gains strength and regains his spirits, but I doubt very much if the tubercle is diminished, notwithstanding Dr. J. Compton Burnett's cure of consumption by Bacillinum.

It will cure cases having symptoms similar to tuberculosis, which I shall endeavor to show you by clinical cases, before I conclude. Some of the most important symptoms are as follows: The patient is fretful and ailing; whines and complains; is irritable, depressed and melancholy; has severe headache recurring from time to time; absolute sleeplessness; eczematous condition of eyelids; indolent, angry pimples on the face and cheeks, breaking out from time to time and persisting for many weeks; grinds the teeth in sleep; imperfectly developed teeth; tickling in the fauces, compelling cough; fever and emaciation; abdominal pains and discomfort; restless at night, cries out in sleep, talks in sleep; chronic diarrhoea; increased quantity of urine, which is pale with white sediment; has to rise several times in the night to urinate; a hard cough, shaking the patient so severely that he is entirely exhausted. The expectoration is generally easy, of non-viscid, easily detached, thick phlegm. Sharp pains on left side, worse lying down in bed at night and better by warmth; glands of neck enlarged and tender; great weakness; does not want to be disturbed; drowsy during the day, restless at night, many dreams; flashes of heat, some perspiration, and headache.

Some five years ago I had under my care a boy about fifteen years of age, who was taken with pleurisy on the left side. The pulse was about 120 and temperature about 104. He was doing as well as could be expected under the remedies used, as the pulse had come down to about 90 and temperature 100, when he had a relapse from some cause, probably from a draught. His temperature then went up to 103 and he commenced to show symptoms in a different form, such as night sweats, diarrhoea, cough, rapid emaciation and loss of appetite. In the next two or three weeks his temperature fell to 102 and it stayed there until I was beginning to think that a change must be made soon or I would not have any patient to treat. I think I was more discouraged than the family, and they had nothing to encourage them. Finally the mother of the boy came down to my office and told me that he was coughing until he was completely exhausted. I hardly knew what to tell her or what to say after using all the remedies I had and none of them doing any good. I gave her eight pellets of Bacillinum and told her to try them and I would see the boy again, but also said to her that if that did not help him, I did not know anything more to do. When I saw him I was greatly surprised; he had coughing spell after using the pellets. The fever,

never had a hard

night sweats and diarrhoea had left him; his appetite had returned and he now seems to be as healthy as any boy in Newark. This same family lost a child previous to this, and would have lost a second, one younger than the boy, but the physician who attended it just stopped of his own accord, and I was called and gave it Bacillinum. I did not think much about it then, until about six months afterward I had the case which I have just described.

Another case I wish to mention is that of a child 18 months old who had been treated by two different physicians, one of them attending it three times a day, the other twice; finally the parents were advised to try me, as I was of a different school of medicine. I did think when I saw this child that it was a good test case for Bacillinum as it had some of the most striking symptoms of that drug. As near as I can remember its temperature was about 101, some cough, diarrhoea, night sweats and no appetite and the most emaciated child I ever saw but one. It was too sick and weak to even look at one and did not seem to notice anything. It had those indolent, angry-looking pimples on its face and to make matters worse, had developed about eight teeth all at once and had a very sore mouth and greatly swollen gums. I gave this child Bacillinum and in less than a week when its father came home from work it reached out its little thin arms for him to take it-something it had not done for a month. I did not need to tell them the child was better-they knew it. One peculiarity I have found in Bacillinum is that when you have used it in a family once, if there are any of the rest of the family affected in a similar way, it seems to be the only remedy to make a cure.

Now I could give you several more such cases, but I just want to show what there is in Bacillinum by giving a few cases from actual treatment. The most gratifying thing to me is to know that I have cured my patients with this wonderful remedy, when no other remedy that I could find was of any account. I have used it in a great many cases of cough and if it had not relieved them at once, I would have had cases similar to those I have described.

THE CLEVELAND HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. The Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Society held its regular meeting Wednesday, February 15th, in the College lecture room. About seventy-five physicians from Cleveland and vicinity were present and twenty-five students from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. Dr. J. H. Wilson, of Bellefontaine, O., president of the State Homeopathic Society, was present and gave a short talk on

"Organization." He urged that every Homeopathic physician join his local and State society, and if possible the American Institute. His talk was ably seconded by Dr. H. H. Baxter.

Drs. H. D. Champlin and Lester E. Siemon presented for pelvimetry an interesting case, a child, eleven years of age, in the seventh month of pregnancy, the father of the child being the patient's own brother. The measurements of the pelvic diameter as made by Dr. Champlin, were as follows:

Oblique 82; Ant. sup. spinous 92; Inter-Trochanteric 92; Iliac 10; Ext. Conjugate 62; Diagonal Conjugate 32; True Conjugate scant 4.

Dr. Siemon and Dr. O. A. Palmer argued that the safety of the mother was the only thing to be considered in the case and advised premature delivery. Dr. E. H. Jewitt, Dr. C. A. Hall and Dr. H. F. Biggar were of the opinion that the case should be allowed to go to full term and then Cæsarian section performed if necessary. Craniectomy was condemned.

Dr. E. H. Jewitt and Dr. H. F. Biggar spoke at some length upon "Remedies I Have Found Useful in Obstetrics."

The Society then adjourned to meet Monday, March 15th.

*** At an expense of over $2,000, Dr. George W. Little, one of the homeopathic physicians of Glens Falls, N. Y., has sent to over 1,000 of his patients a souvenir sterling silver teaspoon, made from his own design. On the handle are the doctor's portrait, the inscription "forty-six years," the length of time he has been in practice, and a lily and pheasant, for both of which he has a penchant, as grower and fancier. On the reverse side are shown the doctor's horse and sleigh and he himself is represented as bending over the bedside of a patient. It also bears the inscription, "Dedicated to my patients who have survived my practice." A silver pellet of homeopathic size is attached inside the bowl of the spoon.

*** The Allen County (Ind.) Homeopathic Medical Society elected the following officers January 9th: President, Dr. A. L. Mikesell; vice-president, Dr. H. G. Merz; recording secretary, Dr. I. E. Morris; corresponding secretary, Dr. Carrie Banning; treasurer, Dr. F. Schultz. The paper of the evening was read by Dr. Mikesell on "The More Recent Attitude of the Profession in Appendicitis." A materia medica discussion on remedies causing paleness of the patient or part followed the paper.

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Editorial

THE GREATEST EVER.

June 26th there should convene in Chicago a gathering of Homeopathists whose numbers should exceed any in the history of our school of medicine, and judging by what we know of the forces at work we venture to predict that it will be. The American Institute of Homeopathy is to meet on that date for its sixty-first session and is to continue its deliberations through the week. It is to be the occasion of three anniversaries, first, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Hahnemann, second, the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Illinois, and third, the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. Surely such a combination of inspirations must result in a great gathering. Since the opening of the year, indeed long before that committees have been hard at work planning for the meeting and there has been a gathering of the clans. The Institute has just an even hundred members in Chicago, a large proportion of the State Society's members live there and the number of Hahnemann's alumni who are located in that great city is legion. All are interested in the entertainment of those who are to be

their guests. Hence it follows that nothing will be spared which goes toward the achievement of a great success. In addition to this is the fact that Chicago people are the greatest hustlers known. When they start to do anything, it is done.

Once before we wrote on the fact that the greatest element in an organization is its growth. Any organization may be a great one—it may have thousands of individual factors, but unless there is a steady increase of the numbers of those factors stagnation is the result and nothing that stagnates remains great. So it behooves the members of the Institute to see to it that the number of new members is appreciable. And by appreciable we do not mean a few, a hundred-there should be five hundred new members of the Institute this year. The Homeopathic school is at a stage in its growth where increase in adherents must be numbered each year not by tens but by hundreds and thousands-and no man does his full duty by his school unless he allies himself first with the State society and then with the Institute. And of the fifteen thousand or more Homeopathic physicians who are not members of the Institute at least five per cent. should be brought in this year. Every State in the union ought to be represented among the new members. Of course the bulk will come from Illinois. The members in that State are going over the ground most thoroughly, and their harvest will certainly be a great one.

Another element in retaining strength is cohesion. It's the old story of the bundle of sticks,-bound together there is strength, separated, only weakness. There should be but one national body. All other organizations should be contributory to its greatness and strength. And the indications are that this year will witness the alliance of one of the two bodies which still maintain a separate organization.

The Institute's executive committee held a very remarkable meeting in Chicago in January. It was so because President George Royal had invited to meet with us not only the Bureau chairmen but the presidents of the allied societies and the president of the Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society. A full and free discussion of the entire situation was had and at its close there was a unanimity of opinion as to ways and means for the coming meeting. Not only that, but the executive committee heard and considered a paper from President Copeland, of the O. O. & L. Society, treating of the desirability of his society becoming affiliated with the Institute.