tions and circumstances; and the power which these conditions and circumstances possess, is not only sufficient finally to overcome the resisting power of the body, but they first throw the mind itself out of health, harmony, and due proportions. The abounding dampness and electricity (which are negative,) contract the cuticle glands, relative membranes, and serous surfaces of the organization, and thus are repelled the spiritual forces and fluids which reside in and circulate through them when the healthy temperature and condition exist. The consequence of long-continued disturbances of this kind, is a chill, which soon reacts into a fever; and thus is established the intermittent complaint. The fever is occasioned by a partial return of the forces and fluids to their appropriate places on the external surfaces.

The difference there is between intermittent fever and other spasmodic complaints, consists in this: In Fever and Ague there occurs an incessant succession of spasmodic motions during the whole paroxysm; while in the other affections these motions are more concentrated and conspicuous; but in every spasmodic disease, the same muscles are affected in the same manner, and by the same primary causes, differing from chills and fever only in degrees of violence and frequency, according to which difference they have been branded with a Greek or Latin name by the medical profession. If an individual has once had chills and fever, he is liable to a recurrence of the disease at any time-especially whenever a heavy cold is taken, or the bodily temperature is changed. The disease is simple, however, and its cure is correspondingly easy and natural.

If we have been enough fortunate to fully impress the reader's understanding with the true Philosophy of Disease, he will not need to be reminded in this place that it is the nervespirit (or force within the nerves,) which shakes and trembles

in the cold or cally stage of this disorder. No man's nerves would stir if his spirit was withdrawn from them. It is the dynamic life of the mind-the force, the energy, the power within the nerve-that is disturbed. Hence the spirit, and its Will, are the chief agents of cure. It is this fact, underlying the ten thousand "charms" practiced by superstitious “seventh sons" and credulous old ladies, by which many Fever and Ague patients have been instantly healed. But what will cure one in a few days, or hours, perhaps, would exert no remedial power upon persons of different organizations. The success or failure of psychological “charms" among the sick, is wholly referable to temperament-which law is strikingly illustrated in religious revival meetings, where, under the enchanting God-spell (ie., Gospel,) imparted from the pulpit orator, one person is straightway "converted and saved," while another remains cold, untouched, uninterested, and, therefore, unchanged.

REMEDY.-If a person has been long afflicted with this nervechill, with its accompanying headache, resultant fever, and ultimate prostration, it will be necessary for him to leave the country which brought the disturbance upon him. It is within the power of every person to prevent attacks of this disease, simply by keeping his appetite within bounds, discarding gra vies, fat meat, butter, hot drinks, and newly-baked bread, and not working his strength down to a low point in the spring or autumn. But the "pound of cure" is most in demand, and that doctor is considered the " cleverest," and most "wholesome to send for, whose doses are largest and most energetic in their operation. If an ignorant man pays fifty cents for a dose of medicine, he wants his "money's-worth" in quantity of the article to be swallowed. The "quality" is of little account in his estimation. Many ignorant, but good people,

swallow calomel and quinine, as if it were within the power of such minerals and barks to heal their bodily infirmities.

Before prescribing for your Fever and Ague-or chills and fever or intermittent disturbances-all the same thing under different names-we urge you to remember that your restoration will depend upon the promptness and energy with which you exert your own Will. All medicines are sometimes liable to fail. Nature's laws will never fail. They are the life of God. They cannot be changed, nor staid in their slow, calm, eternal round of operation. They tell us, infallibly, that MIND IS MASTER OF MATTER. So let it be!

When you feel the chill coming on, prepare your mind to resist it, arise to your feet, walk, or enter upon gymnastic exereises, and do everything to bring up the arterial circulation. Your coldness is owing to the blood principally occupying the veins, thus depriving the arteries of their customary magnetism and warmth, and producing a sensation of cold or chilliness all over the body. If you wait for the reaction, then you get an unnatural heat, which is the prostrating fever. Do not wait for such slow reaction.

The following is a sure remedy for breaking up the chill: Get one gill of best brandy, put in it a table-spoonful of fine salt, mix thoroughly, and take a wine-glass full on the first sensation of the ague. The influence of salt on the sympathetic and pneumogastric nerves is very surprising. It is well known. that salt will counteract the action of brandy in the human stomach, so that a very drunken man may be perfectly sobered in less than an hour. Salt and water will stop a hemorrhage in the head, nose, or stomach; the same, tea-spoonful at a time, is good for stomach worms. If an aguish patient should try the above remedy, he will be astonished at the relief which it will bring to his shaking nerves. In some cases it may be

necessar" ether a requce he quantity, or take several doses, .efore ze-raes "oint of benent is reached. The true way to are ́us „isease. 3. o meet the hill with both your Will and „our remedy, "rompuy and energetically.

mild badly ficted with the symptoms, give a È pure Inseed-in a tablespoonful of white severe cases, wid to heil and brandy twenty to airy irops of meture lobella, or less of ipecac. Also dip A rece i crown paper in a sointion of saltpeter, let it dry, and then turn so you can inhale the vapor.

I ne lungs are weak, then, just before eating your first in second neais, ake about twenty irops of pare olive oil, a your mouth, mix it with your saliva, and swallow MOWIT. Let ul mases of chronic dyspepsia try this simple remedy for a number of weeks.

Fin Worms in Ano.

The quickest mre for seat worms," so-called, is very strong waited water. First moisten the finger in the white of When immerset in the salt water, and thus introduce the remedy up the mus. A few applications will relieve the

most inveterate mases.

Catarrh and Difficult Breathing.

For ironie zatarrh and feat breathing-symptoms, profise and fetid üischarge from the nose, and occasional sore throat—make a tea-spoonful of sweet oil early in the morning and last thing at night. Also rub the breast and throat with the

*** every night and morning. Persist in this, and you will

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We admonish all this class of patients to be exceedingly cautious of sudden changes in bodily temperature. Bathe the feet in cold water before going to bed. rough coating of sweet oil; next, draw on flannel socks, such as you do not wear daytime; and lastly, take a tea-spoon half full of linseed-oil internally. Also a few drops of the same any time during the day, whenever your cough is dry and the pain troublesome

Tenderness at the Pit of the Stomach.

If your female friend has an inflammatory disease of the mucous membrane of the stomach, the “pit" will be tender, or sore to pressure, showing that the pneumogastric nerves are much disturbed. She must avoid "spoon victuals ”—such as bread and milk, &c.—in short, everything that distends the stomach with gas. Slowly her health will improve, if she is careful to obey the laws of life; in this we include regular kneading, and also manipulations over the stomach and bowels For painful menstruation, lay a light flax-seed poultice on the abdomen, sprinkled with powdered camphor.

Proclivity to Suicide.

The propensity which some persons experience to commit suicide, whenever the physical system is deranged and depressed in energy, is owing to the great sensitiveness of the brain. You can suffer or enjoy much, but the action of your brain is uneven. Did not your loved mother, before your birth, suffer suicidal emotions to disturb her spirit? You should cultivate your organ of Hope, and absorb vitality from lower faculties of mind.

Poisoned by Mineral Acids.

Aquafortis (Nitric Acid,) Marine Acid (Muriatic,) or Oil of Vitriol (Sulphuric Acid,) if swallowed by mistake, may be anti