According to the Rocky Mountain News, of November 20th, Dr. J. W. Harris, of Leadville, Dr. James Polk Willard, of Idaho Springs, and Dr. J. B. Kinley, of Russell Gulch, were appointed delegates to attend the Mining Congress which meets at Pittsburg, Pa., December 2-5. Governor Buchtel is responsible for the appointments but just who mixed the other dates we are unable to say. According to a postal card preachment, signed by the president, secretary and treasurer of the Denver Homeopathic Club, that organization has "lately languished and has seemed moribund." As a result of this reduced state of vitality the officers in question called a meeting, which was held at the college, Monday night, November 23rd, the object of which was to provide ways and means for reviving the corpse. * Dr. William D. Kinsloe, Newton Hamilton, Pa., after an absence of over ten years, put in an appearance in Denver the fore part of last month and for what was to his many friends a very short time circulated among them. He is as handsome as ever, which is saying a good deal, and, notwithstanding the long time between trips, does not appear a day older than when last here. Editor of The Critique acknowledges several pleasant calls. One George H. Clark, 116 W. Walnut Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia, after criticising Dr. Kent's provings of several drugs which were published in different papers by this author during the past year, takes occasion to call attention to his astonishment that "any homeopathician should send papers to a journal that prints such 'ads' as found in the Critique." There is one thing about articles that you see in this journal that should be a consolation and that is they are always homeopathic. We wonder if it was this man Clark who has been interesting himself in our contributors instead of "Foxy Grandpa?" Medical Advance was the medium through which he voiced the wail. Wonder whose copy of this journal he borrows? He seems to be a regular reader. The first issue of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy will be gotten out January 1, 1909. Those unfamiliar with the appearance of Medical Century will do well to secure a copy and become acquainted as the new venture is merely this old publication under a new name. The Critique has the honor of saying "I told you so," all of which it did in its last month's issue. If one wishes to know how happy it made the promoters of this scheme all that is necessary to find out will be to read the lowa Journal of Homeopathy's editorial, "A Meeting of the Fathers and What Was Wrought," to be convinced that The Critique was not talking through its head gear when it told that little story re the J. A. I. H. New Medical Books THE CLINIC REPERTORY.-By W. P. Shedd, M. D., New York. Including a Repertory of Time Modalities, by Dr. Ide of Stettin, Germany. Translated from the Berliner Zeitschrift Homöopathischer Ertze, Band xxv., Hefte 3 and 4. 240 pages. Cloth, $1.50. Postage, 8 cents. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 1908. Here is a little work that is an absolute delight to the eye as well as being of help to those desirous of doing good work along homeopathic lines. Besides the general repertory features of the work, by Dr. Shedd, than whom there is none more capable in the homeopathic profession, the section devoted to time modalities, by Dr. Ide of Stettin, Germany, is by no means the least interesting or important feature of this very valuable little work. Taken in its entirety it is a refreshing bit of work which reflects the greatest credit upon the author as well as the publishers, and will prove of inestimable value to the busy practitioner as well as to the new beginner in true homeopathic prescribing. M. THE CHRONIC MIASMS-Sycosis.-By J. Henry Allen, M. D., author of "Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin" and "Psora and PseudoPsora." Professor of Dermatology, Hering Medical College, Chicago, Ill. Second edtion. The first edition of Dr. Allen's book upon this same subject was a most helpful work and the present edition has been brought up to such a high degree of perfection by the addition of much new and ablywritten material as to make it well-nigh indispensable to those interested in this line of work. The therapeutic tone of the book is of a high order and includes nearly every remedy symptomatically and otherwise indicated in the treatment of diseases coming under this head. 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Nash, and "The Food-tract; its Diseases," by Dr. A. L. Blackwood. Dr. Nash confines himself to the homeopathic treatment of the diseases of the respiratory organs, which he gives in his attractive, able and effective manner. Dr. Blackwood takes up every disease of the food-tract from mouth to rectum, "follows the food," in his usual concise, yet lucid style, giving everything concerning the subject that the student needs to learn and the practitioner to remember, including homeoropathic and accessory treat ment. TONICS AND THE CLIMACTERIC.-A good many physicians realize the value of effective tonic medication during that rather variable period in a woman's life known as the climacteric. The tendency to the psycho-neuroses when such a patient's general vitality is low, emphasizes the necessity of bringing the nutrition and general health to as nearly normal point as possible. 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Greater reliance, there fore, on the tonic influence of Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp. and less resort to bromides and opiates, has saved many a woman from neurotic maladies that are worse in many respects than death itself. EATING TOO MUCH AND TOO OFTEN.-A great many people seem to think that it matters little what kind of material goes into the building of the human structure! They offer the body thistles and ask it to give back figs. They feed on thorns and expect to pick roses. Later, they find they have sown indigestion and are reaping ptomaines. It's a wonderful laboratory, this human body. But it can't prevent the formation of deadly poisons within its very being. Indeed, the alimentary tract may be regarded as one great laboratory for the manufacture of dangerous substances. Biliousness is a forcible illustration of the formation and the absorption of poisons, due largely to an excessive proteid diet.. The nervous symptoms of the dyspeptic are often but the physiological demonstrations of putrefactive alkaloids. In order to carry out the important command, "Keep the Bowels Open," we are offered laxative antikamnia and quinine tablets,the laxative dose of which is one or two tablets, every two or three hours, as indicated. When a cathartic is desired, administer the tablets as directed and follow with a saline draught the next morning, before breakfast. This will hasten peristaltic action and assist in removing, at once, the accumulated fecal matter. Dr. J. Wylie Anderson, 1909. Steele Block, Denver, Colorado. Dear Doctor:-Send THE CRITIQUE to following address for year Name.. Address.... (Cut out the blank. Enclose it with $1. Do it now.) |