strangury. No one but a Homœopath would think of administering this drug in the inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea; but it is a valuable agent in the cure of chronic gleet. In the case of E. N., therefore, I was prepared for the nature of the action of the iodide; but was very much surprised at the violence of that action, and the rapidity with which the symptoms were produced. I can only account for it on the supposition that, although some parts of the membrane might be suffering from defective nutrition, other parts were already in a high state of irritation. If this, therefore, was the case, it is not more astonishing that the iodide of potassium should produce an immediate effect on the Schneiderian membrane than that small doses of strychnine should produce an almost immediate and marked effect in an inflammatory condition of the spinal cord.

I am, Sir,
Yours, &c.

JAMES ROSS, M.D.

To the Editor of the Lancet, August 19th, 1865.

SIR, I do not remember seeing in the correspondence on this subject, an effect mentioned, that I have observed in two

cases.

One was the case of a wife of a medical man, who suffered from rheumatic gout. On the second or third day of her taking the iodide, spots of purpura appeared on both legs, disappearing when the iodide was omitted, and appearing again when its administration was renewed. This effect was produced several times; for her husband and I were both interested in discovering the cause, and which we had no difficulty in doing.

The second case was a young woman, who had also been the subject of rheumatism. In her the purpura-like spots appeared and reappeared on the chest, and no where else, on the iodide being given, omitted, and given again.

I am, Sir,

Your's obediently,

J. BRANDON CURGENVEN, M.R.C.S.

SIR,-Several letters having appeared lately in your valuable journal detailing the various effects which the iodide of potassium has produced, I venture to send you the following:

J. M—, a stout, healthy-looking man, æt. 41, was admitted as a patient in the Notting-hill Dispensary, under my care, suffering from rheumatic pains. I ordered him two grains of iodide of potassium with infusion of quassia, three times a day. In the evening of the day he was first admitted, I received a message to see him immediately. Upon my arrival, I found him suffering from most profuse salivation, although he had only taken one dose of the mixture. I ordered him to discontinue his medicine, and the next day I found him completely recovered, but still complaining a little of tenderness of the mouth, &c.

I remain, Sir,

Yours, &c.,

JOSEPH SMITH, M.R.C.S.

Resident Medical Officer, Notting Hill Dispensary.

Pumpkin Seed for expulsion of Tape-Worm.
By S. D. JONES, M.D.

Last March a gentleman called on me for advice, in reference to the presence of a tape-worm, which had been troubling him for twenty years. He had tried almost all means recommended, and all physicians who had offered him encouragement. At various times had obtained portions of the worm, but never secured the head. Turpentine taken in large doses, followed by an active cathartic, had several times expelled portions of the worm, and at one time brought away five feet in one piece. The patient was forty-five years old, a weaver by trade. I recommended him to try the Pumpkin seed. He stated that he had used it, but without preparation by fasting before taking the remedy. I directed him to abstain from all food excepting canned peaches and crackers very sparingly for one week. Twenty-four hours before taking the remedy to abstain from food entirely. · The mode of preparing and taking the remedy was after his own notion.

He obtained one and a half ounces of the hulled pitts,

pulverized them of a dry powder.

very

fine and took it all at one dose in the form Five hours after taking the above remedy he

took the following compound (which he prepared himself.) One and a half ounce castor oil, one ounce turpentine; one tablespoonful of salt and the yolk of one egg.

In one hour this produced a copious discharge from the bowels, and with it the worm seven feet in length. The head was plain and distinctly to be seen. The worm was dead when expelled. The man has ever since enjoyed most excellent health.—Am. Hom. Observer, Jan. 1865.

An Example of Allopathic Liberality.

Hirschel tells us in a recent Number of his Zeitschrift that the homoeopathists in Dresden were invited by their allopathic colleagues to assist in the formation of a local medical society. The followers of Hahnemann cordially accepted the invitation, and one of their number, Dr. Elb, was chosen to aid in the compilation of the rules of the proposed society. Further, during the assemblage this year of the German Singing Association, when a staff of medical men were appointed to supply the members with medical aid, the allopathists expressly desired the co-operation of one of their homeopathic brethren, and Dr. Hirschel was nominated to the post. When shall we see similar liberality among our allopathic brethren in this country?

OBITUARY.

Dr. Paolo Brentano of Milan.

It is but a short time since we congratulated our Italian colleagues on having among them such a promising defender of the faith in the learned and scientific homoeopathist whose sudden death on the 30th of last June we have now to deplore. Short as is the time we have known Dr. P. Brentano, by his writings and correspondence we had learned to estimate very highly his talents and his earnestness. His monograph on Cantharides, and his volume on Homœopathy in Italy, intended to be the first, and

fated to be the last, of an annual series, gave him a high place among homoeopathic authors. Cut off in the midst of an active and useful career he has left a name which will be long remembered with gratitude by the adherents of homeopathy generally, and especially by those of his own sunny fatherland; where, as a rule, homœopathic practitioners, though enjoying the confidence of a large number of patients, have contributed less than their share to the scientific development of homoeopathy, and a learned and zealous partizan like Dr. Brentano could ill be spared. We learn from the Criterio Medico that the subject of this memoir succeeded in carrying off the prize offered by the Hahnemann Society of Madrid, by a paper entitled, Essay on True and False Croup and Diptheric Angina, their Differential Characters and Homœopathic Treatment. The speedy publication of this his last work is promised and we shall look forward with interest to its perusal.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Plain Directions for the Treatment of Cholera, &c. By Wм. BAYES, M.D. (Hom.). London: Turner, 1865.

The Cattle Plague, with Suggestions for its Treatment by Homoeopathy. By JAMES MOORE, M.R.C.V.S. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1856.

Treue Bilder aus dem Leben der verewigten FRAU HOFRATH JOHANNE HENRIETTE LEOPOLDINE HAHNEMANN, geb. KücHLER. Berlin Reichardt, 1865.

:

The Monthly Homœopathic Review.

The Homeopathic 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 Review.

The American Homœopathic Observer.
The Western Homœopathic Observer.

The Chicago Medical Investigator.

INDEX TO VOL. XXIII.