vation of her symptoms every third week. A green and watery diarrhoea occurs regularly every three weeks. She may also have the stools and abdominal pains that are characteristic of the remedy in general. Time will not permit a differentiation of the remedies resembling magnesia carbonica, so I will only point out a few of the more important remedies for comparison: For the stomach and bowel troubles: Aloe, calcera carb., chamomilla, colocynth, hepar, ipecacuanha, magnesia mur., magnesia phos., natrum phos., nux vomica, rheum and sulphur. Aggravation from milk: Aethusa, calcarea carb., china, conium, magnesia mur., nirtic acid, sepia and sulphur. tox. Headache from smoking: Antimonium erud. Neuralgia: Colocynth, magnesia phos. and rhus tox. Menstrual troubles: Ammonium mur., bovista, graphites, kreosotum, lac caninum and medorrhinum. Toothache of pregnancy: China ratanhia and sepia. Finally, do not forget that Tuberculinum may prove of great service in many morbid states that seem to require magnesia carbonica. Note:-I. H. A., Chicago, Ill., 1905. A SHOTGUN PRESCRIPTION.-Mrs. Wilks-"It be kind of you, doctor, comin' so far to see Wilks. Doctor-"Not at all. I have a patient on the way, so I can kill two birds with one stone."-London Tattler. APIS.-"After Aconite," wrote Wolf in 1858, "Apis is the most comprehensive and universally useful remedy that we possess," and while to-day we do not know the composition of the poison, I consider it a far more important remedy, and as having a greater range of usefulness than is generally accredited to it. For if there is any remedy that will give prompt and expected results when properly exhibited according to the indications, it is Apis.-Homeopathic Recorder. REMEDIES IN WHOOPING COUGH. By F. A. Garis, M. D., Bethlehem, Pa. I have taken up this subject for the purpose of bringnig before the members of the society, two medicines that have stood me in good stead in times of stress from the above-named disease. Fearful and troublesome as this disease sometimes becomse to both patient and parents, since using these medicines, most of these difficulties are overcome and the little patients are enabled to pass through the several stages of the disease quickly and comfortably. Our text-books give us such excellent remedies as gelsemium, belladonna, ipecac, hysocyamus, corrallium rubrum, mephetis, cupr. met. and a host of others, used either alone or in various combinations, and excellent results have followed their exhibition. The remedies I wish to call especially to your attention are not new; on the other hand, they are old and tried friends in other diseases and probably many of you can attest to their worth in whooping cough. These little patients, when seen in the beginning of an attack, as soon as a diagnosis is made, are placed upon drosera tine. and naphthaline 2x. The cough quickly becomes loose, the frequency is diminished, child is able to expel mucous without severe vomiting, sleeps much better at night, appetite improves and there is a distinct absence of the distressing symptoms usually attendant upon whooping cough. When cases are seen later, in the convulsive stage, the symptoms improve quickly and the patient weathers out the disease in comfort. In Bethlehem, at the present time, whooping cough is epidemic and numerous calls are made upon us for something to relieve the little sufferers. In my practice drosera tinc. and naphthaline 2x constitute almost my sole prescription and excellent results are obtained.— The Hahnemannian Monthly. THE LEGAL STATUS OF VARIOLINUM AS A METHOD OF VACCINATION. (A. M. Linn, M. D., Des Moines, Iowa.) Recently a legal battle was fought in the Iowa courts between the adherents of the new and the old methods of vaccination. It was a battle royal; the issues were sharply joined, and the result decisive. Every physician and every layman, who is interested, should study the issues and should acquire a knowledge of the merits of this controversy in general and of variolinum in particular. The use of variolinum is not recent. It is an old remedy. It is not a novelty in the hands of the Homeopath, yet not all members of our school have had the opportunity to determine the remarkable value of this drug. Its sphere of usefulness is infinitely enlarged by the determination of its value as a prophylactic in smallpox. The opportunity to treat smallpox does not occur every decade, consequently the lack of familiarity with the drug by many of our physsicians. Some two years ago the scourge visited our own state. The old and tried method of vaccination by scarification, while effective, is also unsafe. Vaccination in Iowa is mandatory, but the method of vaccination is not specified. As long as only one method was known no controversy could arise. Local Boards of Health very generally enforce the rules of the State Board regarding vaccination of all school children. A large per cent. of the population of the state having a wholesome dread of smallpox were also vaccinated. Many taking both their medicines and their vaccination from the Homeopathic school were inoculated by the new method. Variolinum gained rapidly in favor. Besides being effective it was attended with no danger. Its use obviated the hazard of an ugly infected wound, a painful experience and some loss of time. The freedom from danger and the effectiveness of the method made it popular wherever used. This very gracious popularity, while the occasion of its extended use in part at least, became also the cause of a furious opposition. Doubting its efficiency and knowing no means of determining its value, our "regular" friends organized in opposition to its use. They essayed to pre vent its use by legal means. The following resume from the facile pen of Dr. C. W. Eaton, who was familiar with every phase of the contest, is of thrilling interest: Des Moines, Iowa, April 22, 1904. A. M. Linn, M. D., Des Moines, Iowa: My Dear Dr. Linn.-I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your request that I place in your hands a recital of the occurrences leading up to the present legal status of the use of variolinum in this city. The contest over its use before the city authorities was vigorous and spirited, and the results were such a legal vindication of the right to employ this method of vaccination, that the friends of Homeopathy are much gratified over the outcome. Our experience here in Des Moines leads us to the belief that our colleagues in every locality where there is an attempt to deny them and their patrons the right to internal vaccination, may obtain through the courts ample defense, and full authority to proceed in their work without interference with their regular practice on the part of unfriendly local or state boards of health. The matter came about in this way: The use of variolinum was distasteful to the city physician, and the city council, sitting as a board of health, at his request and under his immediate direction, passed certain regulations for the control of smallpox, and among other things provided that no pupil should be admitted to the schools except on presentation of a certificate from a physician, to the effect that vaccination had been had within two years, it being expressly stipulated that said vaccination must have been "successful," and that it, must have been "by inoculation." Immediately thereafter the school authorities issued instructions to the principals and teachers of the public schools in accordance with this action of the Board of Health, it being, of course, obligatory upon them that they should do so. Thereupon, the children who had brought certificates of vaccination done by the internal method, were told that they would have to be revaccinated by scarification upon the arm, or they could not remain in school. One of the children whom I had so vaccinated was the daughter of one of our lawyers, who was also a thorough friend of Homeopathy. He instructed his daughter to return to the school with this same certificate. She was then denied admission, and her father, together with another attorney associated with him in business, brought suit in the District Court to compel the authorities to admit his daughter to the school. It was at the time when the interest in the smallpox epidemic, not only in Des Moines, but over the whole country, was at its height. The number of patients in this city who were not willing that their children should be subjected to the risks of vaccination by the old method, was large. On the other hand, the Allopathic profession was up in arms and thoroughly determined that the internal method should be prohibited. So it came about that the interest was great throughout the city. The newspapers gave extended accounts of the contest that was being waged, and the whole city was eagerly watching the outcome. Neither was it a question involving the interests of the children alone. Large business interests were also at stake. For business houses were given a certain time by the Board of Health in which to see to it that all their men were vaccinated, and some concerns employing large numbers had had their men vaccinated by the use of variolinum. If the courts should fail to sustain its use, they saw serious trouble ahead, for the closing of their doors for a single day would mean a loss running into thousands of dollars. With the interests of the children, and the interests of business at stake, with the Homeopathists deeply concerned for the defense of their rights, with the Allopathic profession thoroughly determined to crush out the use of variolinum, and with the attention of the whole city aroused, it can easily be understood that the scene presented in the District Court that morning was an extraordinary one. In place of the ordinary forlorn group of hangers-on at court, the room was filled to its brim with the best fathers and mothers and business men of this city. The School Board, instead of assuming the attitude of simply waiting for the final instruction of the authorities, had become our active and aggressive opponents, and they were present in force. Representatives of the Allopathic profession were, of course, on hand, eager and alert; one of the most prominent having in his pocket a telegram from the Surgeon General's office in Washington, to which authority he had appealed for ammunition to use in the case. Those who have had occasion to witness the trial of cases before the courts, cannot fail to be struck with the rapidity with which the pivotal points of a given case come to the surface when the actual contest begins. What was misty and ill-defined becomes suddenly clear; and no matter how thoroughly the lawyers on both sides may have felt that they understood the case, the actual trial will often suddenly bring into prominence the focal point as it had not been before perceived by the counsel for eithtr side, in spite of their careful previous study. It was so in this instance. No sooner had the case been actually put upon its trial than it rapidly developed that the crucial point was the word "inoculation." The judge remarked that if it could be shown that the internal method was "inoculation," no power on earth could keep a child out of school. Recourse to the medical dictionaries showed that the word was defined as the introduction of a virus into the system, not specifying how the virus might be introduced. It was of necessity held, therefore, that the use of variolinum was inoculation and that this internal vaccination complied with the law. Our case was won. It was felt, however, that this result, while it gave us full power to use variolinum undisturbed, and without interference, and put the children back into school, did not decide the underlying principle as we had desired that it might do. For our position was this: The State of Iowa having issued certificates to Homeopathic physicians to practice medicine and surgery within its boundaries, could not then step in and say through the powers given to its Boards of Health, that they could not practice medicine in accordance with the usages of that school. No further rejection of certificates of vaccination by variolinum, based upon the fact that scarification had not been employed, was obtainable, as the School Board immediately took alarm at being on the unpopular side, and issued immediate orders to all the schools to receive variolinum certificates. In fact, the Superintendent's office telephoned to the principal of one school that all certificates were to be accepted that were "by either the external, the internal, the eternal |