craves sour things and condiments, and has aversion to fats. In children there is great intolerance of milk with much sour vomiting. The child craves sours and many times has sour odor about the body. He is hasty in drinking.

With this there is apt to be present diarrhoeic stools of yellow or green, or undigested, with a fetid odor or smelling like rotten cheese. The stools are usually painless, although in dysentery there may be a good deal of tenesmus. There is a paretic condition of the bowels, in consequence of which the abdominal muscles must bear down in order to effect an evacuation (alumina). Now the patient must have the general aspect as outlined in first part of this paper.

The most striking thing about the urinary organs is: A weakness of the bladder, the urine passes tardily and without force, and feels as if the bladder could not be emptied thoroughly. The urine is burning and offensive.

Hepar is frequently indicated in syphilis, especially after the abuse of mercury with buboes. The lesions are very sensi tive with sticking, jagging pains. The patient is chilly and vehement, and of a weakly constitution-not robust.

Constant pressure in one side of brain as from a plug or nail; hammering sensation in head and lancinating headache, etc., are characteristic of the headaches, and are usually associated with psoric or syphilitic eruptions.

INFLUENZA OR LA GRIPPE.

Compiled by Lillian Irvine Pollock, M. D., Denver.

Aconite, in the acute stage; from exposure to dry, cold winds; chilliness with dry, hot skin, thirst; anxiety, restlessness. Arsenicum. Profuse, fluent coryza; discharges burning, and excoriating; great prostration, extreme restlessness, extreme thirst, dyspnoea; better from warmth.

Alumina. Dry, spasmodic cough; worse in morning; dryness of mucous membrane, followed by formation of thick, yellow mucus, difficult to detach; clergyman's sore throat.

Ammonium carb. Copious accumulation of mucus in the

lungs; emphysema; coughs continually without expectoration, or raises with great difficulty; particularly suited to winter catarrhs.

Arum Triphyllum. Aphonia; hoarseness with lack of control of vocal chords; all discharges acrid and excoriating.

Belladonna. Hard, dry, tickling, teasing, barking, spasmodic cough, with bright red color of throat, and enlarged tonsils.

Bryonia. Cough, with stitches in chest; worse coming into a warm room; worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting of food; headache from suppressed discharges, aggravated by coughing; worse from motion.

Carbo Veg.

Is indicated in catarrhal conditions, developed by warm, moist atmosphere; aphonia with raw feeling of larynx and trachea; spasmodic cough with burning in chest, and profuse, yellow, fetid expectoration,

Causticum. Rawness and burning in throat and trachea; feeling as if these parts were denuded; morning hoarseness; phlegm in throat can not be expectorated, only comes up far enough to be swallowed; emissions of urine with every paroxysm of cough; relieved by drinking cold water.

Cepa. Cough compels patient to grasp larynx; feels as if cough would tear it. Every year in August morning coryza; violent sneezing.

Chamomilla. Catarrh of children when nose is stopped up, with dropping of hot watery mucus from nostrils; dry teasing cough with sneezing and inability to sleep; or cough during sleep.

Cinnabaris. Influenza, with great pressure at root of nose.
Chelidonium. Hawking of lumps of phlegm.

Cistus Canadensis. Frequent, violent sneezing; pressing pain at root of nose; nose feels cold.

Dulcamara. When exposed in cold, damp weather, dulc. is a prophylactic against la grippe.

Drosera. Coughs as soon as head touches the pillow. Eupatoreum Perf. Influenza with weak pulse, coryza and aching and soreness in all the bones of the body.

Euphrasia. Fluent, bland coryza; acrid lacrymation.

Gelsemium. Sneezing, with irritating discharges, and extreme muscular prostration.

Graphites. Very sensitive to cold air; borders of nostrils are sore, scabby, and crack readily; extreme dryness of nose with discharge of lumps of mucus.

Hepar Sulph. Hoarseness with loss of voice; cannot bear to be uncovered; coughs when any part of body gets cold; purulent discharge.

Hydrastis. Air feels cold in nose; hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus from posterior nares.

Ipecac. Suffocative cough; chest feels full of phlegm, difficult to raise by coughing; spasmodic cough, with vomiting. Kali Bi. All discharges tough and stringy; sore, scurfy nostrils with "clinkers" in nose.

Lachesis. Cough worse after sleep; cannot bear tight clothing about the neck; all pain and soreness worse on left side. Lycopodium. Acute sense of smell; cough with salty tast ing sputa; oppressed breathing with fan-like motion of the alae

nasi.

Mercurius. Frequent sneezing; fluent coryza; profuse perspiration, which does not relieve; worse at night and in damp weather.

Nux V. Fluent coryza during the day, stopping at night; in the initial stage of la grippe, when caused by dry, cold weather.

Pulsatilla. In the "ripe" stage of la grippe, when the discharge is thick, muco-purulent, yellowish or green, and nonexcoriating.

Phosphorus. Dry, tickling cough; hoarseness worse in evening; nervous cough in the presence of strangers; sleepy during day and after meals.

Rhus-toxicodendron. Influenza from exposure to dampness, with severe aching of all the bones; they feel as if scraped; cough worse from being uncovered.

Sulphur. Great liability to take cold; scabs form in the nose; nose is "stuffed up" while in doors; breathing unobstructed in the open air; must have the window open; nose red and swollen; excoriating discharge.

Silicea. Chronic coryza; long lasting, oft returning; pro

fuse, fetid, purulent expectoration during the day; feels better with head covered.

Spongia. Hoarse, croupy cough from exposure to dry, cold winds, violent coughing brings up small hard lumps of

mucus.

Tartar Emetic. Stopping of nose alternating with fluent coryza; much rattling of mucus in trachea, which does not yield to cough.

MONTHLY REVIEW.

Thuja for Seminal Emissions.

The Homeopathic Recorder.

Thuja.-Thuja, in doses of from five to seven drops, is the best remedy to control seminal emissions that I ever tried. A remedy that will control excessive seminal emissions without injury to the patient is a welcome addition to the medical armamentarium, and thuja is worthy of a trial for this honor.-ROBERTS, in Medical Summary.

Marriage

and

I. W. Heismeyer, M. A., M. D., writes on Marriage and Divorce. After referring to the degenDivorce. erate tendency of the times in regard to the marriage relation he asks: "What is our duty in the premises?" and then says:

"The growing children have new problems presented as they emerge from childhood; fallacy is everywhere accessible, but not truth-the newspapers reek with true narratives of filth; the conversation is far looser than ever before; unrebuked examples of unchastity are more and more publicly visible everywhere; condonement follows discovery, and the popu. lar ideals have been changed."

Among the corrective measures he suggests the following: "Do not make divorces more easy, but make marriages more a subject of special individualization; see that those who propose to wed together forever are fitted to do so; and then see that all artificially-raised obstacles are removed at the time; and teach the sacredness of marriage, not necessarily in a religious sense, but as a constituent and essential part of the great fabric of humanity, in which we are all irremovably interwoven.

Objections

Two objections are made editorially to the new to the new Pharmacopeia issued by the authority of the Pharmacapeia. American Institute.

First: "The new Pharmacopeia gives the medical profession different remedies from those on which the grand Homeopathic edifice has been reared,"

Second: "The new Pharmacopoeia actually, though insidiously, cuts away the ground from under the American Institute of Homeopathy, and, consequently, from under every homeopathic college, hospital, practitioner. and all pertaining to Homeopathy. This is a sweeping assertion, but if the new book is to be followed the slow but sure logic of time will prove its truth. Homeopathy made its way against terrible opposition chiefly on cures of so-called "chronic" cases, and these were mostly cured with remedies like Silicea, Calcarea carb., Aurum, and a host of other "insolubles." Until comparatively recent years all these drugs were prescribed in dilutions, or pellets medicated with dilutions of the triturations of these insolubles; in accordance with Hahnemann's directions. The new Pharmacopoeia condems these drugs as inert-precisely what our "regular" friends have always said! What follows? Why sooner or later the laughing "regular" points to this fact and very truly insists that if you condemn the one you cannot spare the other dilution and-away goes the whole. For what reply can be made? The most important part of our edifice is built on material gathered from work done by these dilutions which the official Pharmacopoeia—if it is to be the official-says were and are inert.

A New
Dress.

The Medical Visitor.

This journal, just entering upon its fourteenth year, comes out in a new dress with Wilson A. Smith, formerly of the Medical Current as editor. The "directory of Physicians" will no longer be a feature of the Visitor, but especial attention will be given to Materia Medica and Therapeutic notes.

Suggestions

on use of

At a late meeting of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago, Prof. J. R. Kippax read a

Stomach tubes paper on Lavage and Gavage. The Prof. expressed preference for a stomach tube with single tube and siphon, and suggested that in introducing the tube the head of the patient should be thrown a little forward as in swallowing. In cases of ulcers, cancers or hemorrhages of the stomach the tube should not be used.