Homopathy is good for children.

By Harvey Farrington, M.D.

Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
(Read before I. H. A., Bureau of Obstetrics and Pediatrics, June 27, 1936.)

"Homopathy is good for children." How often we have

heard this statement. The implication is that it is not so good for
adults. This was evidently the idea in the mind of a man who,
when asked what kind of a doctor he employed, replied : "I have
a homopath for my children because his sugar pills are so easy
to take. When I myself am ailing, I want some real medicine."
The great majority of the laity, although well meaning, think
superficially and reason from appearances instead of facts. And
yet there is a moral aspect involved in the remarks of the parent
just quoted. If you accused him of being no better than the man
who pours off the cream for his coffee in the morning and gives
the skimmed milk to his babies, he would be very indignant ;
but you would have been right.
Why not the best for the tender infant and the growing
Dr H. Farrington
child ? Life expectancy has advanced considerably over what it
was a decade or two ago, not, we are told, because men live longer, but because more children
are saved during the early and most precarious years of their existence. Careful parents who can
afford it employ a competent pediatrist.
Those in less fortunate circumstances avail themselves of the numerous books, pamphlets and
newspaper articles which are printed almost daily. They buy scales and keep an accurate account
of gain or loss in weight. They carefully sterilize feeding bottles, nipples, toys and even diapers.
They study the uses of cod liver oil concentrate, vitamins and prepared vegetables, and for the
most part their babies thrive and wax in strength and stature.
When, however, it comes to medical treatment they usually accept the measures dictated by
Health Boards and physicians, and some, like the unnatural parent mentioned above, employ a
homopath because his pills are easy to take. Of course you will agree that the little ones so
blessed are the beneficiaries. The others live in spite of serums, vaccines and drugs. The latter,
although given in smaller doses, are still in vogue.
The majority of my six hundred and eighty-odd confinement cases were taken care of in the
home. In a practice of over forty years, I have never lost an infant whose heart was beating when
it was born. Several years ago I was patronizing a well known hospital in Chicago which had
shown an unusual record in the care of both mother and baby ; but I was puzzled when I found in
three consecutive cases that the baby, apparently perfectly well during its sojourn in the infants'
ward, came home with a diarrha that was unaccountable and not easily controlled. I made an
investigation and found that it was routine not only to give the mother castor oil on the third day

but the baby also. I had taken the precaution to interdict the "physic" for the mother but never
dreamed that it was being given to the infant.
It is always a source of great satisfaction to me to "puls one over" on the allopath. Some five
weeks ago the seventeen-months-old son of patients of mine living thirty miles away was taken
down with vomiting and diarrha followed by a loose cough, fever and great restlessness. They
had been greatly Worried over the child for some time because a pediatrist had told them the boy
was running into the mongolian type and they thought that the present illness was a
manifestation of this ailment. They begged me to come out, assuring me that, in order to save my
time, they would have the local allopath there to tell me all about the case, adding that he was not
to prescribe any medicine.
I arrived twenty minutes ahead of him and had a good opportunity for observation on my own
account. The baby's temperature was 102.5F, his face pale. He persisted in lying on his back
and at frequent intervals, jerked the pelvis off the bed several times in rapid succession. I was
told that this strange symptom had been recurring for several weeks. The cough was loose and
infrequent but not severe. There were a few rales in the bronchials but no dullness of the chest.
He whined and whimpered and could be pacified only when carried about. After watching him
for a few minutes I noticed a slight waving motion of the nostrils. He had been circumcised but
there were a few slight adhesions around the corona glandis.
The young doctor came and was naturally not quite at ease, but he made the best of an
embarrassing situation. With much hemming and hawing he gave a history of the case,
eliminated pneumonia, meningitis and narrowed the diagnosis down to some obscure toxic
condition in the colon, which agreed with my-own conclusions. On leaving he advised me to
give a little aspirin, a sedative, perhaps some phenacetin, and a cathartic. I assured him that I
would prescribe a sedative and see that the child got a good cleaning out, and he made his exit.
What I did give was a dose of Lycopodium 1M. and some placebo. The next morning the mother,
over long distance telephone, told me that half an hour after I left the boy fell asleep and slept
soundly for eleven hours, waking bright and happy. All symptoms had disappeared. Even the up
and down motion of the pelvis had ceased. He has required no medicine since.
Many years ago the mother of a little family which summered at Gray's Lake, Illinois, called
me up and asked me to prescribe for a small girl across the way who was very ill with cholera
infantum. There had been a consultation and the doctors had pronounced the case hopeless. I
cannot recall the symptoms or the name of the remedy which was given from my patient's family
medicine chest, but the child made a rapid and complete recovery.
My friend told me afterward how amused she was when the doctor who had had the case
walked past her neighbor's house every morning on the way to his office, looking for the crepe
which he confidently expected to see hanging on the door. After several days and not having the
courage to inquire of the mother, he crossed the street and asked my patient what had happened.
When she told him he merely remarked, "Well, there are doctors in Chicago who know a lot
more than we do." The question is, why didn't he ask about the remedy given ?

One of my families with an only daughter, ten years of age, moved to Springfield, Illinois. I
recommended to them a homopath in that city, whose name I had obtained from my
pharmacist. They found that he was a very poor excuse for a homopath and when the child
contracted pneumonia, called an old school physician who had a reputation for curing that
disease. He, of course, rushed her to the hospital and placed her in a room with a vapor lamp.
The father got me on long distance and gave a fairly good picture for Belladonna. A powder of
the 10M. was mailed by special delivery and given surreptitiously the next morning. Two days
afterward I received the following telegram : "Temperature midnight 105F down to normal 11
A. M. Right lung still solid. No danger of spreading. Heart in good shape. Doctors amazed."
On his next trip to Chicago the father gave me a graphic account of how the doctor and his
son, also a physician, on their regular rounds, looked at the chart, then at the little patient, then at
each other. The older man, evidently feeling that he should say something, remarked, "Well, it
won't stay that way." In five days the small patient left the hospital.
I could recite other similar instances, such as that of the small daughter of an old school
oculist in the suite where I have my downtown office. I accidentally overheard the mother
expressing her great anxiety because the doctors wanted to give the child "shots" for hay fever,
and that she had heard of a child having been killed by them. I offered my services, which were
gladly accepted. Ambrosia art. stopped the hay fever.
Also of the 18-year-old son of a surgeon on the opposite side of the big waiting room and the
son of one of his patients, also suffering from stival coryza, who were cured with the same
remedy. But I will forbear. The cases already recited should convince any thinking person that
HOMOPATHY IS GOOD FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS AS WELL.
Dr Harvey Farrington
Chicago, Ill.

Renal calculi cured by the homopathic remedy.

By Harvey Farrington, M.D.
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
(Read before I. H. A., Bureau of Surgery, June 8, 1935.)

Text-books on homopathic therapeutics form a useful and

necessary part of our literature, but the indications for remedies
are usually meagre and unsatisfactory to the careful student of
Materia medica. Moreover, they are apt to lower the standard of
prescribing with those who are lazy or lacking in the
fundamentals of correct prescribing. Although at times it may
be possible to remove calculi from the kidneys by administering
one of the remedies recommended in treatises-on renal diseases,
it is by no means certain that the patient's general health will be
benefited at the same time.
The two cases herewith presented were prescribed for
symptomatically and the cure established and confirmed by xrays. I have treated many cases of renal colic and others where
clinical symptoms and the passage of gravel indicated the
presence of stones in the kidney and their disintegration, but
these are the only ones in which the proof seems irrefutable.

Dr H. Farrington

Early in May, 1918, a man 45 years of age came to my office bringing with him an x-ray of
the right kidney, confirming the diagnosis of renal calculus. The stone was fusiform in shape, lay
near the spine or about where the entrance to the ureter should be and about half an inch in
length. He gave a history of several attacks of renal colic, always attended with much flatulence
and, previous to the attacks, considerable red sand in the urine. There were a dull pain in the
back over the right kidney, rumbling of flatus, distress in the stomach from drinking cold water,
much belching and sense of fullness after eating a small amount of food.
He was apt to be worse from 3.30 or 4.00 until 8 or 9 P. M. The prescription was easy. He
received a dose of Lycopodium 10M. on May 15. Improvement was almost immediate. The
flatulence subsided and in a week or so he was able to eat a normal amount of food without
distress. On June 18 another picture was taken and the shadow of the stone, so clearly visible in
the first one, was absent. The curious part of it was that during the time he was under the action
of the remedy, he passed no crystals of any sort and the urine failed to throw down any sediment,
even after standing for several hours.
On hearing of this, Mr. L---.'s employer immediately sent his wife to try and see what
homopathy could do. She had spent months in trying to get rid of stones in the right kidney and
was about to go to the hospital to have the kidney removed. She was a woman 40 years of age,
with light brown hair and blue eyes and weighed 113 pounds. For four years she had suffered
with severe attacks of pain in the right kidney which, her family physician told her, were of
"malarial origin". About two months before she came to me, she had consulted Dr. Bass, some

where in Texas, who was specializing in kidney diseases and claimed to have a secret remedy for
the cure of calculi. She thought that she had received some benefit from his medicines.
A resume of her record follows :
July 12, 1918. Mrs. G. N. M---., age 40 ; brown hair, weight 118 lbs. Attacks of severe pain in
the region of the right kidney with occasional passage of small calculi since February 1914 ; pain
may extend toward the bladder ; blood and pus in the urine off and on since Nov. 1916 ; x-ray
shows three stones ranging from 3/8" to 3/4" in diameter ; many smaller ones. Much flatulence
in the bowels since typhoid fever when she was 15 ; some belching.
These symptoms are always worse before or during an attack. Menses regular, profuse,
painful ; accompanied by herpes about the mouth and irritability ; ending occasionally in a
headache ; followed by marked weakness. A urinary analysis made by Dr. Clifford Mitchell of
Chicago showed specific gravity, 1012 ; reaction slightly acid ; urea, 0.008 grains per 24 hours ;
chlorides 0.095 per cent ; phosphates 0.093 per cent ; a plain trace of albumen ; considerable
pus ; a whitish sediment containing a few crystals of triple phosphates. A note at the end stated,
"Feeble acidity favoring deposit of phosphates". Aching here and there, in joints of calves of the
legs when the weather changes from hot to cold or becomes damp. Psorinum 10M.
July 17. Pains and bloating much worse after the remedy, then greatly improved ; passed 3 or
4 small stones, with little pain. Sac. lac.
July 26. Has been feeling better than for many months ; some flatus ; slight distress in right
kidney ; passed three small stones. Sac. lac.
Sept. 6. Passing stones now and then without pain ; the largest one yet, about 1/4" square,
1/16" thick, with rounded corners, causing sharp pains in the bladder until it was washed out.
Fullness in region of ascending colon, sharp pains in the right kidney and more bloating would
indicate that another one was on the way. Psor. 42M.
Sept. 14. Not so well ; flatulence greatly increased ; much belching. Carbo veg. 1M.
Oct. 1. Had la grippe and symptoms worse ; herpes about lips and nostrils. "Side" hurts ;
flatulence. Carbo veg. 1M.
Oct. 7. Much better ; may have passed a few crystals. Sac. lac.
Dec. 2. Some pain in side ; passed two large stones, but menses less painful than for several
years ; no weakness following. Sac. lac.
The Carbo veg. was repeated on Dec. 31 and Feb. 11, 1919 in the 10M. potency with
continued improvement, but occasional passage of the flat squarish stones which would fall to
powder as soon as they dried out. Three doses of the DMM. of Swan were administered on
March 18. They relieved flatulence and distress in the ascending colon but headaches became
more frequent and severe. The record continues :

March 25, 1919, headaches relieved by hot applications. Psor. CM. and Sac. lac."
April 23. Headaches have been much better ; flatulence also. Sac. lac.
May 16. Headaches worse ; two or three severe ones during the past two weeks. Psor. CM.
May 27. A headache which lasted five days. Hiccough all day today and much flatulence.
Now weighs 140 lbs. Carbo veg. 10M.
July 11. After a week of distress in side, passed large crystal ; weak, sleepy and restless
before it passed. Sac. lac.
August 13. Still passing stones. Analysis shows that they are composed of urates and
phosphates. Carbo veg. CM.
Oct. 25. Not so well ; more crystals ; one headache (took aspirin). Carbo veg. CM.
Dec. 5. Passed five stones. Sac. lac.
Feb. 23, 1920. Carbo veg. CM.
March 1. Passed several stones, two of them large and followed by some blood ; still the pain
was not very severe. Sac. lac.
March 19. Many stones, but little distress in side. Sac. lac.
April 13. Perfect avalanche of stones for two weeks, all shapes and sizes. Sac. lac.
May 5. Had spell of agonizing pain, passing two or three large and numerous small stones ;
they are harder, many white like chips of egg shell. Carbo veg. CM. Belladonna was given as the
attacks continued. When this failed to relieve, a nearby physician was called and he administered
morphine.
June 26. Headaches more frequent, worse left side of head ; much flatulence. Examination of
urine shows it to be alkaline, specific gravity 1008, urea 0.9 per cent and some pus. Feet burn at
night in bed. Generally feels worse in morning. Sulph. 10M.
Remarkable improvement followed this dose of Sulphur. The patient went off on a 4000-mile
motor trip, reporting on August 11 that she had been very well, had had but one headache and
passed several stones with very little pain. The remedy was not repeated until January 25, 1921.
Then a long interval elapsed in which I heard from the patient once or twice by telephone, but
did not prescribe.
She came to the office on Feb. 27, 1925, saying that she found that she couldn't get along
without the medicine. She received five doses of Bursa pastoris and a liberal supply of Sac. lac.
This seemed to have been of some benefit for the next visit was June 12 ; hot feet, some

suggestions of hot flushes and a few other symptoms showed that Sulphur was still her remedy.
She was given the millionth potency. This was repeated Oct. 12, Dec. 2, and Jan. 20, 1926 ; with
continued improvement until March. Then a new and peculiar symptom was noted. The record
states :
March 31. General health remains good. Has been passing a few stones, preceded by the usual
fullness and discomfort. Flatus now comes from bladder after urinating. Sars. 10M.
May 16. Bubbling from bladder again. Sars. 10M.
Jan. 14, 1928. Air passing from bladder again ; feet burn. Sars. 10M.
Another long interval elapsed. Then Mrs. M---. came to the office and told me she had passed
at least a half a cup-full of gravel and had been free from all symptoms. The menses had ceased
shortly after her visit in January without flushes or discomfort. She received one more dose of
Sars. CM. on Jan. 25, 1929. Unfortunately some of the urinary analyses have been lost. The last
one taken in June 1929 showed the urine practical normal.
During the past seven years I have prescribed for Mrs. M---. two or three times for some
trivial ailment but there has been no return of any of the old symptoms and she is apparently in
Perfect health.

DISCUSSION.

Dr. Alfred Pulford : About two years ago I reported a

case here that had been for some time among different
physicians and complaining of a pain in each renal
region ; they couldn't make out just what the conditions
were. The character of the pain was particularly clutching,
concurrent. No matter what you think of Kent, anything
spasmodic will be relieved immediately by the
appropriate remedy.
The indications were for Belladonna and he received
Belladonna thirtieth with the injunction he should cease
the remedy as soon as the result came, but he didn't, and
for the first three days he received wonderful relief, but
after that he had wonderful aggravation. He came back at
the end of the week and he got a dose of Belladonna 10M.
It was still indicated. He said" the next morning he felt
something give way in both renal regions and he went to
work the following morning and worked like a horse all
week long without any inconvenience.
Dr A. Pulford
He came back on Saturday and I gave him a dose of
placebo, and the following morning, Sunday morning, he went to the urinal and passed a stone
pretty near half an inch long, rough as could be without any particular pain, and all the
inconvenience there was, the passing of blood ; two hours later he went and passed the second
stone and hardly realized that he had passed anything-Those stones were just as rough and
rugged as they could be.

Dr. C. P. Bryant : I want to report two cures I have had,

and this is a coincidence, they both happened to be by
Phosphorus. One was a patient operated on the right
kidney and a large stone removed. Both kidneys were to
be operated. His recovery was so slow and his suffering
so great that he came to me and told me he would die
before he would have that second operation ; never
would submit to it, and asked me what I thought I could
do.
He gave a nice clear picture of phosphorus, the
restlessness and apprehension, craving for sour things,
and craving for salty things, so I went to work and the
upshot was that in a very short time we had the stone out
of the other kidney and I said, "Now take that to the
surgeon-" (he happened to be a surgeon I knew in my
own city) "-and tell him he got $400 for the operation
and I got 7 for the other one."
The other case I have to report was a hotel case. I was
called in an emergency and when I got to the room, the
Dr C. P. Bryant
patient said, "Give me a hypodermic and give it to me
quick. I have had this stone for a good many years and it is trying to get into the ureter and can't
get down."
"It is entirely up to you," I said, "and I have the hypodermic, but let's try something else ; that
is not what I want to do."
"How long will it take ?"
"I don't know."
I used Ocimum canum, and while I was there he passed the stone. I have heard from that man
a good many times since.
There is one danger about all these kidney stones. I happened to have a patient with a stone
that completely filled one kidney, started at the calices and extended into the kidney substance,
and the kidney was a complete, calcareous mass, and the other kidney also had a stone, and in a
case like that it is extremely dangerous to suggest any operation for the good kidney. He had
only one kidney.
The same is true of the gallbladder stones.
I suggested to the patient that he be not operated on and he said the surgeon wanted to
operate, with a large stone in there the size of a guinea egg.

I said, "If you want me to do it, I will be glad to operate on you, but I don't think the stone
will ever produce symptoms."
It was found accidentally during an x-ray examination. That patient didn't have sufficient faith
in me. He went to the University of Pennsylvania and got the same advice there, so we justified
sometimes in leaving stones in.
Dr. Farrington : There is not very much for me to say except to point out the fact that in these
cases the homopathic indications were clear enough so that the simillimum could be found and
the stones came apart or were dissolved, and passed away. That is different from giving a remedy
which relieves the pain in the passing of a stone through the ureter.
What Dr. Bryant has just said reminds me of a case I am treating now, a man forty-eight years
of age, who has a stone which is apparently the size and shape of the pelvis of his right kidney.
When he came to me he had distress. He had a very few symptoms. His urine was loaded with
blood, pus, and albumin, and had a great deal of those little shreds that show that the man has
had suppressed gonorrha before.
All of these symptoms have cleared up under the action of the medicines I have given him,
but the stone remains there in its place and I have not been able to do anything to budge it. He
has been told he wouldn't live two weeks if-he had not been operated upon and it is now two
years and he is in better health than he was before.
I feel that unless I can get some symptoms to reach back and take out the old sycotic
condition, I will not help him.
Dr Harvey Farrington
Chicago, Ill.

Clinical confirmations of some of the lesser remedies.

By Harvey Farrington, M.D.
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
(Read before I. H. A., Bureau of Clinical Medicine, July 27, 1939.)

The polychrests and well proven remedies of our Materia

Medica are amply sufficient for the cure of the majority of cases
met with in general practice. Nevertheless, the homopath who
prescribes consistently on the totality of the symptoms must
acquire some knowledge of the so-called lesser remedies which
may prove curative in the case whose simillimum cannot be
found among the old line medicines. For homopathy admit of
no substitutes.
The term "lesser" is applied to those drugs of which only
meagre provings have been made, or whose indications are
based solely on clinical experience or cases of poisoning. Take
Vipera torva, for instance. Practically all we know about this
drug is derived from the records of its toxic effects. And yet it
has been used extensively and with remarkable success ii)
Dr H. Farrington
condition involving the veins in various parts of the body,
especially of lower extremities, in a variety of skin affections, varicose ulcers, erysipelatous
inflammations and other serious ailments.
Castor equi, the "rudimentary thumb nail" of the horse, is another remedy with a very limited
pathogenesis. Yet it has healed about one-third of my cases of sore nipples after parturition. It
has an affinity for the female nipples, the nails, the hair and the bones, especially the right tibia
and coccyx. The nipples are cracked, ragged and so sensitive that the least touch of the clothing
causes pain. The breasts may be swollen and sensitive to touch, but this is not always the case.
Whenever I get a case of this affection with no definite indications for one of the polychrests, I
prescribe Castor equi, usually with excellent results.

Thyroidin. familiar to students of Materia Medica of

four decades ago, has been neglected of late. We are
indebted for a knowledge of its uses to John H. Clarke
of London, who collected a large number of toxic
symptoms and published them in a schematic form,
together with cured symptoms, in the Homopathic
World. Volume XXIX. Several years ago a mother
wrote to me about her thirteen year old boy. She stated
that he was heavy, listless, averse to any mental or
physical effort and had lost his habitually good
appetite. He seemed to be growing mentally dull and
did not do well in school. There were no other
symptoms except a slight dyspna from every little
exertion, and a small soft swelling in the region of the
thyroid gland. Thyroid. 30, nine powders were followed
by a definite improvement of both the mental and the
physical states. The boy began to grow more rapidly
and his averages at school showed improvement. A
repetition in the same potency six months later
completed the cure.
Dr John Henry Clarke

Fred H---., aged 27, furnishes a clinical picture

which is characteristic of Rhus venenata. Fine vesicular eruption between the fingers of both
hands ; itching so violent that he could not refrain from scratching. This was followed by watery
discharge which caused burning. Symptoms worse from the warmth of the bed and washing. A
single dose of Rhus ven. 10M was given. Soon the itching began to subside, the serous oozing
ceased, and the eruption became scaly, and then cleared up.
Another case illustrating the action of Rhus ven. is that of E. C. B---. 47 years of age. He was
brought up on a farm, milked the cows and did other chores about the place. One day he noticed
that a red burning itching eruption was forming about his mouth. In a few days it spread upward
over the face, and then to the hands and arms. Salves, lotions and ointments relieved for a time
but the trouble soon returned. Then he happened to notice that when he sat on the milking stool
to milk a cow, his face immediately began to burn.
He gave up farming and secured a position as teacher of mathematics at Purdue University.
His affliction soon disappeared. He was allergic to cows. That he was not cured is proved by the
fact that the eruption returned in an aggravated form twelve years after he left the farm. He was
now in business in Chicago and he had not even paid a visit to the Stock Yards ! I bothered my
head not at all about allergies and took the symptoms, which were as follows :
Red, rough, oozing eruption on the backs of the hands, especially towards the inner aspect.
Burning worse from the touch of hot water and after scratching. Severe itching, worse by the
warmth of the bed.

Sulphur 1M. relieved tho itching and burning for a few days, but the eruption became more
scurfy, began to spread between the fingers and a large bleb formed on the palm of the right and.
There were dryness and drawing sensation in the lips but no eruption. He received one powder of
Rhus ven. 50M. After a sharp aggravation the symptoms began to abate and gradually
disappeared. The 50M was given again for a slight recurrence about a year after the first dose,
and the patient has been free of his ailment now for a period of three years.
I would like to remind you of the efficacy of Vinca minor in alopecia. Our information
regarding this remedy is based on Rosenberg's proving (Archiv. hom. Heilk., V. 17, pt. 2 ; Alg.
hom. Zeit., V. 29), and clinical cases scattered through the literature. Despite a rather meagre
proving, there are a number of peculiar and striking symptoms. Great weakness after stool, with
passive uterine hmorrhages and other conditions. Lachrymose, quarrelsome, sadness with fear
of death. Whirling vertigo with flickering in the field of vision. Badly smelling eruptions on the
face, head and behind the ears. The hair falls out and is replaced by gray hair. Bald spots covered
with a fine white woolly fuzz. Plica polonica. Empty feeling in the stomach relieved by eating
(Boger). Sensation as of cold wind in the ears. The nose turns red if the patient gets angry. My
own experience, however, is limited to alopecia areata, a few cases of which I shall relate here.
M. McH---., aged 41, came to me first for chronic sinusitis of long standing. This was cured
by Calcarea sulph. He "happened in one day to report the excellent condition of his nasal
passages, and remarked casually about three bald pots on the back of his head. He said that he
had been "cured" of a very troublesome eczema by a celebrated dermatologist, who, however,
said he could not cure the baldness by the usual ointments because "he was afraid that the
treatment might cause a return of the eruption. He would have to use the X-ray." The patient's
hair was jet black, so that the spots, about the size of three five-cent pieces, were very
conspicuous. They were covered with a woolly down which contrasted sharply with the natural
hair. Vinca 30 followed by the 200th, grew black hair in three weeks.
Mrs. H. S---., aged 60, rather stout and plethoric, subject to weak spells. Constipated ; stool
hard. Two bald spots, one about the size of half a dollar on the left vertex, another smaller one
on the occiput. Vinca 30 was given on April 24, the 200th on June 5. January 9 of the following
year. May 31 and again in July and December. This case was not a complete cure. Fluoric acid
had to be given after a reasonable wait on the last dose of Vinca.
L. M. W---., 35 years old, had several spots of baldness on the scalp, which were cured with
the 30th and 200th of Vinca minor in a couple of weeks. The recurrence of one spot eight months
after quickly responded to a single dose of the 200th.
In closing I wish to relate an incident which establishes a clinical indication for Aconitum
ferox. The late Dr. Tyrrell of Toronto was known throughout the country as a master of
homopathic prescribing. It seemed at times as though he were actually clairvoyant. His
knowledge of the polychrests was unequalled, and he also had at his command the indications for
many of the lesser or unusual remedies. He was in coma most of the time during the last days of
his final illness. One evening a physician called up saying that he had a very serious case aid
asked for the doctor's remedy for Cheyne-Stokes respiration. The attendant explained that the
doctor was unconscious, but that if there were a lucid moment, she would see if she could obtain

the necessary information. In a short time Tyrrell opened his eyes. She asked what remedy he
used, and he murmured, "Aconitum ferox", if I am rightly informed, those were the last words he
ever uttered.
Dr Harvey Farrington
Chicago, Ill.