From continuing to walk or move. From eructations. From warm food or drink. From the open air. POTENCIES Sixth to one-thousandth. BEDSIDE OBSERVATIONS Throbbing headache after every paroxysm of coughing. Vertigo in the morning, when rising, and after, so that the patient reels to and fro. Sees only the left half of an object distinctly. Nose stopped, especially at night; excessive (chronic) dryness. (Sanguinaria.) Fan-like motion of the alæ nasi, although the patient may not be breathing through the nose, or the motion may not be synchronous with respiration. Sore throat beginning on the right side, going to the left, or beginning in the naso-pharynx and proceeding downwards. Fauces brownish-red, worse from swallowing warm drinks; dryness of the tongue. Hungry, but soon sated; with bloating of the abdomen and rumbling. Severe pain or backache, better by passing urine. The urine is clear and colorless (or turbid) with red sand settling down, not adherent to vessel (sepia, adherent.) Impotence; penis small, cold, relaxed, with or without desire. Said to be useful where twins are in demand. Cough with salty sputum (4 to 8 P.M.) Sweat with odor like onions. Pink sweat. Failure of the sensorium, or memory, especially in old men,failing brain power (anacardium, phosphorus, baryta, opium.) Affections of throat, chest, abdomen, liver, ovaries going from right to left; all symptoms worse 4 to 8 P.M. Exceedingly sensitive to odors, lover of flowers. Right-sided inguinal or scrotal hernia (especially in children.) A lithemic-neurasthenic remedy. disease. Desire for very hot drinks; the stomach Gnawing sensation in stomach but no Constant pain under right scapula. CLINIA Hypertrophic cirrhosis of liver. One hand cold, other hot. Ditto. DIOSCOREA Diarrhea (A.M.) Sharp rains from liver (right lobe) shooting up to right nipple Definitely affects the vegetative nerves causing many kinds of pain, especially colic. EUPATORIUM PERF. Chronic, progressive (basically hepatic) Cachexia from old, chronic, bilious Worse all the time. intermittents. Worse periodically. Chill between 3 and 4 P.M., followed by Chill between 7 to 9 A.M., preceded by sweat. Better from motion (continued.) LYCOPODIUM Atrophic cirrhosis. Constipation. Dyspersia from farinaceous or fermentable food. Sweat viscid, offensive; varices, induratious. Chronic progressive disease. thirst, with great soreness and aching in the bones. Better by getting on hands and knees (cough). HYDRASTIS Liver tornid, tender. Cannot eat bread or vegetables. Tendency to profuse sweats, with unhealthy skin. Pre-cancerous condition. Cirrhotic liver. Appetite for sweets. (Argentum nit.) Rheumatic and gouty symptoms. Fan-like alæ nasi. Muscular debility. Fatty degeneration of the liver. Paralytic symptoms. Skin ecchymotic, purpuric. Nervous debility. Apoplexy more frequent than paralysis. Paralysis more frequent than apoplexy. IN marked contrast to the recognition of homoeopathy in America is the following extract from the British Medical Journal as quoted by the Homeopathic World British Medical Journal, Sidney and New South Wales branch. Resolved that homeopaths should not be met in consultation; that consultation with homoeopaths is inconsistent with membership of this branch of the British Medical Association; and that early steps be taken to alter the articles of association accordingly. OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.-J. C. Edgar gives decided preference to two per cent silver nitrate solution in routine treatment of eyes for ophthalmia neonatorum, after having given a fair trial the organic salts, such as protargol, etc.-Archives of Pediatrics. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.* BY S. H. CALDERWOOD, M.D., ROXBURY, MASS. It is a time-honored custom for the president of this Association, in order that his shortcomings may be forgotten, to give you a few moments of sleep at the conclusion of the annual banquet. I shall depart from that custom only by proving upon you a remedy with a much more marked hypnotic power. First, I want to talk with you a few moments about Boston University School of Medicine. You all know that as one of the results of the expulsion from the Massachusetts Medical Society of a few members, upon the charge of practicing homoeopathy, conduct unbecoming and unworthy of honorable physicians and Fellows of that Society, this department of Boston University was organized, and in 1873 opened its doors to men and women for the teaching of medicine in all of its branches, including homœopathic therapeutics. The first class could be counted upon the digits of one hand; four fingers and one thumb; four men and one woman. There were seventeen professors. The only ones now remaining are Professors Walter Wesselhoeft and Edward P. Colby. I will leave it to your judgment as to whether their conduct has been unbecoming and unworthy of honorable physicians. In the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of Nov. 1, 1854, there appeared a letter relating to the death of Bishop Wainwright of New York under homoeopathic treatment. The letter is lengthy and I will quote only the conclusion: "How long will quackery rule in high places? Homœopathy has seen its best days in New York, and though the iniquity still abounds, the love of many is waxing cold. Pretension, immorality, and coarseness, stamp the majority of the practitioners of this system, and society will soon cut loose from such medical advisors." In the same journal of April 5, 1906, appeared the following editorial: "In our issue of last week we published two papers, one by Dr. Frederick C. Shattuck of the Harvard Medical School, on the Value of Drugs in Therapeutics, and the other by Dr. Frederick B. Percy of the Homœopathic Medical School, on the Homœopathic Principle. These papers were read at a meeting of the Homœopathic Medical Society, and brought forth a discussion which should do something towards breaking down the barriers and remaining misconceptions. It is perfectly clear that medicine, both on its practical and theoretical side, should offer a solid front against manifest quackery. It is also evident that so long as a body of well trained and conscientious men stand on the basis of a single therapeutic principle which they claim is of fundamental importance, such a consummation cannot be attained." Have we passed into oblvion? Does this editorial give you that impression? Are the homoeopathic schools of this country myths? Is the American Institute of Homoeopathy with her two thousand members a phantom? No! fellow graduates, homoeopathy is not *Read before the Alumni Association of Boston University School of Medicine. |