CASE IV.—Mrs. L. S., age 40, is of nervous temperament and has occasionally attacks of a mild form of hysteria. About one month ago I was called to Mrs. S., who, I found, had the usual symptoms of “grippe.” I treated her accordingly, and she was convalescing nicely. I had made my morning call, and found her doing fairly well—excepting that she complained of a slight shortness of breath. I carefully examined her lungs, but there were no indications of pneumonia. In the afternoon, about 3 o’clock, I received a hurried message to come without delay to see Mrs. S. I found her in a very nervous, somewhat hysterical and desponding condition; her face was flushed, she had distressing dyspnea, cardiac palpitation, pulse 112, small, weak and frequent, which of course was due to the functional cardiac derangement—there being no indication of organic disease. She called my attention particularly to her difficult breathing so soon as I reached her bedside, and begged for relief. I took in the situation at a glance, and wasted no time in thinking of a remedy to meet the case. My previous experience, and knowledge of the efficacious therapeutic action of nux vomica in neurotic affections, prompted its immediate use in this case. The fifth one drop-five-minute dose reduced the pulse to 100, and in a measure relieved the distressing dyspnea. When four more doses had been given the pulse dropped to 90, and the dyspnea was so nearly conquered that the patient expressed her thankfulness for such speedy relief after a steadily increasing suffering of over four hours. By the time four more doses had been taken respiration was normal and the pulse 84. My medical mission was accomplished, and I left my patient—who was now feeling very comfortable—with instructions to continue the one-drop doses every half hour for four more doses, and then every hour up to bedtime. Next morning she was sitting up in her bed feeling quite comfortable, with respiration normal and pulse 78, the palpitation having entirely subsided. She has had no further trouble up to date. CASE V.—About two weeks after the occurrence of this last, I was called to Mrs. E. C., age 31. I found her suffering from great dyspnea and palpitation. She was also greatly troubled with flatulent dyspepsia and frequent eructations. The difficulty of breathing and the palpitation of the heart had been increasing for several hours, and as it was a new experience in her life, she and her husband became greatly alarmed lest the attack should prove fatal. But I knew my patient, as she had been one of my clientele for many years. I knew she was of nervous temperament and slightly hysterical. I wasted no time, but administered tinct. nux vomica according to my usual plan; the particulars in this case would only be a repetition of others, and it is unnecessary to recite them. The result was an equally happy recovery. 314 W. 126th St., New York. _THE THERAPEUTICS OF STRANGULATED HERNIA._