(Crush the green leaves into a fine mass ; then mix this with two- thirds of its weight of alcohol, and express the juice.) I THINK that this plant, which, in its exterior, is somewhat THUYA OCCIDENTALIS. 215 similar to the Juniperus Sabina, has never been seriously em- ployed by European physicians. Parkinson and Hermann state mere speculative theories in regard to its therapeutic properties. According to Boerhaave, the distilled water has been serviceable in dropsical swellings. According to Kalm, it is employed in North America as a domestic remedy against indefinite pains in the joints. From the following symptoms it will appear that Thuya is a specific against sycosis, and against sycosic gonorrhoea, pro- vided it is not complicated with other miasms. I have hitherto used the smallest portion of a drop of the decillionth potency, even in the worst cases. Bat inasmuch as the sycosic gonorrhoea is one of the few idiopathic diseases, it gave me a fair opportunity of testing the higher potencies of Thuya, and I found that even the sixtieth potency exhibited the therapeutic power of Thuya more powerfully than the lower. ' The same statement applies to the other liquid and simi- larly prepared drugs, as I can affirm from boundless and most accurate observations. Small doses act from two to three weeks. Large doses seem to be best antidoted by Camphor. THUYA.