For incipient colds it is worth its weight in gold. If, on exposure, you will give your patient a dose every hour for four hours, your cold symptoms will have disappeared in a very short time. Try it if you have not already done so.-Schultze, in N. A. J. Hom.

STRAMONIUM IN BED-WETTING.

A boy named U., four years of age, fair and cheerful, was brought to my office on account of bed-wetting and quickly cured. The case was somewhat unusual, the child, when a suckling, having had an angioma on the hairy scalp. This showed in the beginning a rapid growth, being raised three millimeters above the surrounding skin and of the size of a dime. Thuja and some other remedies checked it increase and finally caused its re-absorption, so that there only remained a discolored spot of the size of a pea. The boy after this was healthy, well developed and very cleanly; but since six weeks there was a change, as the bed was wet every night. Further questions showed that there were also. other disturbances: great restlessness, anxiety, especially much talking-different from his former habits. The mother described him as "excitable and talking incessantly." I then prescribed Stramonium 30, two drops in thirty grammes of water. The action was complete in every respect; the boy at once became quiet and his bed was dry from that time on, in short, he became his former self again, healthy and bright. There has been no relapse now for a year.

This disagreeable habit is not usually eradicated so easily. Most of the cases have also another character and do not arise acutely in connection with phenomena of the central nervous system. Though most of the ordinary cases also yield to a continued systematic homeopathic treatment, I find it important to consider the position taken in bed when selecting the remedy. Boenninghausen gives the symptoms under the heading of "sleep." The most important remedies in "enuresis nocturna" are: Belladonna, Nux vom., Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur, as well as Phosphorus and the Phosphates. In enuresis by day Rhus and Causticum are very important. I give the remedies in the 30th potency; but Schuessler's remedies in the 6th trituration. Medicines like Benzoe, Kreosot. and Arsenicum are in the special cases also equally important when the symptoms correspond. By "important" I mean only their being frequently indicated. But in special cases with pronounced psoric diathesis it is especially useful to give intervening doses of Sulphur, Calcarea or Lycopodium. The remedies should be given a fair chance to develop their after-effects.

A number of cures only fail because the patients or their parents have no appreciation of chronic cures.-Schlegel, in Homeopathic Envoy.

THE DIFFERENCE.

The "regular" doctors are regularly at work hunting microbes and giving them names, and calling them the germs of diseases, but that does not cure the patient.

The Old Masters of Homeopathy have a system of laws by which they find the remedy that is homeopathic in each case individually, that cures the patient and clears away the microbes.

The self-styled "regular" doctors very regularly use very fine, up-to-date instruments to hunt microbes and give them jaw-breaking names and call them the germs of diseases, to make themselves famous, just as Old Father Adam did when he gathered all things together and gave them names and planted germs of diseases in the human race, and he has been famous ever since.

Master Samuel Hahnemann discovered the laws and methods for finding the remedy by the symptoms that are homeopathic to and curative in the case; cures the patient without naming the disease or fighting microbes.

Now we ask, which is the humbug?-Dr. W. L. Morgan, in the Hahnemannian Advocate.

SPINAL IRRITATION.

In a remarkably clever analysis of the therapeutic effects of actea racemosa, by W. A. Dewey, M. D., published in Chironian for March, the author offers some comparisons with remedies useful in spinal irritations.

Cimicifuga seems best indicated when the upper and lower cervical vertebræ are so sensitive to pressure that the patient cannot lean back in his chair on that account. If reflex from uterine trouble, in a woman, the remedy is still more indicated. In multiple neuritis from alcohol, actea is our first remedy.

Natrum muriaticum also suits cases of spinal irritation with this sensitiveness between the vertebræ; but the patient is better lying flat upon the back.

Physostigma is another good remedy. It has all kinds of burning and twinging sensations in the spine, numb hands, jerking of limbs. rigidity and tetanic spasms of the back.

Zincum metallicum is the remedy when spinal irritation goes on to partial paralysis. There is aching in the back about the last dorsal vertebræ; worse from sitting. There is, especially, weakness of the legs.

Cocculus is useful for women who have weak spines and a paralytic aching in the small of the back; they can hardly walk and there is an aching, gone feeling in the spine.

Nux vomica suits the aching in the back as it occurs from sexual

excesses.

Kobalt likewise suits backache from sexual excess, but the pain is worse from sitting and there is weakness of the legs. It seems to fit in with zincum, nux and actea, with a symptom of each.

Thallium, the most poisonous metal known, causes neuralgic spasmodic pains. It has been prescribed, with success, in the horrible pains of syphilitic spinal sclerosis.

SOME TRAUMATIC REMEDIES.

The first and perhaps the most important remedy of this class is the mountain Arnica or Leopard's Bane as it is commonly termed.

Its principal symptom or the leading keynote is a sore-bruised feeling, which is pathognomonic of hurt. The whole body feels as if thoroughly beaten and the pain at times becomes so severe that it is difficult for the patient to move. Arnica acts on all kinds of injuries but its principal sphere of action is upon the soft tissues and so it is useful in all kinds of injuries that accompany fractures, dislocations, bruises, ecchymosis, etc. I make it a rule to give a few doses of Arnica to the mother, immediately after the birth of the child. And indeed this has been the common practice among the homeopaths from a long time. I believe Von Grauvogl was one of the first to recommend it in all kinds of operations, but particularly in obstetrical cases. The sorebruised feeling that I have spoken to you of at the beginning is at times so severe that the patient is unable to lie in bed quietly. She has to move from place to place, the bed feels so hard. Although we have other remedies for nervous trauma, still its action on injuries is so marked that it is a most useful remedy in concussion of the brain, in cerebro-spinal meningitis resulting from mechanical injuries. In conclusion, I will mention the use of the remedy in gangrene, resulting from trauma and chronic diseases, that find their cause in some severe fall or injury that occurred long ago.

Our next remedy in this group is Rhus Toxicodendron. It is one of our sheet anchors in sprains particularly of muscle tendons, such as

result from lifting heavy weights, jumping from a height, etc. It is useful also in paralytic conditions, that have been caused by violent muscular exertions. We might very well go a step further and mention its usefulness in river bathing and swimming. Fevers and chills that are brought on in this way are promptly relieved by the timely administration of Rhus. In this connection, I might as well mention that it is equally useful in exposure to cold, as it is in muscular straining, hence its value in summer bathing. Rhus, unlike Bryonia, affects the fibrous tissue and principally the right side.

In this connection, I might quote to you with advantage a few lines from Hughes, who says: "The action of Rhus on white fibrous tissues has led to its being used in the treatment of sprains." Hahnemann says: "I have recognized in these latter years that Rhus is the best specific against the consequences of muscular strains and contusions. I must say that I do not like the use of the word specific even though it is made by the master himself.

Rhus has been found to be of inestimable value in rheumatism, where continued strain has been the cause of the disease.

The next remedy that I will dwell upon in this connection is Calendula or the extract of the common Marigold. The use of this drug for cuts and injuries has been known to this country from time immemorial. The application of the juice extracted from the leaves to cut is a common practice among the laboring class in this country. Its special sphere of action seems to be in ragged wounds with or without loss of substance, accompanied with soreness and pain. It was used on a large scale by our American colleagues in the treatment of injuries arising in the course of the Civil War, and it obtained their warmest commendations. It is a remarkable healing agent and applied topically as a lotion or in the shape of an oil heals the most obstinate wounds and sores. We have made extensive use of the remedy and have been albe to cure gangrene, carbuncles, scroflous sores, etc., with it. Dr. Ludlam, of Chicago, praised it in lacerations about the pelvic organs and in the perineum. It promotes healthy granulations.

Hypericum or St. John's Wart is the great remedy for injury to the nerves. It has truly been termed the Arnica of the nerves. Intense pain is one of the guiding symptoms to its use. It has sometimes been used with advantage in tetanus and is said to have prevented trismus. The use that Dr. Franklin made of this remedy during the American War and as recorded in his Science and Art of Surgery is worthy of note. "Injuries of parts rich in nerves, particularly the fingers and toes and the matrix of the nails, open painful wounds with

general prostration from loss of blood and great nervous depression and lacerated wounds.

Dr. Madden, of England, also made a proving of this drug, taking at times as much as 260 drops of the mother tincture. But in his case it had not produced many symptoms in this sphere save a few neuralgic shoots in the eyeballs and the right ulnar nerve.

The next remedy in this group is Symphytum. It has a special affinity for the bones. It helps the formation of callous in fractured bones and allays the irritability of the bones' ends which often prevents the knitting of the bones. In this connection it is worth while to remember Natrum Carbonicum which is very beneficial in easy dislocation and spraining of the ankle (Ledum). For old sprains, bruised pains in bones, wrists, and cartilages Ruta is very good.

Another remedy that is very helpful in punctured wounds is Ledum. It is also very useful in insect bites, mosquito bites, in bee stings, etc. Dunham evidently does not put much faith in this pecular use of Ledum. He says: "Teste, a more brilliant than trust-worthy writer, says that Ledum is a specific cure for wounds with pointed instruments and for the evil effects of the stings of insects, from musquitoes up to wasps." He applied locally a solution of the 15th dilution. Dewey justly remarks that Ledum supplies the gap left by Arnica, Calendula, Staphisagria and Hypericum. Thus Arnica for contused wounds, Hypericum and Calendula for lacerated wounds and Staphisagria for incised wounds, Ledum being most useful for the punctured variety as from nails, awls, etc.

Staphisagria suits clean cut wounds and symptoms traceable to surgical operations, especially about the abdomen particularly when colic is a troublesome condition following.

Conium is useful in injuries and bruises of the glands particularly the mammary glands.

Aranea Diadema is a very good remedy for the hemorrhage after gunshot wounds.

Besides these we have such remedies as Hamamelis, Erigeron, Ipecac, Cinchona, Crocus, Sulphuric Acid, Lachesis; good remedies for traumatic hemorrhages.

This is a lecture delivered by J. N. Majumdar, M. D., to the Students of the Calcutta School of Homeopathy.-The Indian Homeopathic Review.

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