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to sleep and groan. Food is loathsome; and your flesh is wasting slowly away. You have these turns from six to ten times Quarts of medicine have flowed down your throat. Powders, pills, plasters, poultices, and other pestilences, have been used in your behalf. You have no faith in the Water Cure, because you have tried it;" no faith in the Old School, for you have paid it" all your dollars; and you, therefore,

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THE REMEDY.-This is very simple, and was from the beginning to wit: during the period of comparative freedom from the symptoms, let your friend rub and pound the parts most affected. Frictionize just over the liver; manipulate the stomach and bowels; chafe the skin upon your back; and lastly, squeeze and smite the legs and arms. After this process is completed—which should be in the early part of every day— let the same hands anoint your surfaces, and then wrap them in thick flannel. Previous to the manipulations, it is proper to wash and cleanse the skin of its perspirational accumulations. Rabbit's oil is the most penetrating for this purpose, but olive oil will answer, if mixed with a small quantity of oil of spearmint. In addition to this, take charcoal mixed in Holland gin. The ancients were not unscientific in the use of sweet-smelling oil upon the body.

Remedy for Persistent Biliousness.

Many want to know how to overcome a constant inactivity of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, headache, fever, chills, &c., which abound in many parts of this country. REMEDY.-When the system is clogged and surcharged with broken-down blood, wasted tissue, semi-oxygenated fluids (out of which corruption, all manner of jaundice, biliousness, headache, melancholy, fever, chills, &c., are brought forth,) the only remedy consists in a persistent and judicious course of cathartic treatment, such as rhubarb, and charcoal in gin or water: a tea-spoonful of each,

every night for, perhaps, a week; then every other night, for some ten days or longer; lastly, once a week, as long as there remain any symptoms of torpid liver, or any disease whatever. If the operation of the medicine produces weakness, yield to it, and rest both day and night. Persons should use less or more of the rhubarb, according to their intestinal susceptibilities. Dietings, nursings, and milk and water treatment, in incorrigible cases of biliousness, are simply trifling with a formidable enemy.

How to cast out the Devil.

A mother, having a little faith in the Swedenborgian phase of Spiritualism, and considerable more faith in "good, oldfashioned New England Presbyterianism," is alarmed for one of her eldest children, who is a partial medium, thinking it possible that some "evil spirit" has taken possession. The symptoms are variable, but the following is given as a synopsis: Occasional flushes, or a circumscribed spot on one or both cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pupils dilate; an azure semi-circle runs along the lower eye-lid; the nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds; occasional headache; an unusual secretion of saliva; furred tongue; breath very foul, particularly in the morning; appetite sometimes voracious, with a gnawing sensation in the stomach, at others, entirely gone; occasional nausea and vomiting; violent pains throughout the abdomen; bowels irregular, at times costive; belly swollen and hard; urine turbid; respiration occasionally difficult, and accompanied by hiccough; uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grinding of the teeth; temper variable, but generally irritable.

Causes and RemEDY.-Our decision in such a case (religious predilections being set aside,) is, that the patient has not been well educated in matters of eating and drinking; has from childhood used too much sugar, ate bread made with saleratus, too many buckwheat pancakes; and that, as a sad consequence, the patient is a "medium" for evil and diabolical "spirits" in the horrid form of " Worms!" We cheerfully give directions

for exorcism of the invaders. In order to successfully "cast the devil out" of your child, first reform the diet, abolishing bad bread and all sweet articles of consumption; secondly, give the sufferer a cup of tea made of a little of each-sage and sweet fern-every forenoon; or rhubarb and charcoal once or twice a week. May the "devil" soon depart both from your creed and family!

Dyspepsia and Despair.

This is a disease of the mesenteric glands of the ganglionic nerves in the digestive system, affecting the intellectual and better faculties of mind. Depression and mental dyspepsia are natural symptoms under these conditions.

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REMEDY.-Evoke your whole manhood! Never say Take a tea-spoonful of Charcoal, in hot water, twice or thrice a week. Take a lemon, cut off the end, fill it with white sugar, and then slowly squeeze the contents into your mouth. This, and nothing else, is your last meal. Your nights will soon become periods of rest and invigoration. Rise early. Sleep before breakfast, if possible. Your morning meal must not be watery; nor your dinner; neither should you ever taste a particle of fruit or berries between meals. Thoroughly oil your whole person with sweet oil, perfumed as you like it, once per week. When thirsty, use lemon and sugar; not anything stimulating, nor cold water. Believe in Nature's remedies-they will not fail you.

My Dyspepsia and my God.

Alas! madam (said a plain-minded deacon,) I have seen too many souls go to perdition by what you call "Health Reform." No sooner has a person quit coffee, than he disbelieves in Infant Baptism; with tea goes his reverence for the Eucharist; let him leave off eating pork, and he will discard the doctrine

of Vicarious Suffering; let him take no more medicine, and ho stands in danger of the heresy of Universal Salvation; and by the time he is a finished vegetarian, he will deny the doctrine of Plenary Inspiration, and drift straight into the quicksands of Infidelity. No, madam, give me, rather, my dyspepsia and my God!

Looseness of the Bowels.

Many persons are afflicted with an almost continued looseness of the bowels; sometimes troubled after meals, or whenever the least excited.

REMEDY.-The Pneumogastric Cure will perform wonders in all such cases; for the stomach and bowels throughout are wholly under the scepter of the sympathetic and pneumogastric nerves, through which the Will-power works like a lever over its fulcrum. Lest, however, the patient is deficient in volitional ability to "heal" himself, we prescribe for all ordinary forms of summer complaints, relaxation of the bowels, diarrhoea, &c., simply and only this: Chew a few cloves every day—better between breakfast and dinner. Avoid drinking largely between meals. This remedy will cure even chronic cases of looseness.

Heat and Pain in the Bowels.

There is ofttimes a subdued inflammatory disease of the muscular texture of the intestines-almost enteritis; also a tardiness of action in the mesenteric glands, causing weakness and distension to result from much eating; defective chylification at times; an almost neuralgia of the sympathetic ganglia throughout the bowels.

REMEDY.-Beware of everything which tends to entaticus, (physical irritation.) In your programme of eatable articles, the following must be omitted: "Old smoked salt meat, salted fish, veal, geese, ducks, the liver, heart, lungs, or tripe of animals. Rancid butter, old strong cheese, lard, fat pork, turtles,

terrapins, oysters, raw or cooked, hard-boiled eggs, omelets." Adopt this plan, but eat regularly of whatever else suits your taste. Envelop your bowels in oiled silk every night, or rub with sweet oil, and wear an apron of fine fur on the surface of your abdomen all day. Let every person afflicted with neuralgic pains in the stomach and bowels adopt the fur-remedy at once. It is equally good for coldness of the intestines, tardy digestion, and habitual flatulency. But manipulations and the Will are indispensable in all cases.

Cure for Sick Headache.

For years some poor soul is severely afflicted with a nervous sick headache, which gradually wastes his body away, and brings his existence to an end. He has tried every remedy within his reach, without relief. REMEDY.-Such a case is not hopeless. We almost know that it can be tuned up and made healthy-on condition, of course, that the patient will strictly follow the prescription hereby imparted. First. He must particularly scrape the tongue every night and morning. Remove all debris of the salivary glands, and wash away from the mouth all miasmatic epithelium, so that the tongue shall be clean and capable of accomplishing the first offices of digestion. Second. He should drink nothing stimulating of the alcoholic character, must not eat as much meat as he may sometimes crave, and, particularly, he should fast at least twelve hours previous to the usual period of attack. Third. The sovereign remedy may be confidently administered -namely: Drink a glass of very sour buttermilk instead of supper, and repeat the dose a few minutes before breakfast. The milk should be used at night only a few times previous to the usual sickness. The object is to remove the fibrile action throughout the body, which is the cause of the progressive emaciation, and nothing can do this but a remedy that shall sup