THE HOME MEDICINE CHEST

The Nux patient is one who is oversensitive, easily irritated,never contented. Take for example a business man who has has a strenuous time at the office and as a result has acquired what may be termed frayed nerves. The above will give a simple idea of the type of patient which Nux vomica will help.

THE REVOLT AGAINST ORTHODOX MEDICINE

The present tendency of orthodox medicine with its mania for dangerous subcutaneous treatments and for largely necessary operations is disastrous to the medical profession. It is a well-known fact that numerous doctors make a good living by this ghastly and sordid practice. Hence homeopathy has a most wonderful chance.

TWO CANCER CURES

Sometimes these small growths become malignant, developing into sarcoma. Only internal treatment can thoroughly cure that condition. The combination of Natrum nitricum and chelidonium was introduced by Rademacher a century ago. It frequently is effective in influenza.

SHORT FASTS FOR HEALTH

The results of his campaign have been of the happiest kind and here are some of the particulars, typical of hundreds of cases he has supervised or influenced since 1918-cases not prejudiced by the ingestion of either herbs, patent medicines or foods, or drugs of any kind.

HERBS ARE BETTER THAN CHEMICALS FOR WOUNDS

What is more important to the patient, it does so without any of the very great discomforts caused by the C-D solution to the surrounding skin, for it irritates the skin so much as to prevent sleep. Medical stimulation is necessary. It overlaps every phase of surgical recovery, but the remedies must be chosen according to the rule of similia similibus.

LETTERS

It was first triturated during five minutes and then for a whole hour. After the five minutes trituration the drug was almost white. After an hours trituration it had assumed a deep red colour. It was heartening to see the interest with which this demonstration was watched by those present.

HIGH POTENCIES AND LOW POTENCIES

FOR more than a century the question of potencies has been a stone of stumbling to homoeopaths. There are high potency men, low potency men, medium potency men and all potency men. However, the risk had been too great. She ought to have been given a lower potency, perhaps the 200th.

DR BACHS TWELVE REMEDIES FROM A LAY POINT OF VIEW

They are really living in the past, with their memories, or with someone who had passed over, so that the present has no interest for them. Watch them in the streets. The remedies should be prepared near the place where the plant grows, as the flowers should be put straight into the water after gathering, whilst they are quite fresh and full of life.

MY CONVERSION TO HIGH POTENCIES

The ideals of homeopathy were rather blurred while I was a medical student. In my foolish superiority of the newly acquired knowledge I despised the tiny little globules, which I thought might be good enough for children and their simple ailments. The high dilution could have no effect.

HOW TO HANDLE SICK DOGS

Never forget that the mentality of one dog is totally different from that of another. All animals wish to be left alone when they are ill and also when they are about to die. Alas ! the life of a dog is so short and there are none of us who have not been in mourning for a lost friend.

THE PRICE OF WOMENS VANITY

Curling of the hair or permanent waving, effected by means of hot curling irons or by chemical means, often results in severe burns of the scalp when the former is used and very severe dermatitis venenata from the latter. Blister formation on the heel with secondary infection is rather frequent.