accompanying the faceache, and accumulation of saliva on the same side of the mouth; he has to spit constantly. Frequent eructations with pain and fermentation in the stomach. Indifference to food; still he can eat pretty well when he sits down to table. Spirits cause burning in the stomach, and tobacco, which he used to smoke all day long, makes him immediately sick. Pain in the bowels, with rumbling of the belly almost incessant. He is sometimes quite distended with flatulence. Two painless diarrhoeic stools every day. Urine with brickdust-coloured sediment. Frequent coryza. Rheumatic pain, tensive drawing and tearing in the limbs here and there, alternating with the pain in head. A chill is what does him most harm, and rouses up all his morbid symptoms. Weariness, bruised feeling, heaviness and weakness of all limbs ; he cannot walk far without fatigue. All exercise has such an effect on him that he sinks down quite exhausted. Sleep good; spirits always bad; melancholy, anxious, and hypochondriacal.

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He got Phosphorus (dilution not mentioned). This acted so well that in four weeks he was able to walk twenty miles to see He was in high spirits, his pains having completely vanished. Head all right, spirits cheerful, appetite good, and he again relishes his tobacco. Seen half a year afterwards, he was still quite well, and assured the doctor that his powders had restored his youth. (Gaspary, Ann. d. Hom. Klin., Bd. III, p. 30.)

A man, æt. 30, of robust frame, had suffered for eight years from faceache, for which numerous allopathic remedies had been tried in vain. As a last resort it was proposed to cut the nerve through; but before submitting to this he thought he would try homœopathy. The commencement of the disease eight years ago seems to have been a chill he got while in the army. Since then he has been troubled almost constantly with it; it sometimes leaves him for a few hours-seldom for several days. His symptoms are as follows: Vertigo on rising in the morning; it seems then that the blood rises to the head. For this he has had many bloodlettings, purgatives, &c., without relief. Itching over the left temple and side of the face. Tension in the skin of the face on the left side. Face puffed and pale. Dull tearing in the whole of the left cheek; dull painful drawing on the

upper jaw of the left side as far as the root of the nose. Pains and stitches in the cheek, proceeding from the left upper maxilla, extending to the maxillary joint and to behind the ear. Acute pain on opening the mouth through the whole of the left side of the face. With the exception of these pains his health was good. He got a dose of Phosphorus (quantity not specified). For the first two days after taking the medicine the pains were much worse; but after a week they became slighter, and by the end of the fortnight they were quite gone. Seen two years afterwards, he still remained quite well, though he had been frequently exposed to cold. (Gaspary, Ann. d. Hom. Klin., III, 410.)

A gamekeeper, æt. 36, had always enjoyed good health until a few months ago, when he got a severe chill by falling into the water and having to remain a considerable time in his wet clothes. From this time he was ill, and tried first all sorts of domestic remedies without effect, and then he put himself under a physician. He prescribed almost every remedy in the pharmacopoeia, with the effect of making him worse. He got so bad that he was confined to the house, and could no longer follow his occupation. His symptoms were as follows:-Heaviness and pain in the whole head; he is unable to think, and he is often as giddy as if he had been drinking. Drawing and aching in the forehead; drawing, shooting pain through the whole of the right side of the face from the temple to the chin. Drawing in all the teeth; disgusting taste. The mouth is always full of mucus and saliva which he must constantly spit out. Eructation after eating and drinking. Pressure and full feeling in the stomach, which is tender to the touch. Pains in bowels, loose motions; pains in loins and limbs; tearing and drawing here and there in the limbs, and stitches behind skin and flesh. He could do nothing on account of weariness and weakness of limbs. Beaten feeling and coldness throughout the body. He cannot bear the open air. Laziness and sleepiness; he wishes to lie down constantly. Sleep full of dreams. Low spirits, irritability, very restless and anxious, tendency to weep.

He got one dose of Phosphorus (quantity not stated). Aggravation for the next two days. On the third day he was better, and he continued to improve from day to day, so that in four

weeks he was quite well, and could resume his occupation. He needed no further treatment. (Gaspary, Ann. d. Hom. Klin., III, 428.)

A man, æt. 39, who had hitherto been always weak after mental worry, suffered for a year from jerking, tearing pains in the teeth and cheek of the left side that extended on the forehead into the right temple. Left cheek swollen. The pain is aggravated by taking anything cold in the mouth, by cold air, by drawing in cold air, by cold wet weather; amelioration by warmth. He is always chilly, perspires rarely; has furred tongue; complains of pressure on the chest; has frequent cold in the head, with fetid smell and sneezing, with occasional watery discharge from the Nux. vom. 6 and 200 and Sulph. 30 did little or nothing to relieve the patient. Two doses of Phosphorus 30 on two successive days cured him completely and permanently. (Haustein, Prager Med. Monatschrift, iv, 193.)

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A woman, æt. 74, had suffered for ten years from tearing and shooting pain in the right cheek up into the head. Aggravation from speaking, eating, and swallowing. Tendency to perspiration, weariness, vertigo, so that she could hardly walk without falling. Phosphorus 2, a dose every day, for twelve days, did little good. More good was effected by twenty-eight drops of Phos. 1 in two ounces of water, two teaspoonfuls per diem. A complete cure was effected by from fourteen to eighteen drops of undiluted Tinct. phos. in water. (Allg. Hom. Ztg., xxxiv, p. 328.)

A man, æt. 50, had suffered for several years from faceache, for the cure of which he had all the teeth in his lower jaw drawn without benefit. The symptoms were-violent tearing beginning in the gums of the lower jow, then growing worse and extending over the upper maxilla into the fossa infraorbitalis. The attacks are brought on by speaking, eating, or the slightest touch, and last several hours; at the same time tearing in the top of the head, noise in the ears, feeling of tension in the cheek, as if the mouth could not be properly opened. Four doses of Phos. (strength not mentioned), one every five days, cured him completely. (Schindler, Prakt. Beitr., ii, 5.)

Instances of the remedial power of Phosphorus in

neuralgia of head and face taken from homœopathic literature might be adduced to almost any extent.

only allow us to quote a few more.

Space will

Charles A, æt. 26, a labourer, was admitted 18th January, 1869, with a headache which he has had for five years, the pain shooting from one temple to the other, and at times flying through to the occiput, coming on at irregular intervals, but generally brought on by stooping his head; is worse in front of the head. The paroxysms are preceded by dimness of sight, and accompanied by a feeling of sickness. Not subject to pains in any other part of the body. Food appears to him not to digest properly, and his appetite is very indifferent; does not relish anything. Bowels are irregularly confined and relaxed; relaxation for a day or two, and then constipation for a week. Prescribed Phos., 3rd dec.

January 28th.-Certainly better; headache very slight and wholly confined to the forehead. Bowels have acted regularly, no dimness of sight. Continue.

February 1st.-Once or twice during the week has had a severe headache; but in other respects very much improved. Continue.

17th.-Well in every respect; has not had any headache. Dismissed cured. (Dr. R. Cooper, Monthly Hom. Rev., vol. xiv, p. 272.)

Fanny C, æt. 26, a thin, spare woman, was admitted 11th August, 1869, having suffered six months' intense pain in faceand head. Darting pains in different parts of the face, beginning in uncertain places; worst when exerting herself and when nursing, which she is doing just now. The pains move about every month, and are generally protracted and very severe when they commence at night, as well as when she is eating, at which time the face is very tender; but the tenderness does not continue long after. Gums not sore; but teeth decaying rapidly. Much flatulence and weak feeling on the chest. Bowels regular and tongue clean; urine rather thick. Phos. 30 dec. 25th. Her face has not been so painful, but her chest is extremely weak. The darting pains much relieved in violence, but not yet well. Is never kept awake by them now. Continue.

September 1st. Very much better; has scarcely felt any pain,

and chest is much stronger. A slight aching on right side over liver. Sacch. lact. for a week, then Phos. 30 for a week. Did not make her appearance any more. (Dr. R. Cooper, Month. Hom.

Rev., xiv, 273.)

On the 24th September, 1854, I was called to see Mrs. E. B—, æt. 20; blue eyes, light hair, short stature, thin. When six months pregnant she was taken one day, while getting dinner, with severe pains in her stomach, appearing in paroxysms, continuing in the same form for three days. In a few hours, after leaving the stomach, the same kind of pain appeared in her left temple, extending to the eye, teeth, and side of head. The pains were described like sticking the parts with a knife, and were so severe as to make her wholly beside herself. Severity of the pains seemed to be the great characteristic point in the case. For one year she had been under the care of three physicians at different times-one homœopath and two allopaths-without relief. Remedies given not known. The birth or nursing of her child had no apparent influence in changing the nature of the pains. She had no belief that she could be cured. She got Phos. 30, a dose every six hours. pains entirely. Up to this day (1869) she has never experienced any similar pains. (Am. Jour. Hom. Mat. Med., ii, p. 243.)

The first dose relieved the

These instances will suffice to show that Phosphorus has been recognised and employed as a remedy in neuralgia by adherents of both schools certainly long before Dr. Radcliffe employed in such cases the Sodium hypophosphite. While like most remedies brought into use in the old school practice it was soon forgotten, it has always retained its proper place as a neuralgic remedy in the practice of those who acknowledge the homoeopathic principle as a guide in the treatment of disease. The reason of this is sufficiently obvious. The allopathic sect, disdaining a knowledge of the pathogenetic effects of a drug as a guide for its administration in disease, have no method for determining the exact cases for which it is suitable. They consequently rely on the crudest empiricism. Some accident or caprice has led them to try a drug in a disease. If it succeed they immediately set about administering the same drug in every case