ulcers of the leg, etc. I have had some experience with Calcarea Sul., and can say it is reliable.

Sixth.-Calcarea Phos., or Phosphate of Lime: This is decidedly a bone remedy. This salt has an affinity for, and works in, Albumen, carrying it to all parts of the body wherever needed, and especially to weld and build bony structure. When a deficiency in this salt exists for any length of time, then rickets, chlorosis, hydrocephalus, tabes, stunted growth, ulceration of bone, tuberculosis, emaciation, deferred dentition, softening of bones, etc. In a case of deferred dentition: child, 9 months; had not cut any teeth; large head, sunken fontanels; had spasms occasionally for three months; skin pale, veins not prominent, but showing very blue; gums about normal-Calcarea Phos. cured this child in a few days. Two lower incisors appeared in a week, spasms disappeared, and has not been sick since.

Seventh.-Kali Mur., or Chloride of Potassium: This remedy stands in relation and works in fibrin disturbances of the molecular movements of this salt; causes fibrinous exudation, white or gray coating on tongue, tonsils, and mucous linings; white phlegm or slime from any mucous membrane. The same material causes soft, glandular swellings with white exudation. It is, It is, therefore, indicated in croup, diphtheria, pneumonia, catarrh, coughs, dysentery, acute and sub-acute gonorrhea, fibrinous infiltration, and mucous discharge from any part of the body. I have used Kali Mur. quite extensively this spring in the treatment of whooping cough, with most excellent results. One case especially that I did not see, but was appealed to as a last resort. I sent the child a small vial of Kali Mur. Improvement was marked and rapid, and the child was well in two weeks.

Eighth.-Kali Phos., or Potassium Phosphate: Is a constituent of the brain, nerves, muscles, and of the blood corpuscles. Disturbance of the molecules of this salt produces brain-fag, softening of the brain; in the nerves, laming pains, mostly during rest, and feelings of physical depression; in the muscles and muscle plasma, fatty degeneration and putrid decomposition; and in the blood corpuscles, rapid disintegration. Potassium Phos. unites. with albumen, and, by the help of oxygen, creates nerve fluid or

gray matter of the brain. It seems to have the power by its own law of affinity to manufacture the elixir of life. It has been said, if Kali Phos. was properly understood and used, that our asylums would be depopulated by half. Hence, it is the chief remedy in restoring mental disorders, brain-fag from over-work, low spirits, hysteria, hypochondriasis, neuralgia, laming, hard pains of nerves and brain, septic conditions of stomach and bowels, putrid diarrhea, bloody dysentery, septic hemorrhages, etc. I have had some fine results in hysteria, brain-fag, duodenal catarrh, and septic conditions of bowels. I believe it one of the most important of the cell salts.

Ninth.-Kali Sulph., or Sulphate of Potassium: The function of this salt is very largely upon epidermis and epithelium, and to the last stages of inflammation, retrograde metamorphosis, desquamation, etc., and of yellow mucous discharge; in fact, yellow discharge, yellow coat of tongue, yellow skin, catarrh, leucorrhea, eruptive diseases, eczema, epithelial cancer, and all diseases that desquamate, yellowness is the chief characteristic symptom. My experience with Kali Sulph. has not been great, but enough to satisfy me of the part it plays in the economy.

Tenth. Natrum Phosphoricum, or Phosphate of Soda: Is very necessary in the molecular motion of these cells. It decomposes Lactic into Carbonic Acid and water. It fixes Carbonic Acid and carries it to the lungs; and it is therefore necessary in all disorders caused by an excess of Lactic Acid. A lack of the proper balance of this salt in gastric juices causes fermentation, and so retards digestion that an inspissation of bile occurs and bilious disorders follow. Nat. Phos. is the great eliminator and decarbonizer of the liver and lungs. It therefore prevents acidity, jaundice, hepatic colic, bilious headaches, and imperfect digestion and assimilation of fats from lack of bile. It cures sour belching, sour vomiting and vomiting of bile, sour-smelling diarrhea, thick, yellow moist coat on tongue, intestinal worms and gastric derangments, with flatulence, heartburn, acidity, and indigestion. Anything sour about the body calls for Nat. Phos.

Eleventh. Natrum Sulph., or Sulphate of Sodium: The principal office of this salt is to regulate the water in the tissues, blood and fluids of the body. Soda Phos. decomposes Lactic Acid and

leaves a residue of water to be gotten rid of. Soda Sul. does this work if present in proper quantities. One molecule of Soda Sulph. can carry out two molecules of water. All diseases due to an excess of water from retrograde metamorphosis, as bilious vomiting, jaundice, dropsy in any form, but especially from disease of the liver and following scarlatina, ague with vomiting of bile, diabetes from liver, dark-green stool, dirty-greenish or gray coat of tongue, yellow or greenish hue of skin, and sclerotic bile in the stool, urine or sputa. In short, Nat. Sul. is the liver remedy. I have seen very marked results all along its line of action.

Twelfth.-Natrum Muriaticum, or Muriate of Soda: Common Salt is a constituent of all the fluids and solids of the body, and any disturbance of the molecules of this salt produces at once a disturbance of the water in the human organism, because it has lost the element that gives it power to perform its work. Hence, whenever we find a hypersecretion of the watery elements of the body, and at the same time a want of activity in the mucous membrane of some portion, we want to give Natrum Mur. It cures catarrhs of all mucous surfaces with transparent watery secretions. It cures headache, toothache, faceache, stomach ache, where there is hypersecretion of tears, vomiting of mucous, watery diarrhea, slimy, glossy stools, water brash, water blisters in skin affections, slimy tongue, watery or starchy leucorrhea. I have found it to cure chills where the ordinary remedies had failed, especially when the chill was followed by profuse sweating.

In the foregoing I have only aimed at the essential features and properties of each salt, and have tried to give each one notice singly and alone. In my use of the remedies I have often alternated where there seemed to be more than one salt indicated. None of the salts are opposed to each other. If a salt is given that is not needed it does no harm, because it is not needed, as there are plenty of workers of that kind in the blood and tissues, and is simply rejected, as a mechanic would be rejected who was not needed. A careful and thorough study of Biochemistry is pleasing, and one will soon get such an insight into the subject. that he will thirst for more and more.

I will close with one illustration of a cure with these salts that

has paid me over and over again for all the study and outlay I have made of the tissue remedies:

Mr. B., aged 63, weight 210 lbs. ; was taken with a chill about March 1, 1897; was treated by his family physician for five weeks; chilling about three days out of every week; passed large quantities of urine containing a heavy deposit of sugar; diagnosis, diabetes mellitus. I was called April 16th; found patient bathed in a profuse perspiration; yellow and sour; temp. 102; had had a chill two hours previous; tongue very dry and elongated, and red, with thick, yellow coat on base; tenderness over liver, stomach, and bowels; distressing thirst; no desire for food, but water, water all the time; pain in right shoulder and side so that he could not turn in bed; voided large quantities of dark, heavy urine, containing considerable sugar; weight about 125 lbs. I made no encouraging promises, but took the case in hand. In fact, I thought it a forlorn hope. I prescribed for the liver, and to regulate the water in tissues and blood, Nat. Sul.; and for the fever and rheumatism, Ferr. Phos.-1 gr. every alternate hour. I visited patient on the third day again. Temp. 101; urine less in quantity and much clearer; not so much thirst; chills continued; patient felt perhaps a little stronger, but very tired and despondent. I discontinued Ferr. Phos., and added Kali Phos. and Nat. Mur.— I gr. each every third hour. At my next visit patient felt like a new man; chills had ceased; tongue moist; sweating gone; thirst not half so much; wanted to eat; temp. 991; urine voided about half the usual quantity; patient cheerful, and said he felt like getting well. I continued my visits until May 18th, since which time I have not seen him. He has paid his bill and is able to go about his farm. He is, however, still taking some of the salts, but the cure will evidently be complete.

WHAT IS REGULAR PRACTICE OF MEDICINE?*

BY WM. F. TURNER, M.D., ST. LOUIS, MO.

Ladies and Gentlemen-This is not a new question, neither is it one which has been answered satisfactorily by any nor to any, save the Allopaths, who claim it as their individual distinguishing title.

*Read before the Eclectic Medical Society of Missouri.

Why they do so is a mystery to all, even unto themselves, unless they lay claim to it on the grounds of priority; not priority to the name, but priority to the practice of medicine. If this be the case, then they have a perfect right to it, because they usurped it from the Chinese, who had physicians and medicine before the Caucasian race was known.

They did not have a right to it because of this swindle in the eyes of the law, nor in the eyes of the people; but they did have in the eyes of the Allopaths, and what more could they ask than their own satisfaction?

Medicine was practiced in the time of Christ by regulars, as evidenced by history, which describes the treatment for a fever patient as follows: "Prohibit the use of water in any manner, and give the gall of the wild sow dissolved in vinegar, or the ashes of a wolf's skull mingled with the fat of a viper. The powdered stone from the head of a sea eel, caught at the time of the full moon, has been known to be efficacious, but is superior when mixed with a portion of the leg of a scorpion." This, at that time was regular practice of medicine.

Later history tells of a plague, and the official dispensatory of that time directs as a diagnosis of it that, "If you fear you have taken the plague, make your water presently, and taste if it yet be brackish in the middle. If it be, then you are not infected; but if it tastes sweetish, or hath no taste, it is an ill omen, wherefore use of the remedies following: drink your own water morning and evening." As a prophylactic the article says: "The middle portion of the urine is the best to keep a man free from the plague, who has not yet been affected with it." This, in its turn, became regular practice of medicine, and was recommended in works of authority less than two hundred and fifty years ago.

The immortal Dr. Bolus succeeded this manner of treatment with a method that was in vogue with those who are trying to usurp the title "regular," until the laity became disgusted and drove them to seek new methods to avoid derision. His rules were simple, easy of pursuance, and required no mental effort on the part of the practitioner to overpower disease. He says: "I bleeds them, I blisters them, and I sweats them; then if they die