exception, showing any vesiculation in the whole pathogenesis. I should doubt its value very much. J. L. C.)

e. 6 dr. 6th dilution. Some pricking in the palms, back of hands, face, forehead, underneath eyes, and on the body, at sharply-defined small spots.

f. Dose not stated. — Swelling of the lips, and swollen feeling for several days, followed by a slight eruption round about them, and dryness and exfoliation of the lower lips. Burning of toes, with redness and heat of them, whilst the feet are cold.

Prover No. 3. Poison of one bee. After two and a half hours, itching on palms, worse on the left side, in small, burning spots. Burning itching here and there, especially severe on left thigh, posteriorly. Burning places here and there on the back, which itch also.

Prover No. 4. From quite constant exposure to the poison.Pricking itching round the eyes, on eyebrows, lids, and eyes themselves, worse on left, especially the inner canthi, with inclination to press or rub the eyes strongly. A quantity of vesicles and small, sore, red places on tip and left border of the tongue.

Prover No. 9. From. Pricking all over body, most on palms and back of hands, face, and forehead, chiefly at circumscribed spots.

Prover No. 10. From On fifth day, at night, on remov ing boots and socks, feet were found highly swelled, with sensation of weight and stiffness; upper part of feet bright red; felt rigid and itched. Soles and balls of toes had painful sensation of fulness, and in walking gave sensation as if cushioned. Prover No. II 3rd dilution. Itching pricking of the skin in different parts.

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Prover No. 13. 10 drops 2 x.- Soon itching of scalp, extending to face and neck. After repeating dose, itching extended to thighs and hands.

Poisoning No. I a. From the sting-Skin extremely sensitive to contact, painful to the slightest touch; could not bear the shirt upon him. Red and white blotches over the body and extremities, like nettle-rash.

b. Same man stung again. — A condition simulating collapse was followed by hot flushes, nausea, vomiting, watery diarrhoea, twitching of the muscles, rash, red blotches, with great sensitiveness of the skin to contact. This sensitiveness of the skin extended all over the body.

Poisoning No. 2. From sting. Body covered with large wheals, slightly raised, and quite white, interspaces being scarlet. Poisoning No. 6. Boy was stung. -On undressing saw eruption of nettle-rash all over, which itched much.

Poisoning No. 8. Girl stung in the neck. On undressing her, forty to fifty minutes after, she was found covered with red spots, size of a hand, as though they had been scalded.

Poisoning No. 9. Boy stung on commissure of the mouth. — At once a feeling of general numbness, and after a few minutes a most violent itching, like needle-pricks; had to rub the whole body with cloths to allay it. After rubbing he was observed to be covered from head to foot with small white spots, as after gnat-bites.

Poisoning No. 10. Man stung on tip of nose. He suddenly felt an indescribable sensation through the whole body, with a prickly feeling, and white and red spots on the palms, arms, and legs.

Poisoning No. 12. A man stung by a bee on testicle. - Part swelled to such an extent there was scarcely room for it in the scrotum, with tensive feeling, and the most violent itching. Soon afterwards the whole left side of body swelled, first in the joints, where lumps appeared, which looked somewhat inflamed, and itched violently.

Poisoning No. 13. Woman stung on temple. - Followed by urticarious rash all over the body, and profuse perspiration. Poisoning No. 14. Robust man stung on top of head. — The whole body was covered with wheals, but without change of color; indeed, the wheals were whiter than the rest of the skin.

Poisoning No. 15 b. From sting. - Entire skin was covered with a red rash, very much resembling scarlatina, only, if any thing, of a less bright color, and somewhat rougher to the feel than the common type of that exanthem.

Poisoning No. 15. Boy stung by a "yellow-jacket.” — Immediately commenced itching and burning all over, and when he reached home was "all broke out." He was found covered, from head to foot, with elevated circular and oblong patches, which soon ran together, forming an entire blotch over back, arms, and legs. Eruption, on its first appearance, was white, but on rubbing the parts would become pinkish. It was accompanied with intense burning, itching, and stinging, causing continual scratching and rubbing.

From these symptoms, viewed collectively, it will readily be seen that this drug causes a general cutaneous irritability, manifested by macula and wheals appearing all over the body, but more especially about eyes, hands, face, neck, and extremities. Urticaria evidently is the condition in which we should expect the best effect from its homoeopathic application, and clinical results have not disappointed such expectations. It is, however, more applicable to those cases of urticaria accompanied with

great reflex irritability of the whole cutaneous envelope, cases where scratching at one or two points on the body is immediately followed by the abundant appearance of wheals elsewhere, and especially if from the sting of insects as an exciting cause. The many symptoms of bladder irritability experienced by the provers would warrant its use in urticaria occurring as a reflex from this cause rather than from the same condition resulting from gastric or internal irritation. Case No. 10 of the provings shows a not bad description of pernio.

ARGENTUM NITRICUM.

Prover No. 3. Dose, 1 x trit., as much as would cover the point of a penknife. — On ninth day of the proving chancre-like ulcers were discovered on the prepuce. At first their tips were covered with pus, after which they became spread out over a pretty spacious depression, exhibiting distinctly the greasy covering of a chancre. They began to diminish the next day after appearance, and on the fourth day they had dried up, except a little remaining dampness.

Prover No. 5 a. Same dose as above, in the morning. — That night had an acute pain in the wrist-joint, and in the morning found a pimple not far from the joint with pus in the tip, causing a stinging pain as if a splinter were lodged in it. The tip with the pus was surrounded by a red, hard base of considerable extent. Itching vesicles on the back, the itching being especially violent in the evening and obliging him to scratch; here and there an eruption of small itching vesicles, resembling scabies, especially on chest and back, toward shoulders; intolerable itching at night in region of boundaries of the hairy scalp in the nape. Sixth day, restless during night, owing to itching in various parts of the body. On confines of hairy scalp and nape are irregular blotches, which itch much, and are sore when scratched. These blotches become inflamed after scratching for a time, and appear to emit a humor. All during this day eruption spread, especially on back, but was gone on the eighth day.

Prover No. 5 b. Dose, 10 drops 2 x in water, taken before retiring. Next day, at noon, pimple on septum of nose, which bleeds easily; pustule on skin of upper lip, arising from a painful, red, shining spot. Fifth day, painful blotches in left corner of mouth; tumor-like, itching elevations in hairy scalp and nape of neck; pustule in left corner of mouth.

Prover No. 5 c. Dose, 10 drops of 6 x. Dose, 10 drops of 6 x. - Pricking, itching of various parts of body, especially marked about left nipple.

Prover No. 6. Dose, 3 dr. of 2 x mixed with 10 dr. of water.— Next day a good deal of itching in scalp. After the third

day smaller itching blotches were found, then gradually disappearing.

Prover No. 18. Dose, 10 or 12 drops 6th centesimal· - Tenth day, pricking, itching in a minute spot at back of neck, in the hair, near the hair border (the skin sensation was like that of erysipelas); increased sensitiveness, with diminished power to distinguish sensations—a hyperæsthetic-anaesthetic condition without any objective symptoms. Twelfth day, under the left eye an elevated spot, size of split pea, with red base, looking like a blister, but only semi-fluid. It was seen before felt. There was a little burning. (This was unlike any urticarious spot I have seen, and I never, to my knowledge, had anything of the kind before, though I have frequently since, and do now.) On thirteenth day this spot had nearly gone, and another appeared on margin of right lower lid. On twenty-second day, on both lower eyelids, on tarsal edges below the lashes, a spot of the same kind. Fourteenth day, irritable urticarious spot on back of right shoulder; itching in the perinæum.

Poisoning No. 5. Dose, absorption from using pomade. — The skin of the legs showed, besides the slate-gray discoloration, a hardness and tension which made it impossible to raise up the skin in folds, so that it assumed the complete character of brown sclerema; nevertheless, the sensation, temperature and transpiration of these parts were normal. On the upper part of chest and on the hands appeared a faintly-marked brown discoloration. Poisoning No. 6. Shows the well-marked steel-gray discoloration resulting from argyrism.

The principal symptom here seems to be an irritable itching, especially worse in the evening, accompanied with fine vesiculation especially located on the scalp, and nape at the scalp line. The condition, so similar to sclerema, as shown in the above case of poisoning, is especially interesting as indicating possible usefulness in this direction.

HOMEOPATHY: WHAT IS IT? WHAT HAS IT ACCOMPLISHED? BY C. E. STARK, M.D., NORWICH, CONN.

[Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society.]

Colleagues of the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society: Centuries ago, when civilization was in her swaddling clothes, when her faithful handmaid history had scarce arrived at the age of puberty, primeval man recorded events by notching a stick, in his own crude way.

It seems apropos to-day, as our society passes one more mile

stone in her history, as an association for the furtherance and perpetuation of truth in medicine, and especially in view of the fact that our craft throughout the civilized world is about to place the century mark of approval upon the law so ardently enunciated by our professional forefather, Samual Hahnemann, for me, upon whom you have conferred the honor appertaining to the presidency of your honorable body, and for which I thank you, to notch the stick of medical history, in a modest way, and to present, as a subject for your passing consideration, Homoopathy: What Is It? What Has It Accomplished?

The scope of the subject must at once be evident. Were I to develop it in its entirety, this address would be almost interminable. Were I even to refer briefly to the historical fact of "what it has accomplished" my paper would soon become encyclopedic. As I have no wish to reproduce the therapeutic history of the last century, I trust that you will graciously accept a brief resume of the most salient features, for, as Dr. Dudgeon says, "The history of homoeopathy is the indictment of the medical profession."

"Nothing succeeds like success." "Truth is mighty and will prevail." These two texts seem, like the brilliant aurora borealis, to illuminate the cellestial vault, o'ershadowed by the lowering clouds of hate, prejudice, and oppression of a century ago. When we of to-day lift the veil of history and reverently turn the pages of chronicled fact backward one hundred years, we see, "as thro' a glass darkly," the first faint outlinings of a new fixed star in the firmament, small, and not as brilliant as some of its older brethren, but modestly refulgent with a pure, steady light an unrecognized new "Star of Bethlehem."

I need not tell this intelligent body of ladies and gentlemen the name by which we know this luminary.

Contemporaneous medical astronomers declared that the new celestial object was only a comet, ethereal in composition, undecided in its course, and therefore erratic; that it only illuminated by reflection from the medical sun; that it, like the ignis fatuus, was intangible; that, in short, it undoubtedly was a misfit nebulous mass of vaporous nothingness, that evidently had been discarded by the "powers that be" when in the resolution of the nebular hypothesis no permanent place could be assigned to it in the empyrean vault.

Scientists investigated the newcomer telescopically, analyzed it stereoscopically, and decided ex cathedra that the new heavenly body was only a comet! But we to-day know that this same so-called comet was, and is, a fixed star of the first magnitude a sun, a brilliant centre in space, illuminating, with the pure, white light of truth, the great vault of the universe.