no mistake more fatal to a correct comprehension of the life. giving processes. The story is a short one. Food is of no consequence as a strength-generating substance, until, in the form of chyle, it visits the pulmonary department and receives copulation and prolification from the electro-magnetic principles of the air. Oxygen is the royal conveyance, by which the deeper vitalizing principles drive into the constituents of chyle. As soon as a fructifying and impregnative conjunction is formed between the chyle and the air, then, and not a moment before, the food is prepared to build up and re-make the ponderable organism. If the air is impure in quality, or limited in quantity, the effect is instantly impressed upon the fluid material. That our strength is not dependent upon the amount of nutritious food we eat, is established, beyond the possibility of mistake, by the fact that persons with lung diseases, consumption, &c., usually eat far greater quantities of food than perfectly healthy individuals, who yet have forty times the volume of strength.

CONCLUSION. We need not further amplify. The facts must be self-evident. Strength is born of the imponderable elements of immensity. The great receptive mechanism-made up of cells, blood-vessels, pneumogastric and sympathetic centers, vegetative ganglia, and bronchial tubes, ramifying in every direction-is situated in the chest. The right side is more largely supplied than the left, in order to give adequate space and action to contiguous parts and organs. The atmosphere of space, on entering this beautiful mechanism, empowers the food to supply waste and to gratify the bodily needs. Strength is the natural issue of such supply and of such gratification. Digestion is never perfect unless the respiration is full, and performed in the baptismal font of pure air, which is a vast ocean of life and energy at least fifty miles deep, and equal on

all sides of the revolving globe. You will now, far more thar: before, understand the importance of breathing, (as directed,) when using the pneumogastrical cure for pulmonary and abdominal diseases. If you wish to acquire absolute strength of body, if you desire a clear and well-balanced brain, if you want a large mind and a more noble character-then, Breathe, Breathe, Breathe "the breath of life, and become a living soul."

CHAPTER X.

BLOOD, BILE, AND BOWELS.

It seems to us that the pleasures of health are beyond description. To substantiate this conviction, we refer to the stacks of medical works, to the entire catalogue of poetical eulogy, and lastly to the eloquent reflections of every intelligent invalid since the world began. The care-worn and diseased physician remembers the time "when all life's sunny hours were freshened by the breath of health." So, too, the poet "with aspect wan and sunken eye," dreams of happy sunshine days, when the music of birds, the ringing laugh of merry children, and the romantic scenery of youthful years, kept tune to the heart-beatings of physical harmony. And thus, in short, it is with every other mortal, who, being crippled and incapacitated by disease, reflects back through the golden hours, when life's bright currents ran merrily through the Heart.

We this time use the word "HEART" in no spiritual sense. The physical organ is the everywhere-acknowledged regulator of life's magic stream. It dilates and contracts, when healthy, with equal joy and pleasure. Like a jewel hidden in the "bosom of the deep," like a bark on the trackless way of many waters, so is the visible organ "heart" in its relations to the crimson stream of life. It reflects the pleasures or the tempests of the more inward soul. The wondrous dynamics of

pulsation lie deep beneath the physical structures. The principles of motion and life co-exist and work like brothers in that gentle current, the noiseless "blood."

Of the blood and the heart we have very much to write. One thousand times, no doubt, our spiritual eyes have peered into the secrets of the life-fluid. Its constitution, its mission, its beautiful operations throughout the whole physical mechanism, and lastly, its diseases, have painted, with unrivaled pencil, many most important truths upon our understanding. A few of these we present, with the hope that some reader may receive the truth and be thereby directed into ways of gladsome health.

FIRST: The blood is manufactured out of materials consigned to the stomach. The physiology of this process is exceedingly beautiful in health, but we will not dwell upon it.

SECOND: Digestion is a marvel in the chemical laboratory of life. In health the mind is unconscious of this many-sided process. The mucous membranes co-operate with the muscular tissues; fluids and ethers, time and temperature, acids and alkalies, reciprocate each with the other throughout; so that, in health, the most sensitive mind can realize nothing but pleasure and the accumulation of abundant power to execute the duties of life. The magnetic fluid, termed "gastric juice," receiving its subtile energies from the brain, through the great sympathetic nerve, can convert any soluble substance into a limpid nutriment. This is the chyme, which, settling into the duodenum, soon mingles with a discriminating fluid, termed pancreatic juice; and the bile, with its negative qualities coming in to aid the processes of separation, soon ultimates the food into a fine fluid (chyle) which is the material for the immediate production of blood.

THIRD Let no one suppose that the blood is red or blue in the beginning. It is clear and odorless as pure milk, with but

little coloring properties, when absorbed by the hair-vessels. that line the small intestines. At first the blood is composed of innumerable eggs, which are originated in the lacteal mem. branes. These vessels and minute membranes constitute a perfect ovarium, wherein the globules of the blood are primarily formed, and from whence they are subsequently detached; when they drop into the flowing currents and thence float off into the general circulation. We do not give details, because they are deemed unimportant for the purposes of this chapter, which is to indicate a few facts in the cause and cure of disease.

FOURTH The unnumbered spherical bodies or globules are each a center of life to the individual. His blood is a moving miniature sea of oval forms, of countless nuclei, of points and pivots, upon which all the life-wheels turn and spin the web of spirit. Each sanguinous egg is also a center of vitality for the perpetuation of the race. Let the physical eye inspect this ovarium, and let the chemist break its eggs, and classify their contents, and he will speak (1) of red globules, (2) of Lymph globules, (3) of Chylic globules, and say that the com position of healthy blood consists of so much serum, so much fibrine, and so much albumen: all which, by further analyzation, yield many mysterious properties-sulphates, phosphates, carbonates, chlorides, peroxides, &c., &c.-but the great internal facts and laws, which are fundamental to the existence and healthy performance of blood, remain wrapped in folds upon folds of materialism. In proof of this we refer to the custom, not yet extinct among best educated physicians, of blood-letting. What can more clearly establish their utter ignorance in respect to the blood's internal nature and mission in the economy?

FIFTH: Not attempting a line of detail concerning the modus operandi of the circulation, showing how respiration gives color and vitality to the heart's fluid, we proceed at once to inquire