The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-17
HOMEOPATHS IN Session
DR.. j. +. Greenleaf, Of Owego, Read
Interesting Paper on Melancholia.
PAPER ON INFANT FEEDING
Three Papers Read OF the Morning ses
sion Which Were Freely Discussed.
Detail Business in the Afternoon
and Reading of Other Papers.

The third quarterly session Of the
Interstate Homeopathic Medical asso-
citation was held yesterday in the ar
bitration room of the court house. The
session began at 10 a. m, and from that
hour until noon three papers were read
and discussed. The first one was on
Infant Feeding" by DR.. Coolidge, Of
this city. The dietetic management Of
infants, where natures supply is want
ing, was the point dwelt upon in the
paper Sterilized cows milk was de-
scribed as the best substitute. 1t Is
best in sterilizing the milk to heat 1t
about fifteen minutes, and 1t may be
diluted with the addition ofplain water,
lime water, or barley water. For in
fants suffering with diarrhoea cruel
mixed with milk and sweetened with
sugar was recommended. Cream is
also a, very practicable nutritient.
DR.. S. S. Simmons, of Susquehanna,
read paper on Clinical Illustrations
of High Potencies," and DR.. 4. M. San
tee, of Cortlandt, N. Y, read one on
Clinic" Both were comprehensive
treatises Of the sick bed and were freely
discussed. The session then adjourned
for luncheon. The afternoon meeting
was not begun until o'clock. A num-
Der of names were read by the secretary
and by unanimous consent they were
added to the roll and admitted to mem
bership.
Fixing Cost of Membership.
Thara uoc q uanaro1 Jabo 20 ~, tI,o 1v
ing of an initiation fee. The bills for
the last quarter were read and ap-
proved and from their amount the initi-
alton fee of 81 for those admitted at yes
terday's meeting, 81 for all who in fu-
ture apply for admission and dues at
the rate of so cents month We're
deemed sufficient to meet all expenses.
Dr. Ware suggested that at future
meetings the time for reading papers
and their discussion be limited to a GER
tain space. He put the suggestion in
form of motion, 1t was seconded and
carried The chair appointed as COM
mittee to regulate the matter Drs. II.
Il. Ware, of this city; w. II. Proctor, of
Binghamton; and Il. b. Nash, of Cort-
landt. The executive committee and
secretary will appoint the next place of
meeting.
Drs. Seldom H. Talcott and Edwin
Fanchon, of Middletown, N. Y, were
elected honorary members. A pro.
gramme OF seven papers had been ar.
ranged. but through the absence OF
some of those who were selected to pre-.
pare them, only five were read. The
paper read by DR.. j. d. Greenleaf, OF
Owego, N. Y, was the most interesting
and treated subject which makes
interesting rnadino
The Blues" the substance of which IL
given:
There is a condition of the hui
man mind which obtains in every life
1t is epidemic and sporadic, it is botf
contagious and infectious, its effects
are both fatal and ephemeral It's dur
alton Is momentary and everlasting, 4
is durable or incurable, its cause |!
readily found and impossible to dis
cover.
"On Monday, when exhausted by tn,
labors Of the preceding day the clergy
man has the blues; when some of hi!
best and most profitable patrons ar,
persuaded to pass their case over t
the hands of some other disciple Of
Aesculapius the physician has thu
blues; when his client persists in doint
just the very thing that he has beer
warned not to do, the lawyer has tn,
blues; when some apparently well-to-dC
patron absconds between two days
leaving generous unpaid account t
be charged to profit and loss, the mer
chant has the blues; whether 1t rains o.
shines, in drought or in good weather
when the market is good or when tn
agricultural products are cheap, tn
farmer has the blues; when the wasl
woman fails to appear as she ha
agreed, or the cook threatens a suddel
and unlocked for departure, the house
wife has the blues. In short, everybod
has the blues
Effects of the Blues.
"All the way from momentary dis
couragement down past hours OF dc
spondency, sleepless nights neglect q
social and domestic duties, weepin
and wailing day and night, the refusa
of food and the consequent emaciatior
past all these, to the fatal disgracefu
depths Of a we'll planned suicide. Tn
troubles and trials of life assail us al
and encouragement broods over ever
life. Grief for loss of friends or prop
erty IL natural, and to be expected
tears and sighs, sobs and waillng, ar
the everyday experience of the rae,
and after giving way to emotion for
time, one returns with sore heart an
a long face to the same old jog trot c
llfe's eternal round of duties. If, afte
reasonable time. he does not so n
turn he is sick, his brain is diseased.
lone man Is always given to melar
choly, to looking over the dark side {
life, and after some severe loss
spends two or three weeks in moaning
another is always brave and hopefu
never gives way to reverses in bus
ness or the trials of domestic life,s an
yet after loss of as profound natui
as the one cited above, he spends
week in depression and despondene,
OF these two the former is not an III
natural state; the latter in an. unusui
state, is mentally Ill.
"Three questions decide the menti
Hines of the patient: 1. Is the cause q
imaginary one? 2. Is the degree of d
spondency at variance with the ten
perament and habit of the patient
3. Is the degree of dependency out
all proportion to the cause?
''The type of .melancholia that maxi
the patient endeavor to attract the a
tention of those about him, to the d
lusions which are harbored, and
others only mildly, per9istently trele
in the struggle to proteN heir troubl
upon the mind and sympathy of tho
with whom they come in contact.
this type suicide is greatly to be feare
1t will be secretly planned, careful
and suddenly carried out and general
successful
but many q patient fills suicide
grave unintentionally because Il