per cent of the cases of recent origin, and also beneficial in the prolonged cases. In violent cases if passiflora does not produce quiet and sleep, full doses of chloral hydrate should be resorted to. None will escape the influence of sufficient doses of this agent. A good aid to the treatmost valuable auxiliary to the treatment of certain cases is electricity. Of this the galvanic current is to be used. This must be applied to the spine and head. Great care must be taken not to shock the already excited patient. The current must be turned on and broken slowly. The seances should be shortone-half to one minute of duration -and the currents weak. But little if anything is to be hoped from a faradic current. The physician should bear in mind that general restoratives and vigorous tonic treatment directed to retaining full tone in the organs of digestion, nutrition and assimilation must not be overlooked. INDEPENDENT ACTION OF THE CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES. The dual nature of certain eccentric individuals has been explained upon the hypothesis that each half of the cerebrum may be educated independently of the other half, and that each half may act independently. There are upon record many cases which go far to prove the truth of this theory. The following interesting case is related by Dr. Bruce, of England, and is well worth reproduction in full: This case is that of a Welsh sailor, aged 47 years, admitted to the Derby Borough Asylum for insanity dating back fifteen years and beginning with melancholia. He appears to have two separate and distinct states of consciousness, the right and left brain alternately exerting a preponderating influence over the motor functions. In one stage he speaks English, in the other Welsh. When in the English state he shows all the symptoms of chronic mania, is fearless, destructive, fairly intelligent, and recalls incidents of his past life, but is totally oblivious as to what transpires during the Welsh stage. Occasionally, when changing from the Welsh to the English stage, or the reverse, this patient passes through an intermediate condition, in which he is ambidextrous, speaks a mixture of Welsh and English, and understands both lan-. guages. This intermediate stage is often absent or so short as to pass unnoticed, the patient suddenly waking up to life and activity or becoming suddenly demented. These sudden changes generally occur after a meal or after a bath. In the Welsh stage his condition is one of dementia. He does not understand English, and talks gibberish in which some Welsh words can be recognized. He loses desire for food, smell and taste disappear, and the circulation becomes weak, the extremities livid or oedematous, and left-handedness develops. It would appear that in this case the cerebral hemispheres are capable of individual mental action, and that the mentally active cerebrum has a preponderating influence over the control of the motor functions, the patient living two separate existences during the two stages through which he passes, the mental impressions received during each of these separate existences being recorded in one cerebral hemisphere only. If this is not so, how can one account for the patient's ignorance of events which have happened to him. in the Welsh stage when he passes into the English condition? Or his suspicion and distrust of attendants and doctors, ignorance of familiar and much-coveted objects, as money and tobacco, when in the Welsh stage; whereas, in the English stage, he recognizes and is very friendly with the staff, while the sight of money or tobacco is sufficient to bring him running the length of the ward? A comparison of the mental power of either cerebral hemisphere places the right at a much lower level than the left. Is this due to the unequal ravages of disease or to the unequal development of education? Madame Destunnelo, pregnant for over nine months, retarded delivery. "My son is very long coming," she remarks to her friend. Her friend replies: "My dear, if this keeps on you will have to swallow a tutor for him."-Lancet-Clinic. HORNED MEN. We frequently notice reference made in literature to a supposed tribe of men in Western Africa who are called horned men. A French naval surgeon who has spent several years on the west coast of Africa, has made a considerable investigation into the origin of this report and finds that it arose from a disease common to many West African tribes. The disease consists of bony enlargements, sometimes symmetrical, but oftener on one side only. They are ovoid in shape, circumscribed and extend from the superior maxillary bones or from the frontal or nasal bones. At first the tumor is small, generally beginning in childhood or early youth and slowly continuing its growth for perhaps thirty years. The tumors produce great distortion of the features, destroying vision or smell and sometimes forcing the eyes from their sockets. The disease is not hereditarily transmitted, but is supposed to be caused by the deposit of the larvæ of certain flies within the nasal fossæ. It is believed that certain varieties of the monkey may be affected DEATH OF DR. WOHLGEMUTH. Dr. Henry Wohlgemuth, one of the best known citizens of central Illinois, a physician of high standing and a man of exceptional character, died at his home in Springfield, Ill., Nov. II., after an illness of a number of weeks. His death was not unexpected, as he had been weakening steadily for some time. Dr. Wohlgemuth was born May 22, 1822, in Hanover, Germany. He had acquired a literary training in the home schools and was well on his way through the college of medicine when his father died. This event ended his education in Germany, for his mother decided to come to America. In the summer of 1845, accompanied by her children, she sailed. The voyage was long and hard and occupied two months. They landed at New Orleans and the widow and her family came by steamboat up the Mississippi river to Illinois. In November of 1845 they reached Springfield and the following March Dr. Wohlgemuth began the practice of his profession. His mother lived to see him attain an honorable place in this state and in 1859 she died in St. Louis. Dr. Wohlgemuth found thirteen physicians established in their pro fession in Springfield, but he resolved to qualify himself and to devote himself so assiduously to his professional work as to win public confidence and thereby the public support. Later on he pursued a course of instruction in the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, O., and graduated in 1854. He immediately resumed his profession in Springfield, where he gradually worked his way upward, and where he practiced his profession for nearly sixty years, having retired on his eighty-third birthday, which occurred last May. He was compelled to retire on account of old age and failing health. Dr. Wohlgemuth was numbered among the pioneer physicians of the city of Springfield and the state of Illinois. He was honored by being elected first president of the State Eclectic Medical Association of Illinois. He was a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association and an honorary member of the New York State Medical Society. Aside from his constantly growing practice Dr. Wohlgemuth performed many professional duties of a public nature. In 1863 he was chosen a member of the city council; in 1865 a member of the board of education; from 1877-78 he was a member of the board of supervisors. It was through the efforts of the doctor that beautiful Oak Ridge cemetery of Springfield largely owes its existence and its na tional reputation as the final resting place of our illustratious martyr president, Abraham Lincoln. Of all the public enterprises that appealed to him the development of Oak Ridge cemetery was probably his dearest ambition. He lived to see it grow and blossom into the most beautiful and the best kept city of the dead in the entire middle west. Dr. Wohlgemuth has been a member of the cemetery association since 1864, and most of that time its president. His influence has also been felt in the city's financial circles. In 1882 he became one of the organizers of the Farmers' National bank and has always been a member of its board of directors. In 1849 occurred the marriage of Dr. Wohlgemuth. January 8, 1897, Mrs. Wohlgemuth was called to her final rest. Six children were born to them, two having died in infancy and Marietta, the eldest, passed away at the age of 23. There are two sons living, Henry J and William C. and one daughter, M. Mabelle, wife of Henry Bernard Lubbe. Dr. Wohlgemuth's religious faith is that of the Baptist church. As a physician he has ample opportunity for the display of Christian spirit. and brotherly love. In many families he has labored to alleviate human suffering through several generations and where best known, he is best beloved. What higher testimonial of an upright life and professional ability could be given? DEATH OF DR. L. 0. WOOD. Sunday morning, October 15, at 7 o'clock, at Deaconess hospital, in Louisville, Ky., Dr. L. O. Wood, of Madisonville, Ky., passed into the great beyond. He died of septic peritonitis following an operation for appendicitis of gangreneous nature. His remains were shipped to Princeton, Ky., where the news of his untimely death was received with deep regret, he having been there widely and favorably known. The funeral services were conducted by representatives of the Baptist and Presbyterian churches, after which the Masonic fraternity took charge and laid him away with the usual impressive ceremonies. For several years the doctor was one of the officers of the Kentucky Eclectic Medical Association, and last May was unanimously elected president for the ensuing year. He always was a generous, liberal, yet enthusiastic Eclectic. He was a typical gentleman of the southern type, an honored member of F. & A. M. fraternity and a devout member of the Baptist church and a conscentious Christian. Dr. Ward was born on a farm in Christian County, Ky., in May, 1870. At the age of twenty-two he taught school, afterward entering the Bowling Green Business College, from which he later graduated with degree, B. S. He entered upon the study of medicine in the old Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, O., from which he received Dr. Wood passed in any community as a man of worth and an honor to his profession. In the language of Emerson, "What he was engraved itself on his face, on his form, in his actions, which all men could read but himself. Concealing nothing, he boasted nothing. There was in the glances of his eyes, in his smiles, in his salutations, in the friendly grasp of his hands the indelible stamp of the true man." It seems strange to his friends, professional and laymen, that the doctor should be taken just at this time when, paraphrasing Van Dyke, he was preparing for the higher side of human life, contributing of his strength, his influence, his means, to make a cleaner, fuller, happier, nobler life possible for his fellow men. May he rest in peace under the care of the great physician of the universe. Charles J. Pollock, M. D. Strong arguments are constantly being adduced in favor of the ready preservation of scarlet fe ver germs through a number of years. A house was papered in which two children had died of scarlet fever. Ten years afterward the paper was torn off, and immediately all the small children in the family contracted scarlet fever. DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE TRANSAC- On November 9th the Alkaloidal Clinic Publishing House, with all their valuable files and records, and with the transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association for the current year, was entirely destroyed by fire, involving a loss of about $165,000. Not only was the partly completed volume destroyed, but all the papers, essays, addresses, and records of the procedings, furnished them as "copy" were burned also. I had saved a proof of the first 100 pages of the book which included about 20 of the addresses and all the papers in the Materia Medica and Practice Sections. Any member of the Association who can furnish me at once a copy of the paper he prepared for that meeting is urged to do so that I may get up another volume of the transactions. I have saved also a copy of the proceedings of the Saratoga meeting nearly completed with a copy of the revised constitution and bylaws. The reports of the committees are burned. Any one who can |