wisdom, and health.

Asthma is a periodical disorder of the

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pulmonary forces; sometimes it is an effect of other disturbances, and sometimes it exists and operates as a cause. whether your asthma be an effect, or a cause, of other troubles, we urge you to treat it periodically-that is, do nothing and take nothing to avert the symptoms until a few hours or minutes previous to their reappearance. At such times put forth your strong Will; walk about firmly, resolutely, determinedly; and breathe slowly, but really, with a steady might; GET WELL.

Irritation of the Air Passages.

Irritation of the lungs, and much coughing, may be caused by infusoria, or little animals, which infest the air passages. They produce inflammatory conditions, plant the seeds of consumption, and sometimes ultimate in cutaneous diseases.

REMEDY.-Get some phosphorus, dissolve it in oil, stir it, and inhale the vapor, once a day. day. Also bathe the breast, throat, and spine, every night, with the following: Oils of amber and spearmint, of each half an ounce; sweet oil and laudanum, of each one ounce; alcohol, half pint; mix by shaking; apply plentifully with the hand, after having rubbed the skin with a dry towel.

Wasting of the Blood.

For wasting of the blood, which is an effect of long-continued disorders of the liver and stomach, accompanied by very great weakness and weariness, and some aching in the right side, with nausea and loss of appetite, we prescribe an ointment.

THE REMEDY.-Equal parts mutton-lard and gum of camphor-say eight ounces of each; first dissolve the lard over a hot fire; then stir in the gum as fast as it will melt and mix; and lastly, add a table-spoonful of red pepper, and thoroughly

unite the mixture over the fire. Apply in cold, using your hands to all parts of the patient's throat, breast, back, sides, hips, legs, arms, feet, and hands, every morning, applying plenty of the ointment, and concluding by wrapping the feet and hands in folds of fannel. For food, use well-coasted rye bread with a few spoonfuls of chocolate. Whisky and linseed-oil, equal parts, a little at a time, will be useful. Three or four times a week swallow a tea-spoonful of powdered willow charcoal in a little gin, or sweet oil, and warm water. Use your hands magnetically while applying the ointment. The patient must Will to become whole.

The Duodenum and Sore Eyes.

Almost all cases of common sore eyes, with occasional inflammation, can be traced to a disordered state of the stomach and duodenum. Even if the food be properly digested, there is some derangement in the lower departments, where the bile joins the chyle, and where the ultimates of food are prepared, y the magnetic action of the mesenteric glands, for assimilation with the blood.

REMEDY-About ninety minutes after eating dinner and supper, take a table-spoonful of the following tincture, as a promotive of secondary digestion: Mandrake, rhubarb, and red-pepper. of each (powdered,) one drachm; put them in one pint French brandy; let it stand a week; then add one pint of water, shake, and use as directed. If you travel, or cannot be at home at meal times, take a little bottle of this preparation with you. Wash your eyes in buttermilk whenever possible, or rub them with buckwheat flour. But without a radical change in your diet, the above medicines will avail you nothing. Do not eat meat at breakfast or supper; and not largely of any kind of animal food at any middle meal. No pastries of any description at ; no fruit or vegetables for supper. "Under all cir

cumstances keep an even mind." We will give every tobacco chewer a great task to perform for his own good-Abandon the use of Tobacco in every form, and pledge yourself, in heaven's name, never to use it again!

Prevention of Scarlet Fever.

If you suspect that your child, or any member of your family, is about to have scarlet fever, the best preventive is: Give three drops of belladonna, in a wine-glass of water, three times a day. Burn coffee in the room twice per day, and treat magnetically according to directions already given. Do not let the patient go out of the room until the inflammation of the tonsils and the fever symptoms subside, and then only when the earth is dry and the sun warm. Gargle with salt and vinegar in warm water, and sleep with the head more elevated than usual. If the bowels are costive, and the system is very feeble, give a tea-spoonful of castor-oil in as much good brandy, with a little water. Wash the body with some cooling fluid, or anoint with sweet oil, and manipulate.

Dry and Humid Asthma.

The only sure course to adopt in the. treatment of this troublesome disease, is to apply your remedy just before a recurrence of the constrictions and paroxysm. The pneumogastric nerve is implicated; in fact, the disarrangement of this nerve is, in nine-tenths of cases, the cause of the disease. The dry asthma is quite unlike the humid affection; and the paroxysmal asthma is different from either; but the fundamental methods of the periodical treatment should be uniform-namely: When the symptoms are slight, give the whole surface a thorough oiling (1 tea-spoonful of Cajaput oil in 1 pint of Olive do., mixed with sufficient alcohol to unite the oils,) and immediately prac

ice respiration, fuil and slow, expanding the bronchial tubes by throwing the head and shoulders backward. Use your Will. Wear 1 jacket next to your body made of oiled silk. Keep the skin clean as possible. When the breathing is most difficult, Inhale a little, now and then, of the vapor of saltpeter.

The Wheezing, or Hay Asthma.

Pathological authorities will, no doubt, hesitate to believe that this species of asthma can be reached through the spine and kidneys. Let us try. Infuse two ounces of black henbane

yos cyamus niger) in one quart of brandy. Whenever the attack threatens to be severe, apply an onion poultice, saturated with this tincture, to the back, opposite the stomach. We think a few applications of this remedy, in connection with the breathing effort, will accomplish a cure.

Hemorrhage of the Lungs.

Adopt our principles of Self-Healing, and begin the work of Personal Reform from this hour. Get the resinous exudation of a pine tree, one drachm; the same quantity of cayenne pepper; make into pills of two grains each. DosE.-One pill at ten o'clock each day, or immediately after considerable bodily exercise, and one the last thing at night. Take, occasionally, a tea-spoonful of olive oil in a little cider-brandy. Eat nothing sweet, drink nothing over-heating, but "be thou whole."

Treatment for Catarrh and Cough.

Many persons are afflicted with catarrhal symptoms; offensive breath at times; take cold easy; expectorate hard and dry mucous; and have a hacking cough.

Abolish the use of all sweet food and drinks; may eat

folly of eggs, if not hard-boiled or fried in swine's grease ;

no meat of any kind oftener than twice a week. The only two medicines we can discern are, first, the homeopathic preparation of Phosphorus, three drops in a wine-glass of water, whenever the symptoms are severe or troublesome, two hours between doses; and second, a lemon, slightly sweetened, as medicine every evening, between supper and bedtime. As soon as the symptoms subside, use the lemon-juice now and then, but only during the early part of the day. The bowels and digestive system generally must be kept healthy and prompt, by means of kneading and vigorous manipulations. No cathartics of any kind should be administered. These directions will cover a multitude of catarrhal cases, unless the patient is suffering from several diseases combined.

Soreness in the Lungs.

With a just and systematic treatment of the lungs, in the inception of their disturbance, all future trouble may be avoided. Watch the period of greatest uneasiness. When are you most conscious of having lungs? At what hour is the disturbance most distinctly realized? Apply your treatment accordingly. In going from the house into the open air, or the reverse, it is wisdom to keep the mouth firmly closed, using the nose for heating the atmosphere before it reaches the lungs. All persons, whether sick or well, should adopt this rule.

Sulphuric Ether for Deafness.

The new cure for deafness, which has created so much excitement among the physicians of France, has long been well known in this country. It consists in dropping sulphuric ether into the aural conduit. Several physicians in this city and elsewhere have, for years, employed it either alone or in com

bination with glycerine. By the latest accounts from Paris, we