LONDONDERRY LITHIA AS A SOLVENT OF URIC ACID. Read before the Colorado State Medical Society. By N. WIEST, M. D., Denver, Colorado: "When a patient comes to me with any of the following symptoms I immediately look for uric acid, and generally find it in sufficient quantities to cause the trouble. Intense headache, coming on either in the morning before rising, or after dinner. The morning headache often passes off after the patient has been up and about his work a short time; the afternoon headache generally becomes easier, or ceases altogether in the evening. There may be a pain and a tired feeling in the back; a feeling of complete 'goneness' or fullness as the case may be, in the stomach or bowels, with extreme restlessness; 'blind staggers,' as the patients often call it; dizziness, whiz. zing lights before the eyes; temporarily disturbed vision; buzzing in the ears, with a sense of fullness in the head. Sometimes the face is flushed, especially in the afternoon; the eyes congested. There may be aversion to mental or physical exertion; a sense of impending danger; Irritable temper; indigestion with all its accompaning evils; rheumatism and neuralgic pains I have treated cases with and without the use of mineral waters and have found the cases in which they were used improved most rapidly as a rule. I have enjoyed using the LONDONDERRY LITHIA WATER because of its decidedly beneficial action in these cases. * From a "System of Practical Therapeutics," by HOBART AMORY HARE, B. Sc., M. D., Prof. Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. New (second) and revised edition: "In America the Lithia Waters are fast displacing all others. There seems to be a good reason for this, as the very low equivalent of lithia gives it a much greater neutralization power, weight for weight, than any other of the alkalies. For this reason it is effective in smaller quantity, and it follows that less demand is made upon the kidneys, excreting the resulting salts. The principal Lithia Springs, in the order of their strength, are Londonderry, and From J. R. KIPPAX, M. D., Prof. Principles and Practice of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, Chicago Homeopathic Medical College: "I consider Londonderry Lithia Water an extremely valuable adjuvant in the treatment of chronic gout, lithiasis, renal calculi and other uric acid affections. It materially diminishes the amount of uric acid, and is of decided benefit in washing out the deposits." LONDONDERRY LITHIA SPRING WATER CO., NEW YORK, No. 76 Broad Street, NASHUA, N. H. PHILADELPHIA, No. 1416 Chestnut Street. CHICACO, No. 70 State Street. David Nicholson, Agent for St. Louis. The Success of Peptogenic Milk Powder, in the feeding of sick babies has led many mothers to infer that the Peptogenic Milk Powder is especially designed for sick babies. 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YOUNT, Professor of Nervous Diseases in Post Graduate Medical School FULLER & FULLER CO., Chicago, Sole Licensees for U. s. Mention this journal. JOURNAL OF HOMEOPATHY AND CLINICAL REPORTER. VOL. 1. ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL, 1895. EDITORIAL MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPA THY. CONCE CERNING the Missouri Institute of Homœopathy: The nineteenth annual session will be held in Kansas City on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 23rd., 24th. and 25th., at the Midland Hotel. The Midland Hotel has generously allowed us the use of parlor S and an adjoining room for our meetings, and has provided a rate of $3.00 per day for single single rooms. For two beds in a room the rate will be $2.50 for each person. The several bureau chairmen are hard at work securing contributors, and a fine list of essays will be presented at the session. Kansas City has a local committee in the persons of Drs. A. E. Neumeister, L. G. Van Scoyoc and J. F. Elliot, who will leave nothing undone to provide every convenience for a One question which will claim a great deal of attention, and it is a No. 5. question which must be properly disposed of, is the matter of securing legislative concessions in Missouri. The apathy of the profession in Mis souri is alarming, and it calls for prompt action. Prominent authors and teachers from contiguous states will attend and give us the benefit of their experience, just as they have done for so many years. Physicians are especially requested to illustrate their lectures with photographs; preserved specimens of pathological growths; and all kinds of demonstrations that will elucidate their essays. Reports already received indicate a large and enthusiastic meeting. H. J. RAVOLD, M. D., General Secretary. DIPHTHERIA. E publish in the present num ber of the JOURNAL a letter from Dr. W. A. Scott, of Pleasantville, Iowa, which was doubtless intended as a private communication, written. probably without his having seen or heard of a number of the JOURNAL. Of course the doctor's views as to the local nature of the disease at first will be controverted by a large class of pathologists who think the disease a general blood condition, with local attendants or consequences. We confess to a strong bias in favor of Dr. Scott's theory as to the primary local nature; and that the general or blood septic state comes secondarily. In deed, we believe advanced pathology will find this to be true of a very large class of group symptoms (diseases) which we have been taught to consider general blood troubles primarily and of local mien afterward; such, for example, as pneumonia, dysentery, cholera, syphilis, gonorrhoea. We now doubt if exception may be allowed in the case of con MISSOURI INSTITUTE. THE next annual meeting will be held at Kansas City 23d April, to last three days. The officers of the society and the chairmen of bureaus are making haste in preparation for the occasion. Doubtless there will be a large attendance and the occasion one of much interest both special and general. Our state and local meetings furnish much better opportunities for work from a large number of members than our national meeting, where the large attendance and the great mass of miscellaneous business cut off the modest individual from much participancy. Let us by all means go to the next meeting with something in hand to add to the interest of the occasion. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE OF MISSOURI. sumption, scrofula. scirrhus. Doubt THE annual college commencement less there will be found in many of these symptomatic groups a certain predisposition; but we undertake to say, said predisposition will be a very harmless affair, if no local appearances ever put in appearance. We hope Dr. Scott's letter may enlist attention, and together with the suggestions here given, bring us a number of pointed, practical papers on the points touched. If it prove true, that diseased conditions are mainly local primarily, it will require us as homeopaths to modify both theory and practice as to local applications, about the use of which many of our practitioners, high potency practitioners especially, are very shy. We feel entirely free from any quality of dogmatism in the premises. We simply desire to reach the truth and, if possible, help others to do so. has come, succeeded and gone. The winter's college work has been an eminent success, every way. The class was larger than ever before; the material excellent, the faculty have been faithful, industrious, harmonious. Much has recently been added to the facilities for teaching in the lines of histology, chemistry and the special and general clinics. Altogether our loved college has taken a new lease on the future for greater success and usefulness than ever before. known to the common people before they were studied by the medical profession. However that may be, we know that, mingled with a good deal that has been proven quite valueless or even injurious, the unlearned everywhere, and even uncivilized and savage races, have had in their uncouth medical folk-lore some great truths, and among their remedies, not a few of our most valuable drugs. Hahnemann confessedly confessedly obtained from some of the old herbals, in which was preserved much of the medical folk-lore of Europe, more than one valuable suggestion. It had never occurred to the peasantry to try their remedies upon dogs, cats, rabbits or guinea pigs, still less to concoct wonderful mixtures of a dozen or more ingredients. Their "teas" represented, more or less fully, the virtues of one plant, the subjects of their experiments were human beings. Here were two of the great things insisted upon by Hahnemann-the single remedy and experiment upon human beings. To make the provings Hahnemannian, there lacked but the one element, that the remedies should be tested upon healthy subjects. It is hardly to be wondered at, therefore, that the great medical reformer in his self-imposed task of laying broad the foundation for a truly scientific materia medica, should have quarried his foundation-stones from folk-medicine rather than from the farrago of authoritative nonsense that then passed for medical science, and which it is but fair to say was quite unlike modern "regular" medicine. Thus it is that we see him taking up for scientific tests such popular remedies as agnus castus, arnica, bryonia, canabis sativa, capsicum, chamomilla, drosera, dulcamara, euphrasia, helleborus, pulsatilla, rhus, sambucus nigra, secale, taraxacum, etc. The example set by the Master was faithfully followed by his early disciples, who gave us provings of other popular remedies, such as chelidonium, crocus, carduus, etc. The North American Indians used not a few of what we now call our remedies. Arum triphyllum, asclepias, baptisia, cimicifuga, gelsemium, hydrastis, hamamelis, phytolacca, sanguinaria, xanthoxyllum and others were used by the "noble red man" long before they were known to his paler brother. From the South American natives we got our first knowledge of the virtues of cinchona and coca. The Russian peasants have recently furnished to scientific medicine the first inkling of the virtues of convallaria and adonis vernalis, and now from "darkest Africa" comes the latest, but probably not the least, of the additions to our therapeutic armamentarium, kola. When we say the latest, we do not mean that the knowledge of kola and its virtues has but just been made known to Europeans. Nearly or perhaps quite three hundred years ago, the rare travelers who visited the Congo brought therefrom accounts of the virtues of a nut that was highly prized by the natives; but their stories were probably but little credited and the countries where the nuts grew were practically inaccessible. The opening of the Congo country, the creation of the Congo Free States, the recent exploration of the land of the kola tree by the French, the Belgians, the Germans and the English have awakened a new interest in kola. The French and German governments have appointed commissions to in |