Remain in your own Climate.

The climate of Pisa, in Italy, has been long considered favorable to persons afflicted with bronchitis and consumptive diathesis. It is very mild and moist, but many times relaxing and oppressive, to persons of northern nationalities. We would recommend you to remain in your own climate, obey the laws of Nature, keep your spirit happy by doing good deeds, and take those simple remedies prescribed in this book for consumptive conditions.

"Oh Health!

Oh happiness! our being's end and aim ;

Good, pleasure, ease, content, whate'er thy name,
That something, still, which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die."

Softening of the Brain.

This condition is very common; the heart is proportionally hardened. Professional, but more frequently business men, are its subjects. The predisposing cause is sumptuous living. After a morning fully occupied with business matters, a man comes regularly to a dinner of various and highly-seasoned dishes of fish, and fowl, and flesh, with every adjunct to excite and gratify the appetite. He partakes freely of food and wine, in excess, to be sure, though, perhaps, never to the extent of gluttony or inebriety. The papers are read, cigars are smoked, a few hours are passed socially, and the evening closes with a hot supper and abundant punch. If a man living thus continues successful in his plans and his business, he may go through life with no other physical or mental infirmity than the pain and irrascibility of gout, or the distress and gloom of dyspepsia. But if it be otherwise, if he meet with a reverse of fortune, or if some grief or chagrin come upon him, then he is exceedingly liable to this fatal disease, which is the joint product of luxuri

ous living and some torturing anxiety or disappointment.-See Report of DR. JOHN E. TYLER, Superintendent of the McLean Asylum.

How the Will Acts on Nerve-Centers.

Physiologists cannot determine in the living subject the exact condition of the nerve-batteries located at the base of the brain and in the spinal cord. These centers in color are gray, derived from the positive substance of the cord; and by fibers (or thread conductors,) they communicate with every muscular tissue in the organization. Your Will can, through the magnetic forces of these centralized batteries, reach and ramify through every part. Practice a few days, as we have admonished you, and your experience will sustain our philosophy.

One correspondent writes that the Willing-remedy, applied to herself for deafness, has already benefited the parts; but complains that the exertion of Willing, accompanied with the suitable manipulations, has the effect to induce sleep.

Many patients would be delighted to have similar results follow their pneumogastrical efforts. If, however, every patient so affected would take a foot-bath of tepid water, while in the act of manipulating and Willing, we are sure that a cheerful wakefulness and other benefits will ensue.

The Will-energy at Work.

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kinkad are very superficial and dastardly; they begin apa sing but meeting with a difeuity, they fly from it discouraged, but they have capacities, if they would employ them." Shall we, then, judge a country by the majority, or by the minerity! By the minority, surely. Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.--Emerson.

Gall and Spurzheim's Works.

In the history of the investigations of phrenological science, we first meet with the celebrated Gall. This physician was the first to make practical observations upon the living brain. But Doctor Spurzheim's classifications and works have superseded those of Gall in popular estimation, because the former was the most successful in bringing the facts of mind more clearly and simply before the world.

It has been ascertained that the front lobe of the brain exerts an influence which is invigorating and refining to all the senses and the nervous system, but that its effect upon the muscular and osseous systems is somnolent and debilitating. Harmony is possible only when both brains, back and front, are equally exercised. (See "A Remedy for an Unbalanced Body and Brain," on another page.)

What the Will can Do.

QUESTION." Do you mean to convey the idea that a person who has inherited nervous infirmities may ever, by careful, conscientious use of the internal, self-healing powers, become so 'redeemed and sanctified' as to have a sound mind in a sound body'? Can one with undeveloped concentrativeness make use of the practice recommended in Pneumogastrical remedies ?”

ANSWER.—Yes; we certainly mean to teach that mind is destined to stand sovereign master over all below its exalted plane. Matter the body-is below the soul; therefore the soul is capable of instituting an absolute government. "Practice makes perfect," is an old and a true proverb. The method of applying the Will-power is as simple as walking, moving your hand, or speaking, for all such motions are from the Will. Why not extend the operations of this power over all parts of the dependent organism?

Galen's Remedy for Hydrophobia.

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A favorite remedy for the bites of the rattlesnake, and in cases of hydrophobia, was introduced by Galen, under the name of Mad-wort." The Latin name for it is "Marrubium Vulgare," which, being boiled down and done into plain English, is the common "Hoarhound," so generally and wisely used in cases of coughs and asthmatic affections. There is, unquestionably, a medicinal quality in this "mad-wort," which, if persistently used both in the form of poultices and as a drink, would neutralize the venomousness of snakes and rabid dogs. Let this be remembered when no other remedy is at hand. There is much experience in its favor.

Coup de Soleil, or Sun-stroke.

This malady is produced by exposure to the heat of the sun's rays. It is a modified form of apoplexy, and is most likely to attack persons of bad digestion, or of bilious and intemperate habits. The brain fever which succeeds a sun-stroke, is dangerous. Prevention is better than cure. Experience has shown [says a military writer,] that troops serving in warm climates greatly need protection from sun-stroke, often quite as dangerous and fatal as the fire of the enemy.

The judicious care and foresight of the British officers, in the recent campaigns in India and the Crimea, protected their soldiers from the danger, by thick white linen cap covers, having a cape protecting the back of the neck, which reflected, instead of absorbing, the heat of the sun.

Farmers and teamsters-indeed every one much exposed to the sun's rays in mid-summer-might save themselves from headaches and sun-strokes by this simple cap. Sun-strokes may also be prevented by keeping a wet handkerchief or napkin in the hat. This is the best remedy for any person whose head