Friday, July 14th. I suffered considerably after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon and last night with pains in my abdomen, and they are more severe this morning than yesterday; it feels just like a string tied in a "slip knot" around my intestines in the umbilical region, and every once in awhile it was _suddenly_ drawn tight for a minute or so, and then _gradually_ loosened; stool this morning was very thin, watery and rather flaky; the flaky portion was dark yellow, the fluid portion _dark_ green, with a _light_ green foam or froth on top, streaked with a white, mucus-looking substance; flatus and fæces passed together; some pain in my bowels during stool, and a hot, scalded sensation in anus, which lasted fifteen or twenty minutes after stool; during stool a cold perspiration broke out on my forehead and back of my hands; took quite a while to pass stool, and then only a small quantity passed; eyeballs feel bruised and the whites have a yellowish cast all over, though the "bands" are still very distinct; my skin is quite yellow to-day and I feel very much fatigued generally. Saturday, July 15th. Stool about natural this morning; some feeling in my abdomen, though not so severe; no new symptoms. Sunday, July 16th. The only thing unusual which I noticed to-day was the passage of considerable offensive flatus; a greater quantity after retiring than during the day. I noticed no more symptoms after Sunday night. (The following is from a letter of Dr. E. M. Hale): Some time ago I received a letter from Dr. F. S. Smith, of Lock Haven, Pa., in which, referring to _Chionanthus_, he says: "For the first time to-day I read your article on _Chionanthus_ in the last edition of your Materia Medica of 'New Remedies.' I have been using this drug for over two years, as a specific for so-called sick headache. It has done wonders for me in that disease. I had been a victim from early childhood, and have suffered terribly. I have not had an attack for two years. If I am threatened, a few drops, timely taken, dissipates it at once. "Dr. B., a dentist, aged 35, dark complexion, a victim to sick headache, had an attack on an average once in three weeks. Since taking _Chionanthus_, has not had more than two or three attacks in over two years, and then owing to a neglect to take the medicine. I have failed in but one case, and that was a menstrual sick headache. "I prescribe it as follows: In cases of habitual sick headache, 5 gtts. of the 2x dil. three times a day for a week, then twice a day for a week, then once a day for a week, after which the patient only takes it when symptoms of the attack show themselves. I regard it almost a specific." (_Chionanthus_ is also, by some physicians, regarded as a specific in jaundice, either acute or chronic, and the proving seems to justify the belief.) CORNUS ALTERNIFOLIA. NAT. ORD., Cornaceæ. COMMON NAME, Alternate-leaved Cornel or Dogwood. Swamp-walnut.