Elaps has the peculiar verified symptom of "hor- use of Colchicum did not improve the case, I returned ror" before a rain storm. to Causticum, which now cured the case in a few For great accumulation of gas in the stomach, weeks, and this so thoroughly that no relapse has Carbo veg. 6. occurred up to this day. FROM LAY PRACTICE. ISCHIAS CURED WITH COLCHICUM AND CAUSTICUM. A few years ago I was asked for my advice and help for the sick wife of a day-laborer in a distant village. The patient was about fifty years old, the mother of several children, and had to go out to work for some farmers in the neighborhood, to make her living. One day while threshing out grain she had perspired. It was in the beginning of winter and very cold and a cold draught was passing through the barn. Ever since then she had a violent rheumatic tearing pain in her left hip which made her moan. She had used every domestic remedy and ointment recommended, whether it smelt well or ill, but she found no relief. The condition of the patient was very peculiar. She could only walk in her room by being helped and with great pain, for every movement and exertion aggravated her ailment; nor could she lie in bed, but had to sit by the warm stove with the legs hanging down. The stove had to be heated night and day, for as soon as it commenced to cool off her pains were aggravated so as to become unbearable. When I advised the husband to consult a physician, he answered, that no physician would prescribe any thing without first seeing the patient; it was impossible to take her to the city, and he was not able to pay for a physician and to pay for the conveyance and the druggist; and then said he, We hear from all sides that physicians can not even cure their own hip diseases. I had to concede all this, but the disease was so peculiar that I told the man I could only give him something to try, without guaranteeing that I would at once be able to cure the neuralgia. I first tried Causticum with very slight success, Belladonna, Chamomilla and Colocynthis without success; finally I found in the repertory of "Bruckner's Domestic Physician:" Alleviation by sitting, Colchicum. But I only had the 30th potency of this remedy, and was, therefore, in doubt, whether I could expect any success from it. But the result was surprising, for now the patient could lie abed and in her warm bed the pains ceased. could sleep, but could not leave her bed, as her pains would otherwise return. As the prolonged She now A CURE BY CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. One day a farmer's wife, about thirty years old, appeared in my house, having driven a considerable distance in her own wagon and she told me of her ailments, declaring that all the medicines prescribed by the doctors had failed to help her. She suffered from convulsive, gouty pains in her arms, especially at night in bed, so that she could not sleep, but had to walk about in the room, beating her arms against her body, as folks are apt to do in winter when they are cold in order to warm themselves. When she would finally be tired out and lie down and sleep a little while, the pains on awaking would be all the more severe. Otherwise the woman was healthy and looked well, but owing to her ailment she was so anxious and despondent that she declared that if she could not be relieved she would die, for she could not stand it any longer. After thinking the matter over, I gave her Calcarea phosphorica 12, directing her to take three pellets dry on her tongue every morning and evening. In a week she came back, in spite of the great distance, to thank me personally for the wonderful help the little pellets had given her. With the exception of an occasional slight twitch she was now relieved from her dreadful pains. Of course, I gave her an additional supply of the pellets to remove even the last trace of her ailment. The cure must have been permanent, for since that time I have never seen her nor received any letter from her.-Prior C. A-m, in Leip. Pop. Zeit. f. Hom. THE CARE AND CURE OF SMALL-POX. On "A man called at my office in the chilly stage of fever, having the aspect of one severely ill. He complained bitterly of a distressing ache in the lumbar region, and of great nausea and headache. inquiry I learned that he was a general sewing machine agent, and had been introducing his machines in the surrounding manufacturing villages where variola had been prevailing. I felt sure that he was coming down with the disease, and sent him to his room which was on the top floor of a boarding house in the center of the city opposite the postoffice. I prescribed Variolinum every two hours,' taking a dose myself, and gave such other remedies as the various symptoms indicated. For three days the fever raged. On the evening of the third day a most profuse papular eruption appeared, accompanied with a subsidence of the fever. At this juncture I At this juncture I reported the case to the health officer, a physician of extensive experience in the old school. He visited the patient with me,and after carefully examining the case and feeling the shot-like hardness of the papillæ, so unlike any other eruption, he unhesitatingly pronounced it a severe type of small-pox. The next day he called with me again and we found the eruption assuming the vesicular form, so that the merest tyro in diagnosis could have named the disease. He then said he had been fixing up the pest-house, and would be ready on the morrow to take the patient thither. Now, it was mid-winter; the ground was covered with melting snow and ice, and the so-called pest-house' was several miles away-a barn-like structure that could not be made comfortably habitable even for well people. I therefore strongly objected to the contemplated change, fearing a complicating pneumonia. My protest was overruled, and the next morning an improvised ambulance with helpers arrived in front of my patient's abode. When the health officer entered the room, the astonished look on his countenance was only equalled by the change that had come over the aspect of my patient, for the eruption on the latter had ceased to develop and was shrinking away. He was not carried to the pest-house, but in a few days was up and around. This was no case of varioloid, but a most pronounced case of variola vera, with the eruption as thick as possible without being confluent, and no symptom lacking to make a complete picture of this formidable disease up to the fifth day of its development, when it suddenly receded under the use of the Variolinum."-Dr. A. M. Linn, Des Moines, Ia., in North American Journal of Homœopathy. FATALITY IN GREAT MEN. Editor of HOMEOPATHIC ENVOY. I would like to add my little word to the communication by. "Subscriber" in the ENVOY, entitled "Singular Fatality of Great Men." It is undoubtedly true that intelligent homoeopathic treatment would have saved the lives of prominent statesmen and other men of note whom the country could ill afford to lose. The case of the late Senator nue. Vaccination, Lockjaw, Death.-Death from lockjaw was the coroner's verdict yesterday in the case of John K. Hammerstad, 15 years old, 733 Summerdale aveThe boy was vaccinated recently and caught cold in the unhealed wound, tetanus developing. Chief Medical Inspector Spalding, when informed of the verdict, sent an inspector to investigate. "Any scratch of the skin may open the way for the introduction of any kind of a germ, such as that of tetanus," said Dr. Spalding. "Vaccine, however, has nothing to do with tetanus germs." Yours truly, Chicago, Ill. And yet it is curious that the tetanus germs so often seek the vaccination scratches and never go near the much greater wounds and scratches of every day occurrence in children. It is really curious!-Editor of HOMOEOPATHIC ENVOY. When some five or ten years ago the germ theory came in like a flood upon us, it was decided that all milk to be fed to infants must be either pasteurized or sterilized. Pediatrists are now receding from this position, there being a wide and increasing impression, based upon observation, that a diet of milk that has been subjected to heat in this manner is liable to produce rickets, pot-belly, sweating, flabby muscles, craniotabes and restlessness at night. Fresh, pure, raw cow's milk is once more in the asscendant as the best substitute for mother's milk.— N. A. Journal of Homœopathy. THE ANÆMIAS yield readily to organic, or true animal iron treatment. 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The cure of the disease, or of the "germ," seems as far off-save as Homœopathy effects it—as it was in the days of the unknown prehistoric man. Every "germ" that exists, or ever will exist may be "catalogued," but there it ends. The so-called "germ" of tuberculosis heads the list and is the best known, but consumption steadily increases, just the same. It will be a good day for humanity when “germs cease to occupy the centre of the medical stage. "BARGAIN" LUST.-An iconoclastic lady, at a recent "Mothers' Convention," or "meeting," held in Chicago, startled her hearers by the assertion that 90 per cent. of the clothing those present wore was the product of child labor. Ninety per cent. of humanity wants "bargains," i. e., something from another without a full equivalent. To cater to this THE RESULT.—A press dispatch on May 4th says that the people of McAdoo, Pa., set fire to their "pest house" a "few days ago," and William Mack, who was confined there, "escaped." He wandered to Delano and there boarded a freight train; his presence so frightened the train crew that they locked themselves in the caboose. From Mt. Car mel, where he got off, he was chased towards Centralia "like a wild beast." This insane fear, and brutal conduct, is the cumulative result of the fear engendered by sensational stories of the "horrors of small-pox," a disease which the great Sydenham said was the mildest and least dangerous of diseases. Even in this present epidemic, the disease has raged" for weeks in localities and no one paid any special attention to it, some of those attacked not even stopping work, until the label "small-pox" was attached and then the wild beast of fear broke loose! SMALL-POX AT ROUBAIX, FRANCE." Not only has Lille had an epidemic of small-pox during the months of October and November, but many isolated cases have appeared at Roubaix, and the condition is fast becoming epidemic. Free vaccination has not given satisfactory results in either city and a medical committee has been appointed by the municipality to decide upon stringent measures to overcome the epidemic in Roubaix. In Lille as many as 133 new cases, with 38 deaths, have oc curred in one week. Outside of gratuitous vaccination, nothing has been done in Lille to overcome the epidemic."-Philadelphia Medical Journal. We were under the impression that where vaccination is universal and compulsory, as it is, and has been, for many years in France, there was no smallpox! HEADACHE POWDERS AND QUICK "CURES.""Influenza killed its thousands, and the coal tar products their ten thousands," said a great clinician after the first influenza epidemic. In looking about for the cause of the terrific mortality from pneumonia, which has been shocking the medical profession during the last two or three months, many physicians think it is to be found in the indiscriminate use and abuse of the coal tar antipyretics. It is superfluous to dilate here upon the fact that the use of headache powders-practically all of which contain acetanilid, a true tissue poison-has reached enormous proportions. For the slightest headache, be it due to nervousness, eye-strain, a cold, constipation or indigestion, the public has gotten in the habit of taking headache powders. This frequent use of heart depressants has a pernicious, even if not immediately noticeable, effect upon the heart, and when a disease like pneumonia, in which the heart's resistance is tried to the utmost, makes its unwelcome appearance, it is no wonder that the heart proves unequal to the task, and fails. Hence the shocking mortality from pneumonia.-Merck's Archives. SILK UNDERWEAR.—“Opinions certainly differ as to the comfort derived from the different material from which underwear is made, but there is one thing which admits of no doubt, and this is that while silk is exceedingly warm, soft, and pleasant to the flesh, it is at the same time by no means the healthiest substance for the undergarment. In proof of this, practical observation has demonstrated that silk stockings will make the toughest and healthiest feet moist, wet, and tender, until walking becomes painful. A silk scarf worn around the neck next to the skin will, in nine wearers out of ten, produce sore throat. Silk makes the neck hot and moist, and the first stray breath of cool air that strikes the skin feels like a drop of iced water and will produce a cold. Silk seems to have the faculty, as contrasted with wool, of opening the pores and inciting perspira ion; and if it will do this with the feet and neck there is every reason to believe that it will produce equal susceptibility to cold when worn about the chest and limbs. Those who wear silk stockings invariably have tender feet. The rule that applies to the male applies equally to the female. Silk underclothing may be very comfortable; but perhaps the advocates of dress reform would do as much good if they would discuss carefully the hygienic value of the material, as well as the cut and style, of the undergarment.”—Health. If the above is true it is rather fortunate that the average run of humanity, about ninety-nine in every hundred, cannot afford silk stockings. STRONG MEDICINE.-"A. P. Hanchett, M. D.: I have been constrained to take the floor to give some experiences I have had with Arsenicum. A case of very great interest, and rather peculiar, perhaps, a patient of one of my old families and one of my best friends, a woman of extreme susceptibility to drugs. She was visiting a neighboring city and she went to visit a physician who impressed her very favorably, and she began to take treatment with him. She then began to change a great deal from month to month, so that even her friends began to notice it. She became more and more anæmic and puffed about the face, which soon became so marked that everybody noticed it. I had noticed it also when I saw her on the street. After a time one day she came to my office and said: 'Well, I have come back to you.' She told me all about it, how she was better at first, then she began to notice symptoms. The remedies were in tablet form, and she said she had grown steadily paler and weaker until she felt that she was not having the right treatment. After studying it over very carefully I found she had been having Arsenicum. I happened to know the doctor well, and knew that he used the very lowest potencies. Unquestionably she had sustained a marked poisoning with Arsenicum. I gave her the very highest potency I had of Arsenicum. She improved and became well in three or four months, and the change was so marked that you would not know the woman.”— Transactions American Institute of Homœopathy. |