have. How many times our patient's illness dates back to some sorrow, loss or mental shock, in which psychic influences alone produced disease, and in which psychic influences will be most potent for good. Much and at many times, all that is necessary can be done by suggestion in the waking state for these cases. When the impressions are too deep to be reached during the waking state, use can be made of natural sleep or induced hypnosis, under which more marked and lasting impressions can be made.

Time will not permit me to go into detail nor to cite instances of cures, any number of which might be cited; but I trust this presentation of the subject may lead those of you who have neglected to use suggestion in your practice to look into it and use it discriminately and intelligently. I do not mean to advise that the physician become an avowed and practical hypnotist. The subject is not sufficiently understood by the people for this, and it is not necessary for the successful use of suggestion that he so declare himself; but he can and should use suggestion with proper discrimination, for the good both of his patient and of himself. In this way only can the false theory of the Christian Scientists and others be shown for what they are, and the sick and afflicted held by the physician capable of administering to the needs of both the body and mind diseased. The Christian Scientists and others have but a portion of the truth. Let not the same be truthfully said of us!

GENERAL MEDICINE.

Conducted by W. A. Burr, M. D.

A boy aged seven had been taking Piso's Cough Cure and Paregoric for a protracted bronchial cough, and was growing steadily worse. When I saw him he had become dazed and stupid, with a temperature of 102°. Belladonna would have been the antidote, but the cough was a bryonia cough, and this remedy. was given. Improvement promptly followed, the cough became

loose, the fever subsided, and hepar sulph. 3x completed the cure. The Paregoric and Piso's Cough Cure were evidently working harm in this case.

A man aged 36, in the third stage of Bright's Disease, an exploratory incision showing the left kidney to be in the interstitial stage, had dark tarry stools. Leptandria Ix, one drop each hour for a few days, changed the character of the stools to nearly normal, and at the same time increased the flow of urine, and improved the condition of the patient in general.

Arsenicum 3x and phosphorus 3x cured a case of herpes labialis in a young man of 20. The vesicles and crusts were dark brown and even black. He was subject to nosebleed. At this time he was very much depressed in spirits, but had no fever. Twelve months previous he had a similar but lighter attack, and another six months ago. In both these attacks the general symptoms were the same as in this one. Both the vesicles and

the following incrustations were very dark.

This was apparently a case of hemophilia with the herpes, the bleeding vessels discharging their contents into the vesicles making them and the resulting crusts very dark.

A single woman, aged 27, came to Colorado from Illinois, where she was subject to frequent attacks of intestinal catarrh. The least cold or error in diet would be followed by a troublesome diarrhea resisting the therapeutic efforts of her old school physician. She finally came to Colorado, hoping to find relief from her annoying trouble.

When I saw her she had six to eight stools daily of a yellowish brownish and watery character, which would be provoked by taking a little nourishment or standing on her feet. The stools were attended by a slight cutting pain and the escape of some gas. No prominent organ of the body was greatly affected, but her complexion was somewhat sallow.

Colocynth 3x and Podophyllum 3x controlled the diarrhea in a few days. Prostration and general weakness followed, but arsenicum and china soon relieved her of these, and now, after six weeks, she feels quite well.

Climatic influences doubtless aided the remedies, but I think they alone would have effected a cure.

A girl, aged 11, who had been subject to chorea for three years, came to me with the single symptom, twitching and jerking of the eyeballs. A brief examination showed that vision in her left eye was practically normal. With the right eye she would see a yellowish or bluish halo, with rays, surrounding nearly every object she looked at. There also appeared two or three, and sometimes as many as seven, images for every object, these images appearing in a horizontal row. She also had frequent and severe itching of the nose.

This last being a good indication for cina, this remedy was given in the 2x, a dose every two or three hours. In three days the twitching of the eyes disappeared, also the ocular illusions, but there followed a little shrugging of the left shoulder.

A higher potency might have been given with even better results.

Skin Cures With High Potencies.

B.

The November number of the "Hahnemann Advocate" was largely devoted to the medical treatment of skin diseases. Cures were reported as follows:

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Felon with silica cm and sulphur cm.

Felon with hepar sulph 90c, silica 90m and aconite 9m.

Necrosis with silica m and asafætida.

Sebaceous tumor with baryta carb. Im.

Eruption on the hands with rhus tox, cc.
Vesicular eruption with rumex 30x.

Ponaritium with hepar sulph 150m.

Threatened suppuration with belladonna 90c and hepar sulph.

Warts with verucinium cm.

Puerpural Mania, following a repelled eruption, with arsen

içum 30 and rhus tox. 30.

Eczema with sepia cc.

Eczema with graphites 30x.

Acne vulgaris with sanicula cc.
Bromidrosis with carbo veg. cc.
Herpes zoster with rhus tox. 30x.
Eczema with sepia cc.

Urticaria with myrica cer. 6x.

Urticaria with sepia 30..

Erysipelas with graphites.

Erysipelas with a high potency of ammonium carbonate.

Phagedenic ulcer with comocladia 30x.

Urticaria with urtica urens 30.

Eczema with graphites 30.

Eczema capatis with lycopadium 30.
Eczema rubrum with sulphur high.

Eczema capatis with graphites Im.

It is needless to say that these remarkable cures were effected only with very careful prescribing and strictly in accord with the law of similia.

*Ichthyosis.

By W. F. Conner, M. D.

Five years ago last April I was called to a confinement case. In a few hours she was delivered of a male child.

The skin of

the child was as thin as tissue paper, and was irregularly divided by fine cracks all over the body. The eyes were inflamed and swollen. For the ophthalmia the usual treatment was given and the skin was well oiled. Between the folds of the skin a zinc ointment was applied for the irritated condition. This treatment was continued for a week, and finally a specialist was called in to treat the eyes.

During the following two years several physicians,—among them some dermatologists,-treated the child for the diseased skin without any good results. By this time the skin resembled the scales of a fish, which came to be even one-fifth of an inch Read before the Denver Homeopathic Club, Oct. 16th, 1899.

thick on the face. I saw the case occasionally, but gave no medicines. The parents becoming discouraged gave up all treatment as well as all hope, so that for the last three years no physician has been consulted. During this time the case has grown worse and worse.

Two years after the birth of this child, I again attended the same mother in confinement, when she gave birth to another male child affected the same way, but even worse than the first. Fortunately this child died when only a week old.

A year ago the same mother again became pregnant and came to me with tears in her eyes begging me to do something for her if I could. She was unwilling at first to take medicine, but finally agreed to do so, when I gave her some Aletris cordial, and mercurius vivus, which she took much of the time during the whole period of gestation. Instead of the mercurius vivus she took mercurius iodid or apis mel, a portion of the time. She also took some magnesia phos. to relieve an occasional abdominal pain.

In due time she gave birth to a female child with a normal skin. There is no trace of skin discase, the eyes are perfect, and the child, now three months old, has not been ill a day, and there is happiness in that family.

I am now treating the older child, the parents having come to believe there is virtue in some medicines.

I would like to ask: Did my treatment bring about this change or was it the result of natural causes? Did the sex of the child have anything to do with the case?

The same mother has two sons, one aged twenty years, the other twelve, who have no skin disease whatever, and who are healthy in every respect.

The older child has evidently the rare cutaneous disease called "ichthyosis hystrix," and it is not improbable that the ante-natal treatment had at least something to do in giving to the infant a healthy skin.

B.