in the whole materia medica, and with more power and certainty than they. For instance, it is a more powerful opiate than opium, and, while the sleep induced by narcotics is succeeded by nausea and debility, that resulting from this treatment is wholly refreshing and invigorating, and is followed by a peculiarly healthful and buoyant exhilaration.

As a tonic it is more beneficial than bark or iron, not only strengthening the muscles, but actually enlarging their volume.

To give an appetite, it is better than any dinner pill. If the epicure, who sits down to his table with indifference, and forces a few mouthfuls of his dainty viands into his stomach, where they give him great distress, will adopt this treatment, he will come to the table with a keen desire that will give a relish to the plainest food; and digestion waits upon an appetite thus produced.

It is a better remedy for incipient consumption than cod liver oil, and is a sovereign cure for dyspepsia, jaundice, liver complaint, and a long train of chronic diseases.

It will not only remove bodily ills, but is the best of all medicines for a mind diseased. If a man who is suffering from hypochondriasis, who feels that the burdens of life are greater than he can bear, and who sees the clouds of despair settling over his future, will take hold of a shovel-handle and raise a blister in the palm of his hand, he will be surprised to see how the troubles that have oppressed him are brushed away, and the future before him is brightened. New beauties will come upon the face of Nature, and new joys and hopes will spring up in his heart. This is the true elixir of life.

While other modes of treatment are expensive, this not only costs absolutely nothing, but it is a source of revenue to the patient.

It removes not only sickness and despondency, but poverty also. It is a remedy for all the ills that flesh is heir to.

Though this system is the best of any for the cure of complaints, its great superiority is as a prophylactic. If properly administered to a healthy subject, it will prevent all disease. The next neighbor to the writer of this died, at ninety-four, of old age. A few days before his death, in conversation with him, we asked him if he had ever consulted a physician. He replied that he never had.

"Were you ever sick?"

No."

"Not a day?"

"No."

"Not an hour?"

"No."

You were never sick in your life?" "No."

This man knew nothing of physiology; he had never practiced any system of dieting; but every day, Sundays and all, for more than eighty years, and generally (excepting Sundays) through the whole day, from before sunrise till after sunset, he hud applied friction to the palms of his hands.

An Antidote for Putrefaction.

In all malignant diseases there is a rapid tendency toward putrescency, which may be obviated by the use of several antiseptic medicines, either in the form of solids or as vapors. Among the best may be mentioned acetic acid, sulphate of iron, corrosive sublimate, sulphate of copper, creosote, chlorine, acetate of iron, chloride of lime, soda, alcohol, and quinine. In houses infected by the poison-vapor of small-pox, or by other epidemic and malignant diseases, we recommend the constant burning of a chlorine lamp. The vapor will diffuse itself through all parts, and prevent the general tendency to putrefaction.

The Medical Uses of Water.

We would remark, for the good of all invalids, that the temperature of water is the positive essential. Cold water, ranging from 60 down to 32 degrees, is charged with electricity; while hot water, or vapor, from 100 to 140 degrees, is magnetically charged; and much of the medicinal effect of this element must, of necessity, be in accordance with its temperature. The scale of temperatures, according to the latest publication, is thus given Cold, 32 to 60 degrees; cool, 60 to 70; temperate, 70 to 80; tepid, 80 to 85; warm, 85 to 100; hot, 100 to 120; vapor, 110 to 140.

The father of the hydropathic system, Priesnitz, was strictly a "cold water" physician. But his success with disease was not very remarkable; and so, we observe, many of his followers have enlarged their views and have improved his system. Every hydropathic institution in America, of any consequence, has added the movement cure and some magnetic treatment to their improved applications of water. Their patients, as a general rule, leave with better complexions and higher hopes. We have great faith in water as a preventive of disease, and think it should be more used.

Nervous and Convulsive Diseases.

All such diseases can be cured if the patient will bestow particular attention upon the application of Food, Water, Air, and Magnetism. The application of zinc and copper plates to the feet, after bathing the latter in cold water, will be of great service at night. Time, and not medicine, is the best remedy for such complaints, especially when the individual is obeying the laws of Nature, and striving to repel, by Will of mind, the malady from the system. Let spirit arise superior to the visible form; keep the latter continually negative and the former

positive. A strong-minded man is seldom diseased; he is determined not to be subdued by various afflictions, for he is superior to them, hence Wills and repels them away. So should our patients do, assisted by the spiritual influence of some congenial person. The principal food should be solid and nourishing. Watery substances for diet tend to weaken the blood, solids, and muscles. Exercise should be moderate, and early in the morning. Patients should be very careful to avoid all excesses. Study, or passionate exercises of the mind, must be abandoned, and the unequal action of one class of organs of the body or mind must not be permitted. Sleep an hour between breakfast and dinner.

How to Retain a Good Face.

A correspondent of the Home Journal has some good ideas on the importance of mental activity in retaining a good face. He says: "We were speaking of handsome men the other evening, and I was wondering why K. had so lost the beauty for which five years ago he was so famous.

Oh, it's because he never did anything,' said B.; he never worked, thought, or suffered. You must have the mind chiseling away at the features if you want handsome middle-aged men.' Since hearing that remark, I have been on the watch to see if it is generally true, and it is. A handsome man, who does nothing but eat and drink, grows flabby, and the fine lines of his features are lost; but the hard thinker has an admirable sculptor at work, keeping his fine lines in repair, and constantly going over his face to improve the original design."

Cholera Morbus and Cholera Flatulenta.

All severe forms of cholera begin with symptoms of flatulency; with a sense of oppression, soreness, pain, and disten

sion, in the stomach and throughout the bowels; all which is quickly succeeded by great depression of Will and spirits, and by severe vomiting and purging, and a clammy sweat all over the body; sometimes there is much difficulty in breathing, hiccough, irregular pulse, convulsions, cramping of the cords in the legs, and a coldness of the skin, while the patient persists in calling for cooling drinks, thinking that he is burning up with great heat.

REMEDY.-Do not fear anything, but make up your mind not to die in that unbecoming manner. The cause of all your suffering is to be traced to some imprudences of your own. Stomach and liver are resisting the evils of your recent violations. Put mustard and onion poultices on the feet, extending up the legs; also poultice the hands, wrists, and the stomach and bowels; or use plentifully of hot-water cloths over the stomach and intestines. Eat nothing. Drink weak lemonade and flax-seed tea, without sugar; or lime-water, in order to stop the vomiting and quiet the bowels. Abstain from solid food for many days. If the cholera should result in a dysentery, then treat the patient according to directions for that disease.

Treatment for Typhoid Fever.

September is a fearful month to persons who are predisposed to a low grade of typhoid fever. The summer time, with its peculiar influences upon the brain and blood, in passing away, is certain to leave a strait" for mankind, filled with malarious vapors and bilious fevers. There are three predisposing and producing causes of eccentrical epidemics, viz.:

1st. The miasmatical character of the location, and the conspiring effluvia of its environs.

2d. The position of the location with reference to peculiar longitudinal magnetic currents of the earth.