in the right lung, going to the lower edge of the right shoulder blade. It is one of the leading remedies in infantile pneumonia and capillary bronchitis, where hepatic symptoms prevail. It is not to be forgotten in that form of pneumonia known as pneumonia biliosa. The symptoms are: great oppression of the chest; fan-like expansion of alæ nasi, similar to that found in lycopodium; one foot hot, one foot cold; quiet delirium, mostly at night, followed by lethargy, which continues during the day. Grayish, yellow, sunken, sallow features; heat in the face, with dark red cheeks; sudden restlessness of limbs, the feet moving voluntarily; severe chills, followed by heat and sorrow ful, anxious mood; irregular palpitation of the heart, with dry, yellow stools; hollow, short, exhaustive, racking cough, with forcible ejection of small lumps of mucus, or we may have an inability to raise or dislodge the mucus; straining cough, aggravated in the morning with expectoration from deep down in the lungs.

We tarry here long enough to say that it is impossible, in the brevity of this paper, to give all of the remedies so necessary in the various conditions found in pneumonia, and therefore we beg to be pardoned by giving only such as are most frequently indicated and have the widest range of usefulness.

Aurora, Illinois, June 25th, 1912.

TO BE CONCLUDED.

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THE DELAWARE COUNTY HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY held its regular monthly meeting at the office of Doctor J. F. Van Keuren, 312 E. Broad Street, Chester, Pa., on Thursday, May 16th, 1912, at 3:30 P. M. Doctor J. W. Frank, Radiologist to the Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, presented a paper on "The Uses of the High Frequency Current with Demonstration," which was enjoyed by all present. The election of officers for the ensuing year then took place, after which refreshments were served. GEORGE C. WEBSTER, M. D., Sec'y.

THE GERMANTOWN HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY held its regular monthly meeting at the Majestic, Broad and Girard Avenue, on Monday, the 20th of May, 1912, at 9 o'clock in the evening. Doctor Bradley told of Cancer of the Stomach, which was very interesting, and was enjoyed by all present. The Censors reported the following names: Dr. Hugh M. Shannon, Hahnemann 1907, Dr. Deacon Steinmetz, Hahnemann 1905. LANDRETH W. THOMPSON, M. D., Secy.

THE CLINICO-PATHOLOGIC SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA held its regular monthly meeting at Hahnemann College, Saturday evening, May 18, 1912, at 8:30 o'clock. A paper on "The Necessity of the General Practitioner' was read by Doctor Joseph C. Guernsey, and one on the "Report of Results of Injection of Salvarsan" in fifty-two cases was read by Doctor J. M. Kenworthy. A number of interesting clinical cases were presented. The meeting was well attended and enjoyed by all present. BENJ. K. FLETCHER, M. D., Sec'y.

MUST APOLOGIZE to our readers for the brevity of recent articles, though this is one of the graces in a public writer. I have not been able to write much, and am not now able to continue the series, but will give a few jottings, with the promise to renew the series, "The Technique of Prescribing," later on. A series calls for more time and thought and meditation, but jottings just slide off of the surface of the gray matter. My case is now in the capable hands of Dr. G. E. Dienst, of Aurora, Ill., and Dr. J. T. Kent, of Chicago. Knowing their skill and the power of homœopathy, I take courage.

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CCORDING TO A PAPER read in the recent state society of Illinois, said to be homoeopathic, by a physician professing to be a homoeopath, God made a lamentable blunder in creating man with tonsils. These organs are such germ catchers when diseased, and spread disease to such an alarming extent, that they must be extirpated root and branch. And that portion of the profession fully "up to date" are now exhorted with some show of zeal and enthusiasm to not wait for disease, but cut them out; for they are perfectly useless, whether diseased or not. A better reason, not given in the paper, however, is that such "homeopaths" cannot cure them. The highest aspiration some homoeopaths seem to have is to learn how to whistle an allopathic tune.

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MONGREL is one who met with disappointment in learning homoeopathy, and goes about in his professional capacity disappointing others. He is a mixed breed; he tries to both pace and trot, and cannot do either. He is an allopathic-homoeopath; but he is so inferior to regular allopaths that allopathic patrons do not want him; and his words and deeds are so stamped with mongrelism that he cannot fool the homeopathic public at all. He is a misfit all around. He ought to resign before the vote is taken, and set up a shop with a sign like this: All sorts of work done here that belongs to no one trade in particular.

HE REAL HOMOEOPATH is one who believes in the homœopathic philosophy; who believes in homœopathic principles; who perceives the power of dynamic medicines; who administers the single remedy and the minimum dose; who honestly tries to conform to the teaching of the Organon in his daily practice, and who will never sacrifice his high calling as a homœopathician in order to gain allopathic recognition. He familiarizes himself with the doctrines as taught by the founder, and is never ready to repudiate them until he has imitated him with exactness. He grows in proficiency and eminence in the ratio that he understands and fellows the Organon and Chronic Diseases. He commands general respect by his consistency, patronage by his art and skill, and the largest fees by his unparalleled success.

YOU HAVE LEARNED ENOUGH about the testing of drugs to know that the human system is very sensitive to the action of medicines. Thousands of doctors who employ crude drugs are prescribing today for conditions produced by the medicines they gave yesterday or last week, and they do not know it; and their patients do not know it. The organs and functions that are healthy, they make sick by their crude drugs and "heroic" doses. If the patient is suffering pain, they administer an opiate. This throws the bowels, which are now normal, into a state of disorder. They then administer a physic for the bowels, and thus disturb the stomach. They then prescribe for an irritated stomach, and the crude irritating medicines only make a bad stomach worse. If some crude medicines will eat the silver off of spoons, turn spoons green and actually eat holes in clothing when vomited, what would you imagine they would do to the human stomach? If our allopathic brethren could learn to prescribe without using poisonous medicines, the people would be better off, and homoeopaths would have less to do; for there are more people suffering from crude drugs than from natural diseases. The doctor goes back and prescribes for the drug-disease which he himself has produced; and he often tells the patient that "blood poison" has set in, when the truth is drug poison has set in. The people are becoming cautious as to pure foods, and this is well; but they should learn to exercise equal prudence as to medicines. An allopathic prescription compounded in a patent medicine house has just as much virtue and no more danger than an allopathic prescription calling for the same medicines and compounded in your home drug store.

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THE FAITH WITHIN US.*

BY GRACE STEVENS, M. D., NORTHAMPTON, Mass. 'HE TOPIC on which our chairman has asked me to write takes me back to the very foundation of things for us as homoeopathic physicians. Webster defines faith as "the inward acceptance of a personality as real and trustworthy, of an idea as true and obligatory, or of a thing as beneficial."

Adopting the second part of the definition as best fitted to our use of the word here, let us for a few minutes consider our faith in homoeopathy as "the acceptance of an idea as true and obligatory."

The last word in the definition points clearly to the relation which exists between a real faith and the act of the individual who holds that faith-the one is the main-spring of the other. And since faith is so important a factor in our daily lives, it behooves us to see how it can best be acquired.

Like greatness-it seems to me-faith may be acquired in one of three ways: one may be born with it, one may achieve it, or one may have it thrust upon him. The first way is by far the easiest-that is, it requires the least exertion on the part of him who possesses the faith. Taking things for granted without stopping to reason them out is very simple and quite comfortable, so long as nothing comes up to make one think; but unless inborn faith is re-enforced by careful study, we are apt to have some uncomfortable hours when brought to face with problems and doubts.

Faith thrust upon one does not necessarily mean after the manner of Mohammed and his followers. One may be forced to acknowledge the truth without suffering bodily violence, and those converted half against their wills sometimes become the staunchest believers; but the man whose faith is strongest is he who, like Hahnemann, achieves it, works and studies and experiments for himself, until he knows whereof he speaks, and can give reasons for the confidence he feels. This faith may be severely tried, but it will stand the test. It is an intelligent, not a blind faith, for it is founded on our own experience and on that of others whom we can trust.

* Read before the Western Massachusetts Homopathic Medical Society, December, 1911.

Faith may be acquired in this way by anyone who is willing to work for it. "He that willeth shall know of the doctrine" applies to things physical as well as to things spiritual. But we must will to know and will to work for the knowledge. Hahnemann himself says in his introduction to the Organon: "The application of homoeopathic principles appears easy, but it is in reality most difficult and irksome; it demands most careful thought and the utmost patience, but these find their reward in speedy and permanent recovery of the patient."

In leading up to the statement of the principles of homoopathy, Hahnemann gives certain requirements of a physician (Organon, paragraphs 3 and 4): "The physician should distinctly understand the following conditions: What is curable in diseases in general, and in each individual case in particular; that is, he should possess a perfect knowledge of medicinal powers. He should be governed by distinct reasons in order to insure recovery, but adapting what is curative in medicines to what he has recognized as undoubtedly morbid in the patient; that is to say, he should adapt it so that the case is met by a remedy well matched with regard to its kind of action, its necessary preparation and quantity, and the proper time of its repetition. Finally, when the physician knows in each case the obstacles in the way of recovery, and how to remove them, he is prepared to act thoroughly and to the purpose as a true master of the art of healing."

Paragraph 4. "He is at the same time a preserver of health when he knows the causes that disturb health, that produce and maintain disease, and when he knows how to remove them from healthy persons."

This Hahnemann follows with the proof that what is curable in disease-that which demands a curative agent-is the totality of symptoms displayed by the patient. In paragraphs 6 and 7 he says: "The physician observes deviations from the previous healthy condition of the patient, felt by him and recognized upon him by his attendants and observed upon him by the physician.

"All of these observable signs together represent the discase in its full extent; that is, they constitute together the true and only conceivable form of the disease."

Paragraph 7. "In a disease presenting no manifest exciting or maintaining cause for removal, nothing is to be discovered but symptoms. These alone (with due regard to the possible existence of some miasm and to accessory circumstances) must constitute the medium through which the disease demands and points out the curative agent. Hence, the totality