The Hahnemannian monthly . taken after each attack of coughing, yetnot more than six to twelve during any one night. Cuprum in violent, spasmodic coughing, where the child becomes cyanoticand the lips violet, with muscular twitchings, is of value. Ambra grisea in pertus-is with eructations. In a case with this symptom,where no remedy appeared to help, ambra grisea 3x in twenty days curedthe child. Coccus cacti is indicated where the child wakes up with a violentattack of coughing. Frequently the child will have two coughing seizures,one after the other, where mere. corr. will be indicated. The
The Hahnemannian monthly . taken after each attack of coughing, yetnot more than six to twelve during any one night. Cuprum in violent, spasmodic coughing, where the child becomes cyanoticand the lips violet, with muscular twitchings, is of value. Ambra grisea in pertus-is with eructations. In a case with this symptom,where no remedy appeared to help, ambra grisea 3x in twenty days curedthe child. Coccus cacti is indicated where the child wakes up with a violentattack of coughing. Frequently the child will have two coughing seizures,one after the other, where mere. corr. will be indicated. The third stage,with its nervous cough, requires generally hyos. and puis. Here a change ofair does good.—Homeeopatisk Tidskrift, No. 10,1899. Osier states whoopingcough to be one of the most deadly diseases in childhood; not from its imme-diate effects, but rather from its tendency to waken any latent tuberculousdeposits in the lungs. I have found it a disease to be respected and carefullywatched. Frank H. Pritchard. OMTtlLY. MARCH, 1900. GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS, AIT. BY M. W. VAN DENBTJRG, M. D., MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. (Read before Westchester County Medical Society, Jan. 31,1900.) This is not intended to be an exhaustive paper on this well-known remedy, either from a historical, pathological or thera-peutic standpoint. The aim is to call attention to some of the more importantthings that a practical man wants to know, and to illustrate theviews of the two schools. First, there are two names for this drug: g-e-1-s-e-m-i-u-m andg-e-1-s-e-m-i-n-u-m. The first is the one most usually acceptedand used in the United States. The other, I have been told, isin common use in Great Britain, and is said to be derived fromthe Italian gelsomino. Gelsemium sempervirens, or yellow jasmine, grows com-monly in low ground, from Virginia southward, climbing byits twining stem to considerable height in trees and over is also cultivated as an ornamental shrub. As its name indi-cates, i
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