terrapins, oysters, raw or cooked, hard-boiled eggs, omelets." Adopt this plan, but eat regularly of whatever else suits your taste. Envelop your bowels in oiled silk every night, or rub with sweet oil, and wear an apron of fine fur on the surface of your abdomen all day. Let every person afflicted with neuralgic pains in the stomach and bowels adopt the fur-remedy at once. It is equally good for coldness of the intestines, tardy digestion, and habitual flatulency. But manipulations and the Will are indispensable in all cases.

Cure for Sick Headache.

For years some poor soul is severely afflicted with a nervous sick headache, which gradually wastes his body away, and brings his existence to an end. He has tried every remedy within his reach, without relief. REMEDY.-Such a case is not hopeless. We almost know that it can be tuned up and made healthy-on condi tion, of course, that the patient will strictly follow the prescrip tion hereby imparted. First. He must particularly scrape the tongue every night and morning. Remove all debris of the salivary glands, and wash away from the mouth all miasmatic epithelium, so that the tongue shall be clean and capable of accomplishing the first offices of digestion. Second. He should drink nothing stimulating of the alcoholic character, must not eat as much meat as he may sometimes crave, and, particularly, he should fast at least twelve hours previous to the usual period of attack. Third. The sovereign remedy may be confidently administered --namely Drink a glass of very sour buttermilk instead of supper, and repeat the dose a few minutes before breakfast. The milk should be used at night only a few times previous to the usual sickness. The object is to remove the fibrile action throughout the body, which is the cause of the progressive emaciation, and nothing can do this but a remedy that shall sup.

ply lactic acid to the blood, and at the same time overcome its extreme alkalinity. In most cases this remedy will prove a cure for sick headache, more especially when the stomach is sore and the kidneys weak.

An Inveterate Dyspepsia.

Pain soon after eating breakfast, bloating immediately after dinner, and "a horrid nightmare almost every night," or a dreadful headache about every third day. REMEDY.-Eat precisely that which you know gives you the least suffering, and as much of it as you want; but omit your supper, without deviation, until completely cured. Instead of tea or supper, eat a lemon, only a little modified with white sugar. Before breakfast, drink a tea-cupful of sour buttermilk. We think that this course will cure you, because your dyspepsia is wholly owing to a deficiency of lactic acid in the system.

Remedy for Bilious Vomiting.

Persons afflicted with bilious vomiting, and sometimes diarrhoea, should eat nothing after dinner. Let this be a rule day after day for months. Hunger will be a good medicine. First thing on rising, mornings, drink a tumbler of cold, weak, black cherry bark tea, which may be prepared during the preceding evening. A little powder of camphor, or of salt, laid on the tongue after the vomiting commences, will stop it, and prevent diarrhoea.

Swelling of the Abdomen.

"For a few

A Boston lady describes her case as follows: months past I have been troubled with a swelling of the abdomen, and hardening at the same time. There is no pain at all accompanying this swelling, but it alarms me. It occurs nearly every day-sometimes, indeed, more than once a day; is never

larger than usual in the morning before rising, but as soon as 1 bathe myself, it swells and hardens almost before I can get dry."

CAUSE AND REMEDY.-This is the second instance of a peculiar affection which has come before us in the department of human disease. The anterior surface of the intestines is covered with adipose matter, called "omentum," which, in persons of fleshy proclivities, is abundantly deposited between strata of the serous membrane. The mesenteric glands, through which the lacteal vessels pass to the thoracic duct, are somewhat inflamed. From thence a gas is rapidly diffused between the intestines and the membrane that contains the omentum. The sudden swelling and hardening are natural concomitants of this intestinal transaction. In one case, where this condition was permitted to exist for over two years, the patient died with a tumor (fleshy and fatty in composition,) in the abdomen. Another, with identical symptoms, recovered by abandoning all drinks at meals, and taking, every forenoon, a very warm sitz bath for fifteen minutes. For every such bath make a strong decoction of hemlock boughs. It is essential for the patient to perspire freely in the bath.

Water in the Stomach.

In most cases, we observe that the accumulation of water in the side, stomach, bowels, or about the heart, is caused, in the first place, by the derangement of the liver, and, in the second place, by generation of gas in the lower stomach and small intestines. REMEDY.-Drink nothing between meals, and no more than a tumbler of fluid while eating. Twice a week, take a table-spoonful of powdered charcoal in a wine-glass of warm water, about one hour before dinner. It may be necessary to rest or sleep a few minutes while under the immediate influ

ence of this medicine. For "Prairie Itch" there is nothing better than the tea of yellow jessamine; also wash the body with strong decoctions of lavender and hemlock bark.

Cure for Habitual Costiveness.

A constant constipation may be cured without recourse to artificial means. Graham bread and plenty of apple-sauce for breakfast; no meat, no hot cakes oftener than twice a week, no coffee at any time; and very little fluid of any kind. This method is adapted to all persons whose occupation keeps them within doors. For an immediate relief, take a table-spoonful of Indian meal or Graham flour, in a tumbler of water, before breakfast, quite early in the morning. Perhaps several doses will be necessary.

A Bilious Medicine.

The system of every bilious patient is radically impaired It must be built up by the most persistent effort of Will. In addition, we prescribe a bitter medicine, as follows: Mandrake root, pulverized, one drachm; orange-peel and cloves, of each one table-spoonful, well pounded. Put in one pint of good brandy, one pint of water, and one pound of brown sugar. Stand one week; then add another pint of water. DosE.-Commence with a tea-spoonful before meals.

Evils of Eating for Amusement.

A Newburyport (Mass.) paper says: "A young man resid ing not a thousand miles from Beck-street, being disappointed in going to the Bluff, last Monday, consoled himself by consuming the following refreshments, in addition to three hearty meals Five sheets of gingerbread, three glasses of small beer, five glasses of nectar, three large pickles, twenty cocoanut cakes

six ounces chocolate cream drops, ten cigars, seven large apples, half pint of peanuts, four cents worth of old cheese, one stick of candy, one pint of new milk, feur glasses of ice water, and an emetic, which was ordered by a physician, to save his life for further duties."

Tone of the Stomach Destroyed.

When your stomach is inclined to burn, and to refuse every ordinary article of food and drink, the true remedy is hand magnetism, applied to the spine and over the stomach. Drink the mildest tea of roast onions occasionally. Rye bread, well toasted, is better than wheat for a weak digestion. Swallow uncooked Indian meal, or chew wheat berries

Your diet should henceforth be more nutritious.

Not either

'fish, flesh, or fowl," but the grains that grow in the sunlight. Make a pudding of equal parts of Barley, Wheat (cracked,) and Corn. Eat this as the principal article for your dinner. Abandon desserts of every description, and take a light breakfast.

When the stomach continues weak, with weariness in the fore part of the day, but a better state of feeling as evening approaches, we recommend the patient to eat nothing hearty till dinner. Sleep, an hour in the forenoon, is particularly useful.

A New Test for Diabetes.

Professor Paine, in his Journal of Eclectic Medicine, says: Drop one or two drops of the urine upon a slip of clean tinned iron, hold it over a fluid lamp, evaporate the fluid, and continue the heat. If there is sugar in the urine, a rich, reddish-brown color will appear on the place from which the urine is evap orated.

Remedy for Urinary Weakness.

Some children, as well as adults, have an inveterate habit of wetting their beds at night. It may ke proper to denomi