ply lactic acid to the blood, and at the same time overcome its extreme alkalinity. In most cases this remedy will prove a cure for sick headache, more especially when the stomach is sore and the kidneys weak.

An Inveterate Dyspepsia.

Pain soon after eating breakfast, bloating immediately after dinner, and "a horrid nightmare almost every night," or a dreadful headache about every third day. REMEDY.-Eat precisely that which you know gives you the least suffering, and as much of it as you want; but omit your supper, without deviation, until completely cured. Instead of tea or supper, eat a lemon, only a little modified with white sugar. Before breakfast, drink a tea-cupful of sour buttermilk. We think that this course will cure you, because your dyspepsia is wholly owing to a deficiency of lactic acid in the system.

Remedy for Bilious Vomiting.

Persons afflicted with bilious vomiting, and sometimes diarrhœa, should eat nothing after dinner. Let this be a rule day after day for months. Hunger will be a good medicine. First thing on rising, mornings, drink a tumbler of cold, weak, black cherry bark tea, which may be prepared during the preceding evening. A little powder of camphor, or of salt, laid on the tongue after the vomiting commences, will stop it, and prevent diarrhoea.

Swelling of the Abdomen.

A Boston lady describes her case as follows: "For a few months past I have been troubled with a swelling of the abdomen, and hardening at the same time. There is no pain at all accompanying this swelling, but it alarms me. It occurs nearly every day-sometimes, indeed, more than once a day; is never

larger than usual in the morning before rising, but as soon as I bathe myself, it swells and hardens almost before I can get dry."

CAUSE AND REMEDY-This is the second instance of a peculiar affection which has come before us in the department of human disease. The anterior surface of the intestines is covered with adipose matter, called "omentum," which, in persons of fleshy proclivities, is abundantly deposited between strata of the serous membrane. The mesenteric glands, through which the lacteal vessels pass to the thoracic duct, are somewhat inflamed. From thence a gas is rapidly diffused between the intestines and the membrane that contains the omentum. The sudden swelling and hardening are natural concomitants of this intestinal transaction. In one case, where this condition was permitted to exist for over two years, the patient died with a tumor (fleshy and fatty in composition,) in the abdomen. Another, with identical symptoms, recovered by abandoning all drinks at meals, and taking, every forenoon, a very warm sitz bath for fifteen minutes. For every such bath make a strong decoction of hemlock boughs. It is essential for the patient to perspire freely in the bath.

Water in the Stomach.

In most cases, we observe that the accumulation of water in the side, stomach, bowels, or about the heart, is caused, in the first place, by the derangement of the liver, and, in the second place, by generation of gas in the lower stomach and small intestines. REMEDY.-Drink nothing between meals, and no more than a tumbler of fluid while eating. Twice a week, take a table-spoonful of powdered charcoal in a wine-glass of warm water, about one hour before dinner. It may be necessary to rest or sleep a few minutes while under the immediate influ

ence of this medicine. For "Prairie Itch" there is nothing better than the tea of yellow jessamine; also wash the body with strong decoctions of lavender and hemlock bark.

Cure for Habitual Costiveness.

A constant constipation may be cured without recourse to artificial means. Graham bread and plenty of apple-sauce for breakfast; no meat, no hot cakes oftener than twice a week; no coffee at any time; and very little fluid of any kind. This method is adapted to all persons whose occupation keeps them within doors. For an immediate relief, take a table-spoonful of Indian meal or Graham flour, in a tumbler of water, before breakfast, quite early in the morning. Perhaps several doses will be necessary.

A Bilious Medicine.

The system of every bilious patient is radically impaired It must be built up by the most persistent effort of Will. In addition, we prescribe a bitter medicine, as follows: Mandrake root, pulverized, one drachm; orange-peel and cloves, of each one table-spoonful, well pounded. Put in one pint of good brandy, one pint of water, and one pound of brown sugar. Stand one week; then add another pint of water. DOSE.-Commence with a tea-spoonful before meals.

Evils of Eating for Amusement.

A Newburyport (Mass.) paper says: "A young man residing not a thousand miles from Beck-street, being disappointed in going to the Bluff, last Monday, consoled himself by consuming the following refreshments, in addition to three hearty meals Five sheets of gingerbread, three glasses of small beer, five glasses of nectar, three large pickles, twenty cocoanut cakes,

six ounces chocolate cream drops, ten cigars, seven large apples, half pint of peanuts, four cents worth of old cheese, one stick of candy, one pint of new milk, four glasses of ice water, and an emetic, which was ordered by a physician, to save his life for further duties."

Tone of the Stomach Destroyed.

When your stomach is inclined to burn, and to refuse every ordinary article of food and drink, the true remedy is hand magnetism, applied to the spine and over the stomach. Drink the mildest tea of roast onions occasionally. Rye bread, well toasted, is better than wheat for a weak digestion. Swallow uncooked Indian meal, or chew wheat berries

Not either

Your diet should henceforth be more nutritious. "fish, flesh, or fowl," but the grains that grow in the sunlight. Make a pudding of equal parts of Barley, Wheat (cracked,) and Corn. Eat this as the principal article for your dinner. Abandon desserts of every description, and take a light breakfast.

When the stomach continues weak, with weariness in the fore part of the day, but a better state of feeling as evening approaches, we recommend the patient to eat nothing hearty till dinner. Sleep, an hour in the forenoon, is particularly useful.

A New Test for Diabetes.

Professor Paine, in his Journal of Eclectic Medicine, says: Drop one or two drops of the urine upon a slip of clean tinned iron, hold it over a fluid lamp, evaporate the fluid, and continue the heat. If there is sugar in the urine, a rich, reddish-brown color will appear on the place from which the urine is evaporated.

Remedy for Urinary Weakness.

Some children, as well as adults, have an inveterate habit of wetting their beds at night. It may be proper to denomi

nate this disease Diabetes insipitus. It is caused by a superabundance of serum in the blood, which contains a too large proportion of saccharine matter, unassimilated. The urine at first is clear and sweetish, but very soon gives off vapors peculiar to the general condition of the system.

REMEDY.-Hygienic means are always in order, and essential to a cure. That is, the unfortunate victim should eat or drink nothing sweet or sweetish; nor may the stomach and bowels be fed with starchy food, such as potatoes and fresh bread. A morbid state of the blood is the cause of the weakness in some children; but in nearly all cases the primary cause is a too frequent use of milk and sweet diets, puddings, etc. No fluid should be taken with meals, or at any other time, unless the thirst is intense, in which case use strong lemonade without sweetening, or a tea-cupful of water, medicated with from one to three drops of diluted sulphuric acid. Twice a week the body of the patient should be thoroughly anointed with sweet oil, dissolved with a little of each-spirits turpentine and alcohol. Always bathe and manipulate from head to feet, except when the patient has some local inflammation, or special pain.

The disuse of all starchy and sweet foods, the use of the WILL as both a policeman and a physician, and the acid drinks recommended, is a good treatment for the great majority of cases. Severe and long-standing sufferers with incipient Diabetes, may aid their cure by putting one ounce of cascarilla bark, one drachm each of cloves and cinnamon, pulverized, and four ounces of lemon-peel, in one pint of best port wine. Το tincture one week. DosE.-A tea-spoonful, with a Graham cracker, for supper.

How to Stimulate the Kidneys.

A bilious state of the system is sometimes attended with an obstruction of the flow of urine, which tends rapidly to aggravate all the symptoms, and to inaugurate the disease called