Maybe she will be too sick to sit at the table with her husband and children that night, but the floor has been scrubbed. Maybe her husband is in trouble and needs her counsel. She can't be of any help to him, she is too ill-but joy! The kitchen floor is spotless.

Home is spoiled. Husband and children are left to shift for themselves (as long as they won't track the kitchen floor). Isn't that intemperance? Are not the results of the indulgence of an appetite for a spotless floor evil?

Just the other day I was talking with a friend who was half sick, old and weak. She couldn't see how she could crawl through her fall cleaning. She has money enough to hire it done. She has a husband who is willing to hire it done. I suggested that she get someone to do it for her.

"Have somebody poking around in my things!" she exclaimed. "Not while I'm alive! When I'm dead and gone

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There you are. That woman is intemperate. Everybody around, herself included, is bound to be miserable over that housecleaning. Because she will indulge a silly appetite, will not break a habit, the habit of "poking around" her own things. She really doesn't wish to break that habit any more than the drunkard wants to stop drinking.

I know another woman who sits up until 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning sewing. She doesn't have to do it. She wants to do it. She is indulging her appetite.

The next morning her children see their mother with her head tied up in a towel saturated with camphor and her husband has his head snapped off because he suggests that she should have gone earlier to bed.

"I had to finish my stent," she wails. afternoon."

"I had callers in the

Then when he is gone she cries out all there is left of her eyes because she has such an "unsympathetic" husband.

Unsympathetic! That woman is intemperate. Yet she would go into a frenzy of despair if her husband came home late one night and snarled at her (from the effects of drink) the next morning.

A hundred years from now who will care whether or not mother finished her stent?

But a hundred years from now weak-eyed, wobbly-legged children will care because great-great-grandmother broke her back scrubbing the kitchen floor, and spoiled her eyes finishing her stent.-Cleveland Press.

REPORT OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE COMMITTEE OF THE A. I. H. ON "ATTENDANCE AT HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGES."

"The Intercollegiate Committee of the American Institute of Homeopathy during the past year has been investigating the subject of attendance at our medical schools, and discussing plans whereby said attendance may be increased. As a committee we are agreed,

"1. That the admission and graduation requirements of our medical schools are not too high.

"2. That the established standards should not in any degree belowered to attract students.

"3. That the recent decrease in the number of students in our schools is not attributable to lack of interest in, or loss of enthusiasm for, homeopathy on the part of the laity through whose influence to-day are being supported more dispensaries, more public and private hospitals, more sanatoria, more joint-staff hospitals, more State institutions under homeopathic control, than ever before.

"4. That the profession is not overcrowded with good doctors, there still being a large and increasing demand for homeopathic physicians, a demand larger than our colleges are able to supply.

“5. That a small percentage only of homeopathic students give up the study of medicine.

"6. That a scarcely measurable percentage of our students voluntarily leave homeopathic medical schools to enter old school colleges.

"7. That the laity, and more especially the rising generation, should be educated to know what homeopathy is; how effective and how trustworthy it has always been.

"8. That homeopathic medical schools must teach ALL useful knowledge that other medical schools teach, and MUST HAVE SOMETHING BETTER to offer students than other schools have.

"9. That our medical schools HAVE that "SOMETHING BETTER in the possession of a scientifically founded knowledge of drug pathogenesy, and a reliable therapeutic formula.

"10. That homeopathy is to-day, as it has always been, a specialty in drug therapeutics; that it is the only method of administering drugs on a positively curative basis; and that at the present time it is in homeopathic medical schools only that the opportunity is offered students to systematically acquire a practical knowledge of the principles and practice of homeopathy.

"11. That the attractiveness and success of surgery and the specialties have detracted decidedly from the study of drug pathogenesy; and that it is the paramount duty of the entire homeopathic

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profession to devote renewed energy to the further development of our knowledge of drug pathogenesy and homeopathic therapeutics. "12. That in view of these facts the intercollegiate committee recommend the adoption of the following:

"WHEREAS, We, as homeopathists, may have paused so long in contemplation of achievements and victories that it is time to turn to new efforts in fields yet unknown; and

"WHEREAS, One such field undoubtedly is the establishment of our medical schools on the firmest possible basis of ample endowment and attractiveness to would-be physicians.

"Resolved, That we enter on renewed efforts to further develop our materia medica by the study of drug pathogenesy in accordance with the most modern and scientific methods; and

"Resolved, That we neglect no legitimate opportunity to impress on the minds of the laity by personal interview and literature the fact that homeopathic medical schools to-day offer the sole organized opportunity to learn the principles and observe the results of the action of the only positive law of curative drug administration."

THE TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY.

W. S. Stone expresses the belief that the vomiting of pregnancy is a manifestation of toxemia, the lesions of which are primarily an acute degeneration of the liver, amounting to necrosis and destruction. of liver cells in the severe cases, and presenting lesions in many of the fatal cases, essentially those of acute yellow atrophy. The metabolism is imperfectly carried out as a result of these lesions, and various unoxidized compounds are formed in place of urea, which in themselves. are more or less poisonous. In support of this view he describes in brief seven cases in which very careful urinary analyses were made. These are divided into two groups, the first including four cases of pernicious vomiting of pregnancy, and the second, three cases of the pre-eclamptic type. In almost every instance leucin, tyrosin, and indican were found in the urine, and the author regards the presence of the latter constituent as a very important danger signal. He cautions against attempts to treat the pernicious vomiting of pregnancy on the assumption that it is of hysterical or reflex origin, and states that the mental symptoms dependent on the derangement of hepatic functions must not be disregarded. He continues by saying that while the majority of cases of pernicious vomiting of pregnancy present lesions that are different from those of eclampsia, yet he has clinical and pathological evidence that they are closely related. Symptoms of

either group present themselves practically without urinary changes, as determined by the ordinary clinical tests. The persistent presence at any period of pregnancy of even a trace of albumen, especially if accompanied by casts, and a persistent increase of indican demand at more complete examination of the urine, which seems to be best accomplished by a determination of the total nitrogen and its partition. He recommends that the test for indican be included in the ordinary clinical tests, because it seems that whatever the basic cause of the toxemia may be, errors of diet and intestinal intoxication are one of the important contributing factors.-Medical Record, August 19, 1905.

SURGICAL BACTERIOLOGY OF THE MOUTH.

A. H. Levings, Milwaukee (Journal A. M. A., August 12), has studied the bacteriology in a large number of mouths of ordinarily healthy individuals, as well as in persons suffering from various pathologic conditions. He divides the non-pathologic cases into four classes, clean mouths, ordinarily kept mouths, filthy mouths, and tobacco chewer's mouths. Bacteria were found in great abundance in the first class (20 cases), but were innocuous, with the exception of streptococci (two cases), bacillus coli (three cases), bacillus subtilis, staphylococcus and Micrococcus tetragenus (eight cases). In thirty ordinarily kept mouths, bacteria were still more numerous. They were mostly, however, putrefactive germs which growing rapidly kill off others. The grip bacillus was found in two cases. In thirty filthy mouths, there were generally some pathologic conditions present, such as decayed teeth or diseased gums. Millions of bacteria were present, and a much larger percentage were virulent. In ten cases the pneumococcus was found and the Micrococcus tetrogenus was present in a large number. Staphylococci occurred with the purulent cases. Putrefactive germs and gas-forming bacteria were common, accounting probably for the bad breath of these persons. Tobacco chewer's mouths were worst of all, the tobacco not restraining bacterial growth. The majority of the mouths were pathologic, containing decayed teeth, ulcers, etc., showing lack of care. Experiments were made to show the effect of coughing on the dissemination of bacteria which was quite marked, even at a distance of five feet. Tests of various methods of cleansing the mouth and their effects on germs showed that scrubbing with warm soap and water and later normal salt solution, thoroughly for several minutes each was about as useful as any method. Disinfectants alone, with the possible exception of hydrogen peroxid, were not reliable.

Cleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter.

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Vol. XIII.

NOVEMBER, 1905.

No. 11.

Original Articles.

HOMOEOPATHY IN DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.
By Julia C. Loos, M. D., H. M., Harrisburg, Pa.

(For full treatment of this subject, the indicated sections of "The Organon" should be read in conjunction with this text.)

In the rational treatment of the sick, the fundamental principles cannot be too frequently emphasized to the mind of the physician. Be the patient adult, child or infant, the following considerations are paramount.

1. DISEASE IS DISORDER IN THE CONTROLLING FORCE OF ECONOMY." Vital order, vital disorder, express the difference between a healthy and a sick child. Re-action on the environment is not harmonious, though the disposition is altered; the senses are disturbed; the chemistry of nutrition or decomposition is incomplete; the functions are disturbed in one or more organs. There is distunement of the wonderful instrument, the human being. The being, the individual, is sick, not his organs, nor his tissues. The economy is disturbed and mind and body share in the expression of the disturbance.

So long as vital order is maintained, the tissues, the organs are kept in order, nutrition and waste are properly proportioned. Abnormal changes in tissue formation or organ function express internal disorder. But the being, when sick, is a unit, as truly as when healthy. Will, intellect and body are one and must be so treated.

2. SYMPTOMS.-The internal disorder is expressed by symptoms: external expressions of internal disorder, both subjective and objective. expressions:** the signs by which we are informed of the disorder and its progress. The first symptoms are developed on the externals. As the disorder progresses, manifestations are more internal, approaching the very innermost of the economy.

*Organon, secs. II, 12.

** Organon, sec. 14.

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