This quotation demonstrates the miserable position in which the allopathist is placed, and affords a favourable opportunity of pointing out the blessing of homœopathy, in enabling its advocates, by the use of aconite, to subdue, without any injury to the constitution, all this high arterial action.

Dr. Ozanne then, with much force, refers to the most successful means used for scarlet fever under the allopathic system, and shows that they owe their value to their homœopathicity.

Dr. Ozanne lost five cases out of seventy-five; whereas, at the allopathic hospital of St. Peterport in the same island of Guernsey, seven children had scarlet fever, and four died.

Pages 186 to 190 inclusive, contain suggestions for an improved plan of the Materia Medica.

Pages 170 to 174 inclusive, contain some remarks by Dr. Chapman on the use of plumbum carbonicum.

The mental or moral states in which this medicine was beneficial, in one case, were—

"(1.) Sleeplessness; (2.) gloom; (3.) despair of her salvation; and (4.) moody taciturnity, (5.) with the fixed idea that she could only obtain peace and safety from receiving absolution from a priest of the papal church, she being professedly a protestant, were her predominant symptoms.

Her face was nearly of a leaden hue, and there was a perpetual movement of the lips, as of one smoking, with a slight sound accompanying the movement; drowsy by day.

Dr. Chapman ordered the 8th of a grain of the third trituration night and morning.

In another case of a gentleman having, in addition to the symptoms Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, he "has the sounds of hell constantly in his ears; hears the voices and sees the shadows of demons; has a great disposition to make away with himself, or do himself some bodily injury.”

He took doses of the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st triturations of the plumbum, and with decided benefit.

The third case is one, which surgeons, who treat under the old system what are called strictures of the rectum, would have named stricture of the rectum, and would have maltreated accordingly.

The patient had suffered for from eight to ten years, with

very few intervals, intolerable pain from spasms of the rectum, his suffering being that of horrible constriction and spasmodic contraction. When his evacuations are liquid, his sufferings are violent only an hour or two; when passing a day without evacuations, his sufferings lasted for several days. He has never an evacuation without aperients or lavements. He was cured.

The

Pages 175 to 181 inclusive are occupied by an interesting report of the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, at Linz, Upper Austria, by Dr. George Hilbers. This hospital is entirely homœopathic. Dr. Reiss is the physician. Of 555 patients admitted, 484 were cured, 28 relieved, and 27 died. statistics of this hospital, and of another homœopathic hospital in Vienna, are to be depended upon, for the government exact a report every month from every hospital, and at the end of the year the records are arranged and recorded.

It appears that the success in the homoeopathic hospital of Vienna (one point is worthy of notice-namely, that in forty-six cases of pneumonia, only one case terminated fatally) has caused many of the leading physicians to trust wholly to nature; has induced one of the greatest authorities at Vienna on diseases of the chest, to declare, that from his experience when the cases of inflammation of the lungs are left to nature, the results are more satisfactory than when bleeding, blistering, tartar emetic, and the usual allopathic means are used; that, further, the society of physicians has decided in favour of two great principles in homœopathic treatment-namely, that medicines should always be administered singly, and that it is necessary they should be proved on the healthy human body.

It appears, also, that in the Austrian dominions there are sixty homœopathic practitioners, men of high talents and attainments.

Pages 180 to 188 are occupied with Reviews, in which stands prominent, mixed with many accurate remarks, the strong bias of the reviewer against the domestic treatment of diseases,-the strong prepossession in favour of preserving intact the supposed rights of the medical priesthood against the conveniences of the laity.

Pages 189 to 194 are occupied with remarks in connexion with Mr. Cardwell's case,-a case of which the history is now published by Dr. Curie, the perusal of which is most earnestly recommended.

That history presents the conduct of Mr. Wakley, the coroner for Middlesex, in a point of view which detracts greatly from his character as a judge; it shows the evil of a bustling busybody, who, in professing to regard the interests of a young man, takes upon herself to perform acts which end in the dissolution of the person for whom she professed so much regard; but it shows, further, what is to be regretted most of all, a morbid haste, on the part of some practising homœopathists to add to the torrent of prejudice excited by pre-existing circumstances, their aid in overwhelming a fellow-practitioner,-a man who, so far as experience has shown, knew more of homœopathy, and practised it more extensively, than any of those who signed the declaration against his mode of practice.

The journal concludes with noticing the proposal to erect a monument to Hahnemann, at Coethen, the place of his refuge from the persecutions of his medical contemporaries.

Attached to the journal is a proving of colocynth, of which the realities will be collected and presented hereafter.

DIET FOR THE SICK.-CIDER.

(Communicated by Dr. EPPS.)

"A LITTLE cider cannot do me any harm, surely," is a remark which every physician must have often heard from his patient.

The harm, perhaps, is not immediate, and is therefore often not regarded. Sometimes the harm is exhibited in some palpable effect, and then the connexion between the cider and the harm is discovered. The following will illustrate :-

"He has had two bad attacks since he last consulted you; both attacks came after taking cider :"-such was the statement of a lady who came with her brother to consult me, he being under my care for epilepsy.

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Journal of Health and Disease.

SEPTEMBER, 1845.

PHYSIOLOGY IN REGARD TO THE LAWS OF INCREASE, AND THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTS ON OFFSPRING.

CHAPTER I.

SECTION III.-Original mode of increase.-Mules.-Short-horned Cattle.Jacob and Laban, and their Cattle.-Different varieties of the Human Family.Height transmissible.—Shortness transmissible.-Longevity transmissible.— The Women of Prague.-The Jews.-Notes.

THE remarks already made in connexion with the mineral and the vegetable kingdoms, establish, that increase is regulated by certain laws; and, further, that when life is superadded, the laws become more varied, and afford thereby a greater range for beneficial or injurious modification, by a wise or an unwise application of these laws.

Even a superficial examination of the animal kingdom, in comparison with the vegetable kingdom, demonstrates the existence of a wider range for the operation of the influences on increase; this greater width of range being dependent upon the fact, that the manifestations of life connected with it, are much more numerous than those connected with the vegetable kingdom.

It may therefore be presumed that the remarks already made in connexion with the vegetable kingdom, have been principally introductory to the animal part of the creation; and that the remarks hereafter to be made, will have almost sole reference thereto, and will afford matter for much important instruction and guidance.

"Male and female ereated he them," is the abstract of the

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history given of the creation of the human race,—a history demonstrating that the existence of sexes was the original form under which the Divine will manifested itself in relation to the multiplication of the human family; a form of manifestation presented also in reference to the higher order of the constituents of the whole mass, known under the name of animal kingdom.

The same history further states, that the Creator issued a command, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth;" and phrenological science has afforded a demonstration, that the Creator has, as might be expected, guaranteed the fulfilment of his command, by implanting in the human brain a power, associated with the cerebellum, which awakens into activity when the human being is, by the advance of his and her physical condition, capable of realising the end for which the instinct was bestowed.

So universal is the recognition of such being the course by which the augmentation of the animal creation takes place, that the presence of a child is suggestive of the idea-the pre-existence of the parents. In fact, no delay need now occur by any further reference thereto, but at once the forms, under which the parents exercise an influence over the offspring, may be brought under review.

Parents are, as it were, the roots whence the offspring springs --the seed whence the offspring shoots.

As is the root, so is the tree; as is the seed so is the plant. Modifications of the root and of the seed produce their individualising effects on the tree and the plant.

So parents can and do exercise a modifying influence over the offspring. The illustrations exhibiting the operation of this power, will be considered as allied with the physical, the intellectual, and the moral features of the human character, in connexion with the animal organisation, and will present numerous important facts, and will develop many highly valuable, because practical deductions.

The problem, then, to be demonstrated and to be illustrated, is, that PARENTAGE MODIFIES OFFSPRING.

By parentage is understood primarily that of human beings,