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Well, then, try the new medical discovery announced at the beginning of this chapter-not Kennedy's, recommended for every disease the human skin is heir to-but Nature's pneumogastrical remedies, with which, whether at home or abroad, you are always abundantly provided.

What do we mean? We will explain briefly as possible. Man's fearful and wonderful organization is regulated, or may be, to an almost unlimited extent, by two great positive and negative conductors, viz: The sympathetic and the pneumogastric nerves, which, like all the lesser and more delicate nerves, take their rise in the brain, which is the fountain-center of all vitality and sensibility.

Of the first conductor, the Sympathetic Nerve, we will not now write anything at length. It is a wondrous and beautiful magnetic telegraph cable, consisting of a connected series of polar centers, or ganglia, distributing branch offices through all the internal organs, communicating with nerves both spinal and cranial, and conferring, by transmission, the principles of Life and sensibility to all parts of the organism. The reason why we do not speak of this great Nerve in this article is, because, according to our careful and oft-repeated examinations, it belongs to the great automatic hemisphere of mind, and will be the very last (because it is the highest and best)

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to ascend the throne of Will. Instinct, impulse, soul-life, heartessence, "the depths of the soul," as will appear in our next chapter, are characteristic sensational attributes of the "Great Sympathetic Nerve." This position is sound-psychologically, physiologically and logically sound-therefore, we do not fear to write it, nor to submit it to the candid consideration of every progressive or regressive physician.

The Pneumogastric Nerve, on the contrary, communicates no essential life or vital sensibility. But it confers upon the internal organism vigorous energies and voluntary movements. It is in direct and intelligent contact with the attributes and designs of Will. It is, consequently, a voluntary agent of the cerebral intelligence, a motor nerve, so to say, by which the Volition may express its decrees upon the whole physical economy.

THE DISADVANTAGES OF IGNORANCE.

The more ignorant the mind, the cruder will be the manifestations of its desires and ordinances, and the more in bondage is such an one to the voluntary nerves; while with interior knowledge come the requisite powers and purposes to rise out of embarrassments into comparative freedom and independence. We make these remarks because, as we too well know, there are thousands of so-called intelligent persons, occupying high official stations in every kingdom, whose physiological experience is in direct antagonism with what we affirm respecting the nature and capacities of this Pneumogastric magnetic conductor of the voluntary energies. But if such, together with all doubting readers, will perseveringly experiment on themselves, while desiring truth and health, we know that we shall receive their unqualified indorsement.

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the living subject, (your friend,) look straight into the constitution of his voluntary system-and the facts, with regard to the origin and function of this Nerve, will shine out upon your reason. Keep your vision steadily upon the nether portions of the brain. See! a multitude of filaments put forth from the side of the medulla oblongata, which, as a primordial nerve, is a million times more sensitive than the brain itself. These thread-like filatories immediately blend into two small, white cords, filled with cerebral substances (which appear as one conductor) forming a ganglionic battery directly beneath the cranium, and thence descending through the cellular envelopment of the carotid artery into the neck, and downward, between the subclavian artery and vein, into the pulmonic organism, and terminating in various branchlets of nerves in the digestive system.

See, too! as this mysteriously philanthropic conductor of thought, and will, and emotion, proceeds into the far depths of its mission, how it lovingly twines around neighboring veins and arteries, and how benignantly it divides its incalculable wealth into private fortunes for the voluntary parts of the throat, heart, lungs, etc. The big names for all these benevolent bestowments and bequeathments of the Pneumogastric Nerve, are: pharyngeal, laryngeal, cardiac plexus, and plexuses pulmonary and asophageal. Thus, in plainer language, the Pneumogastric Nerve, immediately on leaving the cranium, makes its will, and sets apart priyate fortunes. (in, the shape of voluntary powers,), for the benefit of the mouth, the speaking organs, the swallow, the heart, the lungs, finally pervading the entire stomach.

Now, let it be remembered, these are the parts or organs most diseased among men. These are the fighting grounds chosen by that popular Commander-in-chief (of very many

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