exert a happy influence, men must be active, persevering, and energetic. They must not quail at shadows, run from lions, or attempt to dodge the lightning. Go forward zealously in whatever you undertake, and we will risk you anywhere and through life. The Man who can Will. Mirabeau said: " Why should we feel ourselves to be men unless it be to succeed in everything, everywhere. You must say of nothing, That is beneath me, nor feel that anything can be out of your power. Nothing is impossible to the man who can Will. Is that necessary? That shall be: this is the only law of success." Whoever said it, this is in the right key. But this is not the tone and genius of the men in the street. In the streets we grow cynical. The men we meet are coarse and torpid. The finest wits have their sediment. What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries politicians, thieves, and triflers, of both sexes, might be advantageously spared! Mankind divides itself into two classes-benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast, the first a handful. A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are ani. mated with a faint hope that he will die: quantities of poor lives; of distressing invalids; of cases for a gun. Franklin said: "Mankind are very superficial and dastardly; they begin upon a thing, but meeting with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged; but they have capacities, if they would employ them." Shall we, then, judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.-Emerson. Gall and Spurzheim's Works. In the history of the investigations of phrenological science, we first meet with the celebrated Gall. This physician was the first to make practical observations upon the living brain. But Doctor Spurzheim's classifications and works have superseded those of Gall in popular estimation, because the former was the most successful in bringing the facts of mind more clearly and simply before the world. It has been ascertained that the front lobe of the brain exerts an influence which is invigorating and refining to all the senses and the nervous system, but that its effect upon the muscular and osseous systems is somnolent and debilitating. Harmony is possible only when both brains, back and front, are equally exercised. (See "A Remedy for an Unbalanced Body and Brain," on another page.) What the Will can Do. QUESTION." Do you mean to convey the idea that a person who has inherited nervous infirmities may ever, by careful, conscientious use of the internal, self-healing powers, become so 'redeemed and sanctified' as to have a sound mind in a sound body'? Can one with undeveloped concentrativeness make use of the practice recommended in Pneumogastrical remedies?" ANSWER.-Yes; we certainly mean to teach that mind is destined to stand sovereign master over all below its exalted plane. Matter the body-is below the soul; therefore the soul is capable of instituting an absolute government. "Practice makes perfect," is an old and a true proverb. The method of applying the Will-power is as simple as walking, moving your hand, or speaking, for all such motions are from the Will. Why not extend the operations of this power over all parts of the dependent organism? A Forms of Temporary Insanity. A Friend of Reform wants to know what medicines or preparations will produce temporary insanity-meaning a mental derangement of a week or two-and then pass off without entailing disastrous consequences. ANSWER.-There are several medicines, besides alcohol, capable of inducing an insane condition of the brain. Our Insane Asylums show that from one-fourth to one-third of all cases admitted, have been made insane by the habitual use of alcohol. This fluid, although it mixes readily with the serum (or water) of the blood, never ceases to be alcohol. It produces a contraction and condensation of the tissues, and liberates the brain for the time being, very much to the enjoyment of the mind and social feelings; then ensues the second stage, called inebriation, or drunkenness, which is an insanity, exhibiting a melancholy derangement of the intellectual faculties; and lastly, the individual is correspondingly depressed, relaxed in all the fibers, and rendered unfit for the manifestation of either mind or muscle. The middle stage is productive of all those oddities and eccentricities which usually characterize the inebriated individual. Thus, by the temporary insanities produced by alcohol, we get: 1. The Fighting Drunkard. 11. The Sentimental Drunkard. You will observe that, fundamentally considered, the condi tion of the Drunkard is that of insanity. The variations are traceable to the natural propensities of the individual character, which, at such times, are not modified and controlled by the deeper life and understanding. This sort of mental derangement may be produced by the administration of a great variety of preparations. American Hellebore (Veratrum Viride,) Henbane (Hyoscyamus,) Foxglove (Digitalis,) Skunk's Cabbage (Symplocarpus,) Thorn-apple (Stramonium,) Indian Hemp (Cannabis Indicus,) Tobacco, Prussic Acid, Spurred Rye (Ergot,) &c., &c., and yet many other sedatives and inebriants may be mentioned, which, given either in tincture or by decoction, will, if taken in continued or over-doses, produce temporary insanity, and many visionary symptoms, always varying with the hereditary characteristics of the individual patient. The consequences of temporary insanity are not necessarily lasting or disastrous. And yet, years are sometimes wasted in the effort to restore diseased nerves. Brain Rest Absolutely Necessary. Brain rest is sometimes better than medicine, particularly in cases where the nervous system is deranged, and the digestion enfeebled. We cannot promise restoration of a nervous patient, even under favorable conditions, in a period of less than six months. We counsel you to engage in some employment not intellectual, during the period consecrated to the process of recuperation. Over you, at all times, is the Summer Land. You will receive, if you deserve, aid and comfort from its inhabitants. Cause of Brain Fits. In some cases we detect a diseased condition of the ganglia, extending each side of the spinal column. The upper portion of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, is enlarged as by an inflammation in its substance. The motor nerves are, consequently, disturbed; the right side being sometimes more diseased than the left, imparting an involuntary wish and tendency to roll or whirl as an amusement. As the nerves of seeing, and hearing, and tasting, arise near the diseased parts, it is but reasonable to expect that these senses will be gradually impaired. REMEDY.-There are but two paths of approach to the seat of the disorder-one, through the nerves of the stomach; the other, through the spinal column. Raw onions should be applied externally over the stomach every day, in the form of a poultice; also a small one, well macerated or grated, should be administered every morning and evening, mixed in molasses if desired. Magnetic treatment is capable of reaching the throne of the disturbance, through the spinal column. It should be used faithfully, with the human hand. It is necessary to keep the patient's head erect, or in a natural position, which may be effected by girdling the neck with a hair cushion. Treatment for Epileptic Fits. Fits of unconsciousness are caused by a sudden strangulation in the nervous circulation, which, from many causes, may take place along the track of the Pneumogastric nerves, somewhere between the brain and the bottom of the stomach. An account of symptoms is deemed unnecessary. REMEDY.-The philosophy of curing this frightful malady is simply the removal of the tendency to arterial strangulation, and the consequent nervous suspension in the route of the sympathetic and pneumogastric nerves. An equal distribution of the vitalic forces is absolutely necessary. We, therefore, counsel you never to yield to the temptations of your appetite, to over-eat or to drink largely of any fluid. When a fit of hunger |