dict, Grant, Hollett, De Wolfe, and Cadmus. Dr. Bryan was also present.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

Dr. Bryan, after a thorough examination by the Board of Censors, was elected a member of the Society.

The report of the committee on by-laws was next received. The draft of by-laws, submitted by the committee, was read by sections and adopted.

The following resolution was adopted:

Resolved, That members of this Society who shall attend the meetings of Homœopathic Medical Societies in adjacent counties, be, and are hereby, constituted delegates from this association.

The next meeting was appointed to be held at Corning on the third Tuesday of November, 1867. Meeting then adjourned.

C.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING.

The first semi-annual meeting of the Society was held at the office of Dr. Benedict, in the village of Corning, November 19th, 1867.

The meeting was called to order by the President, Dr. De Wolfe. The following members answered to their names: Drs. De Wolfe, Benedict, Grant, Bryan, and Cadmus.

On motion of Dr. Benedict, Dr. Joseph P. Morris, of Mansfield, Pa., was elected an honorary member of the Society. Meeting adjourned to two o'clock in the afternoon.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Drs. B. F. Grant, and J. M. Cadmus, were elected delegates to the State Society.

Communications were read by Drs. Grant, Benedict, and Cadmus. Verbal communications on various subjects, relating to medical science, occupied a considerable portion of the afternoon session. Adjourned to meet at Bath, on the third Tuesday in May, 1868.

ULSTER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

ARTICLE 102. List of Officers, Delegates, Committees, and Members. 103. Cases Cured by a Single Remedy. By Levi Shafeer, M. D., of Kingston.

104. Catarrh Implicating the Larynx and Bronchia. By FRED. W. INGALLS, M. D., of Kingston.

ARTICLE CII.

List of Officers, Delegates, and Members.

Officers.

Drs. Levi Shaffer, President.

G. D. Crispell, Vice-President.

Everitt Hasbrouck, Secretary and Treasurer.

Delegate to American Institute of Homœopathy.
Dr. F. W. Ingalls.

ARTICLE CIII.

Clinical Report. Cases cured by a Single Remedy. By LEVI SHAFER, M. D:, of

Kingston.

CASE I.

Early in the morning of July 27, 1867, I received an urgent request to see Mr. who was said to be suffering severely from cramp in the abdomen. Found him presenting the following symptoms: severe, constant pain, greatly aggravated every three or five mimutes; the seat of the pain below and to the right side of the umbilicus, near the head of the colon. To use the patient's own graphic language, "I can put my finger upon the very spot, which feels as it was drawn forcibly upwards and backwards towards the spine." There was constant desire to defecate and urinate, but without accomplishing much. He could neither lie down, sit nor stand, though he attempted all by turns. He entreated me by all that was sacred to give him morphine or something to relieve him of his distress, as he expected to die, but did not wish to die in such agony.

On inquiring with regard to the history of the case, he told me that on the afternoon of the previous day he had been sitting in the shade on a stone step and thought he had taken cold. The attack had commenced early in the morning, only a short time before my arrival. His bowels on the day previous had been rather relaxed and moved off their contents freely; at the commencement of the attack he had taken a Seidlitz powder. Scrutinizing the symptoms in their totality, I concluded it was a case of dioscorea colic, accordingly dissolved ten grains of the second decimal trituration of dioscorein* in a tumbler of water. Of this solution the patient received two tea spoonsful every five minutes, regularly and persistently. Before an hour of treatment had expired, on expressing the opinion that he was better and wished to sleep, the remedy was discontinued.

Saw him again in about three hours, when I ascertained that he had enjoyed a refreshing sleep, had had a free movement of the bowels and a copious evacuation of urine. He said he was well. In the afternoon he was dressed and about his usual business.

* Prepared by B. Keith and Company, New York.

[Senate, No. 77.]

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CASE II.

October 3, 1867, at six o'clock and thirty minutes, P. M., I was requested to see Mrs., of a nervo-bilious temperament, with dark hair and eyes, whose symptoms were: a sudden, intense, burning, lancinating pain in the instep of the left foot and darting up the limb. The pain was accompanied by numbness, and the only objective symptom was heat of the part afflicted. The attack was us heredin, not only, but accompanied also, by transient chilliness. Patient complained of some thirst, and there was a sensation of nausea. As to moral symptoms, she abandoned herself to the most gloomy forebodings and was so broken in spirit that she wept like a child.

In pursuit of a remedy, I found that aconitum had as charac teristics, among others: affection of left lower extremity; dark ▾ hair; chills; numbness in part; thirst during all stages; nausea. in esophagus or throat; fear and sadness predominant; despair of recovery. The symptoms of aconitum corresponded with the totality of the symptoms of the patient.

I prescribed aconite, 3d centestimal, in water, a teaspoonful every ten minutes. After taking three doses, the patient complained of aggravation of the nausea. Supposing it might be an effect of the remedy, I substituted the 30th centesimal for the 3d and directed it to be given every ten minutes, as before, till relieved, and then the interval to be lengthened according to cir

cumstances.

Called upon the patient at nine o'clock the next morning, and found her still in bed, though she said she was almost well. She had fallen asleep on the previous evening at her usual hour for retiring. She had been awake two or three times during the night, when she took a dose of her remedy and was presently asleep again. In short, she had eaten a hearty breakfast and needed no more medicine.

CASE III.

Mr. called upon me and said that his little daughter, about six years of age, had a greenish discharge from the vagina, which was much worse when walking. She had a similar attack about eight months before, during which she suffered very much from excoriation of the vulva and dysuria. Under the care of a skillful physician she recovered in three months.

Guided by the characteristic symptom of the case: she has a greenish leucorrhoea, particularly when walking. I prescribed

natrum muriaticum,14 a remedy which has the same characteristic. The child took a powder, dry, on the tongue, night and morning, for three days, and at the expiration of a week she was cured.

Just here, a short extract from Hahnemann's writings may not be out of place: "The most formidable chronic diseases, such as may be found in families of poor peasants and mechanics, whom no fashionable physician visits, are cured in the most simple manner by anti-psorics; the cure is often effected in so short a time that it appears almost miraculous.

ARTICLE CIV.

Clinical Report: Catarrh Implicating the Larynx and Bronchia. By FREDERICK W. INGALLS, M. D., of Kingston.

In writing upon this subject one feels his inability to give anything of interest, on account of the minute manner in which some of our best writers have described its causes, course and treatment. But inasmuch as the practitioner has as many cases of this class of diseases to treat as of any other, a thorough knowledge of both the symptoms of the disease and the symptoms of the remedy is necessary to quickly and surely combat it. It probably requires as thorough a knowledge of materia medica and symp tomatology to treat bronchial catarrh as any one other disease in the whole catalogue of human ills.

The symptoms of this disease I shall cull from the various authors of both schools, as well as my own observations. The symptoms of the remedial agents used I shall select from the various works on materia medica and my own observations. I shall also state, in full, the remedies which I have used with

success.

Catarrh in general appears in different forms, viz :

1st. Coryza simplex, or affecting the schneiderian membrane only.

2d. Gravedo or catarrhal cephalalgia.

3d. Cold in the head, involving both sinuses and mucous membrane, or both first and second form.

4th. Catarrhal sore throat.

5th. Catarrhal cough, with hoarseness; disease extending to the glottis and pharynx.

6th. Catarrhal bronchitis in which the bronchia are implicated. 7th. Catarrhal ophthalmia.

8th. Catarrh of the stomach.