. -.. i, i I/ ir," S. 41-- - II E pbling Carb p ngsrars, AND DEALERS IN Fine English, French and American NTo, 208 'VTEST:FOUJRT:H ST. Monograms, Crests, and Initials, Embossed in White or Colors, on Note Paper and Envelopes. NO CHARGE FOR PLAIN INITIALING. JOMOEOPATHYI PREFATORY NOTE. "When so much has been necessary heretofore, in cases precisely similar, how can such an imperceptibly small dose have any effect?" is thp question. This is a mighty objection to the unthinking; and to clear away the rubbish of ignorance and misrepresesentation, and give truth a fair field, and to show the strength and truth of the system by pointing out some of the many difficulties it has already overcome, as well as to set the people-friends and foes alike-to thinking-for this is the only way of arriving at truth to one's own satisfaction-is the object for obtruding upon the public the poor efforts of an unskilled pen.:PAIRT I. OMCEOPATHY has had many difficulties to Sovercome, and many crosses to bear, since its -institution, by Samuel Gottfried Hahnneman, nearly a hundred years ago. The extremely radical change its theory taught, and practice wrought in the administration of drugs as remedial agents in disease, was, and is, its greatest obsticle. Added to to this we have systematic misrepresentation and ignorant misconception to contend with. To live is the strongest desire of the human heart; it is the foundation of all earthly happiness. Without health, life becomes a burden, and no amount 4 HOM(EOPATHY. of wealth, love, fame, power, and all other desirable earthly possessions, can bring u- happiness; with it our greatest burdens are easily borne, and dark things seem bright. In proportion as life and health are dear and precious to us, will be our wariness in adopting any new mode of preserving, or restoring them; and especially so if this new mode be moderate in its pretensions, and modest in introducing itself. This does not invalidate the saying that "the greater the humbug, the greater his success," for a time. There always have been, and it is to be feared, always will be, dupes enough, who forget that supernatural agencies have nothing to do with the every day affairs of our lives; that miracles are not of their day; to support the host of shameless unconscionable traveling frauds, who profess, loudly, to make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, the lame to leap and run, and to drive disease and death from their presence forever. This species of humbug is called upon, however, only in chronic and nondescript cases, where the "regular" physician has been tried and tried in vain; he is tried only as an experiment, upon his own boasting recommendation. Of course he fails, he would have been very much surprised if he had not. His stay is short; he knew it would be; he had had his calculations made accordingly. Yes, your successful humbug is a sharp knave. IIe knows his loudmouthed pretensions cannot bear the test of time and trial-the two great friends and bulworks of 6 HOM(EOPATHY. away in the night, and all for the very same reason-advocating the cause of ý-omceopathy. But is not this the history of all greýifand real discoveries? Nature's laws will not be shaped and controlled by human prejudice and will; and, though Gallileo was imprisoned, and his persecutors insisted on decreeing that the earth should not go round; yet, stilB, no more nor less, we have our diurnal and yearly revolution. In contradistinction from quacking, when a Homneopathic physician locates in a community where the system has never been introduced, he unostentatiously opens his office, tacks on the shutter his un-' pretending shingle, and sits quietly down to wait for patients, after having advised the people of his presence; and exercises what patience he may have beyond the possibility of dyspepsia in waiting, knowing the power of truth, and having full faith in time and trial, he waits with assurance. He is scanned at first with a kind of wondering curiosity by those who have never heard of his kind before. By those who have heard just enough to render them wise in their own conceit, be is ridiculed, and his profession mentioned with scorn and a curl of the lip, born of ignorance by conceit. And by the "regular" (self-styled) physician, he is forthwith pompously denounced as a humbug. All this without their knowing anything comparatively of his school. No one, even when curiosity prompts, or when urged by the more potent desire, born of the hope, that something may yet be done to restore failing health-no ROMOAEOPATHY. 7 one, I say, cares to call down upon himself the anathema of Madam Grundy by being the first to try the "sugar pills," At length some independent individual, probably of New England extraction, a friend of progress, and who does his own thinking, and who knows that progress and novelty go hand in hand, wanting to know for himself the truth or otherwise of these charges, seeks their sources. Ie asks the slanderers:-Is Homceopathy a humbug? "Why, yes." " How do you know?" "Oh, there can not be anything in it." "How do you know? have you studied it thoroughly? have you mastered its theory? have you faithfully tried it practically? In order to try it fairly you must have spent years in its study, and have you done this?" "No!" ''But don't you think it is unfair to condemn -what you know almost nothing of?" Our friend finds he can learn nothing there, and his desire being stimulated by repulse, he detertines to try it for himself in the first trifling ailment he may suffer from. The result generally is that he is made to feel its good effects, and is convinced and tells his experience to others. It may be, however, as is too often the case, that fortune does not favor us with such a friend, and we must lay our foundation without his aid. Then we must wait until the novelty has worn off, when some poor sinner, suffering from a chronic disease which all the doctors within newspaper range had "heroically " but vainly attacked in turn, having probably 10 IHOM(EOPATHY. to health, &c., is regarded as beyond question. His opinion is asked in regard to this iew fangled doctor and his medicines, and of course being set in his own course, with his eyes closed to its precarious and unsatisfactory results, and that course being as different from the one in question as health is from disease, as up-hill isfrom down, as medicine is from drug poison, he ignorantly, though. probably with honesty, asserts in substance, that Homceopathy is a humbug; that all who practice or believe in it are either fools or knaves; knaves for knowingly practicing a deceit, or fools for being deceived; and nine in ten of those thus instructed believe all and more. The tenth, who is the thinking one of the lot, resolves if he ever has occasion, in a mild case, to give this novelty a trial. Thus, the poor Homceopathist has less than one chance in ten, even for a trial! It is well for him that he has the might of right on his side. Many reasons, potent with the ignorant, less so with the educated thinkers, are urged to support these decrees. First and most prominent, is the objection of all our opponents,- and even some of our friends, to the smallness of the dose. Taking allopathic practice as a criterion, our dose does seem very small. But the dose has nothing whatever to do with the law governing the Homceopathic system of medicine, as comprehensively expressed by " similia, similibus curantur --"like cures like." The question as to dose is simply one of expediencythe large and the small dose advocates write and HOM(EOPATHY. 13 But who knows this? The effects are patent to all: but who knows precisely how they are produced? If this action were chemical or mechanical, as the old school seem to suppose, we might learn approximately. But is it reasonable to suppose that the violent convulsions and death produced by arsenic poisoning are the results of merely mechanical or chemical action upon the stomach, bowels, or blood? Does it not seem as though there was some more subtle dynamic power at work, through the nervous system upon the seat of life. Who can explain that horrible disease, hydrophobia, from its inception, perhaps months previous to the distressing convulsions and dreadful death? "Who understands and can tell us the mode of operation, of distressing news, suddenly divulged, as it produces disease, even unto death? Life is, as yet, a mystery, even to the most advanced in knowledge. Discussion upon this subject, must, of necessity, therefore, be negative; and I will endeavor simply to show that the popular objections to Homceopathy cannot be sustained. In answer to the small dose objection, it may be asked: How much of the hydrophobia poison could remain upon the tusk of a mad dog after having passed through several thicknesses of clothing, and in some cases the boot-leg? Certainly sufficient to produce disease and death in its most terrible form! but could it have been seen, tasted, and felt? How great a quantity of small pox virus adhered to and 16 HOM(EOPATHY. drive off disease-a lesser evil introduced to expel a greater; just as war was administered to cure us of rebellion, as law was instituted to prevent crime, -why, the less we take, compatible with cure, the better. A grain of musk will scent a large room for years without sensible diminution of material; yet we know that material particles of that musk must have come into contact with our olfactory nerves in order for us to become aware of its existence. A drop of our highest attenuations would be massive in comparison; and if the effect is to be measured by the quantity of material, that would be proportionably great. All we can say about the matter only goes to show that the only satisfactory argument is practical experiment. We are eager for the test. Again: our opponents say, when we are successful, that our patients would have recovered without aid, and required only good nursing, or what is called the "expectant" treatment. This question had been unsatisfactorily discussed in the hospitals at Vienna, and resort was had to practical experiment, (a theory is of no use unless it can be demonstratedpractically,) in this wise: Three wards were opened in one of the Hospitals, into which patients were received alternately, without regard to ailment, for a specified time: one ward was placed under Homceapathic treatment, another under Allopathic treatment, and a third under the "Expectant." Statistics were kept of the mor HOMiOOPATHY. 17 tality in these three wards. At the end of the term, a comparison showed that there was a larger per centage of deaths under the old school treatment than under the "expectant," and a larger per centage under the latter than under the Homeopathic treatment. Facts are strong friends and stubborn enemies! and these are public facts that cannot be gainsaid. They settle the question in dispute. Other facts and statistics speak loudly in favor of Homceopathy, as contrasted with other schools and meet another objection to its use, viz: that the doses are too small to be of use in violent diseases, as cholera, small pox, malignant fevers, etc. It is in such diseases that she appears to the best advantage -though she does not receive the credit due her for destroying many of those pests in embryo, which, under other treatment, develop, grow to their full stature, (and higher from the weakening of their natural opponent, the vital forces, by depletive treatment, and "run their course." Some years ago, wide-awake capitalists, in the life insurance business, in London, with nothing in view but the pocket and wherewith to fill it, bethought themselves that it might be well to examine into the results of the various systems of medical treatment as affecting life and health, and of course their business. They did so, and after a careful comparison of statistics, found the result would justify them in assuring the lives of applicants treated by the Homoeopathic system at ten per cent. less than those treated ýy any other system; that these were HOM(EOPATHY. 21 resolution of Dr. Paris, the President of the Royal College of Physicians, and the other members of the Medical Council. Lord Robert Grosvenor, (now Lord Ebury), aware that Dr. Macloughlin had inspected the Homoeopathic hospital in Golden Square, and observing that the statistics of this hospital were not included in the general returns made to Parliament, moved for 'copies of the returns that have been rejected by the Medical Council.' The motion was agreed to by the House of Commons, when the above revelation --astounding to those who were not previously acquainted with homceopathy--was made. Dr. Homer pronounces this proceeding on the part of the Royal College of Physicians, as a 'conspiracy against the truth and against humanity itself.' "The importance of Homoeopathy is not found solely in its tendency to lengthen life. Its effect in diminishing the frequency and duration of sickness, is of vast moment, especially to the working classes, to whom a lost day is a serious calamity. "By a careful calculation, giving every doubtful point to the Allopathic system, it is shown to be plain, that the habitual adoption of the Homoeopathic system may be relied on, in the average, to save each of us from 394 days of sickness between the ages of 16 and 56, and from 1271 days of sickness between 15 and 85 years." "At St. Louis, in 1864, reports were made of the results of treatment in two hospitals, one of which, under Allopathic management, treated 990 patients H-IOMEIOPATHMY. 23 Many honest and intelligent persons object to the system because, they say, "its practitioners are not educated as thoroughly as those of the old school; they were never taught, have never learned, and know nothing about surgery, anatomy, physiology, and obstetrics; all they know is to retail out little pellets, in accordance with the prescription of the little 'domestic physician,' written only for family use." To be sure there are many quacks-selfstyled doctors-flourishing under the wing of Iomoeopathy, but for which she is no more responsible than is the Christian church for depradations of the wolves in sheep's clothing that operate among her members. The very fact that many of these illiterate ignoramuses (and ~ am sorry to say we have by far too large a number of them here in our very midst) are eminently and undeniably successful, is a potent argument in favor of the system for if such good success attends its ignorance-clogged administration, how much better results may we not hope for with educated intelligence at the helm? If having quacks and boobies sailing under its colors, condemns a system, what, long ere this, would have been the fate of Allopathy, which has the obloquy of a hundred such to bear for each one that HIomoeopathy suffers for. A mill-stone about her stiff neck would not sink her half as deep. I would, however, inform such as hold this objection, that we have Colleges-chlartered institutions, with all the privileges of the Ulniversity of Pennsylvania-in which all branches pertaining to a HOM(lEOPATHY. 25 preceptors, grand, great-grand, great-great-grand preceptors, which afford so little satisfaction to themselves, and so much misery, with little relief, to their patients. The time will come when the only difference between the schools will be in name, and "there's nothing in a name." But there may be in the idea it conveys; and time often loses the name in the idea. Thus, Nero expresses to-day as much the idea of cruelty as it does the name of an individual. " Judas" presents to our minds the idea of selfish treachery as readily as it does the name by which a certain man was known in history. And "Hahnemann,"a name that shall live until is heard the death knell of disease itself, will present to the minds of generations yet unborn, not only the image of a divine old man, with bent and thoughtful brow, toiling in want and exile for the development of a natural law to guide us in the healing art; but it will also call to mind more strongly the idea of the inception of a God-sent revolution in the practice of medicine that has stripped disease of its terrors, and robbed afflicted man of half the ills his flesh is heir to. "The feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms, On some tall light-house dash their little forms; And the rude granite scatters for their painsThose small deposits which were meant for brai Yet, the proud fabric in the morning sun Stands all unconscious of the mischief done; Still the red beacon pours its evening rays 3 HOMEOPATHY. 31 ble, take about an hour for each meal, and never eat so much as to leave the table with a sense of repletion and oppression; do not forget to clean your teeth with a soft tooth-brush after eating, and never indulge in the abominable habit of picking them. RULE XII. 'Avoid every kind of food or drink which naturally disagrees with you; take a little exercise in the open air every day, but not in any kind of weather; select particularly fine, bracing or balmy weather for a walk or ride; exposure to rainy, windy, raw or damp weather never does any body any good. TABLE SHOWING THE MEAN TIME OF DIGESTION OF THE DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF DIET. Mode of Time required Articles of Diet. Preparation, for Digestion. H. M. Rice................................................... Boiled 1 Sago............................................. Do. 1 45 Tapioca.......................................... Do. 2 Barley........................................... D o. 2 M ilk............................................. Do. 2 Ditto.......................................Ra... w 2 15 Gelatine....................................... Boiled 2 30 Pigs' feet, soused............................ Do. 1 Tripe, soused................................. Do. 1 Brains................................... Do. 1 45 Venison steak................................B... roiled 1 35 Spinal marrow.................................Boiled 2 40 Turkey, domestic............................ Roasted 2 30 D o. do..........................Boiled 2 25 Do. W ild................................Roasted 2 18 G oose........................................ Do. 2 30 Pig, sucking....................... Do. 2 30 Liver, beefs, fresh...........................Broiled 2 Lamb, fresh................................. Do. 2 30 32 HOM(EOPATIIY. Chicken, full-grown......................... Fricassee 2 45 Eggs, fresh...............................Hard boiled 3 30 Do. do.............................. Soft do. 3 Do. do................................Fried 3 30 Do. do..................................oasted 2 15 Do. do...................................Raw 2 Do. whipped................................. Do. 1 30 Custard....................................... Baked 2 45 Codfish, cured, dry....................... Boiled 2 Trout, Salmon, fresh.................... Do. 1 30 Do. do...........................Fried 1 30 Bass, striped, fresh........................ Broiled 3 Flounder, do................Fried 3 30 Catfish, do........ Do. 3 30 Salmon, salted............................ Boiled 4 Oysters, fresh............................Raw 2 55 Do. do...............................R.. oasted 3 15 Do. do.................................. Stewed 3 30 Beef, fresh, lean, rare...................Roasted 3 Do. do. dry............................ Do. 3 30 D o. steak..................................... roiled 3 Do. with salt only.........................Boiled 2 45 Do. with mustard, &c................... Do. 3 30 Do. fresh, lean.........................Fried 4 Do. old, hard, salted.......................Boiled 4 15 Pork-steak................................... Broiled 3 15 Pork, fat and lean.......................Roasted 5 15 Do. recently salted..................... Boiled 4 30 Do. do.........................Fried 4 15 Do. do......................Broiled 3 15 Do. do......................... aw 3 Do. do........................ Stewed 3 Mutton, fres................................. Roasted 3 15 Do. do................................. Broiled 3 Do. do................................Boiled 3 Veal, fresh....................Broiled 4 Do. do..............................Fried 4 30 Fowls, domestic................... Boiled 4 Do. do........................ Roasted 4 Ducks. do........................ Do. 4 Do. wild............................... Do. 4 30 Suet, beef. fresh..........................Boiled 5 3 Suet, mutton............................. Do, 4 30 Soup, beef, vegetables and bread........Boiled 4 Do. marrow-hones................... Do. 4 15 Do. beanrs............................... Do. 3 Do. barley.................................. Do. 1 30 Do. mutton.............................. Do. 3 30 36 HOM(EOPATHY. can exist. It is therefore not less unreasonable than vain for any one to insist on possessing, at the same time, the incompatible enjoyments of luxurious indolence and a vigorous appetite, sound digestion of a hearty meal and general health of body, and no one who is aware of the relation subsisting between waste and appetite can fail to perceive the fact, and to wonder at the contrary notion having ever been entertained. Appetite, it ought to be observed, may, like other sensations, be educated or trained to considerable deviations from the ordinary standard of quantity and quality, and this obviously for the purpose of enabling man to live in different climates and under different circumstances, and avoid being fixed down to one spot and to one occupation. The most common source, however, of the errors into which 'we are apt to fall in taking appetite as our only guide, is unquestionably the confounding of appetite with taste, and continuing to eat for the gratification of the latter long after the former is satisfied. In fact, the whole soience of a skillful cook is expended in producing this willing mistake on our part, and he is considered decidedly the best artist whose dishes shall recommend themselves most irresistibly to the callous palate of the gourmand, and excite in it such a sensation as shall at least remind him of the enviable excellence of a natural appetite. If we were willing to limit the office of taste to its proper sphere, and to cease eating when appetite expressed content, indigestion would 40 HOMCEOPATHY. seriously impair their digestive functions by studying for hours in the morning, regardless of the craving of the system for nourishment and support. If exposure of any kind is to be incurred in the morning, whether to the weather or to the causes of disease, it becomes a matter of much importance that breakfast should be taken previously. It is well known that the system is more susceptible of infection, and of the influence of cold, miasma, and other morbid causes, in the morning, before eating, than at any other time, and hence it has become a point of duty with all military and naval commanders, especially in bad climates, always to give their men breakfast before exposing them to morning dews and other noxious influences..Sir Geo. Ballingall even mentions a regiment quartered in Newcastle, in which typhus fever was very prevalent, and in which of all the means used to check its progress, nothing proved nearly so successful as an early breakfast of warm coffee. In aguish countries, also, experience has showvn us that the proportion of sick among those whoare exposed to the open air before getting anything to eat, is infinitely greater than among those who have been fortified by a comfortable breakfast. Where there is any delicacy of constitution, the risk is of course increased. In setting out early to travel, a light breakfast before starting is a great protection against colds and subsequent fatigue or exhaustion. I am quite aware that robust and healthy men can and do take HOMEGOPATHY. 43 of advantage, and to relieve those who are already suffering from ignorance. As a general rule, thein; not more than five hours ought to intervene between breakfast and dinner. If the mode of life be such as involves great activity in the open air, or the period of life be one of rapid growth or filling up (as during youth or convalesence from illness) the interval may, with propriety, be shortened; whereas, if the mode of life be sedentary, and unattended wvith much activity of nutrition, the interval may be considerably protracted without inconvenience. Supposing nine o'clock to be the hour of breakfast, the natural dinner hour would thus be two o'clock; and such, accordingly, is that sanctioned by the most extended experience, and which ought to be adhered to by all whose occupation will admit of its observance, and who wish to enjoy the highest health of which they are susceptible. Artificially arranged, however, as society now is, whole classes of the community find it impossible to dine till much later in the day. The question then comes to be-as we cannot follow the system laid down by nature, what is the next best thing to be done? Ought we to eat nothing till we can find time to dine at five, or six, or seven o'clock? or ought we rather to take a light meal at the natural time, about one or two o'clock, and reserve our appetite chiefly for the substantial meal which we have leisure to digest? HOWE OPATP~THY-. 45 are very apt to damage themselves by neglecting relaxation at and after meals. The time for dinner ought, then, to vary according to the constitution, occupation and mode of life of the individual; and the nearer the whole of these can be made to approximate to the intentions of nature, the more vigorous will be the powers of digestion, and the more complete the nutrition of the body. It would be a waste of time to discuss gravely whether tea and coffee ought to be allowed in the evening. Custom has already decided the point, and experience has shown that, taken in moderntion, they rather promote than impede digestion. When the dinner is early-say one, or two, or three o'clock-a light meal of tea and bread in the evening, is very suitable, as it saves the necessity of eating a heavier supper. If the individual be accustomed to much active exertion in the afternoon, so as to cause considerable waste in the system, and especially if he be young, a small addition of animal food may be made with great propriety to the evening meal. But, on the other hand, when the dinner is late, or little exertion is incurred after it-tea or coffee ought to be used more as a diluent than as a meal. A great deal has been said and written about the properties of tea and coffee as articles of diet. At present, however, we have to do with them only as elements of a third meal, and must reserve discus 64 HOMCEOPATHY. INFANTS, SPASMS OR CONVULSIONS OF. BELL.-Dilated pupils, coldness of the whole body. CHAM.-Redness of one cheek, involuntary movements of the head. IGNAT.-When we are not certain from what the fits arise, when they return every day at the same hour. INFANTS, CRYING OF. BELL.-When crying without any apparent cause. CHAM.-One red cheek, if there is head-ache or ear-ache. IEFANTS, DENTITION OF.-Restless, obstinate, wakeful,-COFFEE, unless the mother is in the habit of drinking coffee, then give ACT. and in some cases it will have to be followed by CHAM., or if mother drinks coffee and child's face is red without fever, give OPII. CAL-CARB. if the teeth are slow in. coming through. Nux.-If there is constipation with fever and a dry hacking cough. IPEc.-if there is vomitting and diarrhcea. BELL.- Starting and jerking.through the whole body during sleep, with evening exacerbations. INFANTS, DIARR(EA OF. RnE.-Tenesmus, stools smell sour, and the child also. CHAM.-Stools greenish, colic, red face. BELL.-Violent colic, face pale. IPEC. OR Nux.-When it manifests itself in the heat of summer. HOM(EOPATHY. 65 "BRY. or CARB. VEG.-Returning when the weather becomes warmer. DUL.-Returning when the weather becomes cooler. A-s.-Emaciation, great weakness, pallor, worse after midnight. INFANTS, EXCORIATION OF. CIAM.-Easily excoriated with great sensitiveness to the touch. SUL.-If there is a rash and in obstinate cases. INFANTS, INDIGESTION OF. IPEc-Vomiting, with diarrhoea. Nux-Vomiting, with constipation. PULS.-If arising from pastry or rich food, or if- IPEC..is insufficient. INFANTS, RED GUM OF. BRY.-White miliary eruptions, with constipation and distension of the bowels. SUL. in most stages of the disease. LABOR-PAINS. CHAM.-Pains too acute and too long and spasmodic, convulsions or spasm during the pains. COFFEE.-When patient is almost driven to despair. PULs.-The pains succeeding each other slowly, inactivity of the uterus after the birth. LEUCORRHCEA, (WHITES). This can hardly be called a disease, but rather a symptom of some 6f the many uterine maladies. The most common form is that occurring in those who have had severe abortions, or who 6 HOM(EOPATHY. 67 MILK, EXCESSIVE FLOW OF. BELL.-pulsations in the breasts, with fulness and hardness. BRY.-breasts swollen, hard and knotty. MILK, SUPPRESSION OF. PULs.-if caused by a chill; in most cases. BELL and BRY.-may be [alternated if the abdominal organs are affected and the breasts become hard and knotty. FEVER. ACT.-if there is redness and tension in the breasts, accompanied with fever. BRY.-may be alternated with ACT. if there is constipation and rheumatic pains. CHAM. if caused by violent emotion or a chill and there is great nervous excitement. MUMPS, MER. and AcT.-if patient be feverish. PULS.-if there is metastasis to the testicles or mammle, BELL.-if there is mestatasis to the brain. NEURALGIA. ARS.- pains intensely agonizing and of a darting, burning character, great restlessness and anguish, which is at first relieved by cold applications, but in a few moments it is increased; worse during rest; diminished during exercise. Pains intermittent in character. BELL.-violent pain when rubbing or pressing the parts. Worse when exposed to the light, motion or noise. When in each attack of of the pain the face flushes up, the cheeks burning hot, the eyes red and watering. RIan.-I would suggest a trial of this remedy in chronic cases. 68 IIOMEOPATHY. NIPPLES, EXCORIA TING. ARN.-for simple soreness both locally and internally; if this proved insufficient I should give a few doses of SUL. CHAM. is chiefly suitable where the nipples are highly inflamed, or where they are ulcerated. PILES. SUL. and Nux.-in alternation where there is little or no bleeding, but are very annoying from their fulness. IHAAMAMELIS-in bleeding piles and if there is much fever any of these remedies may be alternated witlh ACT. PLEURISY. ACT. and BRY.-in alternation generally suffices, but to complete the cure we may follow this with SILL. PNEUMONIA. AcT.-always to commence the treatment with, and if in twenty-four hours there is no material abatement, we must have recourse to PHos. or BRy. PHos.-for broncho-pneu monia BRY.-for pleuro-pncumonia. SUL.-(a few doses of) whenever amelioration takes place but is not permanent. PREGNANCY, SLEEPLESSNESS OF. ACT.if attended with fever. Nux.-when patient sleeps well on first retiring, but wakes early in the morning and can not get to sleep again. COFFEE.- when the patient cannot get to sleep for a long time after retiring. IOMcEOPATHY.7 71 PULS.-shooting pains which extend into the ears, eye, face and head; face pale, relieved by cold application. CHAM.-pains driving almost to despair, with swollen, red, hot cheeks, or especially on one side, worse from warm applications, and especially at night in bed. BELL.-more especially adapted to females and children in inflammatory and congestive toothache; great thirst, worse by contact with food. VOMITING. BRY.-especially after eating food which one relishes, of bitter water, or of bile. IPEC.-occurring after eating or drinking ever so little. PULS.-from overloading the stomach, or after eating fat, rich food. Nux-periodical attacks after wines and spirituous liquors, or from weakness of stomach. VERAT-stomach very sensitive to the touch, with burning pains, vomiting occurring before, during or immediately after a stool, great prostration, frothy. WORMS. VIOL. ORDA., 6th-a dose every 4 hours for three days, and follow this with STAN. 30th, one dose every third night for twelve days generally relieves all of the symptoms. CINA-pale, bloated face, livid circles around the eyes, abdomen swollen and drum-like, fever and colic. PAJRT IV. THE CINCINNATI HOMIEOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY. ITS HISTORY. On November twelfth, 1867, pursuant to a call issued through the papers of this city, there assembled at the Burnet House, for the purpose of organizing a benevolent Association, the following named persons: S. C. Newton, John P. Epply, J. W. Canfield, Hugh McBirney, P. P. Lane, Dr. T. C. Bradford, Dr. E. B. Thomas, Dr. Wm. Owens, F. Eckstein, Jethro Mitchel, C. Taylor Jones, and John E. Bell. Mr. S. C. Newton being called to the chair and John E. Bell to act as Secretary, the following resoI ution was adopted, viz. " That we, the undersigned, form ourselves into an association to be incorporated and known as the Cincinnati Homneopathic Medical Dispensary, the object of which shall be the gratuitous dispensing of Homtnopathic medicine to the sick poor of Cincinnati and vicinity." At a subsequent meeting the following gentlemen were elected Trustees for the first year. IIOMTOPATIIY. 7 73 TRUSTEES Hugh MeBirney, C. Taylor Jones, P. W. Strader, Alfred Gaither, A. H. Hinkle, J. K. Sterrett, Gazzumn Gano, Fred. Eckstein, S. S. Davis, John Shillito, John E. Bell, Clerk. FOR 1868. J. W. Canfield, N. S. Jones, Wesley Taylor, S. C. Newton, P. P. Lane, Howell Gano, John P. Eppli J. If. Cheever *M. B. Hagat Bellamy Stor OFFICERS FOR 1868. S. C. Newton, President. Hugh MeBirney, Vice-President, Gazzum Gano, Treasurer. John E. Bell, Secretary. J. II. Weal IJohi STANDING COMMITTEES. FINANCE. Cheever, A. II. Hinkle, ey Tay'lor, P. W. Stradei aP. Epply. Gazzum Garnc DISPENSAR~Y. P. P. Lane, J. K. Sterret M. B. Hagauf ty Howell. Gano, 0. Taylor Jones. *Resigned- and J03. Emery was apponted to fill vacancy. tResigned and Hugh MeBirney was appoinWe Wo fill vacan 76 HOM(EOPATHY. Number of Medical cases attended................;........... 577 " " Surgical cases treated............................. 20 " " 'Vaccinations performed............................ 33 " " Obstetrical cases attended.................. 5 "i " Cases sent to hospital.............................. 20 " Cases recovered................................. 343 " " D eaths.............................................. 2 At the present time there is from one hundred and fifty to two hundred patients treated monthly by the resident physician, and in addition to attending to the wants of his fellow sufferers in Cincinnati, there is frequently calls left, and answered, for Covington, Newport, Fulton, Hamilton, Walnut Hills, Mt. Auburn, and College Hill, and as a very large number of these patients live some distance from the line of our street railways, and therefore can only be reached by foot (there being no private conveyance at present furnished to the resident physician) a great amount of valuable time is thus consumed which might be turned to a more profitable account by visiting the poor and seeking out the sick, for this is the only way by which we can accomplish the end we all so much desire; for an institution of this kind, where all, irrespective of age, sex, color, religion or nativity, may come and be healed, is comparatively such a new thing in this city, that two-thirds of the class its benefits are intended to reach, are not even aware of its existence, and never will be unless some one visits them and explains the whole matter to them, and who shall do this, but the resident physician? True, the laymen can do a great deal by sending any worthy HOM(EOPATHY. 77 sick persons that come under their notice, to the Dispensary, for medical aid and advice, but as the number thus sent is comparatively small, and as the past is beyond recall, the present only is ours and the future what we make it; the resident physician hopes, that the laymen, one and all, will hereafter bear in mind, that there is such an institution, and give it their support and countenance, at least in this respect. INCORPORATION AND BY-LAWS. The institution was incorporated and the following By-Laws adopted December 17, 1867: ART. 1. Any person who shall at one time contribute the sum of five dollars shall be a member of the corporation for one year. ART. 2. Any person who shall contribute at one time fifty dollars, to the permanent fund of the Dispensary shall be a life member and entitled to all the privileges of membership. ART. 3. Any person who shall contribute at one time one hundred dollars to the permanent fund of the Dispensary shall be a patron and entitled to all the privileges of membership. ART, 4. The members of the corporation shall hold an annual meeting on the second Monday in January of each year, at which the annual reports shall be submitted and twenty persons elected to servo as Trustees for the next vear. ART. 5. The Board of Trustees shall hold regular 78 HOMCEOPATHY. meetings on the first Thursday following the first Monday of each month, and such other special meetings as may be called by the Secretary on application of three members of the Board; at which five members shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. ART. 6. The Board shall, at its first meeting after election appoint three standing Committees of five persons each who shall serve for one year viz: one on Dispensary, one on Finance, and one on Hospital, who shall report in writing to each meeting of the Board, or wheneverrequired. HOMCEOPATHY. LIFE MEMBERS. 81 F. Eckstein,............$50 00 S. C.- Newton,.......... S. M. Haughton,..... Hugh McBirney,.... P. W. Strader,........ C. H. Gould,........... Jno D. Minor,........ Wm. Sumner,........ D. W. Corwin,......... R. A. Holden,......... Sam' C. Tatem,...... D. H. Hunnewell,.... 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 Gazzium Gano.........$50 A. H. Hinkle,......... 50 Jno. P. Epply,........ 50 Howell Gano,......... 50 W. J. Breed,......... 50 R, Mitchell,........... 50 J. H. Cheever,........ 50 Jno. R. Wright,...... 50 Wesley Taylor,....... 50 J. Cunningham,..... 50 Alfred Gaither,...... 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 PATRON. P. P. Lane,...........................................$100 00 DONATIONS, J. S. Hill,.............$25 00 W. P. Devou,.........$10 00 J. M. Secrist,......... 25 00 N. S. Jones,............ 20 00 James L. Haven,..... 25 00 W. H. Doane,........ 25 00 C. F. Wilstach,........ 25 00 J. K. Sterrett,......... 25 00 Wm. E. London,...... 25 00 Meader & Son,......... 29 50 Mrs. S. C. Newton, proceeds of Parlor Concert,......100 00 Mrs. Dr. Thomas, proceeds of Parlor Concert,......135 00 Mrs. Dr. Slosson, proceeds of Parlor Concert,......120 00 J. W. Anderson & Co., printing one thousand envelopes. Bradley & Powers, printing one hundred circulars. Willis & Co's., Homeopathic Pharmacy, No. 19 west Fourth Street, one Pocket Case. -ANDFine Art Gallery, CINCINNATI, 0. Portraits of all sizes and styles taken in all kinds of weather. BRADLEY & POWER, tat tIoners, P r i n t e r s+ AND BINDERS, 149 Main St., 2 doors below 4th. Especial attention given to the requirements of Merchants Bankers, Railroads and Insurance Companies. The Printing Department is well supplied with all the Newest Styles of Type. Blank Books made to Order. qlElo tSertEs No. 26 West Fourth St. Ciincinnati, GENERAL WESTERN AGENTS FOR Stleinwayy (&,SoLs Piaos -AND~~~BUS iT' OB *8o P, A ________________ j7A I r-1~ ~ ~ AF_ pm I H0 Id_ MRS C4aiý