VOL. XII.

Denver, COLO., JANUARY 1, 1905.

Entered at Denver post-office as second-class matter.

No. 1

CALCAREA ARSENICOSA.

By James Tyler Kent, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Chicago.

As this remedy is a chemical union of two well proved deep acting remedies it would most likely appear at once to the mind as a long acting remedy, well suited to many chronic diseases. In fact, it is deep acting enough to cure some of our most stubborn cases of epilepsy. It has made its record in this class of cases. Great mental and physical weakness. Tremulous and paralytic weakness. Sense of lightness of the body as if floating in air. Fainting spells. Epileptic convulsions where the aura is felt in the region of the heart. Pain and sinking in the region of the heart followed by spasms. Weakness, or vertigo, or momentary blindness. Convulsions with valvular disease of the heart. Evening and night aggravations are common. The patient is sensitive to cold-a lack of vital heat. It has many burning pains, like Arsenicum. It has cured many cases of albuminuria in the early stages. Dropsy is a strong feature, as it is in Arsenicum and Calcarea. Complaints are worse from slight exertion; and faintness, palpitation, dyspnea and weakness come on. The left side of the body is most affected.

The following mental symptoms are often a guide to its use. Anger and complaints from anger and vexation. Anxiety; in evening, at night, in bed, and during a chill, and on waking. Apprehesiveness; about the future, about his salvation, at night. Inclined to criticise. Desire for company. Confusion of mind on waking. Inability to concentrate the mind. Delusions. Sees dead people, phantoms, images. Illusions of fancy. Sees visions of fire, worse at night, and on closing the eyes. Despair of recovery, of salvation. Discontented. Excitable. Fear of

death at night, of solitude, of insanity. Becomes indifferent to pleasure. Insanity. Irresolution. Irritable. Lamenting. Loathing of life; weary of life. Weakness of memory. Mischievous. Obstinate. Sensitive-easily offended. Extreme restlessness,

especially at Light, tossing about in bed; during heat; and during menses. Extreme sadness in evening, and during fever. Easily startled. Timidity. Weeping, at night.

There is violent rush of blood to the head with vertigo and general spasm. It has caused and cured many chronic headaches. A very peculiar feature of the pain in the head is that it moves from the side lain on and goes to the side not lain on, and continues to change about by changing position. Not all of its headaches do this way. It has many peculiar little symptoms which should be read up in the Guiding Symytons. Pain in the head ameliorated during mental exertion, but much worse afterwards. Oedema of face, lids, temples and ears. Eczema of face and scalp. Coldness of head. Pale, sickly, bloated face. Fluent coryza. Sneezing. Loss of all desire for food, but thirst for cold water. Eructations and vomiting after food. Stomach easily disordered. Pain in stomach after drinking cold water. Load in stomach after eating. Pain in groins after drinking wine. Waterbrash and sour stomach. Anxiety and burning in stomach. Stitching pain in stomach. Gnawing pain in stomach. Distension of stomach and abdomen. It has cured gastric ulcer.

Much soreness in region of kidneys. Scanty, burning urine, contains albumen and casts. Pain in the spermatic cords, after exertion, and after drinking wine.

Excoriating yellow leucorrhea. Offensive, bloody leucorrhea. For offensive leucorrhea it compares with Kali-ars. and Kaliphos. It is useful in cancer of the uterus when there is burning and acrid offensive bloody flow. It restores the menstrual flow, when the symptoms agree. Copious menstrual flow, or scanty flow, too frequent and protracted. Pain at the approach of the menses. Metrorrhagia. Burning pain in uterus and vagina.

Drawing as with a thread from larynx backward. Dryness. in larynx. Loses the voice before an epileptic convulsion. Suffocation and palpitation at night in bed. Burning heat in chest and pain in region of heart before an epileptic convulsion. Orgasm of blood in region of heart. Throbbing in the blood ves

sels, especially in head and back; it drives him out of bed. Pain in heart, with palpitation. Angina pectoris. Grasping pain in heart. Palpitation, with heat of face. Palpitation from least excitement or exertion; worse evening and night. Every fourth beat of pulse omits. Rapid pulse.

Oedema

Violent backache between scapulae and in sacrum. Pain in
Pain in chest extends to arms.
Weakness of lower limbs.

back extends to arms. of the hands and feet.

The sleep is disturbed by violent dreams. Palpitation and suffocation. Latter part of night wakeful, and much sweat.

If this wonderful remedy is studied with the mind on Arsenicum and Calcarea, a broader knowledge will be gained. It needs further proving in potencies.

CALCAREA FLUORICA.

This chemical union of lime and fluoric acid gives us a remedy with a new nature and properties. However conversant one may be with either or both of these elements he could not prdict the curative powers held in this double remedy. I refer to its ability to cur indurated infiltrations of glands, cellular tissue and bony formations. A nodule in the course of a tendon, an exostosis, a stony hard gland, bony infiltration in the periosteum, rice bodies in cartilages have been cured by this remedy wonderful to tell, when there was a paucity of symptoms. It will cure of course when symptoms agree, but it needs proving in order that individualization may be oftener possible.

A recurrent fibroid in the hollow of the knee was removed once by the knife, but returned, and grew to the size of a fist. The leg was drawn up to forty-five degrees, and the knee became immovable. This wonderful remedy was prescribed on the symptoms of the case and the hardness of the tumor. The tumor gradually dwindled, the limb became normal and as good as ever; this patient has since born a healthy child-is still perfectly free from the trouble. It is now ten years since she was cured.

The patient is sensitive to cold, to drafts, to changes in the weather, and to damp weather. The symptoms are ameliorated

by heat and by warm applications. The symptoms are worse during rest.

This is a useful remedy in gout, with copious pale urine and diarrhea. The patient is sad and miserly. This remedy has cured a fluctuating tumor on the cranium of infants known as Cephalaematoma. Blur before the eyes after exerting the vision. It cures ulceration of the cornea if the edges are hard; also hard, small spots and conjunctivitis. It has cured adenoids and thick, yellowish green discharge from the nose. Offensive catarrh of

long standing. Scanty enamel of the teeth.

Pain, unceration and granulations of the throat, worse from cold, and better from warm drinks. Pain worse at night. Large indurated tonsils will be cured after Baryta-carb. has failed.

Pain in the liver at night, worse lying on the painful side, better from motion. Cutting pains in the liver, better walking. Diarrhea in gouty subjects. Itching of anus and hemorrhoids, painful, hard and bleeding.

Copious watery urine.

causes smarting when passing.

Strong smelling urine. Urine

Indurated testes. Nodular testes.

Hard nodules in the mammae.

Dryness and tickling in the larynx. Desire to clear the vocal cords. Hoarseness after reading aloud. Hacking cough after eating, and in cold air, from tickling in the larynx. Spasmodic cough.

It cured an exostosis at the angle of the eighth rib.

It cured a lumbago, worse during rest, and better from heat, after Rhus had failed.

Indurated cervical glands.

Vivid dreams, and unrefreshing sleep. Jumps out of bed in a dream.

It is similar to Silica in suppuration.

"Between the devil and the deep sea" is the condition in which student and graduate nurses of the Denver Homeopathic Hospital find themselves, so we are told. The former have had but one pay day in the past six months, while the latter would be very glad to secure that number of diploma which, in some cases, has been due them nearly a year, but has been withheld on account of "too busy to sign up."

WHAT POTENCY?

The question of what potency of the homeopathic remedy is effective and what non-effective, has been so often discussed during the past century and with such dire results to the tempers of many members of the profession, that we should hesitate to stir up any further dissention were it not that at a recent meeting of the Denver Homeopathic Club we were surprised to find that even among members who had ostensibly practiced under the law for many years the idea seemed generally to prevail that those who advocated the use of the higher potencies believed that the lower potencies were non-effective and could not be used with curative results.

If this idea does so prevail in such a hotbed of homeopathy as is Denver the time has unquestionably arrived when some one, a strong advocate of the use of the higher potencies, should at least make an effort to dispel from the minds of our readers any such false and unhomeopathic conception which they may entertain regarding the belief, the knowledge and the practice of the so-called "high-potency" practitioners.

That those who continually study Hahnemann and unceasingly strive to reach the ideal toward which he was still working on the day of his death, come in time, step by step, to use the higher potencies more and more often, is quite true; and that they have less and less use for the lower potencies is equally true. But that they wholly condemn the use of the low potencies or discountenance their use in all cases is as false as is the man who can entertain such a belief while professing to understand and to practice under the only law of cure.

In fact, one who advocates the use of the high potencies only and argues that the low are never to be used, is far more to be censured than he who lacks belief in the efficacy of the high, simply because he has not reached the knowledge of their value.

The former shows that he has not been taught, or has not learned, step by step, the action of drugs under the law, but has simply accepted the statements of one, through whose results he has learned to respect. He thus loses all the foundation upon which to build a knowledge sufficient to warrant the use by