course between towering peaks, soon along perpendicular walls, soon over bridges spanning gruesome gulches and again through somber tunnels. He whose imagination is not aflame and whose heart is not thrilled by this wild panorama must indeed be dwelling in the frozen north. To give the whole a dramatic climax, a terrific thunder storm broke upon us with the suddenness that made the timid gasp. It was a battle royal waged by the elements upon the mountain giants. The invaders were advancing in three strata, using submarines, dreadnaughts and aeroplanes. Ammunition was used in wasteful profusion. The brilliant cannonading followed each other in quick succession and filled the valley with its terrifying reverberations. Such a spectacle adapted to such a stage, who can forget it? What an extravagant stage manager Nature is. Aengst Bez. Affoltern, Kanton, Zuerich. EARLY HOMEOPATHY IN OHIO. DAVID H. BECKWITH, M. D., CLEVELAND, O. The following is an extract of an address delivered at Norwalk, O.. July 22, before the Fireland's Historical Society: I went to college at Cincinnati and returned the following March, 1850, with the first homeopathic diploma ever issued in the state of Ohio. On my return I found on the office desk a letter signed by the physicians of Norwalk asking me to attend all cholera cases which might occur in the town and vicinity. This was an unexpected honor. A note from Dr. Baker was handed me asking me to see a young man who had just arrived from Sandusky and was sick with what he supposed was cholera. I landed at a log house containing only one large room and in it two beds on which was my patient and on the other the mother of the household ill with dropsy and weighing at least two hundred pounds. After a few doses of medicine the patient was relieved and fell asleep. I took a survey around the house looking for the lean-to which I supposed would be there. I found none but I did find a huge bulldog which was not particularly friendly towards me. Presuming still there was a room somewhere, I told one of the girls that I would retire. All my inclination for sleep left me when she called over to the mother, "Get up, the doctor wants to go to bed." I suddenly discovered that I had to remain with my patient all night and so would not need to sleep. But it was of no avail, so I threw myself across the foot of the bed and slept. My exhaustion together with the experience of the evening and my dread of what the morning might bring forth combined to give me the most horrid dreams. At four o'clock in the morning, I woke one of the boys and told him not to disturb anyone but to get the horse and take me into town as I had to get back to the office. Many times since that visit have I wished for a picture of that room as it was in the early morning The mother sat in a big chair in front of the fireplace with two boys on the floor on her right and three long, lank girls on the door at her left, while to complete the picture two big hunting dogs lay stretched out alongside them. To Mrs. Tifft is due the credit for the introduction of homeopathy into Norwalk. She had been so benefitted by the treatment while visiting in Albany, New York, that she brought a case of medicine with her when she returned home. She induced her husband to give it a trial. In a very few months it became known that Dr. Tifft was using "little pills" in his practice. Later four cases of cholera broke out in one night in Dewalt's Hotel in Norwalk. Two of these died inside of two or three hours. Then people began to flee from the city. Some of the doctors followed, going far into the country. A student from our office was among the number of those who fled. He died by the roadside. Norwalk escaped the worst of the epidemic. One evening a hurry call came from Hoyt's cabinet shop. I found a young man named Cox lying unconscious. A bottle of laudanum at his side told the tale. There was also a letter to his sweetheart telling her that his death was due to her refusal of him. It took ten hours hard work that night to save the poor fellow. Here was another case where no doubt St. Peter has given me credit. Shortly afterwards, Lawyer Strong came to my office and said. "Beckwith, I am a friend of yours, and I have come to tell you that one of the gravést charges on record has been filed against you. So great is the crime that every lawyer here, headed by S. T. Worcester. has agreed to prosecute you. As a friend, I advise you to secure the services of Judge Ranney of Cleveland." I inquired as to the charge a most grave one, was the bringing back to life of that love-sick young fool, Cox. In August, 1850, came the final test of the two systems of medi cine. Dysentery broke out in the county infirmary as an epidemic; the disease was of a severe type. There were a large number of inmates. Here was the same environment, the same kind of food, drink and nursing, and here decided the fate of the new school of medicine in our practice. It seemed to me that providence had given us this opportunity. Dr. Tifft treated the male department, while the female patients were under my charge. We visited them twice daily, in the evening compared the number of cases, that each had prescribed for; discussed their condition and the medicines given to each patient. In ten days, three patients under Allopathic treatment had died, and no death under Homeopathic treatment. That evening ended our consultation and I treated all the cases during the epidemic with the loss of only one patient. The number of male and female patients were about equal. Soon our office was cleared of drugs, and Dr. Tifft proclaimed himself a Homeopathic physician; he continued the practice of Homeopathy until the end came: That was sixty years ago, and today I am an advocate of small doses of medicine. Pollantin 3.-Girl æt. 22, having been a year at Davos for pulmonary tuberculosis, had suffered for a number of years from hay fever, which reappeared this year as soon as the grains were in flower. She had been suffering for a week. Pollantin 3, morning and night, arrested and cured the trouble in eight days, and the young girl was very thankful for the "good remedy."-Univerisity Observer. Dulcamara.-Woman æt. 40, had suffered for eight years from a diarrhea, reappearing every time that she went out in cold, damp, rainy weather. Various drugs and regimes had been employed without eradicating the tendency. Dulcamara 100 m, four doses at four week intervals cured.-University Observer. Sulfur, Nux.-A file-maker. much exposed to vapors of lead. suffered from violent pain in the back, radiating into the groins; the abdomen very rigid and painful; constipation marked. The gums show lead poisoning. Sulfur 30m, one dose, followed by nux 200, a dose every three days, greatly ameliorated and permited him to go to work.-Univerisity Observer. Editorial Department. NEWMAN T. B. NOBLES, M. D., Editor. MISS R. H. TOMPKINS, Business Manager. 818 ROSE BUILDING. Published at 818 Rose Bldg., Cleveland, O. Price $1.00 per year Entered as second-class matter at the Post-ofice at Cleveland, O., under the Aot of Congress, March 3d. 1879. MEDICAL EDUCATION. This month many of the Medical Colleges of the country will open their doors to new classes of students. Last year the attendance at the Allopathic Schools diminished. The attendance at the Homeopathic Schools increased. There is every expectation that we will be as successful in the years to come. For the Cleveland College the outlook is bright. The indications are that there will be twice as many new students as entered last year. Our success is undoubtedly due to various reasons. We have complete courses in every department. Our graduates are successful before examining boards and in practice. We have hundreds of alumnae that are loyal to the "Mother of all the Homeopathic Colleges." Modern medical education includes much that is interesting and of great value, but in looking backward, lessons can be learned which should be an incentive to greater zeal in the medical profession. Fear and superstition marked its beginning; it came up through fetiches, alchemy, charms, poisons, and priestly functions to some little knowledge of man and his ailments, having no basis except that there was pain or sickness, and that the sufferers demanded relief from them. Later on, in a quest for the why, there came about some small knowledge of the cause and effect as applied to the huma nbody and its ailments. All through these years there has been self-denial and the assumption of great risks, the giving of life even. All through the civilized world men are giving their brains, their knowledge, their all, for the good of man; this is a spirit of devotion on the part of men of medicine that gave to the history of medicine its salient features, steady advancement in the knowledge and equipment. In this wonderful advance in scientific medicine we have burrowed into chemistry, biology, bacteriology, sanitation, photography, electricity, and the other lesser sciences. The giant strides of scientific medicine during the last decade have been accompanied by a demand for educational standards commensurate with each and every advance. It has not come from the public, but from the medical world. As a consequence the many bogus medical schools of thirty years agɔ have been reduced to a very few, and the better class of schools had raised their requirements again and again; the requirements for entrance to the fifty-four medical schools in 1910 demanded one or more years of college, these years to be devoted to the study of physics, chemistry, biology, and languages. In the feverish anxiety to train men adequately for certain well defined and essential branches of medical work, the broader possibili ties of medical education have been strangely overlooked. The standard has been raised to advantage, and must not be lowered in the slightest degree, but it must be broadened and the attempt must cease to turn all medical students out of the same mold. Under no circumstances should men of unquestioned capacity be excluded from our medical schools because they may fail to conform to a preconceived standard. The pendulum has swung far in the direction of so-called scientific research with only good results, and the very success of such a movement is likely to develop intolerance, and the in tolerance of the man of science is peculiarly difficult to meet. There is danger that at times we lose sight of the utilitarian function of the medical school. Its service is ultimately practical, whatever may be the means to that end. In the pursuance of this object there are strong indications that the system which has given free choice of studies through four years of academic life and four years of rigid requirements through the medical school will become reversed or at least modified. We might have an elective system in the medical school. There is no need of requiring obstetrics of one who is to become a bacteriologist, or a course of surgery of one who will be an internist. To accomplish our ideals, our medical schools must adopt a broad as well as a high standard, and must clearly recognize the fact that in the future, medicine will unquestionably offer fields of usefulness and honor to many men seemingly unfit if judged by the present narrow requirements. An aristocrat rooster of Custer, Man returns to his dust, |