wonder of all who have been waiting so long for him to die. He walks around the house with comfort, and excepting a persistent headache and constant fear of returning convulsions he is comparatively comfortable. This very day I have exhorted him to abandon the idea that death is necessarily near at hand, and advised him to take exercise in the open air. The operation seems to have been of great service; the same may be said of the use of the Pepto-Mangan, The case is a most remarkable one; the progress of the disease in the right kidney has apparently been arrested, and who knows but that he may yet fully recover? W. A. B. Appendicitis. A woman, aged 53, was subject to severe attacks of rheumatism, of which she had had no less than four or five in her life, being laid up from two to six weeks each time. She again became prostrate with her old enemy. For ten days she was attended by divine science healers, who had given her large doses of crude sulphur. Her husband becoming dissatisfied, the healers (?) were dismissed and I was called to the case. I found her with high fever, suffering from constant nausea and a diarrhea with frequent slimy and painful stools, pains in the back and limbs, and what was to her most intolerable of all, great pain, swelling and tenderness in the right illiac region. The center of this swelling was exactly over McBurney's point, its size was that of a common sized teacup and of and in shape that of an inverted saucer. Over this the skin was hot, shining and exquisitely sensitive to pressure. She could lie on her back only, and found relief from flexing the thighs on the body. She lay very quiet, moaning at every breath. I left belladonna 3x, a dose every thirty minutes. Diagnosis, appendicitis. She had craved buttermilk to drink, and this was allowed. In a few hours I returned, taking with me a leading homeopathic surgeon, and we gave the case a careful examination. We agreed the case was one of appendicitis in the early stage. In the few hours belladonna had greatly ameliorated the symptoms. The fever and swelling were less; also the pain. The belladonna was continued, and in three days the pain, the tenderness and all the symptoms of appendicitis were nearly gone. As these symptoms disappeared, the ordinary rheumatic symptoms became more prominent. Bryonia and rhus were used, for the most part in alternation, and in two weeks she was nearly well. This was doubtless a case of beginning appendicitis, and belladonna was plainly the remedy. This speedily reduced the fever and inflammation and a cure effected through resolution. No local applications and no palliatives were used. W. A. B. Paralysis. A soldier of the Rebellion, aged 57, had lost his right leg from amputation at the middle third. He had acquired a great longing for tobacco, of which he used very much. He would awake in the middle of the night and smoke a cigar. He was finally taken suddenly with paralysis of the right side, soon became unconscious, and died in three days, under old school treatment. The opinion prevailed that the paralysis was due to the excessive use of tobacco. Did the amputated limb figure in the case disturbing the general circulation and causing a general disturbance of the nerve centers? W. A. B. Chorea. A boy, aged sixteen, slender and generally delicate, was taken with a general chorea of the left side. Agaricus 4x brought about a great change for the better in ten days. Contrary to instructions he went skating and met with a severe fall on the ice, which greatly frightened him. He soon became much worse, and Arnica 2x was used in alternation with the Agaricus. He also received daily ablutions, along the spine, of hot water followed by cold. In a week he was practically well again, to the great joy of his mother. Was the arnica necessary, or would he have improved as before notwithstanding the fall and the fright, and of how much value was the hot and cold sponging along the spine? W. A. B. Lumbago. A woman, aged 46, with acute lumbago, had the usual symptoms. She could be turned in bed only with great care. There was high fever with afternoon aggravations. Aconite gave but little relief, but Bryonia 3x, alternated with Rhus tox 3x, relieved the pain in a few hours, and effected a cure in four days. A woman aged 68 had been gradually losing in weight for six months from an abdominal fibroid, involving the uterus with extensive adhesions. A distressing nausea of weeks' duration was greatly relieved by Ipecac 3x. So great was the relief that she used the remedy for six weeks, and always with great benefit to herself, when the nausea finally disappeared. Aseptic Surgery. Dr. Horace Packard, in an article entitled "Surgery Without Sepsis," published in the March number of the "New England Medical Gazette," closes with these paragraphs: "The present scientific accuracy of surgery is beyond the wildest dreams of surgeons of one hundred years ago. It is difficult to comprehend how further advancement can be made. It is unsafe for us to prophesy, however, for this is an era of startling progress and bewildering discoveries. "In viewing the subject in its broadest light, we must admit that in the future there is liable to be less surgery rather than more. Already some of the maladies for which surgery was formerly frequently invoked have been removed from the realm of surgery, by preventive medicine. Diphtheria is an example. Tracheotomy and intubation have become obsolete. We are now hovering upon the brink of a discovery which will probably remove the necessity of surgery in malignant diseases. The same is likely to prove true in tuberculosis." [Among homeopathic physicians the sentiment seems growing, of late, that "in the future there is likely to be less surgery rather than more," and it is very significant that so prominent a surgeon as Dr. Packard should make this admission. When all the surgeons come to be "physicians who can operate," then surgery will find its rightful place. On the other hand, when all Homeopaths come to be as well versed in surgery as they should be, there will be more cures than now, for similia will then be reinforced by all needed operations.-B.] Solar Heat in the Treatment of Epithelioma. The utility of solar heat by means of a sun-glass, in the treatment of Epithelioma, is shown in the following case, reported by Dr. H. T. Webster, of Oakland, Cala., as published in the March number of the "Homeopathic Recorder:" An elderly man had been annoyed for more than a year by an "indolent, oozy, ulceration in the left malar region," which had been decided to be epithelioma. Other treatment failing. the growth was burned off by a sun-glass. Only three or four cauterizations, a week apart, were needed to complete a cure. At such cauterization the parts were burned so as to smoke freely, and after sufficient time had elapsed for the slough to separate, the process was repeated and a perfect cure resulted. Other cures are recorded by the same means. It is suggested that a new vitality is imparted to the adjacent tissues by the life-giving rays at the same time the malignant growth is destroyed. W. A. B. Editor Critique: Ceanothus (Jersey Tea.) I wish to call your attention to a remedy that may prove to be of great help in some very stubborn cases. It is a remedy that may not be so often thought of, but when indicated will give you great satisfaction. I refer to Ceanothus (Jersey Tea). I think a soldier that wanted a drink of tea so badly as to substitute Jersey Tea for the real "stuff," wants tea very badly. For I can assure you that all my provers of this drug did not enjoy it a little bit while using it, nor were they pleased with its after effects. It possesses an inherent property which produces a splenitis and a hepatitis, both worse by motion and by lying on the affected side. So you can imagine one with both sides sore, sharp pains when touched, and can only remain on one side a short while at a time. Also at same time an aching pain in the small of the back. Loss of appetite with a dirty white coating on the tongue. Stools become a clay color. Urine of a distinct greenish color. Bile found in urine in two cases. Sugar in urine in one prover, with a sp. gr. of 10.30. Every prover had a general tired feeling, a soreness and tired feeling in muscles of anterior part of thigh. A very pronounced symptom. In one case that had been troubled with malarial fever a few years ago, and was treated at that time with Quinine, was lighted up again. One prover had loss of flesh, pale face, rapid action of the heart, with the tenderness in spleen and liver. Enough has been developed to indicate its use in hepatitis, |