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Indigestion is the main cause of the whole disturbance. Let some good friend pound and pommel you about the waist before going to bed.

Pain in the Right Side.

As a general remedy for right-side pains, we recommend a thorough manipulation of the left side, from the shoulder down to the hips, so as to affect the action of the spleen, kidney, heart, stomach, and intestines. These organs and parts, by being invigorated and surcharged with functional activities, will send aid and health to the suffering on the opposite side. This is the best method, often, when one side is healthy and the other diseased. Surcharge the healthiest parts, and they will naturally magnetize their disabled neighbors in the visceral cavity.

Sudden Pain in the Breast.

This peculiar pain is caused by a sudden compression of small vessels, accompanied with the generation and confinement of air in the cellular tissues, all which indicates a weakness in your general system. The best treatment for immediate relief is a thorough steam-bath; keep up the sweating for many hours, by means of hot bottles, &c., and the use of crawley tea. Wear a very warm garment or bandage of lamb's skin next to your body in winter. Frequent sweating will aid you; always avoiding sudden changes and exercise in the house when you cannot go out.

Deficient in the Cords of the Leg.

A mother states that her daughter, ten years of age, is deficient in the cords of one leg. The muscle is not fully developed, the foot turns in a little, and there is every indication that the tendons, toward the extremities of the muscles of the limb, are deficient and nearly useless.

REMEDY.-It should be remembered that the muscles and tendons are like so many ropes and cords, by which parts of the body are changed or kept in proper position; and, further, that every muscle is compounded of many fibers, very delicate in material and structure, which are fed by the brain-life through the nervous system. The true remedy for a deficient muscle, therefore, is to be found in the brain of its possessor. Tell the patient, then, to fix the mind on the parts which are to be restored, and next, to throw a volume of WILL into the cords of the weak and trembling limb. Take each step with great and firm resolution, and stop walking the moment the resolution is weakened. To strengthen the general system, and to prevent spasms, we prescribe a bowl of wild cherry tree bark tea, for a few weeks, to be drank between Mondays and Wednesdays.

Hot Head and Feverish.

A friend writes: "My head is hot and feverish most of the time; my stomach is very much out of order; also my liver and kidneys are somewhat affected; in fact, I am diseased all over." REMEDY.-Use the Will-power, as heretofore described; correct your daily habits of eating; and take the following rough and ready" remedy: Two gallons of old cider; add half a pound of rusty nails, and half an ounce of rhubarb-root. Let this preparation tincture for one week. Dose. Take one wine-glassful immediately on rising in the morning. Add one more gallon of cider in a few days. Eat plenty of stewed apples and bread for breakfast; no meat until dinner; never drink anything intoxicating.

Remedy for "Lock-jaw."

The terrors of tetanus may be dissipated by a strong, steadynerved magnetizer. The disease is not necessarily dangerous.

It may be controlled by magnetizing the feet into a perspiration, and by administering the homeopathic preparation of Aconite and Belladonna alternated, or Mezereum and Merciurius, thirty minutes apart, for six hours. There are several methods of relaxing the contracted fibers, but we would place magnetic treatment before all the rest.

Remedy for a Stiff Ankle.

A patient writes an account of his stiff ankle, which has been disabled and troublesome for about three years. There is a hard swelling on the outside of the joint, as large as a hen's egg; and a kind of puff swelling on the inside; with much pain and wasting away of the limb. REMEDY.-Adopt the system of diet recommended for patients afflicted with itch or erysipelas. Frequently lay the hands on the parts affected, thus open the pores of the skin to let the disease escape, and keep up the operations every day until the swellings disappear. Apply nothing else during the day-time. Every night put your foot into essence of peppermint and sweet oil, bathe the swellings thoroughly, and then envelop the parts in cat's or woodchuck's fur. Use the entire skin with the fur next to the ankle.

Membranous Rheumatism.

There is a neuralgic disease of the membrane about the bones. This affection is known by exquisite sensitiveness of the limbs and joints, with occasional pain of the severest kind, but with little or no swelling of the parts and joints so suffering. REMEDY.-Take as much bodily exercise as possible without incurring excessive fatigue, and this every day. After such a walk, or (which is far better,) work out in the sun until quite warmed up, cover the affected parts with a preparation of soap, cayenne pepper, lobelia, and camphor. Thus: One pound of

common soap; one tea-spoonful of red pepper; two ounces of fine-cut tobacco (or lobelia ;) one table-spoonful of powdered camphor. Add water enough to blend these articles together over a slow fire. When cold, it should be of the consistency of common paste. Give the rheumatic parts a coating of this paste, and wrap them up, excluding the air, with thin leather or oiled silk. A great fact in all rheumatic affections, is inactivity of portions of the system. Bring all parts into action as rapidly as possible. Use such articles of diet as will keep the bowels alive every day. Avoid all narcotizing remedies. Opium, internally, is no friend in this disease; it gives you a ticket from Bad to Worse; better purchase a passport to the Highlands of Happiness. Work your passage! Examine the laws of health relative to diet, and do not dare to act contrary to your best light.

Remedy for Periodical Rheumatism.

Prepare the following magnetic liniment: Oil of hartshorn, of mace, and of lavender, of each four ounces; stir them into a prepared mixture composed of one pint of alcohol and the whites of six eggs perfectly amalgamated. On the first sensasation of uneasiness of the rheumatism, give the parts a severe hand-chafing at night. It would be far better to get a friend to curry you down, and dress the affected members from top to bottom, as you would manipulate the limbs of a favorite trotting horse. Then apply the magnetic liniment in small quantities When the pain becomes severe, use the mixture twice or thrice per day; but it will be necessary at such periods to sleep in tightly-fitting flannel garments.

Periostitis and Headache.

There is more than one beloved patient who is strong-bodied_ yet remarkably sensitive and weak-headed; not in the intellect

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