saturated the globules with the tincture and ordered four gl. four times the day for a week.--Am. Hom. Observer, Feb. 1865.

R. S.

Case of Fhthisis Pulmonalis.*

By W. A. HAWLEY, M.D., SYRACUSE, N.Y.

I suppose every man who has undertaken to practise the art of healing feels at times a want of satisfaction in the use of remedies, and a sense of uncertainty as to the curative action of drugs, such as to lead him sometimes, perhaps often, into a condition of scepticism in regard to medicine which makes his daily labour a weariness to the flesh. Sometimes, however, he is permitted to witness such brilliant and indubitable effects that he gets courage and strength on which he labours for many a common day. And not only does he find encouragement from such cases in his own experience, but it is an aid to his hope and a stimulus to his industry to get authentic reports of such cases in the experience of others. It is this consideration which leads me to give you today a report of such a case from the records of my own practice.

On May 5th, 1861, I was called to see E. S-, a little girl of some nine or ten summers. An examination resulted in the following notes.

Great irritation, with excessive paleness and dinginess of the the skin; dry hacking cough; dulness on percussion, quite marked over upper part of right lung, complete over the base and slight over upper lobe of left lung. Bronchial respiration in upper part of both lungs very marked in the right, with perfect silence at the base. Respiration hurried and performed entirely by the chest muscles; hectic chill every day followed by considerable fever; most profuse sweat on sleeping, day or night; listlessness with no disposition to play like other children; tongue clean and pale; appetite variable; desire for acids; bowels regular; urine scanty and high-coloured with whitish mucous sediment on standing; pulse 124 and very small; nails hooked; the fingers looking as if terminating in balls, very marked. A symptom,

* Read before the Homœopathic Medical Society of Oneida County, N. Y., June 21st, 1864.

by the way, which is always regarded as certainly diagnostic of confirmed phthisis, and which I never before saw cured.

After a considerable study of the case I prescribed Ars. 6 and Phos. 6 in alternation once in two or three hours. The next day the sixth, continued the same. Visiting her again on the seventh and finding no improvement, I gave her Sulph. 30 once in six hours for two days, followed, on the ninth, by China 6 once in two hours for two more days, when the Sulph. 30 was resumed and continued till the fourteenth, when, still getting no positive mitigation of the symptoms and feeling that the indications were, if possible, to control the excessive prostration and sweating, I went back to Ars. 6 once in two hours. This was continued, with a relief from the chills and perhaps a little mitigation of sweating, up to the twentieth, still there was no such improvement as to give me any encouragement, and, with a feeling that the case was almost if not utterly hopeless I carefully restudied it, and concluded to give her a single dose of Sulphur 150, followed by Sac. lact. once in two hours and await the result. In a very few days I had the satisfaction of seeing a most marked improvement. The sweats ceased, the lungs began to be cleared out, and all the symptoms were so much improved that on the twenty-eighth she walked to my office, a distance of at least half a mile, and back. Continued the Sac. lact. till June 1st, when, the improvement seeming to have ceased, she got another dose of Sulph. 150 with Sac. lact. till the sixth, when, complaining of some return of the chills, she had a single dose of Ars. 200, which was repeated on the eleventh and was the last medicine she had. About July 1st she was discharged cured. Her cough gone, her respiration perfect, flesh restored, fingers tapered off nicely, nails straightened, and she is playful as other children of her age. I have frequently seen her since, and to-day she is as healthy looking as any child you may meet.

This case seems to me to illustrate beautifully the wisdom of allowing remedies to exhaust their action before repetition in such chronic cases, as well as to demonstrate the efficacy of high attenuations, even when the lower have failed. It is to such cases as this that one can always look back in hours of despondency and doubt, and find encouragement for renewed application and labour. If it shall give like encouragement to any others, the object of this writing will have been fully accomplished.-Am. Hom. Rev., Sep., 1864.

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OBITUARY.

DEATH has removed from among us several distinguished homœopathic practitioners whose loss will be deeply felt and difficult to supply.

DR. C. SYDNEY HANSON died at Brighton on the 25th November, 1864. He was a man of gentlemanly address, and in the early days of homœopathy in England, he did much to spread a knowledge of Hahnemann's system among the aristocratic visitors at Melton Mowbray. He afterwards practised at Leicester and some other places, and was for a short time in London. His health latterly was very bad, and he had to spend some years abroad on account of it. He held peculiar views as to the selfdestructive character of homoeopathic practice; he used to affirm that the success of homœopathy was so great, that though a practitioner might gain a good clientèle in a provincial town, he soon cured all the existing chronic and acute diseases, and was so successful in checking new diseases that his practice gradually dwindled down to insignificance, and if the supply of new patients were not inexhaustible, as in a metropolis like London, he would soon have to leave the place for lack of patients. These views he used to defend with considerable ability and to illustrate practically by his own experience.

DR. JOHN OZANNE, the amiable and talented representative of homœopathy in Guernsey, died at his residence there on the 13th of December, 1864. His appointment, by Colonel Slade, governor of the island, and an ardent homœopathist, to the post of Staffsurgeon to the Militia excited the violent opposition of the allopathic practitioners of the island, and especially of the other militia surgeons, who threatened resignation in a body and all sorts of evils, unless the obnoxious homoeopath were removed. The mode in which our late colleague was assailed and the gallant way in which he withstood the assaults of his furious colleagues excited the contempt of all right-minded people for his assailants and their admiration for the amiable and accomplished defender of homoeopathy. Dr. Ozanne was a skilful practitioner, an eloquent and facile writer, and an ardent partizan of the homeopathic

school. The frequent papers he contributed to our pages bear testimony to these qualities. He was the original editor of our contemporary the Monthly Homœopathic Review, and when he ceased his connection with that periodical we were anxious to enlist his services as editor of this journal on the resignation of Dr. Russell, but he had other views, and he shortly appeared as editor of the Medical Observer to which he contributed many valuable statistical papers. Dr. Ozanne was a thorough gentleman, an attentive and careful practitioner, an excellent observer, and beloved by his patients and friends. His influence on homœopathy extended far beyond the narrow limits of the Channel Islands, where he practised most successfully for twenty years. He was 48 years old at the time of his death.

DR. ROBERT MACLIMONT, whose paper on cancer (in conjunction with Dr. Marston) so recently appeared in our pages, died on the 8th of February last, at the early age of 42, at Bath, of scarlet fever, caught from a patient. He was a native of Glasgow, where he spent his early years and received his preliminary education. When still young he proved to be exceedingly delicate, and, on account of threatened pulmonary disease, had to leave his native town for a more genial climate. The state of his health for many years kept him much abroad, chiefly in Madeira and the Mediterranean. When his health allowed he pursued his medical studies at Quebec, and took his degree at New York in 1852. He adopted the homeopathic method in 1855, and practised in London, Guernsey, Mentone, and lastly in Bath, where he soon got into extensive practice. The papers he contributed to our pages, “On Climate in reference to Pulmonary Consumption," and the one on cancer just alluded to, though not adding much to homeopathic practice, show that he was a careful and diligent observer, and a judicious and skilful practitioner. We understand that he was much beloved by his patients and he has left many sincere friends to mourn his loss.

DR. G. CALVERT HOLLAND, of Sheffield, is the last of our long list of deaths. A ready writer, Dr. Holland was the author of many medical works, some of them bearing on homœopathy; and his fluent tongue was often heard at meetings assembled to do honour to the founder of homœopathy, or to advance the know

ledge and practice of his system. His philosophical and logica mind at once perceived the truth of Hahnemann's doctrines as soon as he set about inquiring into them, and had health and life been accorded to him, our school would undoubtedly have owed much to his talents seconded as they were by the untiring energy of his spirit. He occupied a conspicuous place in the Town Council of his native town, and the esteem in which he was held by his fellow-townsmen was shown by the attendance at his funeral, on the 14th ultimo, by almost all the inhabitants of Sheffield from the mayor, who was one of his pall-bearers, downwards.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

The Homœopathic Theory and Practice of Medicine, by DRS. E. E. MARCY and F. W. HUNT. New York, 1865. Radde.

Military, Medical, and Surgical Essays, Prepared for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Edited by DR. W. A. HAMMOND. Philadelphia, 1864. Lippincott and Co.

Narrative of the Privations and Sufferings of U.S. Officers and Soldiers when Prisoners of War. King and Baird, Philadelphia. Medical Investigator. No. 5, for February. 1865. Chicago. Letters on Homœopathy-for and against. Montreal, 1864. The Indian Daily News. No. for 11th Jan., 1865.

Inhalation the most Natural Treatment for Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, by C. T. SCHMID, M.D., and C. MILNER, M.D. 1865.

New and Comprehensive System of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, by C. J. HEMPEL, M.D. Second Edition, New York, Radde, 1865.

The Monthly Homeopathic Review.

The Homœopathic Observer.

L'Art Médical.

Bulletin de la Société Homœopathique de France.

El Criterio Medico.

Neue Zeitschrift für Hom. Klinik.

The North American Journal of Homœopathy.

The American Homœopathic Observer.

Drs. Marston and Mac Limont's (New) Treatment of Cancer Explained by JOHN PATTISON, M.D. London.

LONDON: J. E. ADLARD, PRINTER, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.