a few pennies and a little industry. In cold weather, and par ticularly in windy seasons, when the delicate skin of the lips of unhealthy persons crack open and bleed, and the hands of outdoor laborers become rough and sore, it is always wise to have a remedy within the reach of all.

REMEDY.-Take equal quantities in weight (much or little as you please,) of fresh mutton-tallow and camphor-gum. Put them in a tin vessel, over a moderate fire, and let them melt and blend into one compound. Stirring the mixture will more perfectly interblend the two substances. This preparation you may term "camphor ice," or "camphor cake," or "camphor ball," or armandine," or any other name more elaborate or chemically mysterious. Keep it in a convenient jar, and use it as often and as plentifully as your "chapped" surfaces may require.

Scar on the Face.

We do not perceive any cure for the " scar on your face. Better be thankful that it is not a discase, and in your joy forget the blemish through all this life. The next time you are born, the form and features of a beautiful face will be revealed, free from all earthly accident, spot, or blemish. Some excellent souls thus wait the inheritance of their fortunes. But real beauty, after all, comes from pure spiritual affections and harmonious states of mind. With these elements behind the physical, within the bosom and within the brain, the external, however deformed, will take on the light and graces of beauty. Without such interior elements, the most attractive form and face slowly waste and crumble into hideous deformities.

Voluntary defacements should be prohibited. The dangers. of tattooing, so much practiced among seamen, have been pointed out in a recent report of the Inspector General of Health of the French marine. The loss of an arm, and even death itself, are

shown to have resulted from operations of this nature, while minor accidents from this cause are very numerous. Authority calls on sailors, inviting them to abstain from this dangerous practice.

Cancer cured by Nitro-muriatic Acid.

A jeweler, who had a bad cancerous pimple on his cheek, having occasion to dissolve some gold in nitro-muriatic acid, rubbed it several times, unconsciously, with his impregnated fingers, and was surprised to find it speedily change its appearance, and shortly disappear. M. Recamier, suspecting the cause, made several uniformly successful experiments of the same mixture, and thus by accident discovered a new caustic for cancerous affections. The proportions are one ounce of the acid to six grains of chloruret of gold.

Confessions of a Cancer Doctor.

Most of the vegetable plasters for cancer owe their activity to mineral substances. One consists of arsenic and sulphur, with powdered crow-foot leaves mixed with white of eggs; another of arsenic and extract of conium; another of sulphate of zinc and extract of blood-root; another of chloride of zinc and blood-root; another of potash alone, boiled down to the consistence of a plaster; another is made by evaporating the spirituous infusion of bitter-sweet, stramonium, conium, belladonna, yellow-dock, and poke, adding fresh butter to make an ointment; the poke and dock-root are also used separately. A celebrated cancer-powder is composed of arsenic, charcoal, and cinnabar. The acetate of copper mixed with vegetable extracts is also used. The chloride of zinc, however, is now the remedy most relied upon, and generally it is mixed with the extract of bloodrout. Many obstinate tumors and ulcers have been cured by

the above remedies: all of which are called cancers, but few of them are really such. The last-named is mainly used to kill tumors, and make them fall out of their places, which has been practiced for a hundred years.

Nature and Cure of Scarlet Fever.

Several mothers have written for remedies to cure their little ones of scarlet fever. This disease, sometimes termed "Scarlatina," from the Latin scarlatto (meaning a deep red,) is a kind of spring contagion among children. Measles, mumps. chicken-pox, and the like, so common to childhood and youth, may all be prevented. They are caused mainly by the accumulated matters and vapors in the blood-a result of stimulating diet during the cold season, with no change of food which would be consistent with the alteration of temperature. The symptoms are known as swelling of the face, a scarlet eruption appearing on the skin in patches, sickness at the stomach, fits of heat, lassitude, vomiting, depressed pulse, and difficult breathing.

REMEDY.-Prevention consists in giving your children less stimulating food, and less in quantity of every kind, during the forty days of transitional weather at the close of winter and during the early spring months. From the last of February to the middle of April, you cannot be too watchful of your children's dietetic habits. Fresh fish may be used occasionally. Sparingly of milk, butter, and gravies. No meat of any kind; not a mouthful. But plenty of fruit, and bread, and simple puddings. No pies or greasy nuts.

If the disease is upon your child, with threatenings of malignant sore throat, do not delay the administration of warm water injections, two or three times the first day. Suspend every description of eating, and give the little patient very prompt attentions, calculated to inspire quiet and confidence. Bathe the legs and arms in water, hot with mustard, after which wrap them in soft flannel, and keep them very warm. This should be

done at least once every day; twice, if the symptoms are violent. This will gradually overcome the throat irritation, and establish a balance of energy in the vitals. If the throat is violently threatened with diptheria or malignant symptoms, apply thin beefsteak compresses about the neck. Change as often and as quick as the piece becomes dry under the influence of the fever. This treatment, in connection with the usual homeopathic remedies, will scarcely fail to save the patient. Always magnetize the bowels, and hold and rub the feet and hands of the sufferer, after administering the water injections. Keep old-fashioned drug doctors out of the house; ditto all ministers of old school theology.

Origin and Philosophy of Fevers.

A positive condition of the blood is a perfect panoply against fevers of every shade and name. Fever is taken by the breath. The lungs absorb the contaminating effluvium, and the blood is forthwith poisoned. A cold negative state supervenes, and the vital heat rushes out upon the surface.

M. Roy has found that the fever which is so prevalent in Algeria is due to the fact that in the region of volcanic and primitive rocks, the clay contains phosphorus, and this, acted on by fogs and dews, which contain ammonia, diffuses its noxious qualities in the atmosphere, and occasions fever. By way of testing this theory, he created an artificial atmosphere of this sort, and, on breathing it, found he had all the symptoms of the African fever.

Continued and Exhaustive Fever.

The signs of a low, feverish, typhoidal state of the system, are: Sickness and sinkings at the stomach, heat and dryness of the skin, headache frequently, pain in the bones, weariness in the limbs, tongue dry in the morning, and white-coated, faint

ness and trembling while walking, with a costive state of the bowels, or a little relaxation.

REMEDY.-For this condition we know of nothing that will compare with a daily vapor bath and magnetic operations over the entire body. It is a mistake to eat anything after dinner. For dinner you should eat a pint or so of porridge, made of Indian meal and Graham flour, or rice, nearly equal parts, with water well boiled. Milk, sugar, salt meat, fish, cheese, cakes, pies, puddings, &c., are not allowable. You must work to put power into your vital system, otherwise the fever cannot be resisted; therefore, as the nausea, and faintness, and trembling subside, let your own appetite and judgment select the most agreeable diet. Drink a tea (half a pint) of white or pleurisyroot about every other day. Be very hopeful; the day of deliverance will soon dawn.

Diseases of the Eye.

We will just now write only of that subtile description of eye weakness, which is very general. Eyes so affected have a fixed debility in the posterior membranes and ciliary arteries. The entire nervous tunic in the back portions of the orbs is aqueous and feebly conditioned. The ciliary processes, both nervous and vascular, are de-magnetized and deficient in power. The brown and black matter of the eye-the pigmentum nigrum -is manufactured by the joint action of the ciliary arteries and their accompanying nerves. This material is also imperfectly formed and tardily secreted, and thus the eyes are unable to reflect or absorb the light promptly, which fact will account both for concealed inflammation and the weakness felt when reading. We find no disease in the ligaments, none in the choroid membrane (although so intimate with the ciliary mechanism,) none in the optic nerve, and the organism generally is in good condition.

CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS. It will not comport with the objects of this department to enter upon lengthy details. Pages