(In 1885 Dr. Peter Cooper, of Wilmington, Delaware, read a paper on the drug _Acalypha Indica_ of which the following is an abstract:) Professor Jones recapitulates as follows: "_Time._ Hæmorrhage occurs in morning. _Blood._ Bright-red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon. _Pulse._ Neither quickened nor hard; rather soft and easily compressible. _Cough._ Violent and in fits at night; patient has a played-out feeling in the morning and gains in strength as the day advances. "_N. B._--Worthy of trial in all pathological hæmorrhages having notedly a morning exacerbation." Such is an outline presentation of the drug given us by so eminent an authority as Professor Jones, of the University of Michigan. It was his "N. B.," his suggestion that _Acalypha_ was worthy of trial in all pathological hæmorrhages from any source, providing the morning aggravation was present, that fixed my attention upon the drug especially. At the time I had a case of hæmorrhage per rectum that had baffled me for several months. No remedy had aided the case in the least, so far as I could see, unless it was Pond's Extract used locally in the form of injection; and I finally came to the conclusion that the relief apparently due to the _Hamamelis_ was merely a coincidence. I had given all the hæmorrhagic remedies I knew of or could hear of. Still the bleeding came just as often, with increasing severity. Each time the patient was sure she would "bleed to death," and I was not positive she would be disappointed. In fact, I was so hopeless that I used to delay the answer to her summons as long as possible, so that the bleeding might have time to exhaust itself. She became reduced in flesh and the hæmorrhagic drugs became reduced in number, until like the nine little Indians sitting on a gate the last one tumbled off and then there was none. As soon as I read Dr. Jones' monograph on _Acalypha Indica_, I determined to try it. She had all the symptoms--bright-red blood in the morning; dark and clotted in the afternoon and evening; weak and languid in the forenoon, stronger during the afternoon--except one, _i.e._, instead of the blood coming from the lungs it came from within the portals of the anus. I procured the 6x dil. and served it in water. It gave speedy, almost immediate relief. Each subsequent attack came less profuse and at longer intervals. She has not had a hæmorrhage now for two months, while before she was having from seven to one (continuous) a week. She is gaining in flesh, is in every way improved, and keeps _Acalypha Indica_ constantly by her. ACIDUM LACTICUM. COMMON NAME, Lactic acid. ORIGIN.--Lactic acid is obtained from sour milk, resulting from the fermentation of the sugar of milk under the influence of casein. PREPARATION _for Homoeopathic Use_.--One part by weight of pure lactic acid is dissolved in 99 parts by weight of alcohol.