iana. Truly, it is a riddle to the physiological school, but how great a help to the follower of Hahnemann !

Will not some of our readers give us some cases in which this symptom is prominent ?

Maligant Diseases of the Uterus. Medical Record says: We glean from Prof. Fodyce Baker's monograph on "Some Clinical Observations on the Malignant Diseases of the Uterus the following facts: It is, relatively, as often met with in the country as the city. There were in England from 1838 to 1842, 3,000 deaths from cancer of the uterus. In France, in the department of the Seine, from 1830 to 1835, they were 2,480 deaths from the same cause. From the mortuary records of New York City, there were 413 deaths from cancer of uterus in the ten years ending Dec. 31, 1865. There were 298 deaths during the three succeeding years, and the first nine months of 1869.

The Parisian mortality from this cause exceeded that of New York in the proportion of 413 to 79 annually in the years compared.

The African race are comparatively exempt from the disease.

His record of the comparative frequency of the forms of malignant disease is as follows: Cancer of the uterus, 487; Cauliflower excrescence, 18; Corroding ulcer, 9; Recurrent fibroid, 3.

Chloroform in Parturition.-Editors Medical Record say: When chloroform is used in parturition, beyond the stage at which it produces simple drunkenness, and indifference to pain, Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. D., D.C.L. (The Dub. Quar. Jour. Med. Science), affirms it is positively injurious; for it destroys the action of the voluntary abdominal muscles which constitute the chief part of the force employed in difficult labors. Hence the muscular tissue of the uterus is left to overcome an obstacle beyond its strength, and without the aid that nature intended to be given by the abdominal muscles. The result is that labor ceases until consciousness returns, and enables the ill-treated woman to avail herself of the apparatus of abdominal muscles provided by nature for her use.

In these remarks he confines himself altogether to the physical aspect of the use of chloroform in labor; and forbears to express an opinion as to the moral effects likely to be produced by the exhibition of an intoxicating agent, administered merely for the luxurious purpose of deadening the pain of the exercise of a purely natural physiological function.

Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

PROF. E. M. HALE, CHICAGO, ILL. EDITOR.

LILIUM TIGRINUM.

BY E. M. HALE, M. D.

The honor of introducing this remedy into our materia medica, is due to Dr. W. E. Payne, of Bath, Maine. Owing to his enthusiastic and industrious efforts, several provings of great value have been made. These provings are superior to nearly all our previous provings from the fact that the objective symptoms were noted, and certain pathological conditions recognized beyond controversy.

. The sphere of action of Lilium appears to involve the heart, and the sexual organs, and it affects these organs in a profound and peculiar manner. The high character of all the provers, and those who vouch for them, affords the strongest guarantee of their genuineness.

The tincture of the flowers, is the officinal preparation, but the tincture of the seeds may be more potent. The bulbous root is probably not medicinal, being eaten by the natives of China and Japan, where the plant is indigenous.

The following is a collection of the most notable symptoms obtained up to this time, excepting however, a large number which will appear in the complete resumé in the transactions of the American Institute for 1870. (See report of the Materia Medica Bureau.)

MENTAL SPHERE.

Do not care to be pleased; don't care to talk; desire to sleep; confusion of ideas; pressure and crazy feeling upon the vertex, so that she cannot write her symptoms (vv ;) she wants somebody to

talk to her and entertain her; feels quite nervous; feels hurried and yet incapable as if she had a great deal to do and cannot do it; much thirst; drinks often, and much at a time; she is consious of feeling nervous, irritable, and yet says she feels jolly; don't want to complain, and yet don't avoid people; she remarks that her symptoms are all worse when she gives up active resistance to them and control over herself, as for example, when she sits down to rest or tries to go to sleep; discouraged and despondent; averse to being alone but does not dread it; wits and intuitions dull and languid; depression; desire for fine things of every kind; dissatisfied with what she has, and envious of others; while attending a lecture desire to strike the lecturer and in the evening a disposition to swear at every body and every thing, and to think and speak of obscene things; languid, dull, and forgetful despondency with aggravation at night; nervous tremulousness and inability to apply the mind; wild feeling in the head as though she would go crazy and no one would take care of her; thoughts of suicide.

HEAD.

Heat and pain in forehead and brow; severe blinding headache in the anterior part of the head; the peculiarity of which was a sensation as if all the blood were pressing out through every aperture; headache as if the head were too full of blood, as if the blood would issue from nose and ears (vv) pressure from within outwards, (vv;) darting pains in different parts of the head; grumbling pain in the right side of head and teeth; the head grows "wild" after she has been quiet a short time; pressure and a crazy feeling upon the vertex, so that she cannot write her symptoms, dull and sharp pains particularly over the eyes; the pains etc of the head are heaviness, heat, fulness, dullness, right side mostly affected.

EYES.

Dimness of sight (v.)

MOUTH AND THROAT.

Much thirst; drinks often, and much at a time; nausea.

STOMACH.

Eructations soon after taking the medicine; nausea with desire to vomit, but unable to do so (vvv;) bubbling sensation in the right hypochondriuin; constant desire to vomit, with frequent

hawking of mucus from the throat; great distention of the stomach, with frequent eructations and escape of flatus from the anus (vv;) (escape of flatus upward and downward was a very constant attendant while under the influence of the drug.)

ABDOMEN AND GENITAL ORGANS.

At intervals the skin of the abdomen felt stiff and stretched; nausea with bloated sensation in the abdomen, particularly across the hips and in the region of the uterus with darting pains in different parts of the head; some tearing pain in the lower part of the abdomen from the region of the ovary down both sides; pain in the right iliac region, better during motion; increased depressing weight over the pubes, worse in evening; the dragging downwards towards pelvis is felt as high as the stomach and even the shoulders; not relieved by lying down; though worse when standing; a disposition to place the hand upon the hypogastrium and press upwards in order to relieve the dragging sensation; wants to cry from a feeling of irritation and of something wrong in the abdomen and pelvis; a sensation in the pelvis as though everything was coming into the world through the vagina (vv;) a very distressing sensation, not relieved by change of position; also, an aching and pressure across the lumbar-sacral region and some pressure on the rectum; when walking, pain in both ovaries, worse in the left, extending down the anterior and inner aspect of the left thigh, as if it would be impossible to take another step; as soon as she extended the limb she must immediately flex it again, and then, because of a restless discomfort, must again extend it; she cannot tell which pelvic pain is the worse, that in back, or that in the pubic region; the whole contents of the pelvis seem to drag downwards and forwards and quite from the epigastric region; feels bloated but is not so; somewhat tender on pressure in region of the ovaries especially the right; aching in the pelvis between promontory of sacrum and pubes; it feels to her as if the aching was not in the uterus but around it; she feels constantly the two spots corresponding to the ovaries and which ache and feel like coals of fire; in the pelvis a feeling like a dragging out, as if the whole contents were pushing down into a funnel, the outlet of which concided with the vagina (vv;) pain in the right ovary as if a knife were inserted into the ovary and ripped down the groin and the anterior part of the thigh; the pain extended over the lumbar-sacral region, and she

must cry herself to sleep; somewhat relieved by pressure on the ovarian region; menses occurred at the regular day and normal, but only while she keeps moving; the flow ceases when she becomes quiet; sexual instincts, formerly dormant are now quite strong; wits and intuitions dull and languid; leucorrhæa, (a thin acrid discharge leaving a brown stain; she never had it before) (vv;) burning pain across the hypogastrium from groin to grɔin; menses recurred after an interval of two weeks; a slight dark, thick and offensive discharge; pressing down in the pelvis and burning all around the pubes and genitals worse from 3 to 5 P. M. (v;) rumbling in the lower part of the bowels, more on the right side (vvv;) abdomen tender to pressure occasionally.

RECTUM AND STOOL.

Her bowels had been regular, but now she has alternately a solid and a loose stool, several during the day, and a constant feeling as though she must have a stool; this feeling resulting from a sensation as if something were pressing against the anterior wall of the rectum, at the anus, and about one to three inches above it; for 36 hours constant desire for stool from pressure on the rectum-a stool every half hour, lumpy, diarrhoeic, with flatus, constant tenesmus, with burning in the urethra; diarrhoea in the morning; evacuations dark and hard, followed by heat in the rectum and anus, with slight pains in the abdo

men.

GENERATIVE ORGANS.

[See "Abdomen and Genital Organs."]

URINE.

Frequent desire to urinate; worse during the day, weak, scanty discharge followed by an acrid sensation in the urethra ; tenesmus, resulting in passage of a little urine only; urine fœtid.

Pain through the heart to the back, and a feeling as if the heart were squeezed in a vice; short of breath, especially on going up stairs; heaviness in region of heart, and palpitation when lying on left side, worse when in bed at night; heart's action intermittent-every intermission was followed by a violent throb, (vv.) causing an involuntary catching of the breath, at the same time the blood rushed up through the carotids to the head, producing great heat, and a crowded feeling of the head and face;