Though the stomach knows no regular time for eating, yet there should be regularity in feeding. We all know our own feelings when we have eaten too much and too often. Why should not the child experience the same sensations? Do not feed too often or too much at a time. The child should not be fed oftener than once in two hours and a half during the day, and not more than once during the night. The stomach must have time to digest its contents and rest from its labors. Experience teaches that a sick child more ofteh needs rest from feeding.

Milk to be suitable for feeding should be from one cow for the following reasons: First, if the milk from one of a number of cows is impure, it will impart this quality to the rest, when mixed, thus rendering the whole unfit for use; second, a single cow can be kept in better condition than a whole herd; third, the milk from one cow will be more uniform in quality. For this purpose, a perfectly healthy cow should be selected, one that is fed upon her natural diet, as hay, grass, and pure water, because the milk is more wholesome, and less liable to fermentation. People are obliged to depend upon their milkmen for their milk, and its composition cannot always be ascertained. Many articles which cows eat produce a bad quality of milk, which causes intestinal disturbances. Children using milk secreted. by a cow fed upon potatoes, cabbage and turnips, have diarrhoea frequently, and cutaneous eruptions as intertrigo, impetigo. Milk from cows at pasture feeding upon weeds, ivy, buttercups and Roman wormwood has been known to cause fatal results. For these reasons some have advocated that cows intended to supply milk for children should be stall-fed, but this is contrary to nature's law. A case of this kind came under my observation.

Mr. N., a farmer, kept one cow out of many to supply milk for his eighteen-months-old baby. He fed his cows on cottonseed meal and fodder corn. He was very careful what he gave this cow, but by mistake, the hired man gave the one cow fodder corn at night, and the next day the child was feverish, restless, vomiting of everything taken, and with severe diarrhoea. I made special inquiries concerning the milk, which was pronounced the same as had been given; but later, the mother said the cow had eaten fodder corn the day before, the milk was stopped, and so did the vomiting and diarrhoea, aided by ipecac 3x. Later in the season, a new hired man gave fodder corn to the one cow for the second time, and in due time the child was taken sick again, and recovered after changing the diet.

There is no food so suitable for young children as milk, nor is there any substitute worthy of trial when it can be procured. "But since the proportion of caseine or cheezy matter is larger

in this, while there is less sugar, and generally less fatty matter than in breast milk, it becomes necessary to alter this to adapt it to the stomach of infants." The milk should be allowed to stand from two to four hours after being drawn from the cow; then the top part only, being the richest in fatty matter, is dipped off, and diluted with an equal amount of warm water, the whole to be sweetened with sugar of milk, till its taste resembles mother's milk. "By this process, the proportion of cheezy matter is diminished, the butter and saccharine qualities increased.” To sum up the whole matter in a few words. If possible, feed upon breast milk. Feed at regular intervals, and not too often; more children die from overfeeding than from starvation. Exercise the greatest care as to the way artificial food is administered. Impress these facts upon the mother's mind. They will soon learn that an "ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."

WORCESTER COUNTY HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Worcester County Homœopathic Society was a most memorable event. Never before since its organization—so the older members tell us has there been such a large attendance, and so much interest manifested as at the meeting of Nov. 9th, there being thirtynine members present. From early morn until late in the afternoon all the doctors present seemed to reflect, in a large measure, the bright sunshine which gladdened all nature on that day.

The first business of the day was the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the result was as follows: President, E. A. Fisher, of Worcester; first vice-president, E. D. Fitch, of Worcester; second vice-president, G. A. Slocomb, of Millbury; secretary, Carl Crisand, of Worcester; librarian, Jennie S. Dunn, of Worcester; censors, Chas. L. Nichols and J. P. Rand, of Worcester, and P. R. Watts, of Stafford Springs, Conn.

The bureau on Mental, Nervous and Skin Diseases presented, through its chairman, Dr. Geo. S. Adams, the following interesting programme:

"Psychical Adjuvants in Neurasthenia," by Dr. D. B. Whittier, of Fitchburg; "Kali Phos. in Neurasthenia," by Dr. C. S. Pratt, of Shrewsbury; "Insanity and Aphasia," by Dr. Ellen S. Keith, of Westboro'; "The Vibrometer and Its Uses," by Dr. E. A. Clarke, of Westboro'. In the absence of Dr. Chas. H. Davis, of Worcester, Dr. Fitch read Dr. Davis' paper on "Cystitis and Urinary Calculi," and exhibited a quart preserve-jar

half full of calculi, which had been removed from a patient's bladder, at the post-mortem examination.

After the scientific session was over, the caterer, who had for several hours been busily engaged in an adjoining room in preparing tempting viands, announced that his part of the programme was ready; and, judging by the broad smiles which this welcome bit of information produced on all the doctor's faces, it would seem that they were all very willing to change the discussion from serious medical topics to the more pleasurable gastronomic question awaiting their immediate solution in the dininghall.

The delicious roast turkey and the many other good things on the table having been exhaustively discussed, President Allen called a halt in the proceedings, fearing, probably, that some careless doctor might eat too much of the forbidden fruit, and, forthwith, announced that Dr. N. W. Rand, our toast-master, would serve a number of various dishes of "brain-food." The first dish served was "Our Society" by our esteemed president. He pictured in glowing colors the great achievement of homoopathy, and in a most aggressive manner urged that immediate steps be taken toward the establishment of a homoeopathic hospital in Worcester. The next dish was a thoroughly-seasoned one, "The Pioneer," served by our highly honored colleague, Dr. S. M. Cate. He told us of the many obstacles in the way of the early practitioner of homoeopathy. Dr. J. K. Warren spoke for "The Scalpel." He said that the scalpel and the surgeon alike should possess three qualifications; they should be clean, bright and keen. He attributed the great superiority of homoeopathic surgery over old-school surgery to the homoopathic after-treatment of surgical cases, and ventured the statement, that unless our allopathic surgeons adopt homoopathic after-medication, they will soon be forced to lay the scalpel into our hand and acknowledge our greater skill. "Our Senior Members" was the dish served by Dr. D. B. Whittier in his inimitable way. He made all the young doctors feel glad that they did not live "in the days of yore," when he, in the face of many difficulties and meagre equipment, studied and began the practice of medicine. Dr. Horace Packard came from the "Hub" to the "Heart of the Commonwealth," with his pockets and heart all full and running over with eloquent words of congratulation and good cheer. He assured us of substantial aid from the homoeopathic brethren in Boston - whom we have helped—in the establishment of a hospital here. If he be a good prophet, the dawn of that eventful day is near at hand when our hospital dreams shall be realized. No one could have served the next dish, "The Women," more gracefully

than Dr. C. L. Nichols. After his enumeration of woman's great achievements in the field of medicine, every man almost wished that he had been born a woman, and counted it at least one of the mistakes of his life to have come into the world a man. We all wondered what we would get when Dr. Amanda C. Bray toasted "The Men," but she let us off easy and really eulogized us, with the exception of her closing story, in which she proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the old woman's remedy is the best every time. "The Babies" came next for their share of attention, and who could have defended and portrayed them half so well as our poet, J. P. Rand? Since it is considered best not to attempt to describe this poem, it is hoped that the editor will embrace the opportunity of gracing the columns of the GAZETTE with it. The last, but by far not the least in savor was the dish, "Our Kinsmen," responded to by Rev. C. M. Southgate. For eloquence, wit, fervor and pathos this toast greatly surpassed its predecessors, and we felt more keenly than ever the intimate and beautiful kinship between the clergyman and the physician, a kinship which is deserving of more attention and cultivation.

The duties of the various sessions of the day having been duly performed, the meeting closed at 4.30 P. M., and as the doctors bade farewell to Worcester to return to their various fields of practice, they carried with them pleasant memories of a day profitably spent and most thoroughly enjoyed.

CARL CRISAND, Secretary.

SOUTHERN HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

The ninth annual session of the Southern Homoeopathic Medical Association was called to order at 9 P. M., Nov. 22d, in the pavilion of the Park Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. The opening session was to have taken place at 3 P. M., but a wreck on the Iron Mountain Railroad detained those who came by that route, some one hundred miles this side of St. Louis, and gave those who came by the Memphis route an opportunity of spending the day in Little Rock.

President W. C. Dake was detained at his home in Nashville, Tenn., by illness, and First Vice President Eldridge C. Price, of Baltimore, Md., presided.

After prayer and the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting and the appointment of the Committee on Credentials, the Association adjourned till nine o'clock the next morning.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 23, 1892.-MORNING SESSION.

The reports of the treasurer and of the board of censors were received and a number of applications for membership reported. The name of Dr. J. H. Coers, who offered his resignation as a member of the Association, was, under the rules, placed on the list of honorary members.

The interests of homoeopathy in different sections of the country were reported upon by different members, and the courtesies of the Association were extended to Dr. Ellis of Hot Springs, who spoke at some length on the evils of the drumming system.

A general discussion on this system followed, and a committee, consisting of Drs. Duffield, W. E. Green and Crutches, was appointed to draft a set of resolutions condemning the drumming system, as it was the sense of the meeting that this practice was not only harmful to the local practitioners, but to those from abroad who sent patients here.

President Dake's annual address was read by Vice-President Price, and Committees on President's Address and Publication were appointed.

The Association received an invitation to a reception given. in its honor by the Business Men's Club.

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The Bureau of Materia Medica was called. Dr. Clara C. Plimpton, of Nashville, Tenn., read a paper on "Glonoine in Headache." Dr. Wilson A. Smith, of Chicago, read a paper on 'Symptoms." Dr. E. C. Price, of Baltimore, read a paper on Therapeutic Intuition." The other members of the Bureau failing to appear, their papers were handed to the secretary, and read by title at the close of the meeting. The papers read elicited much discussion, particularly that of Dr. Price. It was a scholarly effort and showed deep research.

Under the Bureau of Clinical Medicine, Dr. Lizzie Gray Gutherz, of St. Louis, read a paper on "Remittent Fever." Dr. A. M. Duffield, of Huntsville, Ala., read a paper on "Clinical Experience with Schüssler's Tissue Remedies. Dr. Pennoyer, of Kenosha, Wis., read a paper on "Clinical Medicine." These papers were ably discussed, and the others in the Bureau referred to the secretary.

Telegrams of sympathy were ordered sent to President Dake in his illness, and to Dr. A. L. Monroe, of Louisville, Ky., prevented from attending the meeting of the Association on account of the death of his child.

A resolution was adopted thanking Manager Van Vleit for the tender of fifty seats to the Wilson Minstrel performance at the Opera House.