Every mother should understand this, as the care of the child's ears is very essential to his or her future usefulness as years go by. Now in many cases a few doses of Silicea will correct this condition,stop the discharge and allow the drum to heal. If it does not she had better see a doctor at once. It is not alone in the chronic forms of ear discharge that Homoeopathy is useful. It is very efficacious in the acute attacks. In this condition, too, the mother, who has a few remedies, can accomplish a great deal, for the simple reason that she is right on the ground, to take the case in hand in the beginning. In a large number of earaches, it means as soon as pain is felt that an abscess is about to form. A dose or two of Belladonna, at once, may abort the whole trouble, while usually if you wait till the doctor arrives pus has formed and in that case the abscess has got to break before the little sufferer will get relief. In that case Homœopathy has remedies which will hurry the abscess on to maturity. There are other cases of earache where abscesses do not form, but which frequently recur and are a great source of trouble to the child as well as a menace to its hearing. Pulsatilla will not only usually cure these cases for the time being, but it will prevent their recurrence.

Among those so cared for there was not one case developed. Two families outside of my own clientele were notable. In one the little girl had been sick for three days before I was called and there were two smaller children in the house who had not had the fever. They were kept away from the sick girl as well as possible and given Belladonna. Neither one of them contracted the disease, and their little sister recovered, but had a severe illness. In the other family there were four children, and the oldest, a boy of about twelve years of age, came down with the fever. The other three little girls were exposed to it, but under the same treatment as named above | none of them contracted the fever, and the little boy made a quick recovery. These may only be co-incidences, but they are the kind that happen so frequently under homoeopathic treatment. I mention this epidemic specially, on account of its virulence. During the month of April there were sixty-five cases of scarlet fever and over thirty died from the disease. So virulent was the disease that every member of one family of four children died. In another family there were seven children and six died, and the whole epidemic was characterized by the same virulence. Almost all the cases in the epidemic were under allopathic treatment, so that no comparison of results would be just, for while there was only one death under homoeop thic treatment there was a comparatively small number treated that way. But the death rate in this disease is very much lower under homoeopathic treatment than with the old school. Also there are fewer bad after effects. * * * *

There is a general idea in the public mind that nothing can be done for whooping cough. The old school admit that they are powerless, to either shorten the disease, or mitigate its severity. The statement has gone forth among the laity that whooping cough is six weeks coming and six weeks going, and it was simply necessary for the patient to "cough it out." Nothing could be further from the truth. Homœopathy will relieve the spasms and cut short the disease to half the time stated above. Resulting from the foregoing diseases, especially measles and scarlet fever, we often see discharging

As the child comes along in years, it is very common to find developing a constitutional condition at or before puberty which always gives the watchful mother much oncern. The child, whether boy or girl, often will suddenly take a start and grow up very tall, quite rapidly. Intellect is keen, but the body has grown so rapidly that i is poorly developed. Chest is hollow, shoulders stooped, and many other things noticeable, which clearly indicate to the experienced eye that the boy or girl would fall an easy prey to pulmonary consumption. In no other disease is the old maxim more true than in this one. An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure. The proper way is, to prevent the disease long before it begins. This is too important a subject to attempt to deal with it in a paper like this. I simply wish to draw your attention to the fact that Homoeopathy has several remedies which may be called "constitution builders," which, with the proper hygienic assistance of suitable exercise, fresh air, good food and regular habits, will do wonders in assisting frail children through this critical age. But do not trust yourself in this matter, see a homeopathic physician, and follow his instructions religiously.-Montreal Homeopathic Record.

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I write from personal experience. I, years ago, had an attack of what the doctor called "malarial fever" and was nearly at death's door, when I was inspired to drain out the poison through the kidneys by copious draughts of a diuretic water. I rapidly recovered.

The remedy against contracting "malaria," socalled, is avoidance of impure water and contaminated milk. The remedy for it, after contraction, is abundant consumption of any water that acts freely on the kidneys.

If the doctor would recognize these facts the world be much healthier; but what would most of the doctors do without the malaria superstition and the Quinine drug?

Very respectfully,

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Augusta, Ga.

JAMES R. RANDALL.

MALARIA.

Editor of the HOMOEOPATHIC ENVOY.

When I got hold of it, I read your ENVOY with pleasure and profit. I agree with you on many points, especially about vaccination.

In your last issue you state, in answer to a correspondent, that you know of no remedy against "malaria "-the disease so named.

In any habitable region there is no such thing as malaria. The air is just as pure in the swamp as on the mountain top, relatively. It is not air of the swamp, but the swamp water that produces the fever called miscalled malarial. It is malaqua, not malaria. Drink pure water or boiled water in the swamp and there will be no fever. Near this city are farms, river plantations, which for a century were smitten with "malarial" fever, but, when artesian water was procured and exclusively used, the fever vanished. This is the case in Southwestern Georgia, when flowing artesian wells, displacing surface ones, transformed that region into a sanitarium from a necropolis. Since the city of Rome, Italy, within a comparatively recent period, introduced pure water abundantly and universally, the Roman fever has disappeared. Still blows upon Eternal

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JUST A LITTLE PLAIN PRESCRIBING. By S. D. JOHNSON, M. D., Milwaukee, Wis. As I let my mind go back to the first years medical practice, I remember how hard obliged to work and how patiently and determinedly I searched for what seemed to me the symptom in every case. The longer I practice and the greater my experience, the more do I realize the importance and correctness of that course. For in that way alone can one so fortify the pathogenesis of all remedies as to be able to prescribe correctly at once for any given case. But I never failed in those days to make note of all and look them up later in good Old Hering or Farrington for the verification of my prescription.

How well I remember one of my first cases. A lady of about forty years of age had a cough that had resisted all prescriptions up to the time she came into my hands. I had no chance to examine her properly (I was a young man), but must prescribe on symptoms alone, which were as follows: A violent paroxysmal cough, intense frontal headache, aching in the eyeballs, pain in infra-mammary region (left).

Cough caused seemingly by a dry spot in the larynx. Cimicifuga 2x was all that was required. It cured the case permanently, she being under my observation for several years.

Another case, one of whooping cough, the patient awakened at 5 A. M. with violent paroxysms. Was quickly relieved with Rumex 2x, it seeming to cure as no other remedy was needed and the cough stopped.

Another case (a child six years old) that had resisted all kinds of cough mixture, in which the symptom was, cough immediately on lying down, uvula elongated and throat much irritated, one remedy cured, and that remedy was Hyoscyamus 2x.

All is aggravated by motion; the chest walls are kept as still as possible; the patient cannot move for it makes him cough incessantly and the head aches so.

I once received a message that a friend of mine was dying of pneumonia, and to come at once. I found her in the second stage of pneumonia, well filled with Digitalis, Strychnia and brandy, all of which I ordered stopped under the protests of those attending that, if I did, she would surely die. Here was a combination of Bryonia and Phosphorus so decided and difficult to separate and the emergency so great that I alternated the remedies with the result that in three hours all of the dangerous signs had passed away and the patient recovered on those two remedies. (The crisis came about two days later.) Do not understand me to underrate the necessity of occasionally using Digitalis and Strychnine. Both are indicated at times, but neither should be given blindly as a routine remedy. When Phosphorus fails to relieve the weak and rapid pulse, so char

One old lady sent to me for a remedy for a cough that nothing would relieve, that had existed for over a year. All the symptoms she gave was that "it seemed as though the chest were full of phlegm, but none would come up, although it came up enough to almost choke her." I sent her Tartar emet. 3x and she needed no other remedy.

So I might go on, but you are all familiar with these things, and yet I like to call to mind cases that seem to demonstrate the homoeopathic action of the remedies. Now, who among you here has ever seen a headache worse the first thing in the morning on awakening and aggravated by the least motion, accompanied perhaps by constipation and dryness of all excreta, that was not relieved by Bryonia; and did you ever know Bryonia to fail to relieve its characteristic pain in pneumonia, where many would give Dovers' powders?

The difference between Phosphorus and Bryonia is this: The Phosphorus patient complains of much constriction; he is panting for breath. There seems to be such a great weight upon the chest. He is bathed in a colliquative perspiration though the temperature may be 105. He is worse in the fore part of the night and so on; with such a picture Phosphorus is the only remedy. Bryonia is almost the reverse.

current, will almost always do it. When the pulse is intermittent, Digitalis. In all low conditions with absence of the first sound of the heart, Arsenicum 3d is, to my mind, almost certain, especially in typhoid. Great prostration, of course, is the keynote for Arsenicum. In the cardiac condition mentioned there is almost always great prostration. Without the heart symptoms, great prostration with constant sliding down in the bed, calls for Muriatic acid, and I cannot recall a single failure to relieve such a condition with it.

One of my first cases of typhoid fever had this symptom: Intense aching in all the limbs with the most colliquative sweat I ever saw, in a case with temperature ranging from 103° to 105°. Salicylate of sodium in two-grain doses every two hours relieved the whole train of symptoms and the fever at once came under subjection. With this symptom of copious perspiration Phosphoric acid 3x has often helped me out. These patients all seemed to present the apathetic condition so characteristic of Phosphoric acid.

Speaking of characteristics reminds me of a case coming under my care a few days ago. The patient, a lady, thirty-three years old, had been under treatment for years for uterine troubles. Every morning she would be taken with what she called a frightened spell. Her heart would beat fast, her hair felt as though it stood on end, and she would present all

dilution, two drops, thrice a day. Some time after taking this he reported himself quite well. Beside these three remedies nothing had been prescribed, but a diet quite devoid of irritants, as also a complete interdict of alcohol; all else was unchanged.

Why had I first used in this case one of Schuessler's remedies? Because the symptoms as to micturition were especially prominent, and because the patient himself had directed me that way, by stating the benefit he had received from Karlsbad, i. e., from Sulphate of Soda. The two homoeopathic remedies were selected because the symptoms called for them: Magnesia muriat. on account of the hard, friable stool and the intense pressure in the hepatic region, Lycopodium on account of its prominent relations to the intestinal canal and on account of its prominent characteristic symptom: aggravation of the condition towards evening. If I had been limited in this case to biochemic remedies, I am afraid that the one would have been impossible; but, aided by Homoopathy, the cure was safe, pleasant and rapid!

II. The other case I would mention was that of a lady at a distance, who had for many years been suffering from habitual headache, and had given a trial to everything imaginable, except to Homoopathy. And even yet she would hardly have seized this last refuge, if a striking case in her neighborhood had not opened her eyes, and especially also if in the last months there had not been such an aggravation in her pains that, to use her own words, "she had been utterly weary of life." The very first statement, that she was forty-seven years of age, and that at every menstruation there were clearly marked irregularities, was not without its influence on the choice of the remedy; but it was, especially the following symptoms, which were really very characteristic, which led me to the selection of the right remedy. Her menses had always been extremely copious, had usually lasted seven to eight days, and had so exhausted her body that she had hardly fully recovered from one period to the other. In consequence of these excessive losses of blood, she had already, as a girl, suffered from all the symptoms of severe anæmia, and later, when married, she had never felt really well. She continually suffered from icecold hands and feet, suffered generally from constipation, her appetite was usually but small, and in spite of all her weariness and drowsiness by day she could not go to sleep in the evening, since her thoughts were then co tinually busied with one or the other of the little ills of life. She dreamt much

and about really horrid things, so that in the morning she felt more exhausted than in the evening. But she would have willingly borne all these ills if she could only once be delivered from the most excruciating of her ailments, her extremely violent headaches. These were of a varying character; at times she only had a dull pressure on the vertex, but on most days the heada he commenced with lightly drawing, tearing and boring pains, which gradually became so violent that she had to go to bed, could not eat or drink, and which were only alleviated by complete rest and warmth. The pains roamed all over the head, but occupied mostly the left side and occiput; when at the height of her attack, she feels as if icy water was trickling down over the left side of her head. Now and then there was some nausea, but it very seldom came so far as to reach vomiting. On moist, rainy days, her ills rose so as to be really unbearable.

That a vegetable remedy like Belladonna could not prove of much use where the transmutation of substance was so deeply disturbed as in the present case, any connoisseur would at once realize, I, therefore, following the law of similitude, as also the directions of v. Grauvogl, took one of the most far reaching homœopathic remedies, Calcarea carb. 30 D. dilution, three drops to be taken in the morning and evening, requesting her to report again in three weeks. This report was very satisfactory, as the headache had much diminished, and especially her sleep had become much better and more restful. Prescription: Calcarea carb. 60 D. dilution, two drops in water, morning and evening. Using this dilution, in four weeks her health had so much improved that she merely asked for one more remedy, to entirely remove the remaining ailment; occasional, sudden, sharp stitches in the left side of the forehead, appearing now and then. Besides the favorable action on the headache, the patient especially emphasized the fact that her constant chilliness had been supplanted by a quite comfortable sensation of warmth. The last prescription was Magnesia phosphor. 6 D. trituration in tablets, one tablet twice a day. The action must have been satisfactory-for I heard nothing more from this patient.

It is possible that this case might also have been cured by using two of Schuessler's remedies, Calcarea phosph. and Magnesia phosph., but what I wished to show is the useful interchange of biochemistry and Homœopathy.