to the origin of this evil, it appeared that six months previously the boy had fallen from a table and soon afterwards was attacked with convulsions, which were subsequently twice repeated; five weeks after the last convulsions, the mother first observed that the child squinted. I gave him Arnica until the end of March. The convulsions did not return, but the Strabismus was not relieved. I then administered Cyclamen for 14 days without perceiving any effect. The woman did not return, for which I was very sorry, as the result of my trouble thereby escaped me. Ten days ago, I met with her in the street, and asked why she had not come back with her child, and she answered that, "By the time the child had taken all his portion of pills, the squinting had entirely disappeared, and therefore, there was no necessity for me to return." Although this answer showed so little gratitude, I was rejoiced to find the curative action of Cyclamen again confirmed.

DR. WURMB had related some time previously in one of the meetings of our Society, that he had cured a coachman of Strabismus with Cyclamen.

RHEUMATISMUS ACUTUS. A young woman is at present in the Institution who has suffered for three months with complete suppression of the menses, in consequence of extensive rheumatism. In the course of her present sickness she had a violent pressing pain in the forehead with vertigo. DR. WURMB prescribed Cyclamen, which caused both to disappear entirely the next day.

The remaining cases which I have observed, have all been pale subjects who were inclining to Chlorosis, and whose symptoms resembled pretty closely those above described; I will therefore omit them lest I become too prolix. I believe it to be my duty, however, to make this one observation that, in similar diseases, we should never give a low dilution of Cyclamen if we would avoid the physiological action which it exerts on the sense of sight. I saw this effect follow the use of the 15th dec. att. only twice; whereas it almost always resulted from the 3rd dec. att.

Theresa P, 30 years old, a thick-set, strongly built woman. Until 10 years ago she had never been sick, but at that time she was attacked with a violent, itching eruption over the whole body, which was diagnosed as the itch, although she was not able to attribute it to contagion. It was dispersed with Sulphur ointment. After the disappearance of the eruption, her sight continually diminished, so that after a few months she could not walk at all without a guide, and this condition continues to the present day. She can only see the outlines of large objects in a strong light and they look as if enveloped in a fog. She cannot distinguish any object in the rooms. Nothing could be discovered on a close examination of the eyes except very large pupils. The catamenia have never yet appeared; she complains at intervals of three or four weeks of orgasm of the blood, headache, pressing vertigo, heaviness, frequent trembling of the lower limbs. and urging towards the genitals. She has complained for several months of an itching in the skin of the whole body, which becomes particularly intolerable at the periods above mentioned, although nothing is visible on the skin. As she had heard from an acquaintance that she had been cured of a similar complaint at our Dispensary, she also came in September, 1858, and desired a remedy for her troublesome disease. She was soon cured also, by 6 globules of Sulphur, 3 times a day. In the beginning of December, she came again and requested me to relieve her of a headache which was at that time very troublesome. I recollected her previous statement, that she suffered with periodical orgasm of the blood, etc., and as I saw in these symptoms the effort of nature to establish the catamenia, the thought struck me that there might be present, an Atresia vagine: but the examination of the genitalia revealed nothing abnormal. I gave Cyclamen, 3 globules* every two hours; on the 4th day the headache and vertigo had considerably diminished; continue Cyclamen. Eight days afterward, she told me that the

* In the Dispensary, the globules are generally medicated with the 3rd dec. att.

headache and vertigo had entirely ceased, but she now sees fiery balls dancing about before her eyes; I ordered her to go to my residence (which was much more convenient for her) and gave her Cyclamen 15th dec. att. 3 times a day. On the 27th of December she came again to obtain another portion. The fiery balls dancing before the eyes, had ceased to trouble her. On the 2nd of January, 1859, she came while I was absent (having been called to a princely house in Moravia), and left word for me that an important change had occurred in her. On her subsequent appearance on the 14th of January, she joyfully related to me that her catamenia had commenced on the 2nd of January with violent gripings in the abdomen, and had continued for 4 days, and also that she suffered no more with headache and vertigo.

As she still visits me frequently I have opportunities to learn that her menses come on regularly every month and continue 4 or 5 days, tolerably copious.

[In conclusion the translator desires to call attention to the fact, that by the captions of some of the above cases, Dr. EIDHERR would seem to refer the cure of Acute Rheumatism, Pulmonary Catarrh and Typhus, to Cyclamen; whereas it was given for, and cured, headache and vertigo occurring in patients who were convalescing from those diseases. This may throw some light on the manner in which the "Clinical Observations," in Jahr's Manual, have been swelled to such prodigious and pernicious proportions. He would also state that he has found the 15th cent. att. of Cyclamen quite efficacious in relieving disorders, similar to those above described.]

ANTHEMIS NOBILIS.

BY J. L. WADE, M.D., NEW YORK.

In looking over an old number of the "Chemist," a London Journal of Chemical and Physical Science, my attention was arrested by an article on the "efficacy of Roman Chamomile in serious suppurations," by M. Ozanum. The essay attracted my notice not so much on account of the cures he relates, as the acknowledgment of some principles proving the homoeopathic applications of the drug.

One word in regard to the Chamomile he employed: it differs slightly from the Matricaria of our Materia Medica : the Anthemis nobilis is the most important of this species, yet it is possible that we have in our fields in the common May-weed (Anthemis cotula) a plant deserving of more investigation and worthy of honest provings.

Anthemis nobilis is mentioned in the treatises on Materia Medica as fit for soothing stomach-aches and gastric difficulties, and for improving the appetite; fomentations of the flowers are employed in ill-conditioned ulcers. How it cured or changed to a healthy sore the pale and flabby surface, will be seen by the concessions M. Ozanum makes in reference to its external use.

Its flowers are said, by Lemery, a French chemist who lived in the first part of the seventeenth century, "to be emollient, digestive, carminative, resolutive, alleviating and strengthening." These properties are vague, and M. Ozanum says, "no one has discovered the great and precious virtues of Chamomile, viz.: that of preventing suppurations when the evil has not advanced too far, and of drying them up, when they have existed for a long time." He gave the drug in large doses, frequently too large to cure, as he acknowledges; he gave an infusion of 5, 10 or 30 grammes of the flowers, to one quart of water, to be drunk during the day: he kept this up until the cure was complete-a worthy example of perse

verance in the use of one remedy, if positive in its homœopathic indication, until the disease yields and health returns. M. Ozanum also in some cases applied the remedy locally by compresses soaked in the infusion, but he soon became convinced that the effect of the remedy was developed either with or without local application, proving to him, that this wonderful property of Chamomile must arise from a general action on the economy and not as a local action; this conclusion seems to be truly philosophic, as the unhealthy ulcer is kept unhealthy by the vitiated fountain within and not by the external surroundings.

M. Ozanum mentions four cases, and I will briefly record them, as they are worthy of attention and study.

1st case. Man. æt. 33. Phlegmonous Erysipelas of the face and scalp, five abscesses formed, denuding the bones of the cranium and covering them with a cap of pus, then a sixth abscess was formed at the angle of the lower jaw, delirium, continuous and violent fever, pulse 140, complete prostration of strength; employel Chamomile on the 28th day (30 grammes per day) suppuration increased for the first few days, (note this fact) I decreased the dose (he says) to 15 grammes per day, rapid dimunition of suppuration; at the end of 20 days patient completely cured.

2nd case. Man. æt. 35. Phlegmonous Erysipelas of foot, leg and scalp, 14 successive abscesses formed, soon communicating together, for the length of 24 inches, enormous suppuration; at the end of three months the patient was in a completely cachectic state; amputation of the thigh was proposed, but the patient refused. I then commenced the use Chamomile, (30 grammes per day) return of strength, progressive diminution of suppuration, flesh was retained by systemàtic compresses; patient cured at the end of six weeks, without any other remedy.

3rd case.

Man, æt. 26. Obstinate intermittent fever of 9 months standing, crisis, by an abscess forming on the right flank, as large as head of a child two years old; opened the