Current News. DR. H. L. FROST spent part of his vacation at Put-in-Bay. DR. FRED BISSELL, Oberlin, brought in a case for operation in July. DR. H. POMEROY, of Cleveland, spent his vacation at Poland Springs, Maine. DR. F. R. LOOMIS, of Jefferson, O., is a frequent visitor to the college clinDR. D. H. BECKWITH went to Norwalk, O., for home week and delivered a stirring address. THE paper read by Dr. Josephine Danforth, of Cleveland, at the Detroit session was much commented upon, and the writer was complimented too. DR. ROSE JACKSON, of Willoughby, O., recently underwent an operation for appendicitis, which was entirely successful. DR. FRED STORK, of Wickliffe, O., was a welcome visitor at the REPORTER office during July. DR. FRED W. FINKE, of Nottingham, brought in an interesting brain case for operation during July. DR. DENVER PATTERSON, of Collinwood, is contemplating the erection of a new private hospital. DR. JOHN H. QUAYLE, of Cleveland, has a new Stearns touring car in which he travels to and from his attractive country estate located at Willoughby, O. DR. E. J. SCHWARTZ, a very successful Cleveland graduate, located at Salem, O., sends in many cases for consultation to Cleveland specialists. PROF. JAMES C. WOOD did a successful Cæsarean section in July at the Homeopathic Hospital. THE Editor has knowledge of a well-paying practice for sale in a thriving community and will answer any questions. THE first formal meeting of the Ohio State Board of Health and officers of each county and township in the state was held at Toledo, June 17 and 18. THE Ohio Assembly will be asked next winter to pass a law establishing state sanitariums for inebriates. DR. A. Y. DRAKE, the Atlanta, Ga., physician who was sentenced to the stockade for selling cocaine, was adjudged insane in the ordinary court, July 8. EUGENE GEORGES BENJAMIN CLEMENCEAU, the retiring premier of France, was a practitioner of medicine before entering politics. DR. AUGUST W. SCHUMACHER, of Hamilton, O., former coroner of Butler County, will enter the Democratic primaries as a candidate for mayor. BECAUSE of the presence of typhoid in isolated communities in the Lone Star State the health department is now getting alarmed over the possibility that perhaps typhoid fever is going to become epidemic this year. W. A. SEMENTON, of the Johnson Building, swore out a warrant, July 12, charging J. W. Holman, a former subscription solicitor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, with receiving money under false pretenses. DR. WM. OSLER has arrived at the age of three-score, and the press of the country is making jocose remarks about his alleged pronouncement of some years ago in reference to chloroform. MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD, who was a medical practitioner before he entered the military profession, is now ranking general in the United States army. ics. Dr. A. E. Monahan, of Allegheny, Pa., writes that his son will soon be able to attend college and he hopes that President G. J. Jones will be ready to give the son as good instruction as he gave the father. DR. S. M. JANES, class '82, now of Marquette, Mich., and a leading railroad surgeon, is in Europe for post-graduate work. Dr. Janes was for two years associated with Dr. G. J. Jones and called on his Cleveland friends in July. DR. J. WYLIE ANDERSON, business manager of the Critique, has returned from his vacation, spent on Ninmak Island, Alaska, with a record of having shot the biggest bear killed there in five years. COLUMBUS, O., physicians attribute the marked decrease in their practice to the installation of the new filtering plant and to the vigilance of the health department. "PROF. DR. JAMES M. MUNYON, of "there is hope" notoriety, manufacturer of "Munyon's Remedies," is being sued for divorce by his wife, who is forty years his junior. THE Sandusky, O., City Council, in special session, June 18, took steps toward the abolition of the city board of health, for which it is contended, there is no longer any use. WHETHER the safe of the Springfield, O., City Hospital has been looted of $1,600 or discrepancies are due to faulty bookkeeping is said to be puzzling the board of trustees and other city officers. THE Texas Court of Criminal Appeals holds that the practice of osteopathy is healing the sick and the practice of medicine, thereby bringing osteopathic practitioners under the State Medical Act. THE Critique in the August number says: "Dr. G. J. Jones has been a teacher in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College continuously since 1872. That is a record of which any man might well be proud, and the college and alumnæ should equally proud of the man himself." DR. HARRIS H. BAXTER, of Cleveland, who needs no introduction to our readers, has been appointed chairman of the bureau of materia medica and general therapeutics at the Los Angeles meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy. This most important bureau could have no better chairman. THE Editor went down to Canal Dover in July and operated a case for Dr. Fred Mersfelder. Dr. Mersfelder has been most fortunate in his location and is doing a large business. He can recommend several good openings and wants some one to locate in thriving towns near him. Dr. W. E. WELLS, of Cleveland, finds his way out to the base ball park with more or less regularity. He is an enthusiastic fan, and we almost believe our club would win more games if he will shriek on a key two notes above his usual one. QUITE a number of Cincinnati physicians were present at the meeting of medical clans at the Miami Valley Chautauqua grounds, July 9. It was an important meeting, and it is a pleasure to record that our local men increased the importance by brilliant discussions. THE mayor of St. Paul, Minn., is investigating the health department, the city hospital, the city rendering plant and several individuals connected with the operation of all. It is now probable that the whole question of the efficiency or lack of efficiency of the health department will go before the common council. ALL of the graduates of this year's class have passed successfully state board examinations in various states. We have not heard the percentages obtained but feel sure that each applicant stood high in the list. They always have done so, and usually head the list. DR. ROSENAU, professor of bacteriology in the Army and Navy Medical School in Washington, and director of the hygienic laboratory of the United States Public Health Marine Hospital, has been appointed to the newly created chair of preventive medicine at the Harvard Medical School. THE South Dakota State Homeopathic Medical Society met at Madison, July 2. Mitchell will be the meeting place in 1910. Dr. Snurer, of Deadwood, was elected president, and Dr. Daniels, of Madison, was re-elected secretary and treasurer. DR. FRANK L. RATTERMANN, one of The Lancet-Clinic collaborators, was married June 25 to Miss Antoinette Marie Hellebush, at the Church of the Assumption. The happy couple are spending their honeymoon in the Adirondacks. They will probably return about July 20 to this city. ELMER THOMAS WHITE, M. D., "Class 1883" Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio, has been elected a member of the corporation and board of trustees of the Hering Medical College and Hospital of Chicago. During his connection with the faculty the past five years his work has been confined to Professor of Diseases of the Intestines. THE new tuberculosis dispensary at Norwalk, Conn., will rob the local practitioners of a neat income; nevertheless they have signified their willingness to give their time and services to this cause gratis, and it is their fond hope that the public will lend their hearty financial aid to this great work. The dispensary opened officially Monday, July 12. THE largest single order of radium ever given was placed in London recently by Lord Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel, who will donate it to the Radium Institute. The quantity ordered was 7.5 grams and the price was £30,000. The Red Cross Guild Hospital of San Mateo, California, has received a gift of radium from Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. DR. WILLIAM E. WELLS, of Cleveland, one-time professor of rectal diseases in the Cleveland College, told us the other day of an interesting case he was called to in consultation. The patient, a girl, aged 21 years, had a hemorrhage from the rectum. This was the first symptom she complained of more or less distress for about a year when she called Dr. Wells, who diagnosed cancer of the rectum, inoperable. The autopsy revealed an adeno-carcinoma. The case is of interest because of the age of the patient. THE Hering Medical College, of Chicago, has conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine on E. P. Anshutz, editor of the Homeopathic Envoy. The Homeopathic Society of France elected him to be corresponding member of that society, and the American Institute of Homeopathy conferred the honor of associate member of that body at the recent meeting in Detroit. These great homeopathic honors are highly deserved by the recipient. The new "Doctor" Anshutz writes the best things Homeopathic that come to us. We extend our most cordial congratulations. THERE is a good answer in the June number of the Journal A. I. H. to those who assert that only the credulous employ homeopathic treatment. It is a gallery of pictures of well-known men and women who employed that treatment, and the most of them lived to a ripe old age. Among the business men are Peter Cooper, Cyrus W. Field and Samuel F. B. Morse. Among the writers are Horace Greeley, Henry W. Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Wm. Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Washington Irving. Among the actors, Joseph Jefferson and Edwin Booth. Among our Presidents, Chester A. Arthur. This collection is merely a specimen. ENVOY. lin. Book Reviews. Clinical Treatise on the Pathology and Therapy of Disorders of Metabolism and Nutrition. Part Eight. By Prof. H. Strauss, Royal Charity Hospital, BerAuthorized American Edition. Price, $1.00. E. B. Treat & Co., New York, Publishers. This book is devoted to the pathogenesis and therapeutics of Gout. It is not an exhaustive effort, for the aim has been to give from a practitioner's standpoint a concise picture of the modern conceptions of the nature and treatIt is an interesting book, well worth reading. ment of Gout. Part Third of the same series is the same price and considers Angina Pectoris. This disease, on account of its high mortality and sudden onset, has always aroused the intense interest of clinicians. Prof. V. Neusser has had a large personal experience and his conclusions will be read with interest by thoughtful practitioners. Obituary. AMBROSE S. EVERETT, M. D. St. Louis College of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, 1870; at one time physician of Arapahoe county, Colo.; a veteran of the Civil War; died at his home in Denver, June 24, from heart disease, aged 68. LORENZO D. COOMBS, M. D. Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1875; Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, 1879; a veteran of the Civil War; died at his home in Ypsilanti, Mich., June 20, from heart disease, aged 73. EVA MCPHEE LEWIS, M. D. Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1896; of San Diego, Cal.; a member of the Medical Society of the State of California; died at the Agnews Sanitarium, June 9, aged 38. DR. EDWARD Z. COLE, of Baltimore, died at his home on June 29, 1909, of heart disease following heat exhaustion, aged 55 years. He was a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. Dr. Cole was the founder and president of St. Luke's Hospital in Baltimore, professor of gynecology of the Atlantic Medical College, and a member of the Institute of Homeopathy, and many other societies. DR. JOHN QUILL, of Wallingford, Conn., died at his home, on June 17, of tuberculosis, aged 62 years. He attended the Yale Medical School and in 1876 received the degree of M. D. from the New York Homeopathic Medical College. He was for fourteen years physician to the Masonic Home in his town. LEVI W. CARTER, M. D. Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1871; of Peoria; died at the Proctor Home in that city, June 23, from paralysis, aged 74. WILLIAM ANDREW CHATTERTON, M. D., a homeopathic practitioner of Elgin, Ill.; died in that city, May 26, from angina pectoris, aged 68. JOHN D. QUILL, M. D. New York Homeopathic Medical College, New York City, 1876; died at his home in Wallingford, Conn., June 18, from tuberculosis of the brain, aged 62. Clinical Department. AN ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN'S EXPERIENCE WITH SILICEA. Dr. H. T. Webster, of Oakland, Cal., contributed the following very interesting and useful paper on our great homeopathic remedy, Silicea, to the Eclectic Medical Journal: Few practitioners estimate this remedy at its true worth. Judging from our own experience for many years before recognizing its numerous merits, the majority regard it as a novelty, a remedy without much character, to be occasionally tried and found wanting after others have failed. They may sometimes prescribe it in stubborn suppuration, but are liable to abandon it before it wins any laurels. Silicea is usually slow, but it is always a searching remedy. It is a remedy for lack of nutrition and repair, not of function merely. Compared with Hepar sulph. in suppuration, it may be remarked that Silicea will accomplish results in long-standing cases where Hepar will fail, while in other cases the latter will produce the most pronounced curative effect in a short time. Hepar sulph. is adapted to suppuration involving the lymphatic system; and is, compared with Silicea, a short-lived or acute remedy. In long-standing suppuration it is not of much service. Silicea is adapted to almost any form of suppuration, though its predilection is for osseous, fibrous and cartilaginous tissues. ITS USES NOT CONFINED TO SUPPURATION. To those who incline to confine it to suppuration of bony structure we would suggest its trial in long-standing gleet, where suppurative action has invaded the urethral lacunæ. Its use should here be persevered in for several weeks. Its action may seem slow, but where a discharge has continued for a year or more, in spite of other remedies, results will not seem insignificant, nor the time occupied so very long. In connection with proper local measures, it has afforded us excellent satisfaction in this place, though possibly it might have done just as well without the local treatment. In stubborn ulceration of the cutaneous surface it is also a reliable remedy. ARTICULAR AFFECTIONS. Its great place, however, is in the treatment of affections of the articulations. Here we have hardly any other remedy which acts with equal promptness. Silicea accomplishes some surprising cures in such cases when other treatment amounts to almost or quite nothing. A few months ago an active outdoor business man called at the office on crutches to have his knee examined for "inflammatory rheumatism." His family physician had so diagnosed it, and it had been under treatment for a month without benefit. The history of the case was: In alighting from a rapidly moving street car the knee was bumped forcibly against the step, and from that time the trouble developed. There was no cedema, no swelling of the musculature; but the location of the synovial membranes was reddened, painful and sensitive, and motion was attended by increased pain, and creaking of the joint. Silicea 3x trituration, was provided, and the patient sent on his way. Within a week he walked into the office without crutches and without limping; knee as well as ever. Less than a month ago the writer, while doing some amateur gardening, passing hurriedly around the corner of the porch steps, struck the outer side of the left instep smartly against a sharp projection. Excruciating pain attended for a minute or two, but was soon forgotten. Shortly before bed time, however, the foot became painful, and, after retiring, so painful that comfort could not be obtained in any imaginable position. An attempt to massage the part proved that it was too sensitive over the point of injury to permit of any manipulation. The sensitive point was over the tarso-metatarsal junction, and the pain extended downward along the articulations to the bottom of the foot, seeming to involve the cartilages and periosteum in that region. An attempt to stand demonstrated that little weight could be borne on the part, and even touching the foot to the floor increased the pain greatly. With visions of periostitis, caries and chronic ulcer in mind, we cast about, amid much suffering, for a remedy which promised something more than temporary relief; something which would serve as a preventive of serious complicátions, as well as relieve the pain, and Silicea naturally presented itself to mind as the proper recourse. The third decimal trituration was at hand, and a threegrain dose was taken at once. This was after several hours of severe suffering, but within half an hour afterward everything was forgotten in a sound sleep, which continued undisturbed until morning. On waking, all pain was gone, and walking was accomplished without discomfort, though the point of injury was still slightly sensitive to pressure. One more dose of Silicea was now taken, and though the part was apparently well the morning following, another dose was taken on rising "for keeps."' No more trouble from the injury. Most homeopathic writers inform us that this is a slow-acting remedy, adapted to stubborn, chronic cases; but Hughes remarks, that though it is |