The use of a tincture af this old domestic friend, is lauded as a local application in neuralgia, by Dr. F. P. Stiles, of Sparta, Wisconsin, in a paper read before the Wisconsin Homœopathic Medical Society at its last meeting. Numerous cases were reported illustrative of its action.

Plantago produces in its provings an excessive hyperæsthesia of the fifth pair of nerves, and corresponds to great irritation of the terminal nerve fibres and when neuralgias arise from irritation of these terminal fibres either from exposure to cold or from carious teeth, and the pains are boring and digging in character, it is the remedy.

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Its pathogenesis shows the following symptoms: Neuralgic pains in the right face, aggravated by noise temporarily relieved by pressure and cold. It produces a bruised sore spot over the eye corresponding to the supra-orbital nerve, in fact. its action on the fifth nerve be within the cranium, for the branches of the various divisions seem implicated. That the orbital branches of the ophthalmic division are affected is shown by the following symptoms: Ciliary, neuralgia, tenderness of the eyeball; drawing pain in the region of the malar bone.

There are twinges in the temporal regions extending into the brain and it is one of the most valuable remedies we have for neuralgias of the ears.

The dental nerves are especially susceptible to the action of plantagỡ and not alone in neuralgias arising from carious teeth but in hypersensitiveness of sound teeth, it is useful

The pains are tearing, sharp and digging or else a sore, bruised, aching, which is very severe. In the temples and frontal eminences the pain is described as boring. It probably affects the gustatory nerves as there is loss of taste in its pathogenesis.

The remedy is deserving of a fair trial internally for these neuralgic conditions. It is also spoken of as a remedy in neuralgias arising, from excessive use of tobacco,

Tuberculine.

Behring says that a profound knowledge of tuberculine and tuberculosis is necessary to apply the remedy for the disease. That the tuberculous are much more sensitive to minimum doses of tuberculine than the healthy; he found that tuberculous guinea pigs were 1,000 times more susceptible to the action of the remedy than healthy ones. A pretty good argument for the minimum dose.

Cannabis Indica.

Ten minims of the tincture of cannabis in three quarters of an hour caused a burning pain in the pit of the stomach. The patient became strange, saying that his legs were jumping about and that he heard a ticking like a watch, that he saw the room on fire and the pictures falling. The pupils were dilated and reacted sluggishly to the light. This case, reported in the London Lancet, October 17, 1896, astonished the doctor who reported it on account of the smallness of the dose (thirty minims is the regular amount) producing these symptoms.

EUCAIN, A NEW LOCAL ANESTHETIC.- Vinci says, if instilled into the eyes of an animal, in two to five per cent. solution, it causes complete anesthesia in from one to three minutes lasting on an average from ten to twenty minutes. Injected under the skin or painted on the mucosa complete anesthesia follows. Eucain is physiologically similar to cocain, but is less poisonous, In the eye, the pupils are not affected.— Deutsche Med. Zeitung, April 1896.

PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ALBUMINURIC RETINITIS -Belt reports out of 419 cases obtained from public statistics in connection with 100 cases of his own, that the duration of life after the first observation of albuminuric retinitis was as follows: seventy-two per cent died within a year, ninety per cent. died within two years and then only nine per cent. lived more than two years.-Journ. Amer. Med. Assoc., Nov. 2, 1896.

TREATMENT OF DETACHMENT of the RETINA.-Dr. Casey A. Wood, after a review of the methods of Scholer, Davier, De Wecher, Terson, Galezowski, and Deutschmann says: My own experience in this disease has led me to think, with Bull, of New York, that we have as yet discovered no better device than that resorted to by the older ophthalmologists, viz: rest in bed, bandages, atropine, and the internal use of some absorbent. From the report of the Committee on Retinal Detachment, American Medical Association, May 1896.

ON THE AETIOLOGY OF PARENCHYMATOUS KERATITIS.-V. Hippel carefully investigated eighty-seven cases under his own observation and the literature of 323 publications with the expressed object of finding the possibility of the disease being induced by tuberculosis. His deductions are as follows: It is in the highest degree probable that hereditary syphilis is the most important and most common cause of the disease, but that it is not the only cause as its absence is shown in from thirty to fifty per cent. of the published cases. The author states that, from the fact that tuberculosis in various organs has been recorded, we can assert that most probably a certain number of the cases of parenchymatous keratitis are due to a tubercular infection of the eye of a relatively mild type

V. Hippel found evidences of tuberculosis in eighteen of his eightyseven cases V. Graefe's Archiv.. YLII-194.

PANOPHTHALMITIS: ORBITAL CELLULITIS AND SUBDIAPHRAGMATIC ABSCESS.-Bull reports a very interesting case because of the obscure complication which was only revealed at the autopsy and which he considers a possible case of metastasis.-Patient admitted to the New York Eye Infirmary suffering from panophthalmitis with the usual symptoms and appearance of the eye. On the eighth day, patient commenced

having chills followed by fever, profuse perspiration and delirium which continued. Sixteen days later, commenced to expectorate large quantities of offensive pus which continued to the end, three weeks later, when death occurred from exhaustion of all the vital powers. At no time were there any positive signs indicating location of pus. Autopsy revealed a large abscess cavity, extending between the diaphragm, beneath the peritoneum of the diaphragm, to the median line, laterally to the abdominal wall, and forward to the commencement of the costal cartilages, and backward to the spinal column. The abscess contained about twelve ounces of pus, of the consistence of thick cream.-Annals Ophthal.and Otol., July 1896.

NEUROLOGY.

ERYTHROMELALGIA.-A. Eulenburg has made a digest of forty-three published cases of this trouble. He concludes that it is not a disease sui generis but a syndrome or complex of symptoms depending upon different nervous diseases, mostly central (cerebral or spinal) but sometimes peripheral. Concerning the pathogenesis of the special symptoms we are as yet in the dark.-Neurolog. Centralbl., 18, 1896.

ALCOHOL INJECTIONS IN CARCINOMA.-Dr. Hasse, of Nordhausen, states that several cases of carcinoma which he treated twenty-three years ago with alcohol injections have shown no reappearance. He has also extirpated large mammary carcinomas that have been declared inoperable and beginning reappearances he successfully overcame by the injections. He sees in this treatment a sure remedy for carcinoma.— Berlin klin. Wochenschr., 24, 1896.

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VALUE OF EXTENSION OF THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN IN THE HORIZONTAL POSITION IN CASES OF COMPRESSION MYELITIS.-B. Vorotynsky repeats in Revue Neurologique, 3, 1896, the view already expressed by him that the method of suspension gives better results in certain nervous diseases than any other treatment. In later years he has carried out the principle by a special apparatus to apply extension to the vertebral column while the patient is lying. In compression myelitis (especially from spinal caries) he has obtained good results.

ROENTGEN RAYS AND ACROMEGALY.-Fr. Schultze, at the meeting of the Naturalists and Physicians of the Lower Rhine, Feb. 10, 1896, reported the examination of the hand in a case of acromegaly by the aid of the Roentgen rays. There was thickening of the terminal phalanges without osteophytes, and of the distal epiphyses of the first and second phalanges, as well as swelling of the diaphyses of the first phalanges. The first phalanx of the index and that of the little finger was bent laterally. The metacarpal bones were not distinct in the radiograph.— Neurolog. Centralbl., 19, 1896.

RETROGRADE AMNESIA FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY.-Strüm pell reports, in Deutsche Zeitschr. f. Nervenhk., 5 and 6, VIII, the case of a man, aged 46, who, in the beginning of June 1893, received an injury to the skull by falling against the corner of an iron door. There was no loss of consciousness and no fright and the man went on with his work. After two days he had epileptiform attacks, five within twenty-four hours, each lasting about fifteen minutes. Erysipelas set in and he was ill with it for a week. His memory of events from the time of the first convulsion to the height of his illness had disappeared and he knew of them only from hearsay and, besides this, there was complete loss of memory (except dim remembrances of two circumstances) for events during some three months preceding the trauma.

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DR. C. E. FISHER has gone to California to regain his health. He may return to Chicago next month.

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APPOINTED MEDICAL EXAMINER.-Dr. Eugene H. Porter has been appointed Medical Examiner of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.

DR. WM. E. ROUNDS is making an extended tour of California. The Doctor accompanies a patient and expects to remain on the Pacific coast for several months.

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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE SOCIETY has a total membership of two hundred and ninety-eight. The Alumni Association of Hahnemann College has a membership of 1110.

DR. E. S. MUNSON has resigned his position as Assistant House Surgeon to the New York Ophthalmic Hospital and removed to 16 West Forty-fifth Street, where he will assist Dr. Norton.

DR. EDMUND M. DEVOL, who has been Assistant Physician at Dr. F. W. Seward's Sanitarium at Goshen, N. Y., has taken the practice of the late Dr. J. B. Walteres, 114 Nassau Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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DR. H. E, WINANS, N. Y. H. M. C. and H., class of 1888, has removed from Newburg, N. Y.. to New York City, where he has located at 1889 Lexington Avenue. Hours 9 to 12 and 4 to 6. The Doctor will devote his attention to electro-therapeutics.

DR. I. TISDALE TALBOT, of Boston, sailed on the "Kaiser Wilhelm II.," from New York, on Nov. 21, to spend the winter in the region of the Mediterranean. During his absence, Dr. Winthrop Tisdale Talbot will have charge of his office and practice.

THE HOMEOPATHIC DEPARTMENT OF The UniversitY OF MICHIGAN opened, October 1st, with 48 matriculates, an increase of 21 over a year ago. The addition of Dr. Dewey to the chair of Materia Medica is the only change in the personnel of the faculty.

DR. D. A. MACLACHLAN, of Detroit, has resumed practice after an extended trip up the lakes. The doctor's arduous labors in the interest of the late meeting of the Institute made a prolonged vacation absolutely necessary and he is now much improved physically.

DR. GIVEN'S SANITARIUM, Stamford Hall, at Stamford, Conn., is a beautiful, quiet, pleasant place. A cottage home, fifty minutes from New York, for the treatment of nervous and mental diseases-with a separate cottage devoted to alcohol and opium patients.

THE LIBRARY, SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, medicine cases and cabinets belonging to the late Edwin J. Pratt, M.D., are at the office of Dr. Irving Townsend, 67 West 46th Street, for sale. Prices are nominal, and it is a rare opportunity for a recent graduate to acquire the nucleus of a library.

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THE DETROIT HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTITIONER'S SOCIETY is in a very flourishing condition and much interest is manifested at its meetings. The first meeting of every quarter is set apart for social purposes, and has proved very pleasant. On October 1st the Society was entertained by its president, Dr. S. H. Knight, at whose home the members and their wives spent a most delightful evening.

DR. W. B. CLARK, of Indianapolis, has recovered from a severe attack of typhoid fever. He was honored during his illness by receiving the decoration of the jeweled badge of the British Red Cross Association, conferring the rank of Surgeon-Major, an honor accorded so far to but few Americans. He also received a membership badge of the Turkish Society, made from the sacred and perfumed clay of Turkey.

DR. W. A. DEWEY called on a few of his Detroit friends on his way to his new home in Ann Arbor. The doctor is contemplating the opening of a branch office in Detroit where he may be found probably twice a week for the treatment of nervous diseases exclusively. The profession in Detroit will hail with delight the filling of this vacancy in their ranks, as at present no one of the homoeopathic school makes a specialty of nervous diseases.

ON OCTOBER FIRST the following changes in the house staff of Grace Hospital, Detroit, were made: Dr. J. J. Murray having completed his term as House Surgeon opened an office on the corner of 14th and Forest Avenues, Detroit, being succeeded in the hospital by Dr. M. L. Combes,