ened cystitis or where there is some little hemorrhage. If the patient is closely confined and constipated, with dark sallow skin and inactive liver, add 30 grains of sodium phosphate and note the most gratifying results. This latter agent is itself a renal tonic and stimulant, with a soothing action. Its specific influence upon the liver greatly facilitates its effects on the kidneys when there is a fault in the hepatic conversion of the nitrogenous waste. In addition to its influence upon the kidneys, epigea is a carminative of much value. It is a stomach tonic, and it soothes gastric irritation. It will quickly relieve persistent eructations of gas, and will cure many chronic cases that have resisted other treatment. When there is noisy rumbling in the bowels, so distressing to ladies when present, this agent may be successfully administered. WHITE POND LILY. Nuphar Lutea has not been used as it deserves. Those who know its influence are enthusiastic in its praises. It was considered by the ancients to possess valuable medicinal properties It is a sedative and tonic to the sexual apparatus. It regulates sexual excitement, and soothes any irritation of the sexual apparatus. In spermatorrhoea it is exceedingly valuable, whether from exhaustion or irritation of the organs. It controls satyriasis and nymphomania and excessive sexual desire from whatever cause. Ten drops of the fluid extract should be given every three hours for this purpose. It cures cases of prostatorrhoea after other remedies have failed. It will repay investigation, and its properties should be carefully studied. It is used locally with excellent results in the treatment of chronic metritis and other uterine disorders. Its sedative influence so used is marked. ACONITE. In the earlier stages of acute rheumatism there is no remedy like aconite. It reduces the pulse, lowers the temperature and seems to antidote the rheumatic poison. It should be continued until unmistakable symptoms of some other remedy present themselves; in fact, an English physician remarked in a discussion on the treatment of rheumatic fever that he had never seen any good follow the administration of bryonia unless it had been preceded by aconite. These suggestions are especially good in the light of the knowledge that aconite intensifies the action of a number of our good remedies. I have often spoken of the superior influence of cimicifuga when given in conjunction with aconite and in cases above mentioned. This agent may be introduced in the treatment often, because of its ability to assist in the elimination of uric acid, which is an important factor in many cases. The indications for bryonia in acute articular rheumatism are often present, and there is no doubt that a proper combination with aconite will render the influence of bryonia more satisfactory. SPECIFIC GELSEMIUM IN SEA-SICKNESS. I have just received a letter from a party of six, who are traveling by sea. They are especially subject to sea-sickness. Before going to sea I furnished them with q. s. of Lloyd's specific gelsemium. They had had experience of how quickly the worst cases of sea-sickness could be controlled by it, on a previous voyage, and desired me to prepare them some medicine for sea-sickness. I gave them three ounces of the above specific medicine. On the former occasion I used the green saturated tincture made by myself. I quote verbatim from their letter: "Perhaps you will be interested in hearing what kind of a time we are having on our trip. Thanks to your kindness and medicine, I was not at all seasick, and the children only a little bit the first night out. Ever since we have thoroughly enjoyed every minute." The passage was unusually rough for this season of the year. i could relate many cases of the controlling influence of the gelsemium in sea-sickness; but it will be sufficient to say, considerably over one hundred cases have been under my care in traveling to and from on my trip across the ocean. Naval officers and private individuals, the strong, the weak, sickly and delicate, the old and young, can be entirely exempt from the unpleasant and nauseating effects of "feeding the fishes" by a judicious use of the remedy named. Every Eclectic is or should be familiar with the uses of this remedy. It should be administered in sufficient quantity to control the nerves of the stomach. It is not necessary to get the constitutional effects the dropping eyelids and dilation of the pupils-though this will do no harm; but these are indications to stop the administration for several hours. My method is to put one-half teaspoonful into one-half a goblet of pure water. Take of the mixture one teaspoonful every one-fourth to one-half hour until the sickness has passed away. Keep upon deck as much as possible in fine weather. The medicine will control without regard to where the patient is, though the purer the air the better.-Eclectic Medical Gleaner. ENANTHE CROCATA, LINNE--ITS EFFECT IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS. Oenanthe Crocata is a perennial, umbelliferous, aquatic European plant and exceedingly poisonous to both man and inferior animals. The root has a sweetish, not unpleasant taste, and is sometimes eaten by mistaking it for parsnip, often with fatal results. The symptoms of poisoning are very uniform and appear soon after eating very suddenly, with a I prescribed The law of "similia similibus curantur" is very strikingly illustrated in the following case: A robust and until recently healthy woman of twenty-six years, pregnant for the first time (seventh month), complained on November 4 of headache and swollen feet for the last weeks. The following night I was called on account of a peculiar attack of unconsciousness and strange movements, which had awakened her husband, who could not give more of a description, as they slept without a night light. I gave belladonna. The next night she had another, worse attack, while asleep, and still another before my arrival, after which she had two more, much severer, in quick succession. Status præsens: Complete unconsciousness, eyes half open, staring, face and neck dark red and turgescent, froth at the mouth, teeth set tight, a singular noise in the throat as if she were being strangulated, upper and lower lower limbs flext, hands tightly clencht, the whole body in a shaking, convulsive motion. Taking the case for epilepsy, I inquired whether she was afflicted with this disease, to which her husband replied in the negative. oenanthe croc., third decimal dilution, one drop (equal to 1-1,000 drop of the tincture) every ten minutes for one hour, afterwards less and less frequently. She had no other attack before, during or after the confinement, which occurred eighteen days later, notwithstanding her other symptoms, dropsy, albuminuria, headache and amaurosis, continued growing worse, although several homeopathic medicines were successively administered. How much they may have retarded the progress of the disease is impossible to tell. Now note these two points: First, the great similarity between the symptoms of oenanthe and of epilepsy, and secondly, the immediate and permanent stoppage, thru minute doses of the remedy, of this epileptic form of convulsions, altho the cause not only continued, but kept increasing in force. To fully appreciate the woman's condition I will add the following: On the 18th of November the anasarca from the feet to the navel was so severe that she could neither sit up nor lie down; only a half sitting, half recumbent position on the edge of a chair was possible. The labia pudendi were so much swollen that the urine passed between them with difficulty; they' were covered with several one to two inches long water blisters, which I opened to allow the water to escape. The legs were much swollen and covered with large blis ters, some open and discharging. The urine contained an immense quantity of albumin; headache; vision diminisht. On the 22d of November she was taken with labor pains, and after several hours the child was born; a very large quantity of water rushing out before and after its birth. After the removal of the afterbirth the abdomen of the woman was nearly as large (ascites) as that of a woman at full term. The child was very emaciated and lived only three days. As she could not lie down during the birth, I placed two chairs beside each other, tied together the two inner hind legs of the two chairs, spread apart the front legs, and had her sit in a half recumbent position over the open triangular space on the two edges of the two chairs. The amaurosis (retinitis albuminurica) was so severe on the 22nd of November that she could not see my hand at the distance of three feet in broad daylight; she could only see the outlines of persons close to; beyond fifteen feet she could discern nothing. Four weeks after her confinement she came without a guide to my office. Within several months she made a complete recovery, including her amaurosis, the last affection to yield. Also a chronic disposition to fainting fits disappeared.-F. G. Oehme, M. D., in Medical World. WHOOPING COUGH. Dr. Abbott in the Alkaloidal Clinic says that whooping-cough can often be aborted, can always be modified and can be successfully handled by the use of calcium sulphide granules. One granule is given every hour until saturation. It takes eight or ten granules per day to produce this effect. A very minute dose of atropine or belladonna may be given in conjunction with it. Dr. Abbott generally knows what he is talking about, and although we have not tried this method, we advise it on the strength of his statement and ask for reports. APHORISMS IN BRIGHT'S DISEASE. Dr. W. H. Porter in the Medical Record, in a paper on dietetics in renal diseases, says the conclusions to be drawn from this study are: 1. To analyze thoroughly the results of treatment in "Bright's Disease" one must have a clear conception of the histology and physiological functions of the kidneys. 2. Its complex pathology must be clearly understood. 3. All the etiological factors must be given full consideration. 4. The etiological factors are numerous and very complicated in their action. 5. Only one, if any, of these can be reached by surgical interfer ence. 6. Most of the etiological factors can be modified or removed by |