Sabina SAVINE. An evergreen shrub of South Europe. The leaves and tops are used in medicine. Their properties depend on an essential oil, which dissolves in alcohol.   It was

Rhus toxicodendron Rhus Toxicodendron or Rhus Radicans, these two plants are now regarded by botanists as identical, differing only in their modes of growth. The former was proved by Hahnemann

Rhododendron SIBERIAN SNOW-ROSE. ALPINE ROSE. This plant, which is most abundant in the Alpine regions of Siberia, but is found likewise in other mountainous and snowy regions of Asia and Europe, and perhaps

Pulsatilla ANEMONE PRATENSIS. PULSATILLA NIGRICANS.   I have chosen this drug to commence a course of lectures on materia medica, as well because it has been very thoroughly proved and verified by clinical

Podophyllum This remedy has been flippantly called the “VEGETABLE MERCURY.” It resembles it no more than the “greenback” or paper dollar is like the precious metal which, by a financial

Platina The physical and chemical properties and reactions of this metal are described from another chair.   It finds no place in the Pharmacopoeia of England or the United States.

Phosphorus SPECIAL ANALYSIS. DISPOSITION. Phosphorus presents interesting alternations of the psychical condition, as the following series of symptoms show:   I. Sadness, depression with forebodings of calamity; melancholy, relieved only