pressed gonorrhoea. Abdominial tension. Ulcers in the inguinal region.

Constipation; difficult stool; no desire for stool; stool hard and covered with mucus; generally painless. Diarrhoea which is also generally painless. Dysentery, bloody mucus; jelly-like stools; frequent; generally painless. Much offensive flatus. Hemorrhage from rectum and from intestines. External piles, protrude during urination; itching of the anus; involuntary stool; moisture about the anus; some pain in the rectum during stool; burning during and after stool; pressing pain; soreness; stitching; tenesmus. Paralysis of the rectum and of the sphincter ani. Stool bloody, jelly-like, hard, green, fetid, soft, thin, watery, white and hard; yellow and slimy; worms with stool.

Inflammation of the bladder. Retention of urine. Urging to urination; constant, frequent, ineffectual, violent. Urination. difficult; frequent at night; frequent during perspiration; involuntary during the night. Gleety urethral discharge. It has cured chronic gonorrhoea. Pain in the urethra during urination. The urine is hot, copious, offensive, with whitish sediment; watery, yellow, with great stench.

Enlarged testes. Induration of testes; inflammation of testes from suppressed gonorrhoea; seminal emissions; sexual passion greatly increased; swollen testes. Atrophy of the ovaries and her desire is increased, even violent. Induration of the ovaries. Leucorrhoea. Menses copious, too often, painful. Pain in the uterus. Sterility.

Catarrh of the larynx and trachea; irritation in larynx and trachea; tickling in the larynx. Voice is hoarse, husky and weak. Respiration is fast, anxious, asthmatic, deep, difficult, with cough, and she must sit up; rattling, short.

Cough in daytime, morning, evening, night, before midnight; asthmatic, dry, chronic dry cough of scrofulous children; from irritation in larynx and trachea; rattling, whooping cough. Expectoration in the morning; mucous; copious; muco-purulent expectoration from bronchial tubes; yellow. It has cured phthisical conditions of the chest with herpetic eruptions and indurated testes. Marked palpitation. It has been a very useful remedy in spinal curvature.

Cold hands and feet; cramps in the toes; drawing up the limbs ameliorates. Eruptions on the limbs; pimples. Hot hands. Heaviness of the whole body, must lie down. Itching of the limbs; the thighs. Painless jerking of the arms at night. Violent periodical jerking of the limbs with convulsions. Lassitude: numbness of the fingers. Pain in the upper limbs and thighs. Paralysis of the left side; paralysis of the lower limbs. Perspiration of the feet; suppressed foot sweat. Pulsation of the shoulder. Swelling of the hands, lower limbs, knees, feet. Tension in knees. Trembling of the limbs. Twitching of the upper limbs, thighs, feet. Ulcers on the legs. Weakness of the limbs.

Dreams: amorous, anxious, frightful, of misfortune, pleasant, vivid. Restless sleep; sleepiness; afternoon, evening, after dinner; sleepless before midnight; frequent waking.

Coldness in the morning; evening; in bed; chilliness; external chill; shaking chills every third day. Fever in the evening and during the night; burning heat; heat with chilliness; dry heat all day; dry heat during the night.

Dryness, biting and burning in skin; cold skin; eruptions; eczema; herpes all over body; pimples; scabs; yellow scales; stinging; urticaria; erysipelas, formication, horripilation. Inflammation of skin. Itching. Swelling and tension. Whole body covered with small ulcers. Unhealthy skin. Burning ulcers. 92 State Street, Chicago, Ill

AURUM ARSENICUM.

By E. R. McIntyer, B. S., M. D.

Doctor Kent handed me his article on this remedy with a request that I discuss everything he writes along the same lines that was published in the September CRITIQUE on his proving of aluminum phosphorica; while this would be a rather formidable undertaking, I will try to discuss this remedy, and probably others, according to what I think the symptoms teach.

A study of the proving of aurum arsenicum, as given in the

September CRITIQUE, can hardly fail to impress one with its wonderful power to strike down the vital forces of the entire human economy; we see this one thread running all through the picture. When an agent produces such profound disturbance in the vital forces, it points to the sympathetic nervous system; since it is this system which presides over every function and organ concerned in nutrition.

This system, like the cerebro-spinal, has its dominating center. The functional relations of the solar plexus and semilunar ganglia to the whole sympathetic system is similar to that of the cerebellum to the cerebro-spinal system. An injury to any part of the cerebro-spinal system can only be recognized by the patient when the impulses reaches the cerebrum. So a disturbance in any division of the sympathetic is reflected to the solar plexus, which has been aptly termed "The abdominal brain." Since fibres connect this abdominal brain with every organ, vessel (whether blood or lymphatic), gland, and nutritive function, excretion and reproduction, it is natural that any agent capable of causing discordant action in any perypheral portion of this system must cause incoördination in the rhythm of the solar plexus; in other words, an irritation in any organ will be reflected to the abdominal brain, there to be reorganized and sent to all other parts and organs.

On the other hand, it is evident that any agent that strikes down the vital powers in the entire economy, as does the one under discussion, must begin with the solar plexus or abdominal brain, the same as anything that paralyzes the entire cerebrospinal system must be located in the brain. The sympathetic is the nerve of rhythmical action, not controlled by mental desires or physical labor.

When we know that the hepatic plexus receives its sympathetic fibres from the coeliac plexus, which is a direct continuation of the great solar plexus, we are prepared to trace many hepatic symptoms to some discord in the rhythm of the latter. The liver is peculiar in many respects, not the least of which is its nerve supply. The hepatic plexus contains fibres from the coeliac plexus (sympathetic), both vagi (cranial) and phrenic (spinal) from the third, fourth and fifth cervical nerves, This

three-fold nerve supply of the liver not only tells us of the great importance of the organ, but serves to explain many disorders in distant parts which frequently accompany diseased liver.

Let us not forget this peculiar nerve supply is also a wise provision of nature for the preservation of a nicely balanced function in the organ itself, as well as a source of much trouble when the balance of power, so to speak, is thrown on any one of these different nerve sources.

As we study this proving we read "enlarged liver; hardening of the liver; atrophy of the liver." These three symptoms are given here in the order in which we would expect them to appear. The drug disturbs the rhythm in the abdominal brain, and this incoördinate action is sent over the vasomotor fibres in the hepatic plexus, where it disturbs the tone of the hepatic arteries, and they become dilated and filled with blood; the liver is congested and naturally "enlarged." This congestion being continued results in the proliferation of connective tissue which undergoes a kind of semi-organization and takes on greater density, and it is "hardened." Finally this connective tissue contracts the same as does redundant connective tissue in other parts. As this contraction proceeds it squeezes the life out of those liver cells within its meshes, and the organ "atrophies.”

Having in mind what has been said of this gland and remembering that the lymphatic glands are supplied by sympathetic nerves, the reader can readily see why "the glands are swollen; ulceration of glands, with marked induration; in cancerous conditions." Rhythm is the first law of all organic life; rhythmical action in the animal body is the result of normal function of the sympathetic nervous system, while the cerebrospinal system tends to disturb rhythm. When glandular rhythm is normal, glandular function is normal and lymphatic circulation is normal; but when rhythm in the gland is disturbed the glands are filled with lymph, which soon loses its liquid and the gland becomes clogged with waste products, and products of an incompleted metabolism, with resulting faulty nutrition that is in direct ratio to the inability of the gland to remove the little corpses of the dead material.

The allopath is not ignorant of these facts, but lacks the

proper training to enable him to make a practical application of them in the treatment of his patients, and since he knows of no better mode of procedure, he cuts the inoffensive glands in the belief that thus he can cure the patient. But can he? If so, we are reduced to a position in which we have an effect without a cause. Cure means removal of the cause; in this case the cause is incoördinate action of the nerve supply of the glands.

Then we read "inflammation and congestion in many parts; in mucous membranes, bones, glands, peritoneum, serous membranes." We are not told whether this inflammatory action is acute, and indeed we do not need telling if we read the whole story; such conditions as are brought about by this drug as given in this picture are always of a low grade chronic character. It would indeed be a novelty to see an active, acute condition in such a case as is here described.

The germiphobist would teach that this is the result of infec tion by some form of germs, but he fails to tell us how the germs reached the tissues involved, especially the internal tissues. It is well known that healthy human blood and lymph kill diseasegerms at once when they come in contact with them; inflammation in any part is always preceded by congestion. This differs in no particular in glands. Congestion is a result of disturbance in the vasomotor nerves of the part, which permits loss of tone in the vessel walls with consequent undue afflux of blood to that part. When this passes to a condition in which a new product is formed, we call it inflammation; but there can be no living disease germs in this blood so long as it is normal and continues to circulate normally. But change its constituent elements or ob-struct its onward flow, and it becomes a suitable soil for the gen-eration and growth of germs. And we may find living germs: in it as a result, but not a cause of the inflammation.

This may all seem foreign to the subject under discussion, but how else shall we really know the action of our remedies except by some knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology? By pathology I do not mean morbid anatomy, but morbid physiology. It is of but little use to see a group of symptoms unless we know something of their meaning.