stomach frequently; complexion yellow, with brown spots here and there on the face; no great suffering, but much depression and weariness.

CAUSE AND REMEDY.-The liver is the sugar-making organ in the human economy, and is the first of all the visceral confederates to report any deficiency or excess in this particular. The above symptoms prove that there is an excess of bile (or old, worn-out, broken-down blood globules or eggs,) and that there is too much sugar and alkali sent out from the liver. The condition of the kidneys and stomach, taken in connection with the pallor and languor, are evidences unmistakable. The true remedy consists in a cheerful spirit (a very difficult medicine to obtain under some circumstances,) and plenty of nutritious food, which must be selected wholly from the vegetable kingdom. For supper eat no stewed berries or fruit. Nothing sweet, nor sour, nor salt, but only a tumblerful of Indian meal porridge, with a little unbuttered bread. Retire very early; arise, if possible, before the sun; walk out, breathe, and think of the Summer Land. Cultivate the spirit of Hope. Truth is more lovely than persons; worship it; let them not enter the sanctuary of Thought. For breakfast drink one cup of black tea (sans milk or sugar,) and eat nothing. Let hunger assail the citadel. Do not yield. For dinner eat whatever, and as much as, your appetite demands. Never sleep after dinner. This course of treat ment will effect a cure in about four weeks. Take a mild cathartic two or three times.

Torpid State of the Liver.

The symptoms are as follows: The eyes seem to swell in their sockets. Severe pain in the front and lower portions of the brain; giddiness. Extreme sickness ensues; vomiting of bile, and discharges from the bowels, until the lower system is depleted. Then you are prostrated, unable to labor, only able

to sleep and groan. Food is loathsome; and your flesh is wasting slowly away. You have these turns from six to ten times a year. Quarts of medicine have flowed down your throat. Powders, pills, plasters, poultices, and other pestilences, have been used in your behalf.

You have no faith in the Water Cure, because you have "tried it;" no faith in the Old School, for you have paid it" all your dollars; and you, therefore,

want

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THE REMEDY.—This is very simple, and was from the beginning to wit: during the period of comparative freedom from the symptoms, let your friend rub and pound the parts most affected. Frictionize just over the liver; manipulate the stomach and bowels; chafe the skin upon your back; and lastly, squeeze and smite the legs and arms. After this process is completed-which should be in the early part of every daylet the same hands anoint your surfaces, and then wrap them in thick flannel. Previous to the manipulations, it is proper to wash and cleanse the skin of its perspirational accumulations. Rabbit's oil is the most penetrating for this purpose, but olive oil will answer, if mixed with a small quantity of oil of spearmint. In addition to this, take charcoal mixed in Holland gin. The ancients were not unscientific in the use of sweet-smelling oil upon the body.

Remedy for Persistent Biliousness.

Many want to know how to overcome a constant inactivity of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, headache, fever, chills, &c., which abound in many parts of this country. REMEDY.-When the system is clogged and surcharged with broken-down blood, wasted tissue, semi-oxygenated fluids (out of which corruption, all manner of jaundice, biliousness, headache, melancholy, fever, chills, &c., are brought forth,) the only remedy consists in a persistent and judicious course of cathartic treatment, such as rhubarb, and charcoal in gin or water: a tea-spoonful of each,

every night for, perhaps, a week; then every other night, for some ten days or longer; lastly, once a week, as long as there remain any symptoms of torpid liver, or any disease whatever. If the operation of the medicine produces weakness, yield to it, and rest both day and night. Persons should use less or more of the rhubarb, according to their intestinal susceptibilities. Dietings, nursings, and milk and water treatment, in incorrigible cases of biliousness, are simply trifling with a formidable enemy.

How to cast out the Devil.

A mother, having a little faith in the Swedenborgian phase of Spiritualism, and considerable more faith in "good, oldfashioned New England Presbyterianism," is alarmed for one of her eldest children, who is a partial medium, thinking it possible that some "evil spirit" has taken possession. The symptoms are variable, but the following is given as a synopsis: Occasional flushes, or a circumscribed spot on one or both cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pupils dilate; an azure semi-circle runs along the lower eye-lid; the nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds; occasional headache; an unusual secretion of saliva; furred tongue; breath very foul, particularly in the morning; appetite sometimes voracious, with a gnawing sensation in the stomach, at others, entirely gone; occasional nausea and vomiting; violent pains throughout the abdomen; bowels irregular, at times costive; belly swollen and hard; urine turbid; respiration occasionally difficult, and accompanied by hiccough; uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grinding of the teeth; temper variable, but generally irritable.

CAUSES AND REMEDY.-Our decision in such a case (religious predilections being set aside,) is, that the patient has not been. well educated in matters of eating and drinking; has from childhood used too much sugar, ate bread made with saleratus, too many buckwheat pancakes; and that, as a sad consequence, the patient is a "medium" for evil and diabolical "spirits" in the horrid form of "Worms!" We cheerfully give directions

for exorcism of the invaders. In order to successfully "cast the devil out" of your child, first reform the diet, abolishing bad bread and all sweet articles of consumption; secondly, give the sufferer a cup of tea made of a little of each-sage and sweet fern-every forenoon; or rhubarb and charcoal once or twice a week. May the "devil" soon depart both from your creed and family!

Dyspepsia and Despair.

This is a disease of the mesenteric glands of the ganglionic nerves in the digestive system, affecting the intellectual and better faculties of mind. Depression and mental dyspepsia are natural symptoms under these conditions.

Never say

"die."

REMEDY.-Evoke whole manhood! your Take a tea-spoonful of Charcoal, in hot water, twice or thrice a week. Take a lemon, cut off the end, fill it with white sugar, and then slowly squeeze the contents into your mouth. This, and nothing else, is your last meal. Your nights will soon become periods of rest and invigcration. Rise early. Sleep before breakfast, if possible. Your morning meal must not be watery; nor your dinner; neither should you ever taste a particle of fruit or berries between meals. Thoroughly oil your whole person with sweet oil, perfumed as you like it, once per week. When thirsty, use lemon and sugar; not anything stimulating, nor cold water. Believe in Nature's remedies-they

will not fail you.

My Dyspepsia and my God.

Alas! madam (said a plain-minded deacon,) I have seen too many souls go to perdition by what you call "Health Reform." No sooner has a person quit coffee, than he disbelieves in Infant Baptism; with tea goes his reverence for the Eucharist; let him leave off eating pork, and he will discard the doctrine

of Vicarious Suffering; let him take no more medicine, and he stands in danger of the heresy of Universal Salvation; and by the time he is a finished vegetarian, he will deny the doctrine of Plenary Inspiration, and drift straight into the quicksands of Infidelity. No, madam, give me, rather, my dyspepsia and my God.

Looseness of the Bowels.

Many persons are afflicted with an almost continued looseness of the bowels; sometimes troubled after meals, or whenever the least excited.

REMEDY.-The Pneumogastric Cure will perform wonders in all such cases; for the stomach and bowels throughout are wholly under the scepter of the sympathetic and pneumogastric nerves, through which the Will-power works like a lever over its fulcrum. Lest, however, the patient is deficient in volitional ability to "heal" himself, we prescribe for all ordinary forms of summer complaints, relaxation of the bowels, diarrhoea, &c., simply and only this: Chew a few cloves every day-better between breakfast and dinner. Avoid drinking largely between meals. This remedy will cure even chronic cases of looseness.

Heat and Pain in the Bowels.

There is ofttimes a subdued inflammatory disease of the muscular texture of the intestines-almost enteritis; also a tardiness of action in the mesenteric glands, causing weakness and distension to result from much eating; defective chylification at times; an almost neuralgia of the sympathetic ganglia throughout the bowels.

REMEDY.-Beware of everything which tends to entaticus, (physical irritation.) In your programme of eatable articles, the following must be omitted: "Old smoked salt meat, salted fish, veal, geese, ducks, the liver, heart, lungs, or tripe of animals. Rancid butter, old strong cheese, lard, fat pork, turtles,