all sides of the revolving globe. You will now, far more than before, understand the importance of breathing, (as directed,) when using the pneumogastrical cure for pulmonary and abdominal diseases. If you wish to acquire absolute strength of body, if you desire a clear and well-balanced brain, if you want a large mind and a more noble character-then, Breathe, Breathe, Breathe "the breath of life, and become a living. soul."

CHAPTER X.

BLOOD, BILE, AND BOWELS.

Ir seems to us that the pleasures of health are beyond description. To substantiate this conviction, we refer to the stacks of medical works, to the entire catalogue of poetical eulogy, and lastly to the eloquent reflections of every intelligent invalid since the world began. The care-worn and diseased physician remembers the time "when all life's sunny hours were freshened by the breath of health." So, too, the poet, "with aspect wan and sunken eye," dreams of happy sunshine days, when the music of birds, the ringing laugh of merry children, and the romantic scenery of youthful years, kept tune to the heart-beatings of physical harmony. And thus, in short, it is with every other mortal, who, being crippled and incapacitated by disease, reflects back through the golden hours, when life's bright currents ran merrily through the Heart.

We this time use the word "HEART" in no spiritual sense. The physical organ is the everywhere-acknowledged regulator of life's magic stream. It dilates and contracts, when healthy, with equal joy and pleasure. Like a jewel hidden in the "bosom of the deep," like a bark on the trackless way of many waters, so is the visible organ "heart" in its relations to the crimson stream of life. It reflects the pleasures or the tempests of the more inward soul. The wondrous dynamics of

pulsation lie deep beneath the physical structures. The principles of motion and life co-exist and work like brothers in that gentle current, the noiseless "blood."

Of the blood and the heart we have very much to write. One thousand times, no doubt, our spiritual eyes have peered into the secrets of the life-fluid. Its constitution, its mission, its beautiful operations throughout the whole physical mechanism, and lastly, its diseases, have painted, with unrivaled pencil, many most important truths upon our understanding. A few of these we present, with the hope that some reader may receive the truth and be thereby directed into ways of gladsome health.

FIRST: The blood is manufactured out of materials con

signed to the stomach. The physiology of this process is exceedingly beautiful in health, but we will not dwell upon it.

SECOND Digestion is a marvel in the chemical laboratory of life. In health the mind is unconscious of this many-sided process. The mucous membranes co-operate with the muscular tissues; fluids and ethers, time and temperature, acids and alkalies, reciprocate each with the other throughout; so that, in health, the most sensitive mind can realize nothing but pleasure and the accumulation of abundant power to execute the duties of life. The magnetic fluid, termed "gastric juice," receiving its subtile energies from the brain, through the great sympathetic nerve, can convert any soluble substance into a limpid nutriment. This is the chyme, which, settling into the duodenum, soon mingles with a discriminating fluid, termed pancreatic juice; and the bile, with its negative qualities coming in to aid the processes of separation, soon ultimates the food into a fine fluid (chyle) which is the material for the immediate production of blood.

THIRD: Let no one suppose that the blood is red or blue in the beginning. It is clear and odorless as pure milk, with but

little coloring properties, when absorbed by the hair-vessels that line the small intestines. At first the blood is composed of innumerable eggs, which are originated in the lacteal membranes. These vessels and minute membranes constitute a perfect ovarium, wherein the globules of the blood are primarily formed, and from whence they are subsequently detached; when they drop into the flowing currents and thence float off into the general circulation. We do not give details, because they are deemed unimportant for the purposes of this chapter, which is to indicate a few facts in the cause and cure of disease.

FOURTH: The unnumbered spherical bodies or globules are each a center of life to the individual. His blood is a moving miniature sea of oval forms, of countless nuclei, of points and pivots, upon which all the life-wheels turn and spin the web of spirit. Each sanguinous egg is also a center of vitality for the perpetuation of the race. Let the physical eye inspect this ovarium, and let the chemist break its eggs, and classify their contents, and he will speak (1) of red globules, (2) of Lymph globules, (3) of Chylic globules, and say that the composition of healthy blood consists of so much serum, so much fibrine, and so much albumen: all which, by further analyzation, yield many mysterious properties-sulphates, phosphates, carbonates, chlorides, peroxides, &c., &c.-but the great internal facts and laws, which are fundamental to the existence and healthy performance of blood, remain wrapped in folds upon folds of materialism. In proof of this we refer to the custom, not yet extinct among best educated physicians, of blood-letting. What can more clearly establish their utter ignorance in respect to the blood's internal nature and mission in the economy?

FIFTH: Not attempting a line of detail concerning the modus operandi of the circulation, showing how respiration gives color and vitality to the heart's fluid, we proceed at once to inquire,

What is Bile? What is its office in the digestive mechanism, and how does it originate so many diseases? "Bile" is a bitter liquid, of a brownish green, very negative, and pervaded with an acid mucous. What labor does it perform? According to our examinations, we affirm that the hepatic bile, which flows from the liver into the duodenum, performs the office of separating the mucous and innutritious particles from those which are suitable for becoming chyle and globules. Many troublesome disorders originate just at this point, such as sick head, gastritis, indigestion, dyspepsia, besides a multitude of symptoms which indicate discord of more or less extent and severity. That form of bile which belongs to the oblong receptacle, termed the gall-bladder, performs the office of still more liquifying the contents of the stomach and duodenum. It is composed of the excrementitious portion of the hepatic secretions, which the receptacle discharges through the "cystic duct" into the bowels. Hepatic bile is highly carbonaceous until it impregnates the fluids of the middle stomach, when it becomes cold, indigestible, and wholly excrementitious.

SIXTH: But there is one thing very remarkable; this excretory and innutritious portion of the biliary fluid never passes off the bowels unless every part of the intestinal machinery is in perfect and prompt working condition. The cause of this fact is not explained by physicians. The usual term for the effect that follows is, "biliousness." The victim is sleepy, headachy, stretchy, chilly, yawny, and "don't feel very well." It is known that bile supplies carbon to all the matter destined for blood globules. But the pancreatic fluid is a powerful ally in the work of separating dense from rare properties, and in preparing every suitable particle for chylification, into which the great sympathetic nerve is perpetually discharging streams of magnetic energy. The pneumogastric nerve is most affected