conditions is equally-yea, even more-impressive and forcible. That is to say, give your bodily organs the free use of whatsoever they in health demand, and cease feeding them while they yet have the still small power to cry, "Hold, enough!" and your virtuousness will bloom beautifully out upon every look, word, and deed.

Rheumatism and analogous diseases are frequently caused by inattention to-i. e., vicious treatment of some of the expanding and contracting principles that regulate the organism. The two inseparable processes common to all animal bodies, termed endosmosis and exosmosis—first, the attraction of fluids and ethers from the external to the interior, and second, the repulsion of similar elements from the mucous membranes to the exterior surfaces-must be kept in a balanced condition, otherwise health is overthrown in an hour, and “disease" (of the sort natural to the person or the climate,) is the inevitable consequence. Vice, not virtue, prevails in such case. And the sufferer, like Job, is wicked enough to fancy that "the arrows of the Almighty" rankle in the marrow of his bones and in the nerves of his flesh.

A bad state of the liver is inseparable from evil impressions of men and things. A bitter-tongued and sour-stomached individual is no lover of music, though it may excite him, and his opinions of his fellow men will very nearly correspond to the state of his bodily vices. "The green-eyed monster" was never blest with fine digestion or a sweet breath. His food was changed into the "gall of bitterness," and his cup of milk into the tea of "wormwood," and equally perverted were all his impressions of men and the world. The doctrine of demons, of devils, of evil genii, was conceived in the womb of physiological vice. "Hell" is the shortest phrase to express "burning discord"—a great boil, on the way to suppuration—an inflam

mation of the brain, on the gallop to a hot delirium-an erysipelas, burning destruction into the flesh-an itch, with no power to scratch-a violent discord, resulting from physiological viciousness, is the bottom of the oriental conception of the bottomless pit." The "pit" here referred to is no other than the pit of the stomach, whereon the great fulcrum of the lever of Health works, good or evil, just as the possessor, by his habits and conduct, may at any time determine. "Our young people," says a Thinker, "are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure."

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CHAPTER IX.

BRAIN-LIFE AND LUNG-LIFE.

THE mathematical and sympathetic correspondence between the visceral organs and different sections of the brain, briefly explained in foregoing pages, is beautiful and significant beyond the common understanding; and we know that we shall be conferring a permanent blessing by embodying, in a few more paragraphs, the secrets and benefits of these wonderful relations, processes, and representations.

Very intelligent and educated correspondents write us substantially as follows: "I have read your New Discovery for general debility, &c.; the principles laid down appear reasonable, but I cannot use my Will as you direct; my appetite is tolerably steady and good; my bowels operate regularly; I have no difficulty about sleeping; but somehow, I am unable to gain strength; my food does not build up any vital energy," &c., &c. Now let us consider the health gospel.

The tender spirit of many suffering ones blends to sadness and despondency. It is natural and righteous to desire to live long in the land. The harp-strings of the young heart tremble when disease seems determined to corrode them, to break them in twain, to plack the dew-drops of happiness from the flowers of hope and health. An angel's visit is frequently interpreted to mean, "Earth-child, come, come away!" It is sad to yield

up thy heart as a trophy, a slave, to premature Disease. Thou art designed and constituted for an earthly career "of threescore and ten years," and as many more as thy obedience to the Laws of Health may add thereto; but thou art not designed to dwell in the dark, damp dungeons of corruption and diseasenot fitted for gloomy rooms of mortal suffering, while the earth is filled with splendors and music, and the heavens are trembling with the soul-essence of the Infinite and Eternal. There is nothing more desirable than pure, rosy, virtuous, meritorious HEALTH. O, that we could speak with the penetrative eloquence of an angel! Would that we could "dip our pen in the rose-light, fresh from fountains of the sun," and write out in a few comprehensive celestial sentences, the whole gospel of physical perfectibility as the only basis of spiritual completeness and endless prosperity! But we must content ourselves with the ink and language of earth, whereby to portray and enforce the glory and virtue of bodily health and greatness.

EFFECT OF AIR ON MIND.-Few persons imagine that their lungs are inseparable from their thoughts. Not that the pulmonary structures and functions occupy the heart of thoughts; but that as a man inspires the physical atmosphere, so does his mind conduct itself as to thinking, willing, and wishing. For example: If a human being should be imprisoned in a small room, not properly ventilated, and not replenished with fresh air from without-so that his breathing would be confined to the same atmosphere for a great number of hours each daythe consequence would unmistakably be exhibited in the mental operations of the victim. He would think in a circle, because he would breathe in a circle, and his digestion would be imper fect. His thoughts could not bound cheerily over the landscape, because the atmosphere of the landscape does not enter his lungs. Physicians and patients are habitually imagining

that a "change of scene "is the secret of benefit in many cases of nervous prostration. Although there is truth in this impression, yet it is far from divulging the absolute paramount cause of the salutary results that sometimes follow pilgrimizing away from home in quest of health. When once the real secret is intelligently known, and when the knowledge accruing therefrom is promptly applied by the possessors, then may the multitudes of sick ones save themselves the fatigue and expense of journeys. If you wish to travel for recreation, first get a stock of health to sustain you, in the shape of Air, Light, and Electricity.

The shortest route to firm health is through the lungs and pneumogastric nerves. Small lungs-small minds; or, large lungs and bad air-large minds and few thoughts. The oldfashioned orthodox churches were built and kept as tight as drums during service; the effect was manifested in the narrow creeds and doleful doctrines concerning God and man. In this connection we are reminded of FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the noble nurse who voluntarily went to the Crimean war to bind up the bleeding wounds of the soldiers. She says:

“An extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul night air from within. Most people prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the disease we suffer from is occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut? An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one. This is not to say

that light is not necessary for recovery. In great cities, night air is often the best and purest air to be had in the twenty-four hours. I could better understand shutting the windows in towns during the day than during the night, for the sake of the sick.