Galen's Remedy for Hydrophobia.

A favorite remedy for the bites of the rattlesnake, and in cases of hydrophobia, was introduced by Galen, under the name of Mad-wort.” The Latin name for it is Marruko Vul gare," which, being bed down and done into plain English, is the common Hourhound," so generally and wisely used in cases of coughs and asthmatic affections. There is, unquestionably, a medicinal quality in this mad-wort," which, if persistently used both in the form of poultices and as a drink, would neutralize the venomousness of snakes and rabid dogs. Let this be remembered when no other remedy is at hand. is much experience in its favor.

Coup de Soleil, or Sun-stroke.

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This malady is produced by exposure to the heat of the sun's rays. It is a modified form of apoplexy, and is most likely to attack persons of bad digestion, or of bilious and intemperate habits. The brain fever which succeeds a sun-stroke, is dangerous. Prevention is better than cure. Experience has shown [says a military writer,] that troops serving in warm climates greatly need protection from sun-stroke, often quite as dangerous and fatal as the fire of the enemy.

The judicious care and foresight of the British officers, in the recent campaigns in India and the Crimea, protected their soldiers from the danger, by thick white linen cap covers, having a cape protecting the back of the neck, which reflected, instead of absorbing, the heat of the sun.

Farmers and teamsters-indeed every one much exposed to the sun's rays in mid-summer-might save themselves from headaches and sun-strokes by this simple cap. Sun-strokes may also be prevented by keeping a wet handkerchief or napkin in the hat. This is the best remedy for any person whose head

is accustomed to ache while exposed to the sun's rays. Always have two or three small holes in the top of your hat.

Proper Amount of Sleep.

Sleep is of the utmost consequence to the nervous and debili. tated. But it should be had at night or before dinner; not afternoon, nor at irregular periods. Henry Ward Beecher hath well said: Men vary with regard to the need of sleep. A nervous man can get along with, perhaps, from five to six hours' sleep, while, perhaps, a phlegmatic man requires to sleep from eight to nine hours. The amount of sleep which a man requires depends upon his temperament. It seems strange to some that the most active men sleep the least. Men that work fastest sleep fastest. A nervous man does everything quick; he sees quick, and hears quick, and steps quick, and works quick, and sleeps quick. He does twice as much in an hour as a phlegmatic man, and he only requires half the time in which to do up his sleep-work that the phlegmatic man does. Every man ought, from his own experience, or from the advice of a physician-one who knows something—to determine what amount of sleep he needs, and then take that amount. He that steals

necessary sleep from the night, steals from the Lord. He commits a theft for which God will visit him with punishment, in the shape of suffering and premature old age.

Sleeplessness-its Cause and Cure.

We know a person who presents a wonderful instance of wakefulness. No medicines can cause him to sleep naturally; not even drowsiness comes upon his diseased and tremulous nerves; and he is moved in despair to exclaim :

CAUSE AND REMEDY.-The cause of all sleeplessness is inseparable from the condition of the ganglionic system. The centers of life are temporarily changed, and the mind trembles and wabbles in its orbit, somewhat as a planet would if thrown from its polar relations to the sun. The Remedy, therefore, cannot be found in anodynes, opiates, &c., but in the re-establishment of the nervous and cerebral motions. This can be accomplished by the "Movement Cure" in some cases; in others, the result may come on by applying the magnetism of a harmonious and healthy operator. Chronic wakefulness may be greatly controlled by eating plentifully of onion soup from twice to thrice per week. All sedatives, anodynes, and somnolent medicines, -such as opium, morphine, laudanum, hasheesh, tobacco, &c.are at variance with the natural repose of the sympathetic ganglia. The loving and harmonious are invariably the sweetest sleepers; but the stoutest slumberers are they who work much and think little.

How to Procure Refreshing Sleep.

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An unbalanced condition of the brain and its dependencies constitutes the cause of an oppressive fullness in many cases, and also explains the source of much mental fatigue and bodily weariness, on awakening in the morning.

REMEDY.-Every night, before retiring, subject the posterior portions of your head to a thorough rubbing, chafing, and smiting, by the hands of another. While endeavoring to sleep, do not forget to breathe fully many times. The habit of reading and thinking, or of talking upon any exciting topic, after nightfall, is never promotive of the physical harmonies. Extreme sensitiveness, either physical or mental, should be regarded as a mor bid condition.

Bad Dreams every Night.

We know a truly refined and poetry-loving person who is troubled nightly with dreams, the most grotesque and detestable. The case is not unusual.

REMEDY.-Do not gratify your appetite with too many kinds of food. When a child, you were injured with affectionate expressions in the shape of candy, raisins, nuts, and rich cake. Yes, you were, good patient-don't deny it. These are the worm-generating "evil spirits" that now beset you in dreams. Sleep with your head toward the North Pole hereafter, and always go to sleep on your right side. Eat or drink nothing after seven o'clock P. M.

Origin of Physical Beauty.

A family physican (who is a sort of Abernethy in his way,) says: "You may laugh at me as you like, Miss, but, I tell you, it is a positive fact, which you are at liberty to disprove if you can, that, when Venus rose from the sea, the rising took place the very first thing in the morning, or else she never would have been the beauty she was!"

Earth's Polarities at Night.

In this world, the external body is identified inseparably from the spiritual body; that is, the Motion, Life, and Sensation of the latter are distributed throughout the former, as water through a sponge; so that, whether in sickness or in health, the two bodies are practically and consciously one and the same. The distinction between these dissimilar bodies is realized in advance of death only by those who enter the trance, or the state of complete clairvoyance.

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All the earth's electrical currents flow northward. are cold. The human brain is supplied with more blood than

all the body besides. The head is, therefore, warm and mag netic, but sleeping with your head northward is best, because then the earth's cold fluids flow over it, and preserve a healthy state. The feet will be warmer in proportion. While sleeping with the head southward has the effect to deprive the extremities of their proper animation, and to fill the brain with extra heat and uneasy dreams. East and North are healthy; while South and West will produce nervous disease in the sleeper; but these remarks apply only to this latitude and longitude.

The Gospel of Self-Healing.

As all disease is the opposite of Health, and as all discord is the opposite of Harmony, so is the power of Health and Harmony identical with that by which disease is maintained. We would, therefore, counsel all fathers and mothers to heal their children by "laying on of hands;" not in anger, but with the full knowledge that healthful magnetism is the natural medicine for all sick bodies. The nerves convey disease or health in proportion as they are falsely or righteously influenced.

Unequal Bodily Development.

A correspondent writes a historical statement of his daughter's physical condition, which reveals a sad case of unequal development of the limbs, to which no ordinary treatment is applicable; but it may be possible to bring the motor nerves of such a patient under the control of the will of Indian spirits, in which case there are great probabilities of cure. Under ordinary circumstances, however, we counsel a castor-oil rubbing over the affected parts, every other night, with rapid manipulations on the neck and across the hips. Do not despair, for such a patient may become a light in your home! We would not have you administer any drugopathical preparations.