and sometimes in two. I cured this case with sepia 50-m, using nux vomica as an intercurrent, as herein explained. She was discharged in two and one-half years, a well and happy woman.

Now I ask the reader if this will not compare favorably with the average report of cures; and I ask the careful prescriber if he could possibly glean from this report the exact reasons for prescribing sepia, or catch the image with sufficient clearness to cure a similar case with that remedy? I wish our good prescribers would report more cures and tell us in each case exactly why they selected the curative remedy named. I feel sure there is nothing in the foregoing which any physician could use successfully in another case; but many, no doubt, would guess the remedy at once by seizing with both hands this: "Dark hair, brown eyes and clear, thin skin." But inasmuch as I could not find any medicine which has produced dark hair, brown eyes and thin, clear skin, I scratched that out of the record as wholly worthless. The doctor who prescribes sepia on this account, or phos. because the patient is tall and slender, or puls. because she is a blond, or bevista because she is an old maid, is sure to make more failures than cures. The ability of a medicine to cure lies in its power to produce a similar sickness.

WHY SEPIA CURED.

I. There was great sadness and much weeping, and she did not seem to have one happy hour.

2. There was great indifference to her own family and to old friends. She had lost all interest in life.

3. In spite of this tearfulness, she would have fits of anger when least expected.

4. She would sit in her room shivering all day when menstruating, but did not crave the open air at any time.

5. The eruption and intense itching were worse in the warm room, during the hot months and by the heat of the

stove.

6. She was tormented with constipation and a feeling of a weight or ball in the anus, which was not relieved by an evacuation. She had complained of this for many years. ("Brown pills" and physic gave no relief.)

7. She had yellow spots on her face, especialy marked across the bridge of her nose, around the mouth and on the chin.

8. She had chronic catarrh and would blow yellowishgreen mucus, or yellowish-green crusts, sometimes with blood, from the nose. Often had bleeding of the nose.

How could an eruption remain to torment her after a morbid image like this had been removed? The internal flame which caused the eruption, which eruption was only a part of the image, was wholly extinguished. Then health returned. She now enjoys life; takes much interest in her home and her family; looks the picture of health, and is once more a beautiful woman and the queen of her home. Oniy the other day she said to me, "Life is worth living now." My dear young doctor: The ability to make such cures fully compensates for all the hard labor and toil and expense in learning how, and gives to the prescriber an inward satisfaction and an assurance which only the real homeopath can ever enjoy. With a critical eye and ear he learns to focus the image cut of the odd, peculiar, unusual and distinguishing symptoms, and then he finds the remedy which has the totality of these.

HOLLOWAY.

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SAMPLE OF HOMOEOPATHIC ENTHUSIASM. -The abolishing of the Homœopathic Department of the Iowa State University, as noted in the Iowa Homoeopathic Journal, should not dampen the ardor of the members of the homeopathic profession nor lessen our activities. The motive that actuated the authorities in this act should be considered. No doubt their action was instigated through the pressure brought to bear by the misrepresentation of the opponents of our school. These unrighteous and unjust attacks by the allopaths are not unexpected. These continued attacks have not accomplished what the old school desired, namely, to exterminate our colleges and associations. Though there are fewer homoeopathic colleges, yet the number of students in attendance last year was more than the previous year, and from reports of this year there is an increase over the year before. These efforts have been futile, for our success has been phenomenal, not only in the United States, but over the civilized world. It is too true that we have been apathetic, but of late years we have been aroused. We should rejoice that there is an awakening all along the line. More enthusiasm for the success of homoeopathy than has ever heretofore been manifest. Truly everywhere the day is breaking. It is a grand asset, for it has proved its superiority over any system of medicine in the most formidable of diseases. We must do our best to keep the sacred flame of homœopathy burning. The gospel of work must be our creed, for when we cease to work we lose faith, but when working our faith is renewed.

Our forbears left us a rich legacy, which they frequently, strenuously and conscientiously nursed and cared for. They were the pioneers who blazed the way for posterity, and, as heirs, have we done our duty in caring for their rich legacies?

Our opponents are using every conceivable means to injure and annihilate us, but in the end all their endeavors wil prove a boomerang. Our cause is just and will triumph. Some of our colleges needed a good shaking up.

We very much regret that the college at Iowa City has been abolished, for it was a very splendid exponent of homœopathic truths. H. F. BIGGAR, in Journal A. I. H.

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BE NOT DECEIVED.

IN THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER OF GENESIS we read of an old man who had two sons, the eldest, named Esau, a rough, hairy man, a man of the fields, the woods and the hills; the youngest, named Jacob, a slick, smooth schemer, a man of the home. According to the usage of the country, at the death of the father the estate went to the eldest son, but Jacob, by the help of a crafty and unprincipled mother, made up their minds to deceive the blind father, and thus by fraud get the blessing. Jacob was afraid, but his mother bade him go on and she would take. all blame. She arrayed Jacob in Esau's choicest raiment, she covered his hands with the skins of the kids of goats, she handed him the savory food for his father, and started him on his way. As he entered his father's presence, he said: "I am Esau." The father bade him draw near that he might examine him, and, as he did so, said the voice is the voice of Jacob but the hands are the hands of Esau. He discerned him not, because his hands were hairy. And so, by fraud, Jacob obtained the blessing.

For over forty years the writer has seen many men of the Esau type in the ranks of the medical profession; they have all the time been seeking personal advancement, but all the time they profess to be working not for themselves but for the people; they reach out for place, power and money that does not belong to them. But they are finding out that the people do not want their interference, and, on this account and because of this opposition, the political doctors are seeking power from state and national governments to enforce their schemes. For years they have had compulsory vaccination, and what a source of wealth it has been to them. Now they are seeking to get a Medical Bureau in Washington, D. C., with branches all over this great land; through these bureaus they seek power to enter our homes and schools, there to remove adenoids and do the work of oculists and dentists, whether we and our family physicians are agreeable or not. As it looks now, they will soon want to vaccinate all against typhoid, etc. These scheming doctors will have the whole country at their mercy medically, and the business is being done so quietly that the people are unaware that their liberties are being stolen. As the old patriarch was deceived, so the people are being deceived. These doctors wax eloquent about the high death rate among children and adults and the great amount of sickness in the land.

You would think to hear them that their work was one of pure philanthropy. They would have us think that they seek the people's health, but it is power they seek, power to have all matters medical under their own domination, power to draw from our state and national treasuries money for themselves. A good business man said the other day, "We have just escaped clerical tyranny, and now they would bring us into medical bondage." A lady connected with our public schools waxed warm recently as she spoke of the good work being done by these physicians, but it took very little time to convince her that she had been misled.

Now, how may medical tyranny be prevented? By scattering light on these subjects. We lose our liberty for the lack of knowledge. If the old patriarch had retained his sight Jacob might have been covered from head to foot with kid skins, but he would never have deceived his father. So if the people are intelligent on these subjects they will never be enslaved.

Within a comparative short time there has been started in this country a League for Medical Freedom. Its object is to give to the people knowledge on these subjects and help guard their liberties. Already many thousands are enrolled as members of the league. They are doing good work. Let us help them.-Eclectic Medical Journal.

April 13, 1912.

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THE OWEN BILL.

Mr. Owen, from the Committee on

Public Health and National Quarantine, submitted the following Report, to accompany S. No. 1: Your committee, having had under advisement Senate Bill 1, reports said bill favorably with an amendment, so that the bill will read as follows:

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BILL TO

ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that there be at the seat of government an independent establishment known as the United States Public Health Service (which may be called the Health Service), and a Director of Health, who shall be the head thereof. The Director of Health shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, at a salary