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 residing 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, four 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

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Your diet should henceforth be more nutritious. "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 evaporated.

Remedy for Urinary Weakness.

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

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.

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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, saying: "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