DR. E. D. BROOKS, (Flushing, Mich.) formed a partnership with Miss Gertrude Lawrence, of Three Rivers, on May 25th last. No cards.

DR. E. STEVENSON has removed from Victoria, B. C., to Vancouver, B. C., the terminal City of the C. P. R. R., on the Pacific Coast.

THE Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, of Chicago opened its present session with 151 matriculates as against 138 of last year.

THE opening ceremonies of the new hospital building of the Hahnemann Medical College, (Phila.) were held on Monday, Oct. 3, 1887, at 8:30 P. M.

DR. LUCIEN B. WELLS, (Utica, N. Y) and his amiable companion nee Orissa M. Searle, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding, Oct. 3, 1878.

THE second quarterly meeting of the Homœopathic Medical Society of Western New York, was held at Power's Hotel, Rochester, N. Y., on Oct. 14, 1887.

MARRIED.-At the First Reformed Church, Kingston, N. Y., on November 22, at six o'clock, Dr. William More Decker and Miss Bessie Smith. Congratulations.

THE POPULAR SCIENCE continues to be one of the most interesting monthlies which comes to our table. In making up your list of periodicals for '88, be sure to include it.

THE ceremonies attendant upon the opening of the new hospital of the Women's Homœopathic Association of Pennsylvania, occurred October 13th, a success in every way.

DR. CHAS. D. TUFFORD, (Louisville, Ky.) has met with a terrible bereavement, in the loss of his nine year old boy, who accidentally shot himself during the temporary absence of the family.

C. S. MORLEY, M. D., has removed to Detroit, and will make a specialty of operative gynecology. In his extended field of labor we hope to hear of his continued success as a surgeon. The profession in Detroit, are to be congratulated on this accession to their numbers.

O. B. GAUSE, M. D.-A few weeks ago when we met him in Saratoga, as a member of the Intercollegiate committee, a representative of the Philadelphia College, we little thought that the associations and work of a quarter of a century would so soon be broken up. But such is life. Dr. Gause is now out of the college where for years he has so successfully labored, and permanently located at Aiken, S. C., and any of our readers having patients visiting the South during the winter months, will be glad to know that there is a homœopathic physician in Aiken, capable of caring for any who may need care.

THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, for November, is one of the brightest and most richly illustrated issues of the year Oliver Cromwell's portrait appears as its frontispiece, incident to the romantic story of the first settlement of Shelter Island, in 1652, is told by Mrs. Lamb in her happiest vein, entitled the "Historic Home of the Sylvesters." Shelter Island was erected into a manor in 1666, and cultivated by negro slaves until it became a gem of beauty. During the Quaker persecution in Massachusetts it was where the sufferers fled for shelter; and its history is interwoven with the wrangles between the Dutch of New York and the English of Connecticut while the two parent nations were at war in Europe.

A NEW Society, to be known as "the Hahnemannian Association of Penn." was organized on Tuesday evening, Oct. 11th, at the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia. Like the Lippe Society and kindred organizations it proposes to deal solely with Homeopathy in its purity. Its distinctive feature is a clause of its constitution requiring that new members shall join the Association by degrees, viz.: They are first elected to associate membership, in which they have full privilege to enter into debate and receive appointments for work, but cannot hold office nor vote. Before applying for active membership they are required to attend ten (10) stated meetings as associates and to present three original papers. Three negative votes are then necessary to reject to active membership.

The Lippe Society is a more exclusive organization and is a social as well as a medical club. The object of this association, (while friendly to the L. S.) is "strictly business."

The following officers were elected: Dr. Mahlon Preston, President, of Norristown, Penn.; Dr. C. Carleton Smith, Vice-President of Philadelphia; Dr. Wm. Jefferson Guernsey, Secretary, of Frankford, Phila; Dr. Geo. H. Clark, Treasurer, of Germantown, Phila. Dr. John V. Allen, of Frankford, Phila., was appointed to prepare an original paper for the next meeting, when Dr. Smith will offer an article on Spongia, and Dr. Clark will give a dissertation on one paragraph of the Organon. Adjourned to meet in November at the same place. W. J. G.

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A CHRISTMAS GIFT.-A most acceptable present for either wife sister or mother, and one that should grace the parlor table of every Homœopath in America, is Dr. Helmuth's new poem "Humany." It is beautifully illustrated and elegantly bound. See notice in a future issue. Ask your pharmacy for it.

THE JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, a new candidate for journalistic favors is announced. The first number (Sept.) will contain seven double lithographic plates and one heliotype plate.

THOSE Who employ antiseptic methods in surgery should investigate Listerine-safer than corrosive Mercury.

THE N. J. STATE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY held its semi-annual meeting at Atlantic City. The attendance was good and so were the papers.

THERE are many excellent preparations of concentrated foods for the sick, for babies or for invalids, in this issue. See the advertisements of Mellin's, Carnrick's, Lactated foods and Bovinine and Colden's beef. A good selection can be made for almost any patient. Send for sample and mention this journal.

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WELL DONE KANSAS.-The program and bill of fare of the State Society, for the next annual meeting in May, 1888, is on our table. No member need complain of not receiving timely notice.

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VOL. XIX. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, DECEMBER, 1887.

MATERIA MEDICA.

No. 6.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SEPIA AND SULPHUR.*

EDWARD RUSHMORE, M. D., Plainfield, N. J.

Dr. Gross, in his "Comparative Materia Medica," has given many comparisons and contrasts between allied remedies, which have often been of the greatest use to me in selecting a remedy for the sick. There are, however, many more points of distinction between the remedies I have chosen for this study, which I have put in easily available form for my own use, and which I now endeavor to arrange for still more extended and convenient reference. I need hardly say to any one to whom this study may come that Boenninghausen has been my chief guide.

Beginning with the symptoms according to the Hahnemannian schema, we find affections of the intellect in the highest degree characteristic of Sepia; even indifference, absence of mind, difficult comprehension. Sulphur has

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less tendency to intellectual disturbance, except as to fantastic illusions.

Sulphur has a more decided action on the hair, but the complaints calling for Sepia are mostly found in darkhaired people.

Sepia has a comparatively slight affinity for the eyes, although the eye symptoms are numerous. Sulphur, on the contrary, affects almost all tissues of the eye powerfully, with many disturbances of vision. Sepia predominantly acts on the upper eyelid; Sulphur on the margins of the lids.

Sepia acts more than Sulphur on the internal ear, causing acuteness of hearing; Sulphur complaints have rather hardness of hearing and noises, especially humming in the

ears.

Sepia has inflammatory irritation of the tip of the nose; Sulphur, bleeding of the nose on blowing it. Under Sepia the smell is lessened or lost; under Sulphur there is smell of old catarrh in the nose.

Both remedies have pale or yellow face, but red spots on the cheeks decide for Sulphur. The facial eruption of Sepia is around the mouth and on the nose; that of Sulphur more on the upper lip.

Sepia has a puffy nose, but Sulphur has freckles on the face.

Sepia affects mainly the lower; Sulphur the upper lip. Sepia has pain and decay of the teeth; Sulphur, disturbances of the tongue and lessened saliva.

Sepia has loss of appetite; Sulphur, thirst and aversion to meat. Under Sepia the taste is mostly bitter or salt; under Sulphur it is sour.

The chief gastric disturbance of Sepia is vomiting of bile; but Sulphur has water in the mouth, qualmishness, nausea and sour vomiting.

Sepia affects mainly the liver; Sulphur, the stomach. Sulphur has rumbling in the abdomen, while the complaints of Sepia prevail in the hypogastrium.

Sulphur has offensive flatus, obstructed stool or diarrhoea, and stools bloody, green, knotty, mucous, offensive,