Silicea Terra

A remedy of great importance in diseases of the lachrymal apparatus, especially the lachrymal sac.

Lachrymal fistula.

Styes.

Blepharitis.

Tarsal tumors.

Boils and cystic tumors around eyes and lids.

Pustular keratitis.

Ulcers of cornea, especially the small round variety with a tendency to perforate ; also the sloughing ulcer with sticking pains.

(Hepar.) Cataract.

Amblyopia after suppressed foot-sweat

or eruptions.

Affections appearing in the angles of the eye.

Corneal scars and opacities after small-pox.

Ciliary neuralgia, especially over right eye.

Pressure and soreness in the orbits.

Muscse volitantes.

Letters run together when reading or writing.

Caries of the orbit.

Sensitive to loud sound.

Roaring in ears.

Inflam- mation of middle ear, especially chronic suppuration.

Inflam- matory swelling of external meatus.

Dulness of hearing with swelling and catarrh of the Eustachian tubes and tympanic cavity.

Otitis suppurativa.

Otorrhcea curdy and ichorous, with caries of the mastoid cells.

Inflammation of ear after bathing.

Deafness, ears open at times with a loud report.

Tip of nose red.

Itching of nostrils.

Sneezing; coryza, nasal catarrh.

Ozsena, with fetid offensive discharge when the affection is seated in the submucous connective tis- sues or in the periosteum.

Chronic coryza with swelling of the mucous membrane, dryness, excoriation, with crusts and loss of smell.

Caries of the nasal bones from syphilis or scrof- ulosis.

Intolerable itching of the tip of the nose.

Inveterate ulceration producing acrid, corroding discharge.

Herpetic eruption around nostrils and lips.

Faceache with small lumps or nodules on the face.

Induration of cellular tissue of the face following gumboil.

Sycosis menti, acne and lupus.

Skin of face cracks.

Caries and necrosis of the jaw.

Tumors on the lips.

Pale, earthy complexion.

Suppuration of the salivary glands.

Mouth gan- grenous, with perforating ulcer of the palate.

Chronic phar- yngitis with constipation.

Ulceration of the corners of the mouth.

Enlarged thyroid gland.

Tonsillitis when the suppurating gland will not heal.

Periodical quinsy.

Paraly- sis of the velum pendulum palati.

Gastric Symptoms

Child vomits as soon as it nurses.

In- tolerance of alcoholic stimulants.

Induration of the pylorus.

Chronic dyspepsia with acid eructations, with heartburn and chilliness ; vomiting in the A.

M.

Disgust for meat and for warm food.

Extreme hunger.

Abdomen and Stomach

Large abdomen in children.

En- larged inguinal glands.

Constipation associated with spinal affections, due to semi-paralysis of the rectum ; particularly if stools recede after having been partly expelled, due to irritable sphincter ani.

Hepatic abscess with induration.

Infantile diarrhoea, cadaverous-smelling, after vaccination, with much sour perspiration about head, with hard, hot, distended abdo- men.

Diarrhoea, cadaverous odor.

Shifting of flatulence.

Intensely painful hemorrhoids.

Worm colic.

Fissura ani and fistula in ano.

Urinary and Sexual Organs — Suppuration of kidneys, urine loaded with pus and mucus.

Red sandy deposit, uric acid.

Enuresis from worms or in chorea.

Chronic syphilis with suppurations and indurations.

Chronic gonorrhoea, with thick, fetid, purulent discharge.

Sexual erethism, with per- sistent sexual thoughts, often nocturnal emissions, also with paralytic disease.

Itching and much sweating about scrotum.

Prostatis.

Hydrocele.

Seminal emissions.

Menses are asso- ciated with icy coldness over whole body and constipation and fetid footsweat.

Menses early, but scanty ; rarely profuse.

Burning and itching of pudenda.

Nymphomania.

Deucorrhoea acrid, profuse, itching.

Menses during lactation.

Serous cysts of vagina.

Sterility.

Abscess of labia, with tendency to fistu- lous openings.

Metrorrhagia due to standing in cold water.

Scirrhus.

Nipples crack and ulcerate easily, fistulous ulcers of the mammae, hard lumps in the mammae threatening sup- puration.

Soreness and lameness of feet from instep to sole during pregnancy.

Respiratory Symptoms

Pneumonia, stage of suppuration.

Empyema.

Suppurative, rattling, loose, copious expectora- tion of thick, yellow-green pus, accompanied with hectic fever ; profuse night-sweats and great debility.

Chronic bronchitis and phthisis.

Cough of sickly children with night- sweats.

Hoarseness, irritative cough, with feeling of a hair on tongue, provoked by tickling in throat and suprasternal fossa, by cold drinks; worse at night when lying down.

Sputa abundant, thick, pus-like, with weakness and deep-seated pain in chest.

Phthisical abscess of lungs.

Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules smelling bad.

Circulatory Organs

Palpitation after violent motion or when sitting quietly.

Chronic heart disease.

Back and Extremities

Soreness between shoulders.

Spinal curvature, rachitis, spinal irritation.

Coccyx hurts after rid- ing.

Carbuncles along the spine.

Spina bifida.

Psoas ab- scess.

Hip-joint disease, to prevent or control suppuration.

Suppurating wounds of the extremities discharging thick, yellow matter, and the suppuration is deep-seated.

Whitlow, felon, sensation in tips of fingers as if suppurating, assisting and controlling formation of pus and stimulating growth of new nails.

Pott's disease.

Proud flesh and caries ; old ulcers with burning and lancinating pains.

Chronic synovitis of the knee, with great swelling and anchylosis.

Caries of bone, with fistulous openings, discharging thin pus and bony frag- ments.

In-growing toe-nails.

Habitual fetid perspiration of the feet, smelling horribly, suppression causes other ailments.

Offensive sweat in the axillae.

Nails crippled and brittle, with white spots.

In-growing toe-nails.

Pains through foot from ankle to sole.

Weak ankles.

Feel insufferably tender.

Nervous affections following injuries to spine.

Tonic spasm of the hand when writing.

Arms and hands feel heavy and par-

alyzed.

Pain in shoulder and arm at night, relieved by warm wrappings.

Limbs and feet feel very tired and as if paralyzed.

Painful tonic spasm in the feet and toes during a long walk.

Dis- eases brought on by exposure of back to draught of air.

Nervous Symptoms

Epilepsy occurring at night, the aura begins in the solar plexus.

Pain in various parts of the body, as if ulcerating.

Irritability and sensitiveness of the spine, with numerous reflex pains.

Spasmodic closure of the sphinc- ters.

Hysteria and obstinate neuralgia.

Suffering parts feel cold, are sensitive to dampness.

Weakness with desire to lie down.

Trembling of limbs and paretic symptoms.

Tabes dorsalis.

Spasms from slight provocation.

Exhaustion with erethism.

Sleeplessness from orgasm of blood.

Palpitation, rapid pulse, heat.

Talking in sleep.

Jerking of limbs dur- ing sleep.

Bad dreams.

Febrile Symptoms

Hectic fever during long suppurative processes.

Chilliness all day, on movement, want of animal heat.

Sensitive to cold air.

Heat in afternoon and all night with burning in feet.

Sweat at night, with loss of appetite and prostration.

Copious sweat about the head.

Offensive sweat of feet.

Skin very sensitive ; itching, burning, papules, nod- ules, ulcers, boils, carbuncles, felons and malignant pustules.

Chilblains.

Crusta lactea with an offensive oozing.

Eczema squamosum.

Acne.

Pustules are extremely painful.

Great tendency to boils in any part of the body.

Abscesses and carbuncles and subsequent indurations.

Ulcers, with proud flesh, putrid, acrid ichor, edges elevated and bluish, fistulous ulcers, and around nails.

Skin heals with difficulty and sup- purates eas'ly.

Scrofulous eruptions.

Rhagades.

Deep-seated, phlegmonous erysipelas.

Bursa.

Glandular swellings.

Var- iola, suppurative form.

Impure vaccination.

Lepra, espe- cially for the nasal ulceration, nodes and coppery spots.

Fungi, easily bleeding abscess with fistulous open- ings, inflammatory swelling, ulceration and necrosis of bone.

Rachitis.

Cellular suppuration with slow course and subse-

quent induration.

Malignant and gangrenous inflammations.

Enlarged suppurating glands, especially cervical glands.

Neglected cases of injury if suppuration threatens.

Dis- charges and excretions offensive.

Dropsy.

Suppurations of the sebaceous glands, scrofulous diathesis.

Enchondroma.

Tumor albus.

Symptoms are always worse at night and dur- ing full moon.

Amelioration by heat and warm room.

Head- ache relieved by wrapping the head up warm.

Abdominal pains, cough, rheumatic pains all relieved by warmth.

Worse in the open air ; worse from suppressed foot-sweat or chilling the feet or from cold.

Homoeopathic Data

This drug was proved by Hahnemann.

The first record of it appeared in the Chronic Diseases, vol. iii, in 1828.

Administration

Schiissler recommends the 6x and the i2x potencies, but in the homoeopathic school the most brilliant results have followed the use of the higher attenuations (see Clinical Cases, Part III).

Its external application is also recommended by Schiissler and others, in carbuncles, ulcers, ulceration of womb, abscess, ozsena as a spray, etc.

Massive and repeated doses are indicated in scrofulous, glandular swellings without suppurations.

But where there is actual suppuration, or even a tendency thereto, high potencies (30th) help in chronic cases, one dose daily, or even less often, in subacute cases, morning and evening — in acute cases from two to three hours.

An effective method of using Silicea locally is to make a strong decoction of hay.

This contains a large percentage of Silicea.

The silicate of soda should be given in free solution.

Percy Wilde, M.

D., who introduced this valuable preparation of Silicea, gives three to four drops three times daily, and each dose is given in one-third of a tumbler of water, or, better still, in milk.

The effect of the remedy must be watched, as it is apt to cause active changes in the tumor within forty-eight hours (see Tumors, Part III).

22, who always had scanty menses, which during the past year had completely ceased, and caused head and eye troubles, received, May 12, 18S7, Kali phos., six powders.

After using it six days the menses, reappeared with violent headache and lasted seven days, and her other troubles gradualh' disappeared.

(Monabsblatter. )

Calcarea phos

This remedy acts by supplying new blood- cells.

Pains and cramps dependent on anaemic conditions.

Waxy appearance of the skin due to anaemia.

Chlorosis, complexion waxy, greenish-white, with constant headache and ringing in ears.

Schiissler gives this remedy alone for chlorosis.

Ferrumphos

Follows Calcarea phos. as soon as improve- ment of the general health sets in.

There is a want of red blood in the system.

This remedy, by its power of attracting oxygen, colors the new blood-cells red and enriches them after they have been supplied by Calcarea phos.

Schiissler in a recent letter says : " Iron, which enters into the formation of young blood-cells, is never absent in the blood-serum of chloro- tics.

Therefore I have lately abandoned iron, which I recom- mended in the first editions of my Therapeutics for chlorosis and other ansemic conditions."

Kali phos

Cerebral anaemia, anaemic conditions of the brain, causing undue nervousness.

Poverty of the blood from influences which continually depress the mind and nervous system.

This remedy also cures the leucaemia, which is in- duced by long-continued disorders.

" Spinal anaemia, from exhausting diseases, such as diphtheria, reflex paraplegia, with aching pains aggravated by rest, but' most manifest on beginning to move about." (Arndt.)

Natrum sulph

Hydraemia, sycosis, hydrogenoid constitu- tion of the body, depending upon dampness of weather or dwelling in damp houses ; sycosis and hydraemia.

(I^ilienthal.)

Silicea

L,eucorrhcea instead of menses ; attacks of momen- tary blindness or obscuration of vision.

Anaemia in infants, thin, delicate and puny, with tendency to rickets.

Dr.

S.

Powell Burdick furnished us with two cases of anaemia, both in young ladies, aet. 19 and 21.

Both presented the following characteristic symptoms: Pale, anaemic countenance, great exhaustion, depression of spirits, violent attacks of frontal headache extending to the occiput.

The youngest had suffered from this condition for six or seven years, and re- ceived treatment from several physicians, homoeopathic and allopathic, receiving from the latter large quantities of iron, without any benefit what- ever.

The eldest had also been anaemic for several years.

All their symp- toms were promptly relieved, the color returning even to rosy cheeks : the ears, which were formerly pale and almost translucent, became reddish and natural in color.

The remedies employed were first Calcarea phos.vl, for ten days or two weeks, followed by Ferrum phos.1'2, for two weeks, then return- ing to the Calcarea phos. again.

About six months sufficed to cure perma- nently in each case.

Young lady, aet. 17, became anaemic and chlorotic, after long continuance at school, becoming so debilitated that she could attend no longer, had no appetite, and desired only to lie about the house, having no ambition to go anywhere or do anything.

Her study made her head ache, and she had to give it up entirely; her menses were irregular, absent for months, then a flow varying in quantity.

I gave her Calcarea phos.6, as principal remedy, giving also, at times, Ferrum phos . as well.

After a few months she became well enough to resume her studies, and could walk anywhere she desired to go, and her color improved.

(C.

T.

M.)

NaTrum mur

W.

Rowley reports a case of anaemia due to the abuse of salt.

The patient was emaciated, with general pallor; weakness; sensibility exalted; the menstrual flow never properly established.

Bowels inclined to constipation.

Has been in the habit of using salt to excess.

In treating the case the use of salt was restricted, and one dose of Nat. mur. 200 given, which was followed by general improvement, the menstrual flow assuming its regular condition and strength, and general health being restored.

Magnesia phos

This remedy may be given for the neu- ralgic spasms of this disease.

It should be given in hot water.

Neuralgic constrictive pains in chest.

It is also a remedy for " false " Angina.

Ferrum phos

At the commencement this remedy should be given in repeated doses when there are febrile symptoms present, and later on in the disease it may be given as an intercurrent.

The joints are painful on moving, motion sets up and increases the pain.

Tenalgia crepitans.

Kali mur

In acute arthritis, for the swelling or when the tongue is coated white.

It may be alternated with Ferrum phos.

Movement aggravates the pains.

It is useful espe- cially after Ferrum phos.

Tenalgia crepitans.

Natrum mur

Chronic arthritis, joints crack (if tongue and other symptoms correspond, acts probably by increasing the eliminations of the urate of sodium).

Synovitis, gout, sore hamstrings (verified).

Natrum phos

Acute gout (after Ferr. phos.).

Chronic gout, profuse, sour-smelling sweat.

Rheumatic arthritis, espe-

cially of finger joints.

Urine dark red.

Pains go suddenly to heart ; sore hamstrings.

Magnesia phos

Useful as an intercurrent remedy for the pains (violent).

The keynote is excruciating pains, spas- modic in character.

Kali sulph

In rheumatic arthritis where the pains shift from one joint to another, aggravated by heat.

Shifting and wandering rheumatic pains in the joints.

Fungoid arthritis.

Tumor albus, white swelling.

Katrum sulph

In acute cases (attacks) of gout.

This remedy should be alternated with Ferrum phos.

In chronic gout it alone suffices.

Gout in the feet, acute and chronic.

Rheumatic arthritis, especially in joints of fingers, pains sud- denly go to heart, urine dark-red.

Calcarea phos

Rheumatic gout worse at night and in bad weather.

Hygroma patellae.

Hydrops genu.

Rheumatic pains in joints of the feet, aggravated by motions;

Bryon. and Kali iod. having failed, Ferrum phos., 10th dil., cured

Pop.

Zeitschrift, Berlin, 1886.

A shoemaker of Berlin was taken ill after catching cold.

There was fever with violent pain in the right shoulder.

The first visit I paid was on the third day after he had been taken ill; temperature high, pulse full and quick, thirst and loss of appetite.

The right shoulder was very red and sensitive to the touch.

He was not able to lie in his bed, as the pressure of the pillows was unbearable.

He was lying on the sofa, supported with cushions, so that the shoulder should be free from pressure.

I gave my patient Ferrum phos., as much as would cover a sixpenny piece.

This was dissolved in a large glassful of water, and a teaspoonful of the solution given every hour.

Improvement was felt even after a few hours.

During the night the patient was able to sleep, and on the following day the fever abated; in three days he was able to move the arm pretty freely.

In a few days longer he was entirely well.

(Sulzer

From Schiissler. )

Kali phos

Nervous asthma.

In large and oft-repeated doses is the chief remedy for the breathing and depressed con-

dition of the nervous system.

Hay asthma and hay fever.

Asthma from the least food.

Kali mur

With gastric derangements.

Tongue coated whitish or greenish, furred, and mucus white, and hard to cough up ; when this occurs with depression of breathing, alternate with Kali phos.

Cardiac asthma with sensation as if heart and lungs were constricted.

Natrum mur

Asthma with profuse frothy mucus.

In alternation with Kali phos.; ■ also when the tears stream down the face whenever he coughs.

Spasmodic jerking with each inspiration.

Calcarea phos

Bronchial asthma intercurrently, secretion clear and tough.

Child gets a suffocative attack on being lifted up from cradle.

Calcarea fluor

When specks or small lumps are brought up after much exertion.

In alternation with Kali phos.

These lumps being of yellowish mucus.

Oppressed respira- tion.

Epiglottis feels closed, or as if breathing through a thick substance.

Magnesia phos

In asthma where flatulence is trouble- some.

Spasmodic nervous asthma.

With paroxysmal dry tic tickling cough and difficulty in lying down.

Kali sulph

Asthma, bronchial, with yellow expectora- tion, worse in the warm season or in hot atmosphere.

Much rattling of mucus.

In asthma, when the patient's attacks come on after taking food, and his color becomes bad, or when there is rapid emaciation, or sunken eyes, Dr.

Rapp recommends the Kali preparations.

(Schiissler.)

Natrum sulph

Very important as a remedy for the sycotic taint, of which asthma is often a manifestation.

Attacks, especially in the morning about 4 or 5 o'clock, with cough and raising of glairy slime, expectoration greenish and copi- ous, and vomiting after eating ; always worse in damp, rainy weather, from living in basements or cellars.

Asthma from digestive disturbances.

L,oose evacuations on rising in morn- ing.

Asthma in children.

Asthmatic breathing in young

Silicea

Breathing so difficult that the eyes protrude from their sockets ; doors and windows must be opened, always during a thunderstorm.

As a constitutional remedy with Natrum sulph. for eradication of the disease.

Asthma on a cachectic base.

A gentleman in whom attacks of asthma were frequent, lasting ten days, with much labored breathing, can hardly talk, thick yellow expectoration with much rattling on chest — Kali sulph. 3X relieved at once.

(M.

E.

Douglass, M.

D. )

Female, married, set. 36, asthma, attack violent, greenish, purulent ex- pectoration, a loose evacuation immediately on rising for past two days ;

Natrum sulph. 500 every two hours.

Was enabled to lie down that night, respiration and cough much improved and expectoration easier.

Next day practically well.

Female, married, aet. 42, subject to attacks for years; expectoration green- ish and remarkably copious;

Natrum sulph. every three hours.

Improve- ment began after a few doses, expectoration becoming paler and less abund- ant, has felt better since than for years, and one noteworthy fact is that the expectoration stopped in a few doses, whereas under remedies given in pre- vious attacks it had continued for weeks, thus indicating that the Natrum sulph. had gotten at the root of the evil.

(Wm.

J.

Guernsey, M.

D.)

Dr.

O.

H.

Hall, of Zumbrota, Minn., reports a remarkable case of asthma having passed ' ' through the hands of all the physicians of whom he had ever heard," cured by Kali phos. 2x.

Eighteen months had passed at time of writing without an attack

Minn.

Med.

Monthly, Nov., 1886.

Mr.

C. has for years had attacks of asthmatic breathing, so marked as to herald his approach at some distance, and coming on after any unusual exertion.

He is a tall, strong man, with no family history of lung trouble, albeit rather narrow-chested.

Examination of the lungs during a period of remission disclosed no lesion or abnormal sounds, except coarse rales along the larger bronchi.

In April, 1887, an especially severe attack, brought on by severe physical exertion, ' ' the worst spell " he has ever had, was promptly relieved by Natrum sulph.™, and occasional doses since have caused the attacks to disappear almost entirely for the first time in many summers.

(Wm.

E.

Leonard, M.

D. )

Mrs.

E. , a lad}' under my care the past year for chronic bronchitis and other troubles, was seized on July 9th with her third annual attack Of hay fever — rose cold, or hay asthma, as you please — having contracted the same in Florida.

She had formerly been entirely prostrated and forced to bed by these seizures, and dreads them much.

Her husband came to me in the evening, a few hours after the sneezing and harsh breathing began, and

begged of me to check it if possible.

I learned from him that she could not lie down; her breathing was aggravated upon the least motion and accom- panied by arching out between the scapulse.

No other point could be elicited that would lead to the more ordinary medicines; indeed, all these had been tried by other physicians in former attacks.

I had found Natrum mur. to relieve her troubles greatly, and so gave Natrum sulph.™0, with strong promise of relief.

Nor were we disappointed; she fell asleep in an hour or so after beginning her half-hour doses, and in a few days all signs of asthma were gone.

On July 18th no signs of asthmatic breathing could be heard over her lungs, whereas her former attacks had made her wholly miserable for weeks.

(Wm.

E.

Leonard, M.

D.)

Calcarea phos

Scrofulous diseases of children affecting the bones (Calc. fluor.\ General debility from mal-assimilation of food ; delayed dentition.

Watery diarrhoea, with flatulence.

Abdomen flabby and shrunken.

Complexion sallow and child has an old and anxious look.

Kali phos

Wasting disease when putrid-smelling stools occur.

Atrophy of bones.

Natrum mur

Rapid emaciation of the throat and neck of children ; irritability ; the children are very slow to learn to talk.

Chilliness, earthy complexion and constipation.

Natrum phos

Marasmus of children who are bottle fed.

Abdomen swollen ; liver large.

Colic after eating.

Stools contain undigested food.

Silicea

Body wasted while the head is exceedingly large.

Child perspires easily, is nervous and irritable ; face emaciated, decrepit looking.

Aversion to the mother's milk; vomited if taken.

Stools offensive and watery.

Great prostration upon any change of weather.

Miss R., aged 5 years, has been very frail all her life, and does not appear to be long for this world.

She is very anaemic and has a dirty looking face.

Has always been fretful at times and very nervous.

Very sensitive and can-

not stand any punishment without being sick for a few days.

She has no hair and during early life could not hold up her head.

Her eyes are sensi- tive to light.

She complains of a bad taste in the mouth and I noticed re- tarded dentition and chronic enlargement of the tonsils.

She had pain in the stomach after eating, and the food seems to lie like a lump in it, and would not eat much because it always caused distress.

She had suffered much with costiveness.

Urine highly colored and frequent urging to urinate.

Had more or less pain in the limbs and felt restless and wanted to be moving all the time when she felt better.

She had a constant leucorrhea, which was very offen- sive.

She got tired and exhausted very easily and could not stand cold weather.

Her bones were very small and weak and could have been easily broken.

The child was ordered bathed on going to bed three times a week, and plenty of fresh air.

I considered her case nearly a complete picture of Calcarea phos.

I gave her two cones of the 3X tablets every two hours.

It is needless to say that she improved from the first dose almost.

Her general condition has remained permanently improved and it certainly is a great victory for the remedy.

(O.

A.

Palmer, M.

D. )

Silicea

Spasmodic drawing in back compelling to lie still.

Constant aching in centre of spine.

Ferrum phos

Pains in the back and loins and over kid- ney.

Rheumatic pains felt only on moving.

Kali phos

Pains which are laming.

The parts affected feel powerless, gentle movement gradually lessening the pain and stiffness, yet too much exertion increasing the pain (such as walking too far).

This kind of pain is always worse after rising from a sitting posture and at the commencement of motion.

Calcarea phos

Pains with a feeling of numbness, cold- ness, or with a creeping sensation ; worse in the night and during rest.

Can also be given alternately with Ferrum phos.

After exhausting disease.

Backache in the lumbar region in the morning when awaking.

Kali sulph

Pains which are worse in warm rooms and in the evening, better in the open air (cool).

Shifting and changing about.

Calcarea fluor

Backache simulating spinal irritation.

Tired feeling and pains in the lower part of the back, with a sensation of fulness and burning pain, and confined bowels.

Lumbago aggravated on beginning to move, but improved after continuous motion.

Natrum mur

Pains in small of back relieved by lying on something hard, with characteristic tongue, bubbles of frothy saliva.

Pain after prolonged stooping, as if bruised.

Weak back, worse in the morning.

Spine very sensitive.

Neck stiff and emaciated.

Great weakness and weariness.

Natrum sulph

Pain in the back, as if ulcerating, all night ; can lie only on the right side.

Soreness up and down spine and neck.

Natrum mur

Cures rapidly.

Moisten the painful spot and apply thereto Natrum mitr., 6th trituration, rubbing it in.

Pain ceases at once.

(Schiissler.)

Calcarea phos

Useful to aid the process of repair in frac- tures.

When the bones are weak and soft, caused by soft sponginess, due to want of phosphate of lime molecules.

Rachitis, bowlegs in children.

Also, for ulceration of bone and wasting of skull-bones.

Fistulous ulcers on the ankles ; edges callous, ichor putrid.

Pains along sutures and sym- physes of bone.

Ferrum phos

In bone diseases, when the soft parts are red, hot and painful, inflamed.

Ostitis, periostitis.

Hip joint disease.

Silicea

Indication in nearly all diseases of bones.

Fistu-

lous openings, discharge offensive.

Parts around hard, swol- len, bluish-red ; fibrous parts of joints, especially of the knee, inflamed.

Ulceration of bone, periosteal ulceration.

All ex- cretions offensive, pus, stool, sweat, etc.

Hip joint disease.

Silicea is oftener indicated and has cured more cases of caries and necrosis than any other remedy.

It is a deeply penetrating remedy, and, while closely resembling Mercur. in its sphere of action, care must be taken not to administer it after Mercur., as it may much complicate the case.

It is more suitable for chronic cases, or after the first stage is past.

(Gilchrist.) No other drug so hastens the elimination of the dead bony particles to the largest piece of sequestrum so necessary to the cure of scrofulous diseases of the bones.

In many forms of caries, necrosis and in enchondroma of the bones, Grauvogl recommends, as a popular and very effective remedy, hay-baths.

Their efficacy depends on the presence of Silicea, which has been found as a chemical constituent in a state of solution in hay-baths — three drams of hay contain- ing about one-half grain of Silicea.

Hence the usefulness of this local measure in diseases of the bone is apparent.

Calcarea sulph

Ulceration of bone.

Craniotabes.

Calcarea fluor

Hard, rough, corrugated elevations on the surface of the bones.

Useful in cephal-haematoma (so-called blood-tumor), on the parietal bones of new born infants.

Bruises of bones.

Exostoses after injuries.

Diseases of bones ; caries leading to formation of pelvic abscesses.

Affections of the nasal bones, causing bad odor to disappear.

Nodes and hard bone swellings.

Caries in consequence of syphilis or abuse of mercury.

Spina ventosa, osteo-sarcoma.

Malnutri- tion of bones, especially the teeth.

Osseous growths, espe- cially in the carpal and tarsal articulations.

Suppuration of bones.

Natrum sulph

Sycosis.

Pain in bones, cracking of joints, knees stiff.

Non-union of a Broken Radius and Udna

Mr.

D., aged 23 years, who was an anaemic and frail man, received the injury several months before I saw him, and when the splints were removed the soreness was gone, but no union of the bones.

The parts were cut down upon, the ends freshened, brought together and supported, and Calcarea phos. given three or four times daily, with a very fine result.

(O.

A.

Palmer, M.

D.)

Enchondroma Indicis

A maiden lady of 60 had a shiny swelling on her left index finger, which had been there for eighteen months.

The lump was hard and painful, and of about the size of a small split walnut, but rather natter.

Patient was very nervous and depressed.

Calcarea fluor. 3X, six grains four times a day.

After two weeks the cartilaginous nature had clearly left, and swelling became softer and smaller and disappeared entirely within three months.

No change was made in diet or place of abode.

( J.

C.

Burnett, M.

D. ) '

Injury to the tibia of some years' standing ; a painful growth appeared on the seat of the injury.

This was diagnosed as an osteo-sarcoma by a promi- nent surgeon, who advised an operation.

Calcarea fluor. relieved the pain and reduced the growth.

(L.

A.

Bell, M.

D., Hahnemannian Monthly, April, 1887.)

Dr.

Hansen, of Copenhagen, reports in the Allg.

Horn.

Zeit., 1886, p. 44, a case of caries of the tibia of three years' standing ; fistulous openings led down to the bone, through which splinters of dead bone were being dis- charged constantly, the secretion therefrom being thick and yellow, accom- panied by boring nightly pains.

Calcarea fluor. ,5 cured completely in five months.

Enchondroma cured by Siucea.

( From Grauvogl's Text-book. ) Boy, set. 14, metacarpal bones of ring and index and middle fingers and thumb of right hand were swollen to such a degree that oval, hard, knobby masses of uniform surface were formed; joints obliterated and immovable for the past six months.

These parts were, at various points, divested of their skin by ulcerated surfaces, under which the bones gave a rough sound to the probe, and places were found here and there which could easily be penetrated, and others again which offered resistance.

The boy had no appetite, and was kept at work by a potter, carrying clay.

Great pain in the suffering parts, drowsiness during the day, lassitude and depression.

According to the doctrines of surgery, there was no other help but disarticulation at the wrist, with a loss of the right hand, since only the little finger and its metacarpal bone seemed free from the disease.

Siliceas, five drops every two hours.

In eight days the superficial ulcers began to cicatrize and the tuberous formations had manifestly decreased in extent.

After fourteen days more the joints were already movable, though the mobility was very much re- stricted.

After another fortnight all the concomitant symptoms which had been present disappeared, appetite returned, boy was lively and of good cheer, and discharged cured.

discharge from a minute opening, and the flesh was much swollen and dis- colored at the place, causing the finger to present a very unpleasant appear- ance.

A physician had, after treating it unsuccessfull}', advised amputation of the finger, but the family, not desiring this result of the trouble, decided to try other remedies.

Gave her Silicea^, in solution, which produced im- provement at once, and in a few weeks cured the disease in the bone, and the finger resumed its natural appearance, except a slight scar.

( C.

T.

M. )

Dr.

C.

F.

Nichols reports a number of cases of osseous growths cured and benefited by Calcarea fluor?1 {Organon, 1880.)

Slow Union of Fracture

Man, aet. 60, had a fracture of the shaft of the femur.

It remained movable, in spite of great care, after two months.

Calcarea phos.6 was given, at first every night; later every second night.

At once the fracture grew firm and was soon well.

This is certainly better than instrumental interference.

Eighteen months later, the same femur sustained another fracture in its lower portion.

The drug was given in like manner as before, but from the beginning.

It was well in two months.

(J.

C.

Morgan, M.

D.)

In the case of a poor orphan girl, set. 14, Silicea saved her from having her foot amputated.

She had been under treatment a long time for bone disease.

Her medical man saw no alternative, as the evil only grew worse, but to make arrangements with the infirmary surgeon to have it taken off.

This was agreed on, six days before removing her.

Her friends were greatly distressed and applied for the new remedies.

Silicea, a. dose every hour, was steadily taken, and lotion on lint externally applied.

On the fifth day the ankle-bone and surrounding tissues presented such a healthy appearance that all cause for amputation was removed.

She continued the treatment for a short time longer, and her case was pronounced perfectly cured.

(M.

Kali phos

Softening of the brain, early state ; if with hydrocephalus, give also Calcarea phos.

Softening as a result of inflammation, insidious in its approach.

Concussion of brain.

Putrid stools.

Sleeplessness and stupor.

Magnesia phos

When convulsive symptoms are present.

Troubles of sight remaining after cerebral concussion.

Calcarea phos

Hydrocephalic conditions.

Chronic hydro- cephalus.

Fontanelles remain too long open.

Craniotabes.

Natrum sulph

After injuries to the head.

Mental troub- les following.

Intense pain in occipital region.

J.

C.

Morgan, in the Transactions Pennsylvania Homceopathic Medical Society, 1882, p. 172, reports some cases of brain troubles in children in which convulsive symptoms were prominent, benefited and cured by Mag- nesia phos.m. ,

The following is from an elderl}- gentleman, Mr.

J.

M., who had suffered from a prolonged attack of acute and subacute inflammation of the brain.

He recovered slowly, but symptoms of softening of the brain set in.

He was anxious to give the new remedies a trial.

His speech was affected; he seemed to lose momentary consciousness, could not hurry, though he saw himself in great danger of being run over, or stop walking when dangerously close to the quay, and could not be trusted out alone: " I think it is time I were again informing you that I still continue to improve; indeed, I have little to complain of except occasionally — only occasionally — a feeling of mental stupor, the best remedy for which I have found to be Kali phos. which you recommended to me." (M.

D.

W., from Schiissler. )

Silicea

Confusion, difficulty of fixing attention.

Yielding and anxious mood.

Reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to think.

Sense of great debility, but patient can arouse him- self, has grit, but soon tires and is compelled to rest.

Brain- fag in school girls, become confused during recitations, be- cause they cannot concentrate their thoughts.

Want to think, but are unable to do so.

Kali phos

To restore lost nervous energy.

Covers the whole field of neurasthenia.

In treating a number of cases of this trouble, the "Tissue Remedies" have been of the greatest service and the most rapid in their curative action.

Cases which have been treated with various other methods and then changed on to the Tissue Remedies soon show the marked change for the better and take on a more rapid improvement.

The great variety of causes and the

different styles and conditions in which you first find the patients precludes any set rule in treatment, but the prime and allimportant condition to estab- lish is proper nourishment to every part and tissue, and then to apply by the use of tissue remedies the most necessary demands.

In order to supply the proper nourishment it may be necessary for the patient to have change of surroundings, happy occupation, change of air, scenery and food and then to build up with the Tissue Remedies the tissues or forces that have been overtaxed, overworked or under nourished and more or less exhausted.

A regular method should be established — regular exercise, regular meals, reg- ular sleep and regular evacuations of the bowels and bladder.

These are important.

Usually Kali phos. is a good remedy to start with, it gets the mind in goo<l condition, and aided by Calc. phos., Ferrum phos or Natr. phos., dependent on condition, soon begins the improvement.

Then follow with the Calc. sulph as soon as the Phos. has built up the nerve cells, and the Sulph. is needed to finish up the work which may take from three months to two years or more, but can be done as positively with these reme- dies and the proper application of hygiene as it is possible to cure any dis- ease in the domain of curative measures.

(F.

D.

Bittinger, M.

D , Dayton, Ohio.)

at 5 p.

M. every day, after lamp is lighted Eyes water with the twitching.

Has dread of an accident until a shudder passes over the body; is then relieved of the nervousness.

Feels weak, is often dizzy.

In walking on the street steers for the gutter, either to right or left.

Despondent, had chorea when twelve years old, lasting two years.

At seventeen had sense of dread at intervals for some months.

Prescribed Kali phosphoricum 4x, one grain tablet, four times daily.

Jan. 30th mental state and dizziness improved.

Remedy repeated.

Did not return

Drops things, especially if startled.

Difficult speech, irritable, rest- less, constipated, sleep poor.

Been nervous since seven years of age, at which time he was kicked in the back.

After treatment for two years he was much better.

Salt water bath down spine had benefited him.

Last attack one month ago.

June 8th, has none of the above symptoms; the spine was bathed with salt water at first, but that measure was discontinued over five weeks ago.

( T.

C.

Wiggins.)

A Japanese laborer complained that he could not see after 4 p. m.

He could see large objects, as a tree or a man, but could not tell whether he was hoeing out sugar cane or weeds.

Learning that he did not notice such a condition on Sundays or holidays, I concluded that fatigue was the cause of his trouble, and put him on Kali phosphoricum 6x, with most gratifying im- provement in two or three days.

Soon he ceased to call.

( T.

C.

Wiggins. )

strain for months, was suddenly s'ricken the afternoon of August 14, 1893.

He became unconscious in a store where he had gone for help.

I saw him the next day and he was evidently on the verge of prostration.

I advised him to give up business and go away for at least a month.

He could only leave the city for the rest of the week but that, with Kali phosphoricum 6x, helped him to go on with his business, till he could go away for a longer stay, which was some weeks later.

He said, " The medicine braced me up wonderfully."

When the patient came, in company with his wife, we found the case an unpromising one.

He was past sixty years of age, of careworn appearance, despondent, and presenting marked evidence of nervous exhaustion.

There was no paralysis, however, and no evidence of any loss of motor or sensory function, and upon making the effort we found he could call into use all his reasoning faculties.

He complained of sleepless nights from lancinating pains in the left chest and left side of the face.

The prescription was Kali phos. 3X, to restore lost nervous energy, and Magnesia phos. for the spasmodic pains.

Add five grains to a tumbler half full of water, each agent to be dissolved in a separate glass, and alternating give a teaspoonful every hour during the day, and until bedtime.

In about a week the patient returned for more medicine, and marked improvement was observable.

The careworn, despondent appearance of countenance had more of an expression of comfort and hope.

He said he was better; had felt

but one spasmodic attack since beginning the medicine, and could now go about and do light chores without becoming exhausted, and slept well all night.

In another week his wife reported him as well as ever

Editor California Medical Journal.

Ferrum phos

Takes the place of Aeon, in the acute in- flammatory stage, or in chronic bronchitis when a fresh ag- gravation sets in.

It should be given in alternation with the remedy indicated by the expectoration.

Any inflammatory irritation of the bronchi, accompanied with dyspnoea, heat, or burning soreness.

Breathing short, oppressed and hurried.

Capillary bronchitis of young children.

Acute, short, spasmodic and very painful cough.

Kali sulph

When the expectoration is distinctly yellow, watery and profuse, or where it is greenish, slimy and watery.

In the stage of resolution.

Natrum mur

Acute inflammation of the windpipe, with frothy and clear watery phlegm, loose and rattling, sometimes coughed up with difficulty.

Chronic bronchitis, bronchial catarrh, " winter cough," with any of the above symptoms.

Clear, watery, starch-like sputa.

Secretion causes soreness and excoriation.

Chronic forms, when sputum is transparent, viscid, weak voice, fluttering of heart.

Patient is worse near the seashore.

Calcarea sulph

Where expectoration is yellow, or yellow- ish green, or mixed with blood, stage of resolution.

Third stage of bronchitis.

Ordinary catarrhal colds and in cases similar to those benefited by Hepar sulph.

Natrum sulph

Where exudation causes soreness and chaf- ing.

Patient must hold his chest on coughing.

Asthmatic spells worse towards morning.

Worse in cold, damp, rainy weather.

drinks.

Pus-like expectoration, falls to bottom of vessel con- taining water and spreads out like sediment.

Bronchial affec- tions of rachitic children.

Laryngeal morning cough.

Kali mur

Burns of the first degree, also those of the second.

Blisters form, also scalds from boiling water.

Can be applied externally.

White or grayish exudation over wound.

Dr.

J.

T.

Frawley, of Cleveland, O., uses Ferrum phos. 2x as a powder to dust over burns in which there is much heat and redness.

Ferrum phos

First stage of cold in the head, with circu- latory disturbances, catarrhal fever, congestion of nasal mu- cous membranes.

Smarting in nasal passages, worse inspira- tion ; excellent for a predisposition to take cold, alternately with Calcarea phos.

" Ferrum phos. 3X in pharyngeal ca- tarrh, with characteristic white, frothy expectoration, has never disappointed me." (W.

R.

King.)

Kali mur

Catarrh when there is white phlegm, thick, not transparent.

Dry coryza.

Stuffy cold in the head, with a whitish-gray tongue.

Adherent crusts in the vault of the pharynx.

" I use it often with profit in the purulent stage of acute nasal catarrh.

Kali -mur. has proved to me the most satisfactory remedy in acute inflammations of the naso- pharynx in which there is a decided burning dryness.

The appearance is that of redness with marked thickening, almost

Calcarea fluor

Catarrh with expectoration of yellowish, small lumps.

Dry coryza.

Stuffy cold in the head (alter- nately with Kali mur.), with ineffectual desire to sneeze.

Ozaena.

Osseous growths and diseases of nasal bones, with offensive odor of dead bone.

Natrum mur

Catarrhs and colds with watery, transparent, frothy discharges.

Chronic catarrhs of bloodless patients.

The mucus has sometimes a salty taste.

Cold causing vesic- ular eruptions with watery contents, which burst and leave thin crusts or scabs.

Coryza, "running cold," with watery, clear, frothy discharge, worse on going into the cold and on exertion.

Influenza.

Epistaxis from stooping and from coughing.

Posterior nares dry.

Loss of sense of smell.

Dr.

Geo.

Herring finds the i trit. almost infallible for stop- ping a cold commencing with sneezing.

Sneezing worse un- dressing at night and in morning.

Fever blisters.

Kali sulph

Yellow, slimy secretions, or expectorations of watery matter, are conditions calling for this remedy.

Patient feels generally worse in the evening or in a heated room.

Yellow or yellowish discharge from the nose.

Colds with dry skin when perspiration does not set in freely under use of Ferrum phos.

Calcarea phos

Chronic catarrhs and colds in adynamic persons (as an intercurrent remedy).

Colds in the head with an albuminous discharge from nose.

Sneezing and sore nos- trils.

Dr.

L.

A.

Bull says : "I frequently began the treatment of chronic catarrhal conditions of the air-passages with Cal- carea phos.

I find that it has quite a decided tonic action, and influences the conditions of the membranes for good.

In many places it quite takes the place of the Cinchona prepara- tions." Darge pedunculated nasal polypi.

Point of nose icy- cold.

Swollen, ulcerated nose in scrofulous children.

opaque, purulent secretions, frequently tinged with blood.

It clears up the condition of the mucous glands.

Nosebleed.

Natrum phos

As an intercurrent, when gastric symptoms appear, such as acid risings and yellow base of tongue.

Pick- ing at nose.

Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with thick, yellow mucus, especially in the scrofulous oza^na.

Offensive odor before nose.

Natrum sulph

Nosebleed during menses.

Ozaena syphi- litica, worse every change from dry to wet weather.

Catarrhs of mucous membranes in general, characterized by a tendency to profuse secretion of greenish mucus.

This is the tissue remedy for la grippe, since the disease is caused by an excess of water in the cellular fluids.

Kali phos

Ozsena, foul, offensive discharge from nose, foul breath, and where secondary nervous troubles arise.

Epistaxis and predisposition to same.

Yellow crusts blown from nose.

Thick, yellow discharge ; sneezes from slightest exposure.

Thick mucus hawked from posterior nares.

Magnesia phos

Loss or perversion of sense of smell.

Al- ternate dry and loose coryza.

Gushing flow from nostrils.

Silicea

Ozaena, with offensive discharge from nose, when the affection is seated in the submucous connective tissue or periosteum.

(Syringe also with a solution of the same remedy.) Painful, chronic dryness of the nose, or inveterate ulceration, producing acrid, corroding discharge ; herpetic eruption around nostrils and lips.

Itching of tip of nose.

Dr.

H.

Goullon {Pop.

Zeitschrift) praises Natrum phos. in chronic post- nasal catarrh, giving as indications the golden-yellow exudation and yellow tongue, etc., and relates a case cured by Natrum phos.b after Kali bich. had failed, as well as everything else, and the patient had become hypochon- driacal.

Case of thick, yellow, offensive ozsena, alternating with watery discharge; has been affected with it for eighteen months; has lost taste and smell; left nostril worse.

Catamenia occur every three weeks.

Takes cold very easily.

Stillborn child three years ago.

Gave three doses of Kali sulph.u in water, to be taken once a week.

In one month reported catarrh entirely well; has regained much of the lost senses of smell and taste.

( W.

P.

Wesselhceft, M.

D.)

Dr.

Breuer, of Munich, reports a case of suppressed foot-sweat, resulting in protracted bronchial catarrh; cured by Calcarea sulph. and Silicea

A.

H.

Z., 1883.

Case of gentleman, light-complexioned.

About once a week a thick, dark brown semi-fluid accumulation of pus formed in the left upper nostril; on being blown out it emitted a terrible stench.

About a month previous a piece of carious bone was taken from the antrum highmori, through an upper left alveolus, from which a tooth had been drawn four years previous.

The probe entered the antrum freely.

Calcarea, Silicea and several other remedies proved inefficacious.

Three weeks after having taken two doses of Kali sulph.6 in water, morning and evening, a tablespoonful for four days, nothing more remained of the discharge, and the alveolus closed so that no probe entered.

(W.

P.

Wesselhceft, M.

D )

NaTrum muriaTICUM

Dr.

Louis A.

Bull records a case of atrophic rhino- pharyngitis in which the skin was "colorless, dry, fishy in appearance and profusely dotted with comedones, large and small." He was reminded, he says, of Boussingault's experiments in withholding salt from animals, and opined that here was a case in which chloride of sodium was not properly assimilated.

He used it locally in ten grains to the ounce solution, and in- ernally in dynamized form, with most satisfactory results

Horn.

Recorder.

Ferrum phos

In the first stage, for the vascular disturb- ances, alternating with Kali phos.

Cholera infantum, dis- charges frequent, watery, even bloody ; child is greatly re- duced, falls into a stupor, red face, dilated pupils, rolling of head and soft, full-flowing pulse, cholera from checked per- spiration.

Kali phos

When the stools have the appearance of rice- water.

Collapse, livid, blue countenance and low pulse.

Magnesia phos

Choleraic cramps.

First stage.

Watery diarrhoea with vomiting and cramps in calves.

Calcarea phos

Cholera infantum.

Green diarrhoea in

Old man attacked with severe vomiting and diarrhoea, cramps in calves and rice-water discharges.

Kali phos. cured.

(Schussler. )

Calcarea phos

In scrofulous children.

Chorea during puberty in either boys or girls.

Magnesia phos

This is the chief remedy.

Involuntary movements and contortions of the limbs, with mute, appealing looks for sympathy.

Follow or alternate with Calcarea phos.

Natrum phos

If due to worms, or if acid symptoms are present.

(See Silicea.}

Case of chorea; face and upper part of body affected; lateral and down- ward jerking of the mouth, snapping of eyelids, sudden forward motion of head, and other irregular movements.

Better during sleep; aggravated at stool and by emotions, Ignat. failed.

Magnesia phos? for three months pro- duced gratifying results, but did not fully cure.

Acting on Dr.

Schiissler's advice, Calcarea phos . 6x was given alternately with the Magnesia phos., the former once daily, the latter twice.

In one month the child was cured.

(D.

B.

Whittier, M.

D.)

Choreic patient talking to herself constantly, or sitting still in moody silence, or carrying things from one place to another and then back again.

Magnesia phos. n cured.

(Dr.

Sager. )

H.

S., aet. 7.

Chorea for two years, caused by fright; pale, delicate, anaemic, drinks much water, feverish, white tongue, sore mouth.

Natrum mztr.200 cured permanently.

(C.

P.

Hart, M.

D.)

Chorea cured by Magnesia phos

By Dr.

John H.

Clarke

Gertrude

March 30th, 1887.

She had suffered from well-marked chorea during the preceding eight months, and the usual remedies for such conditions had been administered to her as an out-patient during the previous two months, with but small success.

No definite cause was to be made out.

The child did not suffer from worms, and there was no history of a fright.

On admis- sion she twitched all over during her waking hours, but was quiet during sleep.

She walked fairly well and could feed herself, but her speech was exceedingly defective.

The heart's action was accelerated, but no abnor- mal sound was to be distinguished.

Subsequently, however, a soft, pre- systolic, blowing sound was at times audible, as if the muscular fibres of the heart participated in the general spasms.

The pupils were symmetri- cally dilated.

Magnesia phos. was prescribed — two grains of the sixth decimal trituration, three times daily.

The improvement which followed was slow, but abundantly manifest.

The general twitching became less; the articulation improved, the child took nourishment freely; slept well at night, and lost the scared expression so characteristic of the complaint.

By May 17th no vestige of the chorea remained.

On being directed to stand up, close the eyes, and hold the arms extended, she did so without difficulty.

Subjected to the difficult test of walking blindfolded, she came through triumphantly.

Lastly her powers of speech had so much improved that, whereas on her admission the meaning of her utterances was a matter of pure conjecture, by this date her remarks were quite intelligible.

Thus within seven weeks this obstinate case of a very troublesome disease yielded completely to Magnesia phos. — one of Schiissler's so-called "tissue reme- dies." No other medicine was given

Horn.

World, July, 1887.

Magnesia phos

Flatulent colic of children, with drawing up of legs.

Colic forcing the patient to bend double; eased by friction, warmth and belching of gas.

Colic in umbilical region.

Muscular contractions.

Remittent colic, crampy pain.

" Colic of newborn infants.

I use it in almost every case with absolute, invariable, prompt and complete success ; 30th potency." (J.

C.

Morgan, M.

D.) Colicky babies when they cry half the time ; no interference with nutrition.

Gall- stone colic.

Natrum sulph

Flatulent colic starting in right groin.

Bilious colic, with bitter taste in the mouth and grayish or brownish-green coating at the root of the tongue.

In lead colic this remedy should be given frequently in the ix or 2x trituration.

Pain in abdomen and small of back as if bruised.

Much flatulence.

Incarceration of flatus.

Flatulent complaints after confinement, with constipation.

Kali sulph

Pains resembling colic.

Abdomen feels cold to touch ; sometimes caused by great heat, from excitement and sudden coldness ; shortly after, gas escaping smells like sulphur ; if Magnesia phos. fail.

Kali phos

Colic in hypogastrium, with ineffectual urging to stool ; better bending double.

Abdomen distended with gas.

Natrum mur. — "In cases of bilious colic presenting the belching of Carbo veg. and the pains of Diosc. and Coloc.

I have found Natrum mur. to do excellent service." (C.

E.

Fisher.)

Woman, aet. 50, suffered for two years from gastralgia and enteralgia, attacks lasting several days; at each attack vomiting of a fluid as sour as vinegar.

Two allopaths had treated her in vain, diagnosing the affection as cancer of the stomach and wandering kidney.

My diagnosis was oversecre- tion of lactic acid.

Natrum phos.

Improvement set in in two days, and in a few weeks was entirely cured.

(Schiissler. )

Case of lady with bilious colic.

Was sent for in the night, and for par- ticular reasons did not go.

I, however, sent what I thought would relieve her.

Early in the morning her husband was again at my office, saying she was no better, but suffering terribly.

I gave him a different remedy, to be administered until I could get there.

About half past nine I arrived at the house, and found her still suffering excruciating pains.

Ascertaining she had vomited bile, and had a very bitter taste in her mouth all the time, I administered a powder of Natrum sulph. in a little water.

In about two minutes after taking it she said she was considerably relieved for the first time since eleven o'clock in the night.

In about five minutes she had a free movement from the bowels, and she continued to improve, and was up and about the next morning.

days to one week.

More than a year ago it was ascertained that the pain generally commenced i?i the right groin and thence spread over the whole abdomen.

Natrum sulph. was given, the attack yielded immediately, and though he has had several threatenings, he has had no colic since

Hering's

Note — No purging need be resorted to.

Constipation occurs frequently in consequence of some primary disturbance.

Ivook for the symptoms of this.

The proper remedy will make the bowels move.

(Schiissler.)

Kali mur

Constipation accompanied by a white-coated tongue, also when fat and pastry disagree.

Torpid liver, light-colored stools through want of bile from sluggish liver.

Kali phos

Stools dark brown, streaked with yellowish- green mucus.

Paretic condition of rectum and colon.

Natrum mur

Torn, bleeding, smarting feeling after stool.

Constipation with much intestinal weakness, and when aris- ing from want of moisture.

Dryness of the mucous linings of the bowels, with watery secretions in the other parts ; watery vomiting, watery eyes, excess of saliva in the mouth or on the tongue.

Drowsiness and waterbrash.

Stools are hard, dry and difficult to pass.

Accompanied by headache.

Hemor- rhoidal constipation.

Proctalgia.

Pain in abdominal rings.

" Constipation of fleshy people, especially those with weak hearts." (Frawley.)

Natrum phos

Obstinate constipation.

Habitual constipa- tion with occasional attacks of diarrhoea in young children.

This remedy is an admirable laxative when administered with the food of infants.

Dose, 5 to 10 grains three times daily for a six-months' old child.

Natrum sulph

Hard, knotty stools streaked with blood, preceded and accompanied by smarting at the anus ; difficult expulsion of soft stool ; emission of fetid flatus in large quan- tities.

(Strong.)

Ferrum phos

Constipation with heat in the lower bowel, caused by atony of muscular fibres of intestines.

" Ferrum phos. is indicated in obstinate constipation with prolapsus ani and piles, associated with anaemia ; face pale, readily flushing, cold hands and feet, palpitation, persistent chilliness, flatu- lence and fulness of epigastrium, with great aversion to meat diet." (Donaldson.)

Silicea

Rectum seems to have lost the power of expul- sion.

Faeces recede after having been partly expelled.

Sore- ness, stitches and shooting pain in anus.

Constipation asso- ciated with chronic scrofulous and suppurative diseases.

Con- stipation of poorly nourished children with pale, earthy face.

Copious perspiration around head, accompanying paralytic diseases.

Mrs.

H., aet. 26, mother of three children; constipation since birth of last child, three months ago.

Cathartics had failed.

The stools were hard and dry, were partially expelled with much straining, and then receded into the rectum.

Silieea30 cured in four doses, taken night and morning.

(I.

P.

Johnson.)

Dr.

Gross, the pupil of Hahnemann, relates a very remarkable case of chronic constipation cured with Natrum mur.w The patient, a boy, set. 11, born of scrofulous parents, has an idiotic brother; patient himself mute and almost an idiot.

The poor creature suffered with constipation from birth.

Would go three to four weeks without stool.

After a course of Natrum mur.so the constipation was entirely cured.

(Full report of the case found in Strong's Constipation, p. 72.)

Ferrum phos

Acute, painful, short, tickling cough.

Short, sore, tickling cough from irritation of the windpipe.

Short, dry, spasmodic cough, with feeling of soreness in the lungs, no expectoration.

Cough hard and dry, with soreness from cold.

Cough, with rattling of mucus in chest, worse at night.

Kali mur

Loud, noisy stomach-cough, with grayish-white tongue.

Short, acute and spasmodic, like whooping-cough, requires this remedy.

Noisy cough with protruded appear- ance of the eyes and white or gray-coated tongue.

Croupy, hard cough.

Child grasps at throat during coughing spell.

Persistent, croupy-like hoarseness.

Cough with thick, milky- white, gluey albuminoid phlegm.

Cough in consumption with thick, milky-white expectoration, or white-coated tongue.

Kali phos

Cough from irritation in the trachea which feels sore.

Expectoration thick, yellow, salty, and fetid, chest sore.

Kali sulph

Cough with yellow expectoration or watery matter.

Worse in a heated room or in the evening.

Mucus slips back and is generally swallowed ; hard, hoarse cough like croup, weary feeling in the pharynx.

Magnesia phos

True spasmodic cough coming on in fits, paroxysms ; without expectoration, spasmodic cough at night, with difficulty upon lying down.

Whooping cough.

Patients refer the spasm to the pit of the throat.

The lungs are sore from the strain of coughing.

In dry cough in nervous chil- dren this remedy should always be thought of.

Calcarea fluor

Cough with expectoration of tiny, yellow, tough lumps of mucus.

Cough with tickling and irritation in the throat on lying down, from elongation of the uvula, or dropping at the back of the throat.

Calcarea phos

Cough with expectoration of albuminous matter, not watery.

In cough of consumptives as an inter- current remedy.

Suffocative cough in children, better lying down.

Natrum mur

Cough with excess of watery secretions.

In consumption with watery sputa, tasting salty, winter cough.

Stitches in liver with cough.

Dry, short cough, day and night, from irritation in pit of stomach.

Natrum sulph

Cough with a sensation of all-goneness in the chest.

Muco-pus, thick, ropy and yellowish-green ex- pectoration ; must press upon chest to relieve soreness and weakness.

Silicea

Cough provoked by cold drinks.

Soreness and weak- ness of chest relieved by warm, moist air.

Laryngeal, morning cough with tough expectoration.

Dyspnoea on stooping or lying on back.

Expectoration of profuse, yellowish-green pus of greasy taste and offensive odor.

Suffocative night-cough.

(Lilienthal.)

Dr.

J.

A.

Biegler reports in the Trans.

I.

H.

A. 1888, a case of subacute laryngitis cured by Kali phos.30.

The prescription was given " as a forlorn hope," because the case came late under treatment, with weakness, pale, bluish face, etc Speech slow, becoming inarticulate, creeping paralysis, and because Grauvogl says: "We know that the oxidation processes, the changes of gases in the respiration, and other chemical transformations in the blood, are brought about by the presence of Kali phos."

Dr.

F.

W.

Southworth reports two cases of spasmodic cough, promptly re- lieved by Magnes. phos. 4X and 6x respectively, the leading indications being its spasmodic character, worse on lying down and at night, and on breathing cold air; better on sitting up; tightness across the chest.

The second case had spurting of urine when coughing.

Dr.

Fisher was consulted by a lady {enciente) who was suffering from a cough which caused great inconvenience, as with every cough there was emission of urine.

Ferrum phos. cured her very speedily.

A short time ago the lady under similar circumstances was again troubled with a cough.

Ferrum phos. this time also cured her as speedily.

(From Schiissler. )

Kali mur

Is the principal remedy for the membranous exudation, alternating with Ferrum phos.

The chief remedy in false croup.

Calcarea fluor

If Ferrum phos. and Kali mur. do not suffice.

The chief remedy in true croup.

Calcarea phos

Useful if the foregoing fail to act.

"Suffo- cative attacks on lifting up the child from the cradle.

After nursing, after crying, or being raised from the cradle, breath- ing ceases, the head turns backward, the face is blue, there is fighting with hands and feet; after the attack great laxation." (Bradford.)

Magnesia phos

Spasmodic closure of the windpipe.

Sud- den shrill voice ; suffocative cough.

Calcarea sulph

Useful after the exudation stage when, after the hard membrane has been softened, there exists a tough mucus in the throat causing much discomfort.

It will change the croupous to a catarrhal cough, and when given in season will sometimes prevent exudation.

D.

R., a boy, aet. 7, who took spurious croup when there was a sharp, keen, northeast wind, having had a few years before a very severe attack of true croup; this past autumn had again an attack, with fever, and a loud, barking cough.

Aeon, and liver of sulphur, which have been recommended by so many authors against spurious croup, produced no change whatever, so that I prepared myself, in the case of this boy, for a continuance of the affection, as usual, for several days.

The nights especially were very rest- less, with much coughing, rough and hard, so that his relatives were very anxious.

There were dry heat and great oppression present.

I exchanged my Hepar sulph. for Kali mur., and gave every two hours a full dose.

After a few doses the cough became loose, lost completely the barking sound, and the whole of the following night my little patient slept quietly, so that on the following morning he awoke, able to get up, quite lively and well.

(Schiissler )

In croup, do not be afraid of high potencies; they often do much better than the low.

(E.

H.

H.)

Ferrum phos

When there is present high fever.

Natrum mur

Delirium occurring at any time, with start-

ing of the body, wandering delirium with muttering ; frothy tongue.

Delirium tremens.

Chief remedy; if it does no good give Kali phos.

Kali phos

Delirium tremens ; the horrors of drunkards, fear, sleeplessness, restlessness and suspiciousness, rambling talk, endeavors to grasp or avoid imaginary objects and images.

Give alternately with Natrum mur., as this remedy restores the normal consistency of the brain substance which is disturbed in this disease.

I was consulted by the relatives of a man suffering from delirium tremens.

I ordered Natrum mur.

A complete cure followed speedily.

Natrum mur. is the principal remedy, as delirium tremens is caused by a disturbance of the balance of the molecules of the Natrum mur. and molecules of water in some portion of the brain.

(Schiissler. )

Magnesia phos

Convulsions in teething without fever, in alternation with Ferrum phos.

"In convulsive cases, where Bellad. seems indicated, but does no good, spasmodic colic, loose bowels, this is a magnificent remedy." (J.

C.

Morgan, M.

D.)

Calcarea phos

The chief remedy in teething disorders.

If they appear too late it should be given to hasten develop- ment.

It is the remedy for troublesome ailments during den- tition.

Especially useful in flabby, emaciated children with open posterior fontanelles.

Child does not learn to walk or forgets to walk and loses flesh.

Has a sputtering, pus-like diarrhoea and vomiting.

Calcarea fluor

This remedy also greatly facilitates denti- tion.

Vomiting during dentition.

Malnutrition of the bones, especially the teeth.

" Spasms, commencing by holding breath, incessant crying and momentary loss of consciousness." (Dr.

J.

W.

Ward.)

Case of vomiting of food and drink during dentition, undigested diarrhoea, curdled milk, with green specks in it, much offensive flatus.

During sleep head wets pillow, head small.

Calcarea phos} cured.

(Raue, Record, 1873.)

Dentition

Child 18 months old; hot skin, cheeks highly flushed, spark- ling eyes, pupils dilated, and extreme restlessness and irritability.

Ferr. phos. 6x trit., in water every hour.

The first dose had a decided quieting effect, the child going to sleep shortly after taking it and the cheeks becom- ing much less flushed.

A few repetitions of the remedy entirely removed all the dental irritation.

(Wilde. )

I have had many cases of that troublesome affection with children that I have easily cured with Magnes. phos. and Calc. phos.

For the benefit of young practitioners, I will add that I generally prevent the recurrence of that trouble by treating the mother in the following manner: As soon as I see one of my regular patients having reached the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy, every morning and evening I order the pregnant woman to take a dose of Calc. phos. 3X trit.

The results that I have obtained are: first, to prevent the usual decay of the mother's teeth; and, second, to see her off- spring cutting teeth sooner and without any trouble.

(E.

A. de Cailhol, M.

D.)

Natrum sulph

This is the chief remedy.

Schiissler gives as a special reason for its use deficiency of the pancreatic secre- tion.

Kali mur

Excessive and sugary urine.

Great weakness and somnolence.

Calcarea phos

Polyuria, with weakness, much thirst, dry mouth and tongue ; flabby, sunken abdomen ; craves bacon and salt.

Glycosuria when lungs are implicated.

Lactic acid is composed of Carbonic acid and water, and must be split up on its way to the lungs.

This is done by the catalytic action of Sodium phosphate in the blood.

Any deficiency of Sodium phosphate will cause a disturbance in the water in the system by allowing an excess of Lactic acid to accumulate.

Nature in her effort to eliminate the water produces the symptoms called diabetes.

The treatment, therefore, for diabetes mellitus is : the Phosphates of sodium, Iron and Potassium, and the Sulphate of sodium.

For the great functional disturbance of nerve centers caused by the demand made on the blood for the Potassium phosphate, producing sleeplessness and voracious hunger, Potassium phosphate is 'the infallible remedy.

It establishes nor- mal functional action of the medulla oblongata and pneumogastric nerve, which latter acts on stomach and lungs.

P"or the great thirst, emaciation, and despondency, give Sodium chloride.

It equally distributes the water in the system and quickly restores the normal condition.

In my opinion, diet cuts but little figure in the treatment of diabetes, ex- cept as to the amount of food taken.

The main object is have the food digest.

Diabetic patients should never overeat; better eat six times daily than overeat once.

Dr.

E.

B.

Rankin reports a case of diabetes insipidus improving under Natrum phos. 6x, in thirst, appetite and general strength, also in quantity of urine.

However, no permanent result was obtained in this case

South- ern Journal of Homoeopathy, April, 1886.

I have had occasion to treat many cases of that affection that I consider of a nervous origin.

The treatment that has always succeeded with me has invariably been Natrum sulph. and Magnesia phos. 6x trit. ; the length of treatment has been from forty-eight hours to a week; one dose of each of these salts in alternation every hour.

(E.

A. de Cailhol, M.

D.)

Mrs.

M., aged 42, consulting me, declared that she passed nearly four gallons of urine in twenty-four hours; its specific gravity was 1.040.

I learned from her that the disease originated from a nervous shock (conjugal onanismus).

I cured that disease in three months with Natr. sulph., Natr. phos., Kali phos. and Magnes. phos., given according to the symptoms that I had to fight against.

Having seen her three years after, the cure was per- fect and no sign of relapse.

(E.

A. de Cailhol, M.

D.)

Ferrum phos

Diarrhoea from a relaxed state of the villi, or absorbents of the intestines not taking up the usual amount of moisture.

Stools of undigested food, brought on by a chill beginning with fever.

Prolapsus recti.

" Pain non-intermit- tent.

Diarrhoea copious, watery, sudden, painful, often ac- companied by vomiting." (Guilbert.) Diarrhoea in children, stools watery, mucous, green and frequent ; child rolls its head and groans ; face pinched, eyes half opened ; urine scanty, pulse and respiration quickened, starting in sleep.

Stools undigested ; the skin is hot and dry, and there is thirst.

Dentition.

Kali mur

Diarrhoea after fatty food, pastry, etc.

Evacu- ations light colored, pale yellow, ochre or clay-colored stools.

Diarrhoea in typhoid fever; stools like pale yellow ochre.

Kali phos

Foul diarrhoea, often accompanied by other diseases, to heal the conditions causing putrid evacuations.

Diarrhoea of strong odor, occasioned by fright and other simi- lar causes.

Diarrhoea with depression and exhaustion of the nerves, with or without pain.

Evacuations like rice water.

Prolapsus recti.

Tympanites.

Stools putrid, like rice water, bloody, carrion-like odor.

Noisy, offensive flatus.

Profuse, painless and imperative stool while eating, followed by unsat- isfied urging.

Rectum burns and feels sore ; prolapsed.

Natrum mur

Diarrhoea with watery, slimy, frothy stools.

Transparent, glairy slime, excessive use of salt.

" Natrum mur. is chiefly used for chronic diarrhoea of children.

The emaciation of the neck, the greasy appearance of the face, and the peculiar desires and aversions furnish the leading indica- tions." (Bell &Daird.) Slimy coating of tongue with minute bubbles of saliva on tip.

Natrum phos

Itching, sore and raw anus.

Stools white or green from deficient bile.

Diarrhoea caused by excess of acidity ; stools sour smelling, green, with yellow, creamy coat- ing of tongue.

Vomiting of sour fluid, curdy masses.

Sum- mer diarrhoea connected with a lack of digestive power, in which the stools are either clay-colored or habitually greenish.

Also, where there is habitual constipation with occasional at- tacks of diarrhoea, in young children.

" Jelly-like masses of mucus, painful straining, coagulated casein, scanty and fre- quent." (Guilbert.) Diarrhoea from bad methods in feeding.

Natrum sulph

Diarrhoea ; stools watery, dark, bilious, or of green bile.

" This is one of the most frequently indicated remedies in cases of chronic diarrhoea, where the loose morn- ing stool is the leading symptom.

The flatulent symptoms are very characteristic, but not necessarily present.

Aggrava- tion in damp weather.

Green diarrhoea in scarlatina.

Wart- like eruptions on arms and between thighs.

Chronic heredi- tary looseness of bowels in old women." (Bell & Daird.)

Kali sulph

Diarrhoea yellow, slimy or watery, purulent stools.

Yellow coating of tongue, especially at root.

Symp- toms of cholera, cramps, etc.

Black, thin, offensive stools.

Calcarea sulph

Diarrhoea purulent, mixed with blood, with clay-colored tongue.

In typhus ; from maple sugar and change of weather.

Calcarea phos

Diarrhoea in teething children, as an inter- current or alternate remedy.

Intercurrently in consumption of the bowels.

One of our most valuable remedies for the diarrhoea of scrofulous and rachitic children.

Green, slimy, undigested diarrhoea.

Stool is hot, watery, profuse, offensive, noisy and sputtering.

Magnesia phos

Stools watery, expelled with force, with griping pains in the bowels, flatulent colic relieved by draw- ing up the limbs, or hot applications.

Vomiting and cramp in calves of legs.

Pain at intervals.

Chronic diarrhoea in old maid, set. 75, of years' standing, cured by Ferrum phos.

(W.

P.

W.)

Morning diarrhoea on rising; sudden urging, gushing, accompanied with flatulence.

The stool splatters all over the vessel.

Natrmn sulph. cm. cured.

(C.

Lippe.)

An old man was attacked by a severe vomiting and diarrhoea, accom- panied by exceedingly painful cramp in the calves.

Evacuations had the appearance of rice-water.

I undertook the treatment about six hours after the beginning of the attack, and one dose of Kali phos. effected a cure.

The speedy cure of this case of choleraic diarrhoea would justify the belief that Kali phos. is a specific against cholera.

(Schiissler.)

Dr.

Goullon relates a case of chronic diarrhoea of two years' standing.

Stools of mushy consistence, coated tongue, cured with Calcarea sulph

Allg.

Horn.

Zeit.

Among the first cases in which I tried these remedies was a negro child, about two months old.

The following are about the symptoms presented: Painful diarrhoea, constant rolling of the head, eyes turned up, tongue brownish-vellow, no desire to nurse for some time.

The mother said it had

been sick for a week, and she had been giving it different things; but as it got worse, she called me.

I told her I was afraid there was little chance for its recovery, but I would do what I could for it.

Prescribed Magnesia phos. and Calcarea phos. in alternation, every fifteen minutes.

This was about nine or ten o'clock a. m.

I returned about three o'clock p. m., to see if it were still alive, and to my astonishment found it better.

It had ceased rolling its head, eyes were natural, had nursed once or twice, and was sleep- ing.

Ordered the medicine to be continued at longer intervals.

The next morning it was considerably better.

At this visit I found the tongue cov- ered with a thick white coating, and the mouth sore.

I now prescribed Kali mur., the remedy for this condition, in place of the Calcarea phos., to be alternated with the Magnesia phos. every hour.

The next day the tongue was clear, and after leaving a few more powders, to be continued for a day or two longer, the case was dismissed.

(E.

H.

H.)

Dr.

T.

F.

Allen cured a case of chronic diarrhoea in an old lady, with morning aggravation on beginning to move, with Nalrum sulph. -jx.

(N.

A.J.

H.)

Calcarea phos

Diphtheritic exudation spreading to the trachea.

Such a complication is very rare when the Tissue Remedies are used exclusively.

A white speck or patch re- mains after the main exudation has come off.

Kali phos

In the well-marked, malignant, gangrenous condition, patient exhausted, prostrate.

Also for the after- effects of diphtheria, such as weakness of sight, nasal speech or paralysis in any part of the body, squinting, etc.

The putrid character is well marked, as seen by the putrid-smelling odor from mouth.

Natrum mur

Diphtheria, if the face be puffy and pale with heavy drowsiness ; watery stools, flow of saliva or vomiting of watery fluid.

Dryness of the tongue, stertorous breathing, etc.

The use of Natrum mur. must be discontinued with the dis- appearance of these symptoms.

Note

Under no circumstances should other remedies, such as lime water, carbolic acid, iced water, etc., be used along with these remedies, because they may interfere with the proper action of these salts.

(Schiissler.)

companied with the utmost effort, and there was exceeding prostration.

Kali mur.6 every two hours.

The following day there was a marked im- provement, and in four days every vestige of the throat trouble had disap- peared, and the child recovered rapidly under Calcarea phos.

(W.

M.

Pratt, M.

D., North American Journal of Homoeopathy, May, 1883.)

Last summer I had a case of diphtheria that was a little out of the usual order.

I saw the case on Saturday, July 21.

It looked like a simple ulcer- ated sore throat, and I prescribed Calc. sulp/i. and told the mother that if she was not better in the afternoon to let me know.

When I got home, about four o'clock, she and her father were at my office.

I found her quite feverish and her speech considerably muffled.

I examined her throat care- fully and found a distinct grayish patch on each tonsil.

I now prescribed Ferrum phos. and Kali mur. in alternation.

About nine o'clock I called and found that she was evidently not relieved in any way whatever.

She now complained of something continually coming into her throat.

I thought perhaps it was waterbrash and gave a few doses of Natrum phos., but to no effect.

Continued the first remedies through the night.

The next morning much worse.

The membrane had spread considerably and the tonsils were much enlarged.

The rising of mucus in the throat continued.

Saw her three times on Sunday.

Gave her lower potencies.

Left her at night on 3X.

Monday morning the mother met me with tears in her eyes and wanted to know if I had not better call another physician.

Found her very ill indeed.

It flashed upon me that the constant welling-up of mucus in the throat is a symptom of Natrum sulph.

I consequently gave it alone in the 200 (B & T. ) potency, and in a few hours there was a decided change for the better.

In a few days she was well.

(E.

H.

H.)

In fourteen cases of diphtheria the biochemic measures left nothing better to be desired, Kali mur. rapidly making a change, the whitish-gray exuda- tion being diminished, shrivelling and coming away with the gargle and mouth-wash made with Kali mur., also occasional doses of Ferrum phos.

The treatment worked splendidly.

In three cases the patients labored under prostration from the first, and Kali phos. had to be given intercurrently; in two cases Natrum mur. alternately with Kali mur., the chief remedy.

In the latter cases there existed considerable running of saliva, heavy drowsi- ness and watery stools.

No secondary affections resulted, such as frequently arise under ordinary treatment, as paralysis, defective vision, or neuralgia.

(M.

D.

W.)

Case from the practice of Schiissler: In a village a few miles from the town of Oldenberg, a child was taken ill with diphtheria, which at an early stage was complicated by an affection of the larynx.

The child was treated by the ordinary method and died.

Almost at the same time a child of an- other family in the village was attacked by diphtheria with the same com- plication.

The father of the latter child came to me.

I prescribed Kali mur. for the disease in the first instance, and Calcarea phos. for the affec- tion of the larynx, to be taken alternately.

I requested the father to inform me without fail of the result, which he promised to do.

Two days after I received a letter from him, in which he informed me that the child had completely recovered.

In paralysis after diphtheria, I know of no better remedy than Kali phos.

(Dr.

F. from Schiissler.)

i.

Young lady with sore throat, tonsils swollen moderately and quite red, a little feverish.

Ferrum phos.30 every three hours for a day and a half, then paused, being better.

Became worse and sent for me.

Diphtheritic membrane covered the right tonsil.

Ferrum phos?0, as before.

The next day the membrane was nearly all gone, swelling and redness were better.

Continued prescription every four hours.

The following day only a slight vestige of the membrane remained.

Medicine given less often, and the next day was perfectly well.

5, febrile state, glistening, flushed eyes, red cheeks, tonsils red and swollen, especially the right, on which was a tuftlike exudation about its centre and about one-quarter inch in diameter, hanging down, the upper attachment looking blackish next to the tonsils; fetid breath.

Fer- rum phos?0.

The next day the tonsil was clear, but a similar exudation ap- peared on the posterior wall of the pharynx; continued the same remedy every four hours; the following day he was well.

(J.

C.

Morgan, M.

D., Hahnemannian Monthly, vol. vii.)

When it occurs in nervous subjects who, without having any active symptoms of dyspepsia, do not well assimilate the nutritive portion of the food.

Calcarea phos. ix, given after meals, will be found useful.

(C.

R.

Fleury.)

Kali mur

Dropsy arising from heart, liver or kidney affec- tions, when the prominent characteristic symptoms of this remedy are present.

Dropsy from obstruction of bile ducts and enlargement of the liver.

There is generally a white- coated tongue.

Dropsy from weakness of the heart (in alter- nation with Kali pkos.).

Dropsy, with palpitation.

Dropsy in which the liquid drawn off is whitish, or white mucus is deposited in the urine.

Persistent white coating on the tongue.

Hydrocele.

of the body.

Preputial oedema or scrotal oedema.

Gjdema of internal as well as external parts.

Natrum mur

Dropsy and dropsical swellings of any of the subcutaneous areolar tissues of the body.

Anasarca.

Preputial or scrotal oedema.

Calcarea phos

Dropsy from non-assimilation.

Anaemia or loss of blood or vital fluids.

Hydrops genu.

Calcarea fluor

Dropsy caused by heart disease, dilata- tion of any of the cavities.

Hydrocele of long standing.

Scarlatinal dropsy in a child, set 4;

Digital., Apis, Arsen. and Apoc. failed.

Quantity of urine voided in twenty-four hours was very scanty, and during the past forty-eight hours had ceased entirely.

The patient was fear- fully anasarcous.

Reclining position was impossible.

Natrum mur.6 every two hours.

In twenty-four hours the child voided two quarts of urine and a speedy recovery followed.

(W.

M.

Pratt, M.

D. )

A little girl, aet. 9, had recovered from diphtheria and scarlatina rather easily, and was allowed to be in the convalescent room.

Suddenly she began to swell without any apparent cause.

Her face became puffy; the feet also cedematous to above the ankle.

Urine scarcely decreased, contain- ing no albumen.

No pain over the kidneys on pressure.

Pulse somewhat feverish, but appetite, sleep and stools still natural.

I gave three different medicines — amongst these, Aconite — without success.

Dropsy (anasarca et ascites) was increasing rapidly; urine scanty; only very small quantities oc- casionally, being slightly turbid and containing much albumen.

Whether any epithelial sheathings were present was not ascertained.

Kidneys were now more sensitive to pressure.

Occasionally delirious.

Natrum mur. alone cured this case in about a fortnight.

(Dr.

Cohn, from Schiissler. )

Kali mur

Intense pain in the abdomen, cutting as from knives, calls to stool every few minutes, with tenesmus, ex- torting cries, purging with slimy, sanious stools.

In most cases this remedy with Ferrum phos. cures.

Ferrum phos

If affection begins with violent fever, this, with the foregoing remedy, usually suffices for a cure.

If pain is dependent on inflammation making no intervals and increased by pressure.

Never useful if tenesmus is present.

Kali phos

When the stool consists of blood only, and the patient becomes delirious, abdomen swollen, or when stools have a putrid odor.

Putrid, very offensive stools, and great dryness of the tongue.

Prolapsus recti.

Tenesmus after stools.

Magnesia phos

Crampy pains eased by bending double, by warmth, friction or pressure.

Tenesmus and tormina, with constant desire to pass water and go to stool.

Pains in rectum with every stool as from a prolonged spasm of muscles.

Dr.

E.

H.

Holbrook reports a case of dysentery which was greatly relieved by Calcarea sulph. cm.

Turning into a bilious diarrhoea, Natrum sulph. cured.

Lady complaining of extreme tenesmus and tormina, and constant desire to pass water and go to stool.

Every time this pain came on, must rise and bend forward, and the only relief obtained was from hot water.

Magnes. phos. 2c. every 15 minutes cured third dose.

(Dr.

Reed.)

In treating a case of dysentery lately I was at my wits' end to control the terrible pain in defecation.

Merc. cor. suited the case well, and the stools were growing less frequent, but the pain was increasing, being so severe as to cause fainting.

Something had to be done if I held my case.

The pain in the rectum and abdomen was very severe, more in rectum than abdomen.

The tenesmus was like a prolonged spasm of the muscles employed in defe- cation.

I exhibited " Schiissler's " Magnes. phos. in hot water.

A hypo- dermic of morphia could hardly have acted quicker.

The pain was almost entirely relieved by the first dose.

The whole condition changed for the better, and I discharged my case the next day.

In all my experience I

never had a more prompt or pleasing result.

Magnes. phos. is a grand antispasmodic, and fully as reliable as our more frequently used remedies.

I was led to think of it for my case of dysentery by a statemenl made to me by Dr.

E.

E.

Snyder, of Binghampton, N.

Y.

He gave it with equally as prompt results in spasmodic tenesmus vesicae occurring in a case of cystitis resulting from gonorrhoea.

It certainly did me great service.

(H.

K.

Leonard, M.

D. )

Calcarea phos

When during puberty the patient has not been careful, with consequent dysmenorrhoea.

Nympho- mania.

L,abor-like pains before and during catamenia, with violent backache, vertigo, sexual excitement and throbbing headache.

Ferrum phos

Pain at the monthly periods, with flushed face and quick pulse, with vomiting of undigested food, some- times acid taste.

To be taken also as a preventive before the periods if these symptoms are recurrent.

Excessive congestion at the monthly periods, blood bright-red, the vagina dry and sensitive.

Magnesia phos

The chief remedy in ordinary cases of menstrual colic, painful menstruation or pain preceding the flow.

Warmth is soothing ; neuralgic, cramping pains, worse by motion.

Membranous dysmenorrhoea.

Natrum mur

Menses scanty and dark, preceded by frontal headaches ; often subject to fever-blisters on lips, and during summer to urticarious eruptions.

Sore burning in vagina and cutting-burning in the womb.

Great melancholy.

Also, too profuse and too early, with bursting headache, and fre- quent shivering.

Natrum sulph

With colic, menses acrid.

Pinching in abdomen, early in the morning.

Violent epistaxis.

Vulvitis.

Trembling or twitching of the hands and languor of feet.

Silicea

With great coldness.

Icy coldness of the whole body from the commencement of the flow.

Vagina sensitive.

Miss N., aged 19, troubled with pains before and during the first day or so of the flow, which would confine her to bed.

Plethoric, robust and perfectly well in every other way.

Several ten grain powders of Ferrum phos. , to be given in hot water every half hour until the pain was relieved, which oc- curred after the third powder, and then to continue the powders in water every other night before retiring during the next interval with a hot saline sitz bath at least once a week at night.

The menses came all right and have been coming ever since with no return of pain and perfect regularity

F.

D.

Bittinger, M.

D., Dayton, O.

J.

T.

Kent reports a case of dysmenorrhcea of years' standing, cured by Calcarea phos. in two months

Homeopathic Physician, 1884.

Dr.

R.

D.

Belding [N.

Y.

St.

Trans.) reports a case of dysmenorrhcea, of years' standing, characterized by pain and soreness in left hypochondrium going through to right scapula, worse lying on left side, with headache and diarrhoea.

Patient feels best in cool, dry weather, every summer has urti- carious eruptions.

Dreams of robbers, has frequent cold sores on upper lip.

Natrum. mur.m cured.

Dr.

D.

B.

Whittier (in Hahnemannian Monthly, July, 1887) reports sev- eral cases of dysmenorrhcea cured with Kali phos. and Magnesia phos.

Dr.

A.

P.

Davis relates a case of dysmenorrhcea with severe pains in uterus, back and lower limbs; heat applied to abdomen did not relieve; a large dose of Magnes phos. 6x lessened the pain in one-half hour; another dose brought on a free flow.

The pain usually lasted several hours previous to flowing.

The remedy was given as a preventive during several subse- quent months with good effect, and the patient finally cured.

Dr.

Davis regards Magnes. phos. superior to Cimicifiiga in neuralgia of the uterus and in the relief of menstrual pains, and as very useful in uterine engorgement, and gives a case of menorrhagia cured with the 6x.

Kali phos. in Dysmenorrhcea

Dr.

D.

B.

Whittier reports the cure of a dysmenorrhcea of fifteen years' standing (in a highly neurotic and hysteri- cal woman) by a course of Kali phos. continuing over six months, after allo- pathic medicines, and apparently indicated homoeopathic medicines had failed.

Some of the symptoms were: the mammae were so painful that the touch of her clothing was unbearable.

The menstrual pains were cramp- like, with severe bearing down in the hypogastrium, and most severe after the flow commenced.

When the suffering was most intense a sharp, shoot- ing pain would extend from the hypogastrium to the epigastrium, followed by a sensation as if something were flowing up to the stomach, and imme- diately succeeded by a vomiting of bile or frothy, acid substances, sometimes streaked with blood.

The vomiting would relieve the painful distress of the stomach, when the uterine pains would be increased and sometimes con- tinue for twenty-four hours.

A headache, at first general, soon settled over the left eye.

When the headache was severe the pains elsewhere were less- ened, and vice versa.

The first menstrual period following the administra- tion of the Kali phos. was comparatively comfortable

Horn.

Journal of Obstetrics, November.

Dysmenorrhcea that had lasted for some time in which at each menstrual period a membrane was discharged, varying in size from one to two inches long.

The pains came on after the flow began, in the abdomen low down, and were relieved by lying curled up in bed with a hot water bag on the ab- domen.

The pains would last for a day — dull, aching — and next day, or day after a membrane would be passed.

I gave her after one of her menstrual periods Magnes. phos. cm., one dose dry.

The next menstruation was easier somewhat, but not much.

Magnes. phos. in water for two days, night and morning, and the next menstrual period was painless, though she passed the membrane as before.

After that the menses were perfectly painless.

(Dr.

Campbell, in Proceedings of Hahnemannian Association, 1889.)

I had a patient with very severe shooting neuralgic pains during the men- strual period.

The pains were in the stomach and lasted the first day or two.

Commenced in the back and came directly around and centred in the pit of the stomach.

They were relieved by heat and pressure.

Magnes. phos. 10m., one dose, and she had no more pain.

(J.

T.

Kent, M.

D.)

Ferrum phos

Inflammatory earache from cold, with burn- ing, throbbing pain.

Sensitive to noise.

Congestive stage of otitis.

Earache, with sharp, stitching pain.

Noises in the ears, arising through blood-pressure from relaxed conditions of the vessels not returning the blood properly.

Inflammatory conditions, radiating pains, sensitiveness, especially in affec- tions of the ear in anaemic subjects.

A clinical symptom is : " Noticeable pulsation in the ear ; every impulse of the heart is felt here, beating in the ear and head ; the pulse can be counted." (Houghton.) Chronic, non-suppurative catarrh of the middle ear, where the membrana tympani is thickened, and there is probably anchylosis of the small bones.

The following are also indications for its use : " 1.

A marked tendency for the inflammatory process to be diffused instead of circumscribed. 2.

Dark, beefy redness of the parts. 3.

A muco-purulent discharge and a tendency to hemorrhage. 4.

The complete establishment of the discharge is not followed by the relief of the pain. 5.

The paroxysmal character of the pain." (Wanstall, American Institute Transactions, 1886, p. 389.) Also, the absence of exudation, the radiating pains

and sensitiveness, and the general anaemic and debilitated condition of the patient.

Deafness from inflammatory action, or suppuration, when there are cutting pains, tension, throb- bing or heat, tinnitus aurium from excessive flow of blood to the part.

Inflammation of the drum, especially when the membrane is dry, and its vessels engorged.

Diffuse inflam- mation of the external auditory canal and acute affections of middle ear.

(H.

C.

F.) Catarrhal affections of Eustachian tubes.

" For earache after exposure to cold or wet I have no better remedy.

(R.

S.

Copeland.)

Kali mur

Earache, with white or gray-furred tongue and swelling of the glands, swelling of the throat.

Eustachian tubes swell, cracking noise in the ear when swallowing.

Deaf- ness from swelling of the Eustachian tubes.

It is also the principal remedy for deafness from swelling of the external ear.

Deafness with swelling of the glands or cracking noises on blowing the nose, tongue white.

Chronic dermatitis.

Moist exfoliation of the epithelial layer of the tympanum.

In ulcerations, where pus is whitish ; granular conditions of meatus and of membrana tympani ; excessive granulations.

" One of the most effective remedies we have ever used for chronic catarrhal inflammation of the middle ear, especially the form designated 'proliferous.' Stuffy sensation, subjective sounds, deafness, naso-pharyngeal obstruction, granular phar- yngitis, closed Eustachian tubes, retracted membrana tym- pani, etc., walls of external meatus atrophied.

Seems to affect more decidedly the right Eustachian tube.

In chronic suppuration it reduces proliferation, checks granulation and hastens repair." (H.

C.

Houghton.)

" My own experience with Kali mur. has been largely con- fined to chronic catarrhal conditions of the middle ear, and after keeping a careful record of its action in nearly two hun- dred of these cases, in private practice, I am convinced that it is one of the most useful agents we possess in their treatment.

It will even aid us efficiently in holding in check many of those inveterate cases of years' standing which go persistently from bad to worse upon the slightest provocation, and which no man living can hope to cure.

Its most satisfactory results are obtained in those cases which may have been gradually progressing for months, or even for two or three years, but which have not yet given rise to those permanent tissue changes which are sure to follow in the later course of the disease." (Prof.

H.

P.

Bellows, M.

D.) Otitis externa, with thickening and narrowing of the meatus and thin, flaky dis- charge from ear.

'•'•Kali mur. favors the opening of the Eustachian tube.

After its use inflation becomes easy." (R.

S.

C.)

Natrum mur

Deafness from swelling of the tympanic cavity, with watery conditions.

Roaring in the ears, tongue covered with bubbles, saliva profuse, etc.

Catarrh of tym-

panic cavity and Eustachian tube, purulent discharge from ears.

Itching and burning in the ear.

Stitches in the ear.

Kali phos

Dulness of hearing with noises in the head.

Deafness from want of nerve perception, noises in the head with weakness and confusion.

Itching in the auditory canal; hearing supersensitive, cannot bear any noise.

Weakness, general exhaustion of the nerves or nervous system.

" Ulcer- ation of the membrana tympani, suppuration of the middle ear, pus being watery, dirty, brownish and very fetid.

Ulcer- ation angry, bleeding easily, showing little tendency to gran- ulate or secrete laudable pus.

It is especially valuable in old people.

Atrophic conditions in old people, tissues dry up, become scaly, showing lack of vitality." (Houghton.) If the humming and buzzing in ears are not removed by Kali phos., though indicated, follow with Magnes. phos.

Calcarea sulph

Discharge of matter from the ear, some- times mixed with blood.

Deafness with middle ear suppura- tions, swelling of gland, etc.

Sensitive swellings behind ear, with tendency to suppuration.

Calcarea phos

Cold feeling of outer ears.

The bones around the ear ache and hurt.

Earache with rheumatic com- plaints, associated with swollen glands in scrofulous children.

Chronic otorrhoeas in children associated with painful denti- tion.

(H.

C.

F.)

Magnesia phos

Deafness or dulness of hearing from dis- eases of the auditory nerve-fibres.

It supplements Kali mur.

Proliferous disease of the middle ear.

(Dr.

Rounds.) Otalgia, purely nervous in character.

Kali sulph

Earache with secretion of thick, yellow, or greenish fluid after inflammation.

Sharp, cutting pain under the ears.

Stitches, tensive and piercing pain below the mas- toid process.

Discharge of watery matter or yellow pus.

Throat deafness with catarrh, causing swelling of Eustachian lining and middle ear, with yellow, watery discharge and yel- low coating on the tongue.

Deafness worse in a heated room.

Stinking otorrhoea.

Polypoid excrescence closes meatus.

In suppurative inflammation of the middle ear when the dis- charge is thick.

(H.

C.

F.)

Silicea

Dulness of hearing with swelling and catarrh of the Eustachian tubes and of the cavity of the tympanum.

External ear inflamed, swelling of the external meatus.

Mas- toid disease (see clinical case below).

Oversensitive to noise.

Foul otorrhoea.

Ears open at times with loud report.

Sup- purative otitis when discharge is thin, ichorous and offensive and attended with bone destruction.

Natrum phos

Ears sore, outer part covered with soft, thin> cream-like scabbing, deposit on tongue yellow.

One ear red, hot, frequently itchy, accompanied by gastric derangement and acidity.

Discharge of pus from ears.

Natrum sulph

Earache as if something were forcing its way out.

Worse in damp weather.

Ringing in ears as of bells.

Calcarea fluor

Mastoid disease when the periosteum is affected rather than the bone itself.

(Houghton.) Calcareous deposits on the tympani.

Chronic suppurative inflammation of the middle ear from scarlet fever, both ears suppurating, both canals filled with pus of a dark color and fetid in character.

Kali phos. entirely cured.

(Houghton, Clinical Otology.)

Prof.

Houghton, in his excellent treatise on Clinical Otology, presents, many remarkable cases illustrative of the action of these remedies.

The- above cases were selected as those in which no other remedies or means

were employed.

Numerous cases of the beneficial action of Ferruni phos..

Kali mur. and Calcarea sulph. in aural practice can be found in this work.

Acute inflammation of the middle ear commenced by a full feeling in the ear and dull hearing.

Pain occurred on performing Valsalva's procedure.

This condition, which grew rapidly worse, continued for forty-eight hours, when the physician was called and found the following conditions: The pain was paroxysmal, there was a sensation of a plug in the ear, membrana tympani injected and bulged, but no evidence of exudation in the tympanic cavity.

Posterior wall of meatus auditorius bright red in color, ear very sensitive to manipulation.

Ferritin phos. 6x, every hour.

Improvement was immediate.

Remedy discontinued in forty-eight hours.

be troubled with pain and noises in the left ear, aggravated greatly at the time of the menses, the pain severe and neuralgic in character, extending over the left side of the head.

The noises seem to get their character from some pronounced sound which is heard, and this persists sometimes for hours.

For the last six months there has been no further pain on left side, but deafness is constant.

The right side is now beginning to become deaf, but with no pain and no noises.

This has been going on upon the right side for several months.

General health excellent, with the exception of redness, fulness and desire to rub and pull the skin about the neck, for a few days after the menses, with marked swelling of the glands of the neck at the same time.

This has been noticed only during the time that the ears have been troublesome.

The fork is heard best on the left side by bone con- duction, and best on the right side by air conduction.

Meatus tympani dry and depressed.

Eustachian tube on the left almost occluded, on the right more free.

Frequent burning of the auricle on the left side.

Kali mur. 6x cured.

(H.

P.

Bellows, M.

D., in N.

E.

Med.

Gaz., November, 1889.)

A weak, cachectic woman suffered for three or four days from earache and pain in the right side of the head.

The ear has been discharging for three days, but no mitigation of the pain, which is very severe and radiating from the ear, membrana tympani beefy red, swollen and perforated, dis- charge profuse and muco-purulent, meatus red, swollen and inflamed.

Fer- runi phos. 2x in water, every hour.

In three days was better in everyway, discharge and pain less.

A week later all inflammatory symptoms had dis- appeared.

Dr.

Wanstall reports three other cases cured by the use of Ferruni phos. , from the 2x to the i2x trituration, with results the most gratifying, con- trolling the high fever, delirium and pain accompanying the acute middle ear inflammation

Transactions American Institute of Homoeopathy , 1886,

Case of a young girl, light complexion, scrofulous, with brown, offensive secretions from the right ear.

Polypoid growth or excrescence closes the meatus near the opening.

For eight weeks she had been entirely deaf in this ear, the deafness having gradually increased for four months.

Kali sulph}"1 given.

In two weeks the offensiveness had entirely disappeared.

On examination find polypus shrivelled to a small, hard, black mass.

The

hearing has entirely returned, with a slight, whizzing noise.

Every third day two doses were taken.

This case was entirely cured.

(W.

P.

Wessel- hceft, M.

D.

From Hg.)

Otitis Externa

Dr.

Stanley Wilde reports a case of otitis externa with subsequent otorrhcea and deafness, the latter resisting several reme- dies as Merc. sol. , Hydrastis and Sulphur.

The case presented a thickening and narrowing of the meatus, with a thin flaky discharge therefrom, watch hearing 4 in.

Kali mur. 3X stopped the discharge, and the hearing became normal.

Dr.

Wilde has used this remedy with good effect in Eustachian deafness in children from chronic enlargement of the tonsils

Horn.

Review.

Dr.

Goullon reports a case of an old gentleman who suffered greatly with a buzzing in ears, which was made much worse in the noisy street.

The patient had repeated attacks of inflammatory rheumatism, and the tinnitus was probably of rheumatic origin.

Mentally much depressed.

Difficult hearing.

After a few days' use of Kali phos.6 all symptoms, including the mental condition and difficult, hearing, permanently disappeared

Pop.

Horn.

Zeitung.

A gentleman wrote me the symptoms of otitis of a little child, aet. 4 months, who had a discharge from one ear of an ichorous, thin, offensive character, producing an eruption wherever the pus came in contact with the integument.

I at once sent Kali phos. 6x, ordering it given every six hours: In three months the running had all ceased, and the hearing was perfect.

I frequently use the Silicea in alternation with the Kali phos., when the connective tissue is involved.

(A.

P.

Davis, M.

D.)

Another case of "otitis catarrhalis internus " came into my office to see me, after spending over $600 with the "regulars." This case was the most remarkable that I ever witnessed or treated.

The man was a tall, slim, sanguine, nervous specimen of the genus homo, rude, illiterate, backwoods, gawky looking, seedy, cross between the ourang-outang, monkey, and Chinaman, but possessed of sensation, motion and reflection, proving to my mind that he was a man for "a' that" and "a' that." Well, I went through the examination sufficiently scrutinizingly to ascertain the exact pathological condition of. the trouble I had to meet.

There was an enor- mous protuberance involving the whole mastoid region, the skin red and glistening, soft, pappy, showing signs of an induration and broken-down connective tissue, and the whole mass filled with pus, and emitting an odor that was as sickening as carrion.

I at once plunged a knife into the mastoid process, out of which ran about a half pint of blood and pus.

After cleausing the tumor with Eucalyptus I bound up the wound, leaving in it a drainage-tube.

I treated the wound every day, putting him under the influence of Silicea, a dose every two hours.

Under the treatment I had the satisfaction of seeing him improve from day to day, and in four weeks the whole trouble ceased.

He had no relapse, but the cure advanced steadily until he was well.

This case was pronounced hopeless by several allopaths.

(A.

P.

Davis, M.

D.)

Wm.

McKee, set. 27, suffers from deafness, due to chronic non-suppurative catarrh of the middle ear.

While a lad, and on to manhood, went out a

great deal at night to dances and parties, where he would dance and romp until in a great heat and profuse sweat, when he would go out of doors and remove his coat.

In this way he would contract a cold, and one cold after another, until he found himself a sufferer from chronic catarrh of the nose and throat, the discharge being continual and very annoying.

At this time (about six years ago) he noticed a noise commencing in his ears, and it gradually increased until he became aware of the fact that his hearing was damaged.

He then commenced treatment, and not getting immediate re- lief from his first doctor he changed, and soon changed again, in this way going to several doctors, a few of them old-school specialists, and then gave up discouraged, and let the disease run its course unhindered.

When he came to me (last March) he said he had been unable to hear anything but confused noises, even when the loudest tones were used to accost him, for five years.

He is of medium height, rather slender, with inclination to red hair; has blue eyes, a fair complexion, and has a slightly anaemic appear- ance.

He describes the noise in his ears as dull and rumbling, if he pays no particular heed to it; but if he concentrates his thoughts on it, he can imagine that it resembles almost any kind of a noise.

One thing I wish to mention which was quite prominent, and quickly disappeared under the remedy — viz., he would be awakened in the night by a loud bombing noise and afterward be unable to sleep ' ' for the racket in his ears. ' ' There were a number of nervous symptoms in the case that led me to show him to Dr.

Bartlett: I.

Slight melancholia, would go off alone and brood over his troubles for hours. 2.

He would stagger while he walked.

I found his tendopatella reflex much decreased and on standing with his eyes closed he would fall over in my arms, couldn't manage at best to take three steps forward with eyes closed without falling.

I have kept him pretty steadily on Ferrum p/ws., and the improvement is remarkable.

He can hear every word of the longest sentence by slightly raising the voice when accosting him at several feet away.

The noises are greatly lessened, he sleeps well, and the nervous symptoms are fast disappearing.

I have continually in- flated the middle ear by Politzer method, once a week.

(Dr.

F.

VV.

Mes- serve.)

Mastoid Periostitis — Siucea

Dr.

A.

T.

Sherman, of Minnesota, re- ports a case of a man who had suffered for six days with pain in mastoid region.

On examination found the membrana tympani highly injected, tuning-fork was heard indifferently on each side when pressed against pari- etal bones; hearing impaired on the affected side.

Temperature 100.

Very Weak, nervous; complete rmiscular paralysis of right side of face.

The con- dition of the sense of hearing precluded brain disease.

There was no diffi- culty in swallowing, or other evidence of paralysis of the muscles of the fauces, which placed the trouble beyond the origin of the petrosal nerve.

There was no disturbance of taste or of the salivary glands, which placed the trouble beyond the origin of the chorda tympani.

He diagnosed mas- toid periostitis with pressure on the seventh nerve immediately on its exit from the duct of Fallopius.

On protruding his tongue it was drawn some- what toward the affected side.

While contemplating incision, patient men- tioned that on the previous morning he had found relief and some sleep by

placing the head in a warm poultice of Indian meal.

Gave Silicea200, a dose every three hours.

In forty-eight hours all pain had ceased and temperature normal.

Relief from moist warmth was the guiding symptom to the remedy.

Meniere's Disease

Dr.

Fellows reports in the " Clinique " two cases of this disease greatly and speedily relieved by Silicea 3X and 6x, given several times daily.

Mrs. , aet. 34.

March 30, 1886.

For several years has been troubled

with deafness from time to time, upon the right side, accompanied by tin- nitus of ringing and pulsating character, and with occasional pain.

Mt. slightly depressed and thickened upon the right side.

Nose catarrhal in slight degree.

H.

D.

R. w. = 22" = 29" Cath2.

Calc. phos. 2x N.

M.

To spray the nostrils with weak, warm solution of common salt.

April 7.

H.

D.

R. w. = 21" = 31" Cath2.

Kali mur. 6x N. and M.

April 14.

H.

D.

R. w. = 22" = 52" Calhx.

Kali mur. 6x N. and M.

April 2i.

H.

D.

R. w. = 36" = 6ft.

Cath3.

Tinnitus has ceased.

Kali mur. 6x N.

April 27.

H.

D.

R. w. = 46" = 7 ft.

Cath3.

No further tinnitus.

Kali mur. 6x alt.

N.

In closing my remarks upon the use of Kali mur. in these aural diseases, I will simply state that my experience agrees with the observation of others that it follows particularly well after Ferrum phos. or Merc, dulcis, and is itself sometimes followed especially well by Calcarea sulph.

(H.

P.

Bellows, M.

D., in N.

E.

Med.

Gaz., Nov., 1889.)

Silicea in Suppurative Otitis

Dr.

Bellows records a case of distress- ing and frequently recurring frontal headache, which seemed traceable to chronic middle ear suppuration.

The tympanum was perforated.

Silicea 3 taken for some months dried up the discharge, healed the tympanum, and made the hearing normal, while the headaches soon disappeared

JV.

E.

Med.

Gazette, Feb., 1893.

"Kali muriaticum is one of the tissue remedies too easily overlooked.

Its delicate affinity for the nerve centres makes it a slow acting remedy.

Inasmuch as the physician too frequently seeks palliation in epilepsy, it is not generally em- ployed long enough.

Without doubt it preserves the fibrin factor and prevents a tissue metamorphosis.

This, he be- lieves, should be the therapeutic aim in treating this disease.

It is simple enough to relieve a fit, for it is in itself self-limit- ing.

The real object is to overcome the morbid degeneration.

The protoplasmic fibres are surely strengthened by Kalimur., and such a condition tends to preserve the brain integrity.

When the brain-cells are properly nourished, they can with- stand the irritation of the sensory fibrillse which surround them.

This being done, we have made the first advance toward the removal of the cause of the disease.

While he does not make the claim of any specific, and while he admits the difficulty in curing this terrible disease, the writer's record book gives much substantiation of the above state- ment."— The Clinique, June 15, 1897.

Silicea

Nocturnal epilepsy, especially about the time of the new moon ; feeling of coldness before the attack, spasms spread from the solar plexus upward.

Exalted susceptibility to nervous stimuli, with exhausted condition of the nerves.

epileptic attacks at night while sleeping; groans, bites her tongue, bloody- foaming, bowels very constipated, no uterine trouble.

Silicea200 greatly lessened the frequency of the attacks.

(Hoyne.)

Kali Mur. in Epilepsy

Dr.

C.

C.

F.

Wachendorf reports the case of a man, set. 45 years, who had an eruption in September, 1888, which disap-

peared until August, 1889.

In November, 1889, the eruption was suppressed, and he began to have irregular attacks of "fainting fits." He would grow pale, a warm feeling following; then spasm, with pain in the cerebellum, and burning in the region of the stomach.

Attacks nearly always preceded by fright or fear.

Nux, Bufo and Arsenicum were each tried in turn, but failed.

Then Kali mur. 6x was prescribed on the indication, "Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions." After the sixth day he had no attack.

He still takes occasional doses of the medicine to keep up its action.

A lady, set. 32, married, one child 6 years old, has had spasms since the birth of the child, every few days, and very severe during the menses, twenty-four hours at a time, and from a few moments to an hour apart, these continuing three to six days, then every two to four days, in the in- terim of menses.

The woman was short build, heavy set, short neck, round full abdomen, red flushed face, sanguinobilious temperament and of rather mild disposition.

Headache all the time in temples and back of head, as well as constant heat on top of head; also severe pain in the lumbar region and across sacrum, numb feeling in lower limbs and cold, clammy perspira- tion over the whole body.

Physicians had pronounced her case " epilepsy," caused by uterine trouble.

Without regard to diagnosis, or former treat- ment by allopathic medication, I at once gave her Calcarea phos. and Kali phos., three doses each per day, and during menses Magnes. phos. every two hours during the first two days of the menses.

In two months from the first time I saw her, she was apparently well in every way, and became pregnant again, and by the use of the Calcarea phos. had no further trouble.

(A.

P.

Davis, M.

D.)

Kali mur

Vesicular erysipelas ; the chief remedy.

Ery- sipelas bullosum.

Katrum phos

Erysipelas ; smooth, red. shiny, tingling or painful swelling of the skin.

Infiltrated inflammation of the skin.

Natrum sulph

For the smooth form, red, shiny and coming in blotches, skin much swollen, with or without vom- iting of bile.

(Edematous puffy inflammation of the skin.

Ferrum phosphoricum

A case is reported by an Indian native practi- tioner in the Homoeopathic World recently, which well displays the activity of this remedy.

The case was one apparently of phlegmonous ery- sipelas of the left thigh in a boy of 6.

It had been going on for some six weeks, and was little influenced by the Mercurius iodatus, Hepar sulphuris and Silicea at first prescribed.

Ferr. phos. 6x wrought an immediate change for the better, and effected a rapid cure.

Mrs.

Forbes, a widow, was lying very ill with erysipelas; high fever and quite prostrate.

The members of her family thought her dying, as she had become delirious.

Her head and face so swollen that her eyes were literally closed, suffering intense pain.

Natrum sulph. and Ferrum phos., alter- nately, a dose every hour and oftener, were given.

After the second dose of the former she ejected a great quantity of bile.

The severe symptoms sub- sided.

This was on Saturday night.

The medicine was continued, Ferrum phos. now only intercurrently, as the pulse had become less frequent.

To the astonishment of all her friends, on Wednesday morning she was so well that she went out to her work as usual.

Statistics show a death-rate of 2,000 per annum from this disease.

In a similar case of erysipelas in a lady, aet. 87, these two remedies and a few doses of Kali phos. cured her, when the usual treatment, painting with iodine, brandy, etc., had no effect in arresting the disease.

(M.

D.

W.

From Schiissler.)

In two cases, ladies with swelling on each side of the neck; voice changed, eccentric dilatation of the heart, with systolic bellows' sound.

Cured by Natrum mur.'li in a few months.

(Dr.

Hofrichter.)

Ferrum phos

Inflammation of any part of the eyes with- out secretion of mucus or pus.

Pain in the eyeball, made worse by moving the eyes.

Burning sensation in the eyes.

They appear inflamed and red.

Retinitis.

Great redness

with severe pain, without mucus or matter.

" Conjunctiva congested, and. with a sensation as if grains of sand were under the eyelids, vision dim, letters blur while reading, even though the refraction be normal, or if any error exists and is corrected by lenses, or where there is an insufficiency of the internal recti muscles so far as can be determined.

Photo- phobia worse from artificial lights." (H.

F.

Ivins, M.

D.)

Dr.

Robert Cooper reports as having observed three times that a stye appeared on the lower lid of the right eye in patients who were taking this remedy for debility.

"Ferrum phos. is especially adapted to conjunctivitis with great relax- ation of that membrane, and surpasses Aconite in the majority of acute superficial inflammations of the eye.

In retinitis, with great engorgement of the retinal vessels.

It has been found of great service." (H.

C.

French, M.

D.)

Kali mur

Affections of the eye with discharge of white mucus or yellow-greenish matter (also Kali stclph.).

Feeling of sand in the eyes.

Yellow, purulent scabs on the lids, specks of matter.

Blisters on cornea.

Inflammation of the iris.

Superficial flat ulcer arising from a vesicle.

Retinitis.

Paren- chymatous keratitis.

Of great use even in the early stage.

" In diffuse interstitial keratitis in which the cornea is flecked over a large extent of its surface with light deposits, we have found it of great value.

Indeed, we believe it will prove to possess a specific influence over many of the pathological changes in that organ.

In chronic abscess of the cornea it has been found to do good." (H.

C.

French, M.

D.)

In the North American Journal of Homoeopathy, Sept., 1885, p. 14, Dr.

Geo.

S.

Norton writes of the use of this remedy in ulceration of the cornea.

He has found it useful in ulcers of a clearly asthenic type, inflammations of a low degree, tedious cases, redness of the conjunctiva is not excessive.

Photopho- bia, pain and lachrymation are very moderate or absent en- tirely.

Any part of the cornea may be the seat of the ulcer, but it is liable to begin at the periphery and spread to the centre.

The base of the ulcer is dirty-white or yellow, often vascular, and surrounding inflammation is very marked, dis-

charge moderate and of white mucus ; sometimes there is purulent infiltration extending between the layers of the cor- nea (onyx) or into the anterior chamber (hypopyon), but even then it is asthenic.

Sometimes the disease appears more like an abscess, breaking down later into an ulcer.

The tongue will usually have a thin, white coating.

(See Clinical Cases.) Cataract after Calc. fiuor.

Dr.

Norton communicates to us the following : Kali mitr. is especially adapted to the non-vascu- lar variety of parenchymatous inflammation of the cornea {Aurum 7?iur., Cannabis and Merc, active and vascular va- riety); there may be some photophobia and lachrymation, but never excessive as under Calc. phos.

The pains are not dis- tinctive, but are always moderate.

Redness is present, but is never expressive, bright-red or fiery.

Trachoma.

Kali phos

Eyesight weak from an exhausted condition of the system, after diphtheria.

Sensation of sand or sticks in the eyes.

Soreness of eyeballs and edges of lids.

Burning in eyes as if full of smoke.

Byes twitch, become blurred, black spots before eyes.

Photophobia.

Excited, staring appearance of the eyes, a symptom of nervous disturbances during the course of a disease ; drooping of the eyelids, strabismus not spasmodic, squinting after diphtheria.

Muscular and accom- modative asthenopia and incoordination of the ocular muscles, especially from defective inervation.

(H.

C.

F.)

Kali sulph

Eyelids covered with yellow crusts, discharge from eyes yellow or greenish matter, yellow, purulent slime or yellow, watery secretions.

Cataract, dimness of crystalline lens {Natr. mur.).

Ophthalmia neonatorum, thin yellow or sanious discharge with closely adherent membrane on the palpebral conjunctiva.

It is useful where other remedies fail.

We have found Kali sulph. a valuable agent in abscess of the cornea, and superior to Kali mur. in cases of pus in the anterior chamber (hypopyon), two or three cases of which under this remedy (3X) alone have cleared up with gratifying promptness.

(H.

C.

French, M.

D.)

affected, sees sparks, colors before the eyes, twitching of eye- lids, spasmodic squinting, dulness of vision from weakness of optic nerve, strabismus.

Diplopia, supraorbital neuralgia, relieved by warmth.

Hyperaesthesia of the retina with flashes of light and black specks before eyes, with general nervous excitability.

(H.

C.

F.) Retinitis pigmentosa.

(R.

S.

C.) Ciliary neuralgia has been frequently cured with this remedy.

Natrum mur

Asthenopia, muscular; the most important remedy.

Blister on cornea, discharge of clear mucus from eyes or flow of tears with obstruction of tear-ducts, neuralgic pains periodically returning with flow of tears.

Eyes water, secretion causes scalding of skin or eruption of small vesicles ; granulated eyelids without secretion of tears.

Tarsi much thickened and red.

White spots on the cornea.

The eye may also be syringed with a solution of this remedy extern- ally, daily.

The molecules of the salt which remain on the spot cause by their hygroscopic nature a gradual moistening and absorption of the spot.

Ciliary neuralgia.

Incipient cataract.

Iritis.

Natr. mur. is most suitable where the humors of the eyeball are increased in quantity, thus causing internal pressure.

"Is of possible value in glaucoma." (R.

S.

C.)

Natrum phos

Discharge of golden-yellow, creamy matter.

Conjunctivitis with discharge of yellow, creamy matter.

Hy- popyon.

Lids glued together in the morning; note condi- tions of the tongue, palate, presence of acid risings, etc.

Burning lachrymation, eyes bloodshot.

Dim sight, as if a veil were before the eyes.

Scrofulous ophthalmia ; squinting caused by intestinal irritation, worms, etc.

Ophthalmia in newborn infants ; also externally as a wash.

" Ophthalmia, profuse, creamy, sticky secretion and dim vision, especially in old women; also when accompanied by diarrhoea." (Dufneld.) Sees sparks before eyes.

Boring pains in the eyes of rheu- matic origin.

Natrum sulph

Pain over eyes.

Granular conjunctivitis.

Photophobia in scrofulous ophthalmia.

" No remedy, Graph- ites possibly excepted, has such terrible sensitiveness to light

in chronic ophthalmias." (H.

C.

Allen.) Yellowness of the conjunctivae.

Large, blister-like granulations with burning lachrymation, burning of edges of lids.

Hypopyon.

Silicea

Stye on the eyelids, also use as a lotion to remove and hasten the discharge painlessly.

If much inflammation, Fermm phos.

Deep-seated abscess of cornea.

Hypopyon.

Photophobia, sudden paroxysms of nyctalopia.

Amblyopia and cataract after checked foot-sweat.

Boils and cystic tumors around eyelids.

Opaque cornea.

Ciliary neuralgia over right eye.

Kernels and indurations of the lids.

Scrof- ulous ophthalmia.

Calcarea phos

Spasmodic affections of the eyelids, if Magnes. phos. fails.

Parenchymatous keratitis in scrofulous diathesis.

Useful in checking cataract.

Dry inflammation of the eyes during dentition.

Photophobia.

Corneal opacity.

No use where the palpebral conjunctiva is much involved.

Congenital amblyopia in children of a rachitic constitution and scrofulous diathesis, with general characteristics of the drug.

Useful in non-vascular form of diffuse keratitis with more marked photophobia than under Kali mur. and accom- panied by well-known scrofulous cachexia.

Cataract appear- ing with lupus, cancer or tuberculosis, gout, etc.

Calcarea sulph

Deep ulcers on cornea, ophthalmia, pus thick and yellow.

Inflammation of the eyes with discharge of thick, yellow matter.

Deep-seated abscess of the cornea {Silicea).

Hypopyon, to absorb the effusion of pus in the eye (after Silicea).

Retinitis.

Sensation of foreign body ; has to tie up, after injuries.

Pus in anterior chamber.

Phlyctenular keratitis and conjunctivitis, cervical glands enlarged.

In- flamed canthi.

" Has in my hands reduced purulent dis- charge in ophthalmia neonatorum." (H.

C.

F.)

Calcarea fluor

Flickering and sparks before the eyes, spots on the cornea, conjunctivitis, cataract.

Indurations in the lids.

Enlarged meibomian glands.

This remedy has been found of use in cases of partial blindness.

Dimness of vision from overstraining the eyes.

" I have prescribed Calcarea fluor. recently in my clinic in a

number of cases.

In one case of senile cataract where it was used there certainly was great improvement in sight." (R.

S.

Copeland, Prof.

Ophthalmology, University of Michigan).

The following cases were furnished for this edition by Dr.

T.

M.

Stewart of Cincinnati:

i.

Weak child, 2 years of age, thin skull, fontanelles open, soft cataract of left eye.

Calcarea fluorica 6x; in three months' examination showed an- terior fontanelle closed, and child much improved in general health.

No change in cataract.

2.

The following troublesome symptoms not entirely relieved by wearing proper correcting glasses for compound hyperopic astigmatism were com- pletely cured: The glasses were prescribed in June and patient reported in November following.

Complained of some itching and burning, blurring of sight occasionally, floating specks before eyes, light aggravates all symp- toms.

Kali phos. 6x cured.

3.

Epiphora from refractive error not entirely relieved from wearing cor- rective glasses.

Calcarea fluor. 6x entirely relieved the following symp- toms: Itching of mucous surface of lids, eyes water and sensation of air blowing on eyes after use of glasses.

Parenchymatous keratitis, inflammation of right cornea extending over the whole of its surface, of three months' duration; patient could only count fingers; some pain, slight photophobia and redness, pupil dilates slowly under Atrop., but quickly contracts again.

Aurum mur., Cinnabar, with instillations of Atrop., did no good.

Kali mur. 6x cured.

Cases of chorio- retinitis cured by Kali mur

Allen & Norton, Ophthalmic Therapeutics, p. 106.

In the Homceopatische Monatsblatter for 1882, p. 95, is a report of thirteen cases of cataract cured — eleven with Calcarea fluor.

Improvement showed itself within eight days.

The other two cases required Kali mur. after Calcarea fluor.

The following cases from N.

A.

J.

H., September, 18S5, p. 15, reported by George S.

Norton, M.

D., show the beautiful action of Kali mur. in ulceration of the cornea:

Case of ulcer of the cornea large in size, steadily increasing in extent, vascular base, moderate redness, no pain, slight photophobia, profuse lach- rymation, nose sore, corners ulcerated.

Kali mur6.

Improvement set in at once, and ulcer commenced to heal; within five days the vascularity dis- appeared, and in ten days the eye was perfectly well.

Case of ulcer of the cornea with elevated edges and vascular base, result- ing from phlyctenular keratitis; in spite of all treatment it had steadily in- creased; cornea hazy around ulcer.

Kali mur6.

The ulcer began at once to heal, and in two weeks all inflammatory symptoms had disappeared.

marked; moderate redness and no pain.

Several remedies were adminis- tered with no benefit.

Kali mur3. was prescribed, and a rapid cure fol- lowed.

Child with ulcer near centre of cornea, which was deep; infiltration con- siderable.

Pus in the anterior chamber; moderately red, no pain;

Atrop., instillation.

Hypopyon disappeared, and in twenty-four hours a rapid re- covery followed under Kali murz.

Mrs.

B.

L., from C , came to me on account of a swelling on right

eye which appeared suddenly.

A specialist had advised operation; the pal- pebral aperture, which was opened with difficulty, was filled with a yellow- ish-green, projecting mass.

The conjunctiva was infiltrated and sight was lost.

Kali sulp/16. removed the swelling and inflammatory symptoms com- pletely and permanently in one and one-half days.

(Quesse.)

Mrs.

M.

N., aged 46, was sent to me for treatment on May 9, 1892, by Dr.

Boericke, with keratitis, involving the lower nasal third of the left cornea.

The inflammation had existed since the previous Christmas, and had been subjected to rigorous allopathic treatment, with no improvement.

The entire bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva was intensely inflamed.

The cor- neal surface was vascular, with a decided ring of leucocytes round the border of the cornea, limited by the diseased area.

There was a dense, ir- regular white opacity, reaching down into the interstitial elements, occu- pying the center of the affected territory, and covering an area of about one-eighth of an inch square.

The clouded territory reached to the axis of vision.

She could with difficulty discern large objects on the temporal side, but had no central vision.

On May 9th she was put on Kali mur. 3X, every three hours.

There was a marked improvement during the first twenty- four hours, and an astringent which had been given for the conjunctivitis was reduced in power and frequency, and finally discontinued.

After the seventh day the Kali mur. was given in the 6:x, every four hours, and was so continued up to the day of discharge.

On the 23d vision was ■£$.

The larger part of the cloudy area had cleared up, and the leucoma had almost disappeared, and it is safe to predict a complete restoration of vision in a few weeks under Kali -mur.

(H.

C.

French.)

A girl had, on the lower edge of the left cornea, a little blister, from which a bundle of small veins ran.

Feeling of sand in the eye.

Edges of eyelids are scabby.

Kali mur}'1, internally and externally, every six hours for three days, cured the cornea in ten days, and in three weeks the scurfi- ness of the eyelids, which she had had for two years, had nearly disap- peared.

(W.

P.

Wesselhceft, M.

D.

From Hg )

Dr.

Koch writes: An old woman came to me, set. 72.

She had worn a green shade over her eyes to my recollection, since my younger days,

when, as a student, I spent my holidays at Simbach with my grandparents.

This person complained of a constant burning sensation in her eyes, causing a continued flow of smarting tears.

This commenced at eight o'clock in the morning and lasted till sunset.

During the night it was better.

She had much thirst, but little appetite.

Externally the conjunctiva palpebra- rum was in a chronic state of inflammation.

On each side of the nose there were excoriation and eczema of the skin, caused by the flow of acrid tears.

The punctae lachrymosa were dilated ; but the tear-ducts were unobstructed.

I hesitated whether I should give Natrum mur. or Arsenic; but Dr.

Schiiss- ler's special mention of Natrum mur. in regard to these excessive lach- rymal secretions determined my choice, and I gave Natrum mur. in water, one teaspoonful three times a day.

In three weeks the symptoms all greatly subsided, and shortly after entirely disappeared.

(From Schiissler.)

I have hitherto only given Natrum phos. in scrofulous subjects, and only then when my old remedies, Calcarea card., etc., failed.

One case was par- ticularly striking on account of its being cured so rapidly.

In May last a little girl, aet. 8, was brought to me, who suffered from severe conjunctivitis, with great dread of light.

She had been treated for some time by an ordi- nary practitioner, but without effect.

I ascertained that her eye affection dated from the time she had had measles, some years previous.

Calcarea card. and other medicines proved ineffectual.

The enlargements of the glands of the neck, and the creamy secretion of the eyelids, led me to try Natrum phos., of which I administered a dose three times daily.

A week later on, and the child was brought to me, her eyes bright and perfectly cured.

(From Schiissler. )

physician, Dr.

Nichols, of Hoboken, N.

J.

The young man was of good physique and apparently perfectly healthy.

He stated that his right eye had been "bloodshot" for a week, and that the vision had been steadily failing for five days.

Examination of the eye showed moderate photopho- bia, lachrymation, conjunctival redness and ciliary injection.

The cornea was very hazy, appearing like ground glass throughout its whole extent, but was not vascular; the surface was clear.

The vision was reduced to counting fingers six inches from the eye.

The history of the case, though not clear, pointed toward a strumous rather than a syphilitic origin.

Atrop. was instilled, and Kali mur. was given internally.

Under this treatment alone he steadily and rapidly improved until he was discharged, August 19th, with vision \^.

On December 27th he was again seen, when the vision in the right eye was found to be perfect (■ff)*- But tne disease was making its appearance in the left eye, as evidenced by moderate inflammatory symp- toms, and cornea hazy at the outer edge.

L.

V. \§.

The same treatment was prescribed which had been so successfully employed before, but for two weeks the cornea gradually grew more opaque, the redness increased, the pain became more marked, as if there were something in the eye, the pho- tophobia and lachrymation became excessive, and the vision decreased to counting fingers at six inches.

Rhus tox. 6x was then alternated with Kali mur. 6x, when the sthenic type of the disease soon changed, and the inflammatory symptoms rapidly abated, after which, under Kali mur. alone,

Dr.

Koch informed us that a farm servant came to him, and said he could not see.

Some time before this, a piece of wood had struck him in the eye.

He had been treated for it; had had purgatives, leeches and cold water ap- plications, and now his sight was quite gone.

The particulars of the case were these: The bulbus was infiltrated with vascular engorgement.

The conjunctiva was swollen, and the eyelid also in an irritated and inflamed condition.

The cornea was dim, with a smoky appearance of the anterior chamber [i. e., between the cornea and iris), and some matter could be seen floating quite distinctly.

I found no foreign body.

The subjective results were severe burning pain in the eye, as if from a foreign body, and a con- tinuous flow of tears.

The man had to keep his eye tied up.

His appetite was good, and pulse normal.

As to the therapeutic treatment, I had evi- dently to deal with two different affections — hypopyon (matter iu the eye), and conjunctivis.

First of all I gave Ferritin phos., a dose every two hours, and in a week the burning pain and watering of the eye were less.

One week after this the man complained that his sight had not improved.

Now I had the task of absorption of the matter before me, as well as the clearing of the cornea.

To meet the rirst condition I gave Hepar sulph., but after a fortnight I could recognize no special progress.

I felt rather in a fix with the case, as absorption would not take place.

Remembering an expression of Dr.

Quagleo, that he considered Schiissler's Calcarea sulph. a still more powerful medicine, I gave some Calcarea sulph. to be taken in water in three doses.

Scarcely a week after, the man came to me, greatly delighted, say- ing he could see gleams of light in the right eye.

Positively, I found the cornea less cloudy, and could observe that some of the matter had been ab- sorbed.

I now gave him only a dose night and morning.

In three weeks absorption was complete, and dimness of the cornea quite removed, and his sight restored.

Besides all this, all the inflammation of the conjunctiva was also cured.

(From Schiissler.)

A woman, aet. 56, from Simbach, who always wore blue spectacles, came to see me, as she had become blind in the right aye.

The cause and conse- quent suffering were as follows: Three years ago, one noon-day in the win- ter, she was walking from Arnstorf to Simbach.

The whole of the meadows were covered with snow, on which the sun was shining brightly, causing a strong refraction.

Suddenly she felt a severe pain in the right eye, and immediately discovered that she had lost the sight of it.

She took some snow and held it over her eye, which she thought did her some good.

On reaching home she sent for the doctor, who put a leech to the right temple and gave her a strong purgative.

She had to keep her bed for three weeks.

The pain subsided, but her sight did not return.

Some time after, she traveled all the way to Passau, to consult Dr.

E., the oculist.

He gave her a laxative and some ointment, to be rubbed all around the eye ( Ungl. hydrarg.).

As the ointment affected the gum and loosened the teeth, she stopped using it, her sight being no better.

Later on, when she heard that Prof.

Rothmund had operated on the pastor of Landau for cataract, she went to see him.

" If this medicine won't help you, you will remain blind

for life," were the Professor's words.

His prescription was Potassium iodide.

After having had the prescription made up three times, and using it steadily, she felt no improvement, and was quite inconsolable.

With her right eye she saw nothing; all seemed smoke and mist; and the other eye was becoming weaker and weaker from month to month.

External exam- ination showed the conjunctiva intact, as also the cornea, iris, etc.

All pointed to internal disease of the inner medium of the eye.

I could see but little of the retina, as there was a kind of mist over it, which seemed to spread from the vitreous humor over the background of the eye.

I in- troduced the rays of light in different directions, and by this means I was better able to obtain sight of the retina.

It appeared dim and misty, the veins were clearly seen, forming a dark network.

In some places there were indistinctly defined spots, some larger than others, appearing to me like the residue of extravasated blood.

The arteries were scarcely visible, and seemed to me pale and more contracted than in the normal condition.

The necessary therapeutic treatment clearly indicated to me was to produce abortion of the exuded substance, this being the cause of the dulness of sight.

According to Professor Rothmund's opinion, inflammation of the retina always arises in the connective tissue, and as this exuded substance appears of a coagulated nature, which no doubt is fibrinous, and, as is well known, can be hypertrophied, and is capable of fatty degeneration, I found that of the remedies I could think of the most suitable seemed to be Kali mur.

I now gave the woman eight powders, each containing two centi- grammes; the powder to be dissolved in half a wineglassful of water, a tablespoonful to be taken night and morning.

A fortnight after, the patient came back, saying, " I don't think I am any worse.

Please give me some more of those powders." She received a dozen, with the same directions.

One morning she called quite early, and told me in great glee that on rising that morning she could see the window-sash quite distinctly.

I tested her sight from different distances, and found that she had really improved.

"I can see pretty well through the mist," she said.

Kali mur. was continued in small doses, and in four months her sight was restored.

(Erom Schiissler. )

Girl, set. 16, recurring keratitis.

Left eye much inflamed, photophobia, slight haziness of the cornea, and traversed with red vessels; zonular red- ness.

Calcarea phos. 3X completely restored the patient.

I have never found it of any use where the palpebral conjunctiva was much engorged.

(R.

T.

Cooper. )

Bookkeeper, aet. 28.

Overstrained eyes.

" Feel like chilblains, " must wipe them often and pull at the lashes.

Is emmetropic, though can read No. 15 at fifteen feet with difficulty from blurring of the letters, not improved by glasses.

A candle held twelve inches seems double, and the left image is seen with the right eye, hence he has asthenopia from paresis of the in- ternal recti muscles.

Natrum mur.200 cured.

(T.

F.

Allen.)

The late Dr.

Kafka records a case of incessant lachrymation of the right eye, caused by exposure to a strong north wind, and dependent on hyper- aemic obstruction of the lachrymal passages.

Natrum mur.6 cured in four weeks, and was equally efficacious when, on later occasions, the trouble re- turned

Horn.

Recorder, Jan., '93.

Ferrum phos

Catarrhal fevers with quickened pulse.

Feverishness in all stages, all inflammatory fevers, rheumatic, etc., the chief remedy.

"The most beneficial results have been obtained from its use in the prevention of traumatic fever." Synochal fevers.

Chill every day at 1 p.

M.

Dry heat of palms, face, throat and chest.

Kali mur

With constipation and a thick white fur on the tongue.

Catarrhal fever, great chilliness, the least cold air chills him through, has to sit close to the fire to keep warm and still is chilly.

Better covered up in bed.

(Holbrook.)

Kali sulph

When the blood heat rises in the evening it assists in producing perspiration, and warm coverings should frequently be applied and this remedy given very frequently.

Also fevers from blood-poisoning.

Kali phos

Nervous fevers, high temperature, quick and irregular pulse, nervous excitement or great weakness and de- pression.

In fevers of low type, dry mouth, sordes on the teeth and delirium, this remedy has produced the grandest results.

(Meadow.)

M.

L., a gentleman, aet. 38, took a chill while in a state of perspiration.

He suffered in consequence from tearing pains in the limbs, noises in the ears, with dulness of hearing and frontal headache.

These pains were ac- companied by fever; and although he had night-sweats, they brought no relief.

The appetite was poor and the tongue covered with a white coating.

I gave a small quantity of Kali mur. in water every two hours.

A rapid general improvement set in, but pain and numbness in the feet were still present.

Also the habitual perspiration of the feet was still absent.

At this stage the patient received Silicea, two doses daily for a week.

Perspiration of feet was re-established, and on the reappearance of this the rest of the ailments left him, and health was quite restored.

(From Schiissler.)

Dr.

G.

H.

Martin reports a case of high fever (104°), general exhaustion, lameness in muscles, headache and diminished appetite, in which he pre-

Calcarea phos

Calcarea phos. ix and Silicea 3X, a dose three times a day, alternated every week, is the treatment rec- ommended by Dr.

C.

R.

Fleury.

Calcarea sulph

Painful abscesses about the anus in cases of fistula.

Puslike discharge from bowels.

Calcarea phos

To prevent the re-formation of new stones.

Magnesia phos

Spasms from gall-stones.

Ferrum phos

In the chilly stage of gastric fever.

Acute gastritis with much pain, swelling, tenderness at the pit of the stomach, especially if vomiting of food occurs.

Dyspepsia with flushed, hot face, epigastrium tender to touch.

Indi- gestion with beating or throbbing pain, heat, redness or flushing of the face, or vomiting of undigested food, the tongue being clean.

Indigestion from relaxed condition of the muscular walls of the stomach blood vessels, with burning tenderness, flushed face and pain after taking food.

Flatu- lence, belching with taste of food eaten.

Stomach-ache from cold in children, if pressure aggravates the pain.

Stomach- ache from chill with loose evacuations, caused by insufficient absorption of moisture, from a relaxed condition of the villi.

Loss of appetite, disgust for milk, after eating, nausea and vomiting of food ; the vomited matters are very sour ; can not take acids, herrings, meat or coffee and cakes.

Sometimes vomits mornings before breakfast ; headache, hammering in the forehead and temples so that she fears apoplexy.

Copious menstruation every week, with aching in the abdomen and

sacrum.

Sleep restless, awful dreams.

Does not feel rested in the morning.

Cannot bear tight clothing.

Thirst for cold water.

Desire for some stimulant, brandy, ale, etc.

Greasy eructations.

Kali mur

Gastric or bilious derangement, with gray, white-coated or mapped tongue.

Dyspepsia ; pain or heavy feeling in the right side under the shoulder, especially if fatty food disagrees or eyes look large and projecting.

Flatulence, with sluggishness of the liver and gray or white-coated tongue.

Gastritis, if caused by taking too hot drinks ; give this remedy at once.

Second stage of gastritis.

Indigestion with white tongue, caused by taking rich or fatty food.

Bitter taste.

Sick feeling after taking fat ; vomiting of opaque mucus.

Stomach-ache with constipation.

Kali phos

Excessive hungry feeling soon after taking food.

A nervous disturbance, depression or weakness ;

"gone feeling." Flatulence with distress about the heart or simply on left side of stomach, weary pain in left side, weakness of heart.

Gastritis if it comes too late under treatment, with asthenic conditions.

Indigestion with great nervous depres- sion.

Stomach-ache from fright or excitement.

Ulcer or cancer of the stomach.

Very thirsty ; empty gnawing sensa- tion in stomach relieved by eating.

Belching of gas tasting bitter and sour.

Constant pain at epigastrium in a small spot.

Kali sulph

Chronic catarrh of the stomach, where there is a yellow-coated tongue.

Indigestion with characteristic tongue.

Dyspepsia, with sensation of pressure as of a load and fulness at the pit of the stomach, with yellow-coated tongue.

Sen- sation of faintness at the pit of the stomach.

Indigestion with pain, water gathers in the mouth (after Natrum mtir. and Kali mur.), pain in the stomach just above the angle of the crest of the ilium in a line toward the umbilicus, deep within, beside the right hip.

Colicky pains in stomach when Magnesia phos. does not give relief.

Magnesia phos

Pains at the pit of the stomach, nipping, griping, with short belching of wind giving no relief, tongue clean.

Cramp in the stomach as if a band were tightly laced

or drawn around the body.

Flatulence with pain, belching gives no relief.

Indigestion with spasmodic, crampy pain, clean tongue.

Painful constriction of the muscles of the coat of the stomach, together with hot applications.

Convulsive hiccough.

Marked disposition to regurgitation immediately after eating.

" In gastralgia, magic in effect, often stopping a cramping condition of the stomach when all other remedies have failed.

Colic of horses." (Duffield.) Patient craves sugar.

Natrum mur

Indigestion with pain and water gathering in the mouth, with vomiting of clear, frothy water, or stringy saliva.

Stomach-ache with much saliva gathering in the mouth ; waterbrash, watery fluid coming up in throat, not acid, often accompanied with constipation.

Offensive breath.

Ravenous hunger.

Loss of desire for smoking.

Violent thirst.

Aversion to bread.

Sour taste.

Feeling of great weakness and sinking at the pit of the stomach.

Red spots on pit of the stomach.

Natrum phos

Acidity, sour risings, excess of lactic acid.

Loss of appetite, indigestion felt slightly.

On rising in the morning the tongue has a thin, moist coating, a creamy de- posit at the back, or as if raw or yellow sugar had been eaten.

Flatulence with sour risings.

Gastric derangements with symptoms of acidity.

Gastric ulceration, pain and indi- gestion, sour taste in the mouth.

Indigestion and severe pain after food, or coming on two hours after, with acid-sour risings.

Stomach-ache when worms are present, accompanied by acid risings.

Ulceration of the stomach, pain in one spot after food and sometimes sour risings, loss of appetite, face red and blotched, yet not feverish.

Heartburn and acidity, vomiting of dark fluid like coffee-grounds.

Waterbrash.

Gastric troubles after eating of fat food.

Natrum phos. causes the fat to become emulsified.

Natrum sulph

Biliousness, excess of bile, bitter taste in the mouth, vomiting of bitter fluid, greenish-brown or green- ish-gray tongue, or greenish diarrhoea, dark, bilious stools, headache, giddiness and lassitude.

Gastric derangements

with bitter taste in the morning.

Sour eructations, heart- burn, copious formation of gas and aggravation from farina- ceous food.

Flatulence becomes incarcerated in sigmoid flex- ure and ascending colon, producing violent colic which is relieved by kneading and borborygmus, stitching pains in the liver.

(Laird, N.

A.

J.

H., Feb., 1888.) Cannot bear tight clothing around waist.

Calcarea phos

A course of this remedy is useful in gastric fever as an intercurrent.

Pain after eating even the smallest quantity of food.

Heartburn, soreness of stomach on pressure, great craving: for bacon, ham, salted and smoked meats.

Bitter taste in morning, with headache.

Dyspepsia, with pain in stomach, temporarily relieved by eating and raising wind.

" Almost an infallible remedy for excessive accumulation of gas in the stomach." (Foster.) Calc. pkos. ix, in water, given half an hour after food, is efficacious in non-assimila- tion of food.

Dyspepsia with much distress temporarily re- lieved by eating.

Calcarea sulph

Desire for fruit, tea, claret and green sour vegetables.

Great thirst and appetite.

Nausea with vertigo.

While eating roof of mouth sore, burning in the stomach.

Silicea

Indurations of the pylorus.

Chronic dyspepsia, with acid eructations, with heartburn and chilliness.

Disgust for meat and warm food.

Extreme hunger.

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants.

Mrs.

B., aged 58, anaemic, and of nervous temperament has been suffer- ing for over ten years with severe attacks of neuralgia of the stomach.

The attacks would last from four to ten hours, and would consist of a series of paroxysms, each of which would last five or ten minutes, with a correspond- ing interval of rest between.

five grains of Mag. phos. 3x, in hot water, and repeated the dose ever}- fifteen minutes.

After the third dose the pain abated.

That attack was conquered.

I then prescribed the same remedy in ten-grain doses, after each meal, and after three mild attacks she has had no further trouble for over three years.

(B.

A.

Sonders, M.

D., Winterset, O. )

Sudden attacks of deathly sickness at the stomach, coming on at no par- ticular time, even in sleep, and lasting one-half or one hour, appetite poor.

Ferrum phos. cured, and appetite became ravenous.

(Raue, Rec.

Horn.

Lit., 1875.)

Kali Sulph. in Catarrh ok the Stomach

Mr.

M , aged 38

years, had been suffering with his stomach for several years.

He had a yellow coated tongue and much fulness and pressure at the pit of the stomach.

He could not remember when he did not have pain in the stomach more or less.

Hot drinks made him worse, and he never was thirsty.

His skin was generally dry and often hot and rough, and abdomen was cold to touch.

He had some bronchial irritation.

If he got chilled he would have colicky pains in his stomach which would extend into the bowels.

At times he would have bloating of the abdomen.

Kali sulph. 3X was given with some directions about his living, and in a few weeks he was well.

Not being used to this form of medicine he was gieatly sur- prised when he was relieved.

(O.

A.

Palmer, M.

D. )

An officer suffered for a long time from pains in the abdomen, together with pressure and fulness in the stomach and constipation.

The tongue was coated with a yellow slime.

He had been treated for three weeks by an allopath without any result whatever.

The bowels were so constipated that he could only have a passage by taking a strong purgative.

Kali sulph. 6x, three powders in water, dose every two hours.

The result was surprising.

The next morning the patient had a natural stool, and the abdominal dis- tress was nearly all gone.

In two weeks he was entirely cured, having taken only two powders

Pop.

Zeit., Dec, 1885.

A young man with chronic dyspepsia.

After trying several remedies with- out effect, I discovered in the mouth a thin, yellow, creamy coating on the soft palate.

This induced me to give the patient Natrum phos., which cured him in a short space of time.

(C.

Hg. )

The following is a resume" from a case in A.

H.

Z., '82, p. 51: Woman suffered for five years from dyspepsia.

After eating, nausea, vomiting of food; the vomit is so sour that it sets teeth on edge; cannot bear sour things.

Vomiting appears in the morning and after eating, accompanied by cepha- lalgia.

Hammering in the forehead and temples so violent that she fears apoplexy.

Menstruates every three weeks with profuse flow.

Troubled sleep, disturbed by anxious dreams.

Feels tired in the morning, and feels so tight in her clothes that she must loosen them.

Ferrum phos.6 three times a day, a dose before meals, cured the case.

" Many symptoms pointed to Natrum phos . , but the totality of the symptoms favored Ferrum phos.

Notes from letter to Schiissler by a doctor in Paderborn {A.

H.

Z., 1882, p. 102): I recently had a case exactly like the preceding, healed in ten days by Ferrum phos.10, after I had treated him five weeks in vain with Natrum phos.

A young man complained of an unnatural appetite.

He had to eat almost every hour, feeling such an intense craving for food, yet he felt exhausted and languid.

There were no secondary symptoms present.

The tongue was clean, the urine was not increased, evacuations normal.

Kali phos. cured the patient in the course of two days.

(From Schiissler.)

Farmer B. consulted me for a singular affection.

All acid food caused an attack beginning with a strong chill, followed by fever and profuse weaken- ing sweats.

Natruni mur.s.

After fourteen days she informed me that the at- tacks had entirely ceased, and the partaking of acid foods did not cause him the least discomfort.

(Dr.

Ouesse. )

A landed proprietor, set. 44, wrote to me a few weeks ago: " The medicine I have taken very steadily, and for a long time attended strictly to my diet.

In spite of this, my trouble is no better;

I may almost say it has become worse.

The conditions were these: 1.

I feel almost constantly a taste as of bile. 2.

My tongue is covered with a curdy, bitter coating. 3.

During the day, especially after food, I suffer from eructations of gases, which have either a bitter taste or are tasteless. 4.

My complexion is rather yellow. 5.

The appetite very slight; no thirst.

My favorite beverage, beer, is distaste- ful to me. 6.

I incline to shiver, and am somewhat faint. 7.

My head is but little involved, but feel a constant pressure over one eye. 8.

Stools are normal, but scanty, on account of spare diet.

The whole condition discloses that I have bile in the stomach." Thus far the patient's own report.

To this I may add that the patient in question had already taken by my orders Nux vom. and Pulsat.

He had used the waters of Marienbad the previous summer on the recommendation of another medical man.

I sent him now Natrum sulph., with the request to take daily three doses of this powder.

The gentleman came six or seven days later to my consulting rooms to thank me for the valuable medicine.

" The powder," he said, " has really worked wonders.

All my ailments have disappeared as if by magic, and I feel at last perfectly well." (From Schiissler.)

Dr.

Mossa, Bamberg, reports: Toward the end of last year I received a let- ter with the following details, and asking me to forward some medicine: " My boy, a child, set. 7, hitherto healthy and strong, has been suffering from pains in the stomach for some weeks.

Latterly he has vomited all his food, sometimes immediately after taking it, and at other times not till during the night.

The child has now become very emaciated.

Last week he was frequently feverish.

This has, however, not returned since taking the medicine our doctor here has given him The boy complains of much exhaustion." To form a scientific diagnosis of the case on such informa- tion was clearly impossible.

But, as it was not convenient for me person- ally to examine the case, I had to do my best with the details furnished.

The nature of the abdominal pains pointed to swelling and enlargement of the organs of the viscera, liver, spleen, etc.; also the feverish attacks, prob- ably subdued by quinine, and the vomiting of food, all coincided with my surmises.

As to the selection of the medicine, I hesitated considerably, and then decided to give Ferritin phos., twelve powders, one night and morning.

The report some time after was very favorable.

The fever had not returned; the vomiting of food and pains in the stomach had quite ceased

soon after taking the medicine.

The little fellow was so much stronger that he attended scoohl again.

(From Schiissler. )

W.

Watson, set. 40.

Ulceration of stomach, vomited all his food, and lat- terly the egesta had the appearance of coffee-grounds.

He had suffered from vomiting and indigestion more or less for fourteen years, had seen many doctors, and taken much medicine without avail. .1 advised him to take Ferrum pkos.6 and Natrum pkos.6, in usual quantities, and a table- spoonful every two hours alternately for a fortnight.

On his second visit he was free from vomiting, had little pain, and felt greatly better.

He con- tinued another ten days with the same remedies, and returned quite well.

On making special inquiry if he had nothing troubling him, he said: "No, the only thing I sometimes trouble myself about, is thinking after taking any kind of food, whether it will trouble me, but it never dees." His cure has proved permanent, as it is now nearly two years since, and he is keep- ing well.

(M.

D.

W.

From Schiissler.)

Patient with troublesome burning in the stomach after eating and con- tinuing until next meal time; pain develops one or two hours after meals; tongue light-gray, no bad taste, no tenderness, bowels regular, stools nor- mal, no thirst, the burning was so troublesome as to keep him awake at night.

Natrum pkos. cured.

(Med.

Era.)

Child with indigestion after typhoid fever.

Everything soured on his stomach, breath sour, vomited curdled milk, and sour-smelling fluids, green stool alternating with constipation, was troubled with colic, white-coated tongue and white around mouth, fretful, cross and restless.

Natrum pkos. cured. {Med.

Era.)

An old man, some 60 years of age, came to see me; he had "dyspepsia," the doctors said.

Emaciated, pale, swarthy, no appetite, restless, bowels inactive, stools sometimes light-colored and at times costive, tongue thickly coated with a brownish-yellow tinge, bitter taste, conjunctiva bluish-white, skin wrinkled and bowels retracted and shrunken, shrivelled, and a pain in the stomach of a burning character after eating; and from the general char- acter of the case, assimilation was greatly at fault.

The man had been, and was at the time, taking Argentum in pill form, from a "regular," three doses a day, and had been for a year or more; all to no purpose ex- cept to hasten the emaciation.

After surveying the situation and taking all conditions, I at once put him on Natrum sulph. 6x, three doses a day before meals, and Kali p/ios. 6x, as a nerve remedy.

These two remedies perfectly cured the ' ' dyspepsia ' ' and all the other troubles, so that in about three weeks he was a well man, the Natrum sulph. correcting all the liver and stomach trouble and the Kali pkos. building up the nerve forces.

(A.

P.

Davis, M.

D. )

Kali mur

This is the chief remedy in glandular swell- ings, infiltration of the follicular glands of the throat.

Glands of the neck are swollen (also apply externally).

Scrofulous

Natrum mur

Chronic inflammation of the salivary glands, with corresponding symptoms, excess of saliva, etc.

Chronic swelling of lymphatic glands.

Swelling of sebaceous glands.

Calcarea phos

Chronic enlargement of the glands, as an intercurrent.

Scrofulous enlargement of the cervical glands.

Bronchocele, goitre.

Incipient tabes mesenterica with fetid diarrhoea.

Calcarea sulph

Lymphatic glands discharging pus (com- pare abscess).

Ulceration of the glands.

Calcarea fluor

Glandular swellings, if very hard.

Stony hardness of the glands.

Chronic adenitis.

Indurations in capsular ligaments of joints.

Knots and kernels in the female breast.

Ganglium tendinosum.

Natrum phos. 3X relieved pressure in thirteen cases of goitre by taking a dose three times a day; pressure was relieved in from three to five days.

In some instances a cure was effected.

It is well to continue the medicine from four to six weeks.

(J.

S.

Skeels, M.

D., Hahnemajinian Monthly, 1880.)

A swelling under the chin the size of a pigeon's egg was considerably reduced by Kali mur., but still there was induration (hardness) with an uneven surface.

Calcarea fluor., taken for a few days, caused it to dis- appear altogether.

Shortly after its disappearance the patient had slight conjunctivitis with swelling, which Kali mur. soon cured.

(Dr.

K.

From Schiissler.)

Calcarea Phosphorica in Adenoid Growths — Dr.

G.

H.

Martin re-

Calcarea Fluorata in Long-lasting and Indolent Glandular En- largements of the Cervical Lymphatics

Dr.

Sybel speaks very highly of the fluoride of lime in the treatment of indolent and long-lasting glandu- lar enlargements of the cervical lymphatics, and especially where the hard- ness of the gland is pronounced.

He thinks that similar results might be obtained in enlarged bronchial and mesenteric glands.

3.

An unmarried woman of fifty years had carried for years an indurated gland in the right submaxillary region of the size of a small hen's egg, but which was neither red nor painful.

She had tried all sorts of external remedies without success.

Calcarea fluorata 5x, one powder morning and evening, and later, only one a day, caused the enlargement to disappear in six weeks; a relatively short time for a glandular enlargement which had persisted for eight 3'ears.

Ferrum phos

Inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea.

(N.

Avoid pressing along the urethra to bring out pus, as it is very injurious, and retards a cure.) Even walking, going up-stairs, etc., is a great impediment to the cure.

Kali mur

This is the chief remedy in gonorrhoea.

It is, in fact, a specific for cases in which swelling exists, whether from subcutaneous or interstitial exudation.

Gleet combined with eczema, latent or visible, or a disposition to glandular swellings.

Figwarts.

Kali phos

Gonorrhoea with discharge of blood.

Balanitis and balano-posthitis.

Silicea

Gonorrhoea cases of long standing, with thick, fetid pus.

Constant feeling of chilliness, even during exercise.

Balanitis.

The following from the pen of the late Dr.

T.

S.

Hoyne has a direct bearing on the subject and therefore we give it in full :

Silicea

This remedy is frequently condemned by homoe- opathic physicians, or at least is often adjudged of little value in the treatment of chronic affections.

I have jotted down a few cases which may prove of interest.

Mr.

A., a street-car driver about 48 years of age, with sandy hair and beard, and of rather slight build, came to me with gleet which had been constantly with him for a period of over ten years ; he had during this time tried all sorts of remedies with only temporary benefit.

Injections of various composi- tions had controlled it for a brief period, but the discharge in- variably reappeared after the stoppage of the injection or even during its continuance.

Dilatation of the urethra helped him only for a few days.

Upon the strength of these symptoms he received Sil. 200, and I never saw the patient again.

A number of months afterward another driver on the same car line called upon me for some of the medicine that cured Mr.

A.

discharge sometimes being tinged with blood.

The urine was turbid and deposited a yellowish sand at times.

He could not hold his urine as long as formerly and had to rise once or twice at night to void it.

He also had a cold, offen- sive perspiration of the feet and usually a general perspiration of the whole body every morning.

He said that he felt tired all of the time and was disinclined to do any work that he could possibly avoid.

He was, like the former patient, very sensitive to the cold air and took cold easily ; his sleep was restless and filled with frightful dreams.

In the morning on rising he experienced a slight dizziness.

December 10, Sil. 200 was prescribed.

On the 17th he reported that the medicine made him worse at first, increasing the discharge and making him urinate oftener than before.

Sac. lac. was given for two weeks, but the symptoms remained the same day after day.

Kali sulph

Gonorrhoea with a slimy yellow or greenish discharge.

Gleet.

Old gonorrhoeas.

Natrum mur

Chronic gonorrhoea.

Transparent, watery discharge, slimy.

This remedy and Calcarea phos. should be given in alternation for gleet.

Gonorrhoea, with scalding, is a characteristic of this remedy ; in old gonorrhoea, with one last persistent drop.

Urethra painfully sore to pressure.

After injections of nitrate of silver.

Calcarea phos

Chronic gonorrhoea with anaemia.

Hydro- cele.

Natrum sulph

Chronic gonorrhoea with yellowish, green- ish discharge, which keeps up, of thick consistency.

Very

little pain.

In gonorrhoea, use the third decimal every hour or two, four drops in a little water.

(Grauvogl.) Enlarged prostate.

Figwarts.

In the Pop.

Zeit., Berlin.

Verein Horn.

Aerzte, April, ]886, Fen-um phos. if recommended in fresh cases of gonorrhoea followed by Kali mur. and Kali stilph.

A man, aet. 70, suffered for three years from discharge from the urethra; secretion small in quantity; clear mucus; on urinating, violent burning- sticking pains.

Kali sulpk., Kali mur. and Natrum mur. did no good.

Magnesia phos.6 cured the case in four weeks.

The character of the pains was the prominent indication.

(Schiissler, Allg.

Horn.

Zeit., 1875 )

Mr.

K., set. 32, had had gleet for five years; discharge of a thick, yellow consistency, with little or no pain.

Cured with two prescriptions of Natrum sulpk.

(J.

A.

Harrison, M.

D.)

Ferrum phos

Bleeding from wounds externally and in- ternally, in conjunction with surgical aid.

Epistaxis of bright red blood, whether from injury or otherwise ; this generally suffices, especially in children.

Hemorrhage of bright red blood, rapidly coagulating.

Vomiting of bright red blood.

Tendency to nosebleed in rapidly growing children.

Kali mur

When the blood is dark, black, clotted or tough.

Vomiting of blood dark, clotted and viscid.

Nosebleed in the afternoon.

Calcarea sulph

Epistaxis.

Nasal secretions tinged with blood.

Kali phos

Epistaxis in weak, delicate constitutions from debility, weakness or old age, predisposition to bleeding of the gums, nose, etc.

L,oss of blood if dark, blackish, thin like coffee-grounds, not coagulating.

Blood putrid, causing symp- toms of decomposition.

Septic hemorrhage.

Natrum mur

Hemorrhage, blood pale, thin, red, watery, not coagulating.

Epistaxis on stooping, when coughing, with soreness of limbs.

Natrum sulph. — " I have known this remedy in several cases to produce violent epistaxis when wrongly given.

In a recent case the 200 potency produced nosebleed, vomiting and purging after every dose taken." (E.

H.

H.)

About twelve years ago I began treating a girl, four years of age, for fre- quent epistaxis, later for hemorrhage of the tongue and gums, and alarming nosebleed which could only be controlled by plugging the posterior nares.

During the year I plugged the nose several times, applied styptics to mouth and tongue, gave as best I could the indicated remedies: Ham., Bell., Nit. acid, Ipecac, China, etc.

I classed her as a bleeder, and had the gravest ap- prehension for her when she should arrive at maturity and menstruation be established.

After treating her for about a year for frequent alarming hem- orrhages I gave her Ferr. phos. 3X trit., three grains three times a day, and continued its use quite regularly for six months.

No attacks occurred while taking the remedy.

She remained strong and well, maturing at 14 years of age with normal flow.

Had teeth extracted without hemorrhage, and when she left the city, one year ago, was in good health and menstruating norm- ally.

In December, '95, Mrs.

B ■, aged 65, applied for treatment, present- ing ecchymosed spots on legs and thighs, varicose condition of veins and cedema of feet and legs.

She received Ferr. phos. 3X, every three hours, and improvement was prompt, and at the end of two weeks recovery com- plete.

No return of trouble at present date.

last August.

I found her bleeding from the nose and uterus with purpuric spots on the thighs and legs.

The bleeding ceased after the third dose of Fe7'r. phos. 3X.

I learned that for some years she had had one attack yearly, and prevailed upon her to take one dose a day of the remedy, which she has done to the present time.

The purpura disappeared in about ten days and has not returned; she tells me her general health is better than it has been for many years.

I wait anxiously to see if the purpura comes next year.

No change was made in her diet.

(C.

E.

Gorham, M.

D., Albany.)

Hemoptysis which had continued in spite of remedies was arrested by Calc. ftuor.

(M.J.

Bleim. )

Dr.

E.

B.

Rankin, in the Southern Journal of Homoeopathy, reports a case of hemorrhage of the bowels, of dark, black blood, viscid and profuse, cured by Kali mur. 6x.

Lady, get. 72, large and corpulent, dark eyes and hair, subject to attacks of apoplectiform cerebral congestion, was found in apoplectic state, with cold extremities, clammy sweat on forehead and face; head hot and livid; unconscious low; stertorous breathing.

Ferrum phos.6, teaspoonful every half hour; consciousness returned in two hours.

Was up the next day.

The same remedy has been used in subsequent attacks with the same results.

Patient states that never before had she been relieved so soon and effectually.

(F.

A.

Rockwith, M.

D., American Journal Homoeopathic Materia Medica,

Dwight H., set. 12, has been subject to nosebleed for past few years.

Dur- ing this time he became very anaemic.

Has taken different remedies from the family physician without permanently arresting the trouble.

I was called to see bim after a very severe attack, and found him much prostrated and blanched from loss of blood.

Gave him at once China off. ix, in water, for a few hours, till I could send him some powders of Ferrum phos.6, which he took in solution for some weeks, a few doses each day, with result of per- manently arresting the hemorrhage.

(C.

T.

M.)

Ferrum phos

Inflamed piles, bleeding piles, blood bright red, fluid, but with a tendency to form a thick, soft mass.

Be- fore induration.

Calcarea fluor

Internal or blind piles, frequently with pain in the back, generally far down in the sacrum.

Note ap- pearance of tongue, etc., which will indicate the alternating remedy.

Piles with pressure of blood to the head.

Internal blind piles with constipation, confined state of the bowels.

Bleeding piles, alternate with such remedies as are indicated

by the color of the blood, etc.

Tumors, relaxed elastic fibres.

Bleeding hemorrhoids, bright red blood following a short hacking or hemming cough from over-exertion.

Calcarea phos

Chronic hemorrhoids in anaemic or weakly patients.

Intercurrently with Calcarea fittor.

Magnesia phos

Cutting, darting pains, very acute, often like lightning, so sharp and quick.

In external piles, also as a tepid lotion.

Silicea

Intensely painful hemorrhoids, protruded, become incarcerated and suppurate.

Much itching, and pain running into rectum and testicles.

Fistula in ano {Calcarea phos.).

A young man of 28 had been troubled with hemorrhoids for some years.

Bleeding piles, accompanied by chronic constipation.

Much straining at stool, great pressure of blood to head and flushes of heat, tongue mapped or covered with grayish white coating.

Calc. fluor. 3X and Kali mur. 6x completely cured.

Ferrum phos

Headache from cold, sun-heat, a bruising, pressing or stitching pains, pains worse on stooping and moving.

Headache from gouty predisposition (alternately with Natrum sulph.).

Headache with vomiting of undi- gested food.

Congestive, with pressing pain, and sore to the touch.

Pressing a cold object against the spot seems to re- lieve the pain.

If furred tongue be present, this is an ad- ditional indication.

Headaches of children require this rem- edy.

Headache with a throbbing sensation ; worse right side.

Headache with red face and suffused redness of the eyes.

Blind sick headache, with vomiting of food as taken, undi- gested.

Dull right sided headache from vertex to right supra- orbital region.

Rush of blood to head.

Headaches made worse by shaking the head, stooping, and indeed every mo- tion of the body.

Congestive headaches especially when at the menstrual period.

Top of head sensitive to cold air, noise, jar, cannot bear to have hair touched.

Kali mur

Headache with vomiting, hawking up of milk-white mucus.

Sick headache with white-coated tongue, or vomiting of white phlegm, arising from sluggish liver, tongue furred, gray or white at base, want of appetite.

Kali phos

Headache, nervous, sensitive to noise, irrita- bility, confusion, relieved by gentle motion.

Headache of students and those worn out by fatigue, when no gastric symptoms are felt.

The tongue is sometimes found to be coated brownish-yellow like mustard, associated often with foul breath.

Pains and weight at the back of the head and across the eyes, better while eating, with feeling of weariness and exhaustion (after Ferrum phos.).

Nervous headache, with inability for thought, loss of strength, irritability, sleep- lessness, or despondency.

Headache with weariness, yawning and stretching, prostrate feeling, hysterical headaches.

Head- ache with a weary, empty feeling, " goneness " at the pit of the stomach ; also if the headache be the precursor of an at- tack connected with bilious vomiting.

Neuralgic headache, humming in the ears, feeling of inability to remain up, yet better under cheerful excitement.

Neuralgic headache with nervous symptoms, better during eating, depression.

Noises in head on falling asleep.

Menstrual headaches with hunger.

Severe pain in left mastoid ; worse by motion and in open air.

Magnesia phos

Excruciating headaches with tendency to spasmodic symptoms.

Neuralgic or rheumatic headaches, shooting or stinging pains, shifting pain, intermittent or paroxysmal in character.

Headaches from optical defects.

Nervous headaches with sparks before the eyes ; diplopia.

Natrum mur

Dull, heavy headache, with profusion of tears and drowsiness, sleep not refreshing.

Headaches with constipation from torpor and dryness of a portion of the in- ternal mucous membrane, when the tongue is clean or cov- ered with clear, watery mucus, has frothy edges, much saliva.

Headache with vomiting of transparent phlegm or water, stringy mucus coughed up.

" Is applicable to cachectic per- sons and to those who have lost animal fluids.

It is adapted to chronic and to sick headache ; to headaches before, during and after the menses ; ' to cephalalgia of school girls who apply themselves too closely to their lessons ;' to headache commencing in the morning after walking, lasting till noon, or going off with the sun ; to catarrhal headache and to migraine." (King.) Hemicrania, loss of consciousness and twitching of limbs.

Natrum sulph

Sick-headache with bilious diarrhoea or vomiting of bile, bitter taste in the mouth.

Colicky pain, with giddiness, greenish-gray coated tongue.

The attacks occur during the menses, periodically, every spring, and are frequently sudden in their onsets.

The characteristics are : congestion of blood to head, with fulness ; heat in vertex, sensation of pressure in and through the head ; mind de- pressed and melancholy ; vertigo and dulness ; vomiting, aggravated by motion and reading, ameliorated by quiet.

Occipital headache^ Violent pains at base of brain, as if crushed in a vise or as if something were gnawing there.

Beating pain in both temples when walking.

Indescribable pain on top of head, as if it would split.

Pulsating headache.

Headache begins in the morning on waking, increases till noon and subsides about bed time.

Cannot tolerate noise.

Has to go to bed in a darkened room.

Nausea and vomiting.

Several cases of chronic headache with these symptoms are reported by Dr.

A.

M.

Duffield, of Huntsville, Ala., as having been cured by this remedy in the 200th potency.

lumps or nodules, size of a pea, on the scalp.

Congestive, gastric, nervous and rheumatic headaches.

Headaches from excessive mental exertion, from overheating, from nervous exhaustion.

Scrofulous diathesis.

Rachitic, anaemic condi- tions, caries.

Nervous, irritable persons with dry skin, pro- fuse saliva, diarrhoea, night-sweats.

Weakly persons, fine skin, pale face, light complexions, lax muscles.

Persons who are oversensitive, imperfectly nourished, not from want of food but from imperfect assimilation. *

Natrum phos

Headache on the crown of the head on awaking in the morning ; creamy appearance of back part of the palate ; yellow moist tongue.

Headache, severe pain as if the skull were too full.

Frontal or occipital, with nausea or sour, slimy vomiting.

Very severe headache, with intense pressure and heat on top of head as if it would open (if Fer- rum phos. does not suffice).

Sickening headaches, ejection of sour froth.

Headache after taking wine or milk.

Calcarea phos

Headache with a cold feeling in the head, and the head feels cold to the touch (Ferrum phos.).

Pains worse with heat or cold.

Headaches of children and school- girls, who are nervous, restless, etc.

" Suitable for gastric and rheumatic headaches.

It is characterized by vertigo when walking or on motion.

Fulness and pressure on the head, worse from pressure of the hat.

Useful in peevish and fretful children, and in those whose fontanelles remain open too long.

Difficulty in performing mental operations.

Ill- humor and want of disposition to do anything.

Forgetful- ness ; dulness with every headache." (King.)

Calcarea sulph

Headache with vertigo and nausea, and feeling as if eyes were sunken.

Pain around whole head, worse forehead.

Patient who, among other symptoms, had some visual disturbances, and when the headache was worse and vision most disturbed he had a sense of fear, especially at night, and an eruption about the ankles which began with itching.

I gave him Nat. phos. 6x and that was the end of his sufferings.

(Chas.

Mohr, M.

D.)

old, had such excruciating headache that she was partially insane; she claimed her brain was ruptured and running out of her eyes.

A yellow-gray curd was exuding from her eyes.

She had been suffering for some days.

I gave her Kali phos. 3X, which acted like a charm.

In two hours the dose was repeated, and the result was perfect relief.

Some four weeks later she had another attack, but not so bad.

I gave her Kali phos. 6x, and wishing to watch the case, I called in two hours.

She said: "That was not the same medicine you gave me before; the action is barely perceptible." I then gave 3X, and in two hours she was well.

Now, I have always been in favor of high potencies, but this experience seems to indicate that quantity comes in as a factor; if so, it should be noted that one dose of 3X is equal to one thousand of 6x.

(Selected.)

1.

Severe headache, general soreness of the vertex, soreness of scalp, cannot bear to have hair touched, great nervousness at night.

Ferrutnphos. 6x gave speedy relief.

2.

Frontal headache, relieved by nosebleed which followed.

Ferrum phos. 6x cured.

3.

Patient could not see; seemed as if blood rushed into the eyes.

Fer- rum phos. 6x cured.

4.

Dull pain on top of head during menses cured as by magic by a few doses of Ferrum phos.

(Raue, Rec.

Horn.

Lit., 1875.)

5.

Headache beginning every night at ten o'clock with chill or congestive symptoms.

Magnesia phos., iox dil., cured.

(Translated by S.

L.)

Case of young lady with excruciating nervous headache, with great sensi- tiveness to noise, during the second day of menstruation.

Kali phos P pro- duced, immediately after taking it, a great increase of the menstrual flow with sudden relief of the headache.

(W.

P.

Wesselhceft, M.

D.

From Hg.)

M.

K., aet. 16, has suffered for years from periodically returning head- aches.

The pain is concentrated in the right temple, and of a boring nature, as if a screw were being driven in— as the patient expresses herself.

Preced- ing this pain there are burning sensations at the pit of the stomach, bitter taste in the mouth and lassitude.

These symptoms are only felt at night, or in the morning.

When the attack comes on, the patient is quite unable to attend to any ordinary duties.

Generally vomiting of bile follows, and then improvement sets in.

Natrum sulph. daily, the size of a bean, dissolved in water, and taken repeatedly, cured the young lady entirely.

(From Sch ussier.)

Young lady, set. 16, suffered for years from periodical attacks of sick headache, characterized by boring pain in right temple, preceded by burn- ing in stomach, bitter taste, languor.

Pain comes on at night or in morn- ing, followed by vomiting of bile, with subsequent relief.

Natrum sulph.6, daily doses, cured permanently.

Ferrum phos

First stage of all inflammatory affections of the heart.

Endocarditis, carditis, pericarditis, dilatation of

Calcarea phos

Non-closure of foramen ovale.

Palpita- tion with anxiety, followed by trembling weakness.

Weak heart action.

Sharp pain around heart during inspiration.

Kali mur

For that condition of the blood that favors em- bolus, which acts as a plug.

In pericarditis as a second rem- edy and it may complete the cure.

Palpitation from excessive flow of blood to the heart in hypertrophic conditions.

Kali phos

Functional complaints of the heart, intermit- tent with palpitation after rheumatic fever with exhaustion.

Intermittent action of the heart with morbid nervous sensi- tiveness, effects of violent emotions, grief or care, weakness of the heart, palpitation from direct excitement, on ascending stairs, with shortness of breath.

Palpitation with nervous- ness, anxiety, melancholia, sleeplessness and restlessness.

Fainting from fright and fatigue, from weak action of the heart.

Palpitation from slightest mental emotion or walking up stairs.

Kali sulph

Pulse quick with slow, throbbing, boring pain over crest of ilium, disinclination to speak, pallid face.

Heart disease causing dropsy (also Kali mur.).

Palpitation from effects of heat.

Magnesia phos

Sudden palpitation, when a purely spas- modic affection.

Shooting, darting pains in region of heart.

Natrum mur

Palpitation with anaemic conditions, watery blood, dropsical swellings, etc.

Palpitation with anxiety, sadness, etc.

Rapid, intermittent pulse with morning head- ache.

Hydraemia and scurvy.

Fluttering motion of the heart, sense of constriction.

Calcarea fluor

Dilatation, enlargement of blood vessels ; chief remedy to restore contractility to the elastic fibres.

Dilatation of the heart with enlargement of the organ.

Weak action of heart.

Magnesia phos

Idiopathic or reflex after morphine and other remedies failed.

Hiccough very obstinate, causing long lasting soreness.

Obstinate case of singultus in a patient suffering from typhoid fever, almost continued, so violent in character that the patient was sore for three days.

Other remedies were tried without effect; prescribed Magnesia phos.

The result was remarkable: within an hour the difficulty was modified, and the next day he was very much improved, and speedily yielded to the con- tinued use of the reme ly.

(John Fearn, M.

D., California Med.

Journal, August, 1S87.)

Silicea

To prevent or control suppuration and heal the parts.

" In the third stage, to limit suppuration and the de- struction of bone, and to promote new organizations ; sting- ing, itching, burning pains in small spots, sore pain in the hip-joints, in scrofulous and rachitic children." (Arndt.)

Ferrum phos

Painful hoarseness of singers or speakers from over-exertion of the voice, from draughts, colds and wet.

Hoarseness coming on in the evening.

Follow with

Kali mur

Hoarseness, loss of voice from cold.

In obsti- nate cases follow with Calcarea sulph.

Calcarea phos

Hydrocele as intercurrent.

Silicea

Both recent and chronic forms.

Silicea®® cured two cases of hydrocele, one left-sided in a babe four days old, the other right-sided in a child, set. 4.

(Dr.

Guernsey.)

A man suffered from a herpetic eruption, for the cure of which Silicea was taken.

But at the same time a sarco-hydrocele of large dimensions, which he had carried about for years, was reduced to a minimum

American Journal Homoeopathic Materia Medica, vol. ii, p. 205.

Calcarea phos

This is the first remedy to be thought of in this disease.

Fontanelles, especially the posterior one, wide open.

Chronic hydrocephalus ; very large head.

Bones of skull thin and friable.

Screaming and grasping the head with the hands.

Head totters.

Eyeballs protruding.

Ears and nose cold.

Kali phos

Hysteria in females, nervous attacks from sud- den or intense emotions, or from smothering passion in the highly nervous and excitable ; also a feeling as of a ball ris- ing in the throat.

Hysterical fits of laughter and crying.

Hysterical yawning.

Hysterical spasms, with unconscious- ness and low muttering delirium.

Natrum mur

Delaying or decreasing menses.

Somnam- bulism.

Great sadness, fears, much mucus in urine.

All symptoms relieved as soon as she gets into a perspiration.

(Lilienthal.) Hysterical spasms and debility.

Miss R., set. 16, menstruated once when thirteen years old, and not since.

Was a remarkably health}' and well-nourished girl, until three months be- fore she consulted me, when she began to decline.

She lost flesh, became pale, languid and weak, and suffered much with her stomach.

When I was called to see her she was not able to retain her food, and it would be vomited as soon as taken; complained of great pain in the stomach immediately after eating, even the lightest food; on several occasions the pain caused severe hysterical convulsions.

The tongue was but slightly coated white; bowels constipated; abdomen tympanitic and very sensitive to the slightest press- ure; no fever, but much thirst; water, like food, was ejected as soon as swallowed.

At first I thought that I had a case of nervous dyspepsia to deal with, but finally concluded I had a case of true hysteria, as she was so ex- tremely nervous and hyperaesthetic all over, and much given to tears when any one was around.

I also found that she had the convulsions whenever her plans were thwarted in any way, and upon my threatening to put her in cold water if she had another she stopped them.

Fermm phos.

I2x relieved the stomach trouble in one week, and Kali phos. i2x relieved all of the other symptoms in two weeks or more, and my patient was soon as strong and healthy as before her illness.

Menstruation returned two months after, and she has been all right since.

(Geo.

H.

Martin, M.

D., S.

F. )

Miss B., aet. 50, tall, slender and dark, had been suffering many years from an excessively nervous condition, and would become hysterical upon the slightest provocation.

She also suffered much from spasmodic reten- tion of urine, and often had to use the catheter.

One day she came to me, saying that the end of the catheter had been broken off while she was using it, and the end was still in the bladder.

I dilated the urethra with my fore- finger, and soon recovered it, the bladder at the time being well filled with urine.

She would not take an anaesthetic, although I advised it, as the pain was intense.

That evening, six hours after the removal of the catheter, she sent for me, saying that she was in great pain and very ill.

When I saw

her I found her very nervous, and suffering much from pain in the bladder and abdomen, with a great desire to urinate.

The abdomen was enormously distended and very sensitive.

There was no fever.

I gave Belladonna 3X and returned next morning.

Symptoms all worse, but still no fever.

At- tempted to drain urine, but could not introduce the soft rubber catheter, as the spasm of the urethra was so great.

Two hours later returned with silver catheter; introduced it, but only got a few drops of urine.

Thinking there might be some uterine trouble, I determined to examine and find out.

As she was so sensitive, I gave her a little Chloroform.

She had not taken but a few inhalations when the tympanitis disappeared.

I examined uterus and bladder, and found nothing abnormal, so concluded she was suffering from hysteria.

Gave Magnesia phos.

I2x, which very shortly relieved bladder symptoms, and Kali phos. i2x cured the case in about ten days.

She has had no more return of the trouble since, and the other symptoms of hysteria were also much modified.

(Geo.

H.

Martin, M.

D., S.

F. )

Ferrum phos

In the hypersemic stage, indifferent as to the organ involved and regardless of cause.

Always before ex- udation has set in.

Silicea

Lower form, suits also the lower nerve-irritability.

(J.

C.

Morgan.)

Natrum sulph

This is the remedy for influenza.

Since the disease is caused by an excess of water in the cellular tissues.

In the sequelae of this disease brought on by treat- ment with other remedies Natrum sulph. is curative.

Numer- ous cases have been reported as cured with this remedy.

Kali phos

Nervous weakness and prostration following an attack of La Grippe.

Tired in the morning, twitching of various muscles and neuralgic pains.

Natrum sulph

Intermittent fever in all its stages requires this remedy chiefly (3X trit.).

Hydrogenoid constitution, worse in damp weather.

Tertian form.

The applicability of Natrum sulph. is shown by the following physiologico-chemi- cal considerations.

In ague patients the quantity of water in the blood-corpuscles and in the blood serum is increased, and consequently the amount of oxygen taken up by the blood is diminished.

Natrum sulph. promotes the removal of excess of water from the organism.

When by its action the propor- tion of water in the corpuscles has been reduced to the normal condition, the corpuscles are again able to take up the full amount of oxygen and distribute it to the tissues.

As the tissues are in this way brought back from their pathological to their normal physiological condition, they are enabled to remove from the organism the cause of the ague — be it marsh-gas (miasma), or bacteria (fungi).

Dry mountain air, which is rich in oxygen, can cure ague spontaneously, be- cause the organism takes up a large amount of oxygen and disposes of much water by evaporation.

Ague patients must abstain from milk diet, buttermilk, eggs, fat and fish.

" In- termittent fever, bilious, bloody stools ; greenish or bronze colored coating on back of tongue, a very constant symptom ; conjunctiva yellow." (Duffield.)

Magnesia phos

Intermittent fever with cramps in the calves.

Chills run up and down the back at 7 p.

M., also severe chill at 9 A. m.

Great prostration.

Ague with violent cramps and blueness of extremities.

Kali mur

Intermittent fever when the fur at the back of the tongue is of a grayish-white or white appearance.

(In alternation with Natrum sulph.')

Kali phos

Intermittent fever with debilitating, profuse perspiration.

Quartan form.

Natrum mur

Chill about 10 or n o'clock a. m.

Great thirst throughout all stages.

Violent headache relieved by- perspiration.

Fever-blisters around lips.

If hydroa be pres- ent in first onset of the fever, even if not present later, after the abuse of quinine.

In nursing children, hydroa on the lips and later the ulcers which succeed them, with forenoon at- tacks, are guiding.

(H.

C.

Allen.) Masked intermittents appearing as neuralgia of head and face.

Mr.

Iv., chills and fever for three months.

Had quinine and other reme- dies.

Paroxysms every other day at n a. m., with severe pain in limbs and small of back ; chill lasts nearly two hours, with no thirst during chill.

Fever all the afternoon, with bursting headache and intense thirst for large quantities of cold water.

Little or no perspiration, eats and sleeps well, and next day resumes his occupation.

Nalrum mur. 30 trit , every four hours, during theapyrexia.

Next chill light and no return.

(H.

C.

Allen.)

Dr.

Sherbino, of Dallas, Texas, reports two cases of ague cured with Magnesia phos. 13X.

The indications were: Before chill, pain in the neck, stiffness, pain down the spine; during chill, cramps in lower limbs, amel- iorated by some one taking hold of the foot or feet and drawing on them or extending them [which will relieve any cramp in extremities

Eds.]; thirst before and during chill, none during heat, or sweat relieves; cramps and vomiting at same time during chill.

(S J.

H.)

Ferrum phos

In Bright's disease, when feverishness is present.

Inflammatory stage of nephritis; all inflammatory pain is relieved by this remedy.

" Urine has a profuse mu- cous sediment ; blood is red and charged with blood corpus- cles." (Arndt.)

Natrum mur

Tension and heat in renal region.

Brick- dust sediment ; haematuria.

Dr.

Menninger claims that this drug will produce a decrease in the amount of albumen, and an increase in the amount of urea, and a very marked increase in the quantity of chlorides eliminated.

In Bright's disease

Kali mur

Inflammatory diseases of the kidneys, for the swelling.

Croupous nephritis.

Cardiac asthma with sensa- tion as if the heart and lungs were constricted.

Nephritis parenchymatosa with much albumen in urine.

Dirty, yellow sediment.

Kali phos

For the great functional disturbance of nerve- centres, in alternation with Calcarea phos. for the albumen.

CEdema pulmonum, intermittent action of heart.

Calcarea phos

Albuminous urine calls for the use of this remedy in alternation with Kali phos.

Bright's disease.

I have had two cases of Bright's disease following scarlatina.

Tube casts were present.

Albumen, general anasarca.

Heart weakness.

Retinitis albuminurica.

There seemed to be extensive destruction of tissue, and as the cases also presented a profuse desquamation, I gave them Calcarea sulph. 6x, which speedily brought about a cure.

(C.

E.

Fisher, M.

D.)

G.

S., an old man of 77, consulted me for what he called a " laziness of his kidneys." Urine was, in fact, very scanty and loaded with albumen.

The case seemed, at first sight, to be a hopeless one; he was also forgetful and quite nervous.

I gave him Calcarea phos. 6xtr., a dose every two hours in alternation with Kali phos.

After six weeks' treatment, urine was nor- mal, his memory was somewhat restored, and since six months he has not complained.

As to diet, I only recommended to him to eat asparagus just as much as he could at his meals, and continue the use of the aforementioned medicines.

(E.

A. de Cailhol, M.

D.)

Ferrum phos. — " I am in the habit of giving this remedy after parturition with marked relief of after-pains, and pre- ventive of the fever of lactation." (W.

M.

Pratt, M.

D., North

American Journal Homoeopathy, May, 1883.) Mastitis, first stage.

Metritis, first stage.

Morning sickness, vomiting of undigested food.

Rigid os, with flushed face, restless, anxious and impatient.

Morning sickness with vomiting of food.

Kali phos

Feeble and ineffectual labor-pains, spurious labor-pains.

Tedious labor from constitutional weakness ; this remedy gives vigor and helps materially.

Labor-pains weak and irregular.

Rigid os, with thick, doughy lips, pa- tient restless, tearful and nervous.

" For three years I have employed Kali phos. * in doses the size of a bean, dry on the tongue, every ten or fifteen minutes, as a remedy to excite labor-pains.

It has never failed me, and I seldom have to give the third dose.

My practice is extensive ; have had over ninety cases in six years.

Magnesia phos., in spasmodic pains and eclampsia, has done well for me.

I give generally after the birth Ferrum phos., a dose daily, to avoid inflamma- tion." (Dr.

Rozas, Pop.

Zeit, April, 1887.) ' After pains usually the best remedy.

If given steadily several weeks before labor, confinement is less painful.

Kali mur

Chief remedy in puerperal fever.

Mastitis to control the swelling before matter has formed.

Vomiting of white phlegm.

Magnesia phos

Spasmodic labor pains with cramp in the legs, excessive expulsive efforts.

Puerperal convulsions.

Rigid os, thin lips.

Pains weak and short.

Calcarea phos

Burning pains, hardness and soreness in mammae, they feel enlarged.

Spoiled milk of mother, salty and bluish, child will not take it.

Decline after puerpera, or during pregnancy.

Prolapsus in debilitated persons.

Espe- cially suited to rheumatic patients.

Menstruation during lac- tation.

Soreness in sacro-iliac synchondroses.

Weariness in all limbs during pregnancy.

Calcarea sulph

Mastitis, when matter is discharging after prolonged nursing.

Silicea.

Calcarea fluor

After-pains if too weak, contractions fee- ble.

Hard knots in the breast.

Hemorrhages.

This remedy

strengthens the elastic tissue of the gravid uterus, making parturition easy.

(S.

J.

Hogan, M.

D.)

Natrum phos

Morning sickness with vomiting of sour masses.

This remedy if given early in mastitis will prevent suppuration.

Silicea

Suppuration of mammae, chronic fistulous open- ings.

Hard lumps in breast.

Child refuses milk, or vomits as soon as taken.

Nipples crack and ulcerate.

" The better acquainted I become with this system the more pleased I am with it.

In labor, when the pains are too weak and irregular, I have seen nothing act more promptly and effectually than Kali phos.

For spasmodic, crampy pains, Magnesia phos. is a gem.

After a delivery, I give Ferrum phos., where I used to give Aeon, and Act. rac., to be followed or accom- panied by whatever may be indicated.

I also use as a wash 3X to the vulva and abdomen, and for syringing the vagina morning and night.

The parts heal quickly under this treatment, and with the use of other remedies, as in- dicated, the patient makes a good recovery

Eelectic Medical Journal, E.

H.

Holbrook, M.

D.

A Portuguese house servant, mother of three healthy children, had not been well from the beginning of her fourth pregnancy.

About six weeks be- fore full time she was threatened with a miscarriage.

Had passed water and blood; the pains were severe and well directed; the oswas dilating and I felt so positive that labor was unavoidable that I advised her to keep about her duties, and gave her Kali phosphoricum 6x to help her along.

To my great surprise the pain ceased, and she went on to full time.

I then delivered her of a scrawny, undersized child which lived three days.

(T.

C.

Wiggins, M.

D.)

Natrum mur

Leucorrhcea, a watery, scalding, irritating discharge, smarting after or between the periods.

Greenish, after walking, in the morning, with headache, colic, itching of vulva, and bearing-down pressure.

After topical applica- tion of nitrate of silver.

Calcarea phos

Leucorrhcea, as a constitutional tonic and intercurrent with the chief remedy ; a discharge of albumin- ous mucus.

Leucorrhcea worse after menses, looks like white of egg, with feeling of weakness in sexual organs, worse after stool and urination.

Parts pulsate with voluptuous feelings.

Patient takes cold readily.

Silicea

Leucorrhcea instead of the menses, preceded by colicky pains, also during micturition and following obstinate constipation.

Deficiency of animal heat.

Especially for over-sensitive, weakly women, whose constitutions are imper- fectly nourished owing to deficient or imperfect assimilation.

M.

M., a young lady, aet. 17. consulted me on account of an obstinate acrid leucorrhcea.

I tried the whole series of remedies indicated for such cases.

All were without effect, so that I could not but wonder at the patience and perseverance of the patient, whom I saw once a week.

In this case Schiissler again helped me out of the dilemma.

Kali mur. effected a quick and permanent cure.

(Dr.

S. from Schiissler.)

Natrum sulph

Irritable liver, bilious attack, too much bile, if after excessive study or mental work (also Kali phos.).

Bitter taste.

Vomiting of bitter matter or bile.

Jaundice arising from vexation, with bilious, green evacuations or greenish-brown coated tongue, or sallow skin ; yellow eye- balls.

Congestion of liver, with soreness and sharp, sticking pains.

Chief remedy.

Natrum mur

Jaundice with drowsiness and any of the symptoms present peculiar to this group of ailments.

Pain in region of liver.

Kali sulph

Jaundice from gastric catarrh.

Purging.

Silicea

Abscess of liver.

Throbbing and ulcerative pain in hepatic region.

Last summer my second daughter returned from a visit to New Jersey with an immense wart on her hand.

In a few days she was taken quite ill with fever, which I took to be of a bilious nature; gave Natrum siclph.

She be- came deeply jaundiced and grew worse while taking this remedy.

I then changed to Kali mur. and she began to improve immediately and was well in a few days.

After she had taken a few doses of the Kali mur. the jaun- dice began to abate and the wart fell off.

( E.

H.

H.)

Ferrum phos

This is the first remedy in bruises and in fractures to meet the accompanying injuries to the soft parts.

The first remedy in cuts, falls or blows, fresh wounds and

sprains.

It prevents pain, congestion, swelling or feverish- ness.

Can also be used externally.

Strains of ligaments or tendons.

Tenalgia crepitans.

Dr.

Sara J.

Allen, of Charlotte, Mich., reports gratifying results in the use of Ferrum phos. 6x in injuries.

Prescribed according to the above indica- tions.

Kali mur

Swelling of contused parts, cuts with swelling, the second remedy in sprains, exuberant granulations, proud flesh.

" To remove the ecchymosis remaining after a bruise I have found Kali mur. incorporated with cocoa butter effica- cious." (E.

H.

H.)

Silicea

Neglected cases of injuries, festering and threaten- ing suppuration.

Wounds when discharging thick, yellow matter ; also deep-seated suppuration.

This should be given first, then Calcarea sulph.

Natrum sulph

Injuries to the skull and effects therefrom.

Mental troubles from a jar or knock on the head.

(Kent.)

Young man hurled from a truck in the fire department.

He struck his head.

Following this for five or six months he had fits.

Was very irrita- ble, wanted to die.

His fits drove him to distraction.

Never knew when they were coming on.

They were epileptiform in character.

Had constant pain in the head; much photophobia.

Natrum sulph. was given, and the first dose cured him.

He has never had any pain about the head since, has had no more mental trouble and no more fits.

(Prof.

J.

T.

Kent, Medical Advance, Sept., 1886.)

In September, last autumn, I was in the Highlands.

The dairymaid of a farmer there spoke to me, saying she had hurt her thumb while sharpening a scythe.

The case proved to be this: The whole thumb of the left hand was swollen, and of a bluish-red color, and very painful when touched, much inflamed, and there was a small wound at the extensor side at the joint above the nail.

On pressure there was a whitish-yellow discharge, mixed with white shreds.

Both phalanges were easily displaced, and a peculiar noise was heard, which I had observed before in similar cases.

This fact made me decide on giving Calcarea fluor.

The medical man in the village, whom the farmer had consulted, said amputation was the only thing that could be done for the case.

She took Calcarea fluor.; and some time after,

Ferrum phos. ix Soreness axd Tenderness

If biochemistry had only developed this remedy it would have given mankind the greatest bless- ing in the Materia Medica.

I use it more than any other remedy and get good results.

Mrs.

D., aged 42, never had been a strong person, and wanted " tonics" all the time from her former physicians.

She took cold very easily and had much soreness in her throat and chest.

She had frequent headache, which was worse in the temples.

The pain in her head was generally throbbing and beating.

Head always sore to the touch.

She had more or less pain in her eyes, which were always worse on motion.

She said they were tender.

Her face was flushed and burning, and her tongue was clean and red.

She said she had dyspepsia for years, with a tenderness in her stomach and bowels.

Her sexual organs were tender and sore.

Her flesh was always sore and tender.

The soreness and tenderness of all the parts called my attention to the remedy.

I gave her instructions in a general way in regard to diet, baths and exercise, also full directions about the care of her bowels.

Ferrum phos. 3X, two tablets every two hours, were given, and her recovery was remarkable.

Within four months she had no soreness and tenderness, and could truthfully say she was enjoying better health than she ever expected to do.

I always think of this remedy in cases that have either tenderness, irrita- tion, congestion, fever or inflammation of any part or parts.

It can be relied upon in all injuries of the soft tissues, as I have proven to myself many times in my surgical work.

(O.

A.

Palmer, M.

D. )

"Silicea in Neglected Injury.

"—Mr.

G., aged 40 years, injured his limb below the knee about eighteen years ago, which caused the limb to be- come inflamed and suppurate in two or three places.

He carried the limb in this condition, being better and worse, until I saw him four months ago, when I commenced to treat him.

His symptoms were always worse at night, when he would have pain shooting up and down the leg, especially if the room would get cool.

Warm applications would relieve the pain.

The ulcers discharged free!}- thick yellow pus.

He had one or two fistu- lous abscesses of long standing that were surrounded by a dark bluish border.

His general health was very much impaired, and I found him very low just after he had had a severe chill of one hour.

He was badly afflicted with chronic dyspepsia and acid eructations, with an occasional attack of heart- burn and chilliness.

I soon found that Silicea was the only remedy that would govern the pain and give comfortable sleep at night, and also improve his general condition.

His improvement has been very satisfactory, and it is certainly a great victory for the remedy, as everything in the medicine line had been used without any material benefit.

(O.

A.

Palmer, M.

D.)

or after a short walk.

An hour of shopping would lay her aside for days.

Had to move her head forward, but if it were kept forward she had a sense of faintness.

She took nothing but Kali phosphoricum 6x till June 16th, when I gave her Pulsatilla, because her period was delayed.

This being un- usual, I looked to see if the remedy might be responsible, and found that it produced a "retention or delay of the monthly flow." I directed that Kali phosphoricum should be continued after the period was over, taking two doses daily instead of four as formerly.

There had been a steady and marked improvement during these three weeks.

She then went to Chicago and did as prolonged and faithful work at the fair as any of her party who were supposed to be well.

After this she was quiet in the country until October, and she returned in very good con- dition.

On resuming her old life the same symptoms returned after a time, and again she came under my care.

Kali phosphoricum always benefited her, but it was not until after galvanism had been applied directly to the seat of the injury, and she had had rest for another summer, that she found herself quite restored.

I do not cite this case to prove that Kali phosphoricum will make sound an injured coccyx; only to show its power to relieve many disturbing symp- toms arising from so profound a disturbance to the nervous system.

(T.

C.

Wiggins, M.

D.)

Kali mur

For the hoarse cough, for all the glandular swellings and the furred tongue, with white or gray deposit, it is the second remedy.

For the after-effects of measles.

Diarrhoea, whitish or light-colored, loose stools, white tongue.

Deafness from swelling in the throat, etc.

Kali sulph

Suppressed rash, rash suddenly recedes with harsh and dry skin.

This remedy will assist the returning of the rash.

Dr.

Kock, of Munich, reports: In thirty-five cases of measles which came under my treatment, coryza and bronchial catarrh were very slight in the premonitory stage.

Conjunctivitis and intolerance of light along with it were the more prominent symptoms.

Within a few days after, the rash ap- peared, lasting five or six days, and then disappeared.

But either during

the blush of the rash or the fading of it, painful swelling of one or both glands below the ear set in.

The children again become feverish, and were crying and moaning both day and night.

The remedy which I now chose was Ferrum phos., and, according to the violence of the fever, I ordered a spoonful of the solution every hour or two.

I gave it at the premonitory stage, and when I saw that it proved very satisfactory, I looked for no other remedy.

For the glandular swelling, external redness and painfulness, I used the same medicine, and my cases ended very satisfactorily.

( From Schiissler. )

Calcarea phos

The chief remedy in hydrocephalus, acute and chronic.

Hydrocephaloid conditions, open fontanelles, flat, depressed, etc.

Prevents hydrocephalus in families pre- disposed thereto.

Give a powder of the second trituration morning and evening.

When already developed, alternate with Argent, nit.6 (Grauvogl.)

Natrum sulph

Violent head-pains, especially at base of brain and back of neck.

Crushing pain, as if base of brain were crushed in a vise, or something gnawing there.

After injuries to the head.

Mr.

D., from Er., suffered from meningitis, and a prognosis of the attend- ing allopath was designated as at least doubtful, and nothing was prescribed.

The case was especially severe, since in his family there was a history of hereditary brain disease, and his nearest male relatives had died of it.

At the time I was called the patient had been nearly two days in a frightful delirium, that had increased almost to madness.

Consciousness had disap- peared; temperature over 400.

I ordered Ferrum phos. and Kali phose.

After a week I found the patient free from fever, still somewhat weak, but subjectively fully recovered.

To hasten the convalescence I gave Calc. phos., and eight days later the patient was able to be out and at his calling- (Dr.

Quesse.)

Ferrum phos

Consequences of anger.

Indifference to ordinary matters, loss of courage and hope, trifles annoy.

Kali phos

Brain-fag from overwork, with loss of appetite,

stupor, depressed spirits, irritability, or great impotence, loss of memory or sleeplessness.

Crossness and irritability in chil- dren ; ill temper often arising from nervous disturbances.

Fear, fretfulness in children, crying and screaming.

Som- nambulism.

Very nervous, starts at the slightest sound, talks while asleep, wants to be carried while awake from room to room.

Wakes easily.

Rambling talk while awake.

De- spondency about business and pecuniary affairs.

Indisposi- tion to mix with people.

Low spirits, feeling of faintness.

Dread of noise.

Oversensitiveness to noise.

Dulness, want of energy, timidity.

Hallucinations, homesickness.

Morbid activity of memory, haunted by visions of the past and long- ing after them.

Hypochondriasis, melancholy, ill-humored from nervous exhaustion.

Mental illusions (an abnormal condition of the gray nervous matter), false impressions and fancies.

Lassitude, depressed state, want of energy.

Madness, loss of correct reasoning faculty requires this remedy.

Mania in its various stages and degrees.

Melancholy accompanying ex- hausting drains affecting the nerve-centres of the spinal cord.

Loss of memory.

Melancholia from overstrain of the mind.

Night terrors in children ; they awake screaming and in fright.

Restlessness and irritability.

Too keen sensitive- ness.

Sighing and depression, with inclination to look at the dark side of everything.

Sighing and moaning in sleep.

Shyness, excessive blushing from emotional sensitiveness, lack of controlling force over the nerves of the coats of the vessels.

Starts on being touched, or at sudden noises ; whin- ing disposition, makes " mountains out of mole-hills." After- effects of grief.

Natrum sulph

Suicidal tendency, must exercise great re- straint.

Mental troubles arising; from falls and injuries to head.

Music unbearable.

Makes him melancholic.

Magnesia phos

Illusions of senses.

Very forgetful.

Dul- ness and inability to think clearly.

Indisposed to any mental effort.

makes matters worse.

Hypochondriasis, accompanied with dryness and irritable conditions of mucous membranes, and constipation with hard stool.

Sadness with palpitation, avoids company, being too easily vexed.

Natrum phos

Nervous, irritable, vexed at trifles.

Anxious and apprehensive.

Imagines that pieces of furniture are per- sons ; that he hears footsteps in the next room.

Silicea

Imagines he is in two places at the same time.

Monomania about pins.

L-onging for home and relatives, pensive, obstinate, irascible.

Prostration and nervous weak- ness, restlessness and heavy dreams accompany symptoms, which are also aggravated about the time of full moon, in change of weather and during a storm.

Calcarea fluor

Great depression, with groundless fear of financial ruin.

Indecision.

Idiocy

In January, 1S91, a lady came to consult me about the mental condition of her youngest boy.

Her boy C.

S. was then 26 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall and although pretty strong physically, appetite good, etc., he was a perfect idiot, unable to answer any questions except by yes or no, and even these answers were stupid.

His appearance and his manner of acting was that of a child only a few years old.

I remarked that all his teeth were decayed, and that one side of his head, the left, was a great deal smaller than the right.

He was very nervous in his demeanor, unable to remain quiet on the chair for five minutes, and when these spells of nervous- ness reached the paroxysm, he generally tore off all his clothing and flung it in every direction about the room, until he was completely naked.

How- ever, he seemed to have some fear or respect for his old mother, the only one, indeed, able to handle him He was not addicted to masturbation, but absolutely nothing seemed to interest him.

From time to time for several years, this boy had been treated by several physicians of the old school, but without any success.

This patient was the seventh child of the family ; all the others were healthy, as also were the father and mother.

I inquired if during the pregnancy of the mother with this child she had been subject to any accident or fright.

She answered no; on the contrary, she had always had a quiet and happy life.

The improvement of that idiot has been permanent until now.

(Dr.

E.

A. de Cailhol, Los Angeles, Cal.)

Another case of religious melancholia, of three weeks' standing, in a woman, was entirely cured by Kali phos.6 in one week.

(Dr Arnberg, Allg.

Horn.

Zeit., i88t.) Detailed description below.

MissM., the daughter of the late Dr.

M., has been suffering since her eighteenth year from occasional attacks of aberration of the mind.

But as years passed on, these attacks of insanity became worse and more frequent, until it was deemed advisable by her brother to make arrangements with the doctor of the lunatic asylum in the district to have her removed there.

As a last recourse, a friend called to see if new remedies could be of any service in such a hopeless case Having assured him that Kali phos. would do her good, they gave it very steadily, four doses daily for weeks.

This was four years ago.

The result was most satisfactory.

After taking it she never had another attack, and is completely cured; able to superintend home duties, receive callers and make calls, which she had not been able to do for years, on account of feeling so nervous and shy during the inter- vals of the attacks.

Several cases of a similar nature have been treated with equal success— two of these puerperal mania.

(M.

D.

W.

From Schiissler. )

berg, on the 7th of February, " a lady suffering from mental derangement.

Religious melancholy was at the root, although before this occurrence she had not inclined to religious excitement, She now declared she was lost forever — lamented, cried, wrung her hands and tore her clothes, or pieces of paper which were laid about to prevent her tearing her garments.

She did not know those around her, and was unable to sleep.

Her eyes had an unconscious stare, and frequently it required two persons to hold her down.

Only by holding her nose and by force, a little food or medicine could be put down her throat.

I prescribed Kali phos., as her condition, though one of excitement, was originally one of depression, to which Kali phos. is suited.

Dr.

Schiissler says in his book: "A functional disturbance of the molecules of this salt causes in the brain mental depression, show- ing itself in irritability, terror, weeping, nervousness, etc., as well as soft- ening of the brain." She took Kali phos. with excellent results.

A former experience gained by this remedy led me to select it.

" On that occasion it was in the case of an old man, aet. 80.

He suffered from mental derangement, which showed itself in the form of intense hy- pochrondriasis and melancholia.

He was tired of life, but had a fear of death.

For weeks he had been treated to no purpose with many remedies apparently called for, as Nux vom., Aurum, Brotnide of potassium in allo- pathic doses.

But he was rapidly cured by the continuous use of Kali phos.

Even after eight hours from the commencement of the treatment, a certain feeling of calmness was experienced, and that night he had a quiet sleep.

I had, therefore, no reason to regard the treatment I selected, as the improvement continued steadily, so that on the 25th of February I dis- continued my professional visits.

Ferrum phos

Pain at the monthly periods with flushed face and quick pulse, with vomiting of undigested food, some- times acid taste, excessive congestion, blood bright-red.

This remedy must be taken as a preventive before the periods if these symptoms are recurrent.

Menses every three weeks with pressure in abdomen and small of the back and pain on top of head.

Bearing-down sensation and constant dull ovarian pains.

checked, white tongue, etc.

Too early menses, excessive dis- charge, dark, clotted or tough, black like tar.

If periods last too long, too frequent.

Kali phos

Retention or delay of the monthly flow, with depression of spirits, lassitude and general nervous debility.

Menstrual colic or great pain at the times of the periods in pale, lachrymose, irritable, sensitive females, menses too late in some, too scanty in similar conditions, too profuse dis- charge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and not coagulating, sometimes with strong odor.

Too late and too scanty, irreg- ular, and of offensive odor, with a feeling of weight and ful- ness in the abdomen, yellow-coated tongue.

Menses prema- ture and too profuse in nervous subjects.

Dull headache with menses, very tired and sleepy, backaches, intense sexual desire after menses.

Magnesia phos

The chief remedy in ordinary cases of menstrual colic.

Painful menstruation or pain preceding the flow, vaginismus.

External parts swollen.

Pains severe, in- termittent, worse on right side, relief from heat.

Menses too early, flow dark and fibrous, stringy.

Natrum mur

Thin discharge, watery or pale; thin, wa- ter}' blood.

" In young girls, if the menses do not appear, or when very scanty and at long intervals.

Pain in the stomach, nausea, vomiting of food, weakness and faint feeling, desire for sour things, aversion to meat, bread and cooked food.

Twelve to 30 are the most useful potencies." (Sulzer.) Very gloomy during menstruation, with headache every morning.

Menses too profuse and too early, with disturbed sleep, dreams of robbers, etc.

Headache and pain in small of back on rising, better by lying on something hard.

Calcarea phos

Menses too early in young girls, too late in adults.

Menstruation during lactation.

Insatiable sexual desire before, with great weakness and sinking sensation after menses; patient wants constantly to sit down, hates to get up and move about.

Rheumatic pains.

After disappointments, cold at every change of weather, with aching pains in the joints.

For flabby, shrunken, emaciated patients.

Natrum sulph

Menses acrid, corrosive, discharge makes thighs sore, preceded by violent, intermitting epistaxis, with colic, pinching in abdomen and burning of the palate, as if raw and sore.

Sexual organs inflamed, sore, swollen and cov- ered with vesicles.

Menses flow freely while walking.

Silicea

Menses smell strong, always icy cold during menses with constipation, stools partly recede.

Backache with paralytic sensations.

Protracted menses during lactation.

Menses early but scanty ; but rarely profuse.

Kali sulph

Menses too late and too scanty, with a feel- ing of weight and fulness in the abdomen, and headache and yellow-coated tongue.

Metrorrhagia.

Metrorrhagia of six weeks' standing, in the case of a fat and robust woman of brown complexion.

This person, who was a washerwoman at Grenille, and whom I saw only three or four times at my office, attributed her sick- ness to her constantly standing in cold water.

Silicea arrested the hemor- rhage almost immediately, and effected such an improvement in one week that I scarcely knew her again the second week.

She did not take any other medicine.

(A.

Teste.)

Miss S., set. 22, brunette, short, plump, round body, large, active brain, intellectual, was since puberty troubled every month with dysmenorrhcea, beginning several hours previous, and during the first day of flow, with severe pains in the uterus, back and lower limbs, and these so severe that they seemed unbearable and hysteria seemed threatening.

In one of these attacks I was sent for.

Found the patient in bed; the feet had been bathed in hot water and hot cloths applied for hours to the lower abdomen; pains no better.

I immediately gave her a large dose of Magnes. phos. 6x.

In less than half an hour the pains lessened;

I repeated the dose; in a few moments the patient was easy, the flow began, and went on the usual time.

Next month I advised patient to begin the day before period and take three doses, and on the day period was to come on take a dose every two hours.

No pains this month.

This process was repeated the third month; no more

Dysmenorrhea

At each menstrual period a membrane, varying in size from one to two inches in length, was discharged.

Her symptoms were, after the flow began, severe, sharp, shooting pains low down in the abdo- men, > by lying curled up in bed with a hot water-bag on the abdomen.

When the severe pains were > a dull aching for a day or two followed, and the next or the following day a membrane passed.

With this exception was in very good health.

After one of her periods I gave her Magnesia phos. cm. in water, a dose night and morning, for two days.

The next menstrual period was nearly free from pain, and the succeeding ones were painless, but the usual membrane was passed.

Before this she had always stayed in bed without any relief.

Painless menstruation went on for six or eight months, when she got her feet wet just before her menses, and received Magnes. phos. cm.

It relieved her, and she has had no trouble since.

(S.

A.

Kim- ball.)

"Married lady, having one child, had every month menorrhagia; twice the flow was so excessive as to cause fears of death.

Upon examination found the uterus low down and swollen; the whole vagina filled with in- durated uterus; orifice of os tender, red, stretched open about half an inch; inside filled up; outside congested.

I began treatment with Magnes. phos. 6x, three to four doses a day.

No hemorrhage next month.

No pain, and in three months the organ was reduced to its normal size, and dismissed patient cured.

" {Med.

Advance, Dec, 1889.)

Natrum phos

M.

J.

L,uys reports the case of a physician who had been accustomed to take about seven grains of mor- phine daily.

Small doses of Natrum phosphoricum were given subcutaneously (with glycerin and water), and as they were gradually increased, the morphine was progressively dimin- ished.

In two months the morphine was discontinued en- tirely, and then the doses were progressively diminished, and finally stopped altogether in two weeks more.

There re- mained no desire for the morphine.

Kali phos

Young lady, aged 20, intelligent, handsome, moving in the upper circles of society, nevertheless a con- firmed morphine fiend.

Two general practitioners of promi- nence and a specialist had attempted to cure her but failed utterly, due, as I afterwards learned, to the extreme prostra- tion of the nervous system, amounting to almost total collapse.

the mode adopted by our most noted and successful practi- tioners.

But my patient was, apparently, destined to die.

I had used one after another all the nerve tonics I could find in any school of medicine.

I was defeated and felt thoroughly discouraged.

On my way to the patient's home, after I had resolved to relinquish the treatment, I happened to think of Kali phos.

I returned to my office, got a supply of it, and started her taking a dose every fifteen minutes.

At the same time I stopped all other heart and nerve " tonics." The change was wonderful.

I could push the anti-morphine treatment and could sustain the nerve force.

The sharp, intense headache, sleeplessness, wild, staring eyes, brown, dry tongue, and that horrible sinking, " all gone " sensation rapidly yielded to the cell-salt, and she made a good recovery.

She is now, four years later, a remarkably vigorous, healthy and happy woman, without the least desire for the opiate, and has, as she ex- pressed it, "a perfect terror of morphine."

I ascribe all the credit of the cure to Kali phos.

(I used the 3X potency), for the other treatment could not have been completed had it not been for the cell-salt.

(B.

A.

Sonders, M.

D., Winterset, Ohio.)

Ferrum phos

Gums sore, red, hot and inflamed.

Red- ness, dryness or heat of the mucous membrane of the mouth.

Kali mur

Aphthae, thrush, white ulcers in the mouths of little children or nursing mothers.

Canker, ulcers of the mouth.

Gumboil, soft swelling before matters form, excori- ation of the mouth.

Great fetor from the mouth.

The mouth is red and swollen, thick, watery secretions.

Gums puffed, white or yellow in color.

Gums bleed easily.

Mucous patches.

Syphilitic ulceration of gums.

True gangrene of the mouth.

Kali phos

Cancrum oris, with mortification of the cheek, with ashy-gray ulcers, fetid breath.

Stomatitis, gums bleed

easily when there exists a red line or seam on the edges ; water-canker, gangrenous canker.

Hydroa sore crusts and pimples on lips.

Gums spongy and receding.

Saliva pro- fuse, thick and salty.

Inflammation of the tongue when ex- cessive dryness occurs or exhaustion sets in.

Edges of tongue red and sore.

Natrum mur

Thrush with flow of saliva, salivation.

Blisters like pearls around mouth.

Lips swollen ; eruptions on chin.

Gumboil with throbbing and boring pains.

Calcarea phos

Gums painful and inflamed in teething children.

Pale appearance of the gums, sign of anaemia.

Upper lip swollen and painful.

Calcarea fluor

Gumboil, hard swellings on the jaws or gums.

Indurations.

Cold sores at corners of mouth.

Natrum phos

This remedy has few equals for ulceration of the buccal mucous membrane.

" Canker sores " of the lips and cheeks yield to this remedy in the 3X or 6x attenuation where Borax, Antim., Baptisia, Kali chlor., etc., have failed to cure. {S.

J. of H.)

Calcarea sulph

Inside of lips sore, raw sores on lips.

Gums bleed on brushing teeth.

At a meeting of medical men at Schaffhausen, Professor Dr.

Rapp said: " In my opinion the greatest merits of Dr.

Schiissler's method lie in the introduction of Kali phos. and Magnes. phos.

In ordinary stomatitis, with swelling of the gums, deposit on the teeth and foul breath, Kali phos. has given very satisfactory proofs of its value."

Ferrum phos

Initiatory stage with the febrile symptoms.

Kali mur

This remedy alone will cure, unless there is fever.

I have treated, during the past year, at least a dozen cases of mumps, and I have never had such satisfactory results with other remedies One case had violent fever, even to delirium, great deal of swelling, pain, etc.

The fever was entirely reduced within five or six hours, and the swelling and all the other symptoms were entirely relieved, within three or four days, by the alternate use of Ferrum. phos. and Kali mur.

Two cases in one family, with similar conditions, were in a like manner treated with the same re- sults.

(S.

Powell Burdick, M.

D.)

Kali mur

Lancinating, nightly pains from small of back to feet, worse from warmth of bed.

Must rise and sit in chair for relief.

Ferrum phos

Congestive or inflammatory, from chill or cold, with pain as if a nail were being driven in.

Blinding pain, one-sided, in the head, temples, or over eye, or in the jaw-bone.

If this does not suffice, give Calcarea sulph., and note the tongue symptoms.

Neuralgia accompanied by flushed face, burning or diffused heat, feeling of weight and pressure.

Faceache with febrile symptoms.

Tic douloureux.

Neuralgia along inner orbit and nose.

Neuralgia of the mammary glands.

Neuralgia with ill humor, sensitiveness to light and noise, improved or not even felt during pleasant excitement.

This remedy is required to tone up the gray nervous substance.

Neuralgic pains in the nervous substance threatening paraly- sis, with a feeling of lameness or numbness.

Pains better with gentle motion, worse on rising ; pains felt most when quiet or alone.

Neuralgic pains and humming in the ears, failure of strength, paroxysms of neuralgic pains with subse- quent exhaustion.

Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve (see Sciatica).

Faceache.

Right-sided neuralgias relieved by cold applications.

Stitches from upper teeth to ear.

Magnesia phos

Intercostal neuralgia of a drawing, con- strictive kind.

Spasms from cold without fever.

Neuralgia in the head, pains darting and very intense.

Neuralgic pains in any part of the body, when the phenomena of sensation are too acute ; pain excruciating or spasmodic, pains in the ends of nerve-fibres.

Pains aggravated by mastication or any motion.

Pains coming on periodically, being very acute, darting, or shooting along the course of the nerves.

Neural- gia from exposure to a strong north wind.

Spasmodic pains and affections of almost any kind.

Neuralgia every night, well during the day.

Typical facial neuralgias.

A contra- indication for the use of the remedy is amelioration by cold.

Warm applications relieve, and especially dry warmth.

This remedy is right-sided.

Natrum mur

Neuralgic nerve-pains recurring at certain times, with flow of saliva or involuntary tears.

Darting, shoot- ing along the nerve-fibre with these accompaniments.

Orbi- tal neuralgia with lachrymation.

Irritation of the fifth pair of nerves, also the facial nerve.

Faceache with constipation, worse in the morning, from reading, writing and talking, in schoolgirls.

Natrum sulph

Attacks of neuralgia from being in damp dwellings, cellars, etc.

Tongue thick, yellow, brown coated.

Dr.

J.

T.

O'Connor, of New York, reports a cure with this remedy.

Calcarea phos

Neuralgic pains deep-seated in the bones.

Shocks like electric sparks.

Neuralgia commencing at night, recurring periodically.

Pains worse at night and in bad weather.

Tics.

Neuralgia ani, worse after stool, long-lasting.

Pains with sensation of crawling, coldness and numbness.

Calcarea sulph

This remedy occupies a ground between the very acute pains of Magnesia phos. and the paralyzing ones of Kali phos.

(more in aged persons, if there be a want of regenerative force for the nervous tissue).

Silicea

Pain mostly in teeth.

Lumbo-abdominal neural- gia.

Better from wrapping up warmly.

Obstinate neuralgia caused by dissipation, hard work and close confinement.

I therefore resolved to give her Ferrum phosphoricum in the 6x potency, and I had the surprise and satisfaction to note that scarcely two days after the administration of the first dose a certain amelioration was produced.

Naturally I continued the remedy, and at the end of eight days the amelior- ation was such that the patient thought herself cured.

However, I advised her to continue the treatment for a week longer and then report.

She did not come until two months afterward, but the cure was absolute and with- out relapses.

The following from the pen of Dr.

C.

C.

Huff, of Huron, D.

T., from vol. i, of the Minn.

Medical Monthly, No. 9, illustrates the use of one of these remedies in neuralgia :

"Case 1.

Miss S., set. 24, dark complexion, nervous temperament, clerk.

She had been under treatment for facial neuralgia for two weeks previous, the principal remedy being morphia, without relief.

On being called to the case, I found the patient much prostrated, the right side of the face and supraorbital region somewhat swollen, pains very severe, of a crampy, shoot- ing, darting nature.

There was also much tenderness over the affected side.

The pains were of an intermittent character, and seemed to affect different parts of the head and face on different days.

Magnesia phos. cured this case in twelve hours.

"Case 2.

MissB., aet. 22, dark complexion, nervous temperament, slight build, has neuralgia, from exposure to a strong north wind, and was under the so-called ' regular ' treatment for three days before I was called, and had taken massive doses of Bromide of potash and Chloral hydrate, with no relief.

I found her in bed, almost frantic with pain, flushed face, eyes in- jected, with a high degree of photophobia; pain was left-sided and involved the supramaxillary portion of the trigeminus.

In character the pain was lancinating, crampy, darting and shooting, frequently extorting cries.

Magnesia phos. was given and resulted in a speedy recovery.

" Case 3.

Miss S., aet. 20, brunette, tall and slender, nervo-bilious tem- perament, occupation topographer.

She was taken suddenly with acute pain in right side of the face, the pain involving the supra- and infraorbital region, paroxysmal, of a darting, tearing character.

Magnesia phos. cured promptly.

Case of prosopalgia of several weeks' standing, relieved by warm cotton and aggravated by cold.

Magnesia phos. i2x cured in three weeks

Allg.

Horn.

Zeit., vol. 88, p. 46.

Dr.

H.

C.

Allen reports a case of right facial neuralgia with sharp, quick, spasmodic, lightning-like pains, sensitive to touch, relieved by heat and pressure, accompanied by prostration and night-sweats, cured by Magnesia phos.200 after several other remedies had failed to give permanent relief.

Prompt curative action of Magnesia phos. by Dr.

Goullon: "On April 13th a patient wrote me that for nine days she had been in bed without medical help, suffering from a maddening pain.

Through catching cold she got a severe trouble in the ear and then a prosopalgia on the left side, affecting the lower maxillary bone, also the frontal, and involving the whole left side of the head, back to the nape of the neck.

She went to an apothecary for Bryon., but he advised Bellad., which didn't help.

Deep within the ear an abscess developed, which broke two days ago, discharg- ing pus and now water, which is quite irritating, for it has produced an eruption wherever it touched.

The ear still pains; the prosopalgia remains as before.

The pain is maddening, and there is high fever with sleepless- ness; she doesn't sleep at night and only one or two hours in the day.

She perspires freely, which is unusual with her.

Yesterday she had a severe pain in the right hip, resulting from a bath.

I was unable to see the patient, as she, at that time, lived at Leipsic, and yet she needed help at once.

What should I give her?

Silicea ?

The nightly aggravation would suit this remedy, but the abscess in the ear was gone, yet the facial pain remained.

Spigel.f There were indications for it, as I already knew she had a ten-

dency to heart trouble.

She had formerly had pains in the articulations of the hand, in the arm and side, most severe at the heart.

She described it as if the heart would be twisted out, with a throbbing as if something were un- wound.

Perhaps it was a rheumatism, located in the face, but even here Spigel. would be called for.

Then there is Arnica, which has lately been extolled as a specific.

Further, I had some reliance on Stannum, which had cured for me many neuralgias that even the great nerve remedy, Quinine, had left untouched.

The embarrass de richesse still increased.

Chamom. ought to be given for the unbearable pain.

Again there was Mercur. on account of the tendency to sweating, and Arsenic, on account of sleeplessness.

"Yet in preference to all these remedies I selected Schussler's Magnesia phos., moistened a powder of milk sugar with the 6th dilution and directed it to be dissolved in half a wine-glassful of water, a teaspoonful to be taken every three hours.

On April 17th, I had the satisfaction of reading the following lines: ' My hearty thanks for your kind and quick assistance.

I had immediate relief, and I am happy and thankful.

The horrible pain is gone from my face; the scalp is still sensitive, and one place which is cer- tainty connected with the ear still pains.

The ear itself pains somewhat and runs yet.' " — Pop.

Zeit. f.

Horn., XVII, 13 and 14.

Right facial neuralgia, jerking, cutting pain, teeth sensitive; worse after going to bed.

Merc, gave no relief.

Magnesia phos. in water gave prompt relief, and has acted equally well twice since.

This remedy given in another case of left-sided facial neuralgia did no good.

It produced, however, pro- fuse sweat, with dread of uncovering.

(W.

P.

Wesselhceft, M.

D.

From Hg.)

Chas.

M., set. 47, has for a week or two a severe tearing, gnawing pain in region of right scapula, extending into the right upper arm, and down the forearm into the thumb, with numbness, particularly of the thumb, but with- out loss of motion or use of arm.

The pain comes in paroxysms, and is only relieved by hard rubbing and pounding of the flesh, troublesome as well daytimes as nights.

Has taken several remedies, principally Rhus tox., and had electricity each day for a week or more, without benefit.

After taking Calcarea phos.6 for a few days, the pain and numbness were much relieved, and being continued, the trouble was cured in about three or four weeks.

Any return of it would be at once relieved by this remedy.

A similar case in a young lady, set. 20, was cured by the same remedy, though she had almost complete paralysis of the hand.

(C.

T.

M.)

Neuralgia.

Pain supra- and infraorbital, extending to all the front teeth of right side, intermittent, stabbing, nipping, lightning-like and extremely sensitive to touch, relieved by heat and pressure; coming and going suddenly and attended by prostration and night-sweats.

Magnesia phos.200 promptly gave relief

Med.

Advance, Dec, 1889.

A lady of healthy appearance suffered since several weeks with faceache, radiating over one-half of the face, lasting five or six hours.

Warm wadding relieves.

Worse when body gets cold.

Magnesia phos.12, every three hours, removed the pain in three days.

right side, changing locality.

Appears every two or three hours and rushes about like lightning.

Magnes. p/ios.u, a dose every three hours, relieved in two days.

Lady, aet. 42, with a hectic appearance, catamenia scantv, often omitting.

Since two years, boring over the right eye, after a few minutes spreading over the whole right side to the lower jaw, driving out of bed.

Stool torpid, little appetite.

Magnesia phos. overcame all complaints in four days.

This remedy regulated the catamenia and all subsequent attacks.

(A.

Plate, M.

D.)

Kali phos}- cured a case of neuralgia in the right side of the face, proceed- ing from hollow teeth, relieved by cold applications.

Magnesia phos. given at first did not relieve, probably because there was no relief from warmth.

Unlike Phosphor, or Kali, but similar to Pulsat.

( \Y.

P.

Wesselhceft, M.

D. )

Miss Margaret S. suffered from neuralgia, true nerve-fibre pain, darting through her head along the nerves.

She had suffered intermittent!}" for three days.

Two doses of Magnesia phos. cured her completely. 1 M.

D.

W.

From Schiissler. )

A severe case of neuralgia in the head.

The lady had come sixty miles to attend a musical entertainment, and was compelled to go to bed on account of the pain.

After suffering for sereral hours, I was called, and relieved her completely in an hour with Magnesia phos. 6x, a dose every ten minutes (E H.

H.)

Ada D., a healthy robust child, aet. 8.

Her only symptom was a severe pain at the lower part of the sacrum, coming on after stool and lasting the entire day, until she goes to bed, when it ceases.

The pain is so severe as to prevent her walking or even standing.

Calcarea phos. gave immediate relief.

(R.

T.

Cooper, M.

D.)

Magnesia phos. relieved a case of ciliary neuralgia involving the left eye extending downwards into neck, with lightning-like pains, relieved by press- ure and heat.

This case presented a symptom similar to Mezereum, namely, sensation as though a stream of cold air were blowing on the eye.

G.

P.

Hale, M.

D. )

Mr.

S., a small, undersized man, with dark complexion, dark hair, and very dark eyes; a hard worker, and not very well nourished.

Presented himself at the office, complaining of a very agonizing pain in his face, on the right side, seemingly involving the malar bone.

While waiting for me he had a severe paroxysm, and the suffering of the man was intense.

He described it as boring, like an auger, and after that came pains that he could not describe, except that they were like shocks.

Mag. phos., 30s, was given, and he went to work the next day and has not been troubled since.

Miss C. a tall, slender woman, inclined to angularity; brown hair, and somewhat sallow; unmarried, and about 35 years old.

She has a severe at- tack of neuralgia in the inferior maxillary of the right side, this being very common with her.

The face is swollen and very hard; sensitive to the touch, and very susceptible to the cold air.

The pain is sharp, darting, piercing, and changing from one part to another; can get some relief from hot. dry applications.

I gave her Mag. phos. , 30X, and called to see her

next day.

The pain was all gone, the swelling very much reduced, and a marked improvement was manifest.

The treatment was continued, and the external conditions were all removed She complained of a tooth that gave her some trouble, saying that it was very loose, and when she pressed down on it there was a throbbing sensation, with a sore feeling.

The pa- tient was given Silicea, cm., and this removed all the remaining trouble, and she has since remained free from all neuralgic attacks.

Mrs.

Mc, a slender, delicate-looking brunette; very dark hair; married; pregnant four months.

While suffering from an attack of influenza she had, as a complication, an attack of right-sided neuralgia, located over the eye, and involving the upper eyelid, which would twitch and quiver when the pain was severe; then lightning-like shocks from the supra-orbital region down into the upper lid were very frequent.

Mag. p/ios., 30X, relieved this case in a very short time.

(Chas.

C.

Huff, M.

D. )

Case r (January 21, 1895)

Miss G., aged 48, keeps a boarding-house, has had much worry lately.

Been subject to attacks of neuralgic pains in spine, but had none for two years.

After a slight attack of influenza, se- vere pains developed in lumbar region, down right sciatic nerve, and up spine.

Tenderness on pressure, with a numb sensation in affected parts.

The pains shift their position, are better by rest, worse at night.

Sometimes they seize her in paroxysms, obliging her to call out.

Patient is much dis- tressed and in great anxiety about the pains; her pulse is weak and vitality depressed.

She was kept in bed for ten days, and treated with Rhus, Actcza racemosa, Bryonia, and Arsenicum, but without effect.

Then Magnesia phosphorica 3X trit. was given, gr. v., night and morning, and at any time if the pains were severe.

The pains at once abated, and patient observed that this powder had done her good, and that each dose relieved.

She was about again in a few days.

Case 2

Mrs.

X., aged 58, an apparently healthy, vigorous lady till two years ago, when she suffered whilst abroad from vague neuralgic pains about body, which gradually increased until when I saw her in June last they had become very severe, and had greatly reduced her strength.

They were much worse at night, affected various nerve tracts, chiefly below the waist.

They shifted about; there was tenderness over the affected parts, and finally she got no sleep at night, but walked about weeping and wringing her hands in despair.

There was numbness of the toes, and the condition suggested commencing deep-seated spinal mischief.

Arsenicum, Quinine, and Phos- phorus helped the general condition.

But nothing touched the pains until Magnesia phosphorica was given.

This gave her several good nights' rest, and continued for a time to lull the pains.

The patient has now left Bournemouth, and I hear is getting worse.

Magnesia phosphorica could not have been expected to cure such a condition, but its effect in temporarily relieving the pain and ensuring sleep was unmistakable, both to the patient and her friends.

Case 3

Miss F., aged 36, a sufferer from chronic nephritis, which has much improved under treatment.

After some mental upset, severe left- sided facial neuralgia set in, radiating from an upper molar, which had given trouble before, from recurrent inflammation of the root.

The pain was better by warmth and pressure on the affected side, worse by talking.

Phosphorus at first removed the pain, but soon lost its effect.

Magnesia phosphorica was then given, which greatly relieved.

Although the pain recurred occasionally for some days, a few doses of this drug always re- moved it, and no other remedy was required.

Case 4

Mrs.

W., an old lady of 74, in reduced circumstances.

She has been under treatment for slight eczema with constipation and stomach pains.

These are better.

On September 10th, she complained of frantic neuralgia in upper jaw and face.

The pain ran down from infra-orbital foramen into upper malleolus, and along right molar bone.

It was worst at night, re- lieved by warmth, worse by least cold The pain was grasping and ticking; had lasted a week.

Magnesia phosphorica relieved almost at once, and no other remedy was required.

Case 5

Mrs.

B., aged 50.

Progressive optic neuritis, from which she is now quite blind.

She has been under treatment for two years, and for a time by various remedies the progress of the disease was arrested, and she could read large print until nine months ago.

Since then nothing has availed.

There has been frequent supra-orbital neuralgia of the right side.

The sight of the left eye had been lost before I saw her.

This neuralgia was benefited by Actcza racemosa, and when very severe by occasional antipyrin powders.

In September last the pain returned with great severity.

Magne- sia phosphorica 3X, 5 grains taken in hot water two or three times a day when the pain was worst, gave immediate relief.

A fortnight afterwards she reported the pains had quite left, and this powder had removed far more promptly than anything previously prescribed.

Ferrum phos

Orchitis after suppression of gonorrhoea.

Kali mur

Primary remedy if from suppressed gonorrhoea.

Calcarea phos

May be required later.

Calcarea fluor

Induration and hardening of testicles.

Calcarea phos

Coldness, numbness, crawling and weak- ness in lower extremities.

Nervous prostration.

Bruised feel- ing in the back after exhausting diseases and from standing in wet.

Kali phos

Facial paralysis, loss of stimulating power over some muscles.

The mouth is distorted, being drawn over to the unparalyzed side.

Creeping paralysis in which the prog- ress of the disease is slow ; there is tendency to wasting, with loss of sense of touch, etc.

Locomotor paralysis, loss of motor or stimulating power.

Paralysis of the vocal cords, loss of voice through relaxed or paralyzed conditions of the laryngeal muscles.

Atrophic paralysis, in which the vital powers are reduced and stools have a putrid odor.

All va- rieties of paralysis require this, the chief remedy, such as par- tial, paraplegia, hemiplegia, facial or ptosis.

Paralysis that comes on suddenly.

Infantile paralysis.

Magnesia phos

Languid and exhausted, unable to sit up.

Complaints from standing in cold water ( Calcarea).

Paralysis agitans, involuntary shaking and trembling of the hands and limbs, or of the head, an affection of the muscles.

Muscular paralysis caused by a disturbed or diseased condition of the different nerve-fibres which convey the motor stimulus to the muscles.

Paralysis of white nerve-fibres.

Natrum phos

Weakness of lower limbs from the knees down.

Legs give under her when she walks.

(Farrington, Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Medical Society, 1875.)

Silicea

Paralysis from tabes dorsalis.

Trembling in limbs.

Debility.

Wandering pains.

Paralytic weakness of the joints.

Progressive sclerosis of the posterior column.

which left her with paralyzed hands and feet.

I gave her six powders of Calcarea phos., and four weeks later she wrote me that she could go around the room by taking hold of the furniture.

She received six more powders, which completed her recovery.

(Monatsblatter.)

Calcarea phos

Incipient phthisis in anaemic patients, pro- fuse sweat, especially about neck and head.

To lessen the emaciation, give also cream, koumiss, small doses of cod-liver oil and carbonaceous food.

Chronic coughs of consumptives.

Night-sweats of phthisis with cold extremities.

In diarrhoea and chronic forms with but little fever.

Hoarseness, involun- tary sighing, suffocative attacks.

Cough with soreness and dryness of throat, dull aching in chest.

Alternating or asso- ciated with anal fistulae.

Calcarea sulph

Sputa purulent ; sanious, mixed with blood.

In phthisical coughs with greenish yellow expectora- tion, rattling cough.

Natrum sulph

Hydrogenoid constitution.

Phthisis mu- cosa.

Cough with muco-purulent sputa.

Lower lobe of left lung affected.

All-gone feeling in chest.

Natrum mur

General malaise after the least exertion, sleepy by day, restless at night.

Spasmodic periodical cough with rattling in chest and expectoration of bloody sputa, worse in the evening after lying down, congestion to head with hec- tic flush, chronic coryza with total loss of taste and smell.

Patient always worse near the seashore.

Accumulation of transparent mucus in the larynx in the morning.

Empty swallowing causes cough.

Silicea

Profuse discharge of fetid pus — nightly paroxysms of cough with tickling in suprasternal fossa — tuberculous de- posits on skin, showing themselves as lumpy tumors.

Ema- ciation, profuse night-sweats.

Terribly offensive foot-sweat.

Great constipation ; the rectum lacks power to expel stools, and hence it recedes after partial evacuation.

Patient is al-

ways cold, especially feet.

Much, prostration and loose, rat- tling cough, with copious expectoration of thick, yellow- greenish pus.

This remedy embraces most of the symptoms that belong to the phthisical dyscrasia, consequently it is a remedy of value for the constitutional condition in congenital or hereditary cases.

Dr.

Holcombe has used the 6000th po- tency with wonderful curative power in the last stages of phthisis.

Ferrum phos

Breathing short, oppressed and hurried, ac- companied by heat and feverishness.

Hoarseness from over- straining the voice.

Cough worse in open air.

Haemoptysis profuse, bright-red, frothy ; epistaxis.

Phthisis fiorida.

" If patients take cold, become prostrated and have a blood- streaked expectoration, this remedy, even in the 300th po- tency, will quickly quiet the pulmonary congestion." (F.)

ligence that the medicine acted like a charm and wanted more of the same kind;

I sent so that he got a dose of Silicea twice a week, and so treated him till June, when he paid me a visit.

Left lung appeared to be cleared up, night sweats no longer troubled him, appetite was good, he was steadily gain- ing in flesh and strength.

Nevertheless, in the right lung there yet remained traces of the vomica, which now was much smaller and secreting only a small amount of muco-purulent matter; he was furnished additional medicine and went home, and by the middle of July was on his mowing machine Patient was alive for four years after and enjoying fine health, and I do not know but he is to-day; no man could be more surprised than myself at these re- sults.

Were we all deceived ?

Three good physicians of the leading school of medicine agreed about the diagnosis, and I don't think there is left a pos- sible ground for doubt.

The case is exceptional, we agree; but is it not full of suggestions?

(G.

N.

B., in Brigham's Phthisis.)

Case of a lady who had been bedridden for nine months.

Mrs.

McH. was given up by four doctors as beyond medical treatment.

The professor's diagnosis ran thus: Both lungs diseased, especially the right lung.

The heart is greatly dilated, especially the right cavity.

The lung disease pro- duced by neglected cold.

When her case was brought under treatment by biochemic measures, four years ago, she was also suffering from dropsy.

At the stage she came under the new treatment, it took sometimes an hour and more before she could find the right position to rest in.

She would often rather spend the night on the sofa than venture to go through the fatigue of going to bed.

Her cough and expectoration were very bad, breath extremely short and palpitation constant.

She did not know what it was to have a good night, and rarely slept.

By patiently adhering to Dr.

Schiiss- ler's remedies she had recovered greatly, her lungs are wonderfully healed up, and her dilatation of heart almost removed.

She now lives in com- paratively fair health, so that she was able to nurse her husband during a severe illness, where night watching was necessary.

To reassure all con- cerned, a diagnosis was made.

Dr H., a specialist, concurred in the state- ment that her right lung, of which a large portion is gone, is now fairly healed up, and dilatation of heart has almost entirely disappeared.

(From Schiissler. )

Dr.

Snader emphasizes the importance of Silicea in night sweats.

Of sixty-two cases treated, in forty-three the perspiration was stopped, and in thirteen it was lessened.

The potencies used were from the 3d to 30th, and Dr.

Snader thinks that the higher potencies, as a rule, act best.

Ferrum phos

For the fever, pain, stitch in the side, catch in the breath and short cough.

Breathing short, oppressed and hurried.

Kali mur

The second remedy, when there is plastic exu- dation.

It will complete the cure.

Boy, aet. 5, with right-sided pleuritic stitch, worse when coughing and on deep inspiration.

Rheumatic pains in right shoulder joint.

General heat of the body, very little thirst.

Bryon. did no good.

Ferrum phos?2, every two hours, relieved entirely on the second day.

I noticed an unnatural ex- citement about the child the day after having taken Ferr. phos.

He desired to get out of bed and wished to run around, but was too weak and fell over, very talkative and hilarious.

A similar excitement I noticed in a lad aet. 7, to whom I had given Kali mur. during a gastric fever with great benefit.

(W.

P.

Wesselhoeft, M.

D.

From Hg. )

Miss G.

R., set. 20.

Was called about midnight to see this young lady, who was said to be suffering from a pain in her side.

I found her to be suf- fering from the symptoms common to an acute attack of pleurisy, high fever and severe pain in the left side of the chest.

Gave her Bryon? in water.

Called next morning, found the fever somewhat less, but pain not relieved; continued the Bryon?.

Called at four p. m. ; about the same, pain still severe; gave Ferrum phos. iu solution; called at nine p. m. ; the fever had abated, and the pain was much less.

Called the next morning; no fever and pain nearly gone.

She continued to improve, and after a few days was up and about as usual.

(C.

T.

M.)

Ferrum phos

Inflammation of the lungs ; it is the first and chief remedy.

High fever, breathing short, oppressed and hurried.

It should be given in the first stage until free per- spiration is established and health is restored.

Pneumonia, congestive stage.

Expectoration is clear blood.

Secondary congestion following pneumonia.

The well lung suddenly becomes congested.

Crepitant rales.

Sputa rust-colored.

" This remedy and Veratrum viride give me better success in the treatment of pneumonia than any remedies I have ever tried." (G.

W.

Lawrence, M.

D.)

Natrum mur

Inflammation of the lungs, if there be much loose, rattling phlegm, clear, serous and frothy in character and coughed up with difficulty, worse in the morning.

Cough with beating headache, involuntary urination and lachryma- tion.

Kali sulph

Inflammation of the lungs with wheezing, if yellow, loose, rattling phlegm be coughed up, or watery mucus.

Rattling: cough, especially in children.

Suffocative feeling, desire for cool air.

Silicea

Chronic, neglected pneumonia, passing over into suppuration; dyspnoea when lying on back.

Deep-seated pain in lung.

Sputa profuse, greasy, fetid.

Case of pneumonia of left upper lobe, with well-marked crepitation and profuse expectoration of frothy, pink mucus, yellow, watery diarrhoea, green vomiting.

Laches., Lycop. and Phosphor, did nothing.

Ferrum phos., every two hours, produced immediate improvement, although we considered her moribund (she had tuberculosis); the diarrhoea and vomiting were un- affected.

(W.

C.

Goodno, M.

D.

From Hg.)

Dr.

A.

L.

Fisher quickly relieved a child of lobular pneumonia, with high temperature, with Ferrum phos.

Kali sulph., given on account of thick, yellowish expectoration, speedily cured the case

Horn.

Journal 0/ Obstet- rics.

Archibald Herbert, suffering from chronic bronchitis, had an attack of pneumonia.

An iron moulder by trade, he was exposed to great heat; he had lain down on a form in a state of perspiration, took a severe chill, and inflammation in the right lung was the result.

His case was a bad one, complicated by bronchial affection, fever high, cough distressing, a pain deep-seated in the right side, expectoration tenacious, rusty-colored.

Fer- rum phos., in alternation with Kali mur., a dose every half hour, was taken for twenty-four hours, then every hour.

For his prostration and sleepless- ness a few doses of Kali phos. were taken now and then.

The improve- ment every way was very marked in two days.

As the color of the sputa changed to yellow, he took Kali sulph. instead of Kali mur.; and as this condition was remedied, Natrum mur. and Calcarea phos. completed the cure in a little more than ten days.

He returned to work, free from inflam- mation and bronchitis.

( From Schiissler. )

about ten days with the ordinary remedies, Aeon., Bryon., Phosphor., etc., without improvement, and as the case was assuming graver proportions than I have had for years, I placed him upon Ferruni phos. and Kali mur. in alternation.

In twenty-four hours a marked and amazing improvement resulted, which continued to the termination of the disease with rapid con- valescence.

The case was a grave one, for the reason that he had been laid up three months with a fractured arm, and was in a very reduced condition when the pneumonia appeared.

(S.

Powell Burdick, M.

D.)

Kali phos

Puerperal mania or fever, when illusions, absurd notions, or violent madness set in.

Specific remedy.

Calcarea sulph

Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharges or yellow purulent crusts, festers, etc.

Pimples, if matter forms on their heads, pustules, nodules, suppurating purulent scabs, suppuration of the skin, sores discharging pus or sanious matter.

Herpetic eruptions, all over itching of soles.

Calcarea fluor

Chaps, cracks of the skin, also use exter- nally with vaseline, fissures in the palms of the hands, fissures of the anus, horny skin, suppurations with callous, hard edges.

Carbuncles.

Eczema.

Due to venous hypersemia, worse in damp weather, better at night.

Squamous eczema with thicken- ing and cracking of the skin.

Eczema of anus consequent to hemorrhoids.

Eczema in a child, on cheeks, chin and behind ears, skin swollen and in- flamed and underneath it indurations.

Pustules developed early, cured in one week by Kali mur. 6x, every four hours.

(D.

B.

Whittier, M.

D. )

Dr.

H.

Goullon reports in the Pop.

Zeit. fur Horn., April, 1885, a case of cycosis cured by Calcarea sulph.6; the case presented the yellow purulent conditions calling for this remedy.

Dr.

S. writes: Mrs.

S., set. 24, of Regensburg, who had been suffering for several years from lichen, had used various well-known medicines, which had done her no good.

I tried various remedies, and at last cured her.

A few months ago she came again, and the lichen was worse than ever.

My former remedy had no effect; and with several others, Arsen., etc., it was no better.

I gave her Calcarea sulph., night and morning, in quantities as large as a bean, and in a fortnight the cure was complete.

(From Schiissler. )

Case illustrative of the beneficial action of Calcarea sulph. in pemphigus foliaceus

Allg.

Horn.

Zeit., 1882, p. 42.

Julia C, set. 3, eruption all over the face and on the hands, which are kept covered to prevent scratching; has been afflicted eight months and been under the best allopathic treatment without benefit.

Gave her at first Kali mur.6, in solution.

This remedy was continued for some time, but without much benefit, if any.

Gave her then Calcarea phos.6, in solution.

This remedy produced a change for the better in a week, and it being con- tinued cured the case in two months.

The heat of the following summer seemed to produce a relapse, when the same remedy again cured it, and she remains well.

(C.

T.

M.)

Case of skin disease lasting for years, consisting of a recurring eruption of fine red pimples, and, when very severe, the pimples run together, the surface presenting a red swollen appearance, a strong alkaline fluid oozes out copiously; after this exudation the inflammation subsides, and the cuticle comes off in fine scales.

Eruption itches and stings intensely, and although formerly relieved by cold water the irritation has become relieved lately by heat.

He has also used Acetic acid, except on the face, which allayed the itching and redness.

He has taken in the last year Fowler's solution of Arsenic, but without relief.

The attacks are worse in the fall and spring, and the eruption is mostly on the face, arms and chest.

Consti- pation is present.

After using Kali sulph. a few days, commenced having boils and had a great many, after which the skin was better than it had been for years, bowels also better.

In another case, a great deal worse, having lasted twenty-five years, the scaly eruption, mostly on arms, relieved by hot water, entirely disappeared, but returned a year after, when the same remedy in repeated doses of the 30th, finally the 200th, brought relief.

(C.

Hg. )

Kali mur.12, given for gleet, the discharge having a milky appearance, produced no visible effects upon the flow, but increased very markedly the dandruff on the head, which fell in small white flakes over the coat-collar, accompanied by itching.

(W.

P.

Wesselhceft, M.

D.

From Hg. )

Lady, blonde, aat. 20, fair skin ordinarily.

Consulted the writer for ery- thema.

For two days cheeks were swollen, fiery-red, and burnt like fire, no itching, eruption or roughness.

One dose Ferrum pkos., M.

M.

(Swan).

In thirty minutes the burning fiery redness was gone, and there was no return, the cure being perfect.

(Boardman, London Homoeopathic Worlds 1883.)

Case which had suffered from effects of ivy poisoning (Rhus lox.) for eight months.

Was formerly treated by external remedies, but has repeat- edly broken out again with small, hard herpetic vesicles, forming into a thin scab, with itching and some moisture.

The eruption appears in the left axilla, about the neck and on the backs of both hands.

She has a sen- sation of faintness at stomach and befogged feeling in head, fearing to lose her reason.

Very vivid dreams.

Sulphur, Rhus and Sepia had no bene- ficial effect.

Two doses of Kali sulph}"1, taken in water morning and even- ing for four days, cured the case in four weeks.

(W.

P.

Wesselhoeft, M.

D.

From Hg. )

the head, also of beard.

Came on after gonorrhoea a year ago, and has probably taken much potash.

Lycop., Natrum mur., were of no avail dur- ing four or five months.

After taking Kali sulph}"1, every third day a powder for three weeks, the hair ceased falling, and the bald spot is covered with hair.

(W.

P.

Wesselhceft, M.

D.

From Hg.)

Th., set. 15, thick crop of papules on forehead, face and both hands, red looking, itclies and burns in daytime only.

The spots on forehead are much worse when he takes off his hat.

Not at all annoyed in the evening when warm, or at night.

The entire eruption vanished in less than a fortnight under Silicedm.

(R.

A.

Cooper.)

Magnesia phos

Sleeplessness after exhaustion or lack of brain nutrition.

(J.

C.

Morgan.) Insomnia from nervous- ness and emotions.

Ferrum phos

Insomnia from hyperaemic conditions.

A beautiful hypnotic, but those who usually sleep well are kept awake by it.

Restless at night, anxious dreams.

Drowsi- ness in the afternoon.

Kali mur

Startled at the least noise.

Somnolence, rest- less sleep.

Kali phos

Sleeplessness after worry, excitement, business troubles, and from nervous causes generally.

Sleepless from overexertion.

Often accompanied by irritability, great de- spondency and frequent urination.

The trite remedy restores normal stimulating power in the gray nervous matter, and consequent contraction of the arteries, which diminish the flow of blood to the brain, and natural healthful sleep results.

Sometimes a course of this remedy is needed.

Somnambulism of children requires a steady course of this remedy.

Yawn- ing, stretching and weariness.

Constant dreaming of fire, robbers, of falling, of ghosts, etc.

Night terrors of children, awaking from sound sleep, screaming with fright.

Lascivi- ous dreams.

Twitching of muscles on falling asleep.

Natrum mur

Excessive sleep traced to an excess of moist- ure in the brain substance.

Sleepiness, the natural amount

of sleep is unrefreshing.

Constant and excessive desire to sleep.

Drowsiness, saliva dribbles from the mouth.

Sleep- lessness with great nervous irritability, associated with cold- ness of legs.

Sleep restless and setting in late — frequent starting during sleep.

Natrum sulph

Drowsiness often the precursor of jaundice, when there exist a grayish or brownish-green coated tongue and other bilious symptoms.

Awakened by asthma.

Kali phos. in SLEEPLESSNESS

Mr.

S., aged 51 years, had been sick five weeks with what the doctors called typhoid fever.

He had been run- ning down for nearly two years.

He had lost nearly all of his strength and flesh and could not sleep, even though he had taken all of the old remedies When I was called he was badly alarmed and very nervous.

During his sickness he had had a great deal of headache and depression of spirits.

His tongue was coated a dark brown, and his breath was very offensive.

He complained of a" gone sensation " in his stomach.

The stools were putrid and foul, with considerable flatulence.

His fever did not run high, and varied about two degrees from morning to night.

I gave Kali phos. for the sleeplessness and nervousness, and Ferrum phos. for the fever.

The result was he slept well from the first and wanted to know what he took.

I experimented some by not giving it every day, and I found that he could not rest without it.

It proved to be the remedy for him.

(O.

A.

Palmer, M.

D.)

" Mrs.

C. says when she has a severe pain in back of neck and head, and so nervous she could not allow any one to talk to her, could not lie still or sleep, one powder of Kali phos. would relieve her in a few minutes, and she would sleep as if she had taken morphia, and would feel sleepy for the entire day and night following the dose." Dr.

J.

C.

Nothingham, who pre- scribed the Kali phos., believes the symptoms were due to sexual excesses

Medical Advance.

A gentleman, who has suffered from great sleeplessness, depression and occasional tendencies to suicidal mania, writes: I do not know how to thank you for the medicine you gave me; it has done me so much good.

I have taken the Kali phos. and occasional doses of Kali mur. very faithfully, and will continue to do so, as it keeps me right.

(From Schiissler. )

coldness of extremities for three months.

She cannot keep them warm in any manner, coldness is subjective, but not objective.

Natrum. mur. 6th trit. promptly cured the insomnia, "soothed her nerves," and cured the other symptoms.

(J.

C.

Burnett, M.

D.)

I have treated many cases of that affection with Magnes.phos. 3X tr. where I suspected the cause to be of a nervous origin.

Generally a good dose of that medicine in two or three tablespoonfuls of water, teaspoonful doses every four or five minutes, overcame the difficulty after half a dozen teaspoonfuls have been taken.

(E.

A. da Cailhol, M.

D. )

Kali phos

Putrid conditions, heavy odor, exhaustion and stupor.

Adynamic symptoms indicating blood-decomposition.

Ferrum phos

Throat dry, red, inflamed, with very much pain (very frequent doses), reduces congestion, heat, fever, pain and throbbing in ulcerated sore throat, sore and inflamed palate, acute stage of laryngitis.

Burning of the throat with pain.

Sore throats of singers and those who use the voice daily.

Tendency to evening hoarseness.

Kali mur

When swelling of the glands or tonsils sets in, give this and Ferrum phos. alternately.

Throat ulcerated with whitish or grayish patches or spots, and the character- istic white tongue.

Syphilitic sore throat ; pain on swallow- ing.

Hawks up offensive, cheesy small lumps.

Professor Wertheim, of Vienna, recommended this remedy as a wash *9

and gargle in sore mouths and throats.

Granular pharyngitis.

Adenoid elevations ; secretion of mucus which is white and tough ; also in posterior nares.

Patient hawks and snuffs to get it out.

In follicular pharyngitis, with tough, tenacious secretion and cough, temporarily relieved by removal, after great effort, of the clinging sputa.

We have found it more frequently usefiil than Kali bichromtcum.

(H.

C.

French,, M.

D.)

Kali phos

Gangrenous sore throat.

Throat very dry ; desire to swallow all the time.

Salty mucus raised from throat.

Natrum mur

Enlargement of the throat.

Goitre, if with watery secretions.

Inflammation of the mucous lining of the throat, transparent mucus covering the parts, relaxed uvula.

Chronic sore throat with feeling of plug or lump, and great dryness of throat.

Constrictions and stitches in the throat.

Follicular pharyngitis, especially in smokers after nitrate of silver treatment.

Natrum phos

Tonsils coated with a yellow creamy mucus, raw feeling, moist deposit on the tongue mornings, looking yellow.

Secretion as of a lump in the throat, worse swallowing liquid.

Natrum sulph

Sore throat with feeling of lump on swal- lowing dry.

Ulcerated sore throat.

Diphtheria with vomit- ing and welling up of mucus from the stomach.

Palate burns during menses.

Calcarea fluor

Relaxed condition of the uvula, tickling in the larynx.

Exciting cough.

Hawking of mucus early in morning.

Burning in throat better by warmth.

This was especially disturbing, as he was obliged to appear in a role, three days later, in which proximity with his fellow actors was necessary.

From an examination I concluded that it resulted from a deficiency of Kali phos., and so I ordered this remedy.

On the evening of the second day Mr.

E. in- formed me that he was fully recovered; of the foul breath there was not a trace to be perceived.

He also stated that he was able to notice an improve- ment even after the second dose.

(Dr.

Quesse. )

Kali phos

Fits from fright, with pallid or livid counte- nance.

Hysterical spasms with unconsciousness and low muttering delirium.

Magnesia phos

Cramps in any part of the body, legs, throat, larynx, etc.

Writer's cramp.

Muscular contraction, twitchings and spasms.

Convulsions with stiffness of the limbs or body, thumbs drawn in, fingers clenched, etc.

Over- stimulation of nerve fibres.

Convulsive twitchings of the corners of the mouth.

Spasm of the throat on attempting to swallow, spasmodic stammering.

Tonic spasms, violent con- tractions and rigidity of the muscles during longer or shorter intervals.

Tetanus, lockjaw (rub it into the gums).

Tetanic spasm, like Bellad., where the latter does no good.

(J.

C.

M.)

Calcarea phos

Convulsions from teething without fever, if Magnesia phos. fails.

Fits during development in child- hood, in youth or in old age, where the lime salts are at fault.

In ansemic, pale patients, in the strumous and scrofulous.

Cramps and convulsive movements of all kinds if Magnesia phos. fails.

Spasms with contractions of the fingers, open eyes, during intervals has a spasmodic cough.

Magnesia phos., 9X, cured

Raue's Record Homoeo- pathic Literature .

A.

R.

V.

G., a young lady, aet. 18, had visited, along with her mother, in the past summer (1875), a hydropathic establishment.

Without being ill, she had used the baths, even during her catamenia.

Immediately after this she took violent spasms or cramps, which set in daily and continued after

having returned home.

A medical man was consulted, as the disease increased in spite of the different medicines she took.

A second doctor was consulted, who quite agreed in the diagnosis as well as the treatment adopted by his colleague.

Injections of morphium, very strong and repeated several times daily, were the main remedies applied; but the distressing ailment could not be removed; on the contrary, the cramps increased in violence and frequency.

The medical men in attendance finally declared that there was no chance of improvement until the patient would take some steel-baths in the spring.

The parents were afraid that their daughter would not live to see the spring, and if she did, that she would not be fit to be removed.

They, therefore, telegraphed requesting a visit from me.

On the 6th of September last I saw the patient for the first time.

I had known her formerly and was astonished to see, instead of the blooming healthy girl she had been, a pale, emaciated figure whom I should not have recognized.

During my presence she had an attack, her features were distorted, the eyes turned upward, froth came to the mouth, and then a fearful paroxysm of beating and striking with the hands and feet, such as I had never seen before.

This was only the commencement.

Suddenly the trunk of her body was contorted in an indescribable manner, the back of the head pressed deeply into the pillows, the feet forced against the foot of the bed, her chest and abdomen became arched like a bridge, drawn up almost half a yard.

In this unnatural posi- tion she was suspended several seconds.

Suddenly the whole body jerked upward with a bound, and the poor sufferer was tossed about for some seconds with her spine contracted.

During the whole attack, which lasted several minutes, she was quite unconscious; pinching and slapping had no effect, dashing cold water in the face or applying burnt feathers to the nostrils was ineffectual, the pupils were quite insensible to the light.

Ignat., which I ordered, had no effect;

Cupr. met. acted better, but only temporarily;

Be/lad., Ipecac and Pulsat, (the latter for suppressed cata- menia) were of no use.

The attacks did not increase, neither did they decrease in the least degree.

The morphium injections, too, were contin- ued at the desire of her friends.

When at my visit on the 4th of October, the spasms came on again with such violence that the bedstead gave way.

I consulted Schiissler's Therapy and ordered Magnes. phos.

After taking this remedy on the 10th of October, the catamenia appeared, but her condi- tion otherwise was in no way changed.

The spasms continued with the same violence.

Then, remembering Schiissler's injunction to use Calcarea phos. where Magnes. phos., though indicated by the symptoms, proves ineffectual, I gave here Calcarea phos., on the 16th of October, a full dose every two hours.

Immediately the spasms became less frequent.

On the sixth day there was an attack, weak and of short duration.

From this date she had peace till the 6th of November, the day of the return of the catamenia, which was preceded by short slight attack.

On the 14th of December I had a call from the young lady, looking well and blooming, who wished to consult me for a slight bronchial affection.

She told me she was entirely cured of her attacks, and at the beginning of December she had been quite regular, without experiencing any inconvenience.

(From Schussler. )

A very interesting case came under my treatment, which deserves the at- tention of the profession.

I was called to a lady advanced in years.

She had been suffering for nearly five weeks from fearful attacks of convulsive spasms.

During the last twenty-four hours she had thirty attacks.

The spasms darted through her body like an electric shock, so that she fell to the ground.

The attack lasted a few minutes, after which she felt well enough, but rather exhausted.

The sufferer did not venture to leave her bed now, afraid of being injured.

She had been treated by her first doctor with Flor. zinci., Fowler's solution, and friction, but without success.

When I saw the lady, I thought of trying Schussler's functional remedies.

Knowing that Magnes. phos., Kali phos. and Calcarea phos. are prescribed for allaying spasms, I chose the latter, Calcarea phos., under the circum- stances.

Next da}-, to the astonishment of those about her, I found the old lady walking about the room.

She met me with a smile, exclaiming, " Ah!

Doctor, my spasms are cured." And so it was.

She had not another attack.

(Dr.

Fechtmann.

From Schiissler. )

Dr.

F., of Als6, Hungary, reports: I was requested to go into the country to see a man who had b en suffering the last three days from spasmodic, convulsive sobbing.

He was lying in bed.

Subcutaneous injections of morphia, friction with chloroform and sinapisms (mustard poultices) were all of no use.

Although the sobbing was mitigated for two or three hours, it returned with more violence than ever.

I gave him a powder of Magnes. phos. in half a tumblerful of water.

After the second tablespoonful the sobbing ceased altogether, to the astonishment of all those present.

(From Schiissler. )

Kali phos

Idiopathic softening of the spinal cord with molecular deadening of the nerve centres.

"Spinal anaemia from exhausting diseases, such as diphtheria, reflex paraplegia, with laming pains aggravated by rest, but most manifest on beginning to move about." (Arndt.)

Natrum phos

Spinal anaemia.

" Paralytic weakness of the lower extremities, with general prostration, heaviness and sensation of fatigue, especially after a short walk, or ascend- ing steps, legs give way, so as to be unable to progress farther." (Arndt.)

Calcarea phos

Spinal anaemia.

Spinal curvature, spinal weakness.

" Cramplike pain in the neck, pains and aches

Calcarea fluor

Spina ventosa.

Spinal ansemia.

Silicea

When the bony structure of the spine is affected, myelitis, coccygodynia, spondylitis.

Posterior spinal sclerosis.

Thos.

T.

McNish, M.

D., Allegheny, Pa. in American Homceopathist, October 15, '97.

Two years ago I was consulted by a farmer, sixty years old, spare, of nervous temperament, about a dyspepsia of three years' stand- ing.

It was an aggravated and aggravating case, but I am not going to de- tail it further than to say that I gave Sepia, 30th trituration, and this single remedy effected a perfect cure.

Natrum mur

Easily fatigued, weakness from slightest exertion, restlessness of limbs, pain in back and sensitiveness of spine.

Sleepless, restless and weak.

Headache on walk- ing.

Salty taste and repugnance to food.

Vision becomes dim after reading, at times only half of object visible.

Natricm mur., in its first effects, stimulates the nervous system, caus- ing muscular contractions very much like those induced by galvanism.

It also increases the red corpuscles, glandular secretions, digestion, etc.

It is from this stimulating action that salt is so effective when applied locally with friction to weak muscles, etc.

Later, however, Natrum mur. exhausts the nerves, diminishes glandular activity, and develops asthenia and anaemia with emaciation.

The skin is dry, barsh and sallow ; mucous membranes are dry, cracked and glazed, with smarting and rawness, or with scanty, corroding discharges.

Great complaints are made that the mouth is dry, when in reality the annoyance arises from the stickiness of the secretions ; they are not normally fluid.

Now, from this atonic effect of salt, we observe spinal neurasthenia.

The small of the back feels paralyzed, especially in the morn- ing, on arising.

Back feels as if broken.

Legs weak, trem- bling ; worse in the morning.

Feet heavy as lead.

With all this, it may readily occur that the bladder becomes weak ; troublesome dribbling of urine after a normal stool.

And we may admit this vesical symptom as a concomitant of spinal weakness, even though the prover had no such association, because such a combination is quite in keeping with the genius of the remedy.

We ma)' regard both spinal and cystic atony as a part of a general tendency in salt to produce ex. haustion, hence not a symptom of paralysis, but rather of neurasthenia.

Silicea

Spinal irritation alternating with offensive foot- sweat.

Spinal irritation of children depending on worms

{Natr. phos.), markedly aggravated at the time of the new moon.

Spinal irritation with stiffness of nape of the neck and headache.

Weak back and paralyzed feeling in lower extremities.

Burning in back, constant aching in centre of back.

Coccyx painful.

Patient is very sensitive to the least noise, has rough and yellow finger-nails, icy-cold feet even in bed.

Unhealthy skin, every little injury suppurates.

Feels better from warmth in general.

Calcarea fluor

Backache simulating spinal irritation, with weak, dragging, down-bearing pain.

Bowels confined.

Natrum phos

Emissions every night, sexual desire almost gone.

Semen thin, watery, smells like stale urine.

In the provers it produced seminal emissions every night ; at first there seemed to be erethism with lascivious dreams, but later emissions took place, one or two in a night, without any sen- sation whatever.

These were followed by weakness of the back and trembling of the knees, which felt as if they would give way.

(Farrington.)

Kali phos

Nervousness growing out of excessive sexual excitement, whether indulged or suppressed.

Impotency and nocturnal or other discharges with these nervous indications.

(Nottingham.) Intense sexual desire.

Painful emissions at night.

Prostration and weak vision after coitus.

Natrum mur

Discharge of prostatic juice.

Pollutions, followed by chilliness, lassitude and increased sexual desire.

Impotence.

Silicea

Sexual erethism, with paralytic disease.

Persist- ent sexual thoughts ; often nocturnal emissions.

SPINAL MENINGITIS.

Natrum sulph

Violent pains in back of neck and head.

Drawing back of the neck and spasms of the back, together with mental irritability and delirium.

" In the spinal menin- gitis of to-day, if all the remedies in the Materia Medica were taken away from me and I were to have but one with which to treat that disease, I would take Natrum sulph., because it will modify the attack and save life in the majority of cases.

It cuts short the disease surprisingly when it is the truly in- dicated remedy.

The violent determination of blood to the head that we find in the disease, clinically, is readily relieved.'* (J.

T.

Kent.)

Natrum mur

The pathological conditions of this affec- tion arise from sudden abstraction of moisture in the tissues at the base of the brain ;

Natrum mur. is the chief remedy in these conditions.

Engorged venous sinuses with tendency to extravasation ; temporary cerebral congestion.

Kali mur

Soft chancre, the principal remedy throughout (3X tr.) and also externally as a lotion ; chronic stage of syphi- lis.

In bubo for the soft swelling.

Mucous patches.

Syphi- litic ulceration of gums.

Kali sulph

Syphilis with the characteristic symptoms, evening aggravation, etc.

Chronic syphilis.

Silicea

Chronic syphilis with suppurations or indurations.

Ulcerated cutaneous affections where mercury has been given to excess, nodes in tertiary syphilis ; caries and necrosis with discharge of offensive pus.

Calcarea sulph

In bubo to control suppuration (with Silicea).

Chronic suppurating stage of syphilis.

Calcarea fluor

Chancres hard and indurated.

Chancroid ulcers surrounded by congested areola, grayish exudation cov- ering surface.

Deep excavations, wider at bottom, painful micturition.

Kali mur.6 every three hours.

Improvement soon set in, the pain on urin- ating disappeared, and the ulcers rapidly healed.

(F.

A.

Rockwith.)

Kali mur

Primary remedy if from suppressed gonorrhoea.

Hydrocele in little boys.

Calcarea fluor

Dropsy of the testicles.

Indurations of same.

Natrum mur

CEdema of the scrotum and prepuce (also Natrum stdph.).

Spermatic cord and testicles painfully sore and painful.

Aching in testicles.

Violent itching on scrotum.

L-oss of hair from pubes.

Calcarea sulph

Coating, yellow at base, clay-colored.

Flabby ; taste sour, soapy, acrid.

Inflammation of the tongue when suppurating.

Ferrum phos

Inflammation of the tongue with dark-red swelling.

Cancer.

Kali mur

For the swelling in glossitis.

Coating white, dry, grayish-white, slimy.

Kali phos

Inflammation of the tongue when excessive dryness occurs, or exhaustion.

Coating like stale, brownish, liquid mustard, excessively dry in the morning, as if it would cleave to the roof of the mouth.

Brown tongue.

Edges of

Kali sulph

Coating yellow, slimy, sometimes with whitish edge.

Insipid, pappy taste.

Calcarea phos

Swollen, stiff, numb, white-furred, pim- ply.

Cancer.

Natrum mur

Coating slimy, clear and watery, especially when small bubbles of frothy saliva cover the sides and tips.

Ivoss of taste, mapped tongue.

Clean, moist tongue.

Tongue numb and stiff.

Children slow in learning to talk.

Sensation of a hair on tongue.

Dryness of tongue and mouth, more a sensation.

Natrum phos

Coating at the base moist, creamy or golden-yellow.

Blisters and sensation of hair on tip of tongue.

Cancer.

Natrum sulph

Coating dirty brownish-green or grayish- green.

Taste bitter and sour.

Slimy tongue, burning blis- ters on tip.

Red tongue.

Silicea

Induration of the tongue, hardening.

Inflamma- tion resulting in suppuration.

Calcarea fluor

Cracked appearance of the tongue, with or without pain.

Induration of the tongue, hardening after in- flammation.

Note

The coating of the tongue does not always wholly influence the choice of a remedy in all affections of the tissues.

If any one, suffering from a chronic catarrh of the stomach, take also another (acute) disease, the coating of the tongue will not always have that peculiar appearance which will indicate the remedy suited to the acute disease.

If any disease, particularly of a chronic nature, shows itself without decisive symptoms, then the coating of the tongue will, in most cases, guide in the choice of an appropriate remedy.

(Schiissler.)

Ferrum phos

Tonsils red and inflamed, painful on swal- lowing.

This remedy at first alone.

Kali mur

The second remedy, as soon as there is any swelling of the throat.

Throat spotted white or gray.

Chronic or acute tonsillitis with much swelling.

Natrum phos

Catarrh of the tonsils with a golden-yellow tinged exudation, from an acid condition of the stomach.

Chronic swelling of the tonsils.

Calcarea phos

Chronic swelling of the tonsils, causing pain on opening mouth, deafness and difficulty of swallowing; intercurrent.

Husky voice.

" In spongy hypertrophy of the tonsils in children, in the 2x trituration we have found a faithful and protracted use of the drug in many cases to pro- duce a marked diminution in the size of the tonsils." (H.

C.

French, M.

D.)

Natrum mur

Uvulitis ; here the mucous cells are the seat of the disease.

Hence not Kali mur., but Natrum mur., is the remedy.

Chronic enlargement of the tonsils has been cured by the remedy in the 30th potency.

Magnesia phos

Tonsillitis worse right side.

Throat very- red and puffy.

Patient is chilly and tired, head aches and is flushed.

I have used Natrum mur. repeatedly, and especially in obstinate cases of salivation, with excellent results.

One case in particular was cured with remarkable rapidity by this remedy.

A young lady, aet. 20, who suffered from severe inflammation of the tonsils, so that she could scarcely swallow milk or water, had received from me a preparation of mercury.

The inflam- mation of the tonsils was reduced very quickly, but another evil set in — namely, violent salivation.

The gums were loosened, bleeding easily and standing back from the teeth, and the teeth were slackened.

I thought of curing this affection also with Mercur.. with which I had often before sue-

ceeded in such cases, but by continuing this remedy the evil was only in- creased.

Now I ascertained from the patient that in the previous summer she had been ill at N., and the doctor had given her a good deal of calomel, which caused fearful and long-continued salivation.

She was afraid the evil would again become very tedious, as it had been so bad at N.

I now stopped the Mercury and ordered Natrum mur., a dose the size of a bean every two hours The success surpassed my most sanguine expectations.

In twenty- four hours the swelling of the glands had distinctly diminished, and in three days a complete cure was effected.

(From Schiissler. )

Enlarged tonsils with partial deafness, by R.

T.

Cooper, M.

D.

J.

D., set. 5, a thin, delicate-looking boy, very tall for his age, for two years suffered from partial deafness, which has much increased since he came to South- ampton, two months since.

His mother is frightened, fearing he is becom- ing incurably deaf.

At first he would, or rather could, not allow me, from the excessive pain it occasioned, to examine his throat (he was then suffer- ing from an exacerbation); but it was evident, from the external swelling and the history, where the true cause of the dysecoia lay.

The tale his mother tells is that he was vaccinated when three years old, that after much constitutional disturbance, eruption subsided, leaving the tonsils in their present swollen condition.

Symptoms are worse after coming in from open air and in damp weather.

Calcarea phos. had an immediate beneficial effect, so that in three days throat could be examined.

Both tonsils were swollen and red and formed an almost complete embankment between the mouth and throat.

In three weeks hearing was quite restored and swelling sub- sided

Monthly Homoeopathic Review, September, 1867.

Dr.

W. had a severe attack of tonsillitis, involving both tonsils, which were very much enlarged, causing difficult and painful deglutition.

Tem- perature, 102; pulse, 130; patient exceedingly nervous.

Gave Ferrum phos. 6x, and Kali phos. 6x, in alternation, every fifteen minutes.

Saw the patient in six hours and all symptoms were much worse, then gave Kali mur. 6x instead of Kali phos., continued Ferrum.

The next morning found that the patient had passed a hard night.

Then gave Ferrum phos. i2x and Kali mur.

I2X.

In six hours found the patient very much improved, less pain, less swelling, temperature 100, pulse 100; continued the remedies, and in two days the patient was out, and suppuration did not take place.

This was as truly a case of quinsy, which usually goes on to suppuration and runs a seven days' course, in spite of all we can do, as any case I ever saw.

The aggravation caused by the remedies given in the 6th potency and the im- provement which took place after their administration in the I2x were in- teresting facts.

The patient remarked that he could feel the effects of the last remedies all through the body, quieting and soothing the nervous irri- tability, immediately after every dose.

(G.

H.

Martin, M.

D. )

One evening a gentleman brought to my office his son, aged 8 or 10 years.

As he stood before me, I noticed that he labored terribly in breathing, and that his chest was bowed out like a chicken's.

I looked into his throat, and found both tonsils inflamed and so much enlarged that there was scarcely space enough between them to insert a slip of writing paper.

He was slightly feverish, and the tongue was coated white.

I prepared some powders

of Kali mur.m (B. & T.) and ordered them to be given dry every half hour for three hours, and then every hour through the night.

The next morning, quite early, I called and to my astonishment found him sitting up in bed quite bright and breathing naturally.

His chest had assumed a more normal form, and the tonsils were considerably diminished in size.

The same remedy was continued through the next day, and the next morning the little fellow met me in the parlor, comparatively well.

(E.

H.

H. )

Ferrum phos

Toothache with hot cheek, inflamed gum, or root of tooth.

Worse with hot, better with cold liquids, gums sore, red and inflamed.

Great soreness of teeth, feel elongated.

Odontalgia.

Kali phos

Toothache of highly nervous delicate or pale, irritable, emotional persons.

Toothache with easily bleeding gums.

The gums have a bright red seam or line on them.

Teeth feel sore ; grinding of teeth ; severe pain in decayed or filled teeth.

Magnesia phos

Toothache if hot liquids ease the pain (if cold eases the pain, Ferrum phos.).

Neuralgic, rheumatic toothache, very intense and shooting, eased by heat.

Pains relieved by pressure, but increased by slight movement.

Toothache worse after going to bed and from cold washing and cold things generally ; in filled teeth.

Non-inflamma- tory toothache.

Silicea

Toothache when very intense at night, when neither heat nor cold gives relief, and when caused by chilling of the feet.

Toothache when the pain is deep-seated in the periosteum or fibrous membrane covering the root of the tooth, and abscess forms.

Toothache caused by sudden chill to the feet when damp from perspiration.

Looseness of the teeth.

Calcarea phos

Too rapid decay of the teeth, strumous conditions.

Teething ailments during pregnancy.

Teeth ache worse at night.

Calcarea fluor

Toothache if any food touches the tooth.

Toothache with looseness of the teeth ; enamel of the teeth rough and deficient, unnatural looseness of the teeth.

" Where the use of Calcarea fluor. has been continued for many weeks, I have observed bad effects on the teeth, suggest- ing its possible use in caries of the teeth, especially in chil- dren." (R.

S.

Copeland.)

Three cases of odontalgia were relieved in a few hours by Ferr. phos. 6x.

The symptoms were: Elongation of tooth, great soreness of tooth to pres- sure, continued pain, could not sleep, no swelling of face or gums, not re- lieved by heat or cold

N.

A.

J., 1893, p. 54.

Kali sulph

Epithelioma.

Cancer on the skin near a mu- cous lining, with discharge of thin, yellow, serous, purulent secretions.

It cured an epithelioma for Dr.

H.

S.

Phillips, of Toledo, Ohio, situated on the left side of the nose, a horny- like scab with a dark swollen inflamed areola.

It had lasted over six months.

Ferrum phos

An excellent alternate remedy for excessive pain in cancer.

Cancer of tongue has been benefited by it.

Nsevus.

Calcarea phos

Cancer in scrofulous constitutions.

House- maid's knee.

Acute or chronic cysts require this remedy.

Broncholcele, goitre, cysts.

Bursae.

Calcarea sulph

Serous swellings, cystic tumors.

Exces- sive granulations and suppurations.

Calcarea fluor

Blood-tumors on the heads of newborn in- fants.

Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast.

Tumors of the eyelids.

Enlarged meibomian glands.

Swell- ing on the jawbone, which is hard.

Ganglion, round swelling of encysted tumors, such as are found on the back of the wrist from strain of the elastic fibres.

Hard swellings having their seat in the fasciae, capsular ligaments or on tendons.

Indur- ated lumps in csecal region.

Silicea

Enlarged glands.

Chronic enlargement of lym- phatic glands.

Swellings, lumps, tumors, etc., which are in- durated, but threaten to suppurate.

Scirrhous induration of upper lip and face.

Uterine cancer.

Icy coldness and fetid, brownish, purulent, ichorous leucorrhcea.

Natrum phos

Has proved of use in cancer of tongue.

Goitre when there is an acid condition producing it.

Calcarea FLUORiCA

A maiden lady of 60 came to consult me on the 13th of October, 1883, telling me she had a shiny swelling on her left index finger which had been there for about 18 months.

The lump was hard and painful, and of about the size of a small split walnut, but rather flatter, patient ner- vous and depressed.

Improvement set in at once and in two and one-half months was entirely well.

(J.

Compton Burnett.)

Calcarea phosphorica

An infant, a fortnight old, was brought to me.

Immediately after birth a swelling was noticed on its head, which had con- tinued to grow larger.

It was situated on the left tuberosity of the parietal bone, was about 7 em. in diameter, and its height was about 3 em.

It felt doughy, not fluctuating.

Careful examination showed that the parietal bone was defective below it.

From this the tumor issued.

It was evidently a meningocele of moderate size.

Prognosis wyas doubtful.

There were no signs of pressure on the brain, and the child, with the exception of double inguinal hernia, was healthy.

I prescribed Calc. phos. 6th trit. three times a day.

After taking this medicine three days the tumor was evidently smaller and in 10 days it was quite gone.

The hole in the bone gradually filled up, and at the end of three and a half weeks was completely closed.

(Frohling, A. h.

Z., cxxxii. 65.)

Sanguineous cyst on the right side of the occipital bone, with open pos- terior fontanelle.

Calcarea phos. 2c. cured

Raue, Record Homoeopathic Literature, 1873.

Case of polypus of left nostril cured by Calcarea phos

Beebe, Trans.

American Institute, 1886.

Dr.

Orth relates: Elizabeth F., a widow, aet. 70, consulted me on April 5th, on account of an epithelioma seated on the right cheek, reaching from the lower eyelid to the nostril.

It was almost circular, and about the size of a florin.

The epithelioma had existed for some years, and was at the stage of forming an ulcer, with hard base, and callous edges.

I ordered

Kali sulph., a powder every evening, and lint saturated with a lotion made of Kali sulph. for external application, to be changed frequently.

On May 6th I noticed that the ulcer had visibly diminished, and on May 23d the ulcer had cicatrized to the size of a six-penny piece.

A few days later the lady left to return home, and I regret I have not heard from her since.

(From Schiissler. )

Dr.

Spiethoff, of Lubeck, relates a prompt effect from Calcar . fluor .* and Silicea.

The patient was afflicted with a large sarcoma on the superior maxilla, giving the froglike appearance to the face.

For eight months, old-school physicians had tried to establish suppuration, but failed, except to produce several fistulous openings, discharging a fetid, almost clear fluid.

Without much hope of producing suppuration, Silicea6 was given.

No change occurred for two weeks, except the appearance of two protuber- ances in the median line of the tumor.

Calc. fluor.6 was now given, and the next day a profuse suppuration began, greatly ameliorating the case.

The prompt action of the remedies was very striking.

Dr.

C.

H.

Thompson, of Santa Rosa, furnishes us a case of neuralgic node in the mammary gland, resembling scirrhus, eutirely cured by Calcarea fluor.

William W., a factory worker, came to me on September the 4th.

He suffered from epithelioma, which was situated on the right side of the nose, almost immediately below the corner of the eye, and about the size of a two-shilling piece.

The eye itself seemed to be sympathetically affected, perhaps through the irritation of the discharge, which might have found its way into the eye from the edge of the eyelid, which, however, was not greatly destroyed.

Be that as it may, there were conjunctivitis palpe- brarum and bulbi, with dulness of the cornea.

The ulcer at the side of the nose had existed for four years.

At first there was a slightly red spot, which was a little raised and swollen.

Later on it became covered with a horny scab, which after a time fell off and left a little sore.

This spread slowly but steadily.

The patient had, during the whole time of its exist- ence, consulted a great number of doctors.

He had also been treated for two months by a specialist for the eye, after it had become implicated; but all without effect.

Kali sulph. was now given him, a dose night and morn- ing; and externally a lotion of Kali sulph. was used.

After only a few days the inflammation disappeared.

The ulcer began also to heal under the steady treatment.

By the 8th of October the sore had cicatrized so that only a speck was left, when the patient was able to resume work again on the 9th of October.

(From Schiissler. )

A hard swelling under the chin, about the size of a pigeon's egg, disap- peared completely in about four weeks under the use of Calcarea fluor.

Both old and new school medicines had failed to cure.

(Dr.

F.

From Schiissler. )

Dr.

Fuchs, of Regensburg, reports: In August, 1875, I cured a lady, aet. 40, who had suffered for a considerable time from an effusion in bursa of the knee-cap.

Twelve doses of Calcarea phos., two doses per diem, accord- ing to Dr.

Schiissler, removed this chronic condition of housemaid's knee.

(From Schiissler.)

Nasal Polypi

Mrs.

R. had nasal polypi in both nostrils, large, gray and bleeding easily.

Calcarea p/iosso, a powder every morning for a week.

The third week reported entirely free.

The larger ones came away entirely; the smaller ones were absorbed.

( J.

G.

Gilchrist. )

Multiple;

Cheloid, which appeared after the excision of a tumor, in the scar.

It was excised at St.

Bartholomew's Hospital, but rapidly returned and increased in size, till the patient, a girl, was put on Silicea3, night and morning.

The gradual disappearance of the growth under this treatment was one of the prettiest things I have ever seen in medicine

John H.

Clarke, in Homoeopathic World, August, 1885.

Strumous Dactylitis

At the London Homoeopathic Hospital, Gerard Smith exhibited a child, aged four years, who had injured his index finger two years previously.

This set up primarily periostitis and abscess, but with- out symptoms of necrosis, and on probing no sequestrum was found.

The swelling of the finger increased during six months until the bone was almost globular.

At the end of this period, under a prolonged course of Silicea, the bone became much smaller.

At the end of a second six months, an abscess again formed, was opened, and a probe passed into a soft mass.

The finger again greatly improved, and became smaller under a course of Hepar and Silicea.

Byres Moir and Epps had both frequently had similar cases of strumous dactylitis, in which complete recovery had taken place under Silicea, Calcarea and Calc.fluor.

Mrs.

C, age 52, came to me badly alarmed because a leading surgeon had said that she had a cancer of the breast, and must have it cut out immediately.

After a careful examination of the breast, and taking her history, I said to her, I believe I could remove the hard lump with medicine.

After a few moments thought she said, " Go to work on it." I made a 4 oz. solution of the remedy by putting 4 oz. of the 3X tablets into 4 oz. of soft water, and told her to keep the swelling wet most of the time with it, which she did.

Internally I gave her 3 cones of the 3X every three hours, and had her report in one week.

The one week's treatment had reduced the lump one-fourth, and she now fully believes that she is going to recover, which she did in six weeks' treatment.

Case 2

A lady friend of the above, 42 years of age, presented herself for treatment for a hard lump that had been growing in her right breast for three or four years.

It was painful, and she was unable to use her arm for any length of time without the whole organ becoming sensitive and painful so as to prevent her from sleeping.

She was a dyspeptic, and after correct- ing this trouble she received the same treatment as the above, and fully recovered in three months.

This remedy has never failed me in hard swelling of the jaw caused by toothache or injury, and for chaps and cracks of the lips.

I used it in one case of rapid decay of the teeth, where the enamel scaled off, and obtained very good results.

(O.

A.

Palmer, M.

D.)

Ferrum phos

Typhoid or gastric fever when commenc- ing ; initiatory stage for chilliness.

Typhoid, with extreme prostration ; frequent hemorrhage, indicating disorganization of the blood.

Kali phos

Typhoid or malignant symptoms, when affect- ing the brain, causing stupor during the course of the disease, or with symptoms of putrid blood.

Debility, weak action of 'the heart, sleeplessness, offensive breath, putrid odor of stools, stupor.

Sordes on the teeth.

An excellent remedy in ex- treme vitiation of the blood, when the system seems full of typhoid poison and the disease is not located in any single organ.

Offensiveness of discharges is a very marked symp- tom for Kali phos.

Typhoid fever in young gentleman with a very active brain; a prominent symptom was that he became very hysterical, would cry like a child and sob whenever he became nervous.

Ignatia, Hyos., Stram. and Coffea, all failed to relieve.

Kali phos. cured this symptom, and he received no other remedy throughout the fever.

After the patient got up, the remedy seemed to act as a tonic.

(Monroe. )

The following from the pen of Dr.

A.

P.

Davis, of Dallas, Texas, appeared in the Southern Journal of Homoeopathy, and is of interest, since it illus- trates the value of these remedies in this disease:

Miss Nettie W., set. 23.

Was called in consultation, found the patient apparently in last stage of the disease, with the symptoms usual in such cases.

As other remedies had been tried and she seemed sinking, I advised Kali phos.6, in solution.

Under the use of this remedy she rallied, and it was continued some days, with the result that she ultimately recovered.

Another similar case was given the same remedy when others seemed of no avail, with the same good result of producing a change for the better within a few hours, followed by recovery.

(C.

T.

M.)

Kali phos

Malignant fever, putrid fever, camp fever, ner- vous or brain fever, farm fever.

The chief remedy for brown tongne, petechiae, sleeplessness, abnormal brain function, stupor, delirium.

Kali sulph

To aid the absorption of any secretions and to lessen tendency to inflammatory conditions in abdomen; colicky pains from the excessive secretions which are not carried off and keep filling up around the appendix.

(F.

D.

B.)

Calcarea sulph

Relieves the pain in right side of pelvis, tends to counteract and cure the ulceration if any in the in- testines and prevents disintegration of those tissues, tones up the weakness, removes distention, etc.

(F.

D.

B.) Abscess, yellow, sanious matter.

Natrum sulph

Flatulent colic, beginning in the region of the right groin, a characteristic symptom.

Tenderness and distention with tendency to perforation.

Torpidity of bowels and general bilious conditions sometimes superinduce or pre- dispose to this trouble.

(F.

D.

Bittinger, M.

D.) " Dull pain in right ileo-caecal region.

Shifting flatus.

Tenderness to pressure and coated tongue." (J.

W.

Ward, M.

D.) Vomiting, which is persistent.

The following case, furnished by Dr.

I.

E.

Nicholson, of Oakland, Cali- fornia, is so beautifully illustrative of the action of these remedies in typh- litis, that it is reported in full as furnished by the Doctor:

"I was called on the morning of April 14th, 1887, to attend to Mr.

E.

K.,

a young man, set. 22, with hereditary tendency to phthisis pulmonalis, who resides in Connecticut, and was sojourning in our city for the benefit of his health, and found him suffering with agonizing pain in the right iliac region.

He had been attacked suddenly at 2 o'clock a. m. with this pain, and had vomited several times before I saw him.

Upon examination I found a tumor in the right iliac fossa, so tender to the touch that he could not bear even the weight of the bed clothing.

His bowels had moved twice within a few hours.

I learned that he had eaten of a mince pie at dinner the day before, and had passed a quantity of currant seeds in one of his movements.

There could be no doubt as to the diagnosis— typhlitis — and that a currant seed was the casus mali.

His temperature was 103 F., and pulse 120.

For sev- eral inches around the tumor the belly was as hard as a rock, showing a great amount of infiltration.

I at once gave him Ferrum phos. and Kali mur.

(6x trit. ) to be taken every half hour in alternation, day and night; poultices of flaxseed were kept constantly applied, as hot as could be borne, to alle- viate the pain.

At the end of thirty -six hours his temperature had fallen to 100 F., and pulse to 90.

This treatment was continued without intermis- sion, and the inflammatory symptom steadily improved and the size of the tumor gradually lessened.

At the end of a week the temperature and pulse became normal, the tumor had entirely disappeared, the belly was soft and a mere trace of the tenderness remained.

He took no other medicines.

The result in this case is, I think, phenomenal, since in this class of cases the prognosis is always unfavorable, and the credit of the case can be clearly given to the Iron and the Potash, the one removing the inflammation, the other causing the absorption of the infiltration, thus bringing about reso- lution and aborting perityphlitis and the consequent suppuration.

Dr.

Burdick, of Oakland, and Dr.

Brigham, of San Francisco, were both called in consultation, and both agreed with me as to the disease, and both ac- quiesced in the treatment.

We have no medicine which is the peer of Ferrum phos. as a fever remedy, whether idiopathic or symptomatic, and none better than Kali mur. to cause the absorption of infiltrations."

Ferrum phos

Ulcerations of glands, to relieve the throb- bing pain, soreness, redness, heat and congested condition.

Ulcers if there be fever, or heat, or redness and congestion.

Kali mur

Ulcers with fibrinous discharge.

Ulceration of the os and cervix uteri, with thick, white, mild secretions ; all ulcerations where there is swelling or a dirty-white tongue, or a mealy, flour-like scaly surface, or a fibrinous discharge; proud flesh, exuberant granulations.

Ulceration of cornea.

(See Bye, Diseases of.)

Natrum phos

Ulceration of the stomach or bowels.

Syphilitic ulcers, yellow coating having appearance of half- dried cream.

Silicea

Ulcers of the lower limbs when deep-seated and the periosteum is affected.

Silicea has ulcers that are spongy, readily bleeding, with torpid, callous edges, fistulous ulcers, secreting a thin, fetid, ichorous, yellow fluid.

Sluggish ulcers, in hard-worked and ill-fed people.

Ulceration following abra- sion of the skin over the shin-bone.

Use also locally, or in- fusion of hay, which contains Silicea.

Suppurative processes, massive and repeated doses in scrofulous, glandular swellings with suppuration.

Calcarea sulph

Ulceration of the glands.

Ulcers open.

Purulent sores which may result from abrasions, pimples, wounds, burns, scalds or bruises.

Ulcers of the lower limbs, with a discharge of yellow, sanious matter.

Calcarea fluor

Ulcerations of bones.

Varicose ulcers.

A girl came into my office, who had sores on both legs, running a thin, ichorous secretion, red, angry and painful, which had been bothering her for four years, breaking out, then scabbing over, partially healing, then taking on inflammation, so that sleep was disturbed; locomotion produced severe pains, in fact, the sores were seemingly very severe.

I at once gave her Silicea 6x and Calcarea phos. 6x, three doses each per day, bound up the limbs with flannel roller bandage, and in four weeks all the sores were healed up and the patient well, cheerful and happy.

(A.

P.

Davis, M.

D. )

A.

S., set. 16, for three years had indolent ulcers on lower half of left leg, which is red, very much swollen.

Three fistulous ulcers secreting a thick, yellow pus and which have thrown off many splinters of bone.

Pains prin- cipally at night.

Emaciation, poor appetite.

Frequent cough in morning, with thick, yellow expectoration, and considerable weakness in morning.

Lungs normal.

Calcarea fluor. 6x, morning and evening, for eight days, alternating with intervals of four days without medicine.

Cured in five months.

Externally only glycerine.

No enlargement of the limb was noticeable after six months.

(Dr.

Hansen, Allg.

Med.

Zeit.)

In treating a chronic syphilitic ulcer, I observed a yellow coating on the surface of the ulcer, which had the appearance of half-dried cream.

After Natrum phos. the coating disappeared within four days and the patient was otherwise much improved.

(C.