Of the ten homoeopathic physicians every one returned the name of the same remedy and in each case it was the one remedy. The ten regulars returned the prescriptions above. The ten of our school sent word: TAKE LYCOPODIUM. There was no collusion. These physicians lived in different cities and each supposed himself the only one consulted. Now, said Benjie, in conclusion, who followed a law and who prescribed at random?

Yes, Benjie, this certainly should prove to every fair minded person that governing the prescription of the follower of Hahnemann is a distinct law. Each of our homoeopathic physicians applied that law and in every case the result was the one remedy, homœopathic to the case. But the charming irregularity and fanciful aberration in the classic prescriptions of the regulars is really remarkable. And scientific and mathematical, said Benjie.

HINTS.

Onosmodium Vir. "has probably cured more cases of headache, due to eye strain, than any other remedy."-Dr. H. C. Allen.

Where there is a flow of dark, stringy blood from any part, with weakness and lassitude, Crocus sat. is the remedy.

Backache, bad color, bearing down pain, headache-Sepia.

Bilious sick headache, vomiting of bile, Iris versicolor.

Fistula, Silicea.

Editor of the HOMOEOPATHIC ENVOY.

DEAR SIR: I notice in the HOм. ENVOY for August an inquiry from India for an antidote or rather preventive for malaria, to take the place of the much abused Quinine.

Strictly speaking, there can be no such a thing as a prophylactic in Homœopathy; we must have the symptoms of the patient to select our homœopathic remedy. But many a homoeopath has used Bell. to prevent contagion of scarlet fever, and Apis for diphtheria, and I believe, with success, and if there is a remedy that can prevent malaria, and cure it in thousands of cases, that remedy is Natrum muriaticum. I have had no opportunity to test it as a proph lactic, but have cured with Natr. mur. from the 30th to the highest potency thousands of malarial patients, and firmly believe it will prevent it also in these potencies in many, yea, most cases. Should it, however, prove not helpful as a prophylactic in the potentized form, it will do so, I think, in the crude form, roasted in an oven till brown, like roasted coffee, a full tablespoonful of this dissolved in a glassful of hot water, and on an empty stomach, the morning after the final paroxysm of malaria, followed by abstinence from food and water for two days thereafter. Vide: H. C. Allen, M. D., Therapeutics of Fevers, 1902, p. 269.

F. H. LUTZE, M. D. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept., 3, 1904.

VACCINATION.

Gloom, depression, feels like committing suicide, Aurum.

Pains at the heart, constriction, palpitation, Cactus grandiflorus.

Severe cramp in legs or foot, Cuprum. Headache, eyes smart and watery, nose running, sneezing—“ a bad cold," Allium cepa.

In stomach diseases, ulceration, cancer, or other ills in addition to the indicated remedy, give a tablespoonful of pure Olive oil two or three times a day.

Esculus and Hamamelis suppositories give quick relif in cases of painful piles.

and told of its benefit.

CLINICAL CASES FROM HOLLAND.

BY DR. J. T. WONTERS.

Translated from Allg. Hom. Zeit., August, 25, 1904.

I. A carpenter, twenty-six years of age, has been suffering for two years, after an attack of influenza, from an ever increasing pain in the chest, which, first on the right side, then on the left side, passes right through the chest. He coughs, but there is no expectoration nor hæmopto. The pain occurs when coughing, but is not influenced by the respiration. The pain is lancinating, the patient easily perspires. Pulse, 85, weak. There is, besides, a lancinating pain in the stomach.

After Kali carb. 30, five pills in the morning, the pain passed away in a week, as also the cough, and perspiration is less frequent. No more pain in the stomach. The pulse has come down to 75. The ailment did not return.

lived to be a few months old. After a cold there was a violent catarrh of the stomach with the following symptoms: The evacuation is watery, squirting out, of the color of water in which meat has been washed, with flatus of putrid smell. Worse in the morning than in the evening. Vomiting, not after taking food, but of mere water.

Always pushes the cover off. Much thirst and salivation. Intertrigo ad nates. The child is very restless, gets frightened easily, throws itself about. The differential diagnosis lies between Secale cornutum, Podophyllum and Bismuth.

Secale was given on account of the peculiar stool, and the desire to uncover herself. No improvement after twenty-four hours. Podophyllum came into consideration owing to the peculiarity of the stools and on account of the pruritus. Bismuth, however, has: 1. The symptom of vomiting of water (not of food). 2. The desire to uncover herself. 3. Salivation, and 4. The violent restlessness. After Bismuth 3, every hour, as much as would lie on the point of a knife, there was a manifest improvement after twelve hours and after a few days recovery from the diarrhoea and vomiting.

V. A man, forty years of age, had influenza in the year 1891, after which he remained weak and wretched, though before that he had been robust. Diarrhoea would appear again and again, after getting up in the morning, the stools being brownish

thirst. Aversion to bread.

After Bryonia 30 the patient had headache every day for the first weeks; then there was no more headache for two whole months. The thirst is less,

there is no more aversion to bread.

III. A young woman, thirty years old, has had for several months pains in the left shoulder blade, or rather under the shoulder blade; the shoulder gets tired easily. She cannot well lie on her left side. She is sensitive to the touch. She has taken

much iron.

Pulsatilla 6, five drops, three times a day. In two weeks the pain had diminished, she can more easily lie on her left side, the sensitiveness to the touch has diminished. The arm still feels tired. In two weeks more the pain is all gone but a trace. IV. A child, six months of age. Hereditary lues, treated with Syphilin 200 D., Mercurius sol. 30, Iodium 30. Two babies born before her only

before the evacuation there is much pain, while a cold perspiration broke out on him. He has pains also in the arms and legs, as well during rest as while in motion; not sensitive to pressure. The tongue is coated white with a black streak in the middle; it is very painful from the tip till back in œsophagus, sensitive while moving, so that swallowing is troublesome. These symptoms are aggravated every winter. There is, besides, an eruption of small, red papulæ, a little raised above the skin of the right arm. This also is especially noticeable in winter. The patient complains of an empty, sore feeling in the stomach and a constrictive sensation of fulness in the chest (no cough). Lack of appetite. Dryness in the gullet.

After taking Petroleum 6 D., the diarrhoea was cured. cured. The tongue is slightly coated white, still somewhat painful. He feels stronger. The eruption also has noticeably diminished. In two more weeks the symptoms had nearly disappeared.

the date on mailing tag.

HOMEOPATHIC." The patient is a vital being,

not material."

"The disease is a vital dynamis inimical to life." "The remedy must be a similar vital force." "Three similar vital forces."

"The disease forces produce sick symptoms." "Potentiation is the process of eliminating the material matter of the drug by dividing the molecules and setting free the intercellular vital dynamis, the life of the drug, which is retained in the menstruum and is the vital similar of the disease. The remedy which has been proved by discoveries recently made by physical scientists, to be a storage battery of the vital force of the drug. This is distinctively homoeopathic."—Dr. W. L. Morgan, Baltimore, in Homœopathic Recorder.

HOMOEOPATHY DOESN'T KILL, IT CURES.-"A physician may obtain a respectably large practice, whose course of treatment may, in many instances, be detrimental to the recovery of the patient. Nature still struggling against the disease and the treatment, health becomes restored and the doctor receives much credit for his skill, more especially when a patient recovers who has been nearly killed by his treatment."-J. L. Wolf, M. D., Cedar Falls, Iowa, in Wis. Med. Recorder.

or more-to find a serum "that would cure babies of summer complaint. They presumably spent the money and report a dead failure.

Homœopathy can cure every curable case, but then, you know, Homœopathy is not "scientific." Homœopathy CURES, but no no one knows how it cures; hence, it is rejected with scorn by the aforesaid "scientific" ones. But then they do not know how or why quiniue cures—if it does curechills and fever. There is very little about the human machine that can be scientifically demonstrated, for each machine has one destructive feature peculiar to itself and to no other machine-i. e., its motive power or soul. But, again, we believe, the ultra scientific deny there is such a thing as the soul and there we are, Homoeopathy seems to be for those only who believe that matter is not the Alpha and Omega.

THE RULE OF "AUTHORITY."—"One great bugbear in the profession we want to call special attention to, and that is the practice observed by some of calling all who do not agree with them unscientific. That man only is scientific who gets at the facts and draws logical deductions from them. He is not unscientific merely because he cannot believe some prevailing hobby. The editor of the Brief well remembers the time when the doctor who did not carry a lancet and bleed in fevers was ostracised. The profession has advanced somewhat since

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that day, but even at the present time if you do not accept the prevailing fad you will be ostracised in certain quarters. Yet because a man believes a thing is no sign it is true.”—Medical Brief.

"UNNECESSARY DEATHS."-The following is an extract from a private letter from an old physician commenting on the effects of allopathic, even "up to date" allopathic treatment. The writer lives in a small place where such effects can be best noted :

"I think that in the aforesaid young man's practice there have been many unnecessary deaths. It is a very delicate matter to handle without doing more harm to the already deluded people.

"The people have been taught that it was perfectly proper to administer opiates for the relief of pain, but those who have thus taught them did not know enough to prevent evil effects from such practice, and so we continue to see sacrifice after sacrifice to allopathic ignorance.

"The young doctor, too, is a stranger to the com

munity, or rather was a stranger, and you know how much more ready the people are to join themselves to a stranger than they are to one who was reared among them.

"Our natures are the same now as in the days when our Saviour was on earth, as chronicled in the 6th Chapter of Mark. I am so unfortunate as to have been born in this town sixty-four years ago, and although I have saved may lives which had been given up by the new comer, the fact carries but little weight with it in the minds of the people generally.

"Barnum used to say, the people love to be humbugged.' It is still true. It seems to me as if the people are determined not to be saved. I am convincing somebody every day of the evils of allopathic practice, but my life is not going to be long enough

to accomplish much. In your ENVOY you are doing great work for the cause."

VACCINATION CONTROVERSIES IN CALIFORNIA. "More than two hundred children were refused admission to the public schools of Berkeley, Cal., on account of their not having been vaccinated. Among those who involuntarily submitted to vaccination, one little girl contracted tetanus and died. Now the antivaccinationists are up in arms, and suit has been

threatened against the 'responsible parties.' Fortunately, the physician who performed the vaccina. tion was serving in an official capacity, and the responsibility for his act rests upon the State."-Medical Record, Oct. 1.

The responsibility for this little girl's death, and for the hundreds of similar deaths that occur, to say nothing of the thousands of physical wrecks from the same cause, lies with those fanatics who uphold compulsory vaccination. They say that vaccination is a sure protection against small-pox and then turn around and say that the unvaccinated

"menace" the vaccinated with possible smallpox. Their logic is on a par with their old Jennerian superstition.

THE LITTLE THINGS HOMOEOPATHY CAN DO.

By GEO. B. MAXWELL, M. D., Tacoma, Wash. which usually come to all little ones. Now let us follow a child through the diseases The eruptive fevers and whooping cough. In measles the fever is modified very much by a few doses of Aconite. It sometimes happens in the more serious case that the eruption does not develop properly, or recedes after it has partially developed, by catching cold. Then the rash and cause the disease to take a mild and Homœopathy comes to your assistance to develop natural course, but do not try and get through the Measles very often has

measles without a doctor.

bad things follow it, and it is not a trifling disease.

But a death from measles is very rare under homoeopathic treatment, while under old school treatment they are quite frequent.

Then comes scarlet fever. This is the most

dangerous of the eruptive fevers, not excepting

small-pox. In scarlet fever we have a remedy that has long been used as a preventive. It is always impossible to say that a remedy given as a prophylactic prevented the disease. But the experience of hundreds of physicians agrees in saying that Belladonna certainly has a great power in this direction, and in cases where the fever has not been prevented its course has invariably been very mild. During an epidemic last winter which was of a very virulent character, and caused many deaths among the cases treated allopathically, I took the precaution to supply Belladonna to the children of my own clientele.