TO CORRESPONDENTS. W. E. P., Me.-The transactions of the Institute are being prepared as rapidly as possible. Great care and no little time, however, are required to complete them. C. H. H., Pa. - Your communication, as you may see, was duly received, and was very welcome. We hope to hear from you often. F. A. R., N. J.-Let us have your paper on Modern Psydriatry, by all means. -- C. S. V., O. We would gladly help you to find your missing article, if it were in our power. C. E. S., Ct. still so pleasant. E. U. J., Mass. We are glad that the memories of the Boston meeting are - Your cheering words and kind promise of aid do much to lighten our editorial cares and labors. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. The following Exchanges for October: The Hahnemannian Monthly; Philadelphia. The American Journal of Homœopathic Materia Medica; Philadelphia. The Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter; Cleveland, Ohio. American Homœopathic Observer; Detroit. The Medical Investigator; Chicago. United States Medical and Surgical Journal; Chicago. The Western Homœopathic Observer; St. Louis. The Occidental; St. Louis. The Monthly Homoeopathic Review; London. Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung; Leipzic. Monatsblatt, Allgemeinen Homöopathischen Zeitung. El Criterio Médico; Madrid. Bibliothèque Homœopathique; Paris. Rivista Omiopatica; Rome. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; Boston. Good Health; Boston. The Journal of the Gynecological Society of Boston; Boston. Guardian of Health; Boston. The Medical Record; New York. The Medical Gazette; New York. The Physician and Pharmaceutist; Philadelphia. American Eclectic Medical Review; New York. Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal. The Philadelphia University Journal of Medicine and Surgery; Philadelphia. Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal; San Francisco. Boston Journal of Chemistry. The Canada Journal of Dental Science; Hamilton. The Missouri Dental Journal; Saint Louis. Every Saturday; Boston. Littell's Living Age; Boston. The Atlantic Monthly; Boston. Our Young Folks; Boston. Our Dumb Annimals; Boston. Monthly Record of the Five Points House of Industry; New York. The Phrenological Journal; New York. The Nation; New York. The National Sunday School Teacher; Chicago. The Witness; New York. Cincinnati Times. Also the following: The Drift of Modern Medicine, by Alfred C. Pope; London, H. Turner & Co. Homœopathic Price Current, by C. S. Halsey; Chicago, Ill., and Buffalo, N. Y. The use of Pepsine in the Diarrhoea of Infants, by James S. Hawley, M.D.; Greenpoint, L. I. The Etna, Boston; Illustrated Catalogue of the Publications of Lee & Shepard; Boston. Oliver Optic's Magazine; Boston, Lee & Shepard. Eighteenth Annual Report of the Boston Provident Association. Catalogue des Livres de Fonds; Paris. Physician's Visiting List for 1870; Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston. Chemistry for Medical Students, by William Odling, M. B., F. R. S.; Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea. A Handy Book of Ophthalmic Surgery, by John Z. Laurence, F. R. C. S., M. B. assisted by Robert C. Moon; Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea. Stricture of the Urethra, by Sir Henry Thompson, F. R. C. S.; Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea. Abstract of a Report made to the Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., Oct., 1869. THE Committee on Clinical Medicine have again to lament the want of material to make a valuable report, as only five communications were received. These reports show that measles and whooping-cough have pre. vailed very extensively, but give little that is new in treatment. WHOOPING-COUGH.- Dr. Cushing, of Lynn, says, "During the last six months we have had an unusual number of cases of whoopingcough in adults. Mephitis 3 dec. has been my chief remedy, especially if the cough and vomiting were worse at night. If the cough and the inclination to cough come suddenly, Bromide of ammonium is the remedy." He reports that it was very sickly during June, July, and August; and says, "DIARRHEA constituted the greater part of my cases; the stools were green, slimy or watery, or mixed, sometimes bloody. Many of the patients were attacked with vomiting, prostration, variable appetite; symptoms constantly changing, often returning when seeming nearly gone. The cases occurring in young children were, with a single exception, those of bottle babies.' Query, does sucking rubber nipples produce diarrhoea in 'bottle babies'? The remedies most frequently used were, Ethusa, Aloe, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Calcarea carb., Chamomilla, Magnesia carb., Mercurius sol., Mercurius viv., and Sulphur. Less frequently used: Antimonium crud., Camphora, China, Colocynth., Elaterium, Ipecac., Nux vom., Pulsatilla, Rheum, and Veratrum. The 30th and 200th attenuations controlled the symptoms more readily than the lower ones. For my guide, I took the works of Raue, H. N. Guernsey, and J. B. Bell. Result for three months, June, July and August: two deaths, one aged four weeks and one four months, both of cholera infantum, and both sick from birth." Dr. T. S. Scales of Woburn sends the following interesting report : OVARIAN DISEASE. An unusual number of cases have come under my care during the past year and a half, all of which had been of from two to four years' standing. Some of them had been treated allopathically; and others, unaware of the nature or extent of their trouble, had hoped to get better without a physician. Most of them occurred on the left side, and were characterized by soreness, great tenderness, heat, swelling, and pain, extending upwards and backwards to the spine and downwards and forwards to the uterus. There was a slight but constant rusty discharge through the fallopian tube and uterus. I have been well satisfied with the effect of homoeopathic remedies in these cases. Prominently I may mention Lachesis and Cimicifuga. Sometimes Podophyllum has been indicated by rumbling and flatulence in the bowels, with tendency to alternate diarrhoea and constipation, and prolapsus uteri or ani, or both; and sometimes Phytolacca when there has been irritation and swelling of the inguinal glands. Satisfactory changes have followed the administration of these remedies. I have made no local application, except of the cold wet bandage. Some of the patients have worn the cold application constantly, and others for only a part of each day. And here permit me to remark, that I do not consider the cold wet bandage beneficial when it feels disagreeable to the patient. I always instruct my patients to remove it as soon as it feels unpleasant. One case of ovarian disease interested me very much. A lady of forty-five had been suffering for two or three years from pain and tenderness in the region of the left ovary, with heat which at times spread through her whole system. She "supposed her age was the cause of it," and that she "must expect such things." In the early part of 1868, she became pregnant. The diseased ovary caused her very much suffering during her pregnancy, particularly on motion of the foetus. The swelling of the ovary, added to the enlarged uterus, made it difficult for her to sit, and uncomfortable to lie; she was obliged to lie chiefly on her right side because the pressure of the gravid uterus upon the ovary would not permit her to lie on her left side, and she was subject to nightmare if she slept on her back. She was delivered in due time of an eight-pound boy (who has since thriven remarkably well), and her ovarian disease is nearly cured. She has a little tenderness still in the region of the ovary, but very little swelling, and no discharge. Her medicines have been Lachesis1, Cimicifuga2, Phytolacca1 and 2, and Gelseminum2. Another case. An unmarried lady, about twenty-five, has had both ovaries diseased for five or six years. She was treated allopathically for about two years, and constantly grew worse, and has now been under my care for nearly two years. During the whole time she has suffered very much from shifting articular rheumatism in her hands and feet, at times accompanied by high fever. Also, she has had very severe dysmenorrhoea and profuse menorrhagia, occurring every three weeks and lasting about a week each time. During the intervals she has had leucorrhoea, either yellowish and rusty or greenish and corrosive, and often very offensive. She is very much improved in every respect. She frequently walks two and a half miles in an afternoon, and attends to domestic duties regularly. Cimicifuga 1 and 2, Lachesis 6 and 7, and Phytolacca 1 and 2 have been her principal remedies, usually given one only at a time. She was also subject to sick headache which has been very much benefited by Sepia. 3. 1 CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS has been another very prevalent complaint in my circuit. It has been of different degrees of intensity. In many cases it has occurred as an idiopathic disease, while in others it has been complicated with other diseases, or has followed them. It has usually affected most seriously the lower half of the spine, extending at intervals to the head; though, in some cases, it has been more severe in the upper half, and in a few cases spent nearly its whole force on the brain. In. a few cases it has simulated typhoid fever. It has been troublesome when occurring as a complication of pregnancy or parturition. It usually produced constipation, but occasionally diarrhoea. In a few cases it has become chronic and for a long time baffled my best efforts; producing gastralgia, indigestion, dysuria, prolapsus ani and uteri, and in one or two cases, palpitation and dyspnoea. So common has it been during the summer that, in every case of sickness to which I am called, I expect it and prepare for it if it is not already developed. The patient is usually comparatively comfortable in a recumbent position with a wet towel on the back, provided there is little or no exercise of the brain. Of course, in such a variety of cases, many remedies have been used. Of these I may mention Baptisia, Gelseminum, Cimicifuga and Veratrum viride. In one case which was complicated with sciatica, and another which was accompanied by copious fluid alvine discharges with borborygmus and irritable temper, Gnaphalium relieved everything but the prolapsus ani, which continued for several weeks, but which finally recovered after the administration of Podophyllum200 The epidemics and endemics which usually occur from June to October have none of them appeared the present year. Teething children, with a very few exceptions, have enjoyed remarkable immunity from sickness. Dr. D. B. Whittier, of Fitchburg, also sends an interesting report: TYPHOID FEVER. - We have had typhoid fever at least two months earlier than usual. The cases that have come under my care are either of a mild character intrinsically, or else have been made so by treatment. In some cases the type is decidedly nervosastupida, while in others there is quite a regular alternation of the stupida and versatilis - the former occurring during the day, the latter at night. After the common premonitory symptoms, the manifestations are somewhat as follows:- Irregular paroxysms of chilliness with burning heat; followed by sweat, more or less profuse; succeeded by dry, burning heat; towards the last of the first week, decided morning remissions, and evening exacerbation, some cases however, the remission occurred after noon; looseness in |