NOTICE.-Friends of Homoeopathy, in various parts of the country, fre brethren would be a bad thing for all concerned. quently subscribe for the HOMOEOPATHIC ENVOY, to be sent to individuals, hand, answer technical questions is no sign that he or entire communities. If any one, therefore, receives the paper without having subscribed for it he or she may know that the subscription has been paid by some friend. Subscribers can always ascertain the date to which their subscriptions are paid by referring to the date on the mailing tag. is incompetent. Wonder how many old practi- The receipt of the renewal of a subscription is acknowledged by changing the new graduates. the date on mailing tag. "THE TRADING STAMP DISEASE.”—The mania for "trading stamps" now raging is little less than a mental epidemic originating in the general desire to get something for nothing. A writer recently pointed out that the cost of the stamps was equivelent to a tax of 5 per cent. on the merchant who gives them out. Then after the afflicted one has accumulated 1,000 stamps they are redeemed in goods paying "a profit of 200 to 500 per cent." Again, the number of unredeemed stamps is enormous. "A president of one of the trading companies has indicated that within the fourteen months that the company was organized it made a cash profit of $650, 000 on unredeemed stamps alone." Who pays it and what good has the company done to the public? REFERRED TO THE EDITORS.-From a recent letter from Dr. Berthelen, of Dresden, Germany, to an English publication, the following is clipped: "The Imperial Board of Health has recently confessed that small-pox is slowly but continually increasing in Germany. Small-pox has recently broken out in the following cities: Altona, Hamburg, Plagwitz, Eschweiler, Aix, Berlin, Posen, Trier, Gle'witz, Wolfenbuttel, Leipzig, Lindenau, Lubeck, Myslowitz, Rudolfszell, Schaffhausen (100) cases). Frankfort-on-Main, Strassburg, Blumenfeldt, Slupna, Wronowy, Oberkarsdorf, Flensburg, Metz, Krefeldt, Olpe, Witten, Coesfeldt, Altenbochum, and Bochum." It is now in order for the orthodox to sing in chorus: "There is no small-pox in Germany, vaccination Better buy of stores that are not burdened with has completely conquered it." this tax. MORE POWER WANTED.-The newspapers report that the Board of Medical Examiners intend to apply for the passage of a bill giving them power to revoke the licences of physicians for cause. The thing on the surface seems very plausable and for "the good of the public," but the Legislature will do better for the public by turning the bill down with emphasis. There is too much medical legislation on the statute books now and to pass a bill giving' a handful of men such enormous power over their Now, then, all together! HOMOEOPATHY.-The "law of similiars," as it is familiarly called, is in harmony with all nature. Likes beget likes, likes are drawn into likes, a smile begets a smile, a frown begets a frown. Like sounds produce harmony, unlike sounds produce discord; and harmony, not discord, brings sweet temper, appetite and good digestion. Sunlight brings good cheer, darkness bring despondency, and so throughout the realm of nature the law of likes is ever uppermost." Medical Century's Prize Essay. PIES.-Dr. A. J. Milller, writes Medical Talk: "Because a hundred years ago some old dyspeptic doctor whose stomach was debauched with whiskey and tobacco, ate a piece of pie and it did not agree with him, he at once condemed pie, and the medical profession today, without any cause whatever, is condemning pie on general principles." And then pie, like the mother-in-law, is one of the staple jokes with the vapid wits, but we will take pie in preference to the cracked up, and prescribed "stale bread" every day in the year. NATRUM SULPHURICUM.-This is an extract from a private letter: “"I have been afflicted with asthma for many years with little or no relief until I tried Natrum sulph. 12x which has been of very great benefit to me although I do not expect it will make a complete cure." ARE THE VACCINTED A SOURCE OF INFECTION?— douche bottle, place it in one nostril and tip the head back, thereby permitting a continuous stream to circulate through one nostril and out the other. This goes very well so long as the patient is able to close off the upper pharynx from the lower with the soft palate, but during this act should by accident the individual strangle, the fluid is immediately injected into the tympanic cavity through the eustachian tube, and occasionally sets up a severe otitis media similar to the cases quoted." "Acute otitis media is quite a common occurrence at bathing resorts, not because the water enters the external meatus, as is generally supposed, but through the mouth and nostrils by the act of strangulation." "Every physician should discourage the use of the nasal douche and recommend in its place nothing else but a fine spray in the form of an atomizer, from which no harm can come." in Public Ledger of Aug. 29, Newark, N. J., gave THE MOSQUITO CROP.-According to a dispatch its Board of Health $9,500 to abate the mosquito. The result is summed up as follows: "The residents of Newark whose homes are near the meadows say they never suffered such a plague of mosquitoes as they have experienced this summer. Never has so systematic and active warfare been made upon the pests in all parts of the State, but from nearly everywhere comes the statement that A good deal of excitement was caused in Berlin early in July by the report, appearing in several newspapers, of a case of small-pox admitted to Baginsky's clinic. All persons who had come in contact with the case were strictly isolated and the patient, a boy of eleven, was transferred to the isolation ward of the Charité. Careful watching for a few days proved the case to be not true small-pox, but a generalized vaccination rash. Baginsky reported on the case at the meeting of the Medizinische Gesellschaft. The boy himself had not been vaccinated, as he was suffering from eczema, but had slept in the same bed with his brother who had been vaccinated and showed the ordinary vaccination pustule. A great number of very similar pustules were found scattered over all but the lower part of cording to Health the habitual use of smelling salts the body of the patient admitted to the hospital.-relates how two ladies were sitting by a fire, both makes the face prematurely old and wrinkled. From Letter to Medical Record. Sept. 10, 1904. DANGER IN THE NASAL DOUCHE.-Dr. Edgar J. George, in The Buletin, of the C. H. M. C., writes that physicians should warn the public against the nasal douche. After relating the cases where the ear was affected by the use of them, he concludes: "Pharmaceutical houses are putting on the market preparations for the cleansing and care of the nasal passages. Accompanying these preparations is an apparatus for the use of the medicine in the form of a nasal douche. The directions which generally go with such packages are to fill up the the plague of this season is the worst ever known." Drainage or filling in swamp is the only thing that will abate the nuisance. SMELLING SALTS A CAUSE OF WRINKLES.-AC It about the same age, but one looking much older. The one who locked older, took out her salts and inhaled. Then the other noticed that all the unbecoming lines in her friend's face suddenly deepened. They dominated her friend's expression completely, for they were the result of a sudden screwing up of her face because of the pungent odors in the bottle. Then it came to her mind that there were some women among her younger acquaintances whose faces were beginning to show the same curious lines about the eyes, nose and mouth, and she knew that these women were also addicted to the use of smelling salts. THE OLIVE OIL BATH.-The ancient Greeks owed much of their physical beauty, suppleness of limbs, and strength of constitution to the use of olive oil as a lotion. Of late years the great value of oil rubbing has been recognized by the medical fraternity, and is used by them in the treatment of many diseases with the most satisfactory results. By its use infants, if delicate, are strengthened and nourished; if they have bowel trouble, oil rubbed on the abdomen assists in remedying the disorder, relieves pain, and soothes the child. If oil is rubbed on the skin of persons in fever, it prevents the surface becoming parched, also: trengthens and nourishes the patient as it is absorbed, so acts as food. If a person has a cold, in the head, oil rubbed on the nose and forehead loosen the cold, and freer breathing is the result. If the cold is on the lungs, oil rubbed on the chest soon relieves the suffocating feeling, and the cough is less harsh. Oil rubbed on the sides, back, and chest, is one of the most helpful things that can be done for a consumptive. It loosens the cough, and helps build up the tissues. Physicians say a consumptive's case is hopeful as long he retains his flesh. This the oil aids in doing. Nothing equals in its efficacy an oil bath for a new-born babe, the oil being well rubbed over the flesh, then rubbed off with a soft cashmere cloth. And, finally, the woman that wishes to keep her complexion fresh and skin free from wrinkles patiently rubs oil on the face.-Health. CONFIRMATION OF ONE OF THE INDICA Translated from Leipziger Popul. Zeitschr. f. Hom., When any one complains of acidity of the stomach, allopaths usually make the routine prescription of Natrum bicarbonicum in irrational doses. This may help or it may not; i. e., perhaps it may palliatively remove the acidity, and in a favorable case it may not cause evil sequelae and may not upset the stomach. It is otherwise if we use Schuessler's remedy, Natrum phosphor., which is more ef ective and permanent, as it attacks the acid diathesis itself. This excess of acid in the blood also leads to attacks of gout and is also said to be one of the causes of diabetes (diminished alkalescence of the blood) and it produces manifestations of rheumatism and even pronounced acute articular rheumatism. If we find a remedy which will combat the tendency to the formation of an excess of acids and will more permanently remove it; that can be done with Carbonate of Soda or with Natrum bicarbonatum, whereby the acid in the stomach, after a debauch, may be neutralized, we can do vastly more, for we can effectively attack a whole group of diseases. I will adjoin a little clinical illustration: A patient wrote to me: "Have you got a remedy which may put an end to acidity? Urtica urens was somewhat drastic in its action, and I could not bear it." Mrs. A. had taken Urtica without my knowledge. I now advised her to use exclusively Natrum phosphoricum. This was on November 9. On the 30th of the same month she wrote to me in a somewhat humorous vein: "And then I have to laugh again, but for joy, to think how much good feet are decidedly better, and this in spite of the bad Natrum phosphoricum has affected in my case. My weather. I feel as if the acids were drawing up wards, to be excreted by the kidneys. You see therefore, how you keep me a going." Another time the patient described the pain as being of a clearly gouty nature. We can, therefore, see why Natrum phosphoricum should act beneficently in this case. Drawing and cutting pains in the legs this lady stated that she had alleviated by rubbing with extract of Hamamelis. "VACCINATION is not only responsible for being the direct cause of small-pox in many cases, but it is also the means of starting epidemics. In nearly if not all instances where reliable statistics can be obtained, whether small-pox is epidemic or endemic, those who had been vaccinated were invariably attacked first, proving conclusively the truth of the foregoing statements." "That vaccination starts epidemics of small-pox will not be doubted by anyone who understands the pathology of that operation; because, in the first place every case of genuine vaccination induces a genuine case of small-pox, if it takes' and the severity of the manifestation will depend on the amount of pus to be precipitated. Cases of confluent small-pox have very frequently occurred, following successful' vaccination. Secondly, physicians will admit that small-pox artificially induced by vaccination is equally as contagious as the genuine article. Therefore, if Boards of Health were consistent, they would isolate every case of successful vaccination. In fact, I know of one case, not far from where I practice, that this was really done, showing that this one board was really consistent."-R. Swinburne Clymer, M. D., in Success, Oct., 1904. tensity according to the dose of the substance, but HOMEOPATHIC ENVOY. always the same symptoms. Subscriptions received at the following Homœopathic Pharmacies: BOERICKE & TAFEL, Philadelphia: 101 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. 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. P. O. Box 921, TALKS WITH BENJIE. By J. TITUS. That is the way physicians discover when a person has been poisoned, I said, the skilled toxicologist knows by the symptoms the kind of poison used and usually the quantity. Yes, yes, said Benjie, everybody knows all about that. Please do not interrupt the even thread of my discourse. To continue: Oh, always the same symptoms, I said. Now, when from some unknown. reason, the man has a train of symptoms like that produced by some poisonous substance this substance given in the proper dose will most certainly do away with the symptoms and restore the man to his usual health. Is it not plain enough? And, Benjie, please let me say just a word; when the doctor does not relieve the patient, remove the symptoms of disease, be very sure that that fact does not prove that Homoeopathy is a humbug, but that the doctor has not gotten the remedy that produces the peculiar symptoms the man has. Two and two make four, do they not? It is a fact, everybody understands that; but you cannot add two and one Philadelphia, Pa. and expect to get four. and expect to get four. There is the law of numbers. Like cures like-it is the law of drugs. It does not make any difference if all the wiseacres in the land grin at the small doses, say there is no matter in such infinitesimals, say that it is absurd, this Homœopathy. The fact that they do not understand this law does not in the least disturb its truthfulness. It simply demonstrates in a world where we cannot measure knowledge by any one man's capacity that the aforementioned wiseacres only think they know. Why, the trend of all modern discovery is toward the law of the similars. Consumption treated by preparations of tuberculous lymph, dipththeria treated by greatly attenuated diphtheritic poison. And then the gland extracts—— What I cannot understand, said Benjie, is that folks do not at once see that the principle of Homoopathy, that like cures like, is a law of Nature; it's plain enough: When you walk out with the thermometer twenty below zero and come back with your nose white and without sensation-frosted, in fact-do you put hot water on it? Not much. You keep away from the heat of the fire and you hold snow to your nose and thaw it out with cold. Frozen by cold-thawed by cold. Cold produces the ailment, cold cures it. When you burn yourself, do you apply cold water to the injured place? No, sir, you-if you are wise-hold the burn a little way from the fire and heat takes the pain away. Again the homoeopathic principle. Sometimes I am really amazed at the soundness of Benjie's logic. Here are two notable examples illustrating the truth, in a simple manner, the truth that the old fellows from Aesculapius down got glimpses of, but which was first made practical by Hahnemann. That any substance antagonistic to the normal action of the body when introduced into it will produce certain symptoms, differing in in That's not Homoeopathy, said Benjie, that's Isopathy, that's nothing new, Lux, the German, wrote a pamphlet about that sixty years ago. Why, even Brown-Sequard's wonderful preparation for making old men young was used in our own West many years since. I know all that, Benjie, but I am trying to instil into your dense mind the fact that the great and massive thinkers of the regular school are looking toward the fact that what will produce a disease will cure it. Regulars! Regulars! what are regulars? said Benjie. Well, Benjie, according to my big dictionary, a regular is "one who acts according to rule, who follows a uniform course, unvarying in practice, recurring without fail." Then, mused Benjie, I really do not understand why the allopathic physician calls himself a regular. For his course is by no means uniform, and his acts far from being according to rule. Did you ever hear of a little test that one of our men made some years since as to which school followed nearer to a definite law in prescribing? No? Well, I'll tell you: A good doctor who believed in Hahnemann and the law of Homœopathy was one day pondering upon how an old school physician without any fixed law to guide his practice could by any possibility call himself regular. So he wrote the following letter*: Dear Doctor: I am a great sufferer from indigestion, and apply to you for a prescription. My appetite is usually good, but a few mouthfuls cause a sense of fullness and repletion, as if I had really eaten a hearty meal. I cannot eat enough to keep me strong. There is more or less soreness in the region of the liver. Bowels usually constipated, with much flatulence of stomach and bowels. I don't know but my kidneys are badly affected, for I have soreness and aching in that region, and I pass a great deal of red sand in my urine. Naturally I am of a lively temperament, fond of society, but am now often low spirited. One thing about my case strikes me as being peculiar: I am always worse from 4 to 5 or from 8 to 9 o'clock P. M. This I have noticed for years, and it is not imagination. I am a married man, aged forty-two; fair complexion, weight, 135 pounds; height, 5 ft. 6 in.; occupation, book-keeper. Please send prescription by return mail, and find within P. O. order for $2.00. Very respectfully, SAMUEL BOYER, Box 20. This letter was sent to twenty prominent physicians, living in different cities; ten of them were homœopaths, ten were regulars. Following are the Regular prescriptions, no two alike : I. B Harrison's Peristaltic Lozenges. Syrup simp., āā. 3jv. M. Sig. Teaspoonful half an hour before each meal in wineglassful sweetened water. Two physicians sent no answer. My, my, Benjie, here's regularity, method, science, and wisdom, but especially "uniformity and accord *The result of this trial was published in the Medical Advance ing to rule," as the dictionary has it. for December, 1889, and also issued in a pamphlet: "Who Are the Regulars." The experiment with these results was actually made. Don't interrupt me, said Benjie, in the middle of my story. Wait for the homoeopathic side of it. |