest within, instead of under his tomb-stone, and
grave and monument be comprised in the same block of imitation
granite.
YELLow FEVER AND ELECTRICITY.—A correspondent writing from
Fayette, Mississippi, to the Scientific American, gives a curious suc
cession of observed fafts, which may lead to a clearer understanding
of the conditions under which yellow fever is generated, and as a
consequence to new methods of preventing or curing the disease.
He says that prior to the breaking out of the fever, and during the
prevalence of the epidemic, the rains are unaccompanied by light
ning and thunder, which in other seasons are common. There was
only one peal ofthunder heard in this county, between the middle of
September and the latter part of October. In 1855, at a school cel
ebration, a sufficient amount of electricity could not be generated to
perform the simplest experiment with the electrical apparatus, and
shortly thereafter, the yellow fever broke out and raged terribly.
The writer draws the conclusion from these farfts, that the prevalence
of yellow fever is dependent upon the eleftrical condition of the at
mosphere, and suggests that science may be made to supply the
necessary conditions to public health.
444 Persana/s. [July, 1874.
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BY C. NEIDHARD, M. D.
tion. During the last five years not a single case of diph
theria was lost, although some of the cases were of the most
dangerous charaEter. It is the remedy which will some
times save life, when everything else has failed. Private
letters from various sources have spoken very favorably of
its great power. Some physicians have rejected the rem
edy, because it has never been proved on the healthy, and
because the doses recommended were rather too large for
them. We sincerely regret our inability to furnish these
provings at this time. Sooner or later they will have to be
instituted; but, a violent disease claiming thousands of
viftims, it was impossible to wait for these provings. The
analogy of the symptoms to the pathogenetic efi'eéts of
C/zlorz'a'e af Lime justified us in making use of it.
Among the numerous dispatches received from medical
men, there is one from Dr. M’Dermott, WVarren, Pa, whose
experienCe with the remedy has been extensive, and which
we take the the liberty of transcribing:
Since the first of August, 1873, we have been having an
epidemic of malignant diphtheria. At the beginning of
the epidemicI used 5211., flierc. proli, Lyra/L, and Lac/1.,
but found that they did not control the disease, losing
some patients. I then began the treatment with the Chlo
ride of Lime, treating nearly one hundred cases only los
ing two. Both of these died from diphtheritic croup.
The disease commenced with a feeling of general indispo
sition, some soreness 'of the throat upon swallowing, the
throat and fauces highly inflamed, tonsils swollen, 10ss of
appetite, fever and restlessness at night. These symptoms
after twenty'four or thirty-six hours were followed by com
plete prostration, the throat and fauces covered by a rapidly
spreading membrane, extending up into the nose, causing
complete obstruction, discharging a sanious ichor, excess
ive fetor of the breath, the glands of the neck 8720171101151]
swollen, complete [ass of rz;>;>a‘z'te,"‘< great pallor, nausea,
*These two last symptoms are well known characteristic symptoms
of the most dangerous cases. H
454 Cases Treated Symptomatieally. [August,
vomiting and more or less diarrhoea. Under the aftion of
Chloride of Lime, the dangerous symptoms would disap
pear sometimes in two or three days, though sometimes
they would last from ten to twenty days before convales
cence. In one case where the Chloride of Lime seemed
to have no effect in arresting the progress of the disease,
and after its persistent use for six days, the membrane con
constantly spreading, the patient rapidly approaching the
fatal end, I used Men, Cyan, dill, with gargling of carbolic
acid, with admirable success, removing the membrane
together with the dangerous symptoms in thirty-six hours.
The Chloride of Lime proved nearly a specific for all cases
from beginning to end. The sequelae of a few cases, as
paralysis, convergent strabism us, and apparently congestion
of the optic nerve, were all cured by other remedies. Bell.
and P/ws. relieved the eye-symptoms, Causlieum cured
paralysis. Chloride of Lime was used both internally and
locally. Internally I dissolved from eight to twenty drops
in one-half glassful of water, giving two teaspoonfuls every
half to one or two hours. Previous to giving this solution
internally, I used a gargle containing one teaspoonful of
Liquor Calc. Chlorin. to two thirds of a glassful of water.
.I only used the gargle where there was a great amount of
diphtheritic deposit. It removed the membrane rapidly.
ZOI
BY L. W. BERRIDGE, M. D.
I
1374,] Cases Treated SymptomatimZZy. 459
ZOZ
THE‘
THERAPEUTICS OF UTERINE DISCHARGES.
GLONOINE.
Nitm Glycerine.
Menstruation.-—Suppression of. ,
During Menstruation—Congestion of blood to the
head and chest; headache; fainting; suppression of the
menses with intense congestion of blood to the head, with
a feeling as if the temples and top of the head would burst
open.
Dr. Hughes says that Glan. is a capital remedy for the
disturbances of the intercranial circulation, which obtains in
menopausia, and for that which often results from menstrual
suppression.
Concomitants.—Usua11y bright and loquacious; un
steady gait. Dull headache with warm perspiration on
the forehead. Heaviness in the forehead; congestive ner
vous headache, with no gastric~ or bilious symptoms. Vi
olent throbbing headache ; shaking aggravates the headache,
external pressure relieves it. Cannot bear any 'lzeat about
the head. Weakness from loss of sleep. Fainting with
consciousness; pulsations, tingling thrills, and a peculiar
sensation of warmth through the body, from above down
ward. Iucreased secretion of albuminous urine.
1874.] Therapeutic: 0f Uterine Discharges. 461
GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM.
Cotton Plant.
GRAPHITES.
Plumbago.
GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS.
Hedge Hyssop.
o
GUAREA TRICHLOIDES.
Ball Wood.
Menstruation—Too profuse.
Leucorrhma.-Fetid, and especially after menstrua
tion. Itching of the pudendum and labia.
C0neomitants.-—Confusion of thought ; moral anxiety;
agitation in the evening; vertigo on rising; stupefying
headache; confused sensation in the abdomen. Involun
tary urination; frequent desire to urinate in the evening.
Itching eruptions upon the skin; chronic weakness; hys
terical tetanus.
1874.] Abstrat? 0f Homeopathic Literature. 465
ABSTRACT OF HOMQZOPATHIC LITERATURE.
BY B. FRANK BETTS, M. D.
[Medical Investigator]
Illinois Homceopatlzic .Mea’z'eal Association—In the June
number of the Investigator, will be found an account of the
proceedings of the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Associ
ation at its Twentieth Annual Meeting, in May last. Dr.
Geo. W. Foote, of Galesboro, President, delivered the
annual address.
Dr. S. P. Cole related a case of premature discharge of
Liquor Amnii, fifteen weeks before parturition. The child
was healthy, but lacked vitality, (vigor, we suppose). Dr.
C. D. Fairbanks read an interesting paper on Psychologiml
Therapeutics, from which we make the following abstract:
“It is not only in the conditions of insanity, dementia,
monomania, and kindred maladies of grave importance;
but in a multitude of minor psychological aberrations, that
the beneficence of the mild “Similia” earns the lifelong
gratitude of suffering humanity. Hahnemann has taught
us to think of Avon. where there is fear of impending
death; or of Anacardium for a profane disregard of such
serious matters; of Aururn for a desire to commit suicide;
or of Hyascyanzus when the desire exists to kill another.
He has demonstrated at the bedside that the pangs of secret
grief can be assuaged by Iguana; or that stupid apathy
and indifference may be brightened by Phosphoric acid; ex
cited imaginations are quieted by Cofi’ea ,' arrogance
and pride are calmed by Platinum. Who has not repeat
edly observed the boisterous levity of Arnz'ea; the silly
titter and giggle of Nux nzose/zata; or the lachrymose
smiles of Pulsatz'lla .9 even the fiercest passions may be sub
dued by these wonderful remedies. Many cases of religious
despair can be relieved by Lyra/radium; or of religious
monomania by Stranzonz'um ; the flood of profanity can be
checked by Anamrdz'mn ; and the drunken passions quelled
by Nux vomica or Cimiezfuga. The happiness of many
466 Austral? of Hamaopatlzie Literature. [August,
households can be promoted by silencing tho irritable and
contradiEting child with Nux or C/ianzonzilla; or removing
the fear of' darkness by C/zina or Stranzoniurn; the bashful
face of the self-enervated son may be made to appear more
manly by P/zosp/zorus, Agnus, Gelsenzinnin, and their ana—
logues; while a legion of remedies stand ready to aid the
irritable, chlorotic girl to attain to a more perfect woman
hood. Fury ceases to “rave” at Belladanna or flyoseya
mus; jealousy is satisfied with Lae/zesis; rancor softens in
the presence of Nitric arid. Yet there are those (the
doctor pointedly remarks) who with the haughtiness of
Platinum, declare their freedom from such symptomatic
trifies, who will first know the pathological conditions, and
then the malady will be treated in a truly scientific manner.
But after delving with an industry worthy of Digitalis,
and summoning to their aid all the philosophy that Sulp/zui
can command, they at length discover with the dissatisfac
tion of Cratalas, that they have only arrived at the original
starting point on the therapeutical ladder, showing that
the key-notes oftentimes Serve as a short cut across a long
pathological bend.”
An Illustrated Repertory—Dr. R. R. Gregg, of Buffalo, is
the originator of a new kind of Repertory, in which he
aims to represent to the eye, the pathogenetic symptoms of
drugs, in a manner which furnishes at the same view, the
indications for their administration in disease. This is to
be accomplished by the aid of plates. Plate I, for instance,
represents in outline, the human body from the neck to the
hips. Upon this plate, arrows are drawn, following the
direction and course of the pains which pass from point to
point, in the chest, or to other parts of the body, the tail
of the arrow being placed upon the point where the pain
arises, and the head where it terminates. The name of the
drug being placed near the centre of the arrow. \Vhen
there are two heads to an arrow, one at either end, it indi
cates darting or stitching pains in both directions. \Vhen
pains branch or diverge, lines passing off from the arrow
1374_] flostrafl if Homoeopathic Literature. 467
at the place of divergence, to the point where the pain ter
minates, which is represented by an arrow-head as before.
The different kinds of pain are represented by different
devices attached to the arrows: such as a hook at the end
of an arrow to represent a drawing stitch; the figure of a
heart on the arrow to represent a throbbing or pulsating pain;
a halfglobe or plano-convex figure, (something like a
pestle), at the end of the arrow represents a pressure in
connection with the stitching or darting pain.
Plate I has the pains peculiar to all the remedies from
Aliza racemosa to Kali nit. portrayed upon it.
These plates will save a great deal of time in selecting
the remedy for a particular pain, for we have only to ascer
tain its correc't location from our patient, then seek in that
location on the chart for the kind of pain, and along-side of
the arrow representing its course and character, we find
the name of the remedy. \Ve can then refer to our Mate
ria Medica for the concomitant symptoms. We hope
the charts will be published separately and mounted, so
that they can be hung up in the physician's office.
[New England .Mecliml Gazette.]
Irritation of Larynx as a means of exciting inspiration in
Asp/tyxz'a.—Dr. H. B. Clarke relates cases of asphyxia
where resuscitation was accomplished by passing the fin
ger into the superior aperture of the larynx. The irrita
tion applied to the terminal filaments of the superior laryn
geal nerve, awakens into a5tivity motor impulses which
pass to the respiratory muscles and lungs through the
pneumogastric nerve. .
Calcie. Fluoride—Dr. I. B. Bell publishes the results of
provings of this remedy made upon himself and two other
persons. Great depression of spirits, anxiety and trou
blesome dreams, with various symptoms referable to the
larynx, point to its relationship with Calm/rm Caro, whilst
there was marked similarity in some of the symptoms
to those produced by Fluorie arid. From its homoeo~
pathic administration, he reports several cases of goitre im
468 Value of Ohjetti'ue Symptoms. [August,
proved but not cured. [n Lumbago from strains; pains
worse after rest; better after moving a little, and from
warmth; (when Rhus tor. did no good) it has been bene
ficial.
\l'
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL
OF
EDITORIAL.
WHICH MEDICAL PRACTICE P—Dr. E. M. Kellogg, the able and
earnest Medical Director and Vice President of the Homoeopathic
Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, hasjust published
a little book of fifteen pages, leaflet size, for gratuitous circulation,
entitled: “An analysis of over 80,000 cases, treated by both schools,
in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newark, and Brooklyn, with the
results.” _
He first propounds the above question, echoing that which so many
are asking every day. To this he returns, vcry appropriately, a
“Jersey answer," or rather several of them, by asking farther—
"VVhich cures most pleasantly ?" " Which cures most speedily?"
“ Which cures most safely?" “ Which is the surest to cure P“
Under each head, he replies, it seems to us, conclusively. He
states, in an accompanying circular, that " it is intended to answer
the needs of that large class of persons who are half persuaded to
try homoeOpathic practice, but hesitate, and ask for some positive
proofs of its efficacy."
He says: “ I desire to distribute this leaflet widely, and will gladly
supply you with as many extra copies as you can use to advantage,
believing that much good can thus be rendered to the public and the
profession. I would also ask you to remember the constant efforts
which the ‘ Homoeopathic Mutual' is making to popularize and
- ..
extend our medical system. * * *
THE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.—Tl1€
transactions of the Eighth and Ninth Annual Sessions of this Society
haveJust been issued in a neat volume of 332 octave pages. Mem
476 Misoellaneous Items. LAugust,
bers will receive copies upon payment of their annual dues to the
treasurer, Dr. R. J. McClatchey, No. 928 Nth. Tenth St., Philadelphia.
The Tenth Annual Session will be held in Philadelphia, on
Wednesday and Thursday, Orftober 7th and 8th, 1874. Valuable
and interesting papers are already promised, and a profitable session
is expected. It is hoped that members will make it a matter of duty,
as well as ofinterest, to be present. Those having papers to present,
are requested to inform the undersigned of their titles, not later than
the 15th of August, for insertion in the circular.
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THE MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY CASE, appointed for July 7th, in the
Supreme Court of the State, was postponed to the October term,
owing to “sickness of one of the counsel for the Regents.." “ Post
ponements are good for defendants," they say; is the Board of
Regents simply taking advantage of the maxim, and so confessing
their “ last ditch P"
But, not to underrate their resources, it will be well to guard against
every possible " coup d’etat," stop every “ chink between logs,“ and
hold every advantage with iron grasp. * ,, *
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
FRECKLE5.—It is said that powdered nitre moistened with water,
applied to the face, night and morning, will soon remove all traces of
freckles.
LACTATION LATE IN LIFE—Dr; Hopkins, in the Atlanta filed.
and Surg. journal, reports two cases of the return of the func'tions
of the mammary glands, after a cessation of seventeen and eighteen
years. Both women suckled their grandchildren ; one of them being
over sixty years of age at the time—[Vertical Times.
CHARACTERISTI(Is—Mercurius sol. Wakes with violent palpita
tion of the heart, as if frightened. ' J. c. M.
Mermpra’oz'p. rub. Suffocative fits at night on lying down, told]:
on the point offal/ing asleep, (not on awakening like Lao/1.), obliging
her to jump up suddenly, which relieves. _
Mere. aeetz'cus. Cutting in the urethra when the last drop of urine
is flowing out- E. A. F.
[87¢] Miscellaneous Items. 477
RETENTION OF URINE RELIEVED BY ICE IN THE RECTUM.—M.
Cazenave‘s plan is to plug the reclum with small pieces of ice. Mr.
Teevan relates a case in which he adopted this procedure. In ex
actly twenty minutes after the last fragment had been inserted into
the bowel, the patient began to pass water guttatim, and in the course
of half an hour contrived to empty his Madden—Mr. W. R Teevan.
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