Dr. Watters of Boston University experimented along similar lines with a number of individuals, testing their index to staphylococcus. He used hepar sulph. in various strengths from the 1-x to the 200-x. He found his index to staphylococcus uniformly high, averaging 1.2 per cent; one dose of hepar 1-x reduced it to 1 per cent in twenty-four hours; in forty-eight hours it was 1.1 per cent, and in eight days was once more 1.2 per cent. His assistant had an index of .95 per cent. Four doses of hepar sulph., 6-x, at half-hour intervals was taken and the next day it was .64 per cent, the second day .77 per cent, and in eight days normal.

Professor Southwick, of Boston, cites a case of chronic diarrhoea. The index to various organisms was normal with. the exception of the colon bacillus, which was .45 per cent. The patient remained in the hospital three weeks without treatment, under observation, but no improvement. Natrum sulphuricum appeared to be the remedy indicated, consequently was given in the 200-x, hypodermically, with steady improvement. The index rose until it reached 1.6 per cent. The dose was given every third or fourth day. After this the 30-x was given. The index fell, but the favorable clinical picture continued and the patient remained cured. These experiments are cited to prove the efficacy of potentized medicines upon the organism. They completely upset all dogmatism attributed to the new school of medicine and give us a working basis on which we make our claims for internal vaccination. The cause of variola being unknown, the index test of variolinium cannot be demonstrated, nevertheless the clinical picture should be sufficient as this coincides with the microscopical test in every respect. Being unable to collect any accurate research work upon this subject I proceeded to make some experiments. Ten children whose ages ranged from five to eight years were selected for a test. Variolinium, 200-x, was given t. i. d. In twenty-four hours one boy of six vomited and complained of headache and would eat no breakfast. He remained in bed half a day, afterward was O. K. No further medicine was given him. The second day another boy vomited, but no further symptoms. The rest were given the variolinium for a week without any further symptoms. The 30-x was then given t. i. d. At the end of the third day a girl of six was taken with vomiting and complained of severe aching pains all over her body, with sharp pains through the heart

region; her temperature was 104°. The medicine was stopped and she recovered, after forty-eight hours, without treatment. The medicine was discontinued and the ten were then vaccinated by scarification. Of this number, three took but none of those who had made the proving. Two others were vaccinated at the same time who had not taken variolinium with one positive. This child was very sick and the arm was badly swollen, whereas the three "takes" that had received variolinium previously, showed but very little systemic disturbance. For lack of time no further experiments were made and these results should not be considered as final owing to the small number. However, we are positive of this much, that provings were made with variolinium 200-x and 30-x upon three, and none of these responded to vaccination by scarification. Furthermore, it would be impossible to tell whether those who did respond to vaccination were immune to variola. Here is a field for much experimental work to be done, and I hope to be able to follow it up more thoroughly in the future. To prove this remedy accurately, we will have to individualize, i. c., as to the size of the dose and its repetition. Then no doubt we will find, as in other diseases, some who are immune and make no response whatever.

Recapitulation: From the above experiments we find that the clinical picture corresponds accurately with the microscopical test of the opsonic index where this is possible; that potentized remedies carefully selected will raise or lower the vital force according to the dose and frequency of administration; that if this method be carefully followed variolinium would soon be recognized as a preventive of variola and take its place in preventive medicine; that in its use the danger of tetanus and infection will be unknown and the child will lose but little if any time in school and the parents will be relieved of much anxiety and distress which is so frequent; that variolinium should be given until the anaphalactic state is reached before prophylaxis is complete.

From these deductions the writer appeals to the medical profession in general and to homeopathists in particular; that this subject merits greater consideration than it has had heretofore and that our efforts should not cease until the statutes of every state shall have incorporated into its constitution a law enabling its residents to make their own choice when vaccination is forced upon them.

18 and 19 Nevada Bldg., Denver, Colo.

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THE CASE OF ALBAN RUSHBROOK.

By H. FERJIE WOODS, M. D.

HE BRITTLE MAN. Age 43. Occupation (before incapacitation), farm-laborer; diagnosis: Generalised myositis ossificans.

Family history, good; patient's previous history, good. Measles when a child. Vaccinated as a baby; no apparent ill effects; general health always good; has smoked much since ten years old; at fifteen smoked one-half ounce a day.

The disease began to show itself at eight years of age, with a painful swelling of left shoulder. At sixteen years of age, two little nodules formed in the bottom of back, and since then similar nodules have appeared from time to time, fibrous in feel and appearance, the nodules gradually turning to bone in the course of a few months.

The back began to get rigid at twenty-four years of age, and the chest hardened at twenty-seven. At thirty, the right arm became rigid from wrist to shoulder, since then he has been getting worse and worse, up till his admission to the London Homeopathic Hospital, April 26th, 1910.

He had previously been in-patient in different hospitals in the United Kingdom thirty-eight times, spending the best years of his life in hospitals. He has had every imaginable form of treatment, all without avail.

At one hospital a piece of this abnormally ossified tissue was removed from the right pectoral muscle, under local anæsthesia, and was found to be true bone, containing Haversian canals and systems.

Condition on admission to London Homeopathic Hospital: A thin, yet fairly healthy looking man, nearly bald, eyebrows and eyelashes missing; skin of face, especially of forehead, very greasy and shiny; small wen on scalp; many blackheads on upper part of chest, and small nodules under the skin of chest and left thigh, rather larger in diameter than peas.

Limbs markedly emaciated; quite rigid all down right side, including limbs, except fingers and knee, which he can bend slightly.

Left hip joint and left shoulder rigid; left knee semi-flexed, and can be bent a little, but not straightened.

Both ankles rigid.

Right arm is useless, being extended rigid down by his right side; jaw rigid, mouth not being able to open enough to part the teeth; food (which is always given soft) is pushed into mouth through two holes caused by extracted teeth.

In various parts of body are seen and felt large ridges of bone springing from muscle.

His back being rigid, sitting is impossible; he can just hobble alone with the help of a stick, taking very short, shuffling steps; he uses his stick to turn himself round in bed.

He writes well with left hand; the left hand cannot be raised high enough to put on and take off his reading glasses, so for this he uses a pair of scissor-tongs.

Sensation is unimpaired all over; double hallux valgus is present, with markedly stunted big toes.

The mind is unimpaired, and he takes a pride in exhibiting himself to visitors.

His remedy was "worked out" by Kent's Repertory, the chief symptoms taken being:

Induration after inflammation.

Rigidity of limbs.

Greasy skin.

Nodules in skin.

Dandruff.

Offensive foot-sweat.

Brown spots on leg.

Excessive use of tobacco.

"Generals" were difficult to elicit, so the remedy was chosen chiefly on "particulars," and the remedy chosen was thuja.

He was given a simple do e f thuja 10-m (Skinner) on May 9th. A few days after he experienced "electric shocks" in right shoulder and heaviness, and later aching in all the muscles. A nodule similar to those mentioned, which had recently appeared in left thigh, began to disappear.

On June 7th, he had a single dose of thuja, 50-m (Skinner). His face began to lose its greasiness. Lateral movements of neck freer and throat softer. Began to get a little movement in right hip-joint, which, till then, had been quite rigid; nodding movement of head freer.

July 11th, thuja, 50-m, repeated, followed soon by feeling as of stinging nettle in right shoulder and arm.

On July 26th, he went to the Homeopathic Convalescent Home at Eastbourne for two months, while the hospital was being altered and decorated; treatment was continued while there.

Thuja C. M. (Skinner), on August 19th, followed by "nibblings" and flutterings in various parts of the body. Thuja C. M. repeated on Oct. 5th; improvement noticed on re-admission to hospital.

Skin of face looser, and can wrinkle forehead, which he could not do before. More movement in right shoulder and wrist, and in left knee; can turn in bed without using stick; can lie without legs being crossed (could not before); neck looser; chest appreciably softer to the touch; wen on scalp smaller; hair not coming out so much.

The patient feels much better also in himself, and is very hopeful as to an ultimate cure. He certainly does begin to look possible.

ROPAGANDISM OF HOMEOPATHY is the most important subject that could be presented to this body for consideration. Upon it depends our rights and the perpetuity of our institution.

The disciples of the immortal Hahnemann caught the enthusiasm of the master and good tiding of a new and a better method of healing the sick were heralded to the nations of the earth. But since passing of the old guard we seem to have become infected with hook worms, and some of us are "sleeping the sleep of the just," and permitting the beautiful light of the Law of Similars that illuminated the medical world early in the Nineteenth Century to flicker in the mad waves of persecution. We should wake up and read the handwriting on the wall, for as sure as you live there are breakers ahead. Our friends of the ather school are not asleep. They are on the alert. Through the press, their journals and their