in the nape of the neck; pain in the ears; dryness in the throat and mouth. In the course of an hour she felt as if sand were in her eyes; this feeling was not so perceptible when she shut her eyes. Pressure and nausea in the stomach, relieved by eructations; drawing pains from the nape of the neck down to the loins; paralysis of the arms; head hot; towards evening the symptoms disappeared. Two thin pappy stools.

28th, 8 a.m.-Took 10 drops of the Mother tincture in a glass of water, a dessert spoonful every two hours; after a few minutes the head became stupefied; pressure in the crown of the head; scintillations before the eyes. She feels as if sand were in her eyes; pressure in the nape of the neck; shooting pains in the throat, in the region of the larynx; a little hoarseness, with pain in the breast behind the sternum, especially perceptible on holding in the breadth; nausea, relieved by eructations; dryness in the throat and tongue; oppression in the front part of the stomach; three thin pappy stools. On the second day the Chelidonium was administered as before, followed by similar symptoms. The oppression of the stomach is stronger, for which reason she took nothing on the following day for fear it might do her harm. On the third day no symptoms remained; sleep and appetite both good.

December 3rd.-Took 5 drops in water, exhibited by degrees in the course of the day; towards evening oppressive headache.

4th.-Took 10 drops of the Mother tincture, given in the same manner. Severe headache on rising from bed, which was alleviated after breakfast. An hour and a half afterwards the cerebral oppression returned; heat in the head'; shootings in the ears; unpleasant burning in the throat; vertigo; nausea. Towards evening, oppressive headache; scintillations before the eyes.

5th.-Took 15 drops in the same manner. She had no leisure to watch the symptoms thoroughly, but the following were strongly felt; pain in the right knee; cold feet; drawings in the loins; shootings in the ears; pains in the teeth.

6th.-Took 20 drops in the same manner.

After the first dose, early in the morning, stupid feeling; heaviness in the nape of the neck; frequent diarrhoea; burning in the throat; great thirst; good sleep at night. On awakening, general and increased warmth, with profuse perspiration; dryness in the nose; weight over the eyelids; red pimples on the chin; head stupefied; drawing in the loins; pain in the stomach, with eructations; noises in the ears, and scintillations in the eyes.

7th.-Took

7th. Took 25 drops in the same manner. Drawing pains in the teeth; pain in the os sacrum and abdomen, with frequent urgent desire to make water; smell of urine pungent and acid; shootings in the ears; burning pain in the larynx; cough, with some expectoration of mucus; nose stuffed; contractions in the calves of the legs; pain in the right knee; headache; pressure and scintillations of the eyes; loose motions three times; pressure in the nape of the neck. On awaking in the morning, rigor, with cold feet; point of the nose swollen and red; painful pressure on the bladder. 8th. The medicine is discontinued; the symptoms are as on the preceding day, but weaker.

9th. Few symptoms observable; constantly increasing appetite.

10.-EXPERIMENT ON INNKEEPER K.

Innkeeper K—, 40 years old, never ill before; drinks no fermented liquor, as it disagrees with him; light hair, slender figure, sanguine temperament.

His daily notes are stated to have been lost; consequently no reliance can be placed on the report of symptoms which he has drawn up. I will, therefore, merely relate the symptoms which he specified at certain visits I paid him during the proving, and which I myself observed. (From the 4th May the daily record is continued.)

December 7th.-Took 5 drops. Five minutes after taking the dose his bowels were moved, which operation has habitually taken place at 9 o'clock or later. Three or four hours afterwards, pricking and burning in the left side of

the breast, extending upwards to the back, and awakening him from sleep on the following night. Some days later, after he had increased the dose to 12 drops, he felt great weariness in all his limbs, sleeplessness, ill-humour at every trifle, irritability, and peevishness. Having made a journey, he recommenced the experiments with a daily dose of 12 drops, consequent on which an eruption broke out on the alæ nasi, with red pimples here and there, yellowness of the complexion, of the face, and of the neck and breast, which symptoms continued for upwards of eight days. The white of the eyes also became of a dirty yellow, and the edges of the eyes were much inflamed (I myself observed these external symptoms when paying him a visit for the purpose of directing the experiment). These symptoms continued more than eight days.

Subsequently he increased the dose to 20 drops, and observed that this was followed by bright specks before the eyes, a transient dimness of vision, so that in reading every thing was dark before him; pains in making water, and afterwards pain in the urethra, and a drawing in the left testicle. This last symptom induced him to suspend the experiment, as he had formerly suffered from hydrocele on the left side, brought on by contusion, and then experienced the same sensations as now, which made him apprehensive of a return of the complaint should he continue the doses. After leaving off the drug, all the symptoms speedily disappeared.

May 4th, 7 p.m.-Took 15 drops. Since the last experiment I have not observed any symptoms about me. Three minutes after taking the dose, a thin stool; gripings in my abdomen; up to 11 p.m., four thin, yellow, slimy stools, with some discharge of blood at last.

5th, 7 a.m.-Took 15 drops. Fifteen minutes afterwards. pains in the loins, and a drawing in all my body, which continued for three hours, and gradually became easier towards mid-day. In the forenoon three thick, pappy stools. At halfpast 11 a drawing in the left testicle, accompanied with pain. Temper peevish and morose.

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12 a.m.-Took 15 drops. At dinner I ate lentils with sour sauce, and felt no symptoms in the afternoon, except a remarkably quarrelsome temper.

8 p.m.-Took 20 drops. At 9 a pappy stool; afterwards griping pain in the abdomen, which extended to the loins and chest, but subsequently disappeared after the discharge of fetid flatus; quiet sleep.

6th. Nothing taken; no symptom.

7th, 8 a.m.-Took 15 drops. After an hour the usual stool, mixed with a little blood. After two hours nausea, with inclination to vomit.

12 a.m.-Took 20 drops. Immediately after the dose, heat in the face and burning in the loins, continuing for two hours. Motion of the bowels natural; nausea.

8 p.m.-Took 20 drops. Severe nausea immediately after the dose. After the space of an hour a little vomiting of tenacious mucus.

From the 8th to the 15th I took no dose, as I was much out of sorts, and constantly trying to quarrel with my neighbours.

15th, 6 a.m.-Took 20 drops. Heat in the face followed immediately after the dose, and continued for five hours.

1 p.m.-Took 25 drops.-Stool followed immediately; repeated three times within an hour; watery. In the afternoon large pustules on the forehead; at the same time I observed a yellowness about my face, the whites of my eyes, and my hands. hands. Scintillations before my eyes, which rendered my vision uncertain. I took no dose in the evening, as I was afraid of an attack of weak eyes.

(To be continued.)

HYGIENIC RECREATION FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED.

"THE physician's high and only mission is to restore the sick to health-to 'cure,' as it is termed."

Thus Hahnemann, with the "only" emphasised in italics. But here we respectfully join issue with our great master, and, mindful of the popular saying, "prevention is better than cure," we suggest that the physician should be a diseasepreventer as well as a disease-curer.

To be sure, Hahnemann, in § 4 of the Organon, admits that the physician is a health-preserver also, but only in as far as he removes from his fellow-creatures things that might derange health and cause disease. Such a definition of his duties, however, is too meager to constitute him a preventer of disease in the widest sense of the word. His functions as a health-preserver would thereby seem to be merely of a negative character. He would keep his clients from doing things that might harm them and so in a measure ward off disease. He would make the possible patient change his wet clothes for dry ones, instruct him not to sit in a draught, beg him to see that his drains were in good order, his mutton neither over- nor underdone, and a hundred other things of the sort. But he should be able also to give such advice as will not only preserve those under his care from immediate disease, but keep their health up to the highest point circumstances will admit of.

There are various degrees of health. Without having any actual disease, any pain, ache, or disorder, a man may still be very far from that high health when he feels life a pleasure and the mere fact of living an enjoyment. In this condition his muscles are firm and his nerves calm, his blood flows cheerily through its channels; his spirits are exuberant, and his mind clear and fresh. And yet a man may be the opposite of all this without being positively ill. He is languid, listless, and flabby, dull of mind and irritable of nerve; everything is a trouble to him, and he is oppressed with ennui. Still he has no disease, he needs no medicine, physic would only make