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Dr. G. J. Jones, in responding to the toast, "The Faculty" said, in part:

"Our faculty is a democratic body. I use the word democratic in its literal sense, and not as it is usually defined in these days. Each one of us has a mind of his own, and in college matters we take what is called in the army the route step, which only requires that all the soldiers travel in the same direction and have the same object in view. We all travel in the same direction; sometimes there are two or three abreast, or perhaps one may plunge ahead for a short time, or one may lag behind his fellows. But let an alarm be sounded, or the long roll beaten, and we come to company front at once, with fixed bayonets, if need be, to repel or charge the common enemy."

Dr. H. B. Bryson, '93, in responding to the toast, "The Class" said, in part: "The present graduating class is the first finished product from raw material that came into the halls of the Cleveland Medical College. Three years ago we espoused its cause; we saw that it was founded upon principle, the outgrowth of necessity, wide-awake, progressive medical education, and democratic government. We then were a part of the seventy students who unfalteringly cast their future in its modern mould. The trinity of years just ending has proven the wisdom of our choice. Then we had an able faculty and a well-officered institution, and that was about all-except our unbounded faith in their ability and promise. The limited facilities of that first year have been metamorphosed into a modern palace, with superb and unsurpassed working facilities; instead of the eighteen graduates of that first year, we are the thirty of this third year; instead of the seventy students of this college's natal year, I tonight have the honor to represent the one hundred and

twenty students of its third year-the most phenomenal record in the whole. history of medical education."

Dr. Ed. Morrill responded briefly to the toast, "The City Doctor."

Dr. H. W. Osborn, in the course of his response to the toast, "The Country Doctor," described that genial soul as follows:

"We may occasionally see the country doctor, lean and long and brown, as is the ribbed sea sand,' but in the majority of instances we shall find him builded upon plans and specifications of ampler scope, with the breadth of shoulder, depth of chest and opulent development of hypogastric and abdominal regions, as doth befit a man who carries with him an appetite like a famine and the digestion of a quartz mill.

"The country doctor's raiment is a study in unnatural selection, not an example of survival of the fittest, for it is often a selection from the traveling 'sheep clothing' fakir's most gorgeous hues and loudest patterns, in which the cunning handiwork of the fittest is conspicuously absent.

"Athwart the broad expanse of his equator he festoons a cable-of prodigious size and length-which serves primarily to suspend the pound weight, more or less, of the occult symbols and emblems which testify to our doctor's membership in numerous secret societies, and secondarily to moor his trusty Waterbury to his system."

Rev. Dr. Applegarth responded to the toast, "The Clergy." As is fitting on such an occasion, anecdote and humor abounded, though in a very earnest manner the reciprocal relations of clergyman and physician were referred to.

Dr. Henry C. Franck, '92, responded to the toast, "The Alumni," in a fitting manner, and Dr. T. C. Martin, '86, responded briefly but eloquently to the best toast, "The Ladies."

CISTUS CANADENSIS.

By A. B. NASH, M. D., Cortland, N. Y.

In the Cleveland Homeopathic Reporter for September, 1901, I find (page 55) among "Materia Medica Notes" "Cistus Canadensis." "Dryness of the throat is one of the greatest characteristics of this remedy. Another is the symptom that the cold air seems painful to the parts, and it hurts to protrude the tongue. These are symptoms easily remembered. We always ask a patient to put out his tongue; if it hurts and the throat is dry give Cistus.-Medical Century, July.-W. A. Dewey."

Such notes are always interesting to the true student of homeopathy, and very often helpful in the way of fixing in his mind something practical. The danger to be avoided is that other remedies may be ignored which have the same or similar symptoms. Failure, and consequent loss of confidence in our symptomatology is the result.

If I had written of this remedy I would have put it this way: "Dryness of the throat is one of the greatest characteristics of this remedy, and the cold air passing over the parts causes pain. It also hurts to protrude the tongue." What is the difference? Simply this. Putting the sensitiveness in close connection enables us to distinguish this from many other remedies which have dryness of the throat equally or even more prominently than Cistus.

Nux Vomica has "Throat sore, as if scraped, worse when swallowing and when inhaling cold air." (See Regional Leaders p. 87.) It comes the nearest to Cistus of any remedy I know, and the patients themselves are eloquent in their praise of it. Well, how shall we distinguish between them? My experience with Cistus acords with the way T. F. Allen puts it at page 364 of his "Text

Book" under Clinical. "It has been used for sore throat, mostly subacute, with intolerable dryness, worse in cold air, better from swallowing liquids, etc." So I would say that Nux Vomica would oftener be found the remedy in acute cases with this modality or concomitant than Cistus. Then, again, I have found that this hypersensitiveness to cold air passing over the mucous membrane is often found also in the nose with Cistus.

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Again, Aesculus hippocastanum has a similar condition of nose and throat. wrote in my "Leaders in Homeopathic Therapeutics" page 154, 2nd edition) "I have used Aesculus with very good results in coryza and sore throat. The coryza is very much like the Arsenic coryza, thin, watery and burning, but what characterizes Aesculus here is the sensation of rawness; sensitiveness to inhaled cold air." I have seen and experienced in my own person the beneficial effects of this remedy in such a case. So far as the simple symptom of dryness of the throat is concerned there are many remedies that have it. Kent in his new Repertory gives one hundred and seventy, thirteen in black faced type, fifty-four in italics, and the rest, among which is Cistus, in ordinary type. Now, we must not conclude from this that Kent's is not a reliable repertory, for it is, and we have no better up to the present date. But no man living knows it all, and no repertory will be perfect, so long as additional provings and clinical verifications are being made.

So it will be seen that the symptom of dryness while valuable, would not often. lead to the one remedy for the case, except when coupled with some other characteristic concomitant or modality. Dr. Dewey has given it here as he generally does and that is what makes it valuable. I will be pardoned, I think, for

once more referring to my own works. Page 87, while writing on Belladonna, I say: "No remedy has greater affinity for the throat. The burning, dryness (Sabadilla), sense of constriction, (constant desire to swallow to relieve the sense of dryness-Lyssin) with or without swelling of the palate and tonsils is sometimes intense. I once witnessed a case of poisoning in which these symptoms were terribly distressing." I would like to give a number of the diagnostic differences between various remedies, but find this article already longer than I intended.

In conclusion, I want to thank Dr. Dewey for this and other good work he has done and is doing for the advancement of our knowledge of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and the Reporter for this good collection and arrangement of Materia Medica Notes. A journal set apart exclusively for such work would be invaluable, if properly conducted.

"THE BABY HAS THE COLIC."

BY HENRY E. BEEBE, M. D., Sidney, O. "Doctor, the baby has the colic; what shall I do for it, or what can you do to relieve it?" This is a very common interrogation of the anxious young father and mother, let the trouble be what it may, from colic to many more serious difficulties. "How do you know it has the colic?" "Why, because its grandmother, or its aunty, or dear old 'Mother So-and-So' says that's what ails the dear little creature, and she knows, or ought to know, for she has raised a score of babies, more or less, and has had more practical experience by far than you doctors have ever had."

Now, while doctors are well aware that there are other causes for the baby

to cry, besides the colic, they cannot easily convince the over-anxious friends of this stubborn fact. We know by daily experience that from the birth of the youngster there is an established belief that the majority of baby's ailments are colic till he is three months old, froin that time till eighteen months of age the all important complaint is teething, and from then to adolescence, worms, worms, worms. To argue with some of our clientele differently is a mere waste of breath, yet we are glad to know that a few parents think as we do, that there are complaints to make the baby ill aside from colic, teething and worms, though it does occasionally suffer from these causes-that the little darling does have many of the same afflictions ofttimes that we older mortals suffer with, and sometimes die from. Tradition furnishes many absurd notions in relation to children's ailments, both as to discases and management.

Just exactly what does make the baby cry, or what ails it, is not always easily determined, for it has no vocal language but a cry, though there is a language we should learn to study, in its pains, its gestures, features, physiognomy, etc. It is well established that in infantile discases numerous shades of expression are evident, which experience teaches us how to appreciate, and which affords useful guides in understanding the pathology of that period of existence.

Most of us are too liable to underestimate slight ailments and disturbances in children, the early recognition of which sometimes may prevent serious illness. As to the physiognomy of infantile diseases, there is truth in the recognizing of "Jadelot's Lines," as clinical experience cannot but confirm, if carefully observed while making a diagnosis. This is particularly true of the nasal line in abdominal difficulties.

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"III.Thoracic. Labial Line. Begins at the angle of the mouth and runs outward, to be lost in the lower part of the face."

These lines are most visible in chronic ailments, but like some other facial outlines and symptoms may add to our diagnostic armamentarium in treating babies' acute diseases.

Look well to the little things, for simple matters may be the cause of baby's crying. There are external and internal causes. It may cry from soreness in being handled due to severe labor, a pin may be pricking it, it may be too tightly bandaged, may have too much or too little cloth

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may be chafing it. It is just as important to keep baby cool in warm weather as to keep it warm in cold weather. It may be hungry or thirsty for water; possibly too much food has been given it. There are more babies fed to death than die of starvation. Fasting is sometimes excellent prescription for the body as well as the soul. Earache is too often diagnosed as colic if we are not watchful. Possibly it suffers from dysuria, constipation or nervousness from fear, or some psychic influence of the mother, such as fright, joy, etc. After all it may have

the genuine colic, but if so, what causes it to thus suffer and, knowing the cause, what will remove it? Does it need medicine, regimen, hygiene, or some trivial attention alone, or does it need all of these combined, for often it does? Seldom has the doctor done his whole duty when he has prescribed medicine alone.

If it cry from indigestion, (that term which of late years is almost as common with the friends as the term colic), what will prevent that? It is our bounden duty to know or to find out the cause of the trouble. If the crying be from colic, baby will kick its little legs against its abdomen and you can feel the hard bowel full of wind, with the circular fibers contracting on it. In real colic the cry is a long wail from pain, and should be recognized by the clinician.

"Colic is pain in the stomach or intestines, but with or without spasm, occuring mostly in seizures of variable duration and at varying intervals, and usually without inflammation, fever, or discoverable organic change." We admit that it is due to many causes and arises under a great variety of circumstances, and has all the shades of variation in degree of pain.

Another feature to be carefully considered is to be sure the crying of the little one is not from some reflex action, a true neuroses, notwithstanding some believe but little in reflex diseases. To all such of the profession I advise them to read and study well "Hilton, On Rest and Pain," one of the greatest works ever written by a medical author.

I fear we are too often inclined to ignore the small abnormal conditions of the body which act as stimuli. The delicate nervous system is overly susceptible to this force. We know that sometimes a simple indigestible substance in the intestinal tract will produce convul

sions, and even death. This is but one example of the many reflexes.

The laity, and I am sorry to say some few doctors, cannot understand why stimulation of the peripheral end of an afferent nerve will cause greater reflex trouble than stimulation in its course. They cannot see why irritation of the nares, throat, ear, or lower orifices of the body will produce troubles remote from the direct action. They think diseases must always be from local or central conditions, as we know many of them are.

What makes the baby cry is a big subject and volumes can be and have been written upon it. Baby does sometimes, yes, many times, have the real, genuine, old-fashioned colic, and our immediate duty is to stop the pain and spasm by removing the cause, whatever that may be. But it also has other diseases common to its dear parents, grandparents, "sisters, cousins and its aunts," and while we should have reasonable respect for the kind advice given by the dear grandmothers, we ought to know at least half as much about the little one's ailments, which is a great deal. If not, we will be ofttimes "variously appreciated," as the following doggerel lines would indicate:

VARIOUSLY APPRECIATED.

Scene I

Scene II.

"Yes, Doctor, now the child is well, Our gratitude no tongue can tell. You certainly performed your part With all due knowledge of your art. Your skill we'll certainly recommend To every uncle, aunt and friend." Scene III.

"Good morning, Doctor! What's your wii!?

Oh, yes, I see you have your bill.
I had not thought of it at all,
Hope you have made it very small.
What! Not that much, it cannot be
That you have charged so much to me.
I cannot see the reason why
Physicians' charges are so high.
Is not the honor they receive
Sufficient pay for what they give?
If sickness shall again annoy
Some other doctor we'll employ."

SOME EXPERIENCES.

BY C. E. HOUSE, M. D., Canton, Ohio.

In the latter part of the seventies, a lady with more wealth than sense of honor, slipped on the steps of the Y. M. C. A. building in this city, fell and broke her ankle. Dr. G. J. Jones rendered surgical aid. In due course of time the lady made a good recovery, but present his bill as he might, the Doctor was never able to realize on his investment of skill and energy, and in sheer des

"Oh, Doctor, come and come right peration he said, "Boys, we will charge

quick,

Our only child is very sick;

It has been many days since it was well,
But what's the matter we can't tell.
With your experience and skill,
You'll soon discern, we know you will.
Perhaps we should have sent before,
But doctor's bills we do deplore,
But what were wealth, with loved ones
lost?

Oh, save cur child at any cost."

that to the Y. M. C. A." I understand this novel way of disposing of undesirable accounts remains with him an unwritten law.

A queer case related by Dr. Baxter to the class of '82 has always been a source of wonderment to me. If my memory serves me right he found a shirt sleeve with a button on it in the uterus after the delivery of a living child at full term. But he never made the case quite clear

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