ILLUSTRATED 
Domestic Medical Counsellor. 
Laws and Science of Life, Health and Self-Preservation. 
Materia Medica and Pharmacy. 
Embracing all the latest discoveries in Cosmical Science. 
Healing Medicinal Properties of the Vegetable Kingdom. 
Revealing the Causes, Symptoms, and Best Means of Prevention 
and Cure of Diseases of the Body and Mind of Men, Women 
and Children of all Climates. Es 
Every One may be his Own Doctor and Surgeon, and enjoy a Sound 
Mind in a Healthy Body. 
New Scientific System of Medicine on Vegetable Principles for {ill Classes. 
Dedicated to the poor, sick and desti nte of every land and nation. 
EVERYBODY'S HOUSEHOLD PHYSICIAN, 
ILLUSTRATED WITH 3000 ENGRAVINGS. 
Copyright 1884. All Rights reserved by the Author, 
Prof. E. ZEUS FRANKLIN, P. M. D. 
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BOSTON, MASS., 1884. VIEW OF THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM. INDEX TO CONTENTS 
OF THE 
LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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2nd. Avoid all Excesses, ... 9 
7th. Avoid a Stream of Air, . . 13 
Attraction or Gravitation, . . >39 
1st. Be Hopeful, Cheerful and Chari- 
table, 9 
3rd. Bathe the Whole System Once or 
Twice a Week, . . . 11 
Bread-Making, - Bread is the Staff 
of Life, 17 
Breathe Pure Air, eat Simple and 
Wholesome Food, . - .26 
6th. Carefully Note what Articles of 
Diet best Agree with the Sys- 
tem, 13 
Cure for Consumption, ... 18 
Costiveness, 20 
Causes and Cure of Ague, . . 25 
Causes and Cure of Corns, . . 25 
Causes, Prevention and Cure of 
Catarrh, 26 
Character and Use of Pine-Needles, . 35 
Coffee in Moderation, • • • 53 
5th. Discard the Constant Use of . 11 
Description of Fevers, . . .27 
Diseases which Shorten Virility, . 51 
Education, - A Debt which the Pres- 
ent Owes, .... 16 
Electro-Magnetic Cure, . . . 37 
Electricity, 39 
Effects of Occupations, ... 52 
Fire, - Caloric or Heat, ... 39 
Gospel of Truth and Righteousness, . 4 
Hemorrhoids or Piles, ... 29 
Healing Properties of Plants, . . 38 
Hygiene of Virility, .... 50 
How to Retain Virility in Age, . 52 
" Illustrated Medical Counsellor, " . 194 
4th. Keep the Hands and F'eet Warm 
by Exercise, . . . .11 
Key to Animated Nature, . . 34 
Laws of Life and Health, ... 7 
Light for the Sick, .... 24 
Liver Complaint, . . . .31 
Light, 39 
Modern Medical Science, . . 36 
Medica) Experience of the Race, . 36 
Medicated Healing Baths ... 36 
Mental or Spiritual Healing, . . 37 
Man's Specific Function, ... 46 
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Nursing, or Care for the Sick, . . 22 
New Materia Medica and Self Cure, . 37 
Natural History of Man, . . . 45 
Origin and Transmission of Life, . 43 
Operatives in Tobacco Factories, . 53 
8th. Preserve the Teeth, ... 14 
Pay your Debts, Keep Your Word, . 15 
Prevention of Consumption, . . 30 
Pathology, 44 
Physical Traits of the Male, . . 45 
Puberty, 46 
Rule for Sleep, ..... 16 
Scrofula, 19 
Signs of Character and Medical Qual- 
ities, 35 
Science, Theory and Practice of Medi- 
cine ..... 43 
Signs of Established Virility, . . 49 
The Sense of Vision, . . .18 
To Make Gruel, .... 23 
To Make Beef Tea, .... 23 
To Prevent Ague, .... 25 
To Cure Ague 
To Cure Corns and Bunions, . . 26 
To Prevent Corns, .... 26 
To Prevent Bilious Fever, . . 28 
To Prevent Piles, .... 29 
To Cure Bilious Fever, ... 29 
To Cure Hemorrhoids, or Piles, . 29 
To Cure Catarrh, . . . .27 
To Cure Consumption, ... 30 
To Cure Typhoid Fever, ... 32 
To Cure Liver Complaint, . . 32 
To Prevent Typhoid Fever, . . 32 
To Prevent Liver Complaint, . . 32 
To Cure Worms and Parasites, . 34 
The Religion that the Science of Chem- 
istry Teaches, . . .38 
The Science of Agriculture, . . 42 
The Hygiene of Puberty, ... 47 
The Man Unsexed, . . . .48 
The Decay of Virility, . . .5° 
The Food and Drinks which Strengthen 
Virility, . . • . • 52 
The Food and Drinks which Weaken 
Virility, ... . . 53 
Worms and Parasites, ... 33 
Water and Diet Cure, ... 38 
What is Passion, 48 PREFATORY REMARKS. 
THE GOSPEL OF TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
"Iii the beginning was the word and the word was God, 
who is the life and light of man." John I., 4, 5. 
God created the heavens and earth, and man in his own 
image and likeness with his almighty will and word. 
Man is therefore our theme and the burden of our 
thoughts. 
The science of Man is evidently the light that enlighten- 
eth every one that cometh into the world. It is the most 
important, useful and intensely interesting subject that can 
possibly engage our attention. 
As the agitation of thought is the beginning of wisdom 
and the science of mind the key to all truth, we believe it 
our duty to discuss, write and labor, to inform the public 
mind on those essential points, touching the laws of life 
and health that so deeply concern our peace, happiness 
and prosperity in the life that now is and that which is to 
come. 
We shall endeavor to discuss this subject in a novel, 
original, simple and practical way. We have spared no 
pains nor expense in preparing original, striking and accu- 
rate engravings to illustrate the work. 
We believe this the best, simplest, most suggestive, practi- 
cal and natural way to convey forcibly to the mind, the 
greatest amount of truth in our limited space. 
We therefore call the reader's attention to the engrav- 
ings throughout the work, which speak for themselves, 
without a minute and elaborate description of each. We 
shall not therefore burden the work with dry details. 
These characteristic expressions from our work on elocu- 
tion, we have seen fit to insert as they are most expressive 
4 GOSPEL OF TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
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of certain phases of human nature and character. 
They speak the universal language, in expressions of the 
human form and face divine. 
Language is triune; symbolical, vocal and written; ex- 
pressive of truthfid ideas, vehicles of thought, rich, living 
suggestive action; speaks Eke the Creator louder than 
words in types, symbols and deeds that tell. 
Nature's symbolical bible of truth with her life-like pic- 
tures iff ever open to all; printed by the great Architect of 
the universe without errors, interpolations or pious frauds. 
In nature's truthful language there is no variableness 
nor shadow of turning; her works are all pictorial. We 
shall endeavor to bring her living pictures vividly before 
the mind of our readers in all our works. This is God's 
method of introducing His children. The essence of 
truth is thus concentrated to a focus, so the mind grasps a 
vast amount at a glance. 
The science.of mind is the soul of all science. The laws 
of life and health are of the very first importance. 
No ration 1 mind can doubt that God controls aU things 
by fixed, unchangeable laws, which are His will and word, 
instituted by the Creator for the preservation of the beau- 
ties and harmonies of nature, by which the winds blow and 
the tides of ocean measure with inimitable exactness ever 
flowing time, by which countless planets revolve in their 
orbits and millions of suns vivify the living universe and 
rule the subtile combinations of chemistry; measure the 
amazing velocity of light and electricity and regulate the 
productions of the vegetable and animal kingdoms. 
They are all radiant with eternal beauty and their 
contemplation fills us with awe and admiration, as we 
behold reflected in their sublimity and grandeur the infinite 
wisdom and goodness of God. 
By means of knowledge we can control the powers of 6 
GOSPEL OF TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
gravitation, repulsion, magnetism, air, water, light, light' 
ning and render them ministering angels to our profit 
and pleasure. 
The Creator is no respecter of persons. The rain and 
sunshine fall ahke on the just and the unjust. He punishes 
the ignorant and wise the same for violating the laws of 
life. 
Primarily our parents, secondarily ourselves.are respon- 
sible for our sickness, disease and suffering. 
Happiness should be the first object of life. Reader 
seek to make thyself and others happy; dwell in the sun- 
light of love, truth and goodness; have faith in the ultimate 
triumph of truth and right. 
All the Creator requires of us is to culture and perfect 
ourselves and others. We shall embody as many sugges- 
tive, practical hints as possible in this work, touching the 
laws of life, health and happiness and discuss the consti- 
tution, nature and organic structure of man;'his anatomy, 
physiology and hygiene, phrenology, physiognomy and 
psychology in minature. 
We cannot go into elaborate details as time and space 
forbid. Those having but little time for reading and study 
will be pleased and interested in this work; with the analysis 
and synthesis of the fearful and wonderful mechanism of 
man as they see it reflected from every page, in the truth' 
ful, accurate and life-like engravings that speak volumes. 
None should fail to study them carefully; they can never 
become obsolete., but are immortal as the works of Deity. LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
Since life is the necessary medium of every other blessing, 
a depreciation of its value can only arise from malevolence 
or ignorance. Hence the progress of a true Christian civili- 
zation will enhance the value of human life. "If igno- 
rance is bliss'tis folly to be wise." But "Wisdom is justified 
of her children ;" and Solomon has left a worthy tribute to 
her worth in the following language, viz: " In her right hand 
is length of days." The worthy and benevolent Cornaro 
who lived for a hundred years, remarks, "As each can 
boast of happiness of his own, I shall not cease to cry to 
them, "Live-live long."-Let many gather wisdom and 
hope from the esample of his life. He is said to have been 
born with a feeble constitution, and at the age of thirty-five 
was told by his doctors that he could not live more than 
two years. Admonished by the warning, he abandoned 
his pernicious habits; dissipation gave way to regularity, 
sobriety succeeded intemperance. For half a century he 
confined himself to twelve ounces of solid food per day, 
and during the time was not ill. He placed sobriety of diet 
above all other precautions, but did not neglect others. He 
avoided extremes of heat and cold, violent exercise, bad 
air and late hours. 
That "prevention is bettei' than cure," is a true and popular 
saying; but both patients and physicians have been content 
to leave the matter in its proverbial form and virtually limit 
the duty of physicians to the cure of disease, ignoring the 
noblest sphere for the exercise of his skill and wisdom. 
We are hedged in and gove rned by laws which are really 
what the Median and Persian only pretended to be,-un- 
alterable. To obtain a familiar acquaintance with these laws 
in detail, demands an expenditure of time and means which 
few enjoy; but each individual can be taught to manage his 
■digestive organs and lungs, with almost the same facility 
that a person learns to control the gate of a mill that sets 
in motion vast and complicated machinery. 
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LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
Obedience to the few simple rules which science has de- 
duced from experience will ordinarily secure a good degree 
of health and long life; while disobedience, with depend- 
ence on drugs and medicines, often dealt out in absolute 
ignorance of their entire effect, can only tend to degrada^ 
tion and suffering; and to prescribe medicine for the cure 
of a disease which is the result of an unnatural habit unre- 
linquished, is quackery most inexcusable. In all such cases 
true science instead of prescribing, proscribes, spirituous 
liquors, tobacco, coffee, tea, the disturbing causes. The skill 
of the whole medical world maybe taxed and no permanent 
relief afforded while the cause of the malady is allowed to 
continue; but remove the cause and in nine cases out of 
ten nature alone will restore so far as restoration is possi- 
ble. The idea that medicine must be given for every ill 
should be abandoned. All medicinal agents are unnatural 
to the laws of healthy life, and unless really needed do harm, 
The physician is but the handmaid of Nature and in all 
cases his legitimate sphere is to discover her indications 
and supply her wants; sometimes rest, sometimes absti- 
nence, sometimes food of a specific quality and kind, and 
sometimes medicines. The highest respect is due the med- 
ical profession as a science and an art, and the benefit and 
relief it often affords should not be undervalued. But its 
abuses, which are many, will not be spared or concealed by 
men worthy of the profession. 
To overlook or neglect the cause of disease; to give medicine 
when it is not needed, and to give medicines which entail injury 
upon the patient, by poisoning the system or creating erro- 
neous habits, are abuses in the profession which call for 
reform. As no equivalent for life and health can be given, no 
excuse can be rendered for these abuses. A single instance 
must 'suffice to show irrational treatment, which is all too 
common. We will take a case of plethora; which is an 
inordinate fulness of the blood-vessels, and characterized 
by redness of the surface, swelling of the veins, and occa- 
sionally bleeding from the nose; it is usually attended 
with heaviness, lassitude, dizziness, &c. It may be reduced 
by vigorous exercise and prespiration; by diminishing th© 
qauntity or quality of food; by taking medicines which 
produce unnatural secretions and discharges, and by blood- 
letting. Now the first and second means are both natural 
and harmless and no less surely accomplish the desired LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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object than the third and fourth; indeed the latter do not 
accomplish it at all, but give only temporary relief and 
often leave the person worse than at first. But the latter 
are more frequently employed, for the simple reason that 
patients more willingly pay for medicine than advice; for 
we must either adopt this conclusion, as the more probable 
in most cases, or take the other horn of the dilemma and 
attribute it to the ignorance of physicians. 
Well-bred physicians rarely take much medicine themselves 
or give to their families, and as they grow old in practice 
give less to their patients, and depend more on regimen 
and good nursing. 
These facts are not without significance; and let it be 
remembered by all, that of all the cures that can ever 
be found, there is none that can be so valuable as preven- 
tion. Notwithstanding the fall, the laws of physical life are 
perfect and if obeyed, they will defend us to the last. 
The following rules are believed to embody wisdom and 
truth, and are corroborated by the teachings of experience. 
1st. Behopeful, cheerful and charitable. 
A just God presides over all, and provides for his crea- 
tures joy or sorrow, success or defeat as is necessary to 
teach them wisdom. 
2d. Avoid all excesses. To obey this law of nature and 
philosophy will require great wisdom and self-control, 
which is rarely or never found; but every act of obedience 
brings a lasting reward. 
The disobedience of this law is most common from in- 
dulgence of the appetites and passion. 
It has been said of the teeth that every one lost drives 
another nail in our coffin, but it is equally true that many 
dig their graves with their teeth. 
Dyspepsia is the torment, greater or less, of half the 
people of every civilized nation. The chief source of which 
difficulty is excess in quantity of food; which, again, is 
caused principally by too great variety of dishes at a meal. 
A person in ordinary good health will rarely eat too 
much at a single meal made of two or three articles of 
food. To taste of but a single dish at a meal is the safest 
and surest rule. 
Variety at different meals is proper* and even desirable; 10 
LIFE AND HEALTH. 
for no single article of food contains all the elements in 
due proportion for nourishing the different organs and 
tissues of the system any great length of time. The sleep- 
less instinct of appetite which tires of any single article 
long used as food, is the call of nature and should be 
heeded. 
The above caution, as to variety, is perhaps sufficient, 
for a healthy stomach, but under certain conditions of the 
stomach and system all food is excessive; abstinence alone 
will suffice. Such a condition is found immediately after 
great bodily exertion, when the demands of the weary 
stomach are imperative for rest. Here, also, as in diseased 
states of the stomach, the instinct of appetite should be 
consulted and moderately indulged, when nature calls for 
food; but otherwise abstinence alone is safe. 
A good relish for plain food should always be preserved 
by moderate indulgence at the table, and nothing taken be- 
tween meals or late in the evening. 
Excess of drink is perhaps no less common than excess 
of food. All drink with food which is not very dry is 
doubtless an excess. Drinks dilute the gastric juice and 
thus weaken the power of digestion. If any drink is taken 
at meals it is better at the close, lest it be used to moisten 
the food which is the proper office of the saliva of the 
mouth, or to wash down food not properly masticated. 
Excess of heat, and long exposure to cold even of not 
very low temperature, will seriously undermine the health. 
Excess of animal or natural heat is often produced by 
too severe and protracted exercise in warm weather, and 
is designated sunstroke. It quickly impairs the tone of' 
the vital economy; hence, hot stoves and heated rooms. 
are to be shunned much as is consistent, and vital warmth 
preserved by judicious clothing and exercise. 
Of the passions we cannot speak at length. Envy, mal- 
ice, hatred, are always in excess. No wise man -will harbor 
them in his thoughts. Grief insideously corrodes like a 
canker, and slowly but surely kills. Hence to indulge it is 
a crime. 
Let the sufferer travel and discover the beauties and 
harmonies of nature, seek the company of friends, study, 
read, or write upon interesting subjects, or rigidly follow, 
some business. LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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Pure, disinterested, universal love is much to be desired. 
It promotes the circulation of the vital currents, strength- 
ens and animates the entire being. 
3d. Bathe the whole system once or twice a week regu- 
larly. 
This is essential to health and cleanliness, and may be 
done with a pint of water and a coarse towel and sponge. 
Warm water and soap are best for cleansing and may some- 
times be necessary; but soap should not be allowed to dry 
upon the skin. When used it should immediately be 
removed by a second bath of pure water. 
Cold water is best when it can be borne without chills, but 
otherwise tepid or warm water must be used. 
Never fail to excite a glow or sensation of warmth after 
bathing, by gentle and brisk rubbing. 
This will sometimes be best secured by bathing a part 
only at a time, commencing with the head, successively 
bathing and rubbing the head, chest, stomach, back and 
limbs, and leaving off at the feet, which is the natural order 
and least disturbs the circulation. In cases of very sus- 
ceptible persons this order of bathing is essential. 
Never bathe when hungry or fatigued or immediately 
after eating. A little salt or saleratus added to the water 
will often be beneficial. Remember to bathe without chills or 
not at all. 
4th. Keep the hands and feet warm by exercise, rubbing, 
or the warm foot bath. An equal balance of the circula- 
tion is essential to health. 
If the feet are wet, or any part of the clothing, change 
the clothing for dry soon as possible after vigorous exertion 
ceases and do not allow wet clothes to dry upon the body. 
They absorb too much animal heat and are otherwise injuri- 
ous. 
Do not remove damp clothing from the body, which is 
already warmed by the natural heat of the system, and 
replace it with garments that are either damp or cold; nor 
allow cold air to chill the body while making the exchange. 
Hang the garments by the fire a few minutes before put- 
ting them on, and make the exchange if possible in a warm 
room. 
If the head aches, wet it with cold water, put the feet in 
warm water for twenty minutes and then apply mustard 12 
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draughts to the soles, which with abstinence from food will 
generally suffice to restore the balance of circulation and 
relieve the head. 
If these means are not sufficient and the bowels are 
constipated or irregular, swallow not a particle of medicine, 
but by the advice of the best physician that can be found, 
one who has been well educated in his profession, and has 
sufficient regard for life and health to discard bleeding 
and the internal use of poisonous minerals. 
5th. Discard the constant use of the following articles, 
viz: ardent spirits and malt liquors, tobacco in every form, 
tea, coffee, swine's flesh and lard, opium, pepper, ginger, 
mustard, spices, unripe fruit, cucumbers, pickles, much 
pastry or cake, confectionery, rich gravies, and all highly 
seasoned dishes. 
That some persons have constantly disobeyed this law 
and yet lived in tolerable health and died at an advanced 
age, does not, in the least, prove that these articles are 
not injurious to the human system, and should be very 
rarely used. 
Some stomachs have, it is said, digested steel, but this 
does not prove that it is suitable for food. Especially 
should the young be reared in strict accordance with this 
law. 
Parents can bequeath no richer inheritance to their 
children than a sound and vigorous constitution and well 
disciplined mind. 
Enough has been said and written by wise and benevo- 
lent men against the use of intoxicating drinks and tobacco, 
to require no further mention here. 
Coffee, as many know from experience, will soon debili- 
tate the most healthy digestive organs if continually used, 
and with its companion tea should be reserved for remedies 
in certain exhausted conditions of the vital economy. 
Pork and lard we expect will still be used by many to 
engender scrofula, humors and cancer. 
A little cream and butter will form a substitute for lard 
in families who really wish to carry pure and healthy 
bodies. 
If any one desire to know the effect of mustard upon 
the stomach, let him apply a plaster of the same to the 
outside for half an hour. If continued it will raise a LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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blister upon the skin. Most of the other articles men- 
tioned are scarcely less injurious. 
Gth. Carefully note what articles of diet, among those not 
entirely excluded, best agree with the system and act accord- 
ingly. 
So various are the circumstances and modes of life under 
which the system must be nourished that no special diet 
can be prescribed which shall best meet the wants of all. 
A laboring man requires more concentrated and nutriti- 
ous food than one whose employment demands less bodily 
exertion. 
Such diet is supplied by fine flour, meat, beans, onions, 
potatoes, sugar, preserves, &c. But the sedentary man 
will choose the Graham, Indian, rye, or oatmeal, stewed 
fruit, milk and vegetables with a little cream and sugar. 
In all cases moderation and thorough mastication of the 
food in the mouth is a prerequisite to health and enjoyment. 
Lean meat-especially beefsteak-furnishes ready nu- 
triment for muscle, and fatty meat for the production of 
animal heat, but the latter contaminates and corrupts the 
fluids of the body unless in very cold climates. 
Let any one troubled with humors or sores use an exclusive 
vegetable diet. Remember this, use it, publish it and save 
your friends from the hands of merciless and rapacious 
quacks whose "wonderful cures" are not to be desired. 
Sores are to the system what the safety valve is to the 
steam engine, or the craters of volcanoes to the earth. 
They are the outlet to disease, the mouth or window out 
of which nature throws the poison; and if injudiciously 
closed while the disease remains in the system, what they 
would have discharged, will be thrown upon more vital 
organs, causing consumption or congestions, as certainly 
as the boiler will be shivered if all escape of steam is pre- 
vented while the fire is continued. Quench the internal 
fires and the volcano becomes extinct. 
7th. Avoid a stream of air, or sensation of chill, which 
can cause a sudden check of sensible perspiration, as you 
would a poisoned arrow. 
While free perspiration continues there is no danger, 
except from excess of heat; but the moment exertion 
ceases, provide extra garments or continue moderate exer- 14 
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cise and allow the temperature of the system to fall gradu- 
ally. 
A neglect of this law is the every day cause of fevers, 
rheumatism, colds and consumption. 
When the vital powers are exhausted by protracted exer- 
tion or fasting there is increased danger. At such times 
like the mercury in the barometer before a fearful storm, 
the index of life if exposed to chills, falls with appalling- 
rapidity. 
When flannels are worn they should be left off at night 
and dried. 
8th. Preserve the Teeth. To obey this law will require an 
expenditure of time amounting to about two days in a year 
or four minutes per day. 
The wages offered for this service, are in ordinary cases, 
the use of a good sound set of natural teeth instead of 
artificial, with exemption from toothache and dentists'bills, 
aside from the effect of the general health which is by no 
means inconsiderable. 
If the remuneration is sufficient and you wish to engage, 
provide a soft brush and toothpick, made of quill or horn, 
which are all the implements that will ever be needed, 
provided you enter the service with a capital stock of 
sound teeth and a good constitution. 
Avoid quack doctors, those who give quicksilver, and 
reckless dentists, who may loosen your teeth with calomel 
or corrode them with acids. 
Do not expose the teeth to hot liquids or hot air from a 
pipe. Hot drinks not only injure the teeth but the coating 
of the stomach. On the other hand avoid ice-water, very 
cold food, and exposure to cold air. 
The latter can be avoided by breathing through the nose 
and observing silence when exposed to keen cold air. To 
breathe cold air through the nose not only protects the 
teeth but the lungs and hence is doubly useful. Nature 
is a true economist. 
Do not bite hard substances or in any way wrench the 
teeth in. their sockets. Vinegar, very sour apples, confec- 
tionery, and all acids are injurious to the teeth; also all 
substances which tend to disorder digestion and injure the 
general health, especially in childhood and youth. So LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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much for precautionary measures; besides which it is 
necessary to keep the teeth clean. 
With the pick remove all particles of food that stick 
among the teeth and use the brush with tepid water. If 
cold water must be used hold it in the mouth a moment 
to remove "the chill. This with strict propriety should be 
done at the close of every meal. 
A little shaving soap or Castile soap applied with the 
brush once or twice per week is useful, and a little salt 
added to the water' occasionally is recommended. 
"What pity, blooming girl, that lips so ready for a lover 
Should not beneath their ruby casket cover one tooth of pearl! 
But, like a rose beside the church-yard stone, 
Be doomed to blush o'er many a mouldering bone!" 
9th. Pay your debts and keep your word. The relation 
of this rule to health may, at first, seem paradoxical. 
The great power of the mind upon the body has long 
been noticed by men of medical skill. 
A very worthy and honorable physician once remarked 
to the author: "Conceit can cure, and conceit can kill. " 
How else explain the magical effect of bread pills and 
pure spring water when the mind is concentrated by direc- 
tion of the attendant? 
Mattei' is subservient to spirit by the fulfillment of cer- 
tain conditions. Spirit is the substance, matter the form, 
which the spirit assumes; the form changes, the substance 
remains the same. 
But the practical application of the effect of mind upon 
matter is to make conditions favorable for the highest exer- 
cise of its powers; hence the rule given above. 
Debts oppress the spirit, and are to be considered an 
evil not to be allowed in the absence of greater ills. 
Again a broken promise destroys confidence, which, par 
excellence, is the young man's capital; therefore loss of 
confidence may involve in debt, debts oppress, and oppres- 
sion engenders disease of protean forms. 
To obey the above rule will require, the earnest pursuit 
of some useful trade or employment. 
All, even the so called rich have debts to pay, although 
not always acknowledged. Humanity has claims upon all. 
A distinguished London banker has nobly acknowledged 16 
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the claim by founding several Institutes for the diffusion of 
useful information among the people. In one of the schools 
largely aided by his munificence you may read upon the 
wall. 
"Education-a debt which the present owes to the 
future." A wise man will not repudiate it. Indolence 
and over-taxation should be equally avoided. Every por- 
tion of the system, physical and mental demand daily 
exercise and rest. Motion is the exercise of the physical, 
thought of the mental. 
Cessation of motion allows the body to be invigorated; 
cessation of thought, as in sleep, re-invigorates the brain. 
When the body cannot rest as in convulsive diseases it 
dies, and sleeplessness protracted is the first step to mad- 
ness. 
Too little rest and sleep are false economies of time and 
productive of disease. 
Rule for Sleep.-Retire to bed at a uniform, early hour; 
rise as soon as nature wrakes you up. 
Day-sleep may be allowed only when the usual hours 
have been necessarily encroached upon. Nature cannot be 
defrauded. 
Bedclothes should be light upon the chest. A small 
weight there will oppress the lungs. Mattresses are pre- 
ferable to feathers, especially in summer. 
Feathers in warm weather injure the spine. Children 
impart vitality to the aged and will suffer if allowed to sleep 
with them. Let the child have a separate bed. 
Sleeping rooms should be airy and well ventilated and 
the bed well aired daily. 
The following beautiful and truthful language is from 
Hassar Imma, an Arabian. "Start from thy couch betimes; 
the moments of the morning are sacred and salubrious; 
then the genii of health descend and communicate with 
those "who visit the herbage of the field while rich with the 
dews of heaven. 
How pure and sweet the smell of the air in this-unpollu- 
ted state before it is contaminated by coporeal effluvia ! 
The fragrance of the groves will regale your senses, and 
the melody of birds allure your hearts to gratitude and 
praise. LIFE AND HEALTH. 
17 
"Forget not to mingle moderation and abstinence even 
with the holiest rites of wedlock. 
A proper and habitual restraint in conjugal pleasure is 
like incense to the flame of the altar. So far from quench- 
ing, it cherishes and improves the heavenly fire. 
Healthy, happy, vigorous and beautiful are the offspring 
of chaste and rational love." 
Bread-making.-Bread is the staff of life; it strengthens 
and warms us. To be able to make good wholesome bread 
is really a desideratum, an accomplishment, which all sensi- 
ble young ladies will seek to acquire, and which every 
sensible man will truly value. 
The most nutritious and wholsome bread is made of 
coarse wheat meal mixed with water and well baked in an 
oven; but art has interfered to pamper the appetite and 
make a curse of what is by nature a blessing. 
Various mixtures of yeast, cream of tartar, saleratus, 
soda, &c., are used by art to make bread "light," all of 
which act in the same manner i. e. by producing in the 
dough an invisible substance called carbonic- acid gas. 
In the use of cream of tartar and soda in making bread, 
a certain definite quantity of each will mix and form car- 
bonic acid gas upon the application of heat, and if there 
be a surplus, that surplus remains in the bread as cream 
of tartar or soda; hence, one item of skilfulness in making 
healthy bread is to put in the exact amount of the articles 
named for in proportion as either is in excess, there is laid 
the foundation of disease and death. 
But few servants or breadmakers will be exact about 
these pcints, hence in strict propriety these articles ought 
not to be used. 
If there is too much soda or saleratus the bread will be 
yellow, the natural acid of the gastric juice of the stomach 
will be neutralized, digestion will not be properly per- 
formed, and the body will be harmed. 
Yeast answers the same purpose as cream of tartar and 
soda. 
As soon as the dough in which it has been mixed is 
placed in a heat of from seventy to ninety degrees, Fah- 
renheit, it begins to rise, that is, it begins to be puffed up 
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call it fermentation; it is decomposition; it is the first step 
towards destruction or putrefaction, which would take 
place in time if not exposed to the greater heat of the 
oven which arrests the throwing off of carbonic acid: the 
hard crust on the outside of the loaf keeping it within the 
loaf in spite of the greater heat. 
Whenever bread is sour, it is because the fermentation 
had continued too long or under too great heat which burst 
the little vesicles of carbonic acid gas and allowed the 
bread to fall. 
Some bakers use an ounce of alum in a hundred pounds 
of fiour. This makes the bread lighter and whiter, and 
enables a loaf to retain more water, so he gets more money 
and his customers less bread. 
By studying the principles mentioned the reason will be 
seen why too little heat in baking ''raised" bread will make 
it sour or heavy, and too great heat will burn the outside 
while the inner part is not cooked. Experience alone can 
impart the proper instruction. 
Warm bread, newly baked contains heated gas which is 
injurious to delicate stomachs. When cold it may be toast- 
ed without being liable to this objection. 
The Sense of Vision.-Reading while in motion is very 
pernicious. The slightest motion of the body alters the 
focal point and requires a painful straining effort to re-ad- 
just it. 
Reading by artificial light is not desirable if daylight 
can be used. Never read by twilight. 
Never sew upon dark materials by artificial light. Gaz- 
ing at the sun or its reflection in -water is very injurious. 
The world is a looking glass; and as we show to it a sour 
or pleasant countenance, will exhibit to us a sour or pleas- 
ant face in return. 
Cure for Consumption -The remedy about to be given 
is believed to be superior to codliver oil, tar, hyponhosphi- 
tes, or any other so-called specific; and is within the reach 
of all. 
Consumption, signifies a "wasting away" of the powers 
of life; hence anything that will enable the system to ap- 
propriate that which will nourish and support it, is a valu- 
able remedy. 
The great disideratum is to get up a good appetite and LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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a good digestion. A good circulation of the blood and 
fluids of the body is necessary to a good digestion; and 
over the circulation man has not directly any control, but 
indirectly he has, and that is through respiration or breath- 
ing. . . n . . . 
Respiration controls the circulation, and respiration is, 
in large degree, the control of the voluntary muscle. Now 
for the remedy. 
It is labored breathing; or the persevering practice of 
deep and full respiration in the open or pure air. This 
promotes the circulation, circulation promotes digestion, 
which repairs the waste and perfects a cure. 
A plain but nutritious diet, good company and judicious 
exercise, are necessary concomitants of the remedy. The 
persevering application of these measures will prove in- 
fallible in all cases where a cure is possible. 
More specific directions in regard to diet and exercise 
for individual cases may be needed, wliich may be obtained 
from any well educated physician. 
Scrofula.-Scrofula is a term derived from a Latin word, 
which means a "sow" because it is said that swine were 
affected with that disease. 
Thus the devil whose name is "Legion" is sent back to 
the herd of swine in very truth. (The more philosophic 
opinion is that eating swine's flesh is the frequent cause of 
scrofula.) It manifests itself, in some, in lumps, or a va- 
riety of breakings out on the skin; in others, it causes 
some internal malady. In either case the essential disease 
is the same; it is in the blood, and the attempt should be 
to eradicate, not to cover up. 
If there is an external manifestation, external appliances 
can never radically cure; their tendency is to suppress-to 
drive inwards, and the whole history reads, "cured, then 
died." 
Salt Rheum is a form of scrofula, and afflicts persons for 
many years, then sometimes disappears to the great grati- 
fication of the patient. 
The next report is "consumption" or "water on the 
brain." Medicines may relieve temporarily but no perma- 
nent cure must be expected except from a change in the 
habits of life. Medicines, as generally given, more fre- 
quently aggravate the error and hasten a fatal result. 20 
LIFE AND HEALTH. 
The application of the principles and rules of life and 
living as herein prescribed, will hold scrofula in abeyance. 
Some mild remedies may assist while making a change of 
habits, but must not be relied upon for a cure. Mineral 
poisons will in all cases only aggravate the malady. 
Costiveness.-Constipated bowels are a frequent source 
of disease. 
The causes of costiveness are various; and to attempt to 
point them out in detail would be perhaps a fruitless toil; 
but it not unfrequently arises from want of attention to 
the natural promptings of the bowels. 
No one should ever hold his bowels in check if it be 
possible to avoid it. Such a practice may lead to untold 
suffering. 
This derangement of the bowels is sometimes caused by 
mechanical pressure. In this, as in all other cases of diffi- 
culty, nature demands a removal of the cause. The use of 
physic in such a case would be as unphilosophical as taking 
an emetic to get rid of tight boots. 
Every weight should be removed from the bowels, the 
dresses suspended from the shoulders, as they ought always 
to be worn, and the bowels repeatedly pressed upward, till 
they gain their native strength. 
A supporter may sometimes for a short time be useful, 
but every proper means should be used meanwhile to 
invigorate the whole system. 
While saying that the weight of the clothes and garments 
should always be suspended from the shoulders by the use 
of straps and. suspenders, I should add that the use of 
garters should be discontinued-abandoned. They impede 
circulation in the limbs. 
An elastic may extend from the stocking or hose to the 
waist of a garment suspended from the shoulders. 
The best way to remove the habit of costiveness is by a 
course of discipline. The use'of physic should be the last 
resort and is generally a desperate one. 
A purely vegetable diet-that is, abstinence from animal 
food, is best adapted to overcome this habit. Graham 
bread, tomatoes, baked apples, West India molasses, fruits 
and greens, when the stomach can bear them, have a ten- 
dency to relieve costiveness. PART Ob' A MANIKIN. 
THE BRAIN AND SPINE. 22 
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e v. '- are put in the roasting pan shortly after being 
Voiced and the whole drying process finished rapidly. 
Ihe natural color of the black tea leaf is lost by allow- 
ing the leaves to lie together in heaps for several hours 
after being gathered. 
In the preparation of the green tea the color is not 
merely preserved, but the leaves are painted and dyed to 
make the tea look uniform and pretty, since teas so paint- 
ed always bring a better price in the market. 
For this purpose a powder of gypsum and Prussian blue 
(ferrocyanuret of iron) is used in the proportion of about 
one-half pound of coloring matter to one hundred pounds 
of tea. 
The Chinese never drink dyed teas themselves, but sell 
it to those who prefer a mixture of gypsum and Prussian 
blue. 
Nursing, or care for the sick.-Patients who have the 
best medical advice often die for leant of proper nursing. 
It is hoped that the example and "notes " of Florence 
Nightingale will induce more of the gentler sex to qualify 
themselves for this useful position. 
Some of the most important things which will receive 
the constant attention of every good nurse, are, air, food 
or nourishment, medicines left by the physicians, warmth 
of the patient, bed clothes, cleanliness and light. 
Pure air is most important of all remedial measures. 
Never be afraid of open windows when the patient is in 
bed. 
With proper bed clothes and hot bottles if necessary, 
you can always keep a patient warm in bed, and well ven- 
tilate him at the same time. 
The time when patients take cold is when they first get 
up after the exhaustion of dressing and the relaxation of 
the skin from lying in bed. 
• The same temperature which refreshes the patient in 
bed may destroy him just risen. At such a time a tem- 
perature must be secured which will prevent chills. Pa- 
tients often starve from indiscretion, neglect or ignorance 
in regard to nourishment. 
Not only must proper food be given, but at the right LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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times and quantities. Cream seldom disagrees and is 
easiei' of digestion than milk. 
Florence Nightingale says of cream, "In many long 
chronic diseases it is quite irreplaceable by any other article 
whatever," 
Tomatoes in small quantities are generally harmless when 
anything at all can be taken. Eggs and cheese frequently 
disagree, but when craved by the patient should be given 
in small quantities. 
Milk is a valuable article for the sick, but the least 
change or sourness makes it objectionable. 
Buttermilk is less objectionable than milk after it is 
changed. Indian gruel is generally safe. 
But the main question is what the patient's stomach can 
assimilate or derive nourishment from, and generally the 
patient's stomach but not the patient himself is the best 
judge. 
To make gruel, boil a pint of water, add a little salt, 
and stir in a tablespoonful of Indian, oat or rye meal, pre- 
viously mixed in a gill of cold water; boil forty minutes. 
To make beef tea-cut thin slices of fresh lean beef, put 
it into a large.mouthed bottle or jar, add a little salt and 
water, place the vessel in a kettle of boiling water for one 
hour and then strain. No particles of fat should be used. 
This has been retained on the stomach when nothing else 
pould be. 
A careful nurse will keep a constant watch over her sick, 
to guard against the effects of the loss of vital heat. 
In certain forms of disease, there is a constant tendency 
to the decline and ultimate extinction of the vital powers 
by the call made upon them to sustain the heat of the 
body. 
Cases where this occurs should be watched with the 
greatest care, and the feet and legs examined by the warm 
hand every few minutes, and whenever a tendency to chill- 
ing is discovered, hot bottles, hot bricks and warm flannels 
with some warm drink should be made use of until the 
temperature is restored. 
The fire should be replenished if necessary. Patients 
are frequently lost in the latter stages of disease from want 
of attention to such simple precautions. 24 
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The nurse may be trusting to the patient's diet, or to 
his medicine, or to the occasional dose of stimulant which 
she is directed to give him, while the patient is all the 
while sinking from want of a little external warmth. 
Such cases hapen at all times, even during the height of 
summer, This fatal chill is most apt to occur towards 
morning at the period of the lowest temperature of the 
twenty-four hours and at the time when the effect of the 
preceding day's diet is exhausted. 
Let no one depend upon fumigations for purifying the 
air of a sick room. The offensive thing itself must be 
removed. 
Damp towels and cloths should not be left to dry in the 
room but carried out. If dried in the room the moisture 
remains in the air. The best way to remove dust is to 
wipe with a damp cloth. Dusting as usually done means 
nothing but flapping the dust from one part of a room to 
another with door and windows closed. 
'Tis better to leave the dust alone unless it is taken away 
from the room. 
Light for the sick is a need rarely appreciated. They 
want not only light but sunlight. The sun is not only a 
painter but a sculptor. You admit that he does the pho- 
tograph. He has quite as real and tangible effects upon 
the human body. 
Let the patient be able to see from his window without 
rising or turning in bed, sky and sunlight at least, and 
landscape if possible. 
A pleasant view, a variety as to flowers and especially 
light, cheers and enlivens. LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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CAUSES AND CURE OF AGUE. 
This disease is common in malarious districts; caused by the 
effluvia from decaying organic matter. Persons of good health 
and pure blood do not often suffer from its attacks; but those 
persons whose digestive organs are overtaxed, and circulation 
clogged are very apt to suffer, if exposed to malaria. 
To Prevent Ague. - Keep out of malarious districts,- 
generally low, marshy ground, - or live so temperately and 
wisely that the malaria will not be absorbed. Pure blood and 
a vigorous circulation are the best preventives against this, 
and almost every other form of disease. High lands should be 
chosen for dwellings when possible, or precaution be taken to 
sleep in rooms considerably elevated above the surface of the 
ground. It is well to avoid exposure. 
To Cure Ague. - If long afflicted leave the malarious dis- 
tricts. Commence treatment with an active cathartic. For this 
purpose use fluid extract of Senna and Epsom Salts. Take a 
tablespoonful of fluid extract of Senna at night, and an ounce 
or more of Epsom Salts early the next morning. Dissolve the 
salts in water. Very delicate patients may omit the cathartic 
medicine. Quinine is in high repute, but it seldom cures. The 
cure must depend chiefly upon means used to invigorate 
the circulation, purify the blood, and regulate digestion. Eat 
sparingly of wholesome food; discarding rich gravies, pastry, 
very sweet or greasy food, with all spices and condiments. A 
good Thompsonian emetic will sometimes be preferable to the 
cathartic course. An ounce each of tincture of Lobelia, and 
wine of Ipecac, makes a good emetic. Induce a good perspi- 
ration, and then give a teaspoonful of the emetic every fifteen 
minutes, drinking between the doses a goblet of warm water. 
After the operation of the above-mentioned medicines, one of 
either of the following remedies may be taken, which are in 
high repute. 
1st. Take quinine, lOgrains ; capsicum, or African cayenne, 
4 grains ; mix and divide into three powders. Take them all 
during four hours preceding the usual time for a chill, at inter- 
vals of one hour. 
2d. Take a teaspoonful of fine salt in a wineglassful of pure 
brandy on the first sensation of chill. 
These troublesome companions are caused by the pressure of 
a tight boot or shoe that prevents the dead scarf skin from fall- 
ing off like the outer bark of a tree. 
CAUSES AND CURE OF CORNS. 26 
LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
To Prevent Corns. - Wear well-fitting, but never tight 
boots; and wash the feet every night before retiring. With 
such treatment of the feet a corn or bunion is simply impossible. 
To Cure Corns and Bunions. - Carefully remove with 
a sharp knife or instrument all the hard or horny part without 
injuring the true skin. The corn will be found in the form of 
a cone with the apex downwards, and frequently there will be 
found a little sac of glairy matter at the bottom. After the 
corn is removed apply a little bland oil, sweet oil, or oil of sweet 
almonds. Wash, wipe, and rub the feet thoroughly every 
night, and the corn will not re-appear. 
CAUSES, PREVENTION AND CURE OF CATARRH. 
This is a disease of the mucous surfaces which line all those 
passages of the body that communicate with the external air. 
We may have catarrh of the throat and nasal passages, catarrh 
of the bronchial tubes and air cells of the lungs, catarrh of the 
stomach, or bowels, and catarrh of the bladder. In any case the 
disease is constitutional and requires constitutional treatment. 
It is characterized by an increased amount of secretion from the 
mucous surfaces, which in bad cases is offensive to sight and 
smell. 
To prevent catarrh we must avoid the causes that produce 
it. These are much the same as the causes of consumption, 
viz.; bad air, bad food, and bad habits. Whatever drains the 
system of vitality will predispose to the disease. " Catching 
cold " always aggravates catarrh. The mucous surfaces sym- 
pathize with the skin, and when the pores of the skin are ob- 
structed, the perspirable matter is thrown in upon the mucous 
surface to be eliminated. Persons who have pure blood and a 
vigorous circulation never catch cold. Persons who live and 
sleep in the open air are scarcely ever troubled with colds or 
catarrh. Pure air is a great prophylactic. Solitary and social 
vices exhaust the system of vitality and predispose to disease. 
Irritating and unwholesome food also aggravates the disease if 
it does not cause it. We have now indicated the means of pre- 
vention. 
Breathe pure air, eat simple and wholesome food, and avoid 
any excessive drain of vitality. 
To breathe pure air we must live in the open fields, or find 
some efficient mode of ventilation. Salt tends to obstruct the 
circulation and should not be taken largely into the blood. 
Salted provisions of all kinds are more difficult of digestion. 
An excessive amount of sugar or fatty matter will predispose to 
catarrh. LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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TO CURE CATARRH. 
First, remove the causes; bad air, bad food, and bad habits. 
Live in the open air, or ventilate your dwellings. Eat only of 
plain, wholesome food, rejecting for the most part salt, and 
salted provisions, sugar, and sweetmeats, fat and greasy food. 
Eat freely of ripe fruit, but let it be for the most part baked or 
stewed. A vegetable diet will hasten the cure. Allow no ex- 
cessive drain of vitality by sexual vices. An active life, or rea- 
sonable daily exercise will g.eatly assist to regain health. 
Do this and nature will of herself heal your malady; but if 
the stomach and bowels are loaded with phlegm or mucous, as 
they sometimes are, then a good old-fashioned sweat and Thomp- 
sonian emetic may be useful, at the commencement of the treat- 
ment. Tincture of Lobelia, and wine of Ipecac, equal parts, and 
mixed, are safest and best for an emetic. Dose; a tablespoon- 
ful once in 15 minutes, after getting the patient to perspiring. 
Two ounces will generally suffice for an emetic for adults. Give 
a much smaller dose to a child, - a teaspoonful for a child two 
years old. Drinking warm water freely after taking two or 
three doses of the emetic will aid the process. After sweating, 
rub every part of the body dry, and use friction with the dry 
hand till the skin is red, if possible. Do not allow mineral 
emetics, or ever employ a physician who believes in administer- 
ing sulphate of zinc, tartar emetic, calomel, or mercury. They 
are all dangerous. If the discharge from the nose and throat is 
offensive or too abundant, snuff through the nostrils and throat 
several times a day, sea water, or soft water in which a little 
salt has been dissolved. Powdered Poke Root makes an ex- 
cellent snuff to clear the head, or if this is not conveniently 
obtained, Raeder's German Snuff will answer the same purpose. 
In making the Poke Root (Hellebore) Snuff, rub up the pow- 
der with a few drops of spirits of camphor. These snuffs are 
the best known, but the main reliance must be placed upon re- 
moving the causes of the disease. The fine salt and water will 
generally suffice for a wash or a gargle. Irritating substances 
and violent blowing of the nose may cause polypus of the nose. 
If the nose is sore, apply a little bland oil or sweet cream, and 
let it alone, but attend to the general wants of the body, and 
you will be gratified with the result. 
DESCRIPTION OF FEVERS. 
A fever is nature's resort under difficulties for eliminating or 
removing waste matter and other noxious substances from the 
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LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
with chills, especially at its commencement; pain more or less 
of the back and limbs ; accelerated pulse ; languor ; loss of ap- 
petite; and thirst. The increased heat is the natural concomi- 
tant, or indication, of the consumption of hydro-carbons in the 
system. These products cannot be formed by the direct union 
of hydrogen and carbon, but arise from the decomposition of 
organic substances, and hence are appropriately styled waste 
matter. 
In a state of health this wa.de matter which is the constant 
result of all muscular or nervous action is readily eliminated by 
the lungs, skin, bowels, and kidneys, which are called'the elim- 
inating organs. If these organs are overtaxed by excessive and 
protracted muscular or nervous action, then the waste matter 
accumulates in ihe system and its consumption and removal by 
fever is nature's ready expedient. The fever cuts off the de- 
mand for food, which, if taken, would still further load the blood, 
and demands rest of brain and muscle, which she indicates by 
languor, in order that the hydro-carbons and other waste mat- 
ter may not be further increased until the existing burden is re- 
moved and the eliminating organs have time for rest and repair. 
Chills indicate that the circulation of the nervous power is inter- 
rupted: and pain indicates obstructions in the circulation of the 
blood. The accelerated pulse indicates the degree of danger to 
the vital force; and thirst the requirement of fluids to wash 
away obstructions. Such is fever. Now it will take different 
forms according to the conditions that gave rise to it. If the 
lungs are the principal sufferers from being long deprived of a 
sufficient quantity of pure air, then pneumonia, or lung fever 
wiirbe its form ; if the nerves have become prostrated by ex- 
cessive or protracted mental action, we get typhus, or brain 
fever ; from derangement of the digestive organs, we have 
bilious fever; and when accompanying it the vital forces are 
low, typhoid ; and finally, when the vital forces are so low as 
to allow of a partially putrescent condition of the waste mat- 
ter in the blood, on which animalcules feed, then the fever is 
eruptive, as in measles, scarlatina, and small pox ; and it will 
be more or less malignant, as in yellow fever, and cholera, ac- 
cording to the depression of the vital forces and the degree of 
putrescency of the blood. 
To Prevent Bilious Fever. -Never cloy the appetite.' 
Pastry food, sugar and sweetmeats, fat and greasy food, are the 
chief causes of an accumulation of bile in the system ; but 
salted provisions, and an excessive quantity of food of any kind 
may derange the biliary secretion. Plain and wholesome food, LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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taken in moderation, with plenty of vigorous exercise will pre- 
vent bilious fevers. 
To Cure Bilious Fever. - Swallow the juice of one ripe 
lemon daily, and fast, or take only a little gruel or porridge 
until the appetite becemes natural. 
Exercise proportioned to the strength will promote the cure. 
In cases where the digestive organs are badly clogged by long 
abuse, and the patient is ordinarily robust, or at least not 
greatly debilitated, a good cathartic course of medicine will 
greatly expedite the cure. For this purpose take one ounce of 
the simple tincture of Aloes at night, and an ounce of Epsom 
Salts, dissolved in water or cider, before breakfast in the morn- 
ing, and repeat the same the second day. Smaller doses for 
children. Good nursing is essential. 
This is a very troublesome affection, and affects the very lower 
portion of the bowels. The bowel sometimes falls, or protrudes, 
and becomes sore; sometimes the veins of the part become 
enormously distended, forming painful tumors, and sometimes 
they burst and bleed. It is caused by straining of mind or 
body, by constipation and dyspepsia, and by taking violent 
cathartic medicines. 1 
To Prevent Piles. - Avoid all straining of mind or body, 
lifting very heavy weights, all violent cathartics, and all exhaus- 
tion of the vital forces. 
To Cure Hemorrhoids, or Piles. - 1st, Remove the 
causes, so far as you know them. Nature heals all wounds so 
soon as conditions are made favorable. Keep the bowels free 
by means of the diet, or by the use of mild laxatives. Rye meal 
mush, or rye bread is excellent food for such conditions. A 
purely vegetable diet is probably best. 
Do not allow the bowel to remain down; put it back at once 
with an application of some mild ointment. Flax seed oil is an 
excellent application. Tannin dissolved in glycerine is good 
if the glycerine be pure. Mutton tallow, or even sweet cream 
will answer. Endeavor to invigorate the vital forces by rest, if 
overtaxed ; by hand baths, by a plain and regular diet, by being 
in the sunlight, and by a hopeful spirit. 
If the piles are very painful, belladonna, or stramonium 
ointment, will give relief ; but you must depend upon invigor- 
ating measures for the cure. 
If a laxative is needed, cream of tartar, one ounce, and sul- 
phur one-half ounce, mixed together will serve an excellent 
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purpose. Dose, one teaspoonful in sale molasses, once per day. 
The juice of green spearmint as an injection and wash is a good, 
safe, speedy remedy. 
Consumption signifies a wasting away ; and may be applied 
to the wasting away of the lungs, flesh, or blood. We use the 
term here in its usual signification to signify ulceration, or wast- 
ing away of the lungs. Now, to prevent Consumption, we must 
avoid the causes that induce it. These are bad air, bad food, 
bad habits. All these will be avoided, and Consumption pre- 
vented, by observing the following directions :-Breathe abund- 
antly of pure air by night and day ; eat only of plain, wholesome 
food; and lead an active, cheerful, industrious but moderate 
life. The lungs may waste away from inaction, from want of 
nutrition, and from poisonous matter in the blood ; hence the 
above prescription will require some degree of intelligence for 
its proper application, but is infallible, and as plain as can be 
stated in human language. It will require attention to ventila- 
tion, cleanliness, diet and exercise. Horseback riding is incom- 
patible with consumption, and is recommended as a preventive. 
To Cure Consumption. - Seek an atmosphere or climate 
where the air is dry, light and pure, where the temperature does 
not generally vary more than 60° Fahrenheit. Such an atmos- 
phere may be found upon the Pacific coast, in Lower California, 
or Utah. Many cases of Incipient Consumption may be cured 
without any change of climate, by giving proper attention to 
breathing, diet and exercise. Breathe through the nostrils, na- 
ture's inhaling tubes, and keep the mouth closed, except for the 
purposes of speech or taking food. Stop coughing ; unless you 
raise matter by coughing, and even then cough as little as pos- 
sible. Coughing irritates the air passages very much. Give the 
lungs free play, by loosening clothing if necessary, and practice 
daily, moderately at first, and for a few minutes only, deep vol- 
untary respiration, to purify the blood. Be as much as possible 
in the open air, without chilling the blood, avoid crowded and 
ill-ventilated apartments. 
Secure an honest appetite by outdoor exercise and plain food. 
Take no confectionery or pastry food, and not much sugar or 
sweet food. Abandon all pernicious habits, and lead an active, 
cheerful and temperate life. 
There is no specific for consumption. The cure must be 
sought in making conditions favorable, as mentioned above. 
Most cough medicines contain opium, morphine, or some other 
PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION. LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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narcotic, and are to be looked upon with suspicion. With these 
narcotics it is a very easy thing to stop a cough, but very dan- 
gerous, and sometimes fatal. The following is simple, andmay 
prove useful when the cough is tight and violent: - Take 
equal parts Wineof Ipecac, Syrup of Tolu, and the infusion, or 
syrup of Liquorice - mix. Dose, one teaspoonful once an 
hour till the symptoms are relieved. Cod Liver Oil never 
cures. Good new milk, or oil of sweet almonds is better. 
Whatever will rouse the will and energy of the patient and in- 
vigorate the circulation, will prove beneficial. Such remedies 
are to be found in breathing an abundance of pure air, taking 
active exercise, not too much at first; eating plain but whole- 
some food, and in cheerfulness and buoyancy of spirit. 
Cold sage tea forms the best drink for consumptives. In 
cases of night sweats, especially, let cold sage tea be the only 
drink, and bathe the entire surface of the body and limbs twice 
a week in a strong tea of Sweet Fern, used while quite warm. 
Avoid wetting the bed or clothing for two reasons. The bed 
and clothing should never be damp, and the tea of Sweet Fern 
will stain ; but it is a very agreeable and excellent application 
to the skin. 
The following remedy is highly recommended for consump- 
tives. Take one teaspoonful of the fresh juice of Hoarhound, 
or one-half a teaspoonful of the fluid extract of the same, in one 
gill of new milk every morning. 
If diarrhoea attends, confine the diet for several days to rice ; 
taking only what the appetite craves. The rice must be 
thoroughly cooked, and if it is first parched, or browned, and 
then boiled or steamed till quite soft, it will prove still more effec- 
tive. When the cough syrup already given does not serve to 
quiet the cough sufficiently, one of the following may be tried. 
1st - Beat an egg, add two tablespoonfuls each, of cider 
vinegar and white sugar, and mix: dose, one teaspoonful every 
half hour till relieved. 
2d - Take one ounce each, Syrup of Tolu, and Wine of 
Ipecac, and two grains of Morphine. Dose, one teaspoonful 
once in two hours to quiet the cough. 
We have now given the best remedies known; and we know 
from positive evidence and ocular demonstration that consump- 
tion is curable. 
LIVER COMPLAINT. 
This is but another name for Dyspepsia, or bad digestion. 
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is not abused. Intoxicating drinks, fat and greasy food, rich 
gravies, and pastry food, are the chief causes of liver complaint. 
Eating too freely of sugar and sweetened food will obstruct the 
liver. 
To Prevent Liver Complaint. - Lead a life of strict 
temperance in eating and drinking, and eat sparingly of sugar, 
butter and lard, and all food that contains them. 
To Cure Liver Complaint. - Fast until the appetite 
returns, and then keep it by moderate indulgence of plain food, 
and by taking healthful exercises. To observe all the conditions 
of health will ensure the most speedy recovery. 
Take the juice of one lemon a day so long as any acid is 
craved. Nothing is better to clear the blood of bile than lemon 
juice. Keep the bowels free by taking, if necessary, a tea- 
spoonful of Tincture of Rhubarb, and fluid extract of Senna, 
equal parts, once per day. Make the breakfast of rye mush or 
oatmeal. Eat animal food only twice per week or live entirely 
on vegetable food for several weeks. Take a vigorous hand- 
bath once or twice per week, and be as much as possible in the 
open air and sunlight. 
To Prevent Typhoid Fever. - Avoid long continued 
fatigue of body or mind, that wears out and debilitates the vital 
forces. Typhoid means resembling typhus ; and the diagnostic 
sign of typhoid fever is ulceration of the interior coating of the 
bowels. It may be caused or aggravated by improper food and 
errors of diet. Avoid ill-ventilated apartments, and derangement 
of digestion. 
Typhus fever is a fever of the nerves, and may be caused by 
long continued anxiety, or strain of mind ; by breathing foul 
atmosphere, or by the use of indigestible food. The latter will 
certainly aggravate, if it is not a direct cause. 
To Cure Typhoid Fever. - Husband well the vital forces, 
and beware of violent cathartics and all so-called powerful medi- 
cines. To allay the fever, give lemon juice for drink in a little 
water, but not much sugar. Feed lightly with the simplest 
food ; oatmeal gruel or porridge, or milk toast from good home- 
made bread. If the vital forces are low, watch carefully the 
extremities of the patient, especially the feet, every hour apply 
vessels of hot water, or hot bricks, to keep the patient warm. 
Rest, quiet, good air, and good nursing, will offer the best 
chance of cure. A mild laxative is admissible at the very com- 
mencement of the fever. For this purpose, pulverized rhubarb, 
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be steeped and given every two hours, till a good movement 
is effected. A teaspoonful of the rhubarb, a small handful of 
peppermint leaves, and a half teaspoonful of soda or saleratus, 
may be steeped in half pint of water for an hour or two, and 
given in teaspoonful doses to an adult when a laxative is de- 
sired. 
Meet the attack with warm drinks, moderate perspiration, an 
alkaline bath, applied with the hand, and followed with friction 
of the dry hand, and a moderate laxative, especially if the 
bowels are loaded or clogged. The attack may be known by 
chills, thirst, heat of the surface, and generally pain of the head, 
back, and limbs, sometimes nausea and vomiting. For a laxa- 
tive, give. Tincture of Rhubarb, and fluid extract of Senna, 
mixed in equal parts ; a teaspoonful once in two hours, till four 
teaspoonfuls have been taken, unless a movement of the bowels 
is effected sooner. 
The alkaline bath may be used often, whenever the surface 
heat is excessive. In cases of wakefulness, some nervine may 
be useful. A tea made of poppy leaves, or wild lettuce, or 
ladies slipper, may answer the purpose. Sometimes an excel- 
lent effect will be produced by giving a small powder of cam- 
phor, opium and ipecac, equal parts. A powder of one or two 
grains may be given in cases of great wakefulness, once in four 
hours, till sleep and quiet is induced ; but milder nervines are 
to be preferred if they will answer. Never put ice or ice-water 
upon the head of a delicate patient. Only the vigorous and 
robust can endure cold applications. 
Keep the patient warm at all times, dry and clean : have 
good fresh air in the room, and in every way promote the quiet 
and comfort of the patient. Give bland, mild nourishment, 
and depend upon good nursing mainly for the cure. 
WORMS AND PARASITES. 
More than twenty kinds of worms infest the human body. 
For a descriptive list, see Dunglison's Medical Dictionary. 
The most common kinds met with by the physician and patient 
are the stomach worm, sometimes called the round worm ; and 
the pin, or thread, worm. The principal parasites are the body 
louse, the head louse, and the crab-louse. 
Every animal not excepting those mentioned above, has its 
natural habitat or place of abode, and its natural food. Now 
Worms and parasites feed upon filth either upon or within the 
body. They do not feed upon healthy flesh, nor live in a 
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to decay or already putrefactive. Lice will not remain or breed 
upon the head or body of a person kept cleanly by proper ablu- 
tions and change of apparel. Hence the prescription for the 
prevention of worms and parasites may be written in two words, 
keep clean, within and without. Soap and water will suffice for 
the outside of the body, but pure air, proper food, the strictest 
temperance, and judicious exercise, will be required to keep the 
interior of the body pure and cleanly. Keep the blood pure, 
the circulation vigorous, and every part of the body clean, and 
you will ward off, not only worms and parasites, but almost 
every other form of disease. 
To Cure Worms and Parasites. - The best vermifuge 
in the world is the healthy gastric (stomach) juice of the pa- 
tient's own stomach. Correct the diet, and make digestion 
healthy and the worms will be expelled. Leave the diet un- 
corrected, and, though powerful medicines be used that for 
once expel the worms, they will soon return. The same con- 
dition that gave rise to them still exists. The only infallible 
remedy is to correct digestion and invigorate the stomach. 
The pin worm, or thread worm, occupies the rectum, or 
lower bowel, and can be readily reached with injections. Cam- 
phorated oil, or salt and water, will dislodge them. They may 
also be removed by the following prescription for the round or 
stomach worm. 
Take one ounce simple tincture of aloes at night, two or 
three hours after making a light supper, and one ounce of Ep- 
som salts dissolved in water, in the morning before breakfast. 
Smaller doses for children. 
To remove tape worm, omit dinner and take for supper four 
ounces of pumpkin seed meats finely masticated. In the morn- 
ing still fasting, take two ounces of castor oil. 
The only certain symptom of tape worm is passing from the 
bowels pieces of the worm. Worms more generally trouble 
children that are fed on too much pastry food, sugar, candy, 
nuts, sweetmeats and other indigestible substances. 
To destroy parasites most speedily, apply once or twice per 
day a solution of corrosive sublimate and water. Use two grains 
to an ounce of water. This is a poison and must be used only 
as an external wash. It should be applied only to the part 
affected. It will kill the itch, ringworm and all kinds of lice. 
It is not offensive. 
The character, qualities and medical properties of all things 
KEY TO ANIMATED NATURE. LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
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can be told from their form, structure, tint and color. Every ele- 
ment in nature has a natural language of its own : the spirit and 
essence are revealed on the surface, so that the medical botanist 
can readily know the medicinal properties of plants, roots, barks, 
flowers, fruits, seeds, and grains. In our new system of self- 
healing we first teach the student and young practitioners these 
fundamental principles. The mental spirit in organizing crea- 
tures and elements by a law of necessity compels everything to 
carry its characters in its form and structure at mast-head. 
The hop is the most elastic, light and spongy of nature's 
vegetable products. Its structure clearly indicates its qualities 
and use ; its medical properties are indicated by its form, which 
is to expand, raise, foment and thus aid nature to relieve 
obstructions, and clogged conditions of the human system,-the 
chief cause of disease. The sexual or creative element or attri- 
bute is the central life-force and vital power of everything, 
therefore the yellow poland of the hop is the essential essence 
or element of use. After this is lost or shaken out by the fall 
winds the hops are comparatively useless. The tough spiral 
hop vine clinging, binding and climbing to great heights re- 
veals the power, tenacity, vigor, vital vim of its spirit. There- 
fore we use the hop to expand all the elements and tissues of the 
human system when vaporized or conbined with heat, the most 
penetrating and expansive of material forces. They enable 
nature to relieve herself and cast out all disease, hence hops 
form the basic element of many of our vapor baths. When taken 
internally they act powerfully upon the human system in much 
the same way. 
We do not approve of drugging the stomach, which was made 
for food and drink : nothing else should enter it. Use medicated 
healing baths in place of it. This is a more direct and speedy 
method of healing. 
SIGNS OF CHARACTER AND MEDICAL QUALITIES. 
The pine-needle is the most penetrating in its spiritual char- 
acter and quality of the vegetable products. 
Structure of the pine-needle reveals the spirit of turpentine 
- most penetrating of chemical spirits. When the extract of 
pine-needles is combined with that of hops we have penetration 
and expansion, this medicinal element in their vapor which 
penetrates and expands the pores of the skin, thus aiding per- 
spiration, opening all the sluiceways, outlets and evacuations 
that cast off the sluggish element, dead molecules of the human 
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system. When inhaled in the lungs this medicated vapor im- 
mediately affects the blood. 
MEDICATED HEALING BATHS. 
In our new system of modern healing and self-cure, we use 
all the medicinal properties of plants, roots, bark and herbs, 
mentioned in the materia medica, for the diseases therein pre- 
scribed in the reform practice. But instead of dosing the stom- 
ach, which is the centre of the potential vital energy, we use 
the medicines in vapor baths, thus affecting the system direct- 
ly through the pores and skin, and by inhalation affect the 
blood instantly through the lungs. Thus we heal the system 
without deranging the stomach. This is a safe, speedy method 
of healing which the common people can readily learn. Among 
the thousands we have treated thus we have never lost a patient. 
Heed nature's hints and tendencies or infallible revelations, and 
fear not results. 
Through inspiration and sad experience, ages of anxious 
study and experiments, the race has slowly learned to avoid 
the evils of life, prevent and heal many of the ills that flesh is 
heir too. We utilize this vast laboratory of wisdom and apply 
the experience of mankind in our new mode of treatment and 
self-cure. Life is too short for one man to'learn and do much ; we 
are anxious to give our discoveries the widest circulation to fami- 
liarize all men with the medical art, thus enabling all to heal 
themselves. In our larger profusely illustrated works, we have 
striven for many years to do justice to this vast subject: therein 
we treat of thirteen modes of healing adapted to the needs of 
humanity, the wants and necessities of the masses. Send for 
circulars and catalogue. 
MEDICAL EXPERIENCE OF THE RACE. 
MODERN MEDICAL SCIENCE. 
The divine law of cure is revealed in every act of nature. 
The sun the centre of the solar system, the great life-giver and 
healer, attracts and holds in its God-like grasp all worlds and 
atoms in the solar system. Perpetually feeding upon attractive 
elements and transmuting them into light by the Almighty po- 
tential energy of heat, caused by the rapid friction of attracted 
elements. 
The medicinal elements of light are superior and more refined 
than any other material mentioned in the materia medica of any 
recognized school of medicine. Hence the sun and light cure is 
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patients and invalids. See our large work on light healing and 
mental cure. 
MENTAL OR SPIRITUAL HEALING. 
Mind and matter embrace all things, mind molds and controls 
matter; it is the living, intelligent organizing principle of the 
universe, the fountain source of all life, health and vital vigor. 
Hence this mode of mental healing is superior to all others. 
God is the spirit of love and wisdom, the quickening, animating 
soul of nature. If we look to him and seek we shall find him 
all sufficient to save and heal every ill that flesh is heir to. 
All things are fossilized thoughts, nature is only externalized 
mind, a revelation of the divine presence. Man is mind and 
can will himself well and mentally heal his fellow man. " As 
a man thinketh so is he." " There is nothing good or ill but 
thinking makes it so: " for full exposition of this subject, see 
our " Illustrated Mental and Spiritual Science." 
All diseases are caused by the obstruction of the circulating 
vital forces and can be cured by removing the cause. This is 
best done by electro-magnetism or spiritual healing, the gentle 
application of light and heat, anything that will harmonize the 
system, reconcile the conflicting elements of the soul, will tend 
to restore health and vital vigor. Electro-magnetism is the 
circulating medium of the material world, nature's means of 
uniting, blending and harmonizing the elements of the universe. 
Hence we employ them when possible in our new mode of 
healing. They should be applied in a natural and simple way 
through the hand of the operator, a healthy sympathetic per- 
son. Magnets and batteries may be used safely through such a 
medium. See our works on magnetic healing. 
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC CURE. 
All vegetation, crystals and minerals are organized through 
their chemical infinity, under the electro-magnetic sunbeams. 
From the invisible seed or involuted spiritual germ the life prin- 
ciple or mind attracts, generates and organizes their medicinal 
qualities, made thus medicinal because they find their infinities 
in the human system, which is the epitome of the universe. 
Man is the highest embodiment and expression of attributes and 
elements of divine truth. 
The food of the soul and mind is truth, all things are an ex- 
pression of truth. All things are therefore medicinal food for 
the mind or body ; whatever the soul can assimilate, and utilize 
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is healing and wholesome; all else is poison, tends to obstruct, 
clog, and cause disease and death. See our improved materia 
medica, etc. 
HEALING PROPERTIES OP PLANTS. 
The experience of the world has taught the use and proper- 
ties of plants in a measure: as we near the age of judgment of 
luminous intellect the all-penetrating and ever curious mind will 
explore the domain of nature and discover every chemical 
property and medicinal quality in creation. There is nothing 
impossible to patient persistent mind; with the key to animated 
nature, the newly revealed spiritual science, we can unlock every 
mystery, solve the secrets of nature and problems of life. The 
medicinal properties of plants are best known by their blossoms 
and fruits. "By their fruits.ye shall know them." The finest 
most concentrated elements and potential vital energies are con- 
tained in the sexual seed, pollen, in bark, roots, buds, etc. See 
our work on the healing properties of plants. 
WATER AND DIET CURE. 
We should, make our food our medicine ; eat that which would 
heal and regulate us; if our thoughts were directed in this chan- 
nel, the hints of nature and instinct heeded, we would seldom 
need any other remedy ; the statistical experience of the race 
in this matter should be compiled and utilized, the lessons of 
wisdom thus learned would be worth more to humanity than 
all the medical lore of the schools. 
Eat that which you crave most, love best, and find by experi- 
ence agrees with your system; " variety is the spice of life and 
gives it all its flavor," study to resexualize, vitalize and rejuve- 
nate yourself, thus tend towards perpetual youth, eternal life ; 
live the truth according to your highest light. See our diet 
cure. 
THE RELIGION THAT THE SCIENCE OP CHEMISTRY TEACHES. 
Each substance assumes its peculiar form. Common salt 
always crystallizes in cubes ; alum in octohedrons ; saltpetre in 
six-sided prisms: Epsom salts in four-sided prisms; and other 
substances take on their peculiar forms. This is so certain that 
chemists often tell the composition of a crystal by its shape. 
All crystals are laid in scales, or lamina, so that they have a 
beautiful cleavage that jewelers take advantage of in shaping 
their brilliants for setting in their various works of art. And 
the chemist takes advantage of it to determine the primary and 
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damental forms of crystals. There are a great many secondary 
forms, all of them are modifications of the six primary forms. 
Yet back of the primary forms before mentioned, all crystals 
seem to be in a circular or egg shape form; then after the 
peculiar life-giving magnetic forces begin their work, this life 
gives the especial kind of form which its composition demands. 
FIRE-CALORIC OR HEAT. 
Modern chemists have not proved fire to be matter, but only 
the action of matter. It was for a long time thought by chem- 
ists to be an imponderable substance. But to-day it is thought 
to be the motion of matter only. In the beginning of this cen- 
tury there were but twenty-nine simple substances known to 
the chemist. Heat or caloric is not matter, but one of the 
spirits of matter, that is potent in all the life-giving energies 
of the earth. 
LIGHT. 
The present opinion is that light is nothing but the motion 
of matter. Mercury, the nearest to the sun must be the whitest, 
and Neptune, the farthest off, must be the darkest, to keep the 
one from a very uncomfortable heat and the other from being 
too cold for animal life. Our globe is clothed in a dark green 
vegetation, and the earth is covered in the hottest, most deso- 
late sections with the whitest colored sand. Light is not mat- 
ter, but one of the spirits of matter. Light seems to be the 
most important power in the universe; it is constantly at 
work, and the commander of almost all work that is done in na- 
ture, while it is itself under the laws of nature. It would seem 
that an intensely illuminated body contains all the substances 
and forces in nature, all life and all forms of life ; all motion 
and all forms of motion ; and if it has not all these powers 
when it strikes an opaque body, it seems to have the power to 
produce in the opaque body these lives and motion. God is 
governed by law or law is God. So we need not go beyond 
the spirit and matter that composed the intelligence that ani- 
mals and men have to find where they get their mental powers 
or intelligence. 
ELECTRICITY. 
Electricity and magnetism are not matter, but the spirit of 
matter that prevades all matter, causes all the movements in the 
heavens and earth. 
Not a science has been taken from religion or superstition 
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and placed to the credit of the religion of science until the harnl- 
less, the pious, the loving Christians have been beat in bloody 
battle. Therefore these pretended peaceful gentlemen will not 
allow their last and strongest hold on the public to be Captured 
until after one of the most terrible slaughters the world has 
ever seen. 
We find every grass has its peculiar habits, and looks, and 
all kinds are easily distinguished by their particular shape 
and color ; and every species of trees has its distinguishing 
form and color of bark and leaves, and the wood has its special 
hardness or soft texture, and its peculiar color and odor: some 
of it is light, some heavy, some of it is very elastic, some very 
brittle ; some trees have limbs that spread to a great distance 
when left natural, others grow tall and the limbs grow up close 
by the side of the body of the tree. Just think of the thousands 
upon thousands of the different species of grasses, trees and 
shrubs, each kind having a family resemblance, and yet all dif- 
ferent. Reason is the chief corner stone of true religion. 
Reason is a mild, steadfast, moderate, firm, even, temperate 
euunciation of truth and justice, the mental foundation of 
the sciences. The religion of science must be the religion of 
reason, while the religion of belief and faith must be the reli- 
gion of feeling, sentiment and passion. The lies of the priests 
are not regarded of much consequence ; it is only when they 
are guilty of the most atrocious tortures and murders of the 
innocent, that people begin to sense the enormity of their acts. 
Then they begin to look back to see how the priests became 
villains and monsters in crime, and discover it commenced in 
the falsehood which they proclaimed as truth. There is no 
special providence to intervene that will make right wrong, or 
wrong right. The law of nature is the god of nature ; that the 
law of mind is the god of mind, and sanctions the principle that 
the law of spirit is the god of spirit. Phrenology gives the 
basic principles upon which the science of the mind is estab- 
lished. Spiritual scientists discover that this influence of the 
stars has a sure fast basis in this psychological magnetic power 
that fills all space, and gives to the sun, moon and stars certain 
powers over the earth and its surroundings, and its animal and 
vegetable productions. The sun and moon have a palpable and 
acknowledged power that materialists see and feel; but besides 
these there is subtle magnetic power that comes from all heav- 
enly bodies, especially the planets, and affects every individual. 
Is there a power that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we 
will, that we can know and practice so as to make the best of life ? 
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Can we find out our destiny by any means in the power of man- 
kind ? This is the great question to be settled by scientific 
experiments and observations. But the astrologer like the as- 
tronomer is governed by the law of magnetic and electric mo- 
tion to determine the truth of his prophecies ; and when they 
determine the truth as correctly how people must move by the 
power of this law, as the astronomer does how planets must 
move by their law, they can prophesy as truly, what will hap- 
pen in each day of a person's life as they can in astronomy 
where a planet will be in its orbit. They all have the psycho- 
logizing power in a greater or less degree. The sun and moon 
have vastly more vitalizing power' than man. When a person 
fails to get the magnetic powers of life to maintain bodily action, 
they appear lifeless and dead ; then, when a wave of magnetic 
life-giving power reaches them, they revive and live ; no mat- 
ter where that power comes from. 
Most of the man-gods have had great magnetic powers over 
large masses of people. Magnetism is the great unseen secret 
power which is used by wicked persons to make slaves of the 
people ; and the great magnetizers will always be leading peo- 
ple in any community ; yet among the intelligent they cannot 
make many persons blindly obey them unless they have great 
worldly power, such as commanders of armies or the rulers of 
nations or great wealth. We have but just begun to learn the 
great scope and importance of psychometry. It shows that the 
dust of the earth has memory and the five senses of hearing, 
seeing, feeling, tasting and smelling and that its memory is 
much better than that of any person, for it seems to tell the 
particulars of events that occurred millions on millions of years 
ago. How many more faculties it has than man has not dis- 
covered in his mental composition it is not known, and cannot 
be known, to man until he learns to use other faculties that lie 
dormant in his mental and physical being. The solid earth and 
the moving air are composed of the same materials in different 
kinds and degrees of combination; and every faculty that is in 
one is possessed of the other. 
When we can once get the religious to turn theii' attention 
from the ancient bibles that ignorant people wrote, to the earth, 
the rocks and the sun, and other heavenly bodies, and talk with 
them through psychometry or psychology, they will soon learn 
how deceived the ancient religious writers were, and how silly 
it is to take their wild statements, when the earth can give, 
and will give, the true ones, if truly consulted ; and when peo- 
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what is best to be done to be saved from trouble in this world, 
and in the spirit world, where all spirits will go. The founder 
of Christianity is represented to be a man about thirty years old, 
when he commenced his spiritual work, who was possessed of 
large magnetic powers, and surrounded by many spirits who 
did many wonderful works by means of his mediumistic powers. 
But it was not his powers, nor the power of the spirits through 
him that made his character among Christians, but his preten- 
sions or the pretensions of his followers that he was the life and 
light of the world ; that he was the way and savior of man- 
kind. That he was the god of this world, equal with the god 
of the universe. That he and his father god were one. That 
he was the word that was god. These and many other preten- 
sions were set up by him, or for him by his followers, and upon 
these pretensions and the theories that arise naturally out of 
them, churches were formed in a very short time. And the 
belief in Christ as the Savior of the world was promulgated by 
these churches and want of belief in these dogmas was declared 
to be just cause for the eternal punishment of the unbeliever. 
This made such belief the greatest virtue in the sight of God, 
and want of this belief the greatest vice that man can commit. 
So the common sense of humanity has always been at war with 
the church sense of Christianity. So the common sense of 
mankind and the learned in the sciences have been opposed to 
these church ideas. The scientists stood their ground and were 
tortured and murdered by the Christians. This gives the 
reader the real grounds of the conflict in christendom for all 
the centuries of its existence since it became a potential power 
by gaining control of the Roman Empire. Now it must be 
remembered that the Jews and Christians killed the mediums, 
or those who had familiar spirits, as the only way that it was 
possible for them to prevent their frauds upon the people from 
being discovered. 
THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. 
Agriculture, although one of the earliest occupations of man- 
kind, was one of the least understood as a scientific business of 
any of the useful or indispensable avocations of life, until very 
recently. Just as soon as the owners of the soil became the 
tillers, things began to change ; not only were observations 
made how to get the greatest amount of food from the soil, but 
also how that could be done with the least labor and the most 
certainty, and all the skill, and all the experience began to be 
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agriculturists make the experiments and observations to find out 
the law that governs in the various soils they cultivate. 
Ever since the old Greek physician Hippocrates, there have 
been three different and distinct systems of practice of medicine, 
the experimental or scientific, which in these modern times has 
become the dominating system, the magnetic, and the intui- 
tional or spiritual systems. Every disease has its law of pro- 
gress and arrives at its greatest and most dangerous height, and 
then gradually declines under a law that shows the patient is 
getting better until the disease leaves the system to recuperate 
from the waste of disease upon it. That is when the patient 
lives through the crisis and recovers. But there was another 
important discovery made by physicians, which was that there 
were many remedies that mitigated or cured persons afflicted 
with the diseases that human nature is subject to. In time a 
system of practice was established, which has obtained control 
of the public confidence. When intelligent people find there is 
a law for them to observe to retain their health, and when they 
have violated that, and become diseased, there is a law for them 
to observe to cure the ailment. Then they study the health 
laws, and they call upon educated physicians to apply remedies to 
cure them. The fact of great spirit power to cure the diseases 
that afflict mankind must be recognized by all well informed 
practicing physicians before they can be said to be truly scientific 
practitioners; the unseen forces are too great to be overlooked 
in the healing art; they are closely connected with our very 
fine active life principle, and have more power to regulate it to 
a healthy action than any other kind of medication ; even the 
magnetism of a good healing physician is great upon his patients 
when he prepares the ordinary medicines for them ; often the 
health-giving magnetism of the physician does more to cure the 
patient than the medicine that he administers. This makes a 
great many experiments necessary to determine the true value 
of any new remedy, and it requires a person of a very sensitive 
sympathetic and correct judgment to become a good scientific 
practical physician. There are many quacks that have diplom- 
as as well as those that have none; and besides, the schools 
that give the diplomas are often in the hands of professors who 
reject the magnetic and spiritual forces as entirely worthless in 
the practice of medicine, when a little examination by a candid 
man will convince him of their great importance. The physi- 
cian may mitigate the sufferings of a patient in a curable or 
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LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
incurable case ; their great work is to break the force of the 
disease, by a kind of medication that will not injure the physi- 
cal system or the mind of the patient; the surest way to do this 
is by the magnetic or spiritual treatment. This practice over- 
comes the disease by increasing the power of the forces of life. 
Most medication is based upon the idea that they remove the 
obstructions to a healthy action of the vital forces ; and if they 
do that successfully the patient recovers by the force of his own 
vital powers. The efforts of the diplomatized physicians to get 
special privileges granted to them in some States, shows that 
there is a special corner in every phase of life to shirk the res- 
ponsibility of contending in open field for the prizes of life. 
The great effort of most people is to get despotic power, 
whether they are human or inhuman, and the only way to 
meet this great demand is for the State to secure the privilege 
to every child to be educated as well as its capacity will per- 
mit, and then say to all, contend valiantly and persistently for 
the best places by fair means. 
This science treats of the laws of diseases and the particular 
actions or showings which distinguish one disease from another, 
or in general terms, it treats of the diseased action of animal 
life. The stomach is an organ that requires more attention 
than any other in the whole body; the great sympathetic 
nervous system has its centre back of it, and this brings it 
into immediate sympathy with all the ills of all parts of the 
body, and all the afflictions of the mind. The way to get 
correct knowledge of the pathological condition of a person, 
is to study his condition according to all that is known on the 
subject, and proceed to make other discoveries in obedience 
to laws of nature, and thus get as true a knowledge of the 
condition of the patient as all this information will permit. 
The science of anthropology includes the entire history of 
mankind in all its varied specialties, from the birth to the 
death of individuals; and from the beginning of the race to 
the present age; and to be continued in coming ages as long 
as individuals can add new facts to its history. 
PATHOLOGY. ORIGIN AND TRANSMISSION OF LIFE. 
Knowledge is Safety. 
"Nos e omnia haec salus est adolescentulis." - Terentius. 
An untold amount of misery and crime springs from an 
ignorance of the nature and proper hygienic care of the 
sexual functions in man. It is time that science renounced 
a reticence which long experience has proved pernicious. 
The unborn generations to all time are in great part moulded 
by ourselves, and receive from us, their progenitors, the im- 
prints which consign them to happiness or misery, health or 
disease. The most flagrant stains on our civilization, those 
which parade our streets in shameless attire, and those which 
poison the purity of youth with vicious narrative, alike spring 
from the same impulse. No one whose avocation does not 
lead him within the most secret chambers of the human heart, 
can conceive one tithe of the anguish which arises from a want 
of knowledge on this subject. No branch of sanitary science 
surpasses this in importance. No branch has been so much 
neglected, and so much misunderstood. 
" Male and female created He them." As it is the earliest, 
so sex is also the most potent of all elements in the individual 
life. From infancy to age it controls and modifies all other 
traits. 
NATURAL HISTORY OR MAN. 
Male children at birth weigh on an average one pound 
more than females; their stature is four-tenths of an inch 
greater, their pulse is a few beats in the minute faster. As 
the boy grows, he develops unlike his sister. Uis muscular 
force becomes one-third greater than hers; his flesh is firmer 
and his bones larger; his hips are narrow, while hers are 
broad; he seeks the rude exercises which she shuns. 
Dr. Allen found the average weight to be one hundred and 
thirty-nine pounds, and the average height about five feet 
eight inches. 
The average height of American women is but five feet 
four inches, and their weight about ten pounds less in proportion. 
About five per cent more male than female children are born, 
but at five years of age more girls are alive than boys. The 
PHYSICAL TRAITS OP THE MALE. 
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average term yet to live, is greater in, women than men. 
Of very old persons, the large majority are women. 
man's specific function. 
That function is the reproduction of the species, - the 
transmission of life. Around this central, mysterious power 
are grouped all other faculties and aspirations. 
Nature everywhere points to it as the most sacred object of 
the individual's physical existence. There is an impulse in 
organic beings which they feel to be of greater moment than 
all else, stretching into eternity and to the limits of all things. 
This impulse is the perpetuation of their kind. This is a 
phenomenon which science must study by itself. 
The strongest motive of human action, the most powerful 
mainspring within us all, is the sexual desire, with the domestic 
relations which rest upon it. It is stronger in its influence, 
controls more men, causes the commission of more crimes and 
more good deeds, than any other impulse. How vitally impor- 
tant it is, therefore, how intimately does it concern the weal 
of our nation, to understand its nature and its laws, its govern- 
ment, its dangers, its regulation! In what direction can we 
with greater propriety extend the domain of hygiene ? 
At a certain period in the life of the youth he undergoes 
a change by which he acquires powers which qualify him 
to take part in the perpetuation of his kind. When the boy 
passes to the condition of youth he leaves behind him the 
characteristics of childhood. Perilous moment for the boy! 
Dangers of which he has no knowledge imperil all his future 
life, and all his other faculties. 
The proper age at which puberty should come varies from 
twelve to eighteen years, as it is influenced by many surround- 
ing conditions. One of the most important of these is climate. 
In Abyssinia and the shores of the Red Sea, which are the- 
hottest parts of the globe, it is no unusual sight to see boys 
of fifteen and sixteen who are already fathers.. The masculine- 
functions are retained with exceptional vigor to very advanced 
years. 
In our own country, the usual and healthy age of puberty 
is from fourteen to fifteen years. Hereditary tendency, tem- 
perament, occupation and habits have also much to do in the 
matter. There is a constant and a direct antagonism between 
the highest perfection of the individual and the exercise of 
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the masculine function. The development of the individual 
and the reproduction of the species stand in an inverse ratio 
to each other. The constitution inherited from parents, conse- 
quently, has very considerable weight. Boys with weak, 
nervous, debilitated constitutions are apt to be precocious; 
and those gifted by their parents with sturdy limbs and a 
powerful frame remain boys much longer. 
THE HYGIENE OF PUBERTY. 
Defer as long as possible the development of the sexual 
instinct. Apart from moral reasons which urge the retarda- 
tion of the sexual change, there are sanitary arguments of 
the weightiest character which tend in the same direction. 
Foremost of these is the dangei' of solitary vice, and of illicit 
pleasures, with their frequent and terrible penalties. With- 
out an exception those medical authors who have given most 
constant and earnest attention to the diseases and disorders 
which arise from the prevailing ignorance in such matters, 
are earnest and emphatic in their recommendations to educa- 
tors and to parents to give sound advice to boys, and to urge 
upon them the observance of certain precautions, which tend 
to remove premature excitements. Most inexcusable is the 
false modesty which, on the ground of fear lest indecorous 
thoughts should be awakened, serves as the plea for wholly 
neglecting this vital department of sanitary supervision. San- 
itary regulations should be instituted in schools and in private 
families to prevent unnatural precocity. The most potent 
of all means to this end is muscular development. Systematic, 
daily, regulated exercise, pushed to the verge of fatigue, and 
varied so as to keep up the interest of the pupil, cannot be 
too much insisted upon. Parents will do well to decline send- 
ing their boys to any institution which has no provisions for 
physical culture. A boy of twelve should be told to draw 
back his foreskin and cleanse the part thoroughly. One of 
the common causes of premature excitement, even as early 
as infancy, is a tight foreskin. The rite of circumcision is in 
this respect extremely salutary. Avoidance of irritation from 
any cause is always essential. Never should two or three 
boys be allowed to sleep in the same bed. The beds should 
be tolerably hard, mattresses of hair or with springs. The 
bed-clothing should be light, thick comfortables being avoided, 
and the chambers should be cool and well ventilated. Sleep- 
ing on the back should be warned against, as this is one of 
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The boy should be assiduously trained to look with disgust 
and abhorrence on whatever is indecent in word or action. 
The mental food presented to the boy may serve to evoke 
dangerous meditations. We have little respect for the man 
or woman who "sees obscenity in pure white marble," or who 
can discern only vulgarity in the myths of antiquity, or the 
warm delineations of the poets. 
WHAT IS PASSION? 
All these precautions are to what end ? To avoid exciting 
the passion of sex. Is this passion a fire from heaven, or a 
subtle flame from hell ? The noblest and the most unselfish 
emotions take their rise in this passion of sex; the most per- 
fect natures are molded by its sweet influence; the most 
elevating ties which bind humanity to holy effort are formed 
by it. The wise man will recognize in the emotions of youth 
a power of good, and a divinely implanted instinct, which 
will, if properly trained, form a more symmetrical and per- 
fected being than could possibly be in its absence. 
The danger that threatens is not to be obviated by a com- 
plete repression or an annihilation of this part of our nature 
as something evil in itself, but by recognizing it as a natural, 
prominent, and even noble faculty, which does but need 
intelligent education and direction to become a source of 
elevated enjoyment and moral improvement. To what a 
hideous depth these aberrations of passion may descend we 
dare not disclose; for, as the Apostle says, "it is a shame 
even to speak of such things." 
Every unnatural lust recorded in the mordant satires of 
Juvenal, the cynical epigrams of Martial, or the licentious 
stories of. Petronius, is practised, not in rare or exceptional 
cases, but deliberately and habitually in the great cities of 
our country. We could speak of restaurants frequented by 
men in women's attire, yielding themselves to indescribable 
lewdness; we could point out literature so inconceivably 
devilish as to advocate and extol this utter depravity. 
THE MAN UNSEXED. 
In ancient times, and to this day in Oriental nations, these 
unfortunates are frequently found. When they are operated 
upon before the age of puberty the voice retains its childish 
treble, the limbs their soft and rounded outlines, the neck 
acquires a feminine fulness, and the beard does not appear. 
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ing dispositions ; the mental powers are feeble ; and the physi- 
cal strength is inferior. They lack both courage and endur- 
ance, and supply their place with cunning and mercilessness. 
They prove, indeed, that in their want of that power which 
connects them with posterity, they have lost something neces- 
sary to the development of the best parts of their nature. 
This should teach us that it is a wise provision which 
stimulates our duty to the future by the reward of present 
pleasure. 
SIGNS OF ESTABLISHED VIRILITY. 
When the growth is completed, when the beard is grown, 
and the bones hardened, when the vagne and fleeting fancies 
of yonth have been transformed into a well-defined yearning 
for home, and children, and a help-meet, then the season of 
virility has commenced. Then, and not before, is it right for 
the male to exercise those functions peculiarly his own. In 
proportion as the human being makes the temporary gratifica- 
tion of the mere sexual appetite his chief object, and overlooks 
the happiness arising from spiritual communion, which is not 
only purer but more permanent, and of which a renewal may 
be anticipated in another world - does he degrade himself 
to a level with the brutes that perish. 
The secretion peculiar to the male, known as the seed or 
sperm, depends for its life-transmitting power on the presence 
of certain minute vibratory bodies, about one-fortieth of a 
line in length, called spermatozoa. These are exceedingly 
numerous and active when the secretion is healthy. A single 
one of them-and there are many hundreds in a drop - is 
sufficient to bring about conception in the female. They not 
only have a rapid vibratory motion, but singular vitality. 
The secreted fluid has been frozen and kept at a temperature 
of zero for four days, yet when it was thawed these animal- 
cules, as they are supposed to be, were as active as ever. In 
young men, just past puberty, and in aged men, they are often 
scarce and languid in motion. Occasionally they are entirely 
absent in otherwise hale men, and this is one of the causes 
of sterility in the male. Their presence or absence can only 
be detected by the microscope. 
The organs in which this secretion is elaborated from the 
blood are the testicles. They are composed of a vast number 
of minute tubes united together by connective tissue. The 
total length of the tubes is estimated at forty-eight hundred 
feet, or nearly one mile 1 The secretion is most active about 
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advances. In some men it is periodical or intermittent, and 
they are therefore entirely impotent at times, without at all 
impairing their vigor at other times. 
A secretion is formed before puberty, but it is always with- 
out these vibratory bodies. More or less of it passes from 
the person once in a while during sleep. Thousands of ypung 
men ignorantly attribute this perfectly natural evacuation to 
some weakness of the function. This is a natural, healthy, 
and necessary effort of the system. Moderate flows of this 
nature are a proof of virility. It is a gross and dangerous 
error to suppose that ardent desires are a sign of vigorous 
health. The ancients frequently refer to the continence of 
the athletm, and the gymnasts of our cities are always temper- 
ate in indulgence. It is a nearly constant symptom of certain 
dangerous diseases that the passions are unusually easily ex- 
cited. The first stage of pulmonary consumption is frequently 
thus characterized, while it is notorious that leprosy, certain 
obstinate skin diseases, and slow poisoning morbidly influence 
the desires. 
HYGIENE OF VIRILITY. 
Avoid all excesses, restrict the indulgence of desire within 
moderate bounds, and if unmarried, live lives not only con- 
tinent but chaste, avoiding not merely vices which are con- 
demned both by statute and religion, but also all impure 
thoughts and conversations. The functions of the sex are 
so intimately allied to the mental condition that the one 
sympathizes invariably with the other, and what degrades 
pne, with little short of absolute certainty impairs the other. 
It is the duty of all to observe such precepts as will defer 
the loss of virility to the most distant days. In general, in 
this country, we may assign the period of virility to commence 
at twenty-five years of age, and to draw to a close at forty- 
five. 
From fifteen to twenty-five the organs yield immature and 
imperfect secretion, later than forty-five the passions grow 
rarer and briefer, and the individual suffers more acutely from 
every attempt to increase the species. 
the decay of virility . 
Tn our great cities, where inherited debility is added to a 
luxurious and dissipated life, it is no unusual thing to find 
men of forty in whom the procreative faculty- is about extinct. 
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diminishes, their functions abate, they languish, and at length 
cease entirely. Love, which in early youth was impetuous 
and sensual, which in middle life was powerful, but controlled 
and centred in the family, should at the decline of life be 
freed from animal propensities, assume a purely moral char- 
acter, and be directed toward the younger generations, the 
children and grandchildren, or, when these are not, should 
find its proper sphere of activity in philanthropic endeavor, and 
patriotic attachment. 
"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to scourge us." 
Gravel and stone, difficulty in relieving the organs, affections 
of the kidneys, and swelling of the glandular' structures, make 
their appearance. So, too, it is about this epoch, that gout, 
chronic rheumatism, plethora, vertigo, and apoplexy are most 
frequent. Virility is a test of the general physical powers. 
A man should so live, and so ordei' his labors, his nourish- 
ment, and his pleasures, as to retain to the furthest natural 
limit the exercise of his specific powers. So intimately are 
these allied to the well-being of the whole economy, that 
unless he is guarded and wise in their management, he will 
undermine his general health, and render vain all other pre- 
cautions he may take. " The sins of youth are expiated in 
age." " The mill of the gods grinds slow, but it grinds 
exceedingly fine," and though nature may be a tardy creditor, 
she is found at last to be an inexorable one. 
The sudden call on the nervous system after years of rest, 
gives a shock to any constitution. 
DISEASES WHICH SHORTEN VIRILITY. 
Apart from those disorders, such as acute inflammations, 
cancer, and sloughing ulcers, which actually destroy the 
organs, any disease which unnaturally stimulates the carnal 
desires has this effect. One of the most frequent is piles. 
Any skin disease in that locality leads to friction and heat, 
which are very apt to evoke lustful thoughts and acts. Un- 
doubtedly one reason of the proverbial sensuality of the lower 
classes in warm climates is their want of cleanliness, which 
leads to various cutaneous diseases, and also to the presence 
of vermin. Acidity of the urine, causing a burning sensation 
as it passes, gravel or stone in the bladder. 
Several instances are on record where violent debauches 
ending in debility and death have been discovered to have 
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This strange sympathy should lead us to be cautious in pro- 
nouncing judgment on those who after a long course of virtue 
suddenly give way to temptation. 
Occasionally our daily papers seize upon some scandalous 
story in which a minister of the gospel is represented to have 
forfeited a character maintained in purity for many years. 
Physicians to the insane well know that precisely those who 
in their sane moments are most pure in life and thought, are, 
in excesses of frenzy, liable to break out in obscene language. 
Thus Shakespeare, that great master of the human heart, 
makes the chaste Ophelia, when her reason is dethroned, sing 
libidinous songs, and repeat indecent allusions. 
Very little attention has been paid by previous writers to 
the effects which the various occupations exert on the main- 
tenance of virility. Persons accustomed to long-continued 
exercise on horseback forfeit their powers early. Continued 
walking, or sitting in cushioned chairs, are also weakening. 
So also are those which expose a person for- many hours daily 
to an air impregnated with the odor of tobacco, or the evapora- 
tion of spirituous liquors. 
Confining occupations are inimical to prolonged virility. 
A change of climate once every eight or ten years by passing 
a winter in a southern latitude, is of great benefit to the gen- 
eral health as well as the specific powers. It should be taken 
whenever possible. 
EFFECTS OF OCCUPATIONS. 
HOW TO RETAIN VIRILITY IN AGE. 
By frequent exercise the muscular system increases in 
strength, and decreases in irritability; but the nerve force, 
by repeated calls upon it, increases in irritability, but decreases 
in strength. The secret, therefore, of preserving their activity 
to advanced years, resolves itself into avoiding all stimulants 
and excitants. 
THE FOOD AND DRINKS WHICH STRENGTHEN VIRILITY. 
Altogether too much meat is consumed by the inhabitants 
of the United States; once a day is often enough to consume 
much animal food. 
From ancient times it has been well known that a wholly 
or chiefly vegetable diet favors the subjugation of the passions, 
and hence it was recommended to persons of violent desires, 
and enjoined on celibate orders of priesthood. 
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Eresh fish, shell-fish, such as oysters, and eggs, have a popular 
reputation in this respect, which they have obtained simply 
because they are highly nutritive and readily digestible. We 
eat altogether too much highly seasoned food. 
In the matter of beverages, the one most to be recommended 
is chocolate. Both the cacao and vanilla have long enjoyed a 
reputation as fortifying the sexual system. Tea in limited quan- 
tities is not to be condemned, but coffee, except in great mod- 
eration, should not be indulged in. 
THE FOOD AND DRINKS WHICH WEAKEN VIRILITY. 
We sum up in one sentence all the highly seasoned articles, 
and too exclusively animal diet. The system should neither 
be enfeebled by insufficient or innutritions food, nor should it 
be stimulated by artificial means. No other excitants than 
the natural impulses must be summoned, under penalty of a 
premature decadence of force. In this category we distinctly 
include most alcoholic beverages. Even the ancients recog- 
nized the debilitating effects of intoxicating compounds on the 
reproductive functions. Drunkards and tipplers suffer early 
loss of virility. 
Coffee in moderation has rather a tonic than an enervating 
effect; but in excess, it is distinctly proven by repeated 
instances that it quite prostrates the sexual faculties. 
Operatives in tobacco-factories frequently suffer from sexual 
debility. Serious disorders and loss of vigor are caused by the 
use of tobacco. The herb is a powerful narcotic and no narcotic 
can be used long without depressing the vital system. 
In youth the use of tobacco predisposes to frequent nocturnal 
emissions. Sound hygiene, therefore, banishes tobacco from the 
pleasures permitted those who would retain their virility. 
The reader should read and heed our " Illustrated Medi- 
cal Counsellor and Sexual Science," conceded to be the 
best book in print on this subject. Published by the Mutual 
Benefit Publishing Company, Boston, Mass. SCIENCE AND ART OF HEALING. 
Introductory History. 
There never was a period in which a correct system of 
medical and surgical practice was more imperiously demand- 
ed than the present, for the science of medicine is, at present, 
a perfect chaos. Duty requires every exertion to be made 
to rescue the healing art from the intricate maze in which 
it has unfortunately become involved, and to present 
it in its own native beauty and simplicity. The primary object 
in my labors in the field of Medical Reform, is now, and 
has ever been, to clear away the rubbish of former, as well 
as of present, medical theories ; to collect whatever ma- 
terials might be found from all proper sources, for the con- 
struction of a new edifice, resting on a broader and more 
durable foundation. While blindness, ignorance andfreju- 
dice exist, no reform can be effected. 
In the present age of investigation and improvement, when 
truth is plainly presented to the honest mind, it seldom fails 
of receiving a cordial welcome. 
The human mind has achieved wonders and given ample 
proof of its divine origin ; the healing art has, instead of ad- 
vancing, greatly retrograded. In the reformed medical 
school principles have been developed and improvements 
made which have kept pace with those in other branches of 
art and science. We are in the full tide of successful ex- 
periment. 
The Ancient Practice of Medicine. 
Medicine and astronomy were the first sciences attempted 
to be cultivated by man. During the early part of the history 
of our species, ignorant priests, magicians and astrologers 
were the only physicians. The sick were directed to be 
exposed in public places to the view of travellers and strang- 
ers, who required to examine and compare their cases with 
such as might antecedently have fallen under their observa- 
tion, and to recommend such remedies as had been known 
to produce beneficial effects in similar complaints. And, 
when discoveries were thus made, the precious remedies 
were held in veneration, and the knowledge of them was 
conveyed by oral tradition, or recorded on pillars in the 
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55 
most public places, or on the walls of the temples dedicated 
to the god of health ; and afterwards registers of cures were 
kept in those consecrated places for the general good of man- 
kind. zEsculapius is the first person on record, who collect- 
ed together all the known remedies then in use. He found- 
ed a temple in which they were stored for the use of the dis- 
eased. It is said that he particularized the virtues of each 
plant and placed a label under them for the use of such as 
sought relief at the temple, which was resorted to from great 
distances. This was the commencement of the healing art 
in a systematic form. 
Hippocrates effected a wonderful revolution in the prac- 
tice of medicine and reduced it to a science ; his authority 
continued to be regarded more than two thousand years with 
implicit veneration. He was a man of pre-eminent genius, 
and the earliest medical theorist of any merit, whose name 
has been transmitted to posterity. 
In the year 131 of the Christian era, Galen, a remarkable 
genius, was born in Asia Minor. He was instructed in all 
the learning and philosophy of the age, and obtained a pop- 
ularity which surpassed that of all others. He deviated 
from the beaten path, rejected the popular systems, and se- 
lected what he deemed best from other sects. For fourteen 
centuries his system remained in the ascendant. His prac- 
tice was the vegetable. 
In the year 1493, in Switzerland, arose Theophrastus 
Bombastes Paracelsus, the great prototype of all succeed- 
ing quacks. It was he who first introduced quicksilver or 
mercury as a medicine, and all who thus administered it 
were denominated "quack," in allusion to the name quack- 
silver, given to this metal by the Germans. He introduced 
the mineral or chemical system, burnt the works of Galen, 
because intolerably vain-glorious, boasting that there was 
more knowledge in his beard than in the whole of Galen. 
He was, likewise, shockingly impious, declaring that, if 
God would not impart to man the secrets 'of medicine, it 
was right to consult the devil. He professed to have discov- 
ered the elixir of life, which would prolong our mortal ex- 
istence to any extent. He died a miserable vagabond, at 
the age of forty-eight. 
Such, then, was the personage to whom we are indebted 
for the introduction of the mineral practice, which has con- 
tinued to the present day, entailing misery on the human 
family to an amount beyond all computation. 56 
SCIENE AND ART OF HEALING. 
Since the days of Paracelsus, the great mass of physicians 
have placed their chief reliance upon the lancet, the knife, 
and a few acrid and poisonous minerals, thus seeming to 
•eave entirely out of consideration the future health and con- 
dition of their patients. This circumstance has tended pow- 
erfully to retard the progress of medical science. 
We may sum up the whole history of medicine, from the 
earliest to the present period, in the language of that great 
and good man, John Wesley. The healing art was first 
brought into use in a very natural and simple manner. In 
the earliest age of the world, mankind, by various experi- 
ments or accidents, discovered that certain plants, roots and 
barks possessed medicinal properties. These were found 
sufficient to remove their diseases. In process of time many 
began to make a profession of medicines. To strip it of its 
simplicity, they began to inquire into the operation of such 
remedies ; they examined the human frame and all its parts, 
the nature of the flesh, arteries and nerves, the structure of 
the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, bowels, etc. They explor- 
ed the several kinds of animal and mineral, as well as vege- 
table, substances. And hence, the whole order of physic 
was subverted and founded on hypothesis. They formed 
theories of diseases and their cures, and substituted these in 
place of experiments. As theories increased simple medi- 
cines were more and more disregarded and disused. Medical 
books immensely multiplied, till at length physic became an 
abstruse science, quite out of the reach of ordinary men. Phy 
sicians had now two weighty reasons for keeping the bulk 
of mankind at a distance, that they might not pry into the 
mysteries of their profession. To this end they increased 
those difficulties by design ; filled their writings with abun- 
dance of technical terms, utterly unintelligible to plain men, 
some of them insisting on that of astronomy, (and astrology 
too), as necessary previous to the understanding of the art of 
healing. They introduced into practice abundance of com- 
pound medicines, neither the nature nor names of which 
their own countrymen understood ; of chemicals such as they 
neither had the skill, nor fortune, nor time to prepare ; yea, 
and of dangerous ones, such as they could not use without 
hazarding life, except with the advice of a physician. And 
thus both their honor and gain were secured, a vast major- 
ity of mankind being utterly cut off from helping themselves 
or their neighbors, or even daring to attempt it. Yet there 
has not been wanting, from time to time, some lovers of man- 57 
modern practice of medicine. 
kind. These have demonstrably showil that neither the 
knowledge of astrology, astronomy, natural philosophy, nor 
even anatomy itself, is absolutely necessary to the quick and 
effectual cure of most diseases incident to the human body. 
A simple plant or root promptly applied, so that every man of 
common-sense, (in ordinary cases), may prescribe for him- 
self or his neighbor, may secure him from doing any harm, 
even where he can do no good. 
The Modern Practice of Medicine. 
The Mineral and Depletive class. These constitute 
the " Faculty" ; have chartered medical colleges ; are deemed 
the most learned, and in some respects, are the most popu- 
lar. Their principal means for healing the sick, are those 
deadly weapons mercury^ the lancet and the knife. Their 
treatment, instead of assisting nature, only retards her efforts 
and aggravates disease. Happily for suffering humanity, 
their practice is so manifestly injurious, that it is now grad- 
ually on the wane, and must in a few years sink into obliv- 
ion. God, in his infinite goodness, has given to suffering 
man a practice far superior, and shown us that there is yet 
Balm in Gilead. 
Says the author of the "Key to Medical Science," " a 
change, a thorough change, will soon take place in medi- 
cine." Physicians will have to start their studies from a new 
point, practice different principles, and adopt different rem- 
edies from what they are now using. A few years from 
this time, and the mineral and depletive practice will be 
held in contempt by every well informed mind. The peo- 
ple themselves will take this great and important cause in 
hand ; they begin to perceive that the health and well-be- 
ing of both themselves, families and posterity demands it. 
Already they have it in agitation to establish societies among 
themselves for the furtherance and support of the Botanical 
and for suppression of the mineral practice. We bid them 
God speed, and shall not hesitate to throw all the force and 
energy of which we have control into the scale. It is a good 
work, worthy of undertaking, and one calculated to immor- 
talize the projectors. 
The Thompsonian Class. There are two parties be- 
longing to this class, the "pure" Thompsonians, and the 
" Independents," the latter calling themselves the Botanic. 
The pure Thompsonians are rigid followers of Samuel Thom- 
pson, an illiterate, conceited, arbitrary and selfish individual, 58 
SCIENCE AND ART OF HEALING. 
who obtained a patent for curing all diseases by the use of 
" some articles comprised in six numbers." The principal 
treatment consists in administering lobelia emetics, steaming 
and injections, all good if properly used. His theory is that 
heat is life, and cold is death ; and hence the more heat, the 
more life. Thompson says, in his book, " bile is discharged 
into the stomach to digest the food ;" whereas it discharges 
into the intestines, several inches below the stomach, and is de- 
signed-to quicken the action of the bowels. Purgatives are re- 
jected as pernicious, and pukes given for almost every com- 
plaint. I ask any person of common-sense if such treatment 
is not preposterous. Besides, in every disease Cayenne pep- 
per is given, which is liable to injure the patient by impart- 
ing to much heat or stimulus. Is this imitating nature, to 
vomit, steam, pepperize, and inject ionize for every dis- 
ease? These men have yet to learn the difference between 
assisting and forcing nature. Every article to which he 
lays claim was originally known and used a long time before 
by the Indians and others ; lobelia, pepper, steaming, etc. 
The party now in existence are termed Independent 
Thompsonians. This class now constitute nearly the whole ; 
scarcely one can be found, who strictly adheres to Thomp- 
son's twenty-dollar patent book, they having been compelled, 
by stern necessity, to abandon their sinking ship, and adopt 
a more rational and scientific practice. By keeping their 
minds open to conviction, and making further improvement, 
they will become eminent, and more fully identified with 
the great body of scientific medical reformers. When this 
takes place, and the various conflicting parties unite, they 
will march in a solid phalanx against the common enemy ; 
and then will their banners of victory wave triumphant, and 
tlieir shouts of exultation rend the skies. 
Homoeopathic Physicians. Their theory is, that what- 
ever will create a disease in health, will cure it when it 
arises spontaneously. For instance, salt will cause fever, 
and, therefore it will cure it. Their medicines are numer- 
ous ; but one kind only, is administered at a time. They 
use, among others, mercury-, arsenic, antimony, etc., but 
in very minute doses, as the millionth or billionth part of a 
grain, which, if they possess any curative properties may 
prove deleterious, by penetrating into every part of the body, 
and there remaining. In a work by Samuel Hahnemann, 
termed " The Organon," page 207, these directions are giv- 
en for administering the medicines, " The best mode of ad- PATENT MEDICINES AND BOTANIC PHYSICIANS. 
59 
ministering is to make use of small globules of sugar the size 
of a mustard seed. A dose containing about the three hun- 
dredth part of a drop, for three hundred of such globules 
will imbibe one drop of alcohol. But if the patient is very 
sensitive, and it is necessary to employ the smallest dose pos- 
sible, and attain at the same time the most speedy results, it 
will be sufficient to let the patient smell one." I have very 
little confidence in its curative properties. It may answer 
as a kind of placebo to the mind where no medicine is re- 
quired, or to amuse the patient while nature affects a cure ; 
but in acute diseases valuable time would be lost under it, 
which ought to be employed in administering efficacious 
remedies. It is better than the old practice, being necessa- 
rily harmless ; besides, the diet and regimen may prove ben- 
eficial. A valuable lesson may also be learned by other 
practitioners, viz., ist., to give medicine as concentrated as 
possible; 2nd., to give as simple and seldom as possible; 
3rd., not to impair the integrity of the constitution by too 
much or too violent means ; 4th., to rely much on diet, less 
on medicine, and more on the efforts of nature, in the treat- 
ment of disease. For these reasons the homoeopathic physi- 
cians must be ranked among the number of 1 eformers. 
Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors 
Who manufactures and peddle certain preperations, and 
contrive, without skill or science, to make money by impos- 
ing upon the ignorant and credulous ; by advertising the 
most worthless compounds sufficiently, they can be brought 
into notice, and extensively sold. Very few of them have 
desired to advance the science and art of medicine. 
Reformed or Botanic Physicians. This class advo- 
cate Scientific Medical Reform and combine everything 
useful of every other system. They recommend a general 
knowledge of anatomy and physiology ; reject the use of mer- 
cury, the lancet and knife. They maintain that all the phy- 
sician can do, is to act as a servant or handmaid to nature. 
Vegetable Decoctions as a Means of Cure. Thus 
God has, in his infinite goodness, brought into existence 
a more rational system ofi medicine j more in conformity 
with nature, 'without destroying the source of life. 
See our large Domestic Medical Counsellor, Mate- 
ria Medica and Herbal Self Treatment and Cure. 
Published, by the Mutual Benefit Publishing Co., Boston, Mass. 60 
SCIENCE OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 
Health of body, next to harmony of soul, is the greatest 
of earthly acquisitions. How shall we gain and preserve 
this boon? How shall we grow beautiful and strong in both 
soul and body? What is the philosophy of cure-what the 
simple plan of nature by which, to a great extent, one can 
become his own doctor and learn how to wield the life-forces 
which are the real source of power. It is somewhat hazard- 
ous thus to attempt the basic outlines of a new science, but 
others shall come and complete the edifice, and so shall the 
millennial joys be hastened. There is an immense array of 
facts to sustain every leading position which I have taken. 
How little have the people been led to causes - how much 
to effects, and mere superficial visible effects at that. I have 
endeavored to show how people by wielding these finer life- 
forces can make themselves over new, resume their youth, 
and beautify the very forms of their bodies as well as the as- 
pirations of their souls by the " Mental Cure " and " Mental 
Medicine." Is not the ignorance of this fact the secret of the 
world's failure thus far? 
Routine. Men have worn the Medical, Political, 
and Religous ruts so deep by centuries of travel, that they 
can scarcely see out, much less get out. All schools of 
medicine have their noble men, their intuitional souls, who 
rise above old theories and treat disease with skill. Think 
of the millions whose joints have been stiffened, blood pois- 
oned, nerves shattered, and their whole systems racked with 
pains by means of drugs. Stop the absurd cry of " Hum- 
bug ! quackery I " to every new thing. Medical writers ad- 
mit that fifty-one diseases come from the use of mercury ! 
Who can tell how many more spring from the use of all the 
narcotics and poisons that are so freely given ? See how truth- 
loving souls can rebuke their own profession : " Nine times 
out of ten our miscalled remedies are absolutely injurious to 
our patients," says Dr. Jamieson, of Edinburgh. 
" There is, I am sorry to say, as much quackery in the 
medical profession as out of it," says Prof. Barker. 
" How rarely do our medicines do good ! How often do 
we make our patients really worse ! I fearlessly assert, that 
in most cases the sufferer would really be safer without a 
physician than with one," says Dr. Ramage, Fellow of the 
Royal College of Physicians, London. 
There are two fundamental laws in the science of cure, the 
Law of Power and the Law of Idarmony. 
Law of Power. All elements are potent in propor- 
tion as they are subtle and refined. MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. 
61 
To illustrate this, take a solid substance, such as a rock, 
or a piece of ice. Water, being a grade higher, is able 
to wear away the rocks and earth. Steam, which is 1700 
times lighter than water, possesses a terrific power and 
drives the most ponderous machinery. Electricity, far 
more subtle still, arouses chemical action, and excites the 
thermal power of steam itself, until it bursts the earth asun- 
der, as in earthquakes. Sunlight, still more refined, kin- 
dles the whole vegetable and animal world into life and 
starts the electrical, thermal and chemical forces into incon- 
ceivable activities. Gravitation, which is vastly more 
swift and attenuated than electricity or light, wafts all suns 
and worlds. When we ascend to the spiritual and psychic 
forces, thence to the human.spirit itself, then to angels, arch- 
angels, up to the Infinite Spirit, we reach the primate and 
ultimate of all positive power in the universe. Thus does 
power ever increase as we ascend from solids and coarse 
matter to spirit and ethereal matter, from the earthly and 
gross to the pure and celestial. 
Man the highest of visible objects, connecting link between 
heaven and earth, has been fed with mineral and earthy sub- 
stances which lie at the bottom of the scale. He who emits 
the finest and divinest of elements needs the divinest in return 
as his own sustenance. 
Their Plea. " But the human system includes mine- 
ral elements, and needs minerals to supply their place," is 
their argument. True it has some mineral elements, but in a 
very refined condition. The finer, stronger elements of the 
human system, those which vitalize and control all the rest, 
are beyond all chemical analysis. 
Baron Reichenbach, the eminent German scientist 
and physician, by a vast series of experiments proved the 
existance of a fine spiritual emanation from all objects, espe- 
cially from human beings, and called it Odic Force. 
The Law of Harmony requires a nicely balanced 
Contrast of elements. 
There is a basic law of matter and mind, the same princi- 
ples ruling in both. 
Affinitive Harmony consists in the contrast of differ- 
ing qualities as in Chemical Affinity. The effect is in- 
spiriting. The following are examples : 
Colors. Red harmonizes with Green, Yellow with Pur- 
ple, Blue with Orange, Red-Gray with Green-Gray, Yellow- 
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GRADED BLENDINGS OF FORCES. 
purity of each other by being thus contrasted. Contrast of 
size, as in Proportion, or mountains and valleys in nature. 
Tones. The contrast of high and low notes consecutively, 
as in melody. 
Tastes. The pleasures of the palate come greatly from 
combining opposites, as sour and sweet in lemonade. 
Society. The harmonious association of the opposite 
sexes, or of complementary qualities in the same sex. 
Extreme cold would produce congelation ; extreme heat 
disintegration. 
Graded Harmony, or Gradation, is a nice progression 
from one quality or quantity to another. Its effect is sooth- 
ing and pleasing. 
Colors which blend, or in other words, which progress 
from one hue to another, as in the rainbow, or from light to 
shade, so beautiful in nature and art. 
Forces. Nature's gradations are incomparably superior 
to what human power can accomplish, and she generally 
softens down her changes by imperceptible degrees of prog- 
ress. Light, a great chemical force, fades gradually at sun- 
set, and increases gradually at sunrise, otherwise multitudes 
would be made blind. Storms and winds and seasons ap- 
proach and depart by degrees. A sudden transition from 
winter to summer, or summer to winter, would soon destroy 
the race. 
There is a kind of positive and negative character in quan- 
tity as well as in quality ; the greater quantity being positive 
to the smaller of the same material. 
The highest perfection is the combination of the three 
phases of Harmony. To rouse to action a dormant system, 
the contrast of heat and cold by bathing, alternately, in hot 
and cold water, is very beneficial. 
Thus, the law of exercise is to commence gently and in- 
crease gradually day by day. Violent changes are disastrous, 
and must be resorted to only in emergencies. 
" Oxygen," says Atfield's Chemistry, " is the most abun- 
dant element in nature, forming, though in a combined state, 
about one half the weight of our globe." Faraday admits 
its magnetic character. 
Durability of the Fine Forces. 
When the hands are warmed by the fire they soon get 
cold and tender again, it being a coarse grade of heat. If HEALING POWER OE THE FINE FORCES. 
63 
warmed in the sunlight they will remain warm longer, and 
if warmed by vital force as induced by friction of one's own 
hands, orthose of a magnetist, they will remain warm longer 
still. If dormant bowels are caused to move by means of a 
drug, they will often become more costive than before in a 
short time, but if moved by sunlight (see Chromopathy), or 
by vital magnetism, they will frequently remain free for 
weeks or months. This is because the latter forces are so 
fine as to act directly on the nerves. 
Safety of the Fine Forces. They are safe because 
they cause no rude action upon the system, but work in a 
deep and penetrating manner. The attraction of gravitation 
is so mighty as to hold the universe in chains, and yet so 
gentle as to be influenced by a feather. 
Their Power to Heal is overwhelming. A healthy 
human system being an epitome of everything both spirit- 
ual and material, the subtle aura that radiates from it con- 
stitutes the most effective of all medicines, being the very 
life-power itself, and builds up the mind as well as the body. 
Cures are often wrought without any contact. The writer 
has sometimes cured headaches and severe pains by simply 
being in the room with another. 
What Medicines are Safest. In proportion as sub- 
stances approach a pure and ethereal character do they be- 
come more effective. Gases, such as oxygen, hydrogen, air, 
etc; then the ordinary ethers, such as light, electricity, ca- 
loric ; then the higher spiritual ethers, such as psycho-mag- 
netism ; then spiritual beings, all grades up to Deity, the 
culminating Glory. Invisible elements control the visible. 
Health and Disease. Health comes from the equilib- 
rium of these fine magneto and electric forces in the human 
system ; Disease from a lack of this equilibrium. 
Human Aura, which is a combination of Vital Electri- 
city and Vital Magnetism, is much finer and more penetra- 
ting than that of the battery, and increases in fineness in pro- 
portion as the soul and body become purified and refined, 
end especially as we go from the lower to the higher parts 
of the brain. Whatever medicines, if any, are taken into 
the stomach, should be of a gentle, diluted character, which, 
like food, may be incorporated into the system. 
Magnetized Materials. Different substances can be 
magnetized, or psychomized, by making brisk passes over 
them. Paper can be charged so powerfully as to be unen- 64 
WILL POWER AND MENTAL HEALING. 
durable, if enough thicknesses are placed over a tender spot. 
I have the most striking proofs showing that a powder of 
sugar upon which I had breathed, or a glass of water which 
I had touched purposely., has produced the most marvellous 
effects. Medicinal substances become greatly intensified 
by being psychometrized, and food is not only more palata- 
ble, but more healthy, when cooked and handled by persons 
of healthy and magnetic character than by the coarse and 
ignorant. 
The Royal Academy of Medicine of France appointed 
a Commission, who, after thousands of experiments for five 
years, commencing with 1826, decided in favor of mesmer- 
ism, clairvoyance, and the therapeutical advantages of ani- 
mal magnetism. Dr. J. R. Newton writes me as follows: 
"I always prefer to heal children through their garments 
brought to me by their parents or friends. Out of a thou- 
sand cases I have scarcely known a failure." 
The Heathen Philosophers contrasted the cures of Appol- 
lonius with those of Jesus, Galen and Hippocrates also did 
wonders in the same way. George Fox, founder of the 
Quakers, John Wesley, founder of Methodism, etc., had a 
fine gift of healing. Wonderful cures have at times been 
effected in a moment, at a distance of hundreds of miles, by 
Psychometrists. A Magnetist of fully developed powers is 
much more powerful than most private persons, and yet 
everyone has some magnetic power. 
Cure by the Will Power. The brain wields the vital 
aura much as the heart does the blood, the nerves of motion 
and sensation being the channels of the more exquisite fluid, 
just as the arteries and veins are of the grosser element. 
Without the vivifying power of the aura tbe blood would 
become clotted, and death would immediately ensue. Joy, 
laughter, recreation, emotions of love, send these vitalizing 
currents through the system, and are far better than medi- 
cines to build up the health. "A paroxysm of anger''' says 
Dr. Trail, "will render the bile as acrid and irritating as a 
full dose of calomel; excessive fear will relax the bowels 
equal to a strong infusion of tobacco ; intense grief will arrest 
the secretipns of the gastric juice as effectually as belladonna." 
As one becomes impressible and magnetically developed, he 
can generally control disease by his own will-power. 
Sun-Baths. Light is one of the finest elements in na- 
ture, and is powerful to heal. The seven colors of the spec- 
trum vary in their healing properties and power. MAGNETIC HEALING-ELECTRICITY. 
65 
Magnetic Healing, or Psychomany. So wonderful 
were the cures wrought by yEsculapius Empedocles (444 
B. C.), Appolonius (70 B. C.), by the magnetic touch, that 
they were worshipped as gods. The seven colors of the 
spectrum commence with red as the coarsest, and end with 
violet as the finest. To form red, it requires waves so small 
that 37,000 of them extend only an inch, and 451,000,000, 
000,000 must pass a given point in a second • To make 
violet, at the other end of the scale, the waves must be much 
smaller yet, requiring 64,600 for an inch, while 789,000,000, 
000,000 must pass a given point in a second. Counting at 
the rate of 100 a minute, night and day, it would take over 
fifteen million years to merely note the vibrations which 
nature can execute in a single second. Red light is the most 
exciting, violet the most penetrating, next to which are the 
indigo and blue. A physiologist says he can cure any cold 
by wearing light colored clothes two days, as these transmit 
the light to the body. In the winter darker clothes are prop- 
er, as they transform the light-waves into those which give 
the effect of heat. Cold electrical elements, while passing 
through different media, may be changed into the warm mag- 
netic element, and vice versa. 
Pure Ail' electrizes the blood and tones up the system. 
It is immensely important that our sleeping-rooms and liv- 
ing-rooms should be well ventilated by open fires, and gen- 
erally by windows a little open, etc., and that every one should 
take the out-door air daily. The beauty and elasticity im- 
parted by pure air, exercise, and sunlight, can never be 
equaled by cosmetics and artificial contrivances. 
Electricity. General Rules. Electro-magnetic ma- 
chines are often very valuable if used scientifically. Most 
children, or pale and excitable persons, especially if ladies^ 
do not need the electricity of the battery, having quite enough 
of the electric element already. Persons with heart difficul- 
ties should avoid it also, as they need the soothing element 
of magnetism. A general rule for its use is to put the posi- 
tive electrode on an inflamed or positive part, and the nega- 
tive somewhat below on a negative or dormant-part which 
needs vitalizing, as the flow is from positive to negative. In 
most persons the negative electrode would be needed at the 
feet, and the positive above, to draw the warmth downward. 
Electricity in this way can be made far superior to any nar- 
cotics for inducing sleep and equalizing the system. When 66 
TRUE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. 
it is necessary to arouse a dormant system, as in paralysis 
or chronic rheumatism and general torpidity ; an upward 
current also is important, for which the negative must be 
above and the positive below. Where softness, fineness and 
great soothing power are required, it is desirable topass the 
current through a good magnetic operator. The success of 
electricity, electric baths, Turkish baths, movement cures, 
etc., is wonderfully increased when the operator has a fine 
healing aura of his own. Vital heat is far more penetrating, 
purifying and enduring than that of fire ; hence the impor- 
tance of warming any part of the system, which may be cold, 
by manipulation, movement, friction of coarse towels, etc. 
Congenial labor and joyous recreation are far more beneficial 
to the system than that which is uncongenial. Open-air ex- 
ercise is of course the best. Self-dependence is one of the 
greatest of all achievements. Disease comes much from a 
lack of equalization as well as from a lack of vital force. 
Jdychophgdicd. 
The True Philosophy of Life. Psychophysics, 
from Psyche, the soul, and Phuse, Nature, is the science of 
developing Soul and Body in correlation. Physician deals 
with the body as mainly separate from the mind ; but the 
Psychophysician, imitating the Creator, links the two, which 
can no more work separately in their normal earthly action 
than the positive can work without the negative. Our cler- 
gymen too often strive to save men by appealing to a mere 
fraction of their nature, scarcely alluding to their physical 
inharmonies, which is the cause of so much vice and crime. 
That they do not consider sufficiently sacred. Do they not 
know that the thoughts, feelings, passions, even the spiritual 
aspirations themselves, all work through physical functions? 
Life's pendulum is forever vibrating between the physical 
and spiritual. Napoleon's mother, before his birth, spent 
her time with her husband on battle-fields until her soul was 
fired with military passion. What was the result, as trans- 
mitted through her physical organization to her son? Six 
million hitman beings murdered by him, and the awfully 
demoralizing influence of 'war ! Ten thousand clergymen, 
or ten thousand physicians, under the ordinary methods, can- 
not offset such terrific results 1 Jesus built up the bodies 
and souls of men together, and commanded his followers 
to do the same. CHARACTER OF MENTAL AND NERVOUS ORGANISMS. 
67 
The Human Battery. The living system is a battery, 
the positive poles of which are in the head, and the negative 
in the body, while the nerves are the electric wires of com- 
munication through which the nervaura moves as it vitalizes 
the blood and controls the muscular system. 
Positive and Negative Parts. The cerebrum and 
whole front portion of the body are positive, while the cere- 
bellum and back portion are negative. For this reason the 
front portion can stand more exposure. The brain, being 
the most positive part of the body, needs the cool more than 
the warm element. The cerebellum and medulla oblongata, 
though negative with reference to the higher forces, are pos- 
itive with reference to the coarser energies that more directly 
control the blood and vital functions. While certain parts are 
naturally positive and others negative, yet the will-power, 
all potent as it is, can hurl the psychaura and nervaura into 
any part and render it positive. 
The Front Brain is the region of the Intellect. 
The Top-Head, pointing heavenward, and constituting 
the dome of the body, is the region of the Moral and Spir- 
itual Faculties. 
The Back Top-Head is the region of the Higher En- 
ergies, such as Firmness, Self-esteem, Hardihood, etc. 
The Cerebrum occupies the whole head, except the small 
back portion, and is the region of the voluntary forces. 
The Cerebellum occupies the back portion of the head, 
and is the region of the involuntary and vitalizing forces. 
The Medulla Oblongata, projecting into the Cerebel- 
lum, and forming the top of the spinal cord, is an intensely 
vitalizing focus. 
The Spine has 33 vertebras, 7 of which are cervical, be- 
longing to the neck ; 12 dorsal, to which the ribs are attach- 
ed, reaching just below the small of the back ; 5 lumbar ; 5 
sacral, and 4 coccygeal. The coccyx forms the lower point 
of the spine. 
A Plexus is a concentration of nerves in one place. 
A Ganglion is a minor telegraphic station in the course 
of a nerve. 
The Blood has 70,000.000,000 corpuscles to a cubic inch. 
Its usual temperature is 96° to ioo°, and the heart common- 
ly beats 65 to 70 times a minute. 
The Cerebro-spinal Axis consists of the brain and spi- 
nal cord. 
The Efferent or Motor nerves carry the aura from the 
brain, and contract the muscles. 68 
STRUCTURE OF BRAIN-DISEASE AND CURE. 
The Afferent or Sensory nerves conduct impressions 
to the brain, and are the media of sensation. 
The Ce-rebro-spinal system includes the brain, with its 
twelve pairs of nerves, called cerebral, and the spinal cord, 
with its thirty-one pairs of nerves, called spinal. 
The Sympathetic system, including the ganglia, forms a 
cord on each side of the spine. The solar plexus, situated 
at the epigastrium, or pit of the stomach, combined with 
the semi-lunar ganglia, is the most important nervous centre 
of the system. 
Sarcognomy is the science of corporeal development, 
which recognizes the indications of mind in the bodily frame, 
and traces the entire correspondence of the body with the 
brain and mind. 
To Control the Body through the Body. Make 
passes from the heated or inflamed parts towards the extrem- 
ities or cold parts. Give a new tide of life to the cold neg- 
ative parts by holding or nibbing them. Place the right 
hand which is positive, on the hot part, and the left or neg- 
ative hand, on the cool, on the principle that forces always 
flow from positive to negative. In case a person is thorough- 
ly left-handed, the reverse of this should be done. If the 
system is dormant, as in chronic rheumatism, paralysis, etc., 
etc., upward movements are very important, as assisting 
the capillary action. Pass up all the limbs and the lower 
spine, but avoid upward passes anywhere near the head. 
Passes from the uppe'r thigh to the shoulders are very fine 
and bracing. Upward passes on the spine should bend oil' 
towards the shoulders as they rise. 
To Control the Brain through the Body. Pressure 
of brain from nervousness or over study can quite generally 
be entirely relieved by downward passes over the curvical 
and dorsal region, down the arms, and by thorough manipu- 
lation of the feet. Sensual abuse often destroys all force and 
manliness of character, and leads to insanity. Magnetists 
often cure cases of lunacy which the best asylums utterly fail 
to reach. To inspire courage, force, dignity, and endur- 
ance, charge the Higher Energies. To vitalize the system 
and arouse the animal energies, rub the back head. 
The Human Battery. The living system is a battery, 
the positive poles of which are in the head, and the negative 
in the body, while the nerves are the electric wires of com- 
munication through which the nervaura moves as it vitalizes 
the blood and controls the muscular system. If we will diet EFFECT OF CHARACTER ON HEALTH AND DISEASE. 
69 
and exercise and live rightly, our system will become so puri- 
fied and under control, that our w ill-power will throw the 
life forces to all parts of the body, and ward off disease and 
discordant passions. Our harmonious aura will radiate in all 
directions, and promote the health, purity and happiness of 
those with whom we associate. 
Harmony of Physical and Psychic Development 
demands a balance of opposite qualities, or A ffinitive Har- 
mony. Thus, too great a culture of the upper and front brain, 
to the neglect of the back and lower brain, would tend to 
devitalize and weaken the whole system. Some years ago 
it was estimated that one quarter or more of our college stu- 
dents graduated with broken constitutions from over-study. 
Secret abuse fills our Lunatic Asylums more than any other 
one cause, zccA promiscuity, with its discord of poisoned mag- 
netisms, breeds those terrific diseases which vitiate the blood 
for generations to come. The law of nature everywhere 
decrees that the finer elements shall rule the coarser, the 
higher shall guide the lower. Children are conceived in lust, 
reared in ignorance of the laws of life, surrounded with false 
excitements, and fed upon a diet which is forever stimulating 
their lower nature instead of their higher. Abundant flesh, 
meat, and brandy diet tends to brutalize a man, as a vegeta- 
ble diet tends to elevate his intellectual and moral nature. 
A courageous, well-balanced character wards oft' disease. 
Jealousy, hatred, and violent passions send a poison virus 
through the whole system. 
Effects of Character on Disease. Persons of pride, 
firmness, prudence, and self-control, will have but little lia- 
bility to disease, and their circulation will be regular and 
tranquil. Persons of violent and selfish passions will have 
great force of circulation. Rheumatism, gout, inflammation, 
and convulsion will be their tendency. Persons of amiable, 
mild, feeble character will have but a languid circulation in 
the limbs and lower part of the body, and will be predispo- 
sed to pulmonary disorder-consumption, bronchitis, pneu- 
monia, and pulmonary congestion. 
All Objects Radiate their own peculiar Aura. All 
objects send forth their own spiritual or peculiar odyllic 
emanations. 
Different Organs Emit Different Styles of Force. 
Every portion of the brain originates a distinct Nervaura. 
The Nervaura of the basilar part of the middle lobe in front 
of the ear excites the digestive organs. 70 
COLOKS AND QUALITIES OK EMANATIONS. 
Different Organs Radiate Different Colors, by which 
both the psychical and physical condition can be determin- 
ed. In the base of the brain (the animal loves), the colors 
arc dark red, and in persons of a very low nature almost black. 
In a high nature the colors over the moral and spiritual pow- 
ers are almost dazzling, with the yellow tint nearly merged 
into white, and far more exquisite than sunlight. Benevo- 
lence emits a soft light green of indescribable beauty. Over 
Firmness the color is scarlet, and over Self-esteem, purple. 
As you move down the sides of the head, from the moral 
powers towards the lower loves, it becomes orange, then red 
and dark red. When a person laughs or sends forth happy 
thoughts, it causes a dancing play of bright colors ; but when 
in violent passion, a snapping and sparkling red is emitted. 
Thus it will be seen that as the sky grows brighter where it 
approaches the sun at its zenith, and darker near the earthy 
horizon, so do all the faculties emit brighter hues as they 
approach the coronal region-the sun-realm of the human 
soul-and darker as they approach the lower faculties, which 
are more earthy and fleshy in their functions. 
Every Part of a Person emits a special aura of its 
own i which appeals to the same part in another person. 
This is one method by which magnetists are able to diagnose 
their cases so thoroughly, but they should keep themselves 
so positive for healing purposes as not generally to receive 
the influence from others very much, unless they are able 
soon to throw it oft'. Hence a person of fine reasoning pow- 
ers would be especially adapted to enkindle thought in an- 
other. An atmosphere of benevolence will render others more 
benevolent; a fretful, fault-finding person will make others 
more peevish ; hatred on one side intensifies hatred on the 
other, as love intensifies love ; and low animal natures like 
to herd together, so that their favorite passions can become 
stimulated. 
Aura of Refinement. Persons of noble character 
radiate a more refined and penetrating aura than .coarse 
and undeveloped natures. Persons of rough exterior often 
possess genial souls and a refined aura. 
The Higher Voluntary Brain controls the body. The 
higher soul-forces are exquisite and powerful, and can pierce 
matter far and near. In consequence of their subtlety, they 
radiate their influence instantaneously, like light, to immense 
distances. The inferior powers, like caloric and electricity, 
radiate with less power, and depend more upon conduction. SOURCES OF MENTAL AND VITAL POWER. 
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Size is an Element of Power in the human system. 
Other things being equal, a large head, a large body, a large 
limb, a large cranial development is more powerful than a 
small one. 
Activity of the Vital Forces gives Power. A small 
organ, or limb, or muscle, or head, well vitalized and active, 
may be more powerful than a large one which is sluggish in 
its circulation. 
The Greatest Power and Perfection come from a 
well-balanced development of the size and activity of every 
part of the system. When children are born, of rightly 
matched parents, and harmoniously developed, they will be- 
come almost Jupiters and Minervas of power, and in char- 
acter far more beautiful than they. 
To Develop Size and Activity in deficient Organs. 
Vitalize them by Manipulation or by otherwise commu- 
nicating the magnetic aura. This animates and purifies the 
blood, causing it to rush to the place, and the blood in turn 
builds up the muscles, cranial functions, etc., adding both 
size and strength. 
Give them their appropriate exercise. Thus the appro- 
priate exercise of the Lungs is vocalization and breathing 
pure air ; that of the Muscles is labor. 
Psychology, the science of the soul, or rather of the soul- 
powcr. Nature always acts through instrumentalities, the 
soul could no more sway another soul without some force to 
do it with, than the telegrapher could wield an instrument 
in Europe without the use of electricity, or than the sun could 
project waves of light to us without a subtle etherium out of 
which to make waves. 
Its Good Effects are seen in the wonderful power with 
which the bodily forces are often controlled in the cure of 
disease and makes them feel that they are cured, or actually 
being cured, so that it leads them to psychologize themselves, 
and bring about that harmonious flow of the forces which 
constitutes the health. Many invalids have plenty of life- 
force of their own to make them perfectly well, if they could 
only get it equalized and lifted up into the region of Elope 
and the Higher Energies. The real magnetic process is the 
most permanent of all cures, as it reaches far down into causes. 
The power of a high-toned magnetic speaker to psychologize 
an audience into a feeling of noble aspiration, and of the 
teacher to rule his pupils by his soul-power, combined with 
tact and love, rather than by the hardening method of brute 
force, are among its best achievements. @2Itoi 
All menoughtto be acquainted with the medical art. I believe that knowledge 
of medicine is the sister and companion of wisdom. - Hippocrates. 
In early times skill in healing was esteemed a part of wisdom. I believe the 
practice of medicine should be agreeable to reason. - Celsus. 
As health is the most precious of all things, the foundation of happiness, the 
science of protecting life and health is the noblest, and most worthy the atten- 
tion of mankind. -Hoffman. 
The art of medicine is founded on experience. - Edinburgh Medical and Sur- 
gical Journal. 
How egregiously do the greatest men err whenever they lose sight of facts, or 
substitute sallies of wit or specious arguments in physic, for observation and 
experience. - Buchan. 
If an opinion be erroneous, it requires discussion that its errors may be exposed. 
If it be true, it will gain adherents in proportion as it is examined. - Dr. Cooper. 
Let truth a*d falsehood grapple. Whoever knew truth put to the worse in a 
free and open encounter ? -- Milton. 
I am neither for the ancients nor moderi s, but every age and nation.-Bagllve. 
It would be highly advantageous to the public, and likewise to the best part of 
the medical profession, if the predispositions and occasions ot disease were made 
a portion of the education of every gentleman. - Dr. Armstrong. 
Every physician's judgment appeals to nature and experience alone.-Gregory. 
1 was a dogmatic at twenty, an observer at thirty, an empiric at forty; at fifty 
I no longer have any system. - S. Bordeu. 
If employment of the lancet were abolished altogether, it would, perhaps, save 
annually a greater number of lives than in any one year the sword has ever de- 
stroyed.- Dr. Ring. 
It is owing to our ignorance that there is any necessity for instruments to cure 
disease. - Abernethy. 
Both surgery and medicine can and will, in the present astonishing strides of 
human intellect, be forced to pass a rigid scrutiny, and undergo a radical im- 
provement. - Smead. 
The man who wantonly wields the bloody knife for the sake of experience or 
a vain display of his adroitness, is a human savage in whose breast soft pity never 
dwelt. - Dr. Cumming. 
Abominable is the murdering quack, who, forever impatient to unsheath his 
blood-thirsty lancet, draws from a fever patient the irreparable balsam of life. 
- Dr. Hunn. 
To yield to any authority would here be'criminal. Facts must and will stand. 
- Dr. Underwood. 
"_Not only a reformation in medicine is necessary, but a revolution." 
"Oh, that men would stoop to learn, or at least cease to destroy."-Stoke's 
Practice. 
The whole nation is groaning under the present practice of the medical profes- 
sion, which fosters disease more than cures it, and debases or ruins our constitu- 
tions. - Morison. 
Our want of success is occasioned by the following causes: 1st, ignorance of 
the disease; 2d, ignorance of a suitable remedy; 3d, want of efficacy in the rem- 
edy. - Ibid. 
If truth does anywhere manifest itself, seek not to smother it with glossing 
delusion; acknowledge the greatness thereof, and esteem it thy best victory 
when the same doth prevail over thee. - Hooker. 
The whole art of healing may be comprisedin three adverbs or words, viz.: 
what ? now ? and when ? in other language what agent to prescribe ? how and 
when to administer it ? 
l am here insensibly led to make an apology for the instability of the theories 
and practice of physic. And those physicians generally become the most emi- 
nent who have the soonest emancipated themselves from the tyranny of the 
schools of physic. - Late Author. AMERICAN PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
By the term Materia Medica, we understand that part of 
medical science which treats of the nature, composition, and rela- 
tion, of the various substances which are employed in the pre- 
vention, cure, and mitigation of diseases; also the effect of those 
substances on the human body. It embraces botany, chemistry, 
and natural history. These substances are found scattered by 
the hand of Nature over the whole surface of the globe. They 
have been the subject of study and attention from the earliest 
history of our race until the present time; and new agents are 
continually being found, as well as new properties in those 
already discovered. 
ORDER OF ARRANGEMENT. 
Botanic Simples and Minerals ; Salts. By far the most 
important of these two are those derived from the vegetable 
kingdom. 
Botanic Simples consist of: - 
1. Roots, which should be collected in the Spring, before the 
sap begins to rise, or in the Fall after the top of the plant is dead. 
2. Barks, stripped from the tree or shrub any time when the 
sap prevents it from adhering to the wood; the rough exterior 
portion shaved off and the clean bark dried in the shade. 
3. Medicinal Plants, collected at mature growth or while in 
blossom, and dried in the shade; their virtues, however, arc not 
essentially diminished any time before frost appears. 
4. Flowers and Seeds, gathered when fully ripe, and likewise 
dried in the shade. All vegetables, after having been dried, 
should be kept from the air, and preserved in air-tight cases, or 
kept in a dry place. 2 
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The method adopted by the society of Shakers is admirably 
adapted to preserve them. 
They press roots, plants, etc., after having been properly 
dried, by means of a screw, into cakes, which are very hand- 
some, and their flavor and virtues often remain unimpaired for a 
number of years. 
It is scarcely possible, however, to administer remedies in the 
same state as furnished by nature. It is consequently necessary 
to submit them to certain preparations, in order to either change 
their state, or develop and render more sensible their virtues. 
It is by means of comminution, extraction, solution, mixture, 
tincture, and combination, that these objects are attained; which 
properly belong to the subject of Pharmacy, and will be fully 
treated of under that head. 
PROXIMATE PRINCIPLES OF PLANTS. 
The proximate principles which chemistry develops in many 
plants are at present well known. I have carefully preserved 
and recorded every fact which can be of practical use to the 
physician. 
Chemistry shows the active principles of medicinal plants to 
be numerous and of very different kinds. 
Gum. - The first transition of the sap appears to be into 
mucilage or gum. Gum is the name given to the principle 
when it is obtained in a concrete state; mucilage is the name 
given to it as expressed in a liquid state. 
This principle is found in all young plants in a greater or less 
quantity, 
It abounds also in their roots, stalks, and leaves, and espec- 
ially in their seeds; it is an inodorous, insipid and glutinous sub- 
stance, soluble in water. Gum is usually obtained by spontane- 
ous exudation, or by incisions made in the trunks and branches 
of trees. 
Pure gum is not an active substance, considered with respect 
to its effect on the living system. In medicine it is only used 
for its lubricating quality. It has often been taken as an article 
of food. It is used as a medium to combine balsams, resins, 
and oils with water. 
Fecula is a principle approaching in several of its characters 
to gum; distinguished by being perfectly insoluble in water. It 
exists principally in the tuberous roots and graminiferous seeds. 
It is extracted by beating the dried root or seed with a large 
quantity of water. PROXIMATE PRINCIPLES OF PLANTS. 
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Starch is the fecula of wheat, and is the most abundant part 
of that grain. Fecula is insoluble in alcohol; it is highly nutri- 
tive, and is usually contained in those plants which serve as food. 
Sago and Salop are substances of this kind. 
Gluten. - This principle is usually associated with fecula. 
It is obtained from the flour of wheat in the greatest abundance. 
It has scarcely any taste, is of a greyish color, and when dried is 
semi-transparent. It is insoluble in water, and is dissolved in 
very small quantities by alcohol. 
Saccharine Matter. This exists in many vegetable sub- 
stances, especially in their fruits and roots. 
Oil is a common proximate principle of vegetable matter; 
it is of two kinds - expressed or fat oil, and distilled, volatile or 
essential oil. They congeal on exposure to cold and are lighter 
than water. These oils are contained hi the seeds and fruit of 
vegetables. They are extracted by expression or decoction with 
water. They are mild and emollient, and are used principally 
for these qualities. 
Volatile, or essential oils are entirely and quickly converted 
into vapor at the heat of boiling water. In alcohol they are 
completely soluble; they are generally odoriferous, pungent, 
and even acrid; they are more highly inflammable than the 
fixed or expressed oils. 
Resin. -■ In some measure connected with essential oil; ex- 
isting in a solid state, being insoluble in water but soluble in 
alcohol, ether and oil. They are inflammable, and burn with 
much smoke; at a temperature nearly that of boiling water they 
melt, but they cannot be volatilized without being decomposed. 
Balsams are resinous juices, with an intermixture generally 
of essential oil, and containing always a portion of benzoic acid. 
They are odorous and pungent, principally from the essential oil 
they contain. 
Extract. - Supposed to constitute the active principle of 
many vegetables; extracts of plants, preparations formed by 
boiling vegetables in water, and evaporating the clear liquid to a 
thick consistence. 
Tannin. - This principle exists in all the powerful and astrin- 
gent vegetables. 
Vegetable Acids. - Not less than seven acids, different 
from each other, are of vegetable origin, viz.: gallic, oxalic, 
malic, citric, tartaric, benzoic and acetic. 
Camphor. - It is a solid substance, of a white color, semi- 
transparent, having a strong, peculiar smell and a penetrating 
taste j 4 
Wax. - Though wax is a substance formed by the bee, yet 
it is always a product of vegetation. It combines with the fixed 
oils, and melts at a moderate heat in oil. 
Albumen. - Is soluble in cold water, its solution being coag- 
ulated by heat. 
DOMESTIC MATERIA MEDICA. 
The articles made use of in the prevention, cure, and mitiga- 
tion of disease, may be thus classified: - 
1. Plants, 2. Roots, 3. Flowers, 
4. Seeds, 5. Barks, 6. Gums, 
7. Balsams, 8. Oils, 9. Extracts, 
10. Salts, 11. Minerals, 12. Earthy, 
and Animal Substances. 
It is necessary to give definitions, at least of such general 
terms as continually occur in works on medical science. 
Alteratives. - This term is applied to substances which 
are found to promote a change in the system favorable to re- 
covery from disease. 
The vegetable substances used as alteratives comprise burdock, 
elder-Howers, fever-bush, prickly ash bark and berries, Prince's 
pine, sarsaparilla, scabish, spotted alder, stillingia, sweet fern, 
yellow dock, yellow barilla, etc. 
Antacids.-For the correction of acidity of the stomach, 
digestive and other organisms, by neutralizing it. In no case 
ought their administration to be long persisted in. The bi-car- 
bonate of potash is the best of all the alkalines. 
Anthelmintics, or Vermifuges, are agents which have 
the effect of destroying or expelling worms from the intestines. 
These remedies are known to be merely temporary in their 
influence; for where there is a healthy state of the bowels, 
worms cannot exist. 
Among these remedies are classed aloes, black alder, black 
poplar, balmony, blue flag, cowage, cucumber-tree, garlic-juice, 
gentian, hops, mandrake, oak of Jerusalem, peach-leaves, pink- 
root, pomegranate, rue, spirits of turpentine, tansy, white cedar 
oil, white poplar, whitewood, wormseed, wormwood, etc. 
Antiseptics.'-These are substances employed to arrest the 
process of putrefaction. They consist of alcohol, capsicum, car- 
bolic acid, charcoal, chlorine, cat-tail flag, gum myrrh, saleratus, 
saline compounds, sugar, vinegar, volatile oils, water-pepper, 
wormwood, yeast, yellow dock, etc. 
Antispasmodics are those substances which have the power 
of allaying local irritation and spasm; these we group as fol- 
CLASSIFICATION. DEFINITIONS OF MEDICAL TERMS. 
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lows: aconite, ammonia, angelica, assafoetida, black cohosh, cam- 
phor, castor, cramp-bark, cuckold, English valerian, ether, hyos- 
cyamus, laclies'-slipper, lobelia-inflata, masterwort, musk, poppy 
and its preparations, skullcap, skunk cabbage, etc. 
Aromatics are a grateful class of medicines which are gen- 
erally stimulant; the principal of which are cloves, cinnamon, 
seeds of the prickly ash, peppermint, spearmint, summer savory, 
thyme, etc. 
Astringents are articles having the power of contracting 
the living fibre, the principal of which are alum, alum-root, 
Avenis root, bay-berry, beth-root, black alder, black birch, bugle, 
catechu, cinnamon, cohosh, burnt copperas, cramp-bark, crane's- 
bill, henbane, hardback, hemlock bark, kino, marsh rosemary, 
nutgalls, oak, archangel, red raspberry, rose, and sumach barks, 
sweet-fern, tag-alder, uva-ursi, wild cherry bark, witch-hazel, 
white pond-lily, yarrow, yellow dock, zinc, etc. 
Carminatives are used to expel wind from the stomach and 
bowels, and to mitigate attacks of colic. Among them are 
angelica-root and seeds, anise, burdock-seed, capsicum, carraway- 
seed, catnip, camomile, cloves, coriander-seed, devil's bit, dill- 
seed, fennel-seed, ginger, ginseng, ground ivy, hyssop, juniper- 
berries, lovage root and seeds, masterwort, pennyroyal, pepper- 
mint, pleurisy-root, spearmint, summer savory, sweet flag, and 
thyme. 
Cathartics, Purgatives, Laxatives, and Evacuants. 
- These are medicines which increase the peristaltic motion of 
the intestines, and thereby produce a preternatural discharge. 
No class of medicines is more liable to abuse than cathartics. 
In a torpid or inactive state of the liver and intestines, this class 
of medicines is extremely important and valuable. The follow- 
ing are generally used: aloes, blue flag, blue violet, buckthorn, 
butter-nut, castor-oil, cream of tartar, croton oil, culveris root, 
euphorbia, flowers of sulphur, gamboge, jalap, mandrake, man- 
root, mountain-flax, olive-oil, rhubarb, scammony, senna, stillin- 
gia, tamarind, etc. 
Caustics, are substances which disorganize or destroy the 
parts of the body to which they are applied, Those in general 
use are acetic acid, burnt alum, bloodroot, chloride of zinc, lunar 
caustic, nitric acid,' mandrake, muriatic acid, pokeroot, potash, 
wild turnip, etc. The vegetable caustics of our pharmacopoeia 
are very active, and have the advantage of exciting little or no 
inflammation. 
Demulcents. - These are medicines which obviate and pre- 
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DOMESTIC MATERIA MEDIC A* 
of a mucilaginous nature, and have a soothing effect upon the 
human organisms. Among these are classed basswood bark, 
buckthorn, brake, comfrey, elm bark, flax-seed, hollyhock flowers 
and root, Irish moss, marsh-mallow, and some of the fixed oils. 
Detergents are medicines which operate by cleansing the 
blood of morbid humors. Detergents have also astringent, 
nervine, tonic, and other properties, which must be borne in 
mind in their administration. They comprise betony-leaves, 
black alder, black and blue cohosh, blue flag, burdock, cocash, 
culveris root, dwarf elder, gold thread, mandrake, sarsaparilla, 
spotted plantain, tag alder, bay-berry, bittersweet, dandelion, 
guaiacum chips, Prince's pine, sassafras, balmony, sumach bark, 
sweet fern, tamarrack bark, yellow dock, and the alteratives gen- 
erally. 
Diaphoretics act by increasing the natural exhalation 
through the skin, producing moderate perspiration. They are a 
most valuable class of medicines in all febrile and inflammatory 
diseases. 
Under the administration of these medicines the surface of the 
body should be enveloped in muslin or flannel, and kept warm; 
and in checking diaphoresis, it must be done gradually by dry- 
ing the surface with warm towels, diminishing the covering 
slowly, and cautiously exposing the hands and arms to the air. 
They consist of the following articles : boneset, calamint, catnip, 
cayenne, camomile, crawley, cuckold, ginger, ground ivy, hyssop, 
lovage, masterwort, pennyroyal, peppermint, pleurisy-root, prick- 
ly ash, red raspberry, saffron, sage, skullcap, smartweed, summer 
savory, sweet balsam, thyme, vervian, yarrow, etc. 
The sudorific tincture and diaphoretic powder of our Phar- 
macopoeia we prefer in practice in connection with some of the 
above plants in infusion. 
Diluents. -These are medicines which increase the fluidity 
of the blood. They consist mostly of watery liquors, and water 
itself is probably under many circumstances the best. 
Diuretics are medicines which augment the urinary dis- 
charge. Saline articles, when given as diuretics, should be 
greatly diluted, and given at about a blood-warm .temperature. 
Among the diuretics are balsams of copaiva and fir, bitter- 
sweet, blue flag, brooklime, buchu-leaves, burdock root and seeds, 
cleavers, cream-of-tartar, cuckold, dandelion, dwarf elder, elder 
flowers, fever-few, fox-glove, Ilarlasm oil, if pure, Hollands gin, 
horse-radish, Jacob's-ladder, Johnswort, juniper, knotgrass, liver- 
wood, lobelia inflata, masterwort, milkweed, motherwort, nitrate 
of potash, parsley, pennyroyal, pleurisy-root, potash, Prince's EMETICS, EMMENAGOGUES, EMOLLIENTS. 
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pine, pumpkin-seeds, Queen's delight, queen of the meadow, rush- 
es, sal-diureticus, smartweed, spearmint, spirits of turpentine, 
squills, stoneroot, sweet spirits of nitre, uva ursi, watermelon 
seeds, wild carrot, wild lettuce, wintergreen, etc. 
Emetics or Vomits are substances which excite vomiting. 
They act cither specifically or topically - specifically when they 
act by mere injection into the veins, and topically when they 
produce vomiting only when introduced into the stomach; tar- 
tar emetic is an example of a specific, and mustard of a topical 
emetic. Emetics have a general influence sympathetically upon 
the entire system. Emetics should be employed generally with 
great caution, especially where there is a determination of blood 
to the head, in advanced stages of pregnancy, in hernia, in pro- 
lapsis uteri, and in diseases of the heart - as they cause a too 
violent action of the muscles. Blue violet, camomile, ipecacu- 
anha, boneset, blood-root, lobelia, May weed, mustard, skunk-cab- 
bage, squills, etc., are ranked among the emetics. 
Emmenagogues are those medicines capable of promoting 
menstrual discharges. Suppression of these discharges is caused 
by a morbid and debilitated state of the system. When caused 
by debility, recourse should be had to tonics and stimulants; 
indeed, stimulating diuretics are frequently the most certain em- 
menagogues in their operation. Tonics are the best to rely upon, 
of which the following are esteemed the principal articles: aloes, 
black cherry, black cohosh, blue cohosh, camomile, fever-few, 
motherwort, oak of Jerusalem, oil of juniper, pennyroyal, tansy, 
thyme, preparations of iron, and the whole class of tonics. 
Emollients, among which may be classed Demulcents and 
Relaxants - are substances which diminish the vital tone or 
cohesion of the tissues of the body, rendering them more lax and 
flexible; or which operate in such a manner as to obviate and 
prevent the action of stimulating and acrid substances by involv- 
ing them in a mild and viscid matter which prevents their action 
on the surfaces. Their principal use is to palliate symptoms in 
the treatment of inflammations, painful ulcerations, diseases of 
the urinary organs and poisoning with acrid substances. They 
comprise albumen of eggs, almonds, arrow-root, basswood, bees- 
wax, comfrey, colt's foot, elder leaves and flowers, elm bark, 
figs, flaxseed, gums arabie and tragacanth, hollyhock roots and 
flowers, licorice, marshmallow, mullein, oatmeal, olive oil, pearl 
barley, quince seeds, raisins, sago, spermaceti, starch, sugar, 
tapioca, etc. 
Epispastics, Rubefacients, Counter-irritants, Deriv- 
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applied to the skin cause irritation, inflammation, and ultimately 
produce, if continued, a serous or puriform discharge. 
Blisters having a stimulating effect, should generally be 
avoided; they may occasionally be useful, but in the Reformed 
Practice are very seldom resorted to. 
Among the epispastics are ranked acids, ammonia in strong 
solution and its preparations, bloodroot, cantharides, capsicum, 
garlics, horse-radish, ipecacuanha liniment, mandrake, moxa, 
mustard, oils of amber, croton, and turpentine, pokeroot, savin 
ointment, tartar emetic, wild turnip, etc. 
Errhines, Sternutatories, and Ptarmics.- These are 
terms applied to well-known substances which increase the secre- 
tions from the nose and head, and excite sneezing. They are 
employed in practice to excite suspended respiration, to promote 
the expulsion of foreign bodies lodged in the air passages, and in 
some affections of the head, as headache, catarrh, chronic ophthal- 
mia, colds, influenza, etc. The principal of these are asara- 
bacca, bayberry, bloodroot, laurel, lobelia leaves, tobacco, white 
hellebore, etc. In stoppages from colds and in influenza, per- 
haps tobacco is the best of the errhines. 
Expectorants, or Pectorals, are medicines which promote 
the secretion and discharge of mucus from the bronchial tubes 
and lungs. Aconite, the balsams of fir and Peru, bloodroot, 
buckthorn brake, boneset, blue violet, cayenne, crawley, devil's 
bit, elecampane, flaxseed, horehound, hyoscyamus, hyssop, Ice- 
land and Irish moss, ipecacuanha, Indian turnip, Johnswort, 
licorice, lobelia, lungwort, onions, pleurisy-root, rock-brake, sew 
eka, snake-root, slippery-elm bark, squills, smartweed, skunk 
cabbage, spikenard, wa-a-hoo bark, and white-pine bark, are all 
esteemed expectorants, and are among the most reliable. 
Narcotics are resorted to for the purpose of producing 
sleep, calming irritation, and alleviating pain. When given as a 
stimulant the doses are small and frequently repeated; but to 
produce sleep, they should be larger and given at more distant 
intervals, but with a careful regard to habit and age. Much 
objection has been made to the use of narcotics. I think, how- 
ever, that it is more the abuse of them which has called, for this 
censure than a discriminate employment of remedies of this class. 
The relief sometimes afforded by them appears almost magical. 
Some diseases can with difficulty be controlled without their use. 
They should never be given where other agents will answer the 
intention sought for as well. The most material are the aconite, 
cicuta, henbane, hops, lettuce, poppy and its various prepara- 
tions. PROXIMATE PRINCIPLES OF PLANTS. 
9 
Nephritics.- These are medicines which act upon the kid- 
neys, and are generally resorted to for disease of the urinary 
■organs, such as debility, suppressions, or bloody urine. We 
select only such as are most prominently recommended: beth- 
root, bittersweet, blue violet, cleavers, ground-ivy, lobelia inflata, 
parsley, peach-leaves, Prince's pine, etc. 
Nervines, Calmatives, Contra-stimulants, and Seda- 
tives are employed to quiet over-excitement of the nervous and 
vascular systems, and to impart strength and tone to them. The 
agents classed under this head are aconite, ammonia, angelica, 
assafoetida, balmony, camphor, camomile, cherry-bark, cocash, 
cohosh, cramp-bark, cuckold, ether, fox-glove, ginseng, gold 
thread, iron and its preparations, knotgrass, ladies' slipper, lobe- 
lia, motherwort, peach-leaves, peony, pleurisy-root, prickly-ash, 
skullcap, skunk-cabbage, sweet-fern, watercup, etc. 
Refrigerants or Temperants are medicines calculated to 
allay the heat of the body or of the blood, and to produce a sen- 
sation of coolness to the parts. The principal refrigerants are 
the citric and tartaric acids, houseleek, nitrate of potash, juices 
of the orange and lemon, mulberries, sorrel, vinegar, wood sorrel, 
etc. 
Sialogogues or Masticatories act as local stimulants, ex- 
citing a preternatural flow of saliva. Among them are horse 
radish, lobelia, mezereon, pellitory of Spain, tobacco, etc. 
Stimulants, Excitants, and Incitants are terms applied 
to medicines which excite an action of the living body. The 
stimulants are beneficial, if kept within a proper limit; but no 
class of medicines are more liable to abuse. They should only 
be given when a diminished action is observable in the vital 
powers, and must be discontinued when no longer distinctly in- 
dicated ; otherwise the disease for which they are administered 
will be aggravated. The substances gathered under this class 
are exceedingly numerous, and we can only name a few of them : 
alcohol, ammonia, angelica seed, anise seed, blue flag, camphor, 
caraway, cardamon seed, cayenne, cinnamon, cloves, cubebs, ele- 
campane, ether, fennel seed, ginger, grains of paradise, horse 
radish, orange peel, lavender, magnolia, mustard, nutmegs, oil 
of rosemary, oil of turpentine, pennyroyal, peppermint, prickly- 
ash bark and berries, red and black pepper, spearmint, summer 
savory, Virginia suakeroot, wines, etc. 
Tonics or Corroborants are those articles which increase 
the tone of the animal fibre, by which strength is given to the 
system and the appetite and digestion improved. No class of 
medicines, except perhaps the narcotics, requires more discrimi- 
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nation in administration than these. They should never be pre- 
scribed where there is a tendency to inflammation of the digest- 
ive and other organs. The leading tonics are American cen- 
taury, balmony, barberry bark, bayberry bark, bethroot, black 
alder, black cherry, black poplar, blessed thistle, boneset, box- 
wood flowers, buckbean, bugle, camomile, colic root, Colombo, 
comfrey, elecampane, gentian, ginseng, golden seal, gold thread, 
iron and its preparations, orange peel, ox-gall, peach kernels, 
Prince's pine, spikenard, vine maple, Virginia snakeroot, water- 
cup root, whitewood bark, wild cherry bark and kernels, willow 
bark, etc. 
MEDICA BOTANY. 
The science of botany embraces within the sphere of its inves- 
tigation more than one hundred thousand species of living organ- 
ized beings. Each species possesses certain peculiarities by which 
it may be distinguished from all others. To classify and arrange 
these fall within the province of botany. 
" The study of botany is a delightful, nay, an enticing pursuit. 
The pursuit of botany is useful in invigorating the body, in 
strengthening and expanding the mind, and in improving the 
morals. From the vegetable kingdom man derives a large share 
of his sustenance, and from the same source he derives agents for 
the alleviation of his maladies. By a knowledge of this science, 
the physician is enabled to take advantage of new discoveries, 
and make improvements in materia medica. Formerly botany 
was identified with the medical profession ; but when the disci- 
ples of Paracelsus gained the ascendancy in the schools, botany 
became in a great measure neglected by those who ought to have 
been foremost in advancing the science. The great mass of prac- 
titioners at the present day are almost as ignorant of the science 
as the lower order of animals. Furthermore, but few medical 
schools teach the science at all. Such a state of things ought not 
to be. No medical man ought to consider his education complete 
without a thorough knowledge of the science of botany. We 
hope that no individual will be allowed to graduate, and go forth 
as a well-educated physician, without a thorough knowledge of 
this important and useful science." The eclectic practice is one 
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perfection to perfection-as long as new agents are found, or 
new developments of the powers of those agents are discovered, 
by the careful practitioner and the intelligent chemist. This 
march of improvement results more and more in the discarding 
of dangerous minerals and deleterious substances from among 
those articles resorted to for the cure of diseases. We shall 
group among our Vegetable Materia Medica the best and most 
approved of the articles kept in Botanic stores and Herbalists' 
dispensaries, institutions to which medical reform gave birth, 
and which are destined to live and flourish in usefulness as 
long as light and knowledge shall increase upon the earth. 
No. 1. Malabar Cardamours. 
The seeds in powder, of from 5 to 10 grains, doses, operate 
as a pleasant, warm, cordial stomachic. 
No. 2. Grains of Paradise. 
These are used in powder, decoction, and tincture; are much 
relied on in Europe in the treatment of diseases of animals as 
a permanent stimulant, entering into almost all the compounds 
where warm and cordial remedies are indicated. 
No. 3. Ginger. 
The dose of the powder is from 3 to 20 grains taken in milk 
or mucilage. In flatulency, languid circulation, and a check of 
perspiration, a strong tea may be taken freely. It also enters 
into an excellent beverage for common drink known as ginger- 
pop. Ginger acts as a special stimulant to the urino-genital 
mucous membrane, and should be avoided where there is a 
tendency to stricture of the urethra. It is seldom found as a 
powder in the shops in a pure state. 
No. 4. Zedoary. 
Useful in flatulent colic, debilitated digestive organs, and 
hysteric affections when attended with flatulency. Dose in 
substance from 10 grains to half a dram. 
No. 5. Stone-Root. 
Physicians prescribe it sometimes for the gravel; but its 
principal employment is in the veterinary practice, as a useful 
and efficient diuretic. 
No. 6. Culver's Root. 
The root alone is used in febrile and inflammatory diseases. 
In typhus and bilious fevers it is said to remove the black and 
morbid matter from the intestines in an easy and natural man- 
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with debility or torpidity of the digestive organs and bowels, 
and in functional derangement of the liver. In such cases, 
combined with the American Golumbo, the golden seal, and 
capsicum, it is a valuable remedy. Is of utility in dropsies. 
Dose. - Give a heaped teaspoonful of the powder in half a gill 
of boiling water, sweetened. Repeat in three hours, if it does 
not operate before. The weak, cold infusion is said to be the 
safest and best method of administering this medicine. 
No. 7. Bugle. 
Taken in the form of infusion A good drink and wash for 
patients having indolent and badly-conditioned sores; and for 
fevers and bowel-complaint in their early stages. 
No. 8. Oswego Tea. 
This herb is nearly or quite equal to camomile in inter- 
mittents, and is much esteemed in protracted illness where 
stimulants are required for a long time. It is said to be valu- 
able in piles, ardor of urine, rheumatism, colic, paralysis, etc. 
We have found it excellent in nausea and vomiting, and to pro- 
duce perspiration in colds. 
No. 9. Horse-Mint. 
A strong decoction of this plant given warm and freely, is 
very efficacious for strangury, gravel and suppression of urine; in 
very obstinate cases a warm hip-bath to be used at the same time. 
No. 10. Olive. 
Internally the oil is taken in doses of from 1 to 2 ounces, 
which operates as a cathartic, and is thus substituted for the 
castor-oil as a more pleasant medicine; it is also preferable in 
cases where acrid and poisonous substances are in the stomach, 
and is useful in inflammation of the stomach and bowels and in 
dysentery. Externally it is used in frictions and gargles. Its 
principal use, however, in modern practice, is in the composi- 
tion of plasters and ointments. 
No. 11. Rosemary. 
Good in faintings, hysterics, asthma, apoplexy, nervous head- 
aches, etc. It is extensively used in liniments, and may be 
administered internally in doses of from 2 to 5 drops on sugar. 
The Hungary water is often applied to the forehead and tem- 
ples with success in vertigo and hysteric affections. 
No. 12. Sage. 
An infusion of the leaves, without much nicety as to doses, 
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febrile affections, and in cold, phlegmatic habits; and is often 
used with advantage in putrid diseases, summer complaints, and 
for worms in children. It is a sudorific, producing perspiration, 
and is a popular remedy for colds, coughs, fevers, etc. We 
use it principally as a gargle in aphthae and quinsy. 
No. 13. Clary. 
Used in infusion. Useful in leucorrhaea, hysterics, colic, etc. 
No. 14. Beccabunga. 
The herb in infusion is used in scurvy and to purify the 
blood, without much regard as to doses. It is a valuable 
remedy for indigestion and consumption, and in the form of 
bitters it is good to regulate the menses, by removing obstruct- 
ions, etc. 
No. 15. Speedwell. 
The expressed juice of the fresh plant may be drank to the 
quantity of four spoonfuls three times a day with advantage in 
asthma, cough, dropsy of the abdomen. It is equally efficacious 
in purifying the blood in leprosy etc. 
No. 16. Cubebs. 
The powder should be prepared as wanted, as its properties 
deteriorate rapidly. Equal parts of the hydro-alcoholic extract 
of cubebs and solidified copaiba, m'ade into pills, is one of the 
best preparations we have for gonorrhaea, gleet, and affections 
of the kidneys and bladder. 
No. 17. Black Pepper. 
The infusion of the powdered berries is resorted to in flatu- 
lence, wind colic, indigestion, nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, 
cholera, intermittent fevers, scarlet and typhus fevers. The 
berries, given in pills, 5 to 8 a day, have proved very efficient 
in intermittent fevers, colic, etc. 
No. 18. Matico. 
To arrest hemorrhage, the under side of the leaf is applied to 
the bleeding surface. 
No. 19. Orris Root. 
As a dentifrice the powder is combined with charcoal, burnt 
hartshorn, Armenian bole, dragon's blood, etc. The root, cut 
round, about the size of a pea, is much used by the French for 
maintaining the discharge from issues. Ladies employ the 
powder as a perfume; but its immoderate use will produce 
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No. 20. Blue-Flag. 
It is said to be a substitute for mercury • and, being a vege- 
table, is far preferable, because, after producing its natural 
operation and effect, it passes off and leaves the system free. 
The root given in powder as a cathartic, the dose is about 20 
grains. The root in decoction is a good diuretic, and promotes 
discharge by urine, relieves dropsy, and is useful in liver-com- 
plaint, sore mouth, and ulcers. The leaves, in infusion, are a 
good medicine for worms in children, and for loosening the 
bowels. A syrup made from the blossoms may be used for the 
same purpose. 
No. 21. True Saffron. 
Infusion, half to one drachm in two pounds of boiling water; 
very valuable in all eruptive diseases, as measles, small-pox, etc. 
It is useful to allay the lumbar pains which accompany men- 
struation in some females. Is very useful to determine erup- 
tions to the surface in measles, small-pox, scarlet fever, and 
kindred diseases. 
No. 22. Valerian. 
It will be found usefid in aggravated cases of hysteria, epilep- 
tic and paraletic affections, etc. 
No. 23. Green Osier. 
Of the infusion, the dose is a wine-glassful two or three times 
a day. The fresh leaves, slightly bruised and wet with vinegar, 
are an excellent application to a bruise or to any inflamed part. 
No. 24 Boxwood. 
It is extensively employed by country practitioners in inter- 
mittent fevers, and the report they give of it is very favorable 
and satisfactory. The bark may be used in doses of from a 
scruple to a drachm; repeat in cases of intermittents, so that 
from 1 to 2 ounces may be taken between the paroxysms. The 
dried bark is preferable. The ripe fruit, infused in spirits, 
makes an excellent tonic bitters. 
No. 25. Bose-Willow. 
It is a powerful astringent and tonic. It is too heating in 
common fevers. This is an excellent remedy, given in infusion, 
particularly in the vomiting arising from pregnancy and diseased 
uterus; This is a valuable article, healing and purifying, and 
is a popular remedy for sore eyes. It is very beneficial in 
restraining relaxing complaints to which females are subject, 
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found useful in the treatment of the whites, immoderate flow of 
the menses, etc. Useful in gleets, using the pure decoction as 
an enema. 
No. 26. American Colombo. 
Very extensively and successfully used in cases requiring 
mild tonics, diseases of the stomach, debility, fevers, indigestion, 
jaundice, etc. The powdered root in doses of from 30 grains 
to a drachm. Infusion, one ounce of the bruised root to a pint 
of boiling water; a wine-glassful several times a day. 
No. 27. Cleavers. 
It justly ranks among our most reliable diuretics, and is 
peculiarly applicable in suppression of urine, and gravelly com- 
plaints. It effectually clears the passages. Beneficial in the 
cure of scurvy and spitting of blood. It seems to possess a 
solvent power' over the stone or gravel, crumbling it into a sandy 
substance, so that it is discharged without difficulty. It gives 
great relief in the scalding of the clap. In infusion, which 
should always be made in cold water, 4 ounces to a quart, and 
drank freely and often. 
No. 28. Skunk-Cabbage. 
Is very useful in spasmodic asthma. This root pulverized, 
and given in cold, phlegmatic habits of the body, attended with 
chronic cough, will produce the most decided benefits, relieving 
the cough, and difficulty of breathing; and is often administered 
with decidedly beneficial effects in coughs, catarrhs, consump- 
tion, pleurisy, asthma, flatulent colic and rheumatism. 
No. 29. Partridge-Berry. 
Is a famous remedy among the Indians for difficult parturi- 
tion. It is highly esteemed by some as a remedy in diarrhoea 
and piles. The herb and the berries are both used, and in infu- 
sion it may be drank freely. 
No. 30. Plantain. 
Is held in high repute by some in the cure of bites from pois- 
onous serpents and insects, and is often employed in visceral 
obstructions, hemorrhages, consumption, and dysentery. The 
leaves make an excellent ointment for erysipelas, tetter, or salt- 
rheum. It is also remarkably efficacious in poisons of all kinds. 
A negro at the south obtained his freedom by disclosing .a nos- 
trum for the bite of snakes. It consisted in giving the ex- 
pressed juice of plantain ami horehound, in equal parts : a table- 
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and the same to be applied to the wound. Prepared by boiling 
in milk. It will be found useful in menstrual complaints, and 
in the treatment of the whites, piles, salt-rheum and as a vul- 
nerary. 
No. 31. Parsley. 
It is a very valuable remedy in gravel ami all diseases of the 
kidneys and bladder. Take an ounce of the plant and pour 
on one pint of boiling water ; infuse, but not boil. Dose, a gill 
three times a day. 
No. 32. Witch-Hazel. 
Apply the bark, which is sedative and discutient, to painful 
tumors and external inflammation. A cataplasm of the inner 
bark is very efficacious in removing painful inflammation of the 
eyes. An infusion made of the leaves is a very useful astring- 
ent in hematemesis (bleeding at the stomach), bowel-com- 
plaints, and menstrual effusions. The bark likewise affords an 
excellent topical^application in piles (hemorrhoids), falling of 
the bowels and womb, and as snuff for bleeding at the nose. 
It is a favorite remedy with Botanic physicians of every class. 
This article maybe given internally in the. form of infusion; 
externally as a poultice in foul ulcers, etc; and in the form of a 
strong decoction as an injection into the vagina, fop prolapsus or 
falling of the womb; and as a wash for descent of the intestine. 
No. 33. Alkanet-Root, 
Is now employed for coloring oils, lip-salves, ointments, and 
plasters - imparting a beautiful red color, while they preserve 
their transparency. 
No. 34. Pimpernel. 
The Germans esteem it as infallible in hydrophobia, and a 
useful medicine in melancholia or monomania. The dose in 
hydrophobia is half a teaspoonful of the powdered herb, repeat- 
ing it in eight hours, which creates a profuse perspiration, and 
usually throws off the poison. The decoction makes an excel- 
lent wash for cleansing old ulcers. Applied as a jpoultice, it 
draws out thorns and extraneous substances from the flesh. 
No. 35. Belladonna. 
Taken in large doses, is a narcotic, acrid poison which enters 
into the circulation and causes death quickly. In small doses 
it irritates the stomach, and produces heaviness of the head, 
vertigo, dilatation of the pupil, irregularity of the pulse, etc. 
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great benefit externally, in the cure of cancers, and in dispers- 
ing indolent tumors and schirrosities in the breasts of females 
and other parts of the human body. Many physicians employ 
the leaves and extract in mania, epilepsy, nervous complaints, 
long-continued fever and ague, hooping-cough, rheumatism, 
gout, and dropsy; but the result of my experience is, that all 
the indications sought for may be fulfilled by agents far less 
dangerous in internal administration. In neuralgia: the ex- 
tract, enclosed in a linen bag, and applied over the eyebrows 
on the seat of the disease a short time before the anticipated 
attack, is almost infallible in its operation. Belladonna is a 
favorite medicine in homoeopathic practice, given in infinitesi- 
mal doses in quinsy, and is highly extolled as an antidote in 
scarlatina. The leaves and roots, either green or dry, may be 
simmered in soft water, until the strength is extracted; then 
slippery-elm bark may be stirred in till a poultice is formed. 
It may be applied to boils and all hard, painful, glandular 
swellings. 
No. 36. Borage. 
It is useful as a remedy in catarrhal and rheumatic affec- 
tions, and in cutaneous diseases. It makes a cooling drink in 
cases of internal inflammation, producing a gentle moisture of 
the skin, without heating the body. An infusion of the plant, 
sweetened with honey, is used as a demulcent, refrigerant, and 
a mild diaphoretic drink. The flowers are sometimes applied 
externally as an emollient. 
No. 37. Red Pepper. 
It is generally used as a topical remedy in stimulating gar- 
gles in cynanche maligna, sore throat. One teaspoonful of the 
powder, sugar sufficient to sweeten, adding one pint of barley- 
water ; drink the whole warm. It is good also for pain in the 
breast. A mild infusion is excellent for weak eyes. 
No. 38. Bird-Pepper. 
This oil is very useful in rheumatism. In dyspeptic condi- 
tions of the stomach, capsicum appears to be peculiarly adapted. 
Dr. Chapman thinks this article il well suited to dyspepsia, as 
it prevails with drunkards, or when a symptom of atonic gout." 
The tincture, used externally, is remarkably efficacious in all 
painful affections, in rheumatism, sprains, soreness of the flesh, 
etc. Capsicum is one of the purest and strongest stimulants 
with which we are acquainted. It is good in flatulency, arising 
from eating vegetable food, and likewise to warm the stomach. 
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cases of typhoid pneumonia, as well as in the sinking stage of 
typhus. In cynanche maligna (malignant sore throat), capsi- 
cum is much employed, both as a gargle and as an internal 
remedy. It is excellent, combined with opium, in diarrhoea 
and low cases of dysentery. When administered with opium 
in delirium tremens, it has very happy effects. Dose of the 
powder, 6 to 12 grains, in the form of pills. Tincture of cap- 
sicum, the powder, one ounce; diluted alcohol, two pounds. 
Externally, tincture of capsicum, half an ounce; Cayenne pep- 
per, one drachm ; diluted alcohol, one pound: useful as a rube- 
facient in palsy, pleurisy, rheumatism, etc. It is adulterated 
in a great variety of ways. Burn some of the cayenne in a 
shovel, over the fire, and if a black sediment remains, red lead 
or some other injurious mineral may be suspected. The bright- 
red color is generally owing to the presence of dye-wood or 
some kind of red paint. 
No. 39. New Jersey Tea. 
Common names, - Red-root, Wild Snowball, Rohea, etc. 
Given in decoction, it is esteemed a useful remedy in syphilitic 
complaints, gonorrhoeal discharges, etc., and was used by the 
Indians in venereal disease, epilepsy, asthma, and consumption. 
It is a very useful remedy in chronic bronchitis, in all diseases 
of the lungs, and in dropsy of the chest. As an expectorant, 
it is very valuable in coughs unattended with inflammation. It 
is valuable in dysentery, and also as a local application in 
aphthous affections of the mouth, and in the sore throat of 
scarlatina. The bark of the root, the stems, leaves, and seeds, 
may be employed; the first in tincture, in doses of from a tea- 
spoonful to a tablespoonful three or four times a day; and the 
last in decoction or strong infusion, drank cold, about a pint in 
the course of the day. 
No. 40. Bittersweet. 
The bark of the root is detergent, tonic, and resolvent, and 
in decoction may be given in doses of a gill three times a day, 
in cutaneous diseases, liver-complaints, to purify the blood, and 
to increase the secretions and excretions. The bark and ber- 
ries make an excellent ointment for contracted sinews, sores, 
ulcers, and swellings of every description. 
No. 41. Ipecacuanha. 
The common method of administering it in hemorrhage is to 
combine one or two grains of it with half a grain of opium or 
less, to be repeated at stated intervals. In dyspepsia this 
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not to excite nausea, thereby acting as an alterative, changing 
the state of the stomach imperceptibly, till it finally restores 
this organ to its natural tone and action. Small, nauseating 
doses are also advantageously given to subdue uterine and pul- 
monary hemorrhages, and are useful for whooping-cough, 
epilepsy, and amaurosis. In large doses, 30 grains is an easy 
and good emetic, without causing debility. In small doses of 
two or three grains it acts as a tonic, strengthening the diges- 
tive organs, and is useful in indigestion, and in bilious and liver- 
complaints, It may be given in powder, or formed into pills, 
with soap, molasses or mucilage of gum arabic. We give 
it, in general combined with lobelia. Add of the root, bruised, 
one ounce to one part of Malaga wine : dose for a child a year 
old, one or two teaspoonfuls. 
No. 42. Peruvian Bark. 
Given in small doses,.the Peruvian bark acts locally and simply 
on the stomach and intestinal canal, increases the. vitality of 
this apparatus, stimulates the digestive functions, and renders the 
assimilation of the alimentary substances more rapid and per- 
fect. Intermittent fever is the disease for the cure of which, 
bark was first introduced into practice. Always avoid giving 
this remedy during the fever; it would increase and render it 
more obstinate. In some forms of continued fever which are 
connected with debility, as in typhus, cynanche maligna, con- 
fluent small-pox, etc., it is regarded as one of the most valuable 
remedies. In pure typhus it appears to be less useful in the 
beginning than in the convalescent stage. I consider the gen- 
uine cinchona as the best anti-periodic remedy for malaria that 
we have. The powder, as a tonic, from 10 grains to half an 
ounce. It is the basis of our Vegetable Wine Bitters, which 
we have found almost a specific in every species of intermittent 
fever. 
No. 43. Bindweed. 
The powdered root or extract is employed in dyspepsia, 
costiveness, liver-complaints, gravel, dropsy, etc. An extract 
of the fresh root is the most efficient in administration in doses 
of from 10 to 12 grains. As a pectoral it is beneficial in con- 
sumptive coughs, asthma, and whooping-cough, made into 
syrup with balm of Gilead buds and skunk-cabbage. 
No. 44. SCAMMONY. 
Scammony, when pure, or nearly so, is an efficacious and 
strong purgative. The common dose of scammony is from 3 
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No. 45. Thorn-Apple. 
Is a strong poison. It has been given in the form of extract 
and powder in epilepsy, mania, and other nervous disorders. 
I have used a tincture, made from the seeds, with success in 
asthma and epilepsy. Twenty or thirty drops may be given 
three or four times a day. Smoking of the leaves, mixed with 
tobacco, is a popular remedy for asthma; but even in this way 
it should be used with caution, and its effects carefully noticed. 
The ointment is excellent for piles and burns. A tincture of 
the seeds, in one instance that came to my knowledge effected 
the radical cure of a most miserable drunkard ; the operation 
was severe, perhaps dangerous, but it completely eradicated the 
the predisposition for stimulants. 
No. 4G. Busn Honeysuckle. 
When applied to the inflamed surface occasioned by the poi- 
son of rhus or ivy, it gives the sensation of a current of cool 
air upon the part, and after a few applications relieves the itch- 
ing, and checks the inflammation and swelling. It is a useful 
remedy in inflammation of the bladder, with gravelly deposite 
in thei urine, and has been resorted to with success in many 
cases of sub-inflammation of the kidneys and urinary passages. 
A cold infusion of the leaves and twigs, is drank freely as a 
common beverage. 
No. 47. Buchu. 
Chiefly given in urinary complaints, gravel, chronic catarrh 
of the bladder, and are beneficial in all affections of the urinary 
organs. They have been also recommended in dyspepsia, 
chronic rheumatism, and cutaneous affections. From 20 to 30 
grains of the powder may be given two or three times a day. 
In infusion, one ounce to a pint of boiling water; the dose is 
from 1 to 2 fluid ounces. 
No. 48. European Centaury. 
This is a useful stomachic, tonic, and antiseptic, and is given 
with advantage in dyspeptic complaints. The flowering tops 
are principally used. They are intensely bitter, and yield their 
active powers to both water and alcohol. A dose of the pow- 
der is from 30 grains to a drachm; of the extract, 5 grains to 
a scruple; of the infusion, a wineglass three or four times a 
day. 
No. 49. Spindle-Bush. 
Expectorant, diaphoretic, and laxative. It is beneficially 
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inflammation of the bronchia, incipient consumption, and in all 
affections of the pulmonary organs attended with cough and 
deficient expectoration. The bark of the root in the form of 
strong decoction is used, taken freely as the stomach will bear, 
or just sufficient to maintain moderate perspiration. A syrup is 
the most eligible form in which to administer it to children - 
made by boiling half a pound of the bark of the root in a gallon 
of water reduced to a quart; strain, and add two pounds of refined 
sugar. Of this, the dose for an adult is from half to a wine- 
glassful three or four times a day. 
No. 50. Henbane. 
Henbane is a strong narcotic, very poisonous, and often 
proves fatal when taken by mistake. Applied externally, in 
the form of poultice and fomentation, it is useful in all cases of 
painful and obstinate inflammations, such as fistulas, boils, swell- 
ings of the breast, scrofulous ulcers, indolent tumors, inflamed 
eyes, and cramps in the bowels. In deep-seated inflammation 
of the kidneys, bowels, testicles, etc., this poultice is very use- 
ful, seldom failing to produce beneficial results ; and for many 
painful affections a better application can scarcely be found. 
In very severe pains, a small teaspoonful of the tincture may 
be given. Externally, a poultice may be made of the leaves, 
by simmering them in water, and then adding the slippery-elm 
bark. The extract is an excellent substitute for opium and will 
probably eventually supersede it. An aqueous solution of the 
extract (twenty grains in four ounce of warm water), in doses of 
one or two teaspoonfuls, according to ages and violence of the pain 
or paroxysm, has been found eminently useful in asthma, pleu- 
risy, after-pains, and in great nervous irritation; the doses re- 
peated once in thirty or sixty minutes, and discontinued on 
the first indication of an abatement of the symptoms. 
No. 51. Jalap. 
The pulverized root, in doses of 10 to 30 grains, acts as a 
safe and efficacious cathartic. Jalap and cream of tartar have 
long been used in dropsical cases: 25 grains of jalap, united 
with from 40 to GO grains of cream of tartar, form a powerful 
purgative. The extract and tincture retain the active princi- 
ples of the root. The jalap combined with other purgatives, 
has been proved eminently useful in typhus, cynanche maligna, 
marasmus, chorea, tetanus. 
No. 52. Lobelia. 
Lobelia is a very valuable plant, containing many active medi- 22 
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cinal properties. It is emetic and peculiarly stimulating, and 
from its action upon the great sympathetic nerve, its effect is 
felt throughout the whole system. It exerts a peculiar action 
upon the trachea and bronchial vessels, almost instantaneously 
expelling any collection of mucus that may have occurred in 
them. Hence it is exceedingly valuable in asthma, croup, 
whooping-cough, and in pulmonary diseases generally. Lobelia 
contains an oil, similar to that of tobacco, which is destructive 
to health and life, even in very small quantities; it acts on the 
system similarly to common tobacco. From its extensive influ- 
ence over the animal economy, particularly the stomach and 
liver, it is found very effectual in exciting a healthy action in 
many chronic diseases, such as dyspepsia, affections of the liver, 
etc. It is also an excellent emetic when poisonous substances 
have been taken into the stomach; but there is no disease in 
which it displays such a remarkable effect as in asthma. In 
paroxysms of this complaint, when the patient is nearly suf- 
focated, it will give relief instantaneously. It is equally valua- 
ble in the pneumonia of infants, affording immediate relief 
where the child seems to be suffocated by mucus or phlegm. 
It is also very useful as an expectorant in consumption. The 
leaves, seeds, and inflated capsules, may be given in the form 
of powders and tincture. The dose of the powder, about a 
dram, or a small teaspoonful; of the tincture, the dose is about 
half an ounce or a tablespoonful. The tincture is made by 
adding four ounces of the powdered plant to one gallon of 
cider-brandy or whiskey. Lobelia also forms a most valuable 
poultice for inflammation of all kinds. 
No. 53. Blue Cardinal-Flower. 
The aborigines made much use of it for the cure of venereal 
disease, and it is said with great success. The root is gener- 
ally used in decoction. The dose of the extract in dropsy is 
from 5 to 20 grains. 
No. 54. Buckbean. 
The dose of the leaves in powder is from 10 grains to half 
a dram. The infusion, however, is preferable (one ounce of 
dried leaves to a pint of boiling water), of which from 1 to 2 
ounces may be taken two or three times a day. It is good in 
scurvy, hypochondria, rheumatism, ague, and herpetic diseases. 
No. 55. Tobacco. 
The pernicious character of the habit of using tobacco, is well 
understood by every medical man, and all authors of any re- 23 
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spectability unite in unqualifiedly condemning it. It was the 
opinion of John Quincy Adams that the average of human life 
was shortened five years by its use. Independent of its imme- 
diate effect upon the health of the system, which is very serious, 
it induces other habits if possible still more pernicious. Dr. 
Rush observes: " Smoking and chewing tobacco, by render- 
ing water and simple liquors insipid to the taste, dispose very 
much to the use of ardent spirits." " What a brotherhood I" 
exclaims Dr. Caldwell: " There are but three animals that 
can abide tobacco - the African rock-goat, the most loathsome 
animal on earth, the foul tobacco worm, and the rational crea- 
ture, Man!" The Rev. Benjamin Ingersoll Lane published a 
few years ago an excellent work on the effects of this article, 
called the "Mysteries of Tobacco." 
As an internal remedy, this article is not much used in mod- 
ern practice, being an unpleasant and unsafe agent. This plant 
was made for the anus, but not for the mouth. As an injec- 
tion, it is very useful. Lobelia would be an excellent substi- 
tute, where tobacco is objectionable. As an ointment, it has 
proved very valuable in piles, for itching around the anus, 
prolapsus of the bowels, etc. The secret of one of the most 
popular and extensively-used compounds in the country has 
been communicated to me (as a secret), which I found to owe 
much of its virtues To this herb. It is an extraordinary and 
valuable remedy in many diseases. Tobacco Poultice is a val- 
uable application in piles, etc. The fine herb, taken as snuff 
for colds and stoppage of mucus in the head, affords almost 
immediate relief. 
No. 56. Abscess-Root. 
The root is employed, in decoction, in consumption and all 
affections of the lungs and liver. The Indians used it in fevers, 
pleurisies, to produce copious perspiration. 
No. 57. Buckthorn. 
The juice of the berries is a violent purgative, attended with 
much griping. It is not employed much alone; but a syrup, 
combined with aromatics, is sometimes used in dropsy, rheuma- 
tism, gout, etc. 
No. 58. American Centaury. 
Justly esteemeed one of the most efficacious bitters known. 
Every part of the plant affords a pure, strong bitter. It is a 
popular remedy throughout the country as a stomachic febrifuge 
and a cure for intermittent fevers. It is useful in all kinds of 24 
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fevers, remittent, nervous, and typhus, and may be given 
in every stage. It promotes appetite and digestion. Two 
ounces of the leaves and flowers of centaury, and one ounce of 
orange-peel, may be infused in two quarts of brandy for two 
weeks. One tablespoonful of this tincture, taken before break- 
fast and dinner, will create an appetite; and children having 
worms may take two teaspoonfuls or more every morning, 
which will effectually destroy them. In order to restore the 
menses, pour two quarts of water on two ounces of tops, and 
steep for half an hour; then strain, and add a pint of rum. 
Dose, a teacupful four times a day, together with fomentations, 
etc. In uowder, the dose is from 10 to 20 grains. 
No. 59. Bittersweet-Herb. 
It is very beneficial when administered internally, in combi- 
nation with yellow-dock, in scrofulous and scirrhous diseases. 
It is also beneficial in liver-complaints, in all cutaneous diseases, 
and in ill-conditioned ulcers. In this country, the small twigs 
and leaves are the parts used in medicine. The syrup, in which 
Solanum is combined with other agents, is a favorite remedy in 
scrofula, herpetic and ulcerous sores, syphilitic complaints, and 
all taints of the blood. 
No. 60. Tomato. 
The fruit is tonic, stimulant, laxative,*is well adapted for 
dyspepsia, constipation, liver-complaints, etc. Its hygienic pow- 
ers are well known and established by the testimony of our best 
writers, pronouncing it one of the most wholesome and valuable 
esculents that belong to the vegetable kingdom. In dyspepsia 
it is not too much to say that it may be considered a sovereign 
remedy. The Indians use it as a diuretic, and to expel concre- 
tions from the kidpeys. The juice of the vine affords one of 
the most durable vegetable colors known to dyers, and is of a 
beautiful brilliant hue. The inspissated juice of the fruit, made 
into pills, may be administered in doses of from 30 to 40 grains 
at night. As a diet for dyspeptics, with the addition of salt and 
pepper, it is valuable to be used freely, being both food and 
physic. 
No. 61. Garden Nightshade. 
It is excellent for all malignant ulcers, combined with bella- 
donna, hyoscyamus, and datura. The extract, enclosed in linen, 
and applied to any painful part, will relieve the pain speedily. 
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