Cure for Ill Temper in Children.

A sensible woman, the mother of a young family, taught her children, from the earliest childhood, to consider ill-humor as a disorder, which was to be cured by physic. Accordingly, she had always small doses ready, and the little patients, whenever it was thought needful, took rhubarb for the crossness. No punishment was required. Peevishness or ill temper and rhubarb were associated in their minds always as cause and effect.

Effect of Disease on Life.

By calculation, it is shown that, of 1,000 individuals, 23 die in their birth; 277 from teething, convulsions, and worms; 7 in measles; 2 women in childbirth; 195 of consumption, asthma, and other chronic complaints; 250 of fever; 12 of apoplexy; and 41 of dropsy. Or, in another point of view, of 1,000 persons, 200 die within the first year, 80 in the second, 40 in the third, and 24 in the fourth; and within the first eight years of life 445, or almost one-half of the number, are cut off by premature death.

Cure for Melancholy and Meanness.

A correspondent writes as follows: "I should be much obliged for a remedy for the following complaint: Dullness of mind; incapacity to study much without becoming sleepy; confused thoughts; some melancholy; and, perhaps, some mean

ness."

REMEDY. It will be necessary, body every morning in cold water.

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first of all, to wash your Next, eat nothing animal

your breakfast, not even a grain of butter, nor drink a spoonful of milk. Next, eat a light dinner on the day when you wish to read and meditate. Never attempt to read or think soon after a hearty meal. Next, take up some one subject and con

centrate your Will upon it, and think steadily while your Will is positive. For "meanness," take plenty of exercise, and think of the Summer Land. Let your daily life be regulated by fraternal love, Justice to thy neighbor, and the principles of untrammeled Freedom.

Headache or Cephalic Pills.

Cephalic Pills are good for periodical and nervous headache, chronic lameness, indigestion, nervous debility, &c., &c. Red pepper, whitewood bark, mandrake, life root (Senecio aureus,) of each, pulverized, half a drachm. Divide into pills of three grains. Dose. From one to four of these pills at night, or morning, when symptoms are severe. But there is one secret worth remembering, namely: That absolute rest to the stomach is one of the simplest means of cure, in both acute and dyspeptic diseases. Not one atom of food of any kind should be taken in any case of acute disease. Starve for twenty-four hours, and drink a little water; nothing further is necessary.

Cure for Cold in the Head.

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Some individuals are constantly taking cold in the head, and having an ear-ache, almost every winter night, in spite of every precaution. The explanation of the ear-ache and head-cold, is You sleep on a soft pillow, which allows your head to sink down into a hollow of feathers, by which considerable perspiration is promoted about your neck and ears; then, as soon as you change your position in bed, the cold air strikes the sweating surfaces, which very rapidly become negative, and hence the cold in the head and the distressing neuralgia. Of course you will hereafter use a pillow so hard that your head cannot sink into a heated valley.

Odor from the Nostrils.

The accompanying symptoms are: A sense of fullness in the head; of weight between the eyes; frequent sneezing; some hoarseness of the voice; occasional expectoration; and a disgorgement of fluid and fetid mucous from the throat. These symptoms are developed as the accompaniment of indigestion, fever, worms, measles, rheumatism, &c.

REMEDY.-The diet is the essential. Use no salt butter; no meat or gravies; nothing sweet after dinner. Milk is particularly unfavorable unless it is sour; but wheaten grits, rice, hominy, and Indian cakes and puddings, with stewed fruit, are useful and advisable. As a special remedy we recommend a cold water compress about the neck at night, and showering the head and neck behind the ears with cold water every morning. This should be done before washing the face. For the nose: Get of camphor twenty grains; blood-root half drachm; both must be perfectly pulverized, and mixed equally together. Use a very little of this powder, as a snuff, twice or thrice per day.

Cultivation of the Sense of Smell.

There is hardly any limit to the teachable capacities of the sympathetic nerves. The five senses-touch, taste, smell, hearing, and vision—are but different organizations or depots of the sympathetic ganglia, which are inseparable from the cerebral functions. Brain and nerves must be in a healthy condition, otherwise it will be impossible to greatly enhance the delights of this sense. The nerves of smell are spread upon the membranes that line the air passages. Consequently the tasting of an odor is as natural as the feeling of a sound. It is well known that deaf persons hear and enjoy the music of an orchestra. The intuition of cultivated smell is infallible. The North American Indians, before their overthrow and banishment by

our ancestors, could distinguish different tribes, or the different members of the same nation, by the odoriferous exhalations of their bodies. Dogs, foxes, horses, and many other animals, are endowed with remarkably acute powers of smelling. Snufftakers are deprived of the delicate pleasures of this sense. Diseased and morbid nerves are keenly sensible only to odors the most repulsive. We know of me tiums who first communicated with their familiar spirits by means of smelling sweet and aromatic odors diffused through the room. Several orthodox clergymen are said to have smelt-" brimstone!" We are strongly inclined to admit their testimony.

Cure for Common Deafness.

An aged man must not expect to keep his senses in full force. Many, however, suffer the misfortune of deafness to creep upon them from inattention to the ears during a cold or after a fever. In all cases where the wax is dry, the tympanum sound, but hearing imperfect, we have prescribed, with curative effect, the following: Nitric acid, one drachm; water, one ounce; phosphorus, one grain; mix, and filter through a fine cloth, into a table-spoonful of burnt olive oil. Keep it tightly corked. Dose.-One drop in each ear (or in the one affected,) every morning.

If deafness arises from a recent cold, or exposure and fatigue, the patient can get relief by smoking dried hops, and then forcing the vapor from his mouth into the throat-passages leading to the ear-chambers.

Again, if your deafness is not a symptom or effect of some derangement of the system, but is traceable to a dryness of the natural moisture within the eustachian tube, then there is no simple remedy better than a draught of roasted onion in each ear. Or, soft clay made into convenient shape and size, then

dampened with saliva, and put in the orifice of each ear, confining them with cotton and a bandage. All such applications are best made at night.

Ulceration of the Ear.

A remedy for chronic ulceration of the ear may be found in the common "Witch-hazel" (Hamamelis Virginica,) which is one of the most healthful productions of earth. Make a very strong decoction of all the fine parts of the bark scraped from the body of the tree. When done, you should not have more than a wine-glass full; add one drachm of borax, a table-spoonful of cream, and it will be ready for use in twenty-four hours. Saturate cotton with it, and stop the ears every night. In the morning, bathe the neck, behind the ears, and wash the orifices quite clean, before wetting the face and forehead.

Decaying Gums and Loose Teeth.

One preparation is applicable to the restoration of emaciated gums, namely: White oak bark, pulverized, one ounce; one ounce of camphor gum; quarter ounce of lobelia leaves, put together and tinctured one week in old cider-brandy. Clean the teeth and gums with pure soap, using a soft brush, and then saturate the gums with the clear tincture. This process should be adopted immediately after eating each meal. Breathe through your nose as much as possible, because the cold air, passing over the teeth and gums, tends strongly to their decomposition.

Enlargement of the Thyroid Gland.

An indolent enlargement of the thyroid gland is termed "Bronchocele." The incipient stages of this painless tumor are quite controllable by the persevering use of the electro-magnetic battery in connection with the hand. When it has existed for