Now, it must be admitted that a remedy that can cure an old drunkard of general dropsy and restore him to health deserves closer acquaintance, and when we first regard it from the pathogenetic side as producing, of course, contingently, a cephalic state, resembling alcoholic intoxication, and then from the clinical side as having cured an abandoned drunkard, it looks very much as if we had a remedy homoeopathic to alcoholism. I may add that Rademacher nowhere hints that the _Spiritus glandium quercus_ stands in any relation to alcoholism; he regards it merely as a spleen medicine, specially indicated in dropsy due to a primary spleen affection. At first I regarded it merely in the same light, but when I really gripped the significance of the pathogenetic symptoms just quoted I thought we might find in our common acorns a notable homoeopathic anti-alcoholic. (It is not fair to quote further from Burnett, but we may add that in his book, _Gout and Its Cure_, there are given a number of clinical cases in which the remedy acted brilliantly in those addicted to tippling, or drinking hard. It is not so much that the remedy extirpates the habit, but it enables those afflicted to easily control their appetite and drink "like other people," without that insatiable craving. The dose is about ten drops in water three to four times a day.) SOLIDAGO VIRGA-AUREA. NAT. ORD., Compositæ. COMMON NAME, Golden Rod PREPARATION.--The fresh blossoms are macerated in twice their weight of alcohol. (The following is to be found on p. 131 of Dr. Gallavardin's "Homoeopathic Treatment of Alcoholism:") "A lady, by administering, morning and evening, an infusion of the dry leaves and flowers of Golden Rod (_Solidago virga-aurea_) tells me that she cured her husband of an affection of the bladder which had compelled him to use a catheter for a year or more. A friend of Homoeopathy, not a physician, desired to test the efficaciousness of this plant. He caused the first dilution of its tincture to be taken three times a day by seven patients of from forty-two to seventy-four years of age, who had been obliged to catheterize themselves for weeks, months and years, and cured them so thoroughly that they had no relapses. Surgeons who spend much time in catheterizing such patients for months and years could often cure them much more rapidly by prescribing for them the remedy just mentioned." (Dr. A. E. White, _Homoeopathic Recorder_, July, 1891, relates the following case:) Mrs.----, age 37, married, has had seven children. Came to me December 10, 1890, with the following history: "Had not had her menses for four months. Thought she was in a family way. Abdomen bloated up every P.M.; sick at her stomach all of the time; frontal headache, P.M.; felt better when first getting up in the morning, at which time her abdomen was almost normal in size.