What should be done? Certainly no strictly homoeopathic indication presented itself since one might think of _Sulphur_, another of _Arsenicum_, _Silicea_, _Hepar sulphur_, _Causticum_, _Mezereum_, etc. In such case I have laid down, as a rule for my guidance, never to experiment at the cost of the patient (and my own as well as Hahnemann's), but to employ a so-called empirical remedy. I know _Æthiops antimonialis_ as a very effective remedy through its recommendation (by the Berlin Society of Homoeopathic Physicians) in ophthalmia scrofulosa of the worst kind, a fact which I proved myself to be correct. In this case, also, we find the deepest and most stubborn disturbance of the organic juices and a subject with every indication of the worst form of scrofula, ending in lethal cancer--dyscrasia or tuberculosis. The patient received the remedy in doses of the 1st centesimal trituration, every evening and morning, as much as a point of a knife blade would hold. There was no attempt at external removal of the eruption, a method so much favored by the allopaths, and yet the simple internal effort was magical, since after a few days the scabs were dried up, had fallen off, and the terrible oozing as well as the pain had ceased. The happy patient presented herself again on Friday, after having taken the medicine for the first time on Sunday evening. Very great changes could, indeed, be noticed which justified the hope for a speedy and total cure. I again ask all my colleagues which was the principle of healing in this case? We may soonest think of Schüssler's therapeutic maxim, the biochemic principle. The definition that this preparation acts as a blood purifier is not sufficient, and yet it may be accepted as the most intelligent. Schoeman triturates the _Æthiops antimonalis_ with _Æthiops mercurialis_ (or _mineralis_), which last consists of equal parts of quicksilver and sulphur, and says of the product: "It acts analogous to _Æthiops mercurialis_, but stronger, and is therefore preferred to it in scrofulous eruptions of the skin, scald, milk-scab, scrofulosis conjunctivitis, keratitis, blepharitis glandulosa, otorrhoea and swellings of the glands. It is especially valuable for children as a mild but nevertheless effective remedy." AGAVE AMERICANA. NAT. ORD., Amaryllidaceæ. COMMON NAMES, American Aloe, Maguey, Century Plant. PREPARATION.--The fresh leaves are pounded to a pulp and macerated with two parts by weight of alcohol. (We find the following concerning this little known remedy in Volume I, 1851, of the _North American Journal of Homoeopathy_.)