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country are practically closed to us and it is but recently that we have been able to make any real headway in the line. of serving upon pension boards or examining for life insurance companies. As to matters of difference let us agree to disagree, but in the adjustment of things about which there can be no question let us act with a long pull and a strong pull and a pull all together.

"Homeopathy is a delusion of the educated classes," wrote that intensely partisan and caustic dreamer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., LL. D., and this sentiment seems to find a ready local echo in these words attributed to a former Professor of Theory and Practice at old "Erie Street," "Be it said to our shame that right here in the city of Cleveland these cussed little pill-peddlers are ringing more silver door knobs than we are."

To my mind, however, there is no discredit in the fact that the stronghold of Homeopathy is now and ever has been. among the people of education, refinement and wealth. Moreover, it is a fact as demonstrated by the illiteracy tables which are compiled by unprejudiced parties. Since ignorance and vice seem to be closely related and are frequently found to reside next door to poverty and crime we can scarcely be blamed for somewhat rejoicing in a superior clientage.

Ohio stands seventh among the states in her percentage of Homeopathic practitioners and within her borders reside nearly one-tenth of the total number in this whole country. Nearly one-fourth of the total number in the state practice in the city of Cleveland or its immediate vicinity. There are but few counties in which we have no representation and these are the ones furthest removed from the cities and most sparsely populated. Of these one per cent more have diplo

mas than have the allopaths and fifteen per cent more than the eclectics and physio-medicals, according to the records of the registration board.

We think, therefore, we are safe in saying that the physicians in our ranks will compare very favorably in character and professional ability with those of any other school of practice, and while they are apparently as busy and prosperous they certainly proportionately sign less death certificates.

Reasoning, then, from these facts, together with a personal knowledge concerning many of the practitioners of our school in this state and their professional standing in the communities in which they reside, we are inevitably led to the conclusion that "The Status of Homeopathy in the State of Ohio" is second to that of no state in the Union and will profit by a comparison with any country on the face of this earth. In the words of the poet, "We are sorry it's not better and we are glad it is no worse." In closing may I not venture the hope that each one of us shall so perform the duties of life that at its close we may say with Hahnemann, "The high objects which I have pursued have not made my life joyless."

EXCERPTS FROM PRACTICE.

By ROLAND T. WHITE, M. D., Allegheny, Pa.

In the study of Materia Medica perhaps the first question finding expression in our retrospective analysis is the same which arises in the pursuit of all scientific research, i. e., the actual correctness and truth of its integral parts.

Are these multiplied symptoms contained in repertory, hand book, concordance and key notes under all conditions, the actual or chimerical curative picture of the drug dynamics?

It behooves us to avail ourselves of every opportunity in clinical verifications by physiological studies, to note for the common good the facts accrued to further the effective knowledge in the relation of drug and disease.

Proving of drug dynamically and physiologically under the proper expert observation must be acknowledged the ideal of accuracy, but even here many errors creep in, errors of temperament, of judgment and idiocyncrasy may make the drug picture imperfect; as human reason must always remain finite, truth in science and arts must ever seem negative.

Although our Materia Medica will never hold within its pages the entire drug truth, it will always fulfil conditions. acceptably and retain the lasting gratitude of the searcher for the similimum.

Clinical experience will remain an ever fruitful accumulating source of richest pabulum, giving us the ne plus ultra, the final verdict to all inquiry.

In these clinical excerpts of special symptoms two of the drugs studied have not been through the hands of the prover, consequently we have only experience for our guide, and I shall simply dwell upon special characteristics as they appeal to my observation in their clinical application.

Fraxinus Americana (the White Ash, medicinal qualities in bark), recommended in dysmenorrhoea, but given a more important sphere of application by the late Dr. Burnett, for uterine prolapsus and displacements, has proven a remedy of value in a much broader field of usefulness in its action upon the female pelvic organs than heretofore allotted to it. Its curative effects seem to be due to its qualities as a vaso-motor stimulant, centering primarily in the sexual sphere.

The mental symptoms showing depression with a nervous restlessness, anxiety, forgetfulness, with difficulty in mental concentration. Uterus enlarged and patulous, with a watery unirritating leucorrhoea, readily displaced uterus, ligaments seemingly incapable of exercising the proper support.

We find usually tenderness in the left inguinal region, with weight and pressure through the epigastrium, bearing down with a feeling that viscera will be expelled, pain often extending down the thighs, and the many distressing symptoms which accompany sub-involution, comparing with Lillium Tig., Sepia, Cimicif. The lower potencies appear to be most effective.

In Chaparro Amargoso we have a valuable remedy in chronic diarrhoeathose baffling stubborn cases which have resisted other treatment, under the proper indications. Chaparro will frequently produce reaction, cases of long standing seem to be met and their cure accomplished with refreshing ease, the restoration being permanent and complete.

The drug has been used in the south and south-west in a routine, perfunctory manner and considered a specific for bowel affections.

The character of cases which are most promptly relieved comprise that broad field of conditions usually termed bilious, having frequent prodromal symptoms, uneasy, restless feeling through the abdomen, "in some, tenderness over the liver." The aggravations have intervals from a few hours to one or two days at a time, the return of the trouble being all the more depressing after a period of seeming relief.

The stools are frequent, comparatively little pain, but accompanied often with considerable mucus. In another variety of cases one or two loose dejections.

each morning without apparently being followed by any weakening effect. Com-pare Phos. Acid.

Among most of these cases there is depression and nervous erethism, anxiety, sometimes with the fear that he cannot be relieved. In a few the mental state has produced insomnia and invalidism with all the accompanied weakness, although the appetite remained good. Kali Carb and Cupr. Ars. show a comparative relationship in their chronic mucous stools.

In the study of Anacardium and in remembrance of its many kind returns for the recognition of its value in peculiarly troublesome cases, I am grateful, believing that it is not infrequently overlooked and hardly given the prominence which its happy effects should earn.

Many times Nux Vomica is prescribed in stomach disorders, dyspepsia, etc., when Anacardium would do better; although first impressions give them little in common, they both have nausea in morning, with a fasting sensation, pain, fermentation and pressure after eating, but the distinctive symptom in many of these cases may be found in the great appetite which the Anacardium patient manifests, although fermented or undigested food still remains in the stomach.

With the mental symptoms following long and exhausting fevers, when great prostration and weakness remains after the delirium we find Anacardium distinctive. In this type we have mental irritability, the manifestations of the emotions and disposition of the patient. entirely changed after the delirium has passed.

A child convalescent from fever will improve physically, rapidly returning to a normal state of strength, but the temperament will be all changed, proving a grief and disappointment to its parents;

from a loving, even tempered cherub, we have a quarrelsome, irritable, erratic, uncontrollable, unhappy mania, without the normal sense of right and wrong, querulous and shunning his best friends, selfish, eating voraciously all the food of any kind he can get his hands upon, the memory of the home life and the loved ones gone, supplanted by an antagonism to all with whom he may come in contact.

Such a picture is not overdrawn, and I have seen Anacardium clear up cases when well grounded doubt had arisen as to the probability of a restoration of the mental balance. The functionally disturbed emotional center restored and the angel will again appear when the demon has departed. Associate Anacardium. with the gastric symptoms of the neurasthenic and nervous dyspepsia it frequently proves specific.

Our polychrest Hepar Sulfuris is not as frequently remembered in the bladder difficulties of old men as its usefulness would seemingly indicate, in those cases of chronic suppuration of the prostatic urethra not infrequently caused by enlarged prostate, the patient having to rise frequently at night, micturition painful and impeded, waiting sometime before the urine begins to flow, when it passes very slowly, never finishing, some urine always remaining in the bladder. Urine showing pus and debris in sediment, form a picture of clinical accuracy and verification compared with the more active diuretics, Eupat. Purp., Chimaph., Fabiana and Puls.

Depression, loss of memory with absence of mind form the usual mental picture of agnus castus, paradoxically called, the chaste tree. With its long list of complaints growing out of the sexual sphere from melancholy to impotency. We find a train of neurotic conditions, however, where the remedy will

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THE HURON STREET HOSPITAL.

The Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital, which is generally referred to as the Huron Street Hospital, will not be removed from its present location, and for at least another year all talk and plans for another site will have no place in the deliberations of the trustees.

This was the final decision of the board of managers and trustees present at the annual meeting of the hospital board held February 10, 1902.

The debt has been raised and the hospital is free, thanks to the efforts of the lady managers and the board of trustees.

Mrs. Mary H. Castle has donated to the hospital fund $10,000, which will be added to the present endowment fund of $5,000, so that in time the endowment fund will admit of more charity work.

Other large contributors who aided most materially in lifting the burden of debt were John D. Rockefeller, Hon. M.

A. Hanna, J. H. Wade, D. Z. Norton, Calvary Morris, R. R. Rhodes, Colonel Myron T. Herrick, M. A. Bradley, and a list of honor containing over seventy names of firms and individuals who came forward with the cash to help the institution out of debt. Although the hospital is now out of debt and in a most highly satisfactory financial condition, W. H. Webber, the superintendent, said that it had been decided for a certainty. that no effort would be made to find a new location for some time to come.

The annual meeting was presided over by Captain Luther Allen, the first vice president, as it was impossible for Senator Hanna, the president, to attend. The officers of last year were all chosen for another term. Those honored are: Hon. M. A. Hanna, president; Luther Allen, first vice president; Colonel Myron T. Herrick, second vice president; Dr. H. Pomeroy, secretary; W. H. Webber, treasurer and superintendent by appointment.

The report of the board of lady managers was most encouraging. It showed 700 charity cases treated during the

year.

The hospital has performed notable service in caring for the wounded after all of the severe accidents in the city during the past year.

The Queen Luise fete at the Opera House netted $3,000 to the hospital fund and the estimated value of the hospital's realty holdings is about $130,000.

William H. Webber, who is entering upon his eleventh year as superintendent of the institution, was presented with a handsome cut glass loving cup by Mr. R. R. Rhodes in appreciation of his excellent services in the hospital work.

Mrs. L. Alice Chambers submitted a report of the training school which shows that eleven nurses completed the course last year.

The financial statement shows that $26,868.59 was the amount donated to lift the debt. Additional contributions and other sources of revenue increased the total receipts to $56,130.75, which was added to $4,821.37, the balance. from last year. The disbursements for the year amounted to $44,624.04, leaving $16,327.48 in the treasury.

The following staff was appointed, viz.:

Consulting Physicians.---J. C. Sanders, M. D., D. H. Beckwith, M. D., G. J. Jones, M. D.

Surgery.---H. L. Frost, M. D., K. B. Waite, M. D., C. D. Ellis, M. D., W. T. Miller, M. D., W. E. Wells, M. D., H. D. Bishop, M. D.

Gynecology.---J. C. Wood, M. D., P. B. Roper, M. D.

Ophthalmology.-W. A. Phillips, M. D., B. B. Viets, M. D.

Laryngology.---G. H. Quay, M. D. Genito-Urinary Surgery.---N. T. B. Nobles, M. D.

Medicine.---H. H. Baxter, M. D., A. L. Waltz, M. D., A. B. Schneider, M. D., C. C. True, M. D.

Obstetrics.---H. Pomeroy, M. D., H. W. Richmond, M. D., A. F. Baldinger, M. D., E. H. Jewitt, M. D.

Dermatology.---G. W. Spencer, M. D. Neurology.---J. Richey Horner, M. D. Pathology.---C. M. Thurston, M. D.

Materia Medica Notes

LATRODECTUS MACTANS

(SPIDER.)

(Symptoms reported by Dr. G. William Semple, Hampton, Va., noted in five patients who were bitten by black spiders. Arranged from the article of Dr. Samuel A. Jones in Homeopathic Recorder.)

Mental.-Anxiety. Screaming fearfully with the pain and exclaiming she would lose her breath and die. Moribund.

Head.-Violent pain extending from the bite on right wrist up forearm and arm to shoulder, and then up the neck to the back of the head on the right side. Face. Countenance expressive of pain and deep anxiety.

Stomach.-Nausea. Vomiting of black vomit, a quart or more. Sinking sensation at the epigastrium.

Abdomen.-Severe abdominal pains.

Stool. Copious evacuations similar to the black vomit.

Respiration.-Apnoea extreme. Respiration only occasional-gasping.

Heart and Pulse.-Violent praecordial pains extending to the shoulder and axilla on the left, and down the arm and forearm to the ends of the fingers, with numbness and partial paralysis of this extremity. Violent pain extending from the left hand (location of bite), up arm to shoulder and praecordial region. Pulse 130 and very feeble; so frequent it could not be counted and so feeble it could not be felt.

Extremities.-Pain in the left arm, which was almost paralyzed. Violent praecordial pains extending to the shoulder and axilla on the left, and down the arm and forearm to the ends of the fingers, with numbness and partial paralysis of this extremity. Violent pains commenced on back of left hand.

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