Appetite poor. These symptoms were so typical of Bryonia that this medicine was given in the 30th potency, four drops every four hours.

I heard no more of the patient till September 17th, when she told me the headache had got better at once on taking the medicine. She had a repetition of the headache a few weeks ago, and it again went away at once on taking some more of the medicine.

Case V. Mrs. C., aged about 70, sent for me on April 17, 1907, for general malaise. She felt run down, had no energy, and very little strength, and had lost all relish for food. She attributed this state of things to the "Spring of the year." There was nothing definite in her symptoms, except that she had the sensation of the tongue being too broad. It was clean and not especially broad in appearance, but she said she felt that it was extremely broad. The patient was a thin, active, wiry woman, with dark hair and complexion, usually energetic and decided in speech and action. A peculiarity about her was that when out of health the skin round the mouth and over the chin would become almost white, in marked contrast to the brownish hue of the rest of the face, and this was the more noticeable in that the border of the light-colored portion was very sharply defined. Her ailments had usually been those arising from defective liver action, and her dark hair and eyes and sallow complexion had led me on many occasions to prescribe Ferrum picricum 6x for her, and with very beneficial results. On this occasion I prescribed it again, and went home to look up the symptom, "sensation of tongue being too broad." I found in Kent the following medicines under the heading "Tongue seems too broad," viz., Kali bich., Nat. mur., Paris, Podoph., Plumb., Puls., Viburn., and Zizia. Of these Nat. mur. and Pulsatilla are in heavy type and Kali bich. and Podoph. in italics. Douglas's tongue repertory gives Zinc in addition to Nat. mur., Pulsatilla, and Kali bich. On April 20th, three days later, I visited my patient again. The usual improvement from Ferrum picricum had not taken place. She felt rather worse, and the tongue was still troubling her by its sensation of broadness. I decided to try one of the before-mentioned tongue medicines, but had difficulty in deciding which one it should be. There were no clear-cut indications for any one of them, but I remembered that about eighteen months before the present illness I had attended her for some severe neuralgic pains occurring in the front of the left leg along the course of a vein, which were of a hot, shooting character, coming on in paroxysms, not increased by walking, and relieved by cold applications. These pains had been cured by Pulsatilla 6. So that notwithstanding the aspect and disposition of the patient were the reverse of those usually indicating Pulsatilla, there had been something about her that responded to that medicine. I accordingly selected Pulsatilla from the list of drugs having the sensation "tongue seems too broad." She was given Pulsatilla 6 m. v. ter die.

The result was quite satisfactory; improvement commenced at once, and she felt quite well again in a few days. She also lost the sensation of the tongue being too broad.

It is worthy of note that this patient benefited both from Ferrum and from Pulsatilla at various times, but that when the one suited her the other did not. Ferrum and Pulsatilla have an antidotal action to one another, their action in many spheres being very similar. In my patient the symptoms of this illness were indistinguishable from former conditions which had been put right by Ferrum pic. except that there was in addition this peculiar symptom of the tongue feeling too broad. This apparently trivial symptom was yet an indication of a condition of the system antagonistic to Iron but yielding to Pulsatilla. - Homeopathic World.

SIGNIFICANT!-Truly the tide is moving toward the Law of Similars but toward infinitesimals. In an editorial comment on an article by Dr. Spengler, of Davos, the Lancet (without apparently an editorial tremor) quotes the statement that the antitoxic body described by the Doctor can be recognized in a dilution of 1 in 100,000,000,000. Further, we are told that action in such a dilution is something apart from ordinary chemical action and that Dr. Spengler speaks of an "atomie dissociation" which liberates "specific electrons.'' velous! -Homeopathic World.

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Current News.

DENVER, Colo., claims to be the "Spotless Town" of America.

DR. H. L. FROST spent part of June at Ballast Island.

DR. CARI WATSON, of Toledo, is away on an extended vacation.

DR. JOHN C. STRATTON, Class '06, C. H. M. C., has located at Middie Point, Ohio.

DR. F. M. STRATTON, of Pioneer, O., was a recent visitor to his alma mater, the C. H. M. C.

GOVERNOR JOHNSON has signed the bill which provides $50,000 for a new Homeopathic building in the University of Minnesota.

DR. JANE NYE GILLIFORD, formerly of Pittsburgh, has located at Pomeroy, Ohio.

DR. ANNA JOHNSON, a Cleveland alumnus, has been elected president of the Woman's Homeopathic Medical Association of Pittsburgh.

DR. DALE M. KING, Class '96, addressed the graduating class of the Detroit College. Dr. King is now professor of nervous diseases in that college.

DR. NINA J. STANSBURY, of Cleveland, will go to New York and Boston for Post-Graduate work in August.

MISS HAZEL BAKER, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. DeForrest Baker, of Cleveland, was united in marriage to Mr. Sheldon P. Clark, June 2d.

DR. FRIDOLIN ABERLI, of Cleveland, is now in Zurich, Switzerland for special medical studies.

AND now Omaha, Neb., is discussing the advisability of instituting a system of medical school inspection.

THE South Carolina State Board of Health has definitely decided to establish in Columbia a Pasteur treatment laboratory.

THE Union County, Ohio, Medical Society unanimously adopted a resolution agreeing not to write prescriptions for whisky except at the bedside.

THE late Mrs. Noble, of Mansfield, Mass., left $20,000 to the American Antivivisection Society.

MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE has donated $75,000 to the University and Bellevue Medical College, to be used in the extension of the laboratory building.s

THE Robert B. Brigham Hospital for Incurables, Boston, receives $1,500,000 by the will of Miss Elizabeth Brigham, sister of the late Robert B. Brigham. THE Hamilton, O., infirmary directors must now hire township physicians by receiving bids.

THE American Confederation of Licensing, Reciprocating and Examining Boards, representing about twenty states, met at Louisville, May 12.

DR. J. A. FERREE, of Sidney, O., has given up general practice and is taking up special work in the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. We all wish Dr. Ferree much success in his new work.

A BOARD OF EDUCATION has succeeded the Board of Regents at the State University, and henceforth the College of Homeopathic Medicine at Iowa City will be managed by the Board of Education.

DR. MOSES T. RUNNELS, an old-time Clevelander, lost his office and complete equipment April 26th by a fire. His new office address is Argyle Bldg., cor. 12th and McGee Streets, Kansas City, Mo.

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THE leprosy bill passed its third reading in the Hawaiian legislature April It permits any one to treat leprosy, asthma and tuberculosis after regular physicians have decided the case hopeless.

THE Columbus, O., health officer has asked the health board for authority to enforce the code rule that no person afflicted with disease shall be permitted to work in or about a bakery or restaurant.

THE Women's Homeopathie Hospital, the Children's Homeopathic Hospital, the Hahnemann Hospital and the Southern Homeopathic Hospital, all of Philadelphia, each receives $5,000 according to the will of the late Dr. W. J. Earhart. By the will of the late George C. Thomas, of Philadelphia, bequests are made to Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital and the Episcopal Hospital of $10,000 each.

BUILDING permits have been issued at Cleveland for the construction of a new residence building for nurses at Lakeside Hospital, costing $80,000, and for a $14,000 addition to the main building.

ACCORDING to Bluffton, Ind., physicians there have been more cases of appendicitis in that city the past six or eight months than in the past six or eight years.

THE eighth annual conference of the Ohio State Board of Health, comprising only representatives of the boards of health of villages of less than 3,000 population and all townships of forty-five counties, will be held at Toledo, June 17 and 18.

THE New York Antivivisection Society has certified to the Secretary of State that it expended $941.75 on the proposed legislation during the present session of the Legislature. The society opposed the Davis-Lee bill and favored the passage of the Brough-Murray bill, neither of which was acted upon by the Legislature. THE location left vacant by the death of the late Dr. Frank F. Crandall is said to be an unusually good one. Dr. Crandall was a successful practitioner, collecting $400 per month. Any one interested can get all information from Mrs. E. E. Crandall, Turtle Creek, Pa.

DR. PERCY VESSIE and Dr. Louise Meeker, graduates of this year's class, have won, by competitive examination, positions as house officers at the National Homeopathic Hospital, Washington, D. C., and the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, respectively. Both hospitals are fortunate in securing such efficient aids.

PROF. H. F. STAPLES was elected Vice-President of the Ohio State Society at the last meeting in Toledo. This is a well-deserved honor, as Dr. Staples made an efficient secretary, and his work was highly commended. It's early to prognosticate, but we would not be very much surprised to hear him called President Staples next year.

DR. AND MRS. HARRY HUNT, of Newark, O., met with an unfortunate accident in May. His carriage collided with a trolley car and the Doctor was badly bruised. Mrs. Hunt sustained a fracture of the skull and diel after having been unconscious for 24 hours. Dr. Hunt is a graduate of the Cleveland College and will have the sincere sympathy of his many Cleveland friends.

THE April number of "Phials," the official organ of the Homeopathic Department of the University of Michigan, is much enlarged and profusely illustrated. It is a special number dedicated to the Alumni of this department and reflects great credit on Dean Hinsdale and his corps of editors. Claude A. Burrett is the energetic business manager.

THE Governor of Pennsylvania has signed the bill passed by the last Legislature imposing a fine of $500 and two years' imprisonment for the sale or giving away of cocaine or any derivative or compound of cocaine except upon the prescription of a licensed physician, and prohibiting the possession of any such substance by others than physicians, druggists, dentists, and veterinarians, except as purchased on a physician's prescription.

During July and August "The Medical Era'' of St. Louis, Mo., will issue its annual series of issues devoted to gastro-intestinal diseases. The July number will take up the usual bowel disorders of hot weather, and the August number will be devoted entirely to typhoid fever. These issues always attract considerable attention. The editor will forward copies to physicians applying for same. A BELATED movement among the Knights of Columbus of America to secure the appointment of another member of the President's cabinet, to be known as the Secretary of Health, has been started in Cleveland. A committee has been appointed to write letters to all the councils of the organizations asking their aid in the agitation.

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GOVERNOR STUART has signed a bill passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature at its recent session prohibiting the sale of adulterated or misbranded drugs. drug is deemed adulterated if it differ in strength, quality, or purity from the standards laid down in the United States Pharmacopeia, the National Formulary, or the American Homeopathic Pharmacopeia.

THE physicians of Victoria, Tex., have agreed to double the price of their charges for services rendered, beginning May 1. In a signed statement they have set the price for a day visit at $2, and $4 for night visits. Any visit made

between 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. will be a night visit. Obstetrical cases $25 and up, and office consultation $1 and up.

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PLANS have been filed with the Building Department for the purposed addition to the Flower Hospital and Homeopathic Medical College, New York. addition will be an annex to the present dispensary and will contain clinic rooms and a diet kitchen, as well as rooms for the professors of the college and the hospital physicians.

THE problem of obtaining facilities for the proper care of sick babies during the summer months has been partially solved in McKeesport, Pa., where a wealthy resident has placed his own home at the disposal of the Salvation Army during the coming summer to be used for housing the babies and their mothers. The house will accommodate twenty-five children at a time.

THE secretary of the Ohio State Board of Health is sending out a circular letter to county commissioners and county medical associations, explaining the new law under which district tuberculosis hospitals may be established, and pointing out its advantages, economically and otherwise, over the old law providing the county pian.

THE Cleveland Health Department is in earnest in its determination to eradicate the fly nuisance. It is trying to keep stables clean of refuse that is a breeding place for insects. All builders of new stables are urged to provide inside receptacles for the stable refuse, and to guard in every possible manner against uncleanliness

THE Woman's Medical School at Shanghai awarded diplomas to six gradua ates lately. The school was founded a little more than three years ago by funds furnished by Li Ping Shu, president of the Chinese Town Council. The principal of the school is a Chinese woman who took an advanced educational course in both Canton and Hong Kong. During the last year there were thirty students. Each of the six graduates read an essay, two of them in English.

THE pupils and colleagues of Prof. Ramsey Wright of the University of Toronto, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his work as professor in the University April 15 by tendering him a complimentary banquet. The chair was taken by Prof. J. Playfair McMurrich. The toast to the university was presented by Prof. T. R. Lillie of the University of Chicago, and that to the guest of the evening by Dr. T. McCrae of Johns Hopkins University, and an address was presented to Professor Wright by Prof. A. B. MacCallum.

A JUDGMENT of $4,000 is reported to have recently been made against a Chicago physician in favor of a patient. It is stated that four years ago the patient came to Chicago as a charity patient and the physician removed one of his kidneys. After the operation the patient was attended by the regular staff of the hospital, and it was claimed that gauze was left in the wound. It was decided that the surgeon was personally responsible for the mistake, even though having nothing to do with it and being entirely ignorant of it.

DR. H. C. BEEBE, of Sidney, O., has resigned from the Ohio State Board of Medical Registration. Dr. Beebe served with distinction for thirteen years on this board. This record is one of which all Homeopaths should be proud. Dr. Beebe was one of the first men appointed on this board. He looked after our interests carefully and saw to it that our needs were protected. He and Dr. H. H. Baxter made a strong team to work for Homeopathic interests. Fortunately Dr. Baxter is still an active member of the Board. Dr. Beebe's successor is Dr. T. A. McCarn, one of the most prominent doctors of Southwestern Ohio.

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THE annual book of the transactions of the American Institute of Homeopathy, edited, compiled, and generally satisfactorily arranged by the secretary, Dr. J. Richey Horner, reached us in May. This year the book is much reduced in size, due to the publication of many of the papers in the Institute Journal. Dr. Horner, as usual, has done his work well. In fact he always does. in Cleveland, whenever we wish to put some extra hard task on any one of the willing workers for the good cause, we always find Horner ready to do all in his power, and it is sure to be well done. The present volume contains much of interest and is a useful addition to Homeopathic literature.

THE MEDICAL CENTURY, in its column of General Notes, makes the following very important comment upon a custom only too common in certain quarters throughout the country: "Why is it that the most prominent members of our

State societies only appear for a day, or part of a day, at the meetings? It would seem to us that these are the men who should put in a full attendance at the entire meeting, be it one, two or three days in length. These are the men that the rank and file of the profession come to see and hear; these are the men that the rank and file want their paper discussed by, and their presence throughout the meetings would add much interest and secure a revival of any enthusiasm which tends to be on the wane. To come to a meeting, read a paper and skip out on the next train is not doing good duty to the society."

ARRANGEMENTS are said to have been made in Pittsburgh whereby the automobiles of physicians will be provided with red cross plates for proper recognition. In case the patrolmen find the physicians exceeding the speed limit, instead of stopping them their number will be taken and they will be given an opportunity of explaining the cause for the unusual speed.

THE Paimetto Medical Association, composed of the colored physicians of South Carolina, held their thirteenth annual session at Columbia, April 28. The colored physicians of the state are highly respected by all classes, due to the fact that they generally are not active politicians, and do not have any antagonism or opposition from political sources.

ANOTHER request has been made by the Wayne County, Ind., Medical Society that the local press refrain from mentioning the names of its members in connection with news items concerning cases under their professional care. At the last regular meeting of the society a motion to request the press to refrain from the use of the names of physicians was adopted. The local press considers the request "odd.''

MRS. ESTHER H. PATTERSON died at Philadelphia, on April 9, at the age of 102 years. From Tennessee comes the news of the death of Jesse Jones, colored, who claimed to be 115 years of age, and to have fought in all the important wars of the United States since 1812. Mrs. Fannie Friedman, who died recently in New York, was said to have passed her 112th birthday. She was born in Hungary, was married before she was twenty-one, and had thirteen children. At the time of her death she had eighty-two living descendants. Her rule for good health and a long life is said to have been: "Don't worry; take things easy; sleep ten hours a day, and eat five meals.'' Viewed in the light of her experience, the rule is certainly as well worth following as those of some younger philosophers, whose eating an sleeping allowance is less liberal. Simon Bildstein, who celebrated his 100th birthday in St. Louis on Sunday of this week, attributes his long lease of life to the fact that he is a philosopher and never worries. The newspaper report of his birthday celebration says that he smokes, chews, and drinks without stint. His regular consumption of whiskey, according to this statement, is one gallon a week.

Obituary.

DR. J. B. KINLEY, iate Dean of the Denver College of Physicians and Surgeons, died very suddenly of apoplexy on May 13th, while presiding at a banquet given by the Faculty of the College to the graduating class. At the moment of his seizure he was discussing plans for the future of the young college, of which he was the head. Previous to the union of the Denver Homeopathic College with Westminster College, about a year ago, Dr. Kinley was dean of the former. Dr. Kinley was a native of Germany, but had lived in the United States from childhood. He had been in Colorado for twenty-five years and was fifty years of age.

DR. FREDERICK B. MANDEVILLE of Newark, N. J., died on April 26, aged 69 years. Dr. Mandeville was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1873. He was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and the State Homeopathic Society, physician to St. Mary's Hospital, and consulting physician to the Homeopathic Hospital of Essex County. For several years he served as a member of the Newark Board of Education and of the Department of Health.