stiff back or a pain somewhere, and on his way to HOMOEOPATHIC ENVOY. work he has received a dozen infallible remedies for Subscriptions received at the following Homœopathic Pharmacies: BOERICKE & TAFEL, Philadelphia: 1011 Arch St., 125 South 11th St and 15 N. 6th St. New York: 145 Grand St., 129 West 42nd St. and Chicago: 57 Wabash Ave. Baltimore: 228 N. Howard St. WASHINGTON HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACY, C. A. OTTO VISCHER, Philadelphia: 1216 Girard Ave. N. J. HOM. PHARMACY, Newark, N. J.: Broad and W. Park St. MINNEAPOLIS PHARMACY CO. Minneapolis: 604 Nicollet Ave. WARRICK'S HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACY, PRICE: 25 CENTS A YEAR. To foreign countries, except Canada, one shilling and sixpence. E. P. ANSHUTZ, P. O. Box 921, TALKS WITH BENJIE. By J. TITUS. One of the most remarkable facts in connection with the credulity of the average man (and woman, too) is the reckless abandon and disregard to consequences with which he will dose himself with gossip remedies and with so-called "patent medicines." When he gets into a fight with his neighbor he usually goes to his lawyer; he has vague recollection of the "fool for a client" dictum. When his watch gets out of order he takes it to the watchmaker; when he wishes a house built he advises with the carpenter and bricklayer. He recognizes other limitations to his universal wisdom. But--when he gets sick, when his much abused and long suffering body cries out, in the language of pain? the ailment. And he takes them. Or in the columns of the newspapers he reads one of Dr. Nostrum's erudite and scholarly explanations of disease and incidentally of the certainty of relief from disease that may be found in every bottle of his Discovery, or Nerve Tonic, or Blood Purifier, or Rheumatism Cure, or Kidney Scraper. And, dear me, the lamblike confidence with which he buys and doses himself with one of these wonderful medicines is almost on a par, Benjie, with the child-like faith you have in what I tell you. Oh, you're always growling about something, said Benjie. Why don't you let the man do as he likes with his own system; it's his, isn't it? Think all the wisdom of the ages is under your hat? When Benjie answers me back like that he is very much aroused. Generally Benjie, lear, good, credulous Benjie, is the mildest mannered of fellows. I can talk to Benjie and he believes all I say. It is a great comfort. No, dear fellow, I found out several years since Philadelphia, Pa. that all the wisdom was not under my hat, though when I graduated I did think it might be. No (musingly), I have limitations, but I claim to know something of the respect with which a person ought to treat his own body, the machine in which his. soul controls earthly happenings, if he expects to have the machine do its work properly. Here we are, many of us, wishing to live as long as possible and to be as healthy as may be and instead of studying our bodies and getting real knowledge of their functions we go on in a reckless, happy-go-lucky sort of fashion, over-eating, over-drinking, ill treating ourselves in forty ways and then when our stomachs, or our livers, or our lungs cry out for a rest and decent treatment we at once begin to stuff ourselves with all sorts and conditions of drugpoisons all so handy at the emporium of the placid apothecary man. And then we wonder that we do not get well. What does an animal do when he gets sick? He goes somewhere and lies down, and he does not eat, and he keeps still until the wonderful power within living things known as the vis medicatrix naturæ, you know Latin, Benjie, has a chance to straighten the tangle of disease, and he is in a few days all right and ready to take his important part in the world. Why, he has got a doctor, hasn't he, said Benjie. Yes, he has got a doctor, but he knows more about himself than his doctor does; in cases of extreme peril or pain he sometimes goes to his doctor, and then he does it with the thought that perhaps after all the doctor may not be doctoring him for the right thing, especially if he does not get instant relief. Oh, yes, he has a doctor, but usually he doctors himself. He gets up with a headache or a Now what in the world set you off in this way, said Benjie, who had been listening admiringly to my tirade. Now Benjie ought to know by this time that when my patients prefer the other fellow I am not in the habit of writing letters to them coaxing them back. And even if it were true, it is in bad taste, very bad taste on Benjie's part to mention the matter. But Benjie has his distinct limitations when it comes to tact. re ligiously taking Quinine. Then when his head bulges with the Quinine effects and his ears sing songs as of bells he usually takes Bromo-caffeine for the headache. Perhaps a dose of oil or mayhap a blue pill to make the job really artistic. Has some other fellow got a patient homoeopathic doctor, not one of the proprietary away from you? medicine homoeopaths, he would very soon be well and there would be no after ills. A fellow has a cold, for instance, a little touch of grippe; instead of staying in the house for a day or two, dieting himself, and taking the indicated remedy, he fills himself with Quinine. You remember, Benjie, that when grippe was bad some years since the "school doctors" decided that Quinine was the sure cure for No, Benjie, I have lost no patients, my babies all it, and so folks were stuffed with Quinine, until they are doing well, principally because I can control were locoed and it took them much longer to get their commissary department, my mind is at rest, I rid of the loco than of the grippe. But this was the am glad that I am alive, with the sunshine and the dictum of the scientific physicians, the real advanced, trees, and the birds. No, it is not that; but when up-to-date scientific doctors, the doctors whose fiats in every paper that I take up I see the glaring cir- (to themselves) are like to the thunders of Jove. In cus poster announcements of Dr. Quack Humbug case of grippe give Quinine. And ever since the with his testimonials, pictures of grateful patrons, man-who-knows-it-all-about-himself has been and lying pathology, when I think of the vast amount of hurt he and his ilk are doing to mankind, and womankind, I really get a little excited. It is as bad as the doctored meat, the formaldehyde milk, the sulphited chickens and adulterated sugar, and salt, and mustard, and pepper that these, our honest butchers and grocers, serve up to us nowadays in return for our hardly won shekels. Talk about the Talk about the perils from microbes, bacteria and other fashionable fads of truly scientific doctors. They pale besides the perils that do environ people from this growing propensity to dose themselves. Liver cures, stomach tonics, nerve bracers, electro-magnetic-psychic marvels of healing, cancer cured in one sitting, consumption charmed away by Dr. Bombast's concentrated extract of air, headache powders with their hidden menace of heart failure, the soda fountain with its array of nerve tonic compounds, manufactured syrups, sophisticated thirst quenchers, the popular sedative, or stimulant, sure to contain elements harmful to the normal action of the machine known as the human body. Benjie, why will not people use a little of the horse sense that they are supposed to have inherited from their grandfathers? Speaking of testimonials, said Benjie, I heard a good one: Mrs. Whimsey was at death's door; she took ten bottles of Dr. Bumblebee's sure cure, and it pulled her through. Yes, Benjie, that is a very good story, but it is not new. Besides I am talking very, very seriously. If a man, when he is sick, would only stop eating, keep quiet, let the patent nostrums severely alone, take a little good homoeopathic medicine, the medicine indicated for the case and prescribed by a real If that fellow gets over his grippe and his earache and his deafness and his craziness in a month or two he is lucky. he is lucky. For he has not only complicated a simple ailment, but he has organized and equipped a number of drug diseases within himself that it will take much and sundry scientific medication to cure. No, Benjie, when you are sick do not try to doctor yourself; get a good homeopathic doctor, one who believes Hahnemann knew something, not one who is trying to improve upon Hahnemann's law and discover something better than Homœopathy; as I say, get a doctor who believes that the cure of diseases by the law of similia is the only real method for curing, and you will get well speedily and there will be no after effects about it. When you are well you will be well all over. Yes, said Benjie, looking, I thought, a trifle mischievious, "I will certainly take your advice. When I get sick I'll employ you." There are times when I almost fancy that Benjie is making fun of me. HINTS. Acid dyspepsia and flatulence, Natrum phos. Washing, or baking soda, applied to a scald from steam or hot water will give the quickest relief. The pure fruit syrups, such as red currant, peach, pineapple, raspberry, blackberry and strawberry, such as are sold at homœopathic pharmacies, make palatable and healthful drinks when mixed with ice, mineral or soda water and there is no danger from poisonous coloring matter. Bryonia is a good remedy for those who walk in their sleep, unless, of course, some other is not strongly indicated. When the sore throat is dark colored Phytolacca is the remedy; when very red, Belladonna. If exposed to scarlet fever take daily one dose of Belladonna for a week. It will prevent the development of the disease. If your dog has distemper give him Arsenicum; also same remedy for offensive discharge from the nose; for rheumatism, Rhus tox; fever, Aconite; diarrhœa, Arsenicum; though if discharge be bloody, substitute Mercurius cor.; mange, Sulphur. previous had lost about one-half their number by death from malarial fevers. I prepared some remedies for his use which I thought would be most likely to overcome the malarial conditions. On his return four years later he told me that Alstonia constricta was the only remedy which seemed to be of any benefit in their malarial troubles." The strength used was the IX. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BABY. By Thomas Lindsley Bradford, M. D. Illustrated. Cloth. 89 pages. 50 cents. Bell Publishing Company. Philadelphia. Our old friend, Dr. T. L. Bradford, has written a good many books—The Life of Hahnemaun, Homœo pathic Bibliography, Lives of the Pioneers of Homœopathy, Index to Provings and others—but none that is quite as useful to the general reader as this, his If your chickens have the roup give Spongia 15, latest. Every mother, father and all who are even or cholera, Arsenicum iod. 3x. For hay fever, Arundo maur. 3x. remotely connected with babies ought to read it and heed it; if they do, the infant mortality will be less. The tortures babies undergo at the hands of even “QUININE AS A PROPHYLACTIC IN MALA-loving parents, as depicted in this Autobiography, RIA," IN AUGUST NO. OF ENVOY. To the Editor of the HOMOEOPATHIC ENVOY. In a letter in the August No. of the ENVOY, after the use of Quinine as a prophylactic for malaria, you ask editorially, "Do any of our readers know of any remedy that will prevent malaria?" and I will give a remedy which came under my own observation, viz.: When at Fort Wayne, Indiana, some forty years since, it appeared as if the whole population was afflicted with the "shakes," which I had a terrible dread of; before leaving Indiana I placed in each of my stockings as much Quinine as a five cent piece would hold and I fully believe the absorption through the soles of my feet saved me from taking the malady, for I was exposed to the malaria for several weeks. Yours truly, WM. MEAD PATTISON. Dr. J. F. Merryman, of Lincoln, Neb., in August Medical Century, writes: "About ten years ago I had a nephew who decided to go to Africa as a missionary, and his destination was on the west coast of the continent in a very malarious region. So deadly was the malarial poison of that country that a company of missionaries who located there a year is great and utterly uncalled for. If you love babies, or have the care of them, read this book and if you doubt its necessity read these words of an old and experienced physician: "My surprise is not that the eight hundred and thirty-five little tots are dead, but that the other hundreds are alive. From an experience born of forty-three years' practice among children my conservative conclusion is that the ratio of real mothers in this country is less than ten in one hundred." It is not that only ten in a hundred love their children, but only that ratio know how to handle them properly. This Autobiography gives it to you from the little one's point of view. THE SAVING OF A HAND. A patient with a serious infection of the hand, spreading up the arm, applied to his physician (Homœopath) for treatment. He was given some local treatment, but soon advised that amputation was necessary, and for this purpose he sent him to a prominent surgeon of one of our State ins'itutions. All hope had been abandoned by the patient of saving the hand. "I would not take your hand off for a thousand dollars," said the surgeon. "It is a medical case. Your diseased hand will be as well as the other within three months if properly treated.' He gave him a few powders of Silicea, and true to his prognosis in due time no sign of the disease remained. That many such cases are on record we have abundant proof, and it is almost criminal to subject a patient to operation from which he is maimed for life when the proper remedy has not first been administered. The trouble is not all with our allopathic brethren. Of the two we are to be the more criticised, for more is expected of us. They are sincere and no doubt go to the limit of their teaching, and we ought to go to the limit of ours, if we expect to do all for our patients that science and skill can do. JOHN M. FULTON, M. D., From Medical Century. Audubon, Ia. ANTIPSORIC TREATMENT. I would earnestly urge upon every physician the duty of giving to each child born under his care or coming into his professional hands during infancy a small amount of anti-scrofulous remedy. He can usually find symptoms enough in mother and child upon which to base a useful prescription. He will thus in the best manner fulfill that higher duty of the physician, which is to prevent diseaee. My experience in one family will serve to illustrate my meaning: My first invitation to the family was to attend a sickly, puny, whining little one, six weeks old. I learned from the father that this was their second child, and that they lost their first when three months old. He said it had simply cried and moaned itself to death. This one was apparently going the same way. All the old school could do had been done for the other, and his only hope for this one was in a change of practice. The second little one cried, as did the first, from its birth; scarcely ever slept a sound sleep; did not seem to be nourished by the breast milk, of which there was plenty. The appearance of the mother first attracted my attention; her face had a dirty, yellow, earthy appearance. Her family history as to healthfulness was bad. She suffered from kidney disease, showing a profusion of "red sand" in the urine. Her condition and symptoms presented a very clear case for Lycopodium. So with the child; from the hint received from the mother's condition, systematic inquiry discovered the facts that the diapers were stained a deep color, and had frequently "red sand" on them after the child urinated; also that it cried and showed other signs of discomfort before urinating; it was also distressed by gas in the bowels. Lycopodium was given to both mother and child. The child improved rapidly and became entirely well. But the most remarkable and significant fact was the eruption of the worst looking crop of eczema it had ever been my fortune to see. The child was covered literally from the crown of its head to the soles of its feet with the eruption, which did not wholly leave it until after its first teeth had all appeared. A third child was born to these parents. It also suffered with symptoms similar to those of the others, but in a less degree. The same remedy relieved the child, and its exhibition was followed by a similar but less profuse and persistent crop of eczema. The influence of the remedy during the period between the time when it was first administered to the mother and the birth of the third child had been such as to greatly ameliorate the distressing symptoms of this little one. Here, it seems to me, is the point, beginning at which the most efficacious prophylactic or preventive treatment can be accomplished, not only in pneumonia, but in every other disease in which exists an hereditary element.-Dr. W. J. Hawkes in The Critique. We used to talk learnedly of inflammation and its several characters, heat, pain, redness and swelling; with these present we diagnosed inflammation and gave (not antiphogistini, antiphlogistics). Plethora was a term which signified excess in vital action. Scrofula was another term much in use, and meant depravity of the vital forces. We do not use these terms any more. Metabolism is a better sounding term and means just any imaginary or real change in cell life. We talk of faulty metabolism, but no one pretends to understand what that means-the term unhealthy means as much as faulty-metabolism, but does not sound so well. I suspect that when we study man as an entity and try to feed, house and clothe him properly, that he will fare almost as well as when we fill his stomach, bowels, bladder, lungs and skin with anti this and anti that, but if we want to be considered up to date-and progressive-we must X-ray, actinize, use sero-therapy, and talk of hæmolytis, urinalysis, ions, etc. In short, pretence is paying fad. W. P. HOWLE, M. D., In Medical Summary. BOVININE in ANÆMIA BOVININE overcomes Anemia logically, rationally and radically, for several substantial reasons: 2. I. Because it supplies the starving organism with the requisites for immediate separation. 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