nate this disease Diabetes insipitus. It is caused by a superabundance of serum in the blood, which contains a too large proportion of saccharine matter, unassimilated. The urine at first is clear and sweetish, but very soon gives off vapors peculiar to the general condition of the system.

REMEDY.-Hygienic means are always in order, and essential to a cure. That is, the unfortunate victim should eat or drink nothing sweet or sweetish; nor may the stomach and bowels be fed with starchy food, such as potatoes and fresh bread. A morbid state of the blood is the cause of the weakness in some children; but in nearly all cases the primary cause is a too frequent use of milk and sweet diets, puddings, etc. No fluid should be taken with meals, or at any other time, unless the thirst is intense, in which case use strong lemonade without sweetening, or a tea-cupful of water, medicated with from one to three drops of diluted sulphuric acid. Twice a week the body of the patient should be thoroughly anointed with sweet oil, dissolved with a little of each-spirits turpentine and alcohol. Always bathe and manipulate from head to feet, except when the patient has some local inflammation, or special pain.

The disuse of all starchy and sweet foods, the use of the WILL as both a policeman and a physician, and the acid drinks recommended, is a good treatment for the great majority of cases. Severe and long-standing sufferers with incipient Diabetes, may aid their cure by putting one ounce of cascarilla bark, one drachm each of cloves and cinnamon, pulverized, and four ounces of lemon-peel, in one pint of best port wine. To tincture one week. DOSE.-A tea-spoonful, with a Graham cracker, for supper.

How to Stimulate the Kidneys.

A bilious state of the system is sometimes attended with an obstruction of the flow of urine, which tends rapidly to aggravate all the symptoms, and to inaugurate the disease called

jaundice, which, in turn, is not unlikely to affect the hepatic functions, and ultimately the lungs.

REMEDY.-There are many articles in the vegetable kingdom calculated to stimulate the kidneys. Balsams, turpentine, dulcamera, digitalis, juniper berries, spirits of nitric ether, &c.; but the most popular with a few practitioners over the Atlantic, is a remedy called Stork's-bill' (erodium cicutarium,) which grows in several parts of this country. Dr. Bryerley, of Cheshire, England, gives, in the Medical Times and Gazette, the following directions for its use: "The mode of preparation is, to infuse an ounce of the dried plant (every part of it,) in three pints of water, stewing it in an oven until two pints remain. The dose for an adult is four or five fluid ounces three times a day; probably more may be needed in some cases. The Stork'sbill is indigenous in England, where it grows abundantly on sand-hills near the coast, but it has been introduced into this country, and is to be found on the shores of Oneida Lake, in the State of New York."

Medicine for a Weak Stomach.

Sweet fern, if pulverized and chewed about an hour before dinner, would prove higly beneficial to a weak stomach. Swallow the juice only; not any of the herb. Sweet flag is not good for nervous characters. A sweet disposition, used abundantly between sleeping hours, is a royal remedy.

The roots and berries of (Aralia racemosa) spikenard are sometimes efficacious in dyspeptic disorders. Botanic and Eclectic physicians attribute Stomachic and mild Balsamic or stimulating properties to this common herb. The alkaloid extract is occasionally used. We have found it useful only when combined with two or three other medicinal herbs of more power.

There are two ways of preventing and of curing dyspeptic conditions-the manly and the mean; the manly by going to the table twice a day, and nobly curbing the beastly appetite, say ing: "I will eat this and so much, and no more by a single atom." The mean or ignoble, by having "this and so much, and not an atom more," sent to a private table; the "this and so much," the quality and quantity, having been determined by the observed instincts and needs of the system; each man being a rule for himself, under the guidance of a wise physician, or of an unerring and competent judgment of his own.

Remedial use of Sugar.

A little reflection will inform you when, and in what cases, the use of sugar or syrups is consistent with health. Sugar may be advantageously used only whenever patients are not diseased in their nutritive functions. Digestion is sometimes

injured by the too free use of sweets. For this reason we do not often prescribe "syrups " for our patients; as, in this country, the majority of diseased persons are dyspeptics, or greatly debilitated in their organs of nutrition. In the stomachs of such patients sweets become acids, and thus many unpleasant symptoms are developed.

Cure for a Sour Stomach.

The causes are various. The remedy is simple: Use a few drops of pure lemon acid just before eating. But your food should be plain; no sugar, or sweets, or pastries; eat plenty of rye bread, and sometimes chew chamomile flowers.

Honey and other Sweets.

The nectar of flowers, gathered by bees, is a watery solution of cane sugar. In the process of this transformation, the cane

sugar is decomposed into three different kinds, which constitute honey. The heat which the bees maintain in the hive causes this change. Weak acids, as well as heat and moisture, can effect a similar conversion of cane sugar. Your digestive organs cannot, in this northern climate, dispose of large quan. tities of sugar. Health demands very little of either sweet or sour. Children do not need more sweet than is contained in the milk and fruit they everywhere naturally consume.

Sweating of the Extremities.

This is generally produced by an inactivity of the absorbent system. The mesenteric glands are diseased, causing symptoms not unlike indigestion and torpid liver, but the effect on the nerves is debilitating and harassing. REMEDY.-Horseradish and Turkey rhubarb, of each one ounce, infused in one quart of good brandy for one week. Then add one pound of brown sugar, one tea-spoonful of powdered cloves, as much red pepper, and mix by shaking frequently. DosE.-One tea-spoonful, with an agreeable quantity of water, whenever the sweating of hands and feet is most profuse and troublesome. You should never take more than three doses of this preparation in twenty-four hours.

Worms in Children.

Some children have a predisposition to this distressing and disgusting form of disease. The long round worn, or lumbricoid ascaris, is very common. The tapeworm is rare, but dangerous. The usual symptoms are griping pains in and about the abdomen; variable and voracious appetite; fetid breath and occasional nausea; wasting away of the body; disturbed by troublesome dreams; dizziness; bloating of the stomach; pain and itching at the navel; grinding of teeth while sleeping;

picking and irritation of the nose; and sometimes slight convul. sions.

THE REMEDY.-Stop all sugar and sweets of every description; no pies, puddings, cakes, or preserves; bathe the stomach and bowels in diluted oil of cloves. Mix a little of finely-powdered cloves with whatever the child eats for supper. Weak clove tea is excellent. But the quickest and least dangerous remedy is an injection of a tea-spoonful of linseed-oil in a sufficient quantity of warm water. This may be used twice or thrice a week. Constipation must not exist. With costiveness. a cure of the depraved condition will be impossible.

Adult intestines are not exempt from such verminous visitations. We shudder when we recall what we have witnessed in human bodies. Vermifuges are numerous. For an adult, three grains of pulverized Indian Hemp (Apocynum Cannabinum,) twice a day. Male fern tea, for children, or tansy and wormwood steeped together, and drank every other day. We would recommend injections of a weak decoction of cabbage-leaves.

The Prepared Female Organism.

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QUESTION. MR. DAVIS: In your answer to a correspondent's question, 'Why are not men and animals produced now as they were at first?' you say: We do observe a time when the highest animals started through the reproductive organism of the prepared female,' &c. Now, the question I wish answered, is this: What do you mean by the prepared female?"

ANSWER.-Readers of the volume of Nature observe that each chapter of material development is marked by deep-reach. ing changes in the fluids and solids of the globe―vast crises and earth-wide revolutions-accompanied by the retirement or extinction of one set of physical conditions, and followed by the inauguration of new and superior circumstances in the material constitution of things. These changes, or crises, or revolutions,