between their component elements; some interesting remarks on Hahnemann's teaching and practice with regard to this are contained in the preface. With the reservations, therefore, already made as to material, we commend this volume of Materia Medica from the hand of our veteran worker to the best consideration of our readers. It can hardly fail to enhance their power of applying the remedies it treats of to the relief and cure of disease. The Hahnemann Materia Medica. Part III, containing Belladonna, by Dr. R. Hughes. Published for the Hahnemann Publishing Society, by H. Turner and Co. WE are obviously precluded from doing more than announcing the publication of this third portion and fifth medicine of the Hahnemann Materia Medica. L'Homœopathie prouvée par ses adversaires. Par Dr. FLASSCHOEN. Baillière. THIS excellent brochure, by one of our Belgian confrères, well shows how numerous are the testimonies, conscious or unconscious, to the truth of our principle and the worth of our method occurring in the writings of those who oppose us. On the Universality of the Homœopathic Law of Cure. By CHARLES NEIDHARD, M.D., &c. 2nd Edit. Boericke and Tafel, New York. 1874. THIS essay was delivered as a preliminary discourse to the students of the Homœopathic College of Pennsylvania in 1872. It is all very well to attempt to show the universality of the homœopathic law of cure in the proper domain of medicine, and a great deal may be said in favour of the idea that every curative method, whether specific, revulsive, counter-irritant, alterative, or by whatever name it may be called, is really an example of application, more or less exact, of the principle "similia simlibus curantur." Of course it is a task beyond human ingenuity to prove that all the depleting practices of the old school come under the homœopathic law, but then these disastrous methods of a dying faith" are in almost all cases the exact reverse of "curative." 66 We think, however, it is rather an example of perverted ingenuity to attempt to trace the working of the homœopathic law in the departments of morals, politics, education, agriculture, chemistry, and physics. Of course, far-fetched analogies may be found everywhere and even among the most unlike things, but the discovery of such analogies belongs more to the art of the poet than to that of the physician, and we do not believe that any one was ever really converted to doctrines in one department of philosophy, science, art, or religion, by the most ingenious analogies drawn from other departments. So that, with all respect for Dr. Neidhard, we fancy his ingenuity in this essay is rather misplaced, and we must express our decided preference for his contributions to practical medicine, of which he has furnished us with many brilliant specimens. Journals of the Quarter. Ir is our intention for the future to give, in every number, a brief account of the contents of the homœopathic journals for the previous quarter. We receive these from France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, and America. Few British homœopaths see more than one or two, if any, of them. Yet it cannot be but that they contain many an item of interest, many an article of importance to us also in this country. Our résumé will keep our readers au courant with all that is going on abroad, and will pro bably in many cases whet their appetite for some of the material whose presence is indicated. As the various journals are sent to us rather irregularly, we can observe no fixed order, but must note them as they come. AMERICA. New England Medical Gazette.-This monthly journal, published at Boston, is under the editorship of Dr. C. F. Nicholls, assisted by the Faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine.* The number for March, 1874, is the third of its ninth (annual) volume. It has nothing calling for special notice. But in the April number there is an account of the opening of a very important institution, viz. "The State Homœopathic Asylum for the Insane," at Middletown, New York. "This institution," it is stated, "was originated in 1869, through the exertions of George F. Foote, M.D., and certain public-spirited citizens, both in Orange County and in other sections of the State, who were desirous of applying the principles of the Hahnemannian school of medicine to the cure and relief of the insane. In April, 1870, it became a duly incorporated State institution, and a site was chosen for it upon a farm of 250 acres, located about a mile to the westward of the village of Middletown, Orange County, New York, a spot which commends its selection by the beauty of the views which it commands, its excellent and healthful surroundings, its admirable facilities for drainage, supply of water, and ease of access." In the Orange County Press of April 24th we have a picture of this asylum, which is an imposing edifice, consisting of a main building containing the domestic and administrative offices, and four wings or pavilions, which are reserved exclusively for patients. The main building, in which seventy-five or eighty patients can be received, was to be opened on May 7th, and the first of the pavilions, to hold 300 male patients, is expected to be ready by the winter. The medical superintendent is a Dr. Stiles, *This is a new College, instituted but a year ago. and his assistant a Dr. Buller, both of whom are well spoken of. This is a very important enterprise, and we shall look with great interest to the reports of the medical officers to learn what homoeopathy can do on a large scale for the insane, and how she does it. The May number commences, with Millefolium, a series of translations of those monographs on medicines contained in Hering's Amerikanische Arzneiprufungen, which have not yet been rendered into English. To these Dr. Hering supplies corrections and additions, bringing down our knowledge of them to the present time. These articles alone render the journal worth possessing. Hahnemannian Monthly.-This journal also is in its ninth year, and the number for March is the eighth of the current volume. It is published at Philadelphia, under the editorship of Dr. McClatchey. Each number of late has had a sheet of appendix, consisting of a treatise on Diseases of the Skin, by Dr. Lilienthal. It is only a compilation, but is very completely done, and may often repay consultation. The March and April numbers contain nothing of special moment. The May number begins with a translation of the article on Argentum nitricum in Dadea's Compendio di Materia Medica Pura et Terapeutica, now publishing. It is executed by Dr. Carroll Dunham, who in the December and January numbers had given an account of this important work. Dr. Dadea seems to be doing his work in the most thorough manner, consulting every source of information on each drug, and indicating these in the proper place as "references for more accurate study." His symptom-list however, is a selection like Jahr's, not a complete collection. His work therefore, if translated into English, will in no way vie with Dr. Allen's undertaking. It may well be so rendered for our advantage; and in the mean time cannot but be of the utmost benefit to the disciples of Hahnemann in Italy. There is an interesting paper in this number by Dr. E. M M M. Hale, entitled "Poisoning by Coffee," which is worth extracting. "It will perhaps be remembered that several years ago I published some accounts of a peculiar characteristic symptom of Coffea, which had not been recorded as pathogenetic, namely: 'Terrible toothache relieved only by cold water held in the mouth -aggravated by everything else.' "I have frequently verified this symptom in practice, and so have many of my colleagues. I now have the pleasure of recording a case of poisoning by Coffea, where this symptom was the most severe and persistent of all its effects. "Mr. W-, a young lawyer, wishing to perform an important mental labour in writing, drank one cup of intensely strong coffee without milk or sugar, about 8 p.m. After writing several hours, he was seized with such an intense pain in the teeth of the right lower jaw (not decayed) that it drove him nearly crazy. He came to my office after midnight to get some relief. He had already observed that no application relieved the pain but cold water. So soon as the water became warmed in the mouth the pain returned. "Not knowing that he had taken a poisonous quantity of coffee, I gave him Coffea 3; but to my surprise he came back in the morning, reporting no relief. I then gave Coffea 30, but no relief came in six hours. Then he told me about his coffee poisoning. Electricity was tried and gave relief for several hours after the first application; but subsequent applications were of no benefit. He then tried a variety of nostrums for several days, but none gave more than temporary alleviation. I gave him Nux vom. and Cham. to antidote the coffee, and Pulsat. for 'relieved by cold drinks' (see Hull's Jahr), but no benefit accrued. The odontalgia gradually wore away in a week, leaving him so nervous and shattered that he was fully convinced that coffee was really a potent poison. "We have now the necessary evidence corroborative of the power of coffee to cause and cure this kind of odontalgia. From а "special notice" as to the twenty-seventh session of the American Institute of Homœopathy, to be held at Niagara Falls, on June 9th, we gather that many important subjects are to be discussed. In the Materia |