in 1851, was quietly struck out when the Association got a charter. The Council were well aware that with such a bye-law existing, there was no chance of a charter being obtained, and instead of publicly abrogating it, it was quietly omitted from the rules. The Editor of the British Medical Journal can therefore no longer quote the rules of the British Medical Association as an authority, so he is obliged to fall back on Dr. Styrap, who chose to write a "Code of Medical Ethics," and so display his narrow-mindedness. It is well known that an influential party in the British Medical Association are of a very different opinion from that of the editor and of Dr. Styrap, such opinions being very freely expressed in a paper in the Practitioner not long ago. This influential party advocate that the question of consultations with homœopaths, as with any one in the old school, should depend not on the opinions of either party consulting, but on individual choice and judgment. For our own part, we cannot see that in a case where the question is one of treatment, any benefit can arise from a meeting of an allopath and homœopath, unless one or the other is prepared to merge his views for the time being. In a surgical case, or on a question of diagnosis, the case is different, and an interchange of opinion may often be beneficial, more particularly in certain special departments. Such views are now widely entertained by consultants in the old school, and "A Nemo" may be perhaps surprised to hear that not only in his "neighbouring town," but in London and in all the principal cities of the United Kingdom, homœopaths have no difficulty in obtaining a consulting opinion.

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To discuss in detail the merits of Dr. Styrap's paragraph is really, at this time of day, beneath us. To have penned it at all will be considered by a large section of his own school as degrading," and we cannot but consider it even "degrading" on the part of the editor of one of the leading allopathic journals, to quote and express approval of such sentiments. The "dangerous fallacy" is now publicly taught in more than one metropolitan school of medicine, although the import and source of such teaching is studiously concealed, while the same "dangerous fallacy" is widely leavening the opinions and practice of more of the old school than perhaps the Editor of the British Medical Journal cares to know. A paragraph such as we have quoted from the pens of Dr. Styrap and of the Editor of the British Medical Journal, will one day be brought up as one of the curious samples of ignorance and trades-unionism of the nineteenth century. If, in the present state of opinion in the old school in regard to homoeopathy, "A Nemo," or any other innocent-minded practitioner, chooses to be led by the nose by Dr. Styrap or the editor of the British Medical Journal, we can only pity him.

TO DESTROY MOTHS IN CARPETS.

TAKE a wet sheet or other cloth, lay it upon the carpet, and then pass a hot flat iron over it, so as to convert the water into steam, which permeates the carpet beneath, and destroys the life of the grub.-The Monthly Magazine of Pharmacy.

A NEW MUCILAGE.

THE Journal of Pharmacy states that if 30 grains of sulphate of aluminum, dissolved in two-thirds of an ounce of water, be added to 8 ounces of mucilage of gum arabic, a strong mucilage will be formed which will cement strongly wood, porcelain or glass.

ANTS.

PROFESSOR LEIDY states that he has cleared a house of red ants by the following method. A piece of sweet cake was placed in every room, and at noon every day it was picked up with forceps, held over a cup of turps, and tapped till all the ants fell into the oil. This was done for three successive days. On the fourth not an ant was to be found on the cake. Pieces of bacon were then tried for several days with good effect. When this was deserted cheese was substituted, and lastly grasshoppers. After a few days' trial of these the ants ceased to be attracted by anything. They seem to have been thoroughly exterminated, and have not re-appeared.-Chemist and Druggist.

THE LONDON SCHOOL OF HOMEOPATHY.

WE propose every month or two, during the summer and winter session of the school, to give our readers a résumé of the course of instruction pursued, as we think that such will be interesting to those who sympathise with the aims of the school.

During the months of May and June Dr. Hughes has been giving a course of Comparative Materia Medica, according to the programme contained in the introductory lecture of his which we printed last month. He began with the antirheumatics, among which he classed bryonia, aconite, colchicum, pulsatilla, rhus, dulcamara, rhododendron ; actæa, caulophyllum, cedron, ruta, viola odorata; spigelia and kalmia; mercurius, kali bichromicum and phytolacca; sulphur; and arsenic. Omitting the five last-named, whose relation to the disease was peculiar, he pointed out that all the antirheumatics were vegetable irritants, and therein approximated in action to the animal irritant, lactic acid, which was in all

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probability the "materies morbi," of acute rheumatism. Were it not so, he said, it would be its complete homœopathic analogue, as it causes its polyarthritis, endocarditis, pleurisy, &c., in a way which no other substance has done.

He next discussed the anti-syphilitics, which were mercury, iodine, nitric acid, aurum, and platina; kali bichromicum, mezereum, phytolacca, and perhaps assafatida, corydalis, and stillingia.

The anti-pyretics followed. They were arranged in four divisions, having for their types aconite, arsenicum, belladonna, and bryonia respectively. Under the first-named were placed veratrum viride, and gelseminum; under the second cinchona, and the serpent-poisons; belladonna had for its congeners hyoscyamus and stramonium, and also agaricus; while the bryonia group included acidum muriaticum, baptisia, and rhus. The following general conclusions were drawn as to the anti-pyretic virtues of these medicines :

1. The fever of the aconite group implies simply a temporary functional disturbance of the heat-regulating and vaso-motor nerve-centres, such as cold or nervous shock can produce. Hence the rapidity of their curative action.

2. Arsenicum also acts upon these centres, but when their (febrile) disturbance is recurrent, as in malarious fevers and hectic; it also corresponds to destructive oxidation of the blood and the tissues, as in the toxæmic fevers. In the former capacity it is paralleled by cinchona, in the latter by the serpentpoisons.

3. Belladonna and its congeners are in place when the higher oxidation of fever falls mainly upon the nervous centres; they affect them as do morbid poisons in the blood-scarlatina, variola, typhus, &c.

4. The fever of bryonia, and the medicines allied to it, is one in which the tissues and organs of vegetative life, and the muscles, are affected, rather than the nervous system or the blood."

The anti-eclamptics were then considered. They were acidum hydrocyanicum, ananthe, cicuta, athusa, belladonna, cocculus, zizia aurea; plumbum, arsenicum, cuprum, artemisia, zincum, strychnia, calcarea, silica.

Lastly came the nutrition modifiers. Their discussion was preceded by a lecture on tissue remedies and organ remedies, in which the views of V. Granvogl and Schüssler on the former, and of Rademacher and Sharp on the latter, were reviewed and criticised. The medicines included in the present survey have been acidum phosphoricum and picricum, argentum nitricum, arsenicum, calcarea, ferrum, helonias, hydrastis, sodium, lycopo

dium, mercurius, natrum muriaticum, phosphorus, plumbum, sepia, silica, uranium, and zincum.

The medicines which act on the liver and on the eye respectively have yet to come under review.

Dr. Dyce Brown has been carrying out the plan, which was systematically begun in the middle of last winter session, of referring the students for detail of the etiology, pathology, and general symptomatology of the various diseases treated of, to ordinary text-books on the principles and practice of medicine, and confining himself entirely to the homoeopathic therapeutics of disease.

During the months of May and June he has gone over the treatment of diseases of the mouth, throat, stomach, and intestines. The consideration of the latter will be concluded in the first week in July. As each medicine is discussed, not merely the indicatory symptoms referable to the organ diseased are entered into, but a sketch also of the symptoms referable to other organs and to the state of health in general is given, such as one usually finds not only is associated with the given phase of disease, but is portrayed as part of the picture of the medicine which is homœopathically indicated.

The time taken up in discussing the treatment of the diseases above named is the best indication of the amount of detail into which the lecturer went in describing the pathogenetic and therapeutic indications of the different medicines.

Diseases of the respiratory tract will be taken up after those of the intestines have been concluded, and as much as possible overtaken before the end of July, when the summer session eloses.

OBITUARY.

WE regret to have to record the death of Dr. HORACE FLINT, on the 1st of May, at the early age of 26. Dr. H. Flint had held the post of Junior Resident Medical Officer at the London Homeopathic Hospital for the best part of a year; and, just as he had resigned his post with the view of taking up private practice at Canterbury, he was taken ill, and though on removal to Canterbury to his father's house, he improved for a time and seemed convalescent, serious symptoms set in quite suddenly and unexpectedly, and he succumbed in a week's time.

It is a painful duty at any time to record the loss of one of our small band, but it is doubly so when death comes so early, and cuts off anticipations of a prosperous career. Dr. H. Flint was much liked by those who knew him, and his loss will be much felt by his friends.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editors of the Monthly Homeopathic Review.

Gentlemen,-On reading your communication from America, headed "Key-note Extraordinary," feeling curious to know what Petroz had really written in his original communication, I went to the Revue de la Matière Medicale Spécifique, edited by Petroz and Roth. In vol. iii., p. 362, Petroz, in his résumé of the pathogenetic symptoms of murex, gives under symptom 42, Douleur de plaie, comme par une arme tranchante dans l'uterus" (septieme jour). This, without note or comment, leading the reader to suppose that this is a veritable pathogenetic symptom. And so have, I believe, the symptom compilers thought. Jahr in his large work, Ausführlicher symptomenkodex, under the head of murex "Weibliche Theile " has "In der Mutter, wundschmerz wie von schneidendem Werkzeuge." It is interesting, however, to observe how the sagacity of Dr. Trinks, of Dresden, kept him out of a snare, even though he had not the original essay of Petroz before him, and had before him only the trap laid for him by Jahr. His words are worth quoting: "Petroz instituted provings with the juice of the purple snail on three individuals afflicted with leucorrhoea, of whom one suffered moreover from sore pain as from a cutting instrument."

How Trinks got this last piece of information from anything published by Jahr I don't know. Jahr puts it as a symptom occurring in the proving. Trinks goes on to say: "We can therefore place no value whatever on this worthless fragment of symptoms thus published, because the individuals who proved the medicine were diseased, and consequently openings of every kind were afforded to being deceived. Only French superficiality can build great results on these provings, and announce that so imperfectly proved a medicine excites great expectations, &c., &c. Later provings, to be instituted with greater circumspection upon healthy persons, will prove how much there is of reliable in this medicine. In failure of the original essay we have been compelled to adopt the abstract made by Jahr almost verbatim." And among the symptoms in his account of murex he puts the one in question verbatim. On looking, however, at the individual provings from which the summary has been compiled, we have at p. 12 symptom 13 of the first case as quoted in your communication: "Douleur de blessure comme par une arme tranchante dans l'uterus. Cette sensation est habituelle à l'epoque des régles depuis bien des années." How this symptom could have been transferred to a summary as a pathogenetic symptom, with the suppression of a statement which would have announced that it was not a medicinal symptom at all, is accountable only on