words, very little was done for the patient besides treating the disease. When I began using Belladonna in this condition it was my custom to supplement it with a prescription of Merc. Dulc. 1x, given hourly for 10 doses; but lately the Belladonna alone has been used, and the results have been just as satisfactory and complete. During the whole series of cases I have not seen an aggravation by the remedy except a slight rash on back and chest in one case. This perhaps because Belladonna is so well suited to children and so well borne by them, and partly because it seems to be so well suited to the pathological conditions present. I want to cite one case only: Helen C., 5 months old, natural birth, fed on breast, family history good, was brought to dispensary June 9th, 1903, with history of having developed a cough about ten o'clock of the night previous. The cough was hard, tight and dry, not croupy or hoarse. Breathing very rapid, 82. Temperature, rectal, 105-2, pulse was 182. Had vomited, and since early morning there had been twitching of arms and hands. Prostration was marked, head thrown back and eyes set. Percussion was negative. The breathing was roughened, heard in all parts of chest. There were no rales. Bell. 1x was prescribed on pellets, five every hour. June 10, no improvement; June 11th, about same. Temperature 104-2, pulse 190, respiration 80. Rales made their appearance posteriorly. June 12th, very much better. Temperature 100, pulse 115, respiration 36; slight red rash over back and chest. Bell. given every 2 hours. June 13, still improving and continued to do so until June 24, when it was not necessary for her to return for treatment. In conclusion I want to say that my results have ben so uniformly successful that I have come to consider Belladonna almost a specific in these cases, but I must insist upon one point-it is necessary to use it very low and push it to the utmost until resolution is well established. 316 S. 15th St. HOMEOPATHY IN OHIO. By N. G. Burnham, M. D., Denver, Col. [Notes of Address to Alumni assembled in Denver on the occasion of the recent meeting of the Colorado State Homeopathic Medical Society.] Having been a resident of Colorado twenty-four years it gives me pleasure to briefly retrospect the past of the early history of Homeopathy in my native State. The growth and prosperity of Ohio, her institutions and her people, have always elicited my regard and abiding interest. Through the instrumentality of my preceptor, Prof. B. L. Hill, it was my good fortune to attend the first course of lectures delivered on Homeopathy and its Therapeutic Value west of the Allegheny Mountains in the years 1849 and 1850. The doors of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati were opened to Dr. Storm Rosa for one session, which, with an occasional lecture from Prof. W. P. Gatchell, whose clearness of diction and brilliancy were most remarkable, carried conviction to the minds of many a student. The seeds, then sown, grew and matured, ripening into a golden harvest for the future. Subsequently Prof. Hill prepared and had passed, by the Legislature of Ohio, the bill legalizing the charter for the Homeopathic college of Cleveland. The bitterness and animosity engendered by the old school men was so great the first year of its existence that mob violence was resorted to; but the determination of the valiant few representing the cause soon cleared away the virulent smoke of persecution and they arose in their might and builded on the ashes, the product of tyranny and oppression even "better than they knew," the second chartered institution on this continent, to its present colossal proportions with an alumni numbering two thousand representatives. Truly, if the bodies of those men could arise from their resting places, enlivened with the enthusiasm that inspired their work as pioneers in a great and good cause for science and humanity, a halo of glory would envelop them as they reviewed the results of their work, begun in martyrdom, continued in prosperity, and now enshrined in the minds and hearts of millions of their beneficiaries. To continue the good work as a means to an end, Prof. Hill accepted an appointment from the general government as Public Land Commissioner for the State of Michigan. During his sojourn in attending to his official duties he gained residence in the State and was elected and served as a member of the State Legislature. Alive to the present and future welfare of Homeopathy, he prepared a memorial, embodying the record of statistics in the most virulent forms of disease in contrast with old crude methods and placed a copy on each Legislator's desk, which so favorably impressed their minds that it paved the way to the establishment of the Homeopathic Department in the State University of Michigan. At that date, fifty-two years ago, there were but few representatives and those in our largest cities; but, they were representative men, who had accepted the new light, after being schooled in mechanical or physiological therapeuties. All undaunted, they marched on conquering and to conquest until we now find the rank and file of the old, clamoring to incorporate the new within the folds of their armamentarium. A new dispensation has appeared upon the scene; a new era has dawned. The recognition of a dual principle, inherent in all therapeutic agents is now the watchword; the objective and subjective -each working out the problem of nature's laws in the adaptation of means to ends; demonstrating the fact that the most subtle agents in nature are the most powerful. The length, breadth and height of the comprehensive knowledge and faith of the wise sages of old is nowhere more beautifully expressed than in the Apostle's Creed: "I believe in all things visible and invisible." In view of all this, let us not be unmindful of the fact as we journey over the hills and through the valleys of life, be it strewn with flowers or set with thorns; be it cradled in the lap of luxury or surrounded with want and poverty; be it robed in ermine and fine linen or clothed in rags; be it the life that attains to the highest and purest divinity of its nature or that which goes down to the lowest depths of depravity, that all the highways of correct knowledge lead to the same eternal city, whose buildings crumble not with age, but rise in beauty, in permanency, in grandeur, with an everincreasing brilliancy as we approach the citadel of science-the exponent of truth. ACCORDING to a Philadelphia paper a Miss Death, daughter of an undertaker, was lately taken to the German Hospital in that city suffering from appendicitis. She was operated upon by Dr. F. H. Dye and placed in charge of a day and a night nurse, the former being Miss Payne, the latter Miss Grone. In spite of this gruesome combination, the patient convalesced rapidly and was soon discharged. SAPONARIA KEYNOTES. 1. Utter indifference to his pain or possible death. 2. Sensation of drunkenness, with constant endeavor to go leftwards. 3. Left-sided trigeminal neuralgia, especially supra-orbital. 4. Violent eye-pains, momentarily increasing. 5. Diarrhoea; stool frequent, scanty, sudden desire. 6. A peculiar anxious subjective appreciation of the heart's movements. 7. Worse at night, worse by mental exertion, worse on left side.-Chironian. HINTS. In tetanus, or lockjaw, from injuries Hypericum is the best hope for cure. Arnica 3d or 30th, internally, will greatly hasten the disappearance of black and blue spots resulting from blows. Pulsatilla is the remedy for aborting a stye on the eye. But if stye goes on to suppuration, give Hepar sulph. Allium cepa, says Dr. Kent, is a good remedy for wind colic in babies. Sulphur 30 will cure many cases of enuresis. Jahr began all his cases with that remedy, following, if cure did not result, with Sepia, Belladonna, Pulsatilla, Causticum or Calcarea, as guided by symptoms.-Homeopathic Envoy. SCIENTIFIC PROVING OF DRUGS A reproving of our drugs is absolutely necessary, but according to the latest scientific principles the chemist, the microscopist, the X-ray, the blood tests, all should play their part in the proving of every drug. As provers we should have students of medicine, or physicians of both sexes, above the average in intelligence and sound in mind and body. They should devote their entire time to this work and be paid for it, and some one in charge who has had a thorough training in scientific research. Every organ in which symptoms develop should undergo a thorough daily examination by competent diagnosticians. An endowed institution devoted entirely to this purpose would accomplish more in a few years' time than all the homeopathic medical schools, societies or individual efforts combined.-The Chironian. SOME REMEDIES IN LITHAEMIC [Translated for the Homeopathic Recorder from Allg. Hom. Zeit., September 10, 1903.] Lycopodium is suitable with patients whose understanding is intact, who are, however, weak in their muscles and inclined to hepatic affections. It is one of our best remedies in lithæmia, as indicated by the dark-red urine with the sediment of red sand and the pains in the back. The neurasthenia symptoms covered are: Weakness of memory, confusion of thoughts, lack of thoughts, sadness and depression. But it also has melancholy and irritability. The patient wants to be alone, and even despairs of his salvation-a frequent symptom in this disease. Great weakness at night; the mind is too much excited, sleep is restless and interrupted by dreams; no position seems to be right. Much flatulence, constipation and colicky pain. Berberis vulgaris. Defective memory; easily fatigued by mental exertions; the patient indifferent toward those around him, thoughtful, irritable, timid, slow to speak. Sleep is restless and dreamy; he feels tired in the morning. Tired by day, so that he has to lie down often. The urine soon becomes turbid, is bloodred; a light-red, mealy sediment is formed, and the various parts of the urinary region feel sore. Liver symptoms. Cantharis is one of the chief remedies of lithæmia according to Dr. W. P. Laird; the totality of its morbid symptoms corresponding to this disease. In particular we find in it: Sensitiveness in the renal regions, cutting and contractive pains in the ureters, down to the bladder, the urethra and the seminal cords, while the testicles are drawn upward. Micturition is painful, the urine being discharged in drops; cutting pains before and after micturition. The urine is scanty, dark, with a sediment like brick-dust. Forgetfulness, confusion of the head, so that he cannot collect his thoughts. Despondent and with little energy, complains and weeps much. Vertigo; the abdomen strongly distended; restless sleep. The patient is weak, exhausted, weary; the head is confused, especially in the morning. ARGENTUM NITRICUM. "According to my observations, the Nitrate of Silver is eminently indicated in disturbances of the brain, and the consequent derangements in the system generally, which have arisen from moral causes. The opinion advanced by Mueller does not correspond with the facts I have witnessed. "Epilepsies produced by moral causes (such as, for example, very impassioned lay-preaching) are promptly and durably cured by a few small doses of this drug, whilst those proceeding from abdominal irritation, independently of moral causes, are, at best, but poorly pal liated by very large and frequently-repeated doses. The same observation must, I am persuaded, hold good with respect to gastric disturbances; those only will be cured by it which have arisen during too great or too long-continued mental exertion. "The bodily symptoms being similar to those produced by this drug, I should regard it as an indispensable remedy when there are the following moral conditions: "1. A crowd of impulses to act, to move, to be busy, which, without any distinct purpose to affect, keeps the patient in continual motion; a state of unrest, which gives the appearance of hurry and discontent to all his conduct. "2. The opposite of the foregoing condition; not the calmness of deportment which occurs when the mind is in healthful contemplation, but an apathy indicative of a privation of motive or purpose; a state verging upon, and often ending in, perfect imbecility. Or, "3. Errors and defects of perception. The erroneous perceptions in which I have seen Nitrate useful have been:-1, As to time; the patient constantly fearing he should be too late, and supposing that one or two hours had elapsed when not more than a quarter or an eighth of the supposed time had passed, and this all the while, night and day, for many weeks together; and 2, Errors as to the velocity of gait, the patient supposing that he was walking very rapidly when he was, in fact, moving but very slowly indeed. "Moreover, I should regard the Nitrate as the remedy (other indications existing for its use) in all severe commotions of the system arising from too great acuteness of the perceptive organs, e. g., certain forms of epilepsia and chorea. "It is, I think, probable that silver will be found as strictly adapted to the cure of morbid perceptions and their concomitant disturbances in the digestive, motor and genital apparatus, as gold is to the removal of diseased affections and their consensual motory and genital diseases."-Dr. John F. Gray, in Hom. Recorder. "CURING" BY EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS. The following, clipped from a paper by Dr. A. A. Pompey, of Vancouver, Washington, in the Medical Brief, an old school journal, illustrates the consequences of suppressing eruptions on the skin by outward applications, and also demonstrates the great truth taught by Hahnemann in his wonderful work, Chronic Diseases. Dr. Pompey writes: "To give a case in point, and to show you the correctness of Hahnemann's teachings and the inner satisfaction a homeopath has when he sees he is correct and cures his patient, and, besides this, to know he has the lifelong gratitude from the parents, is something your old school men never experience in their inner consciousness." "Case.-Allen Kime, age eleven, or thereabout, of Toledo, Wash. (I give name and address in full, so you can write to him or parents.) Large for his age, clear complexion, and bright for his years. Could never stand to play with boys, or run, as it made him sick, producing fever and cough, with rattling in lower portion of lung. Had not been able to attend school regularly any term, staying out weeks at a time. Father consulted me and wished to have me treat him as his family doctor. Allopath never did him any good. This was 1901. I got the above history plus the fact that he had had the eczema when a baby, and on my direct question on this point, 'how cured?' I was informed by 'ointments.' Well, I said to Mr. Kime, 'I suspect the trouble is all due to the suppression instead of cure of the eczema, and if I succeed in bringing it to the surface again I can promise to cure your boy, and what is more, I will tell you beforehand that if the eczema comes back it will return in the same places it was, and look the same as it did ten years ago.' They asked me how soon the medicine would work. I told them right away, and that if my prescription was correct, and my supposition, also, that the eczema would show up in a week or two at most. I gave this boy one little powder of Sulphur, two hundredth potency, and a two-drachm vial of pellets moistened with pure alcohol. After a week's time the report was that Allen 'itched all over.' I said, 'Good, the prescription is correct, and the eczema will soon show up.' And it did in a day or two." "The mother had told me the baby had it on its head, but now her memory was refreshed, for it also showed up on the inner side of thigh, and, indeed, he had had it there also while a baby. Homeopathy gained right there three more everlasting converts." "I gave the boy nothing else except, after six weeks, one more dose of Sulphur cc., of course, 'the sugar pellets.' "The eczema all disappeared, and with it all his complaints until the next winter a little eczema showed up on edge of hair, and he got one dose of Sulphur cm., which cured it up in a hurry, and the boy never missed a single day from school since for sickness." "Every homeopath. I believe, would have treated this case like I did. Some, perhaps, might have given more Sulphur, but our precepts teach us to cure with the smallest amount of medicine." |