RUMINATION

In the study and practice of homoeopathy we must follow the path of rumination. We read over a remedy; we take it in. Then we must meditate upon it and view it with its generals, its particulars, its relationships, and its sphere of action. But this knowledge is of no use in curing the sick unless it is applied in accordance with the eternal law of cure. this old world has many needs. It moaneth and it groaneth, and little is brought forth.

THIS AND THAT ABOUT THE LIVER

To the organ they assigned the seat of two of the great emotions, love and anger. They doubtless had observed the relation existing between a mans outlook upon life in general and the state and functioning of his liver. The Romans in their scientific works simply transcribed the word, the Greek hepar, genitive hepatos, becoming the familiar Latin word hepatica.