cat-fur. Remove it every morning, and bathe the parts in cold water, always drying by means of manipulations. Internally, the following is the best general remedy: Golden seal (hydrasis Canadensis,) and Pleurisy-root (Asclepias tuberosa,) of each four ounces. Make a quick fire, and boil these ingredients, in three pints of rain-water, down below one-half. Strain when cold; add one pound of brown sugar, and one tea-spoonful of red pepper. DOSE.-Take a tea-spoonful in the mouth and swallow slowly, whenever the soreness is most severe, or when the body feels most like dropping with debility. Three or four doses per day may be taken with benefit.

Diptheria and Sore Throat.

Diptheria owes its origin to certain atmospheric influences which are generated and widely diffused in some localities, while other and adjoining regions are wholly untainted by the poisonous vapor. Any one is liable to an attack of this subtile inflammation, and there is no condition, save that of sound health, which may be considered a harbinger of safety. Doctor Bruce says: "Upon a careful and somewhat extended investigation of the history of Diptheria, I find that it raged as an epidemic in Rome A. D. 380; Holland, in 1337; Spain, in 1600; Naples, in 1509; New York, in 1611 and 1771, when it was extremely fatal."

SYMPTOMS. The most prominent symptoms are that of weariness through the joints, and the sensation of a cold in the head, and throat, and lungs. Sometimes, however, the throat is not sensitive even when the diptheritic exudation has commenced. A fetid odor in the breath, and some slight redness and enlargement of one of the tonsils, are among the incipient symptoms.

REMEDY.-Stop all food, even when your appetite is good, except gruels, porridges, and panadas. Drink not a spoonful

of cold water. Bandage your entire throat, in early stages of the disease, with several folds of flannel. Keep this cravat on both day and night without changing. Be very quiet, and do not fear the progress of your disease. Gargle your mouth and throat every half hour with a strong gargle made of vinegar, honey, red pepper, and salt, mixed in a tumblerful of warm water. Do not go out of a warm room for several successive days. Breathe the vapor of hops occasionally; also sleep on a pillow filled with them. Take no physic or emetics. Keep the bowels open by warm water enemas. (This course, accompanied with some gentle magnetic passes to quiet the nervous excitement, will check almost every form of throat disease.)

Putrid and diptheritic inflammations of the throat, although resembling croup in many symptoms, should not be treated like the latter, but invariably as you would attempt to prevent an attack of yellow fever, viz.: By bathing the extremities in hot mustard water, rubbing them until the skin becomes very tender, and then enveloping them in many folds of flannel. The American Medical Times calls attention to the efficacy of creosote as a local application for diptheria. Ten drops of creosote to a gill of warm water is applied as a gargle; one or two applications effect a cure. Try it. Just balance the system in regard to temperature, give it plenty of rest for several successive days, and you will escape almost every form of putrid inflammations and eruptive fevers.

Malignant Sore Throat and Croup.

This semi-throat disease sometimes appears among adults, though children are most commonly subjects of it. It is a strange and painful malady, arising from atmospheric conditions, and should be promptly treated as an electrical affection. Its symptoms are somewhat like croup, combined with malignant scarlet

fever, attended with occasional vomiting and purging, and concluding with the formation of a membrane or transparent film, which, covering the windpipe closely, brings on horrible sensations of choking and suffocation. Violent delirium is a very possible symptom in a certain advanced stage of the affliction. REMEDY.-Treat the patient vigorously, as in a case of yellow fever. That is to say, bathe the arms and legs with warm water containing as much mustard or red pepper as the skin will bear without blistering. Or, which is a good substitute, bathe the arms and legs with camphorated alcohol and warm water; and keep the head very cool by constant application of cloths dipped in ice water. Then manipulate downward rapidly, until the surface is quite red and sensitive with the friction and rritation. Stop all food, and give only a tea-spoonful of icewater at a time. Use frequent cold compresses upon the throat. Give from one to three warm water enemas each twenty-four hours. The wet-sheet pack is good when the surface is dry and hot. In extreme cases, where suffocation seems unavoidable, apply fresh beefsteak compresses to the throat. Rather than permit the disease to proceed, bathe the patient's extremities every half hour.

Sore Throat and Bitter Stomach.

For bronchial weakness, if long-continued, we prescribe the constant wearing of lamb-skin in front over the lungs; and at night, after severe symptoms, a bandage of the same about the throat. Keep the skin of your body clean, and get a fresh lamb-skin when necessary. Wash your whole in person soap stomach take a

and water once a week. For a sour and bitter

tea-spoonful of yeast three times a day; or, about twice a week, drink a bowl of weak tea made of equal quantities of wild cherry bark and spearmint, or take a three-grain pill after supper, made

of equal proportions of extract of liverwort and dandelion These medicines are prescribed to operate favorably in cases where the well-known common laws of Health are obeyed, and where stimulating beverages and physical excesses are avoided.

Bronchial Weakness, and Neuralgia.

As a general fact in this climate, a Bronchial weakness is a symptom of a low condition of the vital forces. The bodily powers drop below their true level, and then, in America, the symptom is either a neuralgic attack or a diseased condition of the throat. We allege the basic cause to be hastiness, overwork, over-eating, and improper digestion, and early neglect of physical functions, particularly the bowels.

REMEDY.-Give conscientious attention to the demands of the different functions; live regularly, systematically, in every external particular; and then, with great confidence, you may apply to your body, throat, back, and bowels, this ointment: Take tincture of arnica, olive-oil, oil of spearmint, and common turpentine, of each four ounces; pulverized camphor gum, a table-spoonful; prepared "goose grease," or refined lard, sufficient to reduce the whole, over a slow fire, to the consistency of molasses. This wash may be thinned by the introduction of alcohol. This unguentum will penetrate your venous system, and remotely affect the nervous forces, if you apply it, as directed, twice a week. Use it every night over your lungs and about your throat, when either are sore or debilitated.

Consumptive Irritation in the Throat.

A correspondent describes many cases in writing of his afflicted wife: "Last spring we were surprised to find that her lungs were very much diseased, according to the diagnosis of two physicians She has taken no medicine, but has practiced

your direction in regard to breathing, early rising (until recently,) and the Will-power. By the use of these natural means, I think the lungs are nearly or quite healed, strength very much improved, and general health vastly better. The disease, however, seems to be now in the bronchial tubes, producing cough, &c., and the above means do not seem to overcome it."

REMEDY.-Wear cotton stockings with fur insoles, and fur wristlets also, every night, or wrap the extremities in folds of flannel. Sleeping with these points very warm (magnetic,) will greatly aid Nature in the curative process. The cough will yield to something like the following: Pulverized pleurisy-root (asclepias tuberosa,) two ounces; extract of dandelion, six ounces; extract of hoarhound, the same quantity; cayenne pepper, one tea-spoonful; onion-juice, three table-spoonfuls; brown sugar, one pound. Boil and mix, and convert this compound into candy balls about the size of white walnuts. DosE.-Use this candy as freely as you can without nauseating the stomach -especially during parts of the day when the cough is most troublesome, or the throat the most sensitive. Do not abandon the pneumogastric efforts at Self-Healing.

Bronchitis, and Mucous in the Throat.

After several attempts patient finally coughs

At night, and on rising in the morning, there seems to be an accumulation of mucous in the throat. to clear away the obstruction, the two or three times, which may bring it away in the shape of mucous and hard clots of yellow matter, sometimes streaked with blood. This may all occur in one who is temperate, eats no animal food, but leads a somewhat sedentary life.

REMEDY.-These symptoms are owing to a depression of the vital forces in the pneumogastrical department. No medicines can cure unless aided in their operation by regular exercises of the chest and throat, by means of breathing and reading, or