BI-MAGNESIA Doctor: Your attention is earnestly called to the valuable magnesic-calsic water of the Allouez Spring. It is a natural alkaline diuretic of extraordinary composition and efficacy. Token regularly it induces healthy stomachic and intestinal action, regulating nutrition and promoting assimilation, It will be found of the highest service in the treatment of dyspepsia, biliousness, jaundice, diabetes, Bright's, gall stone and rheumatism, being a powerful solvent of the acids and their concretions. It exerts a decided influence upon mucous discharges and is recommended in catarrh of their passages, stomach and bile duct. We guarantee favorable results. Test Allouez doc. tor on a severe case. At Druggists. Half Gals. (still). Quarts. Pints, Splits (Carb ) Allouez Mineral Spring Co. (P. O.) Green Bay, Wis. CHICAGO, 1129 MASONIC TEMPLE. DISTRIBUTORS New York. H. T. Hodgskin, 68 Broad Detroit, G. & R. McMillan Washington, W T. Kaiser & Co. DENVER, SCHOLTZ DRUG CO. St. Louis, Meyer Bros. Drug Co. New Orleans, Fin'ey Dicks Co. O f Interest Everybody Have WANTED-Information in regard to good location for a Homeopath, or a partnership. Would buy a practice if reasonable. had fourteen years' experience. Address, M. B. T., % Critique. WHOOPING-COUGH CURED WITH COQUELUCHIN-Its Homeopathic nosode. By John H. Clarke, M. D., 90 pages. Cloth, 2s. net. Postage 2d. extra (American and Canada, 54 cents, post-free).-The Homeopathic Publishing Co., 12 Warwick Lane, London, E. C. RADIUM AS AN INTERNAL REMEDY-Especially exemplified in cases of skin disease and cancer. By John H. Clarke, M. D., 136 pages. Cloth, 2s. 6d. net. Postage 2d. extra (America and Canada, 66 cents, post-free). The Homeopathic Publishing Co., 12 Warwick Lane, London, E. C. HAGEE'S CORDIAL.—In chronic diffuse interstitial nephritis the patient is generally anemic, and iron will agree with but few. Indeed, in many cases the nervous symptoms are aggravated by its use. Here is where Hagee's cordial of the extract of cod liver oil compound is indicated. It should be given in tablespoonful doses four times a day.— Am. Jour. Dermatology. THE VARIETIES OF DYSMENORRHOEA-In an article on Dysmenorrhoea, Solomon Henry Secoy, M. D., of Jeffersonville, Indiana, refers especially to its cause and treatment and offers some valuable suggestions as follows: "I am in the habit of regarding dysmenorrhoea as capable of division into three varieties. They are the neuralgic, the obstructive, and the membranous. The neuralgic form is a pure neuralgia, and its subjects, in all cases, will give a history on which we can base its cause. These patients will tell us that never, prior to the attacks which they have recently undergone, have they had dysmenorrhoea. It is caused generally by malaria and other influences which tend to lower the general health. "The treatment of dysmenorrhoea very naturally comprises such remedies and procedures as will correct the cause, and the administration of anodynes to relieve the pain. In the neuralgic form we must correct the cause. If that be malaria, quinine must be given. In most cases where the neuralgic form is presented there is anemia, and no relief will be secured until this factor is overcome. Iron in some available form must, therefore, be given. During the period of menstruation the administration of antikamnia and codeine tablets in doses of two tablets every two hours will relieve the pain. If these tablets are given at the beginning of the attack we can often entirely prevent pain." THE CONVALESCENT PATIENT.-The convalescent patient, for purposes of apt comparison, may be appropriately likened to an exhausted army that has successfully withstood a fierce assault and rests upon its arms, after the victorious conclusion of a strenuous struggle for supremacy. The invading bacterial enemy, with his cohorts of toxins and ptomaines, attacked suddenly and viciously; the outer line of defense was overcome and the enemy strove mightily to intrench itself in and draw sustenance from, the fluids and tissues of the organism. The physician-the general in command of the vital army with his active lieutenants, Rest, Food, Fresh Air and Intelligent Medication. rallied and brought forward his time-tried reserves, Nature's vast army of leucocytes, phagocytes and opsonins, and, after a "Battle Royal," drove the invaders from the field. In military operations, the careful and judicious commander, after such an active engagement, immediately sets to work to rally his shattered forces and to fill up his depleted ranks with new and fresh recruits, so that he may be fully prepared to successfully resist a possible second attack. Such should also be the aim and object of the medical general in command of the defending forces in the struggle between man and microbe. Special attention should be given to the reconstruction of the vital forces of the convalescent, to the end that relapses may be avoided and the patient's energies rapidly recruited to their full fighting strength. Every possible aid, of a restorative and reconstituent nature, should be enlisted and utilized in this essential "upbuilding" procedure, including an abundance of fresh, pure air, nutritious and readily digestible food, rest of body and brain and appropriate reconstructive medication. Although some systemic infections, such as malarial poisoning, are more essentially destructive to the erythrocytes than others, some form of eligible ferruginous tonic is always indicated in convalescense, whether or not the disorder from which the patient is recovering is medical or surgical in character. The administration of Pepto-Mangan (Gude) is an especially desirable method of furnishing that unexcelled hematinic-iron, and its reconstructive partner, manganese-in bland, unirritating and immediately appropriable form. The vital, oxygen-bearing hematin of the red cells of the blood is speedily and steadily increased when this pe culiarly available reconstituent is regularly administered. Constipation is avoided and none of the irritant or other unpleasant features ordinarily attendant upon ferruginous medication are noted when Pepto-Mangan (Gude) is given. VOL. D A FAMILIARITY WITH KENT'S AND OTHER REPERTORIES. N INCREASING DEMAND for information in regard to repertory study has been variously expressed and appreciated; to supply this demand in some measure, a proposed series of papers on this subject has been undertaken. It is hoped that it will serve to present, in clear and concise form, the practical, expeditious and thorough method of using repertories in the midst of every-day, active practice without attempting further emphasizing the advantage of repertory study to the prescriber who aims to give to his patients the best that the materia medica and the doctrines of Homeopathy afford. While this presentation is not supposed to include all that is worthy on the subjects offered, nor to include all variations in the use of the valuable indexes of our vast materia medica, it may prove helpful to those who have not found satisfaction in using repertories for prescribing. Some students may prefer other methods in their own work or be able to improve upon that here presented. However that may be, all that is here offered has proved of value in the hands of many earnest and busy prescribers over the country, and is offered after the test of much experience by them. The literature of Homeopathy contains many repertories; many of them are confined to special classes of disorders, e. g., Bell's on Diarrhoea, Allen's on Intermittent Fever, etc. These aim to present the prominent symptom variations of the special disorder, the index or repertory of the remedies suited through symptomatology and the images of these remedies presented in the special form of disorder. The list of repertories of large scope, embracing the materia medica entire, is not a long one. The first attempt of preparing a repertory of all known, proved remedies was that of Boenninghausen. Lippe prepared one to present more of the details and particulars of symptomatology. While there were several others, these two were for many years, the chief support, among all repertories for prescribers in Homeopathy. After Hering's "Guiding Symptoms" had been long in use a call arose for an index of these volumes. Knerr's Repertory at length appeared, but not until its preparation had proved irksome and uninteresting to its compiler. Perhaps this accounts for the disappointment which followed attempts to make practical use of it. Kent's Repertory was offered to the profession, in answer to the demand of a few who had inspected and profited by its sections, in the office of the compiler, as they were prepared for his own use. It includes all of value in repertorial forms in the preceding repertories, general and special, these being drawn upon for its compilation, all that could be gleaned of reliable symptomatology in the "Guiding Symptoms" of Hering, the later published reliable provings, not included in repertories and the observations, confirmations and verifications of the compiler in his many years' practical use of the materia medica. Clarke's Repertory and Dictionary is the latest new publication in this field. As a dictionary, it occupies a field by itself without comparison. Small, abridged, pocket repertories have been prepared by others, who sought to separate what they considered most important or most frequently needed from what appealed to them as less frequently in demand, with the idea that a less bulky form is more useful for bedside use and quick reference. It is perhaps scarcely necessary to indicate that the abbreviated repertory is a crippled instrument for thorough work. Every case treated, demands its own remedy, irrespective of how much it is called for by others, and symptom indications are not capable of substitution. Of the works, mentioned, two are sufficiently peculiar to warrant explanation. The others are more or less self explanatory in their contents and will not require individual explanation after these two are comprehended. Familiarity with his tools is a source of power to any artist. Knowledge of what is available and in what form, is primary to intelligent application of any useful instrument. To use a reference book with any degree of satisfaction it is necessary to be familiar with its |