No. 14. Her nose bled much in the night. June 10.-No. 6. Her hand burns like fire. No. 10. Her cough is severe, causes her to retch and to wheeze. No. 12. Profuse sweats. No. 14. Her nose bled again. No. 15. She can hardly get her breath from the choking, which she experiences in connexion with the cough. Ordered sambucus and arsenicum to be taken alternately. June 11.-No. 1. Burns less. No. 10. Wheezing better, retching much lessened: cough much less. Her nose has bled twice. No. 12. Perspiration much lessened. No. 15. Choking much better. No. 16. She is less delirious. Symptom 17. Feels such intense pain in the back that she cannot by any possibility bend: she is almost as if rigid. Ordered to continue sambucus and arsenicum. June 14.-No. 1. Much fever. Her wheezing, her cough, are better. The retching is gone: bled. No. 8. Her urine is like blood. ration is profuse, it quite wets the bed. and the nose has not No. 12. Her perspiNo. 15. Her choking is not so bad. No. 16. She is insensible: does not know her mother. No. 17a. She lies with her arms and hands stretched out fixed at her sides like a corpse. No. 18. She keeps her eyes open. Ordered phosphorus and opium, a globule to be taken alternately, at four hours interval. The patient now seemed to be in the worst possible state. June 15.-No. 9. M. period has occurred. Wheezing still improved. Retching still away. Cough ceased. No bleeding of the nose. No. 15. Choking not so bad. No. 16. Less delirous, knows her mother. No. 17. Pains in back gone. No. 17a. Her hands lie less fixed at her sides. Ordered to continue phosphorus and opium. Has pains in arms. No. 3. Still. No. 12. Sweats much lessened. June 17.-No. 26. Symptoms much better: this morning she is much better. No. 16. She wandered a little yesterday during the day: knows her mother well. No. 17a. She has got up her hands much better. No. 19. Mouth and teeth sore. Ordered phosphorus and mercurius. No. 17a. June 19.-Pain in arms gone: has weakness in her limbs. Symptom 20. Aching in her bones. Wheezing, retching, and cough, almost well. She can put up her hands much better. No. 19. better. No. 20. Her jaws ache: she eat a little yesterday for the first time since she has been ill. Mouth is Ordered phosphorus and mercurius in smaller doses. June 23. Has expectorated much phlegm and a little blood this morning: she has some pain at back of shoulders: she is extremely weak. No. 7. The bowels are relaxed without pain. She can put up her hands: her mouth is not sore: her jaws do not ache. Ordered pulsatilla, a globule every eight hours. June 25.-The phlegm is much better; no blood has been expectorated: the pain in the back is much better: the mouth better. No. 7. Bowels now regular. Continue pulsatilla. July 1, 1847.—Complains only of weakness. Here is presented a case which, in its course, exhibits the phenomena of severe rheumatic fever, of acute bronchitis, of comatose insensibility and almost tetanic rigidity, and yet the patient is carried safely through all these states, and that by a judicious selection of means according to the homœopathic law, and these means themselves administered in infinitesimal doses. It is a great pleasure to contemplate such a cure as this is: to observe the power of the homeopathic medicines: and one may feel proud of being able to use the weapon of medicine so as to ensure success in a contest with such extraordinary hazards. It is a satisfaction as well: for if the warrior may glory in his victories, surely, in these wars unattended with injurious inflictions, the physician is justified in feeling that he has been a successful and triumphant applier of an universal law of Nature to the treatment of disease. SUPERIOR EFFICACY OF HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT, Demonstrated in saving the life of a child belonging to a family, in which all the other children (five) had died of a disease, similar in nature, under allopathic treatment. [Communicated by Dr. EPPS.] John Banton, case book 1846, p. 163, aged 17 months, was brought to me at the latter end of July, 1846, labouring under bronchitis: his mother was induced to bring him to me, because she had lost five children under the influence of diseases of the chest, affecting spasmodically the breathing, and treated by the old-system practitioners, but treated unsuccessfully. This child was the last and the only one, and dreading a similar result, she determined to try if her child could be saved under the homoeopathic system of treatment. When the child was brought he suffered from Symptom 1. Feverish heat. Symptom 2. Tightness of the chest. Symptom 3. Wheezing. Aconite, three globules were ordered. July 27, 1846.—No. 1, is better. No. 2. Little tightness. No. 3. Still. Ordered Hepar Sulphuris, three globules. August 10.-Fever is better. No. 3. Wheezing still, but it is awake. No. 2. Less tightness. lessened: is most when Symptom 4. He has some spots (papules) come out on him. Continue Hepar Sulphuris, but in less doses. He became much better, but on Sept. 9, he was brought again, and he presented No. 3. Wheezing still, with a spasmodic character of breathing. Symptom 5. He is restless. Symptom 6. His motions are quite white. Ordered Sambucus, three globules. He recovered under the Sambucus; but, on October 19th, was seized with purging, and green stools. He was ordered Mercurius, three globules. October 26.-No. 3. His wheezing is better: his bowels are well he has a little fever. Ordered Aconite for the fever. June 1847.-The child remains well. This child presented phenomena similar to those, which all his brothers and sisters, who had died, presented. Homœopathic means were used, and the child is still alive to gladden the heart of his mother. It will be seen, that though all the medicines used were efficacious, the Sambucus was that which met the peculiar spasmodic wheezing, with which he became affected. ARTIFICIAL TEETH. To the Editor of the Journal of Health and Disease. SIR,-In the last number of your excellent Journal, in which you did me the honor to re-publish Case XXV., from my "Essay on Artificial Teeth," your Journal commences that case at page 18, thus:-" Mr. Kean the tragedian consulted me in 1830," &c. In my essay, page 181, it commences in the following words, "Mr. a gentleman of great celebrity in his profession as a tragedian consulted me in 1830.” I have no doubt you will regret this error as much as I do, and will avail yourself of the earliest opportunity to correct it; as it would very much wound the feelings of the relations and the friends of Mr. Kean, should it reach them; and, moreover, it also seems to compromise both your editorial and my professional honor. It is evident that such a mistake could only occur without your knowledge, which would be entirely remedied by your insertion of this letter in your next number; and as to myself, I trust I shall be entirely exculpated from having committed a breach of confidence, or being guilty of any unprofessional conduct, by referring the reader not only to my "Essay on Artificial Teeth," but also to my other works, namely, to my Principles of Dental Surgery," and "Essay on the Diseases of the Jaws, &c." in which I have published a great number of important cases, but in none of which has the name of the subject of the case been divulged, they being all of a private and confidential nature. 66 As to the case under consideration, I beg in conclusion to add most positively, that I have had neither the honor of being ever personally introduced to the late Mr. Kean, or his son, nor have I ever been professionally consulted by these extraordinary tragedians; but that it refers to another gentlemen now living, and holding still a very high rank in the histrionic art. Relying on your usual liberality and justice, I trust you will honor this full explanation with a place in your valuable Journal, and pardon my trespassing so much upon its useful pages. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, LEONARD KOECKER. 5, Conduit-street, Hanover-square. July 7, 1847. [We have considerable pleasure in publishing this letter.-EDS.] VENTRILOQUISTS. Ventriloquists are a better order of jugglers than the Incombustibles. The feats of the latter are doubtless more surprising the former, far more amusing. To behold a man expose himself to even the semblance of a cruel torture, affords a disgusting species of excitement; and such exhibitions as walking amidst flames, the feat of swallowing naked swords, or the favourite practice of placing in contact with half-tamed beasts of prey a human being who submits to the risk for the sake of a scanty remuneration, is an order |