cut through the middle while green, and dried in the air, being afterwards steeped for forty days Arsenicum is about the best remedy for un- in oil, are used by the Arabs for preparing an complicated diarrhoea that there is.

which they were christened, but the fact that the sagacious monks had planted them upon a layer of stone so as to prevent the roots penetrating deep into the ground, and thus to ensure their proper drainage." Here is something to rival Koch's tuberculinum and certainly pleasanter for the patient. "The petals of the crimson French rose, which is grown freely in our gardens, have been esteemed of signal efficacy in consumption of the lungs since the time of Avincenna, A. D. 1020, who states that he cured many patients by prescribing as much of the conserve as they could manage to swallow daily." So the book runs and any of our readers will find it a charming and interesting addition to his book friends.

TRY HOMOEOPATHY FIRST. The unfortunate result attending operations for the fad “Appendicitis" in this city for the past two months strongly suggests that errors of diagnosis of this condition are frequent, else the mortality would not be so high. It is evident that operative procedure should not be the result of hasty conclusions, but the patient given all benefit of doubt by the sparing of the knife. As one of many instances, permit me to outline briefly the history of one case coming under my personal observation.

Mr. B- -, age 33, with good family and personal history, had for some months experienced much discomfort after eating; later this discomfort became quite marked especially in the intestinal tract. This was followed with pain, localized at various intervals about the appendix. This pain became so constant later on that he was compelled to leave his office and place himself under the care of a physician.

tleman left the hospital and placed himself under homoeopathic treatment. An impaired diastasic activity was found to be present, soon remedied and an active business career has followed.-C. E. Tennant, M. D.

ANOTHER CASE APROPOS.

About a month ago an allopathic physician was called to see a gentleman with pain in his abdomen and administered a hypodermic injection of morphia to relieve the same, warning the patient that if pain returned his trouble was appendicitis and he should be operated upon at once. In about twenty-four hours the effects of the morphia wore off and the pain returned. It being night, they sent for the nearest physician, who happened to be a homœopath. The man related the circumstances of his treatment. One prescription relieved the case in two hours with no return since of the pain. So much for a man who undoubtedly would have been operated upon by the allopathic surgeon.-J. W. A., in the Denver Journal of Homœopathy.

SYMPHYTUM.

My friend, Mr. Lane Clark, the well-known dental surgeon, acting upon my suggestion, made use of the Comfrey (Symphytum) in this case:

A middle-aged practitioner, in large general practice, was advised to submit to operation by Mr. Clark for a carious condition of the upper jaw in connection with the front incisor teeth, and extending up to the floor of the nose, the bone being infiltrated with pus, and the teeth loose in their sockets and useless, not being able to bite upon them.

As the gentleman could not arrange to leave his practice Mr. Clark suggested treatment by medicines, a suggestion that was at once voted to be ridiculous, in three-drop doses three times a day, was prescribed but was nevertheless submitted to. Sympht. officin., with three intercurrent doses of Merc. cor. 3x, and at the end of a fortnight the patient returned with the condition of his mouth quite changed; the teeth had become fixed, the gum over the bone had healed up and the purulent discharge from the bone had disappeared.

A consultant was called by the attending physician. Appendicitis was assured and the patient hustled off to an allopathic hospital for immediate operation. At this juncture his friend and business partner, who was a convert to Homœopathy interfered, advising the patient to forbid the proposed operation. The attending physician and consultant here warned the patient of the gravity of the case, assuring him that death was sure to follow such a course, if not immediately, within a short time, as the attack was certain to reoccur. As the patient is Mentioning the subject of Symphytum to Dr. Von living to-day, having in the past year and a half ex-affirmed that for years he had used it with most exDittmann, of St. Petersburg, the other day, he perienced no return of the trouble, it is quite evident that no operation was performed. Three days after the appointed hour for the operation, the gen

A surgeon who had seen the patient on the first occasion along with Mr. Clark declared he would not have believed it to be the same mouth had he not himself seen it.

cellent results in carious conditions of bones.-Dr. R. T. Cooper, London, in Homœopathic World, Sept., 1897.

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homœopaths have not made a single advance in
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THE Hahnemann Hospital College, of San Francisco, California, recently petitioned for affiliation with the University of California, whereat the Allopathic San Francisco County Medical Society resolved "that it is the sense of this society that the petition be not granted." The reasons for the society's "sense" are given as follows:

The homœopathic school of medicine has no representation in the armies and navies of the world, nor in any branch of the national medical service, nor are its representatives found in the service of the great railway and steamship lines, nor are they employed as medical examiners or referees by the life

insurance companies, nor in city, county or state institutions. The homœopathic school of medicine is not recognized as such by scientific societies at home or abroad, nor have they representation in any recognized teaching institution, save two, in the United States. The homoeopaths have not made a single advance in scientific knowledge since their foundation, eightyseven years ago, and, as the mission of the University of California is to foster science and to advance knowledge, the proposed affiliation with the homœopaths can not fail to bring the University into disrepute, both at home and abroad.

We hope the time will come when homoeopathic hospitals, colleges, etc., will cease their humble begging for "recognition" by the allopaths and will take the stand that their great truth justifies. So far as they practice true Homœopathy, they are standing on the bed-rock of scientific therapeutics, and they have nothing to gain by going groping with the allopaths-nothing save the loaves and fishes of patronage; but let them stand fast and these things will be added.

"Rain water

JOURNALS, big dailies and little dailies, lay and
medic, are constantly breaking out with items of
which the following is a specimen:
may be preserved by the addition of ten grains of
salicylic acid to the gallon. Before using it should
be filtered through a common filter of alternate
layers of white sand, chalk and animal charcoal."
Who among the seventy million inhabitants of the
United States wants to "preserve" rain water? And

So much the worse for the soldiers, the sailors, the those who use rain water, and it is about the most government employees, the railroaders and the stock-wholesome water that can be used, do as their fore

holders of the insurance companies. As for the "scientific societies" we know that they are gener

erally first to condemn and the last to approve of mighty discoveries. The greatest of these societies, the French Academy, having laughed with scientific scorn at the railroad, the steamship, and other little things like that, so the fact that this class of the world's wise men do not (as yet) "recognize" Homoeopathy is, if any thing, an argument in its favor. The third charge shows that the California allopaths

fathers did-keep it in properly made cisterns with-
out the aid of a chemical poison. And the last para-
graph is so characteristic of the "scientific" news-
paper squib; it looks scientific, but it isn't.

THERE is a curious reason, found in one of our October exchanges, for prescribing a remedy: "On the morning of the 16th, seeing that the infant was growing worse and that it would die in some access of suffocation I proposed the use of antitoxin.