Oleum Santali

[This remedy was introduced Into practice by physiciaua in India.

II is far superior to OnlDebs and Copaiva, and experience has demonstrated that it is tlic nearest a specific for Gonorrhixa of any drug Itnown.

It is usually given (allopatliically) in eapmiles (tJiree a day), eanii containing about thirty drops, and very successfully.

My own experience with the oil Is that it acts best after Gelseminum and Cannabis have reduced thu active in9ammation.

I use the 1 x ttit., or dilution, a doso (ten grs. oi gtls.J, every two or three hours.

It generally cures in eight or ten days.- in uacoraplicated cases.

Hale.]

Desortption

This (with a variety, the O.

Eaflnesque), 1b the only member of the eavtm family, growing east of tlje Mississippi, It is found all over the United States, in sandy fields and on dry rocks.

It is low, prostrate, spreading, pale, with flat and obovate, broad joints ; the minute leaves ovate-subulate and oppressed; axils bristly, rarely with a few small spines ; flowers, sulphur-yellow ; berry, nearly smooth, eatable.

It blooms in June, in the neighborhood of Chicago.

(MaijoTam.) BoTANiCAi.

Dbsoription.^TIub is a perennial herb, with erect, leafy, hairy, purple, quadrangular, corymbose sterna, from six inches to two feet in height.

The Sowers are numerous, of a purpliah-whit* color, and are disposed in smooth, erect, roundish, panicled, and fasciculate spikes, and accompanied with ovate purplisli bracts, longer than the calyx.

Wild Marjoram is common to Europe and America, It is found in limestone regions, on dry banks, and in dry fields and woods, flowering from May to October.

The whole herb is ofBcinal, but it is seldom collected, except for the purpose of procuring its volatile oil, on which ita virtnea depend, and whicli may be separated by distillation witli water.

The plant has a strong, peculiar, rather agreeable balsamic odor, and a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste, which properties are imparted to alcoliol, or boiling water by infusion.

The Oj'iganum Marjorana, or aweet Marjoram, possessei properties similar to the above species.

It is a native of Portugal, but cul- tivated in our gardens, and much used in cooking as a seasoning.

She is very quiet, full of thoughts, sad, despairing; wants to throw herself out of the window; wants to wallt ahont all the time; impossible to rest.

Everything disgusts her; desire for death; disgust for iite; nothing amuses her.- Cannot fix the thoughts.

Lascivious ideas, with great heat in the head.

Dreams iaseivious, with frequent waking; watcs trembling.- Moroseness and debility one day, vivacity the next.

Sadness, followed by good humor (opposite of coffee), *Lascivious ideas, with sexnal irritation.

" Deep moroseness, with an idea that sliewas lost and despised',.

When waking from a stupor she cries out that the devil comes near her.

She believes herself in hell, in chaina.- Considered herself cra^y; has thoughts of suicide (in as hysterical girl with sexnal irritation).

*From the French of Dr.

Gaiiasardin, of Lyons. 2f.

A.

Jo'j/mol of Homeopathy, Vol. 15, page 63.

" Sexual irritation, with lencorrhcea and itching of the puden- da in an old maid of forty years.

(Cured by the 3d.) {Dr.

Sin&ry.)

pHARMAOOLOaT

This is a salt obtained as a precipitate by adding a solution of oxalate of ammonium to a soluble salt of cerium.

The form, ula, according to tlie old nomenclature, is SCeOi C^ Oa +6H0{ according to tlie new.

Cea CO4 +3H3 O.

Owing to the insolubility of the oxalate, a nitrate has been made, and ia nsed in the form of an effervescent salt.

This nitrate is readily soluble in both alcohol and water.

OriTciHAi.

PsKPAKATioNS,— (1) of the oxalatB — triturations only;

(3) of the nitrate — tincture with strong alcohol on the decimal scale.

Ahalogdes

Arsenicuta, Biamath, Kreoaotum, Guprvm {.') etc. ° Obstinate Yomiting during pregnancy. {8im,p»on.) ° Jloming sickness of pregnancy. {Drs.

Charlton, James,