(location of bite) and extended in a short time up forearm and arm to the shoulder and thence to the praecordial region. Violent pain extending from 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.

Skin. Skin cold as marble. Cupping over the praecordia caused flow of thin, florid blood, which did not coagulate; blood continued to ooze for many hours. Intense pain, or itching, or stinging, pricking at location of bite.

Duration.-One patient grew continually worse for twenty-six hours, and then reaction set in.

Antidotes.-Patients recovered under treatment of large doses of whiskey and intravenous injections of Aqua Ammoniae.

Clinical. "In its physiological action it resembles angina pectoris vasomotoria." Dr. Samuel A. Jones. A number of cases of angina pectoris are reported as cured by this remedy.-Journal of Homeopathics, January, 1902.

HINTS FOR TREATMENT OF

CHILDREN.

Sensations of pain, stiffness and lameness when beginning to move, relieved by continuous motion, are indications for rhus tox. When a child moans and cries at the least touch, the crying being accompanied with a copious flow of tears, give pulsatilla. When the child cries out violently in sleep, give apis. If the child complains continually, helleborus. When the child seeks to bite the nurse, stramonium. When the child is feverish and delirious, with convulsions of the limbs, hyoscyamus. Frequent screaming without any visible cause, calcarea. Unready for every exertion, indifference and lacking in interest, acid. phosphoric. Perspiration of the head,

silicea; the head perspires while cool, calcarea; dry, hot head, sulphur. Aconite cures pains in the back which prevent deep respiration. The sensation as if the skin of the forehead were too tightly drawn has been relieved by baptisia. When the heart beats too strongly, while in a recumbent position, give arsenicum. A sensation of severe cold in the cardiac region requires natrum mur. Constipation, even with a sensation of fermentation and distension, lycopodium. Pains in the nerves, relieved by exercise in the open air, sabina. Stiffness and torpor of the limbs, cocculus. When the smell of food causes nausea, even when the patient before was hungry, colchicum. Stiffness from a sprain or overlifting, rhus tox. Periodic headache, recurring every few weeks, platina. -Homeopathic Envoy, February, 1902.

SOME NOTE BOOK REMINDERS.

Grindelia robusta has a sphere of action in asthma. It has itching of the skin and is an antidote to rhus.

In exophthalmic goitre consider lycopus; if the patient is fat, fucus may be indicated.

Veratrum Viride.-No symptom is more sure for veratrum viride than a brown stripe down the center of the tongue and white stripes on either side. -Dr. St. Clair Smith.

Jaundice is neither a constant nor a characteristic symptom of gall-stones.Dr. J. M. Lee.

Sulphur 6th will cure more pruritis than any other drug.-Dr. H. M. Dearborn.

Kali bromatum is a leading remedy in psoriasis.-Dearborn.

High potencies are those above the grade of that which the action admits of a mechanical explanation.-Dunham.

In functional disorders of the pancreas consider iris versicolor.

Fothergill

Calcarea Phosphorica. said of this substance: "Whenever cell growth is active there is this element in excess. Over-worked individuals, oversuckling mothers, as well as growing infants, are benefited by this haematic. It is especially useful in rickety children. It controls morbid nutrition of the skeleton, while it supplies the lime for proper ossification. It is not needed in large doses. In fracture of the bones lime is useful."

Secale. Tingling on the tip of the tongue, which is stiff.-W. B. Hinsdale, Medical Century, February, 1902.

UNUSUAL REMEDIES.

Alnus serrulata (red or tag alder) has a direct influence on the skin and mucous membranes through its stimulation of the nutritive processes; useful in chronic eruptive diseases, as eczema, prurigo, herpes, etc.; also, in ulcerated or inflammatory conditions of the mucous membranes of mouth and throat. Indigestion from imperfect secretion of gastric juice is much benefited by this. remedy. Drop doses of the tincture.

Balsamum peruvianum (balsam peru) is a good remedy for bronchorrhoea, chronic bronchitis, with profuse fetid secretion, especially when associated with catarrh of the bladder. Discs saturated with the tincture or first decimal form a good method of administering it.

Lolium Temulentum.-Records of poisoning show headache, vertigo, tinnitus, trembling tongue, dysphagia, soreness of stomach, vomiting, debility, cold sweat and trembling of limbs. Provings point to similar disturbances. and give notably the following symp

toms:

Sensorium.-Sleepiness, headache in forehead, vertigo when moving head, swaying on standing with closed eyes.

Gastric.-Pain in pit of stomach and umbilical region, stomach feels full, gastralgia with increase of pain on pressure, nausea and vomiting, mouth dry and throat scrapy, all digestive secretions lessened. At first purging, followed by obstinate constipation.

Sedum Acre.-Hemorrhoidal pains, like those of anal fissures; constricting pain, worse a few hours after stool. Fissures. Use the sixth potency and gradually descend to tincture.

Mucuna urens is an excellent remedy for hemorrhoidal diathesis and diseases depending thereon.

Quassia is a remedy of use in urinary affections, and especially in enuresis. The child always wakes up thoroughly drenched. There is copious micturition day and night. Excessive desire and impossibility of retaining the urine.

Oreodaphne Californica was proved by Dr. Florence Ward, and produced very marked, constant dull ache in the cervical and occipital regions, extending to the scapulae; great heaviness of the head, with a constant desire to move the head, which, however, gave no relief. Eructations, nausea and shuddering.

Solanum lycopersicum should be remembered in rheumatism. It produces severe aching pains all over the body, like those of influenza. Sharp pain in deltoid and pectoralis muscles; also, in elbow and wrist. Right crural neuralgia. The symptoms are all better in the warm room. The symptoms of influenza are also well marked. Besides the general aching, there are coryza and all the symptoms of a cold on the chest. Explosive, deep, harsh cough.—Wm. Boericke, Medical Century, February, 1902.

HINTS.

Alternate diarrhoea and constipation and very white tongue calls for antimonium crud.

When patient sweats much and the pains are made worse by warmth of bed give mercurius.

China 15th, a dose a day for a month, will, it was said by the old homeopathists, prevent the formation of gall-stones and the recurring of attacks of gall-stone colic.

For the cough, night sweats and fever of consumption, give one dose a week of bacillinum 30th. It gives ease to the patient and does not interfere with the other remedies.

When all other heart remedies fail try crataegus ox. in drop doses of the tincture or tincture tablets. It often gives marvelous relief to sufferers from heart diseases.

For itching of the anus, ratanhia.

A correspondent who says that thuja will not cure fig-warts on the neck wants to know another remedy. Perhaps nitric acid (pellets) may relieve, but perhaps constitutional treatment by a homeopathic physician would be preferable.

Fat children who are slow in learning to walk may be benefited by calcarea carb.

Simple giddiness requires gelsemium. Vertigo from biliousness, bryonia. Caused by looking up, calcarea carb. With nausea, cocculus ind. While lying down, conium.

Soreness of the scalp, china. -Homeopathic Envoy, February, 1902.

CHRONIC BRONCHITIS.-THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT. Sulphur. (3x)-Gouty subjects, or the tuberculous diathesis; bronchorrhea.

Kali bi. (2x)-"Dry" bronchial ca

Spongia. (3x) — Dry, laryngeal catarrh.

Note. In making prescription in chronic bronchitis give attention to the constitutional condition and the primary disease. Ch. Gatchell, Medical Era, February.

SYMPTOMS.-A STUDY.

The principles upon which this paper is based may be briefly summarized as follows:

First. Homeopathy is an inductive science, dealing primarily with the facts. of experience in sickness, which are called symptoms.

Second. The ideal of homeopathy is healing the sick by the application, in medicine, of the universal principle of mutual action, stated by Newton in the formula, "action and reaction are equal and contrary," and by Hahnemann in the phrase Similia Similibus Curentur.

Third. Its basis of action is the totality of the symptoms, stated to be not only the whole number of symptoms in a given case, but the totality of each individual symptom.

Fourth. The perfect remedial correspondent or curative, under the law of similars, technically called the similimum, is that medicine which has the power of producing in a healthy person symptoms which, in their totality, are most similar, or equal, to those of the patient.

Fifth. The choice of the remedy is made by comparison of the symptoms of the patient with the symptoms of the remedy. This process is facilitated by selecting from the totality of symptoms of the patient characteristics or keynotes, which are the peculiar symptoms that give the case its individuality, and differentiate it from other cases of a

similar character, and searching for the medicine having similar characteristics. Such selection of keynote and remedy is afterward verified by comparison of totalities.

Sixth. A characteristic symptom may be defined as one which has been given character and individuality by being precisely defined and set in proper relation to its concomitant symptoms.-Stuart Close, North Am. Jour. of Homeo., February, 1902.

ADDING OUR WELCOME.

Therapeutic Hints from the New Homeopathic Journal of Pediatrics.-It gives us much pleasure to welcome the new journal devoted exclusively to the subject of pediatrics. If one may judge from its first number, it is going to be a splendid little journal, well edited, beautifully printed, and full of just those things which will be of the greatest interest to every physician who treats children. The leading article this month is from the pen of our own Bigler, who calls attention to the fact that, contrary to the belief which seems to prevail, a child "has nerves," and that its nervous system makes certain imperative demands upon the attention of the parents and the family physician which cannot be disregarded without serious detriment to its present and future healthy. development.

Natrum muriaticum, says the editor, is an excellent remedy for the fresh colds of children. The discharge from the nose is as clear as water; there is sneezing, together with watering of the eyes or excessive secretion of saliva. A few doses of natrum mur. 6x will cause a disappearance of such symptoms. The same remedy will help many beginning colds in adults, and is often forgotten.

Petroselinum is a very effective rem