erences which have also come to our notice together with Dr. Lemon's articles : Acute Pneumonic Fever, VanDenburg, Wm. H., The Clinique, Chicago, August, 1912, p. 461. Homœopathic Medication in Pneumonia, Sickels, E. A., Ibid., December, 1912, p. 711. Therapeutics of Pneumonia, Dienst, G. E., The Critique, Denver, August, 1912, p. 302. Remedies in Infantile Pneumonia, McGeorge, W., Homeopathic Recorder, June 15, 1913, p. 247. Tuberculosis and Phosphorus Metabolism, Aleindor, J., The Practitioner, London, January, 1913, p. 123. Use and Abuse of Drugs in Tuberculosis, Ibid., p. 120. Remedies in Pneumonia, McKinstey, F. P., North American Journal of Homœopathy, Sept. 1913, p. 533. REVIEWS OF MEDICAL JOURNALS. The Medical Advance, October, 1913. I. "Hunger Pain," S. L. Guild Leggett. The term is not defined. There is a peculiar inconsistency in stating that "the first diagnosis of the meaning of hunger-pain is of course hypochlorhydria," then following this with the statement that the pain is relieved by eating bland foods, milk, eggs, etc., because the protein is largely alkaline in constituent." It is reasonable to assume and in fact we can show by analyses of gastric contents that such relief is far more commonly experienced in cases of hyperchlorhydria. The author gives a tabulation of remedies which have an "empty feeling" among their supposedly pathogenetic symptoms. 2. Fruits, J. B. S. King, M.D. 3. Lycopodium, C. F. Junkerman, M.D. 4. The House-Fly Nuisance, L. H. Hendrixson, M.D. 5. Diphtheria, H. Leigh Deck, M.D. This is a letter, addressed to the editor of the Medical Advance, reporting a "bad case." The patient was given "baptisia, phytolacca and tuberculinum during two days without results," then "24000 units of antitoxin in six injections" presumably during the two weeks following. At the expiration of this period with the patient still delirious and showing no throat improvement, apis, 200, later IM. was given. In thirty hours the temperature was normal, the membrane gone, and excellent recovery ensued. The antitoxin was given because he didn't know what else to do, and because the patient's mother was an allopath. The credit was given to apis, because antitoxin should show a marked result in thirty hours according to the nurse whom Deck quotes as his authority. Whether or not the diagnosis was verified by bacteriologic examination is not stated. Even the experts in antitoxin therapy, who neither use the serum because they do not know what else to do nor because they are afraid of the allopaths, do not expect much benefit from its use in streptococcic or pneumococcic infections of the throat. 6. Involuntary Proving of Boiling Cadmium, R. E. S. Hayes, M.D. 7. Dynamism in Therapeutics, R. Allendy, M. D. A translation from "L'Homœopathie Francaise." The Medical Advance, November, 1913. 1. Homœopathic Treatment of Typhoid Fever, J. Hutchinson, M.D. 2. Homœopathic Treatment of Tuberculosis, M. W. Turner, M.D. We apologize to the Advance for printing this paper in our December issue without their permission. The author failed to inform us that he had submitted the article to other journals than ours. 3. Natrum Muriaticum, W. J. Hawkes, M.D. 4. Pertussin Experiences, R. E. S. Hayes, M.D. 5. Homœopathy from a Layman's Point of View, Rev. C. Delaux. 6. Presidents address. (International Hahnemannian Association, 1913.) J. B. S. King, M.D. S. B. H. The Journal of the American Institute of Homœopathy, October, 1913. 1. The International Homœopathic Council meeting at Ghent, Belgium, George Burford. M.D. 2. Was It Worth While? J. P. Sutherland, M.D. Published in the GAZETTE, Sept. 1913. p. 455. 3. Shall a Certificate of Good Health be Required Before a License to Marry be Granted? H. M. Stevenson, M.D. An affirmative answer is, of course, necessitated by an intelligent consideration of the facts concerning the nervous and venereal diseases which affect both parents and offspring. The author discusses the methods of making such a procedure compulsory. This question is only second in importance to that of rational, universal. progressive education of the growing child in the matters of physical, mental and sexual hygiene. 4. X-Ray in the Treatment of Tuberculosis, T. D. Gibson. M.D. The author admirably portrays this comparatively recent method of treatment, logically explains its probable action, and summarizes its effects. There are at least two of his many auxiliary measures which can hardly be recommended. He favors the use of strychnine in almost all cases of the disease. discussing its use in the paragraph which has to do with the need of paving attention to the heart and the low blood pressure. Strychnine has no direct action on the mammalian heart, and by its influence on the vasomotors it causes a contraction of the internal (splanchnic) vessels and a consequent increase in the amount of blood which flows through the surface channels. How this drug, then, can help antagonizing the internal, beneficial hyperæmia which the X-ray is supposed to produce, is difficult to understand. In regard to the alleged necessity of "controlling" the cough. it may possibly be necessary or advisable in extreme cases to use such drugs as morphine. heroin. dionin, etc.. but we cannot concur in any recommendation to employ them in a moderately routine way to suppress that one natural symptom. The use of such drugs for their effect of deadening the sensibility of the bronchial mucous membrane or the irritability of the nerves supplying the lungs, is equivalent in rational to the use of cathartics as a "curative" measure in constipation. Gibson thinks that the use of ozone in the treatment of tuberculosis is of undoubted value, but he fails to explain why. Two recent, independent investigations (Jour. of A. M. A. Sept. 27, 1013.) have demonstrated the following: "Human beings are injuriously affected by amounts of ozone far less than are necessary to produce even its slight bactericidal effect."--"Ozone does not make pure air any more than strong spices make pure food."-"The ozone irritation (of the respiratory mucosa) leads to intense hyperæmia. but this hyperemia is obviously correlated with repair of the injury to the epithelial cells wrought by the ozone. Such cells are probably more readily invaded by bacteria and have less than normal power of growth and healing despite the hyperemia. And all bacteria so far studied are much more resistant to ozone than are the cells of the respiratory tract of man, the use of this poisonous gas as a therapeutic agent is either valueless or injurious." Gibson's method of "passing it through a nebula of menthol, camphor. eucalyptus oil, pine needle oil, and argyrol and liquid petroleum," might reasonably be supposed to remove some of the characteristics, possibly i the injurious ones, probably the very identity of the ozone, so we cannot say that the practice is directly harmful. A lengthy and practical discussion follows Dr. Gibson's paper. 5. Tolle Causam-From the Homœopathic Standpoint. Philip Rice, M.D. In this excellent introductory paper, Rice illustrates a novel method of study which should help us to understand why we become diseased. He has investigated the subject of morphology in an effort toward the comprehension of the essence of the cause of predisposition and susceptibilty. Wonderful possibilities are suggested even from a superficial consideration of the mere start which has been made. 6. Discussions of Dr. J. P. Sutherland's article "Some Inadequately Recognized Teachings of Hahnemann." Some of these discussions are pro, one is con, but concerning the scope and substance of the paper the "pros" overwhelmingly predominate, although the negative side brings out some important if perhaps irrelevant points. Medical Century, November, 1913. S. B. H. 1. The Educational Problem of Homœopathy and its Solution. Stuart Close, M.D. So severe have become the requirements and so extensive the course of instruction in the subjects of general medicine; so wide-spread is becoming the non-recognition by the state examining boards of Homœopathy as a department of medicine, that educationally, Homœopathy is slowly being starved to death. The student is so pressed for time to devote to the medical and surgical sciences and arts that he has to neglect those additional subjects which pertain to Homœopathy. He is impressed with the fact that a knowledge of Homœopathy is not required by the State but only by the college, so with characteristic myopia, he determines to conform to the unjust legal requirements, and to manage to just "skin through" the subjects concerned with Homœopathy. To meet such a condition the school must either lower its standards in all the branches taught, or maintain a very limited conception of what constitutes_competency in Homœopathy and of the means necessary to attain it. Dr. Close believes that the remedy is to be found in the establishment of a post-graduate school, a College of Homœopathy. He admits that "what we may lose in numbers we shall gain in quality, and in the long run, it is quality that counts." Reviewer's Note. There is not space in which to discuss the fundamental cause of this condition, namely, the truly pathogenic and pathogenetic vertebral ankylosis of many of the State examining boards, especially of the New York Regents. We must maintain, however, that there is a way of heightening the competency in Homœopathy of our graduates without yet resorting to the radical departure which Dr. Close advocates. We must beware the fallacy of looking for judgment and experience in youth. Hence our faculties must supply such judgment and experiencein Homeopathy as well as in surgery or physiology,-in quantity and quality sufficient to stimulate a healthy interest in Homoeopathy. Once such interest is aroused, the student-if he is worthy of the name-can be safely relied upon to attain a measurable degree of power of rational judgment. It is reduced to a problem of how to make the student think. This rests largely with the individual instructors in the departments which are concerned with therapeutics. If we can have sincere men in our professional chairs; if we will sanely delimit the sphere of Homoeopathy; if we will intermingle our instruction in the three main principles of Homoeopathy with instruction in pharmacology, clinical medicine, pathology, theory and practice et alias; if we will be content to stimulate the student to dig out the profundities of homeopathic philosophy for himself; we shall see our men graduating with a competency in Homœopathy equivalent to that which they possess in the other branches of medicine. 2. The Salts of Baryta. G. E. Dienst, M.D. 4. The Interpretation of Symptoms. 5. Topical applications as Adjuvants in Homoeopathic Dermatologic Practice-Advancing Arguments to Prove that Local Treatment in Skin Diseases does not Interfere with the Action of Potentized Remedies. Ralph Bernstein, M.D. The title is explanatory, and evidence is adduced to support the arguments, that the "absorptibility" of the skin is practically negative with but few exceptions, and that it is not possible to drive the eruption "in.”— The reader is left in the dark as to the nature of a "potentized" remedy. 6. Recent Revelations of Science and Their Relation to Applied Homœopathy. F. F. Casseday, Ph.B., M.D. This article takes up several of the recent ultra-scientific discoveries which concern radiation, and by analogy the final conclusion is drawn that matter in a fine state of subdivision is best adapted for the various needs of the human body. This new theory of drug action-"Radiation the force Which . . . . Cures Disease”— is stated to be supplementary to the law of similars. The author says, with reference to the abnormal body, that it "is crying aloud for certain material urgently needed in the human laboratory;" "Radiation. . . . is the real method which the body employs in maintaining life, elaborating food, and curing disease;" "Radiation increases its activity and push in proportion as matter is more finely divided," [Reviewer's Note], the whole constituting a chain of thought which might lead us to suppose, with reason, that we would become more radiant on a liquid than a solid diet. However plausible the reasoning, however fluent the argument, we remain unconvinced that we have received confirmation, for our methods of alleviating abnormal biological phenomena, in conclusions analogously drawn from hypotheses of the ultra-physical scientists. 7. From a Pessimist's View-Point. S. R. Stone, M.D. A jocose recital of the woes and troubles of the doctor's life. Berliner Homœopathische Zeitschrift, October, 1913. S. B. H. Experiences with Radium Potencies. Kirn. The author reports a number of successes with bronchial asthma, dysmenorrhea, warts and eczema by the use of Dieffenbach's Radium bromide 12 or 30x. In carcinoma the benefit derived was chiefly the relief from pain without any apparent alteration of the growths. P. The theory of a Universal Law in medicine and other matters. Dahlke, A profound discussion of homeopathic philosophy with especial reference to the relation of matter to energy as regards the potency of drug preparations. Diseases of the Stomach. Kroener. An extensive article to be conIcluded in the next number. SOCIETIES. Trustees' Meeting, A. I. H. The meeting of the trustees of the American Institute of Homœopathy was held December 6, at Hotel Staler, Cleveland, Ohio. There were present: President DeWitt G. Wilcox, M.D., Boston, Mass.; Grant S. Peck, M.D., Denver, Colo.; Anna D. Varner, M.D., Wilkinsburg, Pa.; J. Richey Horner, M.D., Cleveland, Ohio; Thomas Franklin Smith, M.D., New York City; Joseph P. Cobb, M.D., Chicago, Ill.; George Royal, M.D., Des Moines, Ia. : Thos. H. Carmichael, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa.; Arthur B. Norton, M.D., New York City; John P. Sutherland, M.D., Boston, Mass.; W. B. Hinsdale, M.D., Ann Arbor, Mich. Action was first taken on the death of Dr. James H. McClelland of Pittsburgh, Pa. His name has been contemporary with the greatest development of the homoeopathic school, of the United States. His mind was most satisfactorily employed when grappling with its problems. His earnest enthusiasm never lessened until he saw Hahnemann honored by the nation, in statue, at the nation's capitol. His voice was ever raised to warn against danger, and to fearlessly champion the truth of the Law of Similars. Drs. Smith and Sutherland together with the Chairman were instructed to write to the family expressing the deep sense of loss which the Trustees feel in the death of Dr. McClelland. The report of the Council on Medical Education showed that decided progress has been made in the securing of pledges for the propagandistic fund, They reported that $8000 has been raised, with much more in sight. As Dr. Cobb had been appointed as a special representative of the Trustees to ascertain the situation concerning the Institute on Drug Proving, he reported that the information which he had been able to receive from the Chairman of said Institute was very unsatisfactory. The next issue of the Gazette will give the correspondence which took place between Dr. Cobb of the Trustees and Dr. Custis of Washington, Chairman of the Institute of Drug Proving. That correspondence will speak for itself. Dr. Wood reported regarding the relation of the Institute to the American College of Surgeons. He went over his correspondence with Dr. Franklin Martin of Chicago showing the attitude taken by the special Committee appointed by the Institute; namely, that the College of Surgeons recognize the American Institute on the same basis that the American Medical Association is recognized, and that its surgeon members be admitted to Fellowship in the College on the same basis thereof; also that the Institute be represented on the Board of Governors and the Board of Regents in the College by virtue of its allied societies. He also reported that the said Committee of the Institute was invited and did meet with the Board of Regents of said College, in Chicago, on November 13. At said conference Dr. Wood presented the claims of the Committee. and has since been assured by individual members of the Regents that said claims were entirely fair and reasonable and would, no doubt, be granted. He reported, however, that he had received no official statement from the Regents that the request had been formally granted. In the meantime he requested all surgeons of our school, who have not sent in application for membership in the College, to forward their applications, or request for application to him. Dr. Carmichael reported that the third edition of the Homœopathic Pharmacopoeia is now in the hands of the printer, and that he expects the publication will be out in February. Dr. Sarah M. Hobson of Chicago (B.U.S.M. 1890) was elected as Secretary-Editor of the Institute to fill the unexpired term (June 1915) of Dr. J. Richey Horner, Secretary-Editor resigned. Atlantic City was definitely chosen as the next place for meeting, the date being the week beginning June 29. The Chalfonte Hotel was chosen as the place to hold meetings, as it offered every facility for sectional, general and committee meetings, with quiet and comfort combined. As there has, in the past, been such a diversity of methods employed for securing exhibits and applying the money there from, the Trustees took definite action upon that matter for all future meetings, to the effect that all future exhibits given at the American Institute be under the direction of the Institute, and managed directly by the Committee on Finance, and by Resolution all surplus funds resulting from exhibits would go to the Treasury of the Institute instead of the Local Committee for the entertainment of the Institute. In Atlantic City the Hotel Men's Association donate ten per cent of the income from every Association meeting to the entertainment of the members of said Association. This will mean that over $800 will be spent next Tune by the Hotels of Atlantic City in entertaining the members of the Institute, thus relieving the local committee from |