the "Gospel of Relaxation" preached by William James, and based on the Lange-James theory of the emotions. He places it in the power of any one to avoid the chief causes of nervous exhaustion. The person who can shed trouble can prevent insomnia and digestive disorders, and therefore an excessive expenditure of nerve force. Nearly everybody can do this. The "Don't Worry" clubs that have raged for a year or two have a very sound scientific basis for their teachings, even apart from the theory mentioned. That we worry beyond reason is easily shown. Nobody ever finds a trial so severe as he expects it to be. It is the Lange-James theory that we suffer in mind because we put ourselves in the condition to simulate the unhappy emotion, and that our misery is more the product of our idea than of the thing about which we are wretched. It is an exaggeration, but it will serve to explain it, to say, as an enthusiast does, that we are sorry because we run away. It was affirmed by Delsarte that if one simulates the appearance of sadness he will be sad. We are told by actors that they lose themselves in their parts; that by putting themselves in the frame of mind and physical attitude of a character they feel what the character is supposed to feel.

The doctrine of the Gospel of Relaxation is not to try to reason ourselves out of an anxious and worrying state of mind, for that only keeps the attention fixed on it, but to act as if we were not anxious but cheerful or gay. By smiling and laughing and singing a gay melody we are bound to become cheerful or gay. This is the treatment on which musical treatment of nervous disorders is now applied in Paris. It is not a modern thought only. Plato, who "clapt copyright on everythng," as Emerson says, suggested a system of moral therapeutics in which music should play a part.

It is worthy to note that the English do not have nervous exhaustion. The aspiration of the cultivated Englishman is to repress his emotions. He considers it very bad taste to show feeling. The result is that he does not experience the emotions of the ready American. By cultivating a look of serenity he remains serene.

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A MOTHER OF TWENTY-FIVE CHILDREN.

A woman resident in Mountain Top, Pa., who died recently at the age of forty-seven years, had given birth to twenty-five children. She was married when she was fourteen, and the first baby was born fourteen months afterwards. There were but two sets of twins in all the twenty-five, and all are alive now but seven. Some of the eighteen survivors are married, and twelve grandchildren also survive.-Ex.

WAX INJECTIONS IN SADDLE-NOSE.*

By George H. Quay, M. D., Professor Diseases of the Nose and Throat,
the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College.

There are few conditions of the face that are more annoying and cause more discomfort to the patient than the sunken bridge or socalled "saddle-nose." This is especially the case in women, as no matter how uniform the contour and beautiful the rest of the face may be, a sunken nose is an object for commiseration, and too often a mark for jest among the thoughtless.

The causes are, specific disease, the result of a fracture, or it may be congenital.

Much thought and not a little mechanical ingenuity have been used in constructing and inserting supports of a mechanical nature. Bridges of gold, hard rubber and aluminum have been devised, but their success has not been such as to enthuse the rhinologist with their A few years ago, Gersuny suggested using subcutaneous injections of melted sterilized paraffin. This preparation, or some modification of it, has given excellent results when properly used; for immediately after being injected into the tissue it admits of being moulded

Read at meeting of the Northeastern Homeopathic Medical Society, October 18, 1905.

into any desired form, and in the course of a few months hardens to an almost cartilagenous consistency.

During the past two years, I have used it on five patients; in four of the cases with gratifying results, the other case disappeared after one injection, so I do not know the outcome.

My method has been to place the patient under a general anæsthetic, thorough asepsis is followed in preparing the skin of the nose, the instruments and the wax solution. The wax melts at 110° F. Before being injected it is allowed to become semi-solid, it is then slowly forced from the syringe barrel by a screw piston, and gradually molded into the shape desired. for the following 18 to 24 hours crushed ice is applied to the nose.

The accompanying cuts will illustrate the benefit derived in the case of Miss A. In No. 1 notice beside the marked depression of the nose, the general facial expression. This picture was taken before she was aware that any improvement could be made in the nose. No. II was taken some months after operation. This case was completed at one operation, by the injection of two drachms of wax.

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HOMEOPATHY IN THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.

By Julia C. Loos, M. D., H. M., Harrisburg, Pa.

(Continued from page 379 in November issue.)

BABY'S FIRSTS.

STATE AT BIRTH.-On superficial thought, it might be said, that if at any time in a creature's life, he should be healthy, it should be at the beginning of his existence, as a distinct being. Truly, a child that starts out in this world, under the burden of disease, is handicapped for the trip. If any human creature should appeal, more than another, to those devoted to the healing art, it is a sick infant. Hence, we may say, the field most worthy the physician's care and study is that of the diseases of infancy, for by correction of disorders at this period, by turning the disordered vitality into lines of order, the trend of the entire physical life of the creature is changed, and often, its mental life, as well. The world proves a different sort of home, when life and its environment are more in harmony.

MIASMS, ACUTE AND CHRONIC.-Before dealing specifically with baby's first manifestations of disorder, we must distinguish fully the nature of these complaints. All disorders of health, i. e., all derangements not due to temporary, external, influences, fall into one of two

distinct classes: acute1 and chronic. Hahnemann used the term miasm for such chronic and acute disorders, and it proves a good one. A miasm is a disorder, developing in distinct stages; 1st, a stage of contagion, when it is acquired; 2nd, the stage of prodrome, when it is, as some say, latent, i. e., the time between its acquirement and its first distinct manifestations; 3rd, the stage of definite development or progress.

Chronic miasms, when left to themselves, "continue to progress and torment the patient to the end of his life.'' Such may remain dormant for long periods until some exciting cause, "some injurious influence, to which the individual is exposed," stirs up the chronic miasm which manifests a transient explosion in so called acute disturbance; as from excess or deprivation of food, of physical or mental exertion, of heat, etc.

Acute miasms have also these three stages: incubation, prodome, and progress, but, have, in their nature, a self-limitation. There is a fourth stage, decline and tendency to recovery.

Thus, it is seen that every manifestation is a part of the expression of a miasm, that is in its nature from the beginning, either acute or chronic. Acute diseases do not become chronic,-they are acute in nature (e. g. whooping-cough, measles, scarlet fever), diseases of short duration, with definite course and self-limitation. But there are acute exacerbations" of chronic miasms, commonly called distinct diseases. These are of indefinite length and course, continuing until checked by treatment or death of the patient or replaced by some other group of symptoms, expressions of the same miasm, (e. g. rheumatism, St. Vitus dance, dyspepsia, inflammation of various organs)'

There are three natural chronic miasms: psora, syphilis, and sycosis. It is the duty of physicians to become familiar with the symptom-image of these diseases (miasms), as the first part of their preparation to practice the healing art.

INHERITED DISEASES.-What has this to do with baby's firsts? Just this. The first commonly manifested symptoms of disorder, in infants (opthalmia, aphthæ and other catarrhal states, eruptions, colic, constipation) are the early manifestations of the chronic miasms. They depend on a chronic disorder within, for existence.

We have seen that the first manifestations of an internal disorder are developed upon the externals, viz., the outer skin and mucous

8 Organon, sec. 79-81., (Kent's Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy, Lectures 18-21) Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases.

membranes (the internal skin). Whether or not, it be true, as has been said, that each individual, in his growth, repeats the life history. of the race, it is true that nature begins anew the expression of chronic miasms in each generation. Each babe, born into the world, is affected with the chronic miasm, suppressed or uncured in the parents. The infant however, does not show the same stage, or period of the stage, expressed in the parents. Nature begins again with the externals, except in children of parents who have had their troubles so persistently suppressed that the vitality of the little ones may be too burdened, even to throw out the expression of their disorder, externally. Such may succumb at once to the disease or manifest it in early serious internal troubles.

Were it not for the repeated suppression, in generation after generation, we should not now be so susceptible to acute diseases nor the victims of the long list of disorders, which have commonly been named as different diseases, each of which, it must be repeated, is but a partial expression of a chronic miasm: psora, syphilis or sycosis As Hahnemann emphatically states, psora is by far the greatest and most common of these, though the second and third are surely increasing in frequencyo.

This is true, then of inherited disease. The infant inherits certain tendencies, psoric, syphilitic or sycotic. Just what ultimate expression this basic disorder may develop depends upon the environment and treatment of the individual. Rational medical treatment, based on clearly comprehensible principles, together with judicious. hygienic, care, may turn the little one so far into order, that the particular forms of disease which caused the death of their ancestors may never be experienced by them. The descendants of those treated through their lives, with curative, rather than suppressive measures, will be even less liable to serious, chronic, internal, disorders.

There are some, so deeply disordered, who have inherited the miasms, so repeatedly checked in the natural expression, in the ancestors, that it will require good treatment, through several generations, to produce a child, healthy and vigorous as the Creator intended His children to be.

THE PHYSICIAN'S ROLE. When it is fully understood that baby's sore eyes, sore mouth, colic, eczema, etc. are his first expressions of deep, chronic, disorder, the physicians will not dare to banish these, by local measures, without considering the whole sick individual. They will hesitate to erase the message, by which they might be led

9 Org sec. 80, 81.