REMEDIES IN TYPHOID FEVER.-Bryonia. Some one has said "the more the typhoid the more the bryonia. Whoever said it said well. Bryonia has served us more often and more regularly than all other remedies combined. So much is this true that we have almost come to prescribe it routinely upon the reception of a fever case. Administered from the beginnning, the temperature rarely gets beyond control, and we have been very fortunate in warding off the intestinal relaxations that are such a nuisance so often. The mental hebetude, the dulled expression, the besotted countenance, the dry, brown tongue, the foul breath, the sluggishness of functions, the decubitus and desire to lie quiet, the slowness of pulse as compared with temperature, these and other symptoms to be found in the symptom codex are the picture fro bryonia in typhoid. Many of our cases have been carried through on bryonia alone, without a single constitutional or intercurrent.

Next to bryonia comes baptisia; but it has not been called for in anything like the number that might be expected from the praise it has received. Ever since Hale pronounced baptisia a remedy which would abort typhoid fever it has been used frequently and indiscriminately in the beginning as an abortifacient; whereas, baptisia is rarely indicated early.

Its chief characteristics are putridity and duality of consciousness, or, rather, a perversion of duality. Baptisia is a secondary remedy, always to be thought of as the patient gets mixed up, and as his breath and discharges become penetratingly foul; some one else is in bed with him; it is the other man who is sick.

These symptoms never occur in the first week. They doubtless arise from the effect of the typhoid toxin and the continued heat upon those centers of the brain that preside over duality of consciousness, hence it is the other part of us, the other fellow, if you will, who is sick and behaving badly. In this perversion baptisia is a classic; likewise where putridity predominates; and this, also, is always late.

MORE ABOUT FICUS RELIGIOSO.

PHILADELPHIA, April 5, 1909.

To the Editor of the THE CLEVELAND MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER: Dear Sir: In reference to the letter from Dr. Ghose, of Calcutta, India, printed in the April issue of THE CLEVELAND MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER, permit us to state that Dr. Ghose's paper introducing the remedy, Ficus religioso, to the Western world, was published in the Homeopathic Recorder. Later the editor of that journal published what Drs. Mattoli and King had to say concerning it; also a communication from Dr. Yingling testifying to the merits of the drug. Thus both sides were given. The drug we suppliel to the profession was imported by us in the tincture form, presumably prepared by Dr. Ghose, if we may judge from the correspondence which can be produced if necessary. Some of the dried leaves were sent us but were not used, and were thrown away. Very truly yours,

BOERICKE & TAFEL.

Free sample of a new Patent Two Finger Obstetrical Examination Cot will be sent to physicians sending card or prescription blank. Other novelties. Address Medical Equipment Company, 149 West 23d Street, New York.

WANTED.-Slightly used instruments and all kinds of office equipment in good condition. Fair prices for reliable goods. Distance no object. Write Henderson, 149 West 23d Street, New York.

The effects of the application of cocaine or adrenalin to the nose or throat may be prolonged by swabbing the parts after the application of the medicament with sterile vaselin.-American Journal of Surgery.

Stretching the anal sphincter alone will in many instances relieve an intense pruritus or a small prolapse of the anal mucus membrane.

Current News.

PROFESSOR H. L. FROST spent a few days in New York City in May.

DR. F. W. SOMERS, of Cleveland, is now making his numerous calls in a new Cadillac touring car.

DR. O. A. PALMER, of Cleveland, who has been seriously ill for many weeks, is able to be about again.

DR. H. W. OSBORN has returned from a four months' jaunt to the shores of the Mediterranean.

DR. D. H. BECKWITH, who has been visiting his son in Toledo, has returned to Cleveland.

DR. HENRY C. BARR, of Cleveland, has been appointed attending physician to the Cleveland City Hospital, vice Dr. C. C. Cutler, resigned.

Dr. E. H. JEWITT will spend part of the summer at his country home, near Dover Bay.

DR. C. E. FISHER, formerly of Chicago and elsewhere, spent a day in Cleveland in May, and was entertained by Dr. J. Richey Horner.

DR. RALPH A. SCHERZ, of Cleveland, was married April 7th to Miss Mae N. Kers, of Cleveland.

MISS CLARA JONES, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. G. J. Jones, will be married June 9th to Mr. Frederick Charles Powell.

THE Iowa legislature has passed a bill prohibiting objectionable medical advertisements in newspapers.

THE new Ohio State hospital for consumptives, at Mt. Vernon, will be ready for the reception of a limited number of patients by July.

THE home of former President McKinley, at Canton, O., was purchased by a Miss Klorer and presented to the Catholic church in that city, to be converted into a hospital. She donated $40,000 additional for improvements.

A NORTH CAROLINA woman, the wife of a farmer, recently gave birth, according to newspaper reports, to five healthy children, three boys and two girls. The weights of the children varied from four to six pounds.

DRS. ALEXANDER B. BARKER, Dayton, and Albert C. Goode, Cleveland, have secured injunctions against the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination to prevent the board from revoking their licenses.

THE practice of the late Dr. H. C. Allen of Chicago has been assumed by Dr. Harvey Farrington, who had been associated with Dr. Allen for a considerable time prior to the latter's death.

A PROMINENT official of the Institute, while on a visit in Cleveland, remarked "that the Cleveland College gave the better courses in physiology than any of the other Homeopathic colleges." The said official has good judgment too.

"CLINIC WEEK' was called off by the college authorities because of the condition of the hospital, which is not ready to receive patients. Next spring we expect to have an over-abundance of clinical material.

DR. E. W. RIEMENSCHNEIDER, of Cleveland, has one of the easiest running and comfortable riding, 4-cylinder motor cars in the city. It was designed and built by a master-hand, the genial doctor himself.

THE American Institute of Homeopathy will hold its sixty-fifth annual meeting in the Y. M. C. A. building, Detroit, Michigan, June 21-26, inclusive. Institute headquarters will be at the Cadillac Hotel, O., O and L. at the Tuller. J. RICHEY HORNER, M. D., Secretary.

AT this time of the year Dean George W. Quay becomes restless. He sorts out his tackle and gets ready to fight the gamey bass whose natural habitat is the cold waters of the Northern lakes. And for an elder of the church, Dr. Quay's fish stories are unique.

DR. W. A. DEWEY, writing from Ann Arbor, says, "When I was in Cleveland I had 79 names of prospective students of Homeopathy. To date, April 26th, I have 294; they are coming in daily, and I am getting a lot of splendid information about them."

DR. FRIDOLIN AEBERLI left Cleveland, May 4th, for European post-graduate work in diagnosis and internal medicine. He will return October 1st, and resume practice at his present office in the "Alhambra," Wade Park Avenue and 86th Street.

DR. J. H. UPHAM, secretary of the Ohio State Medical Association, and Dr. J. W. Clemmer, of Columbus, chairman of the legislative committees, are urging Gov. Harmon to appoint upon the various boards of trustees of the State hospitals none but reputable physicians.

THE Southern District Medical Society, of Chicago, recommends to the General Assembly of Illinois the enactment of a law requiring the sterilization of habitual male criminals, imbeciles, incurably insane and epileptic persons in the State institutions of Illinois.

By unanimous vote the Ohio State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, at its meeting April 6, is said to have revoked the certificate to practice of Dr. Alphonso Eratus, Cincinnati, on account of unprofessional conduct and gross immorality.

DR. WILLIAM F. WAUGH, 1424 E. Ravenswood Park, Chicago, Ill., is collecting material for a paper upon atropin as a hemostatic, and desires the experiences of physicians with this remedy, adverse reports as well as those favoring the remedy.

TRAFFIC in alcohol costs the United States in direct money loss more than $2,000,000,000 a year," said the president of the Illinois Board of Health at the recent meeting in Washington of the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug Narcotics.

THERE are 13,937 physicians in New York, and of these 12,784 are registered as regular; 931 as homeopaths and 292 as eclectics. There are 283 medical colleges represented by their graduates in the state, 103 of which are in foreign countries.

DR. G. W. SPENCER went over to Ann Arbor last month and held a general medical clinic during the absence of Prof. Hinsdale. Dr. Spencer also delivered a lecture on materia medica. The entire student body and many of the teachers applauded Dr. Spencer's efforts.

THE Italian Homeopathic Association has decided to establish a new homeopathic journal in addition to the one already existing. The Italian Society is now having translated for distribution among its members and friends the pamphlets well known to our readers, "Why Students of Medicine Should Select the Homeopathic School."

A JOURNEY to the baseball park reveals the fact that not all of the Cleveland profession are practising economy. At every game on the home grounds the medical men turn out in large numbers. (So we have been told.) They eat more peanuts, drink more pink lemonade, and screech louder than the other learned professions. And still we don't win.

A NOVEL experiment was made in Hoboken, recently, according to newspaper story, when a man, arrested for soliciting alms as a deaf mute, and suspected of shamming, was put under the influence of ether in St. Mary's Hospital. His free use of speech while he was recovering from its effects cleared up all doubts as to his ability to hear and speak.

BEGINNING with April 1, neither opium nor any mixture or compound containing or representing opium in any form legally can be brought into the United States or any outlying possessions excepting for strictly medicinal purposes. This term is declared to mean for treatment or prevention of disease only.

THERE are a score or more of good locations in Maine, city, town or country, for competent, energetic homeopathic physicians. Recent graduates and those with hospital experience will in most cases be best suited in these fields. Many of these towns are growing rapidly and offer excellent opportunities for the right

men.

CLEVELAND graduates this year will serve in the following hospitals: M. C. Houston, City Hospital, Cleveland; J. G. Keiser, Metropolitan Hospital, New York; F. C. Schenkelberger, Flower Hospital, New York; M. F. Searle, Cumberland Street Hospital, New York; Vera Davenport, Women's Hospital, Philadelphia; E. W. Cliffe, Grace Hospital, Detroit.

AT least two of the Cleveland faculty will go to Europe this summer for post-graduate study. Dr. A. E. Ibershoff will leave Cleveland June 1st for New York, to spend three weeks in post-graduate work with his former principal, Dr. R. O. Copeland, and then sail June 26th for Vienna and other medical centers, returning about September 15th. Dr. A. L. Innes will have charge of Dr. Ibershoff's office during his absence.

COLLEGE NEWS NOTES.

The annual card and dancing party of the Puissant College Society of Hahnemann took place the 19th of March at the Olive Academy. The members were undoubtedly painstaking in making it a phenomenal success. The entertainment netted $1.17. All thanks are due to the harmonious laboring of the two amical frats. There were awarded prizes for the best eucherist and the nimblest waltzer. F. Cliffe was the recipient of the first plumes, while Schenkelberger's girl carried off the palms of lissomeness and beauty.

It is only fair to record Miss Randall's earnest zeal for the interest of the society of Hahnemann's followers. She sewed and elegantly embroidered a dreamy cushion, which was raffled off one evening in behalf of the treasurer's vacuous purse.

The Seniors and Juniors were tendered the traditional supper at Mrs. and Dr. Schneider's home last month. The menu was elaborate and variegated. The nightingaley chirruping of Miss Johannes Young, assisted by Miss Laura Tappen (an Argentine magnificent instrumentalist) were repeatedly and clamoringly encored. Mrs. Schneider is certainly a resourceful hostess. It is to be regretted that the professor's entertainments are not contagious.

Dr. George is back to teach his ex-sophs the art of anesthetic. He promised to be on time every Monday morning, provided Mark Houston would do the same. A stipulation to which the distinguished Urbanian most graciously agreed.

Some of the Seniors are manifesting signs of cerebral hyperemia, very likely as a sequellum of the oncoming college censor's and State Board's exams.

As a parting word, we desire to wish the freshies a most strenuous Sophomoreship; the sophs a most dignified juniorliness; the juniors a most laissez-fair Seniory and the soon to be, hatched doctors, bursting granaries. Fare well.

Dr. Thurston, taking notice of our ceaseless hints, fed the seniors one evening with a menu that Mrs. Kirk herself could not beat. After supping the guests scattered in fours and played, jandar till one o'clock Easter morning. Thanks again.

While Dr. Frost, feeling proud of this year's class in chirurgy, perpetuated his good will by presenting each one with a luxuriantly bound and gold-edged emergency surgery book of Prof. Sluss. Vive le Frost!

It is our bounden duty to record Dr. Viets' persistency in pummeling into our crania several of the most occurring eye and earaches and the handling thereof. Also his 25-cent cigars smoked away the last day of examinations.

It certainly is a treat to hear Dr. Phillips, Jr., lecture on the physiology and complex intricacies of the ear.

The seniors who never dreamt of Dr. Wood's examination were smartingly stung with the "give the indications of ten remedies for chronic cystitis.

Useless studying for Dr. Kimmel's examination. He always asks that which one never looked up. Well, Kimmel cannot be un-Kimmeled.

Everybody knows Dr. Frost's habits in examinations.

questions, each of course, comprising ten sub-questions.

He gave only ten

The newly-formed base ball team with Bell for its captain was roasted by W. R. U. one Saturday afternoon, yet beat to a jelly the P. and S. team. Hope next year will have a more disciplined and less hectoring gang.

Dr. Jones's exam. went like hot buckwheat cakes. It took us ten minutes

to get done. However, he will accept no round-abouting.

We sha'n't depict the banquet. One must needs be there to swallow it. Farewell! M. E. TEMCOFF.

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Societies.

About three hundred members of the Ohio and Michigan State Homeopathic Societies gathered in Toledo, May 4th and 5th. This year the two societies met at the same time. The business sessions of each society were held separately, though the scientific sessions were open to all. The idea is a new one, and was most successful. The members of the Toledo profession were the hosts, and as usual did themselves proud. We were well dined, well entertained, well instructed and altogether much pleased with the beneficial results of this meeting.

Headquarters were at the Hotel Secour. This fine hotel with its perfect appointments added much to the success of the convention. One of the pleasant features of the occasion was the dinner and entertainment following. "Something different" was the idea of the banquet. The usual hackneyed assortment of toasts and speeches was dispensed with entirely, and the entertainment which was given at the conclusion of the banquet resembled a show at an up-to-date vaudeville house than anything else. The Toledo entertainment committee consisted of Drs. H. M. Flower, L. K. Maxwell, B. W. Dawley, A. T. Barnum and J. H. McVay. This committee should be continued for an indefinite period.

President L. E. Siemon called the meeting to order. There was an invocation, followed by an address of welcome by Dr. Myron Parmalee. He took the place of Mayor Whitlock, and was a first-class substitute. The responses were made by Dr. H. F. Biggar, of Cleveland, for Ohio, and Dr. W. B. Hinsdale, of Ann Arbor, for Michigan. The following officers were elected:

President, Lincoln Philips, Cincinnati; Vice-President, H. F. Staples, Cleveland; Second Vice-President, W. W. Elsey, Dayton, Ohio; Secretary, R. O. Keiser, Columbus, Ohio; Treasurer, T. T. Church, Salem, Ohio; Necrologist, D. H. Beckwith, Cleveland. Cleveland was selected as the next meeting-place.

The program was as follows:

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Anatomy, Pathology and Physiology: J. H. Wilms, M. D., Chairman, Cincinnati, O. M. E. Chandler, M. D., Chairman, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. C. R. Buck, M. D., Cincinnati, O.: "A Guide to the Homeopathic Remedy. Amanda Decker-Holcomb, M. D., Mt. Pleasant, Mich.: "Pathology as a Guide to the Homeopathic Remedy. Discussion-F. A. Kelly, M. D.; C. A. Reinbolt, M. D. Pediatrics: William E. Pryor, M. D., Chairman, Camden, O. Rhoda P. Fabquaharson, M. D., Chairman, Detroit, Mich. W. B. Hinsdale, M. D., Ann Arbor, Mich.: Tuberculosis in the Young." Discussion-S. H. Knight, M. D., Detroit, Mich.; J. L. Asselin, M. D., Detroit, Mich. Josephine M. Danforth, M. D., Cleveland, O.: "Chronic Ileo-colitis." Mary T. Stevens, M. D., Detroit, Mich. : "A Natural Babyhood." Discussion-E. Louise Orleman, M. D., Detroit, Mich.; S. F. Chase, M. D., Caro, Mich. Wm. H. Smith, M. D., Cincinnati, O.: "Two Interesting Cases from Practice." Materia Medica: A. S. Rosenberger, M. D., Chairman, Covington, O.: "Arnica." Luther Peck, M. D., Chairman, Plymouth. Mich. : Argentum Nitricum." C. E. Hetherington, M. D., Piqua, O.: “A Defense of Drug Therapy. Claude A. Burrett, M. D., Ann Arbor, Mich.: "From Nosodes to Opsonins." Discussion-Scott C. Runnels, Indianapolis. Wm. A. Geohegan, M. D., Cincinnati, O.: "The Totality of the Symptoms-An Interpretation.' A. L. Ruffe, M. D., Grand Rapids, Mich.: "Silicea." H. D. Champlin, M. D., Cleveland, O.: "Ferrum Piericum." Clinical Medicine: G. D. Arndt, M. D., Chairman, Mt. Vernon, O.: “Arterio Schlerosis and Hypertension. W. G. Paterson, M. D., Chairman, Detroit, Mich. James C. Martin, M. D.. Detroit, Mich. : "Tuberculosis.'' A. B. Schneider, M. D., Cleveland, O.: "Endocarditis." Rollin H. Stevens, M. D., Detroit, Mich.: "Preventable To norance and the Social Evil." Lincoln Phillips, M. D., Cincinnati. O.: “Where Do We Get Off?" Ophthalmology and Otology: W. H. Phillins, M. D.. Chairman. Cleveland, O. Harold Wilson, M. D., Chairman, Detroit, Mich. J. H. Ball, M. D.. Bay City, Mich.: "The Mastoid Operation; When and How It Shall Be Done. Discussion-Harold Wilson, M. D., Detroit, Mich. Emma L. BoiceHays, M. D.. Toledo, O. Thomas M. Stewart, M. D., Cincinnati, O.: "Glaucoma Experiences." D. A. McLaughlin, M. D., Detroit, Mich. : "Ophthalmology and Homeopathy." Discussion-E. D. Brooks, M. D., Kalamazoo. Geo. McKenzie,