undisturbed to the end of the treatment.

I have found this simple proceeding so perfectly efficient in this
dreadful malady that the fever was speedily controlled, and rendered
harmless, the inflammation was scattered without leaving a trace behind,
the secretion ichor was transformed into that of healthy pus, and the
disorganization of the joint was prevented; the limb, even after it had
become elongated, again assumed its normal shape, the carious masses
were expelled, the various channels of suppuration were stopped, and the
danger of a fatal consumptive fever was averted. If our aid is not
sought until _the head of the femur is destroyed, and the bone has
completely slipt out of its socket_, it is impossible to prevent
shortening and stiffness of the limb. Another splendid triumph over a
dreadful source of danger and disease!

WHITE SWELLING OF THE KNEE

is very similar to this affection of the hip-joint. Here too we observe
the same insidious inflammatory beginning, the same irresistible
tendency to ichorous suppuration and disorganization of the constituent
parts of the joint, the same tendency to destroy the organism by gradual
exhausting fever. We have unmistakeable proofs of the presence of a
poisonous process pervading the whole organism. He who has had frequent
opportunities of observing this disease, knows perfectly in what
mysterious obscurity it is still enveloped, and how specifically
different this affection of the knee sometimes appears to us from the
hip disease. The hom[oe]opathic law teaches us more positively than any
thing else could do, that every case of disease should be viewed as
something specifically distinct from other cases, and should be treated
with medicines that are specifically adapted to it. An experience of
many years has taught me that iodine is the best remedy to meet the
symptoms which generally characterize white swelling of the knee. Even
at the present day Iodine is one of those remedies that require a good
deal of elucidation. Hence we should not, carried away by analogy,
conclude from those things which are not clear, concerning other things
which are no more so. Nevertheless the observations which have been made
so far, have led to some highly important, more or less positive
conclusions, and have shown us with a certain degree of satisfaction and
certainty, that iodine is an inestimable gift of God, by means of which
we are enabled to free mankind from one of the most