drugs, we find that crude matter produces symptoms different from the symptoms produced by potencies. The first class produce symptoms more superficial, the second class those which are deeper seated, and, as Hahnemann, in section 153, of his Organon, says, are striking, peculiar, uncommon, characteristic. Now, lycopodium produces a kind of angina faucium, but not in massive doses. Only after its trituration and potentization do we get the full and true digest of its symptoms. And if you will carefully note the pathogenesis of this drug, you will see that it abounds in characteristics, and that they only appear after the provings made with potencies of a high order. The same is true of silicia, arsenicum, natrum mur., etc., and these remedies abound in characteristics. As we have embarked in this enterprise, and as we have unmistakable evidence of its value, let us make it a splendid one, as we only can by a faithful adherence to its cardinal principles. I commenced my career as a homœopathic physician with doubt and trembling, but as years have sped they have been exchanged for faith, hope, and, I may say, with steadfastness. Brethren ! we are on the right road.

CASE IX.

January 22, 1868, was called to see a lad, C. J, age 16 years; hair light brown, eyes blue, complexion sallow. Complains of a lump in left side of throat, and below the tonsil of that side. Much hawking, spitting of mucus and dark glue-like phlegm. When he swallows, a sharp pain runs to left ear. Cannot swallow saliva, but swallows water best; swallows solid food better than saliva, but with more pain than water. Fauces bright, red, and dry. No exudation apparent. Slight chilliness, no fever.

Characteristics.-Is worse after sleep, and in the morning; worse after touching the neck over seat of pain. Empty swallowing is perfectly agonizing; and inclines to lie down.

Treatment.-Gave six powders of lachesis, 30. January 23d, found a neighboring lymphatic greatly enlarged, more pain when swallowing solids, and more sensitiveness to external touch. Exhibited lachesis, cc., six powders.

January 24th, found my patient in the street, and calling himself "all right." No return of malady, and swelling very much reduced.

M.A.G—

CASE X.

-, an Irish servant, hair dark, eyes blue, and quite stout and compact; complexion ruddy. Complained, February 4th, of pain in upper part of the throat, and soreness of right tonsil. Had a chill, and then high fever, early this morning. Can not swallow warm drinks; fauces dark-red, and inflamed; large patch of diphtheritic deposit on right tonsil.

Characteristics.-Attack first in right side of fauces, and later in left side. Worse when swallowing warm drinks, and after sleep. Fan-like movement of alæ nasi.

Treatment.-Administered lycopodium30, in powders, one every three hours. On the next day found right tonsil looking better, also the left throat, but left tonsil patched; other symptoms lighter. Continue lycopodium. February 6th, found the patient so much improved that I left only sac. lac. February 7th, continued rapid improvement, and I discontinue the visits.

CASE XI.

Sometime in November last, was called to see a girl, twelve years of age; hair black, eyes black, complexion dark, and the patient very thin. Last April had three attacks of tertian ague, suppressed with quinine. For a year prior her health was poor, and she complained of erratic, drawing pains, with considerable lameness. On or near July 15, 1867, she complained of pain in her left foot and hip. Her foot became cedematous and numb; pain through entire limb, jerking, lacerating. As she expressed it, it seemed as if knives thrust through the flesh, which felt pinched up, pulled up also. Extremely sensitive to touch, jars, and pressure. When her sisters came near her she would cry, and put her hand out to push them off. When sitting, she rested on the fore part of chair, with the left or affected limb drawn back, and flexed upon the thigh. Appetite very poor, tongue white, thirstlessness, and no good sleep.

Characteristics.-Patient weeps easily. Extremely sensitive to touch. Left side. Gets chilly, and then the greater the pain. Aggravation of all symptoms at night, and before midnight. melioration by shifting position, and warmth.

Treatment.—At first give one dose of bryoniace; but after a few days the father came to me, saying she was no better. Investigated the case more closely, and then gave one dose of pulsatilla 6. and sac. lac. fifteen or sixteen powders. Since that day she

has nothing but sac. lac., and from the date of giving pulsatilla, there has been a rapid and remarkable improvement. Brings her feet together, gets up and down without help, has no pain, bears great pressure over the affected limb, plays with her doll, and with other children; sleeps well and has an excellent appetite.

I should say, that she had been dosed for months with morphine, and was given up as incurable. All of her surroundings indicated extreme poverty; a poor, sick and feeble child.

CASE XII.

Mrs. W, of Palermo, N. Y., aged 83 years, hair gray and very thin, was attacked, January 23d, with bronchitis. First, had a heavy chill, followed with inflammatory fever. Pulse full, hard, frequent; thirst, dyspnoea; twenty-five respirations per minute; cough dry, hard, deep; expectoration frothy and sanguineous.

Treatment.-Aconiteth, in aqueous solution, every two hours. January 24th.-Pulse softer, not so hard or frequent, less fever; bryoniace., every three hours.

January 25th.-Patient much better, all of the symptoms relieved, but she had a gluey expectoration, stringing from her mouth to her feet. As this latter is a characteristic of kali bichromicum, I gave her a few powders of the thirtieth potency. In two days she was convalescent. Entirely recovered.

CASE XIII.

Last August Mrs. B, of Palermo, N. Y., came to me complaining of severe headache. Pain in forehead, with sense of pressure, fullness, vertigo, drowsiness, nausea; eyes red and glistening; head felt large. Had this headache for a year or more, with intervals of two or three weeks. Had exhausted her patience, and a very large number of remedies (allopathic), in trying to cure it, but grew worse.

Characteristics.-Aggravated by stooping, noise, heat, motion, looking at shining or glistening objects. Amelioration, by pressure, lying down, leaning the head against something, quietude.

Treatment.-Give six powders of belladonnace., and ten powders sac. lac. She was to take the belladonna, one powder, on retiring, sac. lac. during the day. Took three powders of belladonna, and has had no more headache. She is better than she has been for two or four years past.

ARTICLE LI.

Bryonia in a Case of Cephalalgia. By R. E. BELDING, M. D.

G. G. M, aged 25, tall, slender, light hair and eyes, nervous temperament, was taken, on February 6, 1868, with the following symptoms: Sticking, jerking, throbbing pains from the forehead, malar bones, and upper teeth, back to the occiput; soreness of the eye-balls, hot, scalding tears, and nasal discharges; says the internal head feels as if the eyes were removed, and molten lead poured in the sockets and nasal passages; delirium, talking incoherently, distracted with pain; profuse sweat, with chills; dry cough; pains worse from the least motion.

Remembering a remark of Dr. Carroll Dunham in the "Homoopathic Review," Vol. VI., page 110, that bryonia was characterized by sticking, jerking, throbbing from the forehead, teeth, and malar bones to the occiput, from before backward, and that there was much dread of motion, bryonia 200, three doses, was given, and in two hours the pain was gone, and the patient asleep. Some soreness remained for a day or two, and the next night he had a slight return of the pains from being up nearly all night, and getting chilled; but another dose of bryonia set all right immedi ately.

These attacks are hereditary, his father being to this day a great sufferer from like attacks. Since the son was four years old, every year has brought him from one to three attacks, mostly in winter, from the acute pain of which he has never before escaped in less than seventy-two hours, and sometimes it lasts nine days, leaving him very much prostrated.

You will observe one or two symptoms in the case which you would not expect to find under bryonia, such as the intense burning in the eye sockets and nasal passages, with the profuse, watery, burning discharge from the nose and eyes; but these were the first to disappear.

These attacks commenced with sneezing, and a stuffed feeling of the nose and whole head, and arise from taking cold, and from severe mental exertion.

If this may help to impress on your minds a characteristic of this remedy, and you be thereby enabled to relieve some of these distressing cases, my object in writing this paper will have been accomplished.

ARTICLE LII.

Digitalis in Vicarious Menstruation. By WM. HENRY HOYT, M. D.

Mrs. R. R, aged 26, blonde, good physique, pulmonary tendencies hereditary. Coming up Lake Ontario last summer, was seized with a peculiar cough and strangulation, which seemed almost to choke her to death. The paroxysm lasted an hour or more, and resulted in the expectoration of a liver-colored mass of sputa. These attacks repeated themselves frequently, and usually came on before the catamenia, with pains in the chest, difficulty of using the arms; pain in the hepatic region, and through the back, and extending to the knees. Pain in the scapular region and hand of right side, with paralytic sensations. Cough at night, choking and spasmodic, compelling her to jump out of bed, with attacks of choking, and a valvular constriction in the throat before discharging the sputa. Expectoration of a solid, bloody mass of mucus, which, when discharged, affords immediate relief. Occasionally leucorrhoea before catamenia, also nasal hemorrhage. Changes of weather bring on the attack, followed by the expec toration of tough, ropy mucus at night. Cough at times like whooping cough. Sore throat, and soreness of œsophagus. Great difficulty in detaching the mucus; oftentimes presenting a rusty, black, and clot-like appearance. Cured with digitalis12

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