m »■:' liiii'li m BK Surgeon General's Office XaAjUXXrCX At -'£& % k %jcM^ & \nd and Body may be retained from Childhood to a Ripe Old Ago Bx HAKMON KNOX JjOOT, A.M., M.D., iUTHOR OF A SERIES ©F LECTURES ON HEALTH, AND IMVENTOR OF THE INFALUBLB LUNG BAROMETER. ILLUSTRATED WITH 65 RARE AND INTERESTING ENGRAVINGS. ' Blessed is he that readeth, and they that keep those things that are written therein," [St. Jaha.\ for " It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the-song of fools.," (Salomon. THIRTEENTH EDITION, EEVISED. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY ADOLPHUS RANNEY, 195 BROADWAY. CINCINNATI: H. M. ETJLI80N, 115J MAIN ST., bbtwkxh 8d and 4th bis. 1856. w IT Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by HARMON K. ROOT, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. COPTED FROM "An ACT TO AMEND THE SEVERAL ACTS RESPECTING COPYRIGHTS." Section 6. And be it further enacted, That if any other person, from and after the recording the UUe ol any book or books according to this act, shall, within the term or terms herein limited print, publish, or import, or cause to be printed, published, or imported, any copy of anv such book or books, without the consent of the person legally entitled to the copyright thereof first had and obtained in writing, signed in presence of two or more credible witnesses, or shall fe;"*,1^, J1""8 t0 be,,s° P™ted °r imported, publish, sell, or expose to sale, or cause to be f^lti' «d^0reuPnrd K™1*1 my c°Py of such b00k' without such consent in writine «S . .i, oflend<:r *hall ft"*!11 e™ry copy of such book to the person legally, at the time enti- tled to the copyright thereof, and shall also forfeit and pay fifty cents5for every such'sheet Z Z, T7 be/ound lnbls! Possession, either printed or printing, published, imported o-execs r^Lf ^eVC°nt'a/y V}le mtent of this act 5 the one m~ety to such legal owner of' the cTv right as aforesaid, and the other to the United States, to be recovered hlLtZn^f Lit ■ P7' oourt having competent jurisdiction thereof. recovered by action of debt m any price of "The People's Medical Lighthouse" is $2 PREFACE, The author of thij work having been before the public for some years, both in extensive practice of his profession and as writer of a widely-circulated series of "Lectures on Health," believes no apology will be needed for the appearance of this offspring of his labors; especially when he remembers that he has been, as it were, forced to offer it to the world, by the urgent and oft-repeated solicitations of hundreds of his patients in various parts of the country. That it will meet with a kind reception from thousands of the afflicted, the author is constrained to be- lieve by the fact that twenty thousand copies of his Lectures were circulated in the first eighteen months of their publication: and having, since the issue of that work, lectured to upwards of one hundred thousand persons, and successfully treated some twenty-five thousand cases of disease, in all the various forms which it pre- sents, (of which a minute and complete, record, embracing many volumes, wherein symptoms, modes of treatment, causes of complaint, and temperament, age and con- dition of patients, has been kept,) he feels that the experience and observation he has gained, and the medical knowledge he has accumulated, when presented in the manner employed in the following pages, will not only insure a candid reading for his book, bat will operate to greatly benefit those who shall peruse and digest its contents. The diseases treated of in this work, and their causes, prevention and cure, have been the objects of the intense study and close investigation of the author for many years, theoretically and practically. With an earnest desire to understand and suc- cessfully pursue the great science of medicine, and with ardent feelings of sympathy for the afflicted, he has traveled over various parts of the country, visited numerous places where medical information is to be obtained, and attentively considered and candidly weighed all the prevailing systems and doctrines of medicine. The ex- perience and knowledge gained, the observations made, the truths elicited, and the convictions arrived at, the reader will find embodied in the work now presented for his edification and instruction. In view of the facts that thousands are suffering from disease and pain—are ignorantly sacrificing health and life—and are cut off in the prime of existence, the author has felt it his duty to make use of his humble abilities in this manner, in the hope of benefiting his fellow beings, by pointing them to the paths of health, and so instructing them that they shall develop and preserve their faculties, personally and as a race—physically, morally and intellectually. In endeavoring to do this he has cut loose from the technicalities of medical schools, and from the professional jargon, (entirely unintelligible to all general readers,) behind which the ignorant in the science endeavor to hide their want of knowledge, and has presented his ideas, so far as possible, in undeflled English, and in a plain and vi PREFACE. direct manner, so that every one may be able to not only read but to comprehend that which is written, and be thereby instructed. In treating of the various complaints, and in pointing to remedies, the author has endeavored, also, to set forth many causes of disease and premature death. This will be found to be one of the principal objects of the work. For the benefit of man, it is as important that we should know the causes of disease and the modes of •prevention as the methods of cure; for, by knowing the former, we may escape often a necessity of resorting to the latter. And as his practice has led him to look into the causes of disease, and to observe the means by which sickness may be prevent- ed, the writer deemed it incumbent in this work Jo give the reader the benefit of his experience and observation, in the hope that he may use them to his own good. The old adage—"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," applies with great force in all matters of health, and should be a rule for every man's governance. No one can with safety neglect it. To preserve health is a much easier matter, if men will give attention to the subject, than to restore it when once it has been lost. The first is in great measure in the power of every person; the latter often requires the most scientific medical skill, such as but few men possess. Nearly every in- valid, now shut out from the joys of fife and the pleasures of the world, borne down to the ground with an intolerable load of physical and mental suffering, and per- haps doomed to an early and untimely grave, might, by having taken tne proper steps to preserve health, be now in the full enjoyment of that inestimable blessing, and in prospect of a long, happy, and useful fife. We should remember the truth con- tained in the proverb which reads—"A prudent man foreseeth the evil and fleeth, but the simple pass on and are punished"-and apply it in the avoidance of all causes tending to disease. In view of some of the pernicious fashions and customs of modern civilization, and of the destructive vices existing, whereby many are led to the tomb, and dis- ease ^nded down to the coming generations, the author has felt it a duty to speak plamly and boldly his thoughts and convictions, the more especially as these sublets are m the mam passed over by medical writers, as being in^rious to thei prlcC and thus left to spread havoc and devastation in all classes of societyTntZl this, though not withholding the truth for fear of offence, nor studying verbosiTy where direct speech was better calculated to convey the desired ideH hi b^ ^hich s^ °e T the^ ^TT ^^ t0 ^^ ^ * P^-C ££££ Lvbrii:rrtho*open to object^ - —> £ causes in the production of prLature dC^^TST Trf ^ *** part been gathered from a multitude of relilbbauthot' an, "* ^ * of the writer's own extended experience taSL * ? "" " Part the resulta ful perusal thereof will not oZ afZT ^V"**06 °f his Profe^on. A care- will show him how »^S21 to "t ^^ inf°rmati0D' but ed with his welfare, ^^^XT^^T" ^^ °—* possible; they are respectfully «*JJ^J^^T* *~ * ** no ona can read them without gaining such inf™♦ ' h<$ assuran<* that ^ for the purchase and penJi * ^voLmt " ** *** """■«*• PREFACE. vii A glance at the table of contents will be sufficient to show that the work is filled with matters of the most interesting and important character, connected with the human being, from infancy to old age; that it is one needed by the public, and is calculated to convey the most satisfactory instruction to all classes of readers. The author feels confident that if this labor of his is received in good faith, carefully read and inwardly digested, it will be of great benefit to thousands of his fellows. It will teach them to know themselves. It will redeem them from disease, and place them in the possession of health and happiness; it will take them from lingering misery, and place them in the lap of ease. If they would have health, strength, beauty, and length of days, in these pages shall the roads thereto be pointed out to them; if they would have knowledge of themselves, physically and mentally, and would be instructed how to live happily, usefully and honorably, this book shall be tho mine from whence rich stores of intellectual ore may be drawn freely by all That it may serve these ends with his patients, his friends, and the public generally, is tho earnest and sincere wish of THE AUTHOR. %* All orders for medicines, and letters of consultation, to be addressed to Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway, New York. Persons writing to Dr. Root should be particular in stating, plainly, the name of the town, county, and State in which their postoffice is situate, and whether they would have their medicines sent through the mail, by express, or as freight. Persons residing in country towns would find it to their advantage to have their medicine packed with the goods of some merchant of their town who was having goods sent from any firm in New York, as it can thus be sent safer and with le8a expsase than by the usual modes of transportation. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page Frontispiece—with Portrait of the Author ------ Perfect Male and Female Fig- ures ..... The Yenous System - The Arterial System The Heart and Lungs Section of the Heart Lungs, with Arteries and Yetns The Emaciated Invalid - - - - Fcetus, showing the Umbilical Cord, through which the Blood passes from the Mo ther to the Child - - Nervous Telegraphic System Married Couple, with thetr Child The Vegetable os Botanic Medi cines........ Lungs Pierced and Dreed Up - Ulcerated Lung..... Lung with Grub in it, and Ulce rated ........ Weariness and Lassitude - - Ulcerated Kidney - - - - Diseased Bowel, with Piles - Section of Tuberculous Lung - Grubs in the Brain and Optic Nerve ...... Injurious Position in Study Incorrect Position for Standing Correct Position for Standing Injurious Attitude in Sewing The Liver and Stomach Worms—different kinds Snake, Frog, and Evet - Cancer of the Breast - Cancer on the Face - - The Scrofulous all over xxiv 6 6 12 16 17 20 21 22 42 46 59 61 64 65 70 11 75 94 104 106 106 106 113 123 125 128 130 132 Page The Swelled Leg......133 Crooked Boy.......133 Straightened Boy.....134 Tumor on the Neck.....134 Goitre on the Neck.....135 Case of King's Evil.....135 Spinal Curvature.....136 Case of Scald Head ----- 137 White Swelling......143 The Onanists and their Child - 148 Artificial Waist;—Natural Waist 184 Natural Chest.......185 Compressed Chest.....185 Case of Bronchitis.....264 Abdomen of the Female—Inter- nal Yiew.......266 Womb fell in at the Top - - - 267 Womb and Appendages - - - - 269 Cancerous and Ulcerated Womb 269 Ovarian Tumor......272 Dropsical all over.....288 fcetuses from fifteen days to Nine Months......338 fcetus in the womb.....340 Twins in the Womb.....340 Four in the Womb.....341 The Temptation and Disobedience 352 The Punishment for Transgres- sion .........354 The Redemption......356 Health for the Sick - - - - 374 Dr. Root surrounded by Distin- guished Persons.....375 Lung Barometer......385 Flat Chest—Full Chest - - - 388 Contracted and Well-developed Chest........389 Dr. Root's Office—512 Broadway 409 CONTENTS, ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE CHEMISTRY. Page Description of animals................... 1 Description of vegetables................ 2 Components of animals and vegetables.... 2 Teach the wisdom of God ............... 2 Man should not be arrogant............... 2 Man's duty to preserve life .. ;............ 2 ON THE BLOOD. Blood the life of all flesh................. 3 Physiology, chemistry, reason and the Bi- ble teach this...................„--- 8 From the blood originate the humors...... 3 Change of the blood...................... 3 Blood a component part of all animals .... ■ 3 The author's system of practice.......... 4 His medicines......................1'..... 4 REVELATION ON THE BLOOD. Quotations from Scripture to show that in the blood is the life............,..... 4 Poisonous humors in the blood disease the system............................... 6 Necessity of purifying the blood.......... S Prevalence of impurity................... S The venous and arterial systems.......... fi CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD KNOWN TO SOLOMON. Circulation discovered by Harvey........ 6 Destruction of life by blood-letting....... 7 100 bbls. of blood drawn by an allopath... 7 60 lbs. of calomel given by do............. 7 Number it would kill..................... 7 Opinions of physicians.................... 7 Origin of the term " Q.uack''.............. 7 The dead tell no tales..................... 8 The graveyards can witness.............. 8 No blood to spare......................... 8 The true system.......................... 8 Vegetable "medicines have stood the test... 8 Animals resort to vegetable remedies..... 8 AIR THE BREATH OF ALL LIFE. Scriptural illustrations.................... 9 Call to the consumptive.................. 9 Air keeps the blood in circulation......... 9 Let out the blood, death follows........... 9 Take away the air, and man dies.......... 9 USES OF THE LUNGS. Lungs before birth....................... 9 Filled with cells and tubes............... 9 No air in the lungs of the fetus........... 9 Description of lungs...................... 9 Description of heart, and organs of respi- ration................................ 10 " Adam's apple "......................... 10 Thyroid gland—necessity for , its greater size in the female..................... 10 The use of the lungs..................... 11 Composition of air........................ 11 Electricity communicated to the blood ... 11 Air purifies the blood...........,......... 11 Generation of animal heat................. 11 Physicians should know of these matters.. 11 Ignorance of the J Faculty"............ 11 Invalids should not despair................ 13 Try the Lung Barometer.................. 13 RESPIRATION. Amount of air to sustain life...........'... 13 Quantity sometimes inhaled............... 12 Children should have plenty of............13 Respiration per minute, hour, day and year 13 Air usually inhaled...................... 13 Quantity of blood in the adult............. 13 Blood performs its circuit twenty times an hour................................. 13 Importance of keeping the blood pure.... 13 Inflation of the lungs................... 13 Extra inflation.......................... 14 Extra inflation may be injurious ......... H Necessity of Lung Barometer. ........... 14 Point at which death occurs ............. 14 Air in the lungs ot Jenny I ind, "American Deer," and others...................15 Necessity of ventilation ................. IS THE HEART. History and development of............... 16 Diseases of, can be cured.................. 18 NO BOOK TEACHES THE USES OF THE LUNGS. Strength of body not in lungs............. 18 Expansion of............................. 17 Value of the Lung Barometer in diseases of the lungs............................. 17 ABUSE OF LUNGS BY INHALING TUBE8. When extra inflation should be practised.. 18 Advocates of tubes have no guides........ 18 Inhaling tubes may cause disease and death................................ 18 Ancients knew nothing of tubes.......... 18 Gymnastic exercise for the lungs......... 19 MAN'S STRENGTH IN HIS BLOOD. Take away the blood and strength is gone 19 Loss of strength from thin blood..........20 Believe not the deluding ^uack..........20 Health restored through the blood........20 Blood nourishes the child before birth.... 20 The umbilical cord....................... 20 How it should be tied and cut............. 20 Description of the foetus.................. 21 Circulation of blood from the mother to the child.................................21 GRATIFICATION OF THE PASSIONS. The natural passions should be gratified... 21 The brain a phrenological congress.......2S Desire for children natural................ 25i No peace without gratification............ 22 Electricity stimulates amativeness........ 23 The sexes magnetic............,........ 33 X CONTENTS. Effects of masturbation...................23 An explosion follows if God-given desire is not gratified.......................... 23 "It is better to marry than to burn"........ 23 Life shortened by not marrying........... 23 Gratification the safety-valve............. 24 Man should not hinder what God has ordered.............................. 24 No passion created in vain................ 24 Complete restraint dangerous............. 24 Passions of animals gratified............... 24 Prostitution follows total restraint.........24 Laws and customs of society lead people from the paths of virtue.............. 25 EDUCATION AND DISEASED BLOOD AT WAR. Phrenological teachings not correct.......25 Character dependent upon the blood.......25 Character cannot be told from the sinuosity of the skull.......................... 25 Purification of the blood necessary........ 25 Body and mind affect each other.......... 26 Phrenologists gone beyond reason........ 26 Something besides the bumps should be at- tended to........................... 26 Good men made irreverent by ill.health... 27 Necessity to attend to the health.......... 27 NO BOOK TEACHES THE TRUE CAUSE OF INSANITY. The brain an assemblage of organs........27 Quality of the blood affects the mind...... 28 Cause of insanity explained............... 28 Substances of bone....................... 29 Phosphorus in the brain...................29 Actuating cause of insanity...............29 Number of insane in the U. S..............30 Age when most prevalent................. 30 Antidotes provided.................,.....30 NO BOOK TEACHES THE CURE OF CON- SUMPTION. Reason why given....................... 31 The Lung Barometer removes all difficulties 31 Consumption is curable................... 31 Cured by the author...................... 31 HEREDITARY DISEASE. Parents do not guard against.............. 32 Fareuts le suppressed so long..... 250 Insanity from disappointed love.......... 250 Consumption from....................... 250 DOMESTIC QUARRELS. Cause of sickness and death.............. 251 Induced by............................. 251 Insanity from.................i..........251 Consumption from..................•--- 251 Unhappiness from marrying without love. 251 Difference between marriage for loie and without it...........................'252 RESTORATION OF SEXUAL LOVE. Power of sexual love.................... 252 A fountain of pure happiness............. 252 Pure love tobani-ti disease............... 252 Shame upon physicians, lawyers and cler- gymen.............................. 252 Woe is unto them........................ 263 Call upon the ladies..................... 253 LOVE HAS ITS MAGNET. Love is of God........................... 253 Power of the passion..................... 2o3 Its good effects.......................... 253 SECTARIANISM A CAUSE OF CONSUMP- TION. Different beliefs in a family.............. 254 Often effects of.......................... 254 True religion defined.................... 254 THICK BOOTS AND SHOES. Benefits of............................... 255 Paper substitutes for..................... 255 Deaths from thin shoes................... 255 Folly of fashionable ladies............... 255 AIR-TIGHT STOVES. Bad effects of............................ 256 Operation of, explained.................. 250 Consumptions from...................... 256 THE DEATH OF A RELATIVE OR FRIEND. Consumption from sorrow for............. 256 Should not be indulged.............. ... 256 Submit to God........................... 257 Victims of sorrow....................... 257 Disappointment in love—its fatal eff'ects... 257 Insanity from........................... 257 CONSUMPTION, A CHILD OF FASHION. None among the Indians................. 257 Child-births among the savages..........258 Reasons why easy....................... 268 Characteristics of the Indian—physically 258 ASTHMA, A CURABLE DISEASE. Kinds and symptoms of................. 259 Induced by what........................ 259 Sufferings from.......................... 259 Relapses in............................... 260 General descriptions about............... 260 Effects of weather....................... 261 Change of locality....................... 261 Cure for................................. 262 Perseverance necessary.................. 262 KNIT SHIRTS HASTEN CONSUMPTION. Linen, cotton, woolen and silk............ 262 Which should be worn, and when........ 263 Let the skin bave air..................... 263 Rub it often............................. 263 Objection to knit shirts.................. 263 Care needed about clothing.............. 264 BRONCHITIS. Description and symptoms............... 264 Chronic and acute....................... 265 Persons most liable to.................... 265 Consumption from....................... 265 WOMB AND OVARIAN DISEASES. Falling of the bowels and womb......... 266 Causes of................................ 2o6 Organs in abdomen...................... 266 Tight dress and corsets.................. 207 Their effect on the womb................ 267 Dift'ere'it ways of the womb falling......267 Pains caused by.......................... 267 Miscarriage from falling womb........... 268 Polypus of the womb ................... 268 Often mistaken for pregnancy............ 269 Grubs in the ovaria...................... 269 Surgical operations dangerous............ 269 Ulcerations of the womb................. 269 Cancer of the womb..................... C?o Origin of................................ 270 Are they hereditary .................... 270 Appear at "change of life"............... 270 Age when most......................... 270 Married women have more............... 270 Inflammations of the womb............... 270 Causes of............................... 270 Symptoms and effects.................... 270 Women should not be accused of " hypo'' 274 xviii CONTENTS. The ovaria.............................. Tumors of the ovaria.................... Enormous size of........................ Render child-birth impossible............ Cancer of the ovaria..................... Beware of surgical operations........... Dropsy of the ovaria..................... Great enlargement from................. Mistaken for pregnancy................. Cancer of the vagina, rectum, an I neck of the bladder......................... FISTULA. Fistula In ano............................ 273 Cause of................................. 273 Progress................................ 274 Surgical operations make wci se.......... 274 May be cured medically................. 274 Ravages of fistula....................... 274 Consumption from.......................275 Fistula in perinso....................... 275 Fistula lachrymalis...................... 275 HEART DISEASES. Enlargement and palpitation of the heart. 275 Symptoms of............................. 276 Rheumatism in the heart................. 276 Inflammation of the heart................ 276 Softening of the heart................... 276 Fatty degeneratiou of the heart..........276 Tubercles and cancers................... 276 Dropsy of the heart...................... 276 Polypi in the heart....................... 276 Ulcers of the heart...................... 276 Consumption of..........................277 Humbug of empirical works on heart dis- eases................................ 277 Ossification of the heart.................. 277 FITS—CAN BE CURED. Cause of fits.............................277 Often from worms....................... 278 Cause must be known and treated ....... 378 DYSPEPSIA. Symptoms and causes.................... 279 Exercise should be taken................. 279 Sofa and parlor will not do...............279 Try the old spinning-wheel.............. 279 Dyspeptic students....................... 2S0 Eff'ects of too close study................. 280 Students must exercise................... 280 " Bolting" the food.......................280 Dyspeptics and consumptives should exer- cise................................. 280 CHOLERA. CHOLERA MORBUS, CHOLERA INFANTUM, DYSENTERY AND DIAR. RHOSA. The Asiatic cholera.....................280 Cause of, etc.............................281 Cholera morbus.......................... 281 Causes and manifestations................ 281 Cholera infantum....................... 281 Causes and effects........................ 282 Dy8 Effects of wealth on health in old Rome'' 298 State of health after the fall of Rome ' 298 Remarks of Dr. Samuel H. Dickinson'on poverty and its effects.............. 399 Prostitution from poverty.............090 Characteristics of a people wea'lthv, and'a " peoplepoor................. • 3nQ Money the steam engine to man '' 301 Contrast the poor and rich. ........ 3LD AND YOUNG SLEEPING TOGETHER. Reprehensible practice.................... 309 Young diseased and killed by it..........309 Philosophy of it explained............... 309 Wet nurses for old men.................. 309 Females hired to associate with superan- nuated men......................... 310 ART OF EMBALMING—BURIAL GROUNDS. Embalming in old times.................. 310 Process with the Egyptians.............. 310 Embalming in England.................. 311 A modern process........................ 312 Not lasting.............................. 312 Burial grounds.......................... 312 Monuments and tombs in................. 312 Diseases from............................ 312 The " Potter's Field"..................... 313 Beware of it............................. 313 Location of burying grounds............ 313 Disease from burying yards in London___ 313 Cemeteries in the United States........... 314 PROSTITUTION—SUPPRESSION OF MAG- DALEN ISM. Its importance........................... 314 Courtesans in London, Paris and N. York. 314 One to every six men.................... 315 Number in the United States............. 315 Glory in their shame..................... 315 Results of prostitution................... 315 Destroys connubial love.................. 315 Pol lutes the first home of the being...... 315 Deprives virtuous women of husbands.... 315 Prevents marriage....................... 315 Induces masturbation.................... 315 Leads virtuous women into harlotry......315 Robs the world of loveliness............. 315 Makes men hate all women............... 316 Makes women hate all men.............. 316 Opens the door for all sorts of crimes..... 316 Rows the seeds of disease................. 316 The hideous serpent protrudes........... 316 Flowery paths filled with thorns.......... 316 Harlot pointed without, but fall of cor-up- tion within.......................... 316 Unholy liint for pure low* ...........31*! Effects of unlicensed commerce on child- bearing ............................. 316 Makes women barren.................... 316 One thousand courtesans have but six chil- dren a year.......................... 217 Extinction of the race by harlotry.....!!! 317 Effects of syphilis......................! 317 Leads the young man to ruin...........317 Makes him a thief....................... 317 Solomon on the harlot.................... 317 His advice.............................. 317 Causes of Magdalenism.................. 318 Caused by protracted celibacy........... 318 Illicit crime from celibacy............... 318 Language of a Baptist minister.......... 318 Solitary vice amorig Shakers and Roman priests............................... 31s Prostitution from poverty................ 313 Government more to blame than the harlot 318 Duty of lecislators...................... 319 Prostitution Lorn seduction..............319 How virtue is overcome.................. 319 Sorrow of relatives and friends........... 320 Effects of a seduction.................... 320 Prostitution from desire of the woman..... 320 Should not jraze upon the serpent..........320 Beware of edged tools................... 320 Not suffer passion to be wrought upon___ 320 Don't play with burning brand.....,.....320 Power of choice with woman............. 321 Can tantalize man........................ 321 Her artful ways.......................... 321 Other causes of prostitution..............321 Duty of parents and guardians..........321 Every man and woman who cohabit should be considered man and w lfe.......... 321 Paul teaches this......................... 321 Marriage in the sight of heaven.......... 322 Woman impressed by first man........... 322 Illustration given........................ 322 Strong argument for early marriage......322 Unmarried man and harlot having inter- course should be man and wife....... 322 Better to marry than to burn............. 322 What God has intended.................. 322 The " necessary evil" considered........ 323 Most fallacious doctrine................323 Based on late marriages.................. 323 " Lawless libertinism"................... 323 Arises from harlotry..................... 323 Language of Rev. Dr. Wardlaw.......... 323 Who are to be the " safety valves"....... 323 Whose daughters are to be decimated..... 323 Harlotry will not save wives and daughters 324 Will destroy them....................... 324 Prostitution should bo put under law..... 324 Courtesans subjected to medical examina- tion................................. 324 Disease ought to be prevented............ 324 GOOD NURSES—CHEERFUL COMPANY. Often absolutely necessary............... 325 Differences made by......;.............323 Often better than the doctor.............. 325 Kind treatment in female diseases........ 825 Remarks of Dr. Hollick.................. 325 Sanitary report of Massachusetts on ne- cessity of good nurses............... 326 HOW TO GAIN THE AFFECTIONS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX. Play upon the strongest passion........... 326 What love arises from................... 327 Remarks of O. S. Fowler................. 327 When to use " soft soap"................. 327 When to be moral....................... 327 To be benevolent........................ 327 To present intellect...................... 327 To be pious aud devout.................. 327 How to treat timid damsel............... 328 To display refinement...................328 When ta be sentimental.................. 328 XX CONTENTS. To be affectionate and tender............. 328 Charms to excite love................... 328 Remarkable herbs of the Oneida Indians.. 32*3 Possessed by the author.................. 32:) PROCREATION OF THE SEXES AT WILL. Old notions exploded.................... 329 How sex is determined................... 329 Dr. Hollick's remarks on................ 329 Influence of age......................... 329 Of vigor................................ 329 Effects of polygamy..................... 330 When conceptions should take place......330 Medical treatment often necessary........ 330 Results of experiments................... 330 ADVICE TO PREGNANT LADIES. Responsibility of....................;••• 331 A mother from the moment of conception. 331 Impressions oc the foetus................. 331 How they may be produced............331 Disease to child from bad blood.......... 331 Blood affected by the mind.. . .,......... 331 Three generations nourished by the same blood............................... 332 Interesting condition................. — 332 Diseases of womb from mental emotions 332 Baneful effects to the child............... 332 How the pregnant should conduct........ 332 Remarks of Dr. Caldwell on.............. 332 Advice of Combe........................ 332 Duty of woman to bear children........333 Made so by God......................... 333 Language of Scripture given............. 333 Rejoicing at birth of a child............. 333 FOOD FOR PREGNANT AND NURSING MOTHERS. Childbirth rendered easy by certain foods. 333 Subject explained........................ 333 Proved by facts.......................... 334 Illustrations -g'ven....................... 334 Table of foods given, with the calcareous matter of each....................... 335 Ladies can select from................... 335 Food during nursing...................... 335 Nonsense about.......................... 33 5 Nursing mother needs good, rich food___ 336 Necessity of this........................ 336 Consult her appetite.................... 336 Do as at other times...................... 336 Keep the clothing comfortable............ 336 Mind easy...............................336 Not nur>e too often ..................... 336 Bad for the child........................ 336 Milk affected by the mind................ 337 ChilJ may be killed by.................. 337 Instance of.............................337 DEVELOPMENT OF THE F02TUS. Its first appearance..................... 337 Appearance at twenty days.............. 337 The first month.......................... 337 Second month—with weight............. 339 Third month............................ 339 Fourth month........................... 339 Fifth month............................339 Sixth month............................. 339 Seventh month......................... 339 Eighth month........................... 339 Ninth month—time of birth.............. 339 Twins, triplets, or more.................. 340 Their general weight—the extremes of i weight.............................. 340 . Remarkable cases....................... 340 J Usual weight of child.................. 341 PERIOD OF GESTATION. General average.........................341 Difference in time........................ 341 No fixed period.......................... 349 Laws on legitimacy..................... a« Some born at 168 days................... 34J Some at over 300 days................... 342 Unjust remarks of ignorant people.......343 PREVENTION OF PREGNANCY. Theories about......................... 342 Expediency of........................... 343 Philosophy of impregnation.............. 343 Prevailing opinion........................ 343 Veiled in some obscurity................. 343 Fallacious theory of prevention.......... 343 Cannot be trusted........................343 Conception can take place at any time... 343 Don't trust to theories.................... 343 Only security the Male Prevention Safe, or Powder........................... 343 IMPRESSION ON THE UNBORN CHILD. The fact undeniable..................... 344 Theories to account for.................. 344 Should think of this when marrying..... 344 Idiocy from foetal impression.............. 344 Deaf and dumb births.................... 344 Effects on animals....................... 345 Laban and the peeled rods............... 345 Effects on the foetus from connection with a second person...................... 345 Case of.................................. 345 Influence on future children............ 345 Argument for early marriage............345 Instances given by Dr. Holiick........... 346 Remarks of Di. Harvey upon............. 346 Purity of blood lost by connection........ 346 Considerations suggested................ 346 Experiments on animals................. 347 Instances of palpable effects in the human being............................... 347 Diseases communicated to the children of the second husband.................348 About marrying widows................. 348 Consult this in marriage.................348 Child marked by the woman kneeling___ 348 Marked by ear-rings..................... 348 Hatred of the father from mental emotion of the mother....................... 349 Marked by a cancer..................... 349 Maimed paupers should be kept out of the streets........r...................... 349 Child with disposition of a tiger......... 349 Marked from killing a calf............... 350 From killing a cat........................ 350 From spilling wine...................... 350 From playing with a heifer............. 350 From hearing of outrage on husband..... 350 From husband's hat knocked 08'......... 351 Marked by a cranberry.................. 351 By a dead owl........................... 331 Numerous other marks.................. 351 Duty of the pregnant mother...........!! 351 Children not always marked when ex- pected ............................. 351 By sudden and forcible impressions!..'.'!! 352 From seeing idiots...................."" ggr Where idiots should be placed...'.'!.'!!!.'.' 353 THE SERPENT AND ADAM CAUSED THF FALL ; THROUGH WOMAN CAME THE REDEMPTION. "* General impression wroner.. «o Woman not guilty......f....'............f? Acted from benevolent feeling..........o£> Not in a spirit of disobedience! ........*y{ Command was to Adam___ .......«:~ Adam disobeyed without being'deceived' 3« Woman was deceived.... S "• T* Language of the Bible....................t\l Redemption through innocent'woman!"' 353 Sinful man not the vessel of honor £t Man not a parent of Christ.. .......££ Woman found favor with God............353 CONTENTS. XXI Vih&t tke Bible says.................... 353 Christ born of innocent woman........... 354 The language of Paul....................355 Christ had respect for woman............ 356 Credit due to woman..................... 356 She should be educated in a consciousness of innocence......................... 356 Her usefulness impaired................357 Is unj jstly accused...................... 357 Appeal to woman........................ 357 Be no more weighed down...............357 Witty reply of a lady to a clergyman___ 357 If woman is so wicked, why do men seek after her ?........................... 357 Woman in the churches................357 WOMAN THE GLORY OF MAN. What says the Bible ?.................... 358 Paul, Solomon, and God upon............. 358 Intention of God in making man and wo- man................................. 358 Magnets for each other................. 358 How woman has been used............... 358 Her present condition.................... 358 What she is to man...................... 358 A fountain of love....................... 358 What man does for her................... 358 Honor done to her....................... 358 The boast of the woman.................359 What she does........................... 359 What man performs to earn her love.. . . 359 Man an icy mountain without............ 359 Influence of woman on the destiny of na- tions ................................. 359 She rules everywhere...................359 Contrast the East with the West......... 359 Man in a state of polygamy.............. 360 Miserable condition...................... 360 Happiness only in marriage.............. 360 Necessity to preserve the health of woman 360 WOMAN'S LOVE NEVER CHANGES. Continues after death.................... 361 The pride of a nation.................... 361 Her virtue destroyed, and downfall follows 361 Watch over her......................... 361 INVALIDS IN OFFICE. Should they be allowed.................. 361 Sick man not fit for judge or legislator--- 361 Benefits to be derived from excluding in- valids ......,........................362 Would make men seek health____...... 362 Whole i ace would be improved.......... 362 STUDY THE BIBLE—THE GREAT LAW BOOK. A guide in all things.................... 362 Health and happiness from obedience..... 362 Disease from disobedience................362 Greatest and best men have obeyed it.....363 STATE WORKHOUSES FOR THE POOR. Should be industrial homes.............. 363 Inmates should be paid for what they earn 363 injustice of present rules................. 364 Every man should have labor............ 304 Streets infested with beggars............. 364 Shame and disgrace..................... 364 What should be done with them......... 364 Encourage the unfortunate............... 364 FEMALE INDUSTRIAL HOME. Great necessity for...................... 365 Poor females should be employed by the state and paid........................ 365 Encouraged to lay up money............ 365 REFORM SCHOOLS. Don't send boys to prison................ 365 Effects of..........................,..... 36C Reform schools in different states........ 366 Results of—encouraging................. 366 Reclaimed from sin...................... 366 Unfortunate boys made respectable....... 368 Misery and crime prevented............ 366 Made worse by going to prison.......... 367 Ruined forever......'.................... 367 Objection about the cost................. 367 One dollar for reform saves a hundred___ 367 MAGDALEN ASYLUMS. Lock Hospitals.......................... 367 Benefits of............................... 368 Woman reclaimed through...............366 Remarks of Rev. Dr. Wardlaw........... 366 Asylums in London...................... 368 Difficulty of fallen woman returning to so- ciety................................ 368 Should be aided......................... 368 What said Christ........................ 369 FOUNDLING HOSPITALS. Child murders.......................... 369 Law does not prevent....................369 Deserted woman will try to save her repu- tation............................... 369 More sinned against than sinning......... 369 Illegitimate children..................... 369 Betrayed woman........................ 369 Cast off by the seducer................... 369 Made insane by.......................... 170 Child murder flourishes........,......... 370 Should save the mother from second crime 370 Foundling hospitals for this.............. 370 Reputation of the woman saved.......... 37fl Kept from prostitution................... 370 How woman is seduced................. 370 The lengthy siege........................ 370 Deserted by relatives.................... 370 Prosti tu tion her only resort.............. 370 All this may be prevented....... ....... 370 Private lying-in hospitals................ 371 Would save character of many........... 371 What the rich do in case of accident..... 371 Should not poor be saved also............ 37'. "WIFE, THIS BOY IS FIT ONLY FOR A DOCTOR!" 371 371 371 371 372 372 372 372 372 372 372 373 373 373 373 373 373 Remark often made...................... Blunder heads and ignoramuses.......... What doctors are made of............... Doggedly ignorant...................... Proved by themselves.................... Glory in their imbecility................ '• Sheep-skins" passports for slaughter___ Can't get a living any other way.......... Bribea through college.................. Don't know enough to go in at a barn door Mass led by a ring in the nose............ Mere ciphers............................ Crept in at the port holes................ Not self-made men....................... Do not battle with disease................ The author has headed the enemy of man The honor he desires..................... CURE OF CONSUMPTION. B'ing.ing mecnames..................... 374 Bungling doctors........................ 374 Why one physician does what uo other can 374 Reasons of author's success.............. 374 THE SEVENTH SON. Seven remarkable number...............375 Among the Jews........................ 375 In the Bible..........................378 In the heathen world................... 376 Displayed in the seventh son..........376 David seventh son........... >.......376 xxii CONTENTS. Seventh son a natural born physician.. . . 376 Author a seventh son.................... 376 Bom with two veils over his face......377 Peculiar insight......................... 377 Men different!v gifted...............377 The natural ta'leut...................... 377 Second rate without.................... 377 Can't make marble of granite............. 377 Why we have bunglers...... .......... 377 Apostle Paul on natural gifts..........377 Spirit giveth " gilts of healing".......... 377 Called by Nature to be a physician....... 378 QUESTIONS TO INVALIDS, Por the benefit of persons at a distance, who wish to be prescribed for by letter 379 CHAR3E FOR MEDICINES, ADVICE, AND EXAMINATION, Including the various cases that present themselves.......................... 381 Remarks to patients..................... 381 Can bo doctored by letter................ 381 DOCTOR, WILL YOU WARRANT A CURE 1 The question often asked................383 The author's answer..................... 383 Reasons for............................. 333 Invalids do not mind their physician...... 383 Should have full confidence.............. 383 Never take medicines doubtingly........ 384 Had I only known of or seen Dr. Root........ 384 Result of neglect........................ 384 Where the invalid may find aid..........384 THE LUNG BAROMETER. Consumption cannot be treated without . 3S5 Walking in light or in darkness.........385 Lungs can be tested only with the Bar- ometer ............................. 385 Expansion and inflation of lungs........385 Among the Greeks...................... 385 In Europe............................... 386 Introduced into the U. S................. 386 Beneficial effects of...................... 386 Inhaling tubes humbugs................ 386 How to get extra inflation............... 386 Dangerous without guide................ 336 Guide in the Barometer................. 3Sfi Worthless imitations of.................. 387 SUSPENDER AND SHOULDER BRACE. Its great importance..-..........,........ 337 India rubber suspenders and straps....... 387 Consumption from...................... 3S8 A perfect article oQ'ered................ 388 Its effects on the ladies.................. 339 European ladies........„................ 3sg Inattention to good figures.............. 389 Beauty lost by ....'...................... 3^9 Death caused..........................3S9 FRENCH MA.LE SAFE, AND FRENCH MALE PREVENTION POWDER, FOR THE PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION. Invaluable in the maintenance of health.. 390 When should be used................... 390 Remarks of Plutarch, Burton, Combe, and Esquirol........................... 390 Disease and dcatn without the Safe.......390 Children killed without.................. 390 Use in all cases of malformation.........391 Prevention a religious duty.............. 391 Neglect of physicians..................391 Guilty of sin............................ 391 Consumption prevented by Safe.......... 391 Dr. Hollick on conception and prevention 391 Death following conception............. 391 Custom to produce abortion.............392 1 Always dangerous...................... 393 Ladies killed............................ 303 I Always at risk of life.................... 392 : Reliable means of prevention........... 393 ! People will cohabtt.............. ....... 392 Prevention by Onanism.................. 393 Evils from.............................. 392 Tlffe use of injections...................392 Use of a sponge......................... 393 Objections to........................... 392 Compressing male organ................. 392 Disease from this practice................ 393 Avoiding pleasurable feeling............ 393 Its futility.............................. 393 Safe and Powder always reliable........393 How they can be had............... .... 393 VEGETABLE BLOOD REMEDIES. Dr. Root's Blood Renovator............. 394 Anti-Bilious Pilis....................... 395 Heart Regulator......................396 Lung Corrector..................... ... 397 German Ointment....................... 398 Catarrh Snuff'........................... 399 Cancer Eradicator....................... 400 Female Wash..........................401 Water Regulator........................ 401 Hair Producer........................... 402 Eye Water.............................. 403 Ear Lotion.............................. 404 Worm Killer...........................405 Dysentery Specific......................406 Root's Nervine.......................... 407 Elixir of Life............................ 409 ADDRESS TO THE SICK.............403 DR. ROOT'S LECTURES..............411 TESTIMONIALS OF THE SKILL AND SUC CESS OF DR. H. K. ROOT. Cure of consumption in its last stage...... 412 Enlargement of and grub in the spieon... 413 Dreadful case of cancer cured........... 413 Spinal curvature cured..................! 414 Cures of consumptive asthma, &c......'!.' 414 Fever sore cured.......................! 415 Another case of consumption............ 415 Cure of epileptic fits and consumption...! 415 Case of neuralgia cured................. 4ig Scrofula cured.................!!'.!!!!!!! 417 Case of catarrhal affection......'!..!!.!.! 417 Another consumptive raised............!! 417 Dropsy, jaundice, and contraction of leg.' 417 Remarkable sure of a bachelor.......... 418 Remarkable insight.................\\\\ 41a Cure of short breath...........!!!!.'!!!.'." 419 Cure of obstruction in the air tubes of the lungs ;.............................. 4ig A cure of tuberculous lungs......... ' 4ig Bleeding lungs cured.............!.'.' 400 Inward humors, stiffness of joints, numb'- ness, general debility. &c. cured 400 Scrofulous swelled neck................4^ Enormous bronchial goitre cured........421 Case of suppressed menstruation .......421 A common case—life of a lady saved.....400 K^f156^1 dr°P'y' d>,sPePsi^ tc. cured 422 Cure of asthma, pain in the head, &c 401 Another cure of a deep consumption "" 423 Desperate case of rheumatism "494 Case of sixteen years' standing cured'.'''' 424 Case of scrofula all over Via Saved from death...... .............It; Case of grub in the liver!................2o, Vagina] polypus cured.. .............lt„ Case of dried-up lung.. ......... tf? Loss of smell restored.!!!................ 1„ Cure of asthma...... ................ "7, Cure of asthmatic affection.!!!!!!.'.'!!.'.'" 427 CONTENTS. XXlll 0ur» of salt rhe^m.....................423 Case of involuntary omissions............ 428 An ovarian tumor cured................. 429 ^ase of paralysis curedi................. 429 A cure for consumption..........,.......430 Case of falling of the womb.............. 430 Cure of erysipelas....................... 430 Testimonials of two ladies...............430 Recommendation from a physician.......431 Another case of consumption.............. 431 Another lady's testimony.......'......___ 431 White swellings—ulceration and exfolia- tion healed.......................... 432 Cancerous ulcers of the womb cured.....432 Extraordinary cure of bleeding lungs.... 433 Extraordinary cure of cancer............ 433 Bleeding lungs and grub................. 433 Milk-leg cured.......................... 434 Case of tumor cured..................... 434 Another case of tumor................... 435 Diseased kidney and grub................435 Inflammation of the tonsils.............. 435 The Wiseman........................... 436 Scald head cured........................ 436 A d ream fulfilled......................... 43G Female complaints....................... 437 A truly extraordinary cure............... 437 Dyspepsia and cholera................... 438 CERTIFICATES OF CURES BY CIRCULA- TING MEDICINES. Dropsy and dyspepsia.................... 439 Cure of heart disease..................... 439 Female complaints....................... 439 Coughs and colds........................ 440 Removal of pain and inflammation........ 440 Remarkable cure of pleurisy............. 440 Fits, falling of the womb, and gravel..... 441 Saved by the lung corrector and inhaling fluid................................441 Another lady saved...................... 441 Palpitation of the heart.................. 442 A cure for quinsy and croup............. 442 Saved from cholera and worms........... 442 Epileptic fits and palpitation of the heart.. 443 Wonderful good for fresh wounds........ 443 Case of catarrh cured................... 443 Inflammation in the eyes................. 444 Another great cure of dyspepsia......... 444 Blindness cured.......................... 444 Falling of the womb cured.............. 445 A mother's lift saved.................... 445 iifcc's (t t'ie shoulder brace............. 446 I.-line i.ie and stomach..................446 D/aiidiul 1 ip complaint...................446 Cure of a scrofulous cancer.............. 448 Remarkable cure of inflammation amd black vomit......................... 447 Cure of general debility................. 447 Hair restored............................ 447 Unequaled for Piles...................... 448 Deafness and discharge from the ear cured 448 Cure in a case of worms.................. 448 Well attested in a case of poison.......... 449 Cure of chronic rheumatism............. 449 Case of ulcerated throat................. 149 Spinal affection___...................... 149 Erysipelas and sore eyes................. 450 The shoulder brace—from a lady......... 450 Another testimony in favor of the brace.. 450 Remarkable cure of cancer.............. 450 Another spinal affection.................. 451 Eff'ects of Root's Nervine................ 451 The Lung Corrector and Blood Renovator in England.......................... 452 Tuberculous and ulcerated sore throat... 452 Saved from consumption................. 452 Physicians recommended to prescribe the German Ointment.................... 453 Remarkable cure of diseased lungs....... 453 Cure of fever and ague................... 453 Another fever and ague case............. 453 Another cure of scrofula................. 454 For chilblains or frost-burns............454 Bronchitis and cough cured.............. 454 Dreadful case of fits..................... 454 Severe case of scald head cured.......... 455 Cancer of the tongue and mouth.........455 Further testimony in favor of the German Ointment............................ 455 Remarkable cure of consumption........ 456 Cure of Ji-ease contracted in California.. 456 Genteel whiskers raised................457 Heart disease cured in a short time.......457 Cure of chronic rheumatism............. 458 Another dyspeptic made happy.......... 458 Child saved from worms.................458 Another case of bronchial affection......459 More fever and ague..................... 459 Cure of watery scurvy.................. 459 Scrofula banished....................... 460 Another bad cough stopped.............. 460 Case of tic doloreux..................... 400 Rejoicing where before was sorrow......461 NOTICES OF THE PRESS............. 46' RULES OF LIFE..........,............4iJ DR. ROOT'S PERPETUAL ALMANAC. 4( PERFECT MALE AND FEMALE FIOVRES. ' The human frame, as a machine, is perfect,—it contains within itself no marks by which we can possibly predict its decay; it is apparently intended to go on forever." Dr. Monn i. THE MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. "As health is the mot. precious of all things, and ii the foundation of all happiness, the science of protecting life and health is the noblest of all, and most worthy the attention of all mankind."—Hoffman. ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE CHEMISTRY. At.t. bodies endowed with life, and with a power of spontaneous motion neoea- sary to support life, are called animals. Animals are thus distinguished in general from vegetables. But a more correct and scientific definition is the following:—An • animal is an organized body, sensible, capable of voluntary motion, provided with a central organ of digestion. They are all capable of reproducing their like; some by the union of the two sexes, produce small living creatures, and are called vivipa- rous; others lay eggs, which require a due temperature to produce young, styled oviparous; some multiply without the conjunction of the sexes, hermaphrodites ; and others are reproduced when cut in pieces, like the roots of plants, animal plants. After man, all other animals have been divided into a few general classes in the following manner; the study of which teaches the master works of a God of wis- dom, benevolence, and mechanical ingenuity, who has perfected with the most wonderful arrangement all the necessary physical organs suited to the whole ani- mal creation, each organ working in the most perfect manner, and with the most delightful harmony. Some species of the animal creation have heads, others have none, (as worms and insects,) some with nostrils, others having none, (as worms and insects,) some with ears, and others without, (as insects and worms,) some having two ventricles in the heart, (as man and quadrupeds,) while others have only one ventricle, (aa birds, oviparous quadrupeds, serpents, and fish,) and worms and insects have hearts variously formed. Some of the animal species have hot blood, (as man, birds and quadruped animals,) others with blood nearly cold, (as oviparous quadrupeds, ser- pents and fish,) others with a whitish transparent fluid or blood, (as insects and worms.) Some species of animals have lungs, and inspire and expire air frequently, (as man, birds, and quadrupeds,) others inspire and expire air at long intervals, with lungs, (as birds, oviparous quadrupeds, serpents, and fish,) others admit air by gills, (as fish,) others air by spiracula, (as insects,) while others have no apparent entrance or aperture to admit air, (as worms.) Some of the animal species have teats, aflbrd- ng milk for their young, (as the females of man, and the quadruped animals,) others 1 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. have no teats, or milk for their young, (as birds, oviparous quadrupeds, serpents, uv sects, and worms.) Some of the animal species have four feet, with hair, others with four feet without hair, (as oviparous quadrupeds,) others with fins and no hair, (as cetaceous animals,) others scaly without feet or fins, (as serpents,) others scaly with fins, (as fishes,) others with feathers and two feet, (as birds,) others with hands and feet, (as man,) others having neither feet, ".ands, backbone nor scales, (as worms,) others having antenna; or prominent organs attached to the head, like feelers, (as insects.) Some species of animals have two nervous systems, (as the mammalia, animals, birds, reptiles, and fish,) others have a nervous system surrounding the ossified shell or bone, being sympathetic, (as shell-fish, insects, worms, molluscae fmimals, having soft bodies without a skeleton,) others have a knotty spinal marrow with articulated joints, (as insects,) others have a knotty spinal marrow without ar- ticulated limbs, (as worms,) others without any blood vessels, veins, arteries, heart, or brain, (as insects.) The component parts of all animal substances are found in the blood of animals, differing according to the kind of flesh, which are known to chemists under a few heads, viz.:—Nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. In addition to these it sometimes contains sulphur, phosphorus, iron, and small particles of saline matter. The principal vegetable substances which have claimed attention, both for food and medicines, are embraced under a few general heads known to chemists, and most of them are of great importance, and of frequent use in various and multi- plied forms. They are sap, mucilage, gums, oils, resins, gum resins, caoutchouc, bal- sams, starch, gluten, sugar, albumen, acids, tannin, alkalies, wax, honey, and aroma. All vegetable substances are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The distinguishing feature of animal from vegetable substance, is the large quantity of nitrogen which goes to make up its composition, and which tends strongly to aid in its putrefaction and decomposition, and to throw off offensive smells while it is un« dergoing the progress of decay. Truly is God the master mechanic, perfect in all his works, for no other being could create the various animals, beautiful and complicated, forming each and all in full perfection. The most radical of infidels, 'in viewing the wondrous works of God, declare that had we no Creator to father the works we behold, there should one be manufactured. But who of men would dare to assume a responsibility in • volving the interests of all things in heaven and earth, even were it possible? Or who would take upon himself to pull dovon these wondrous works of the Creator of au, that he might build them anew ? Should not even the most learned and able of mortals (who, when compared with God, is as nothing) hesitate at the thougb.1 of pulling down a creation of the Deity, in order to rear it up again ? Ought h« not to labor to the end of preserving, in the form and condition of its creation, even part and portion of a work of God with which he has to deal ? To man has not been deputed the power to create life; but by exercise of the faculties implanted within him, he may comprehend the formation of created beings, and by observation and experience learn to so use the means placed within his grasp as to assist nature in preserving, in their full strength and beauty all the various parts and organs of the wonderful living machine called Man. But it is not for him in his arrogance to proceed in his endeavors ignorantly, nor to go contrary (as by far too many do) to the infallible teachings of reason and the revelations from the Creator himself THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL. LIGHTHOUSH. 3 ON THE BLOOD. "For the life of all flesh is the blood thereof."—Lsm. xtii. 14. Physiology, chemistrv, Bible truth, and homan reason combine together to teach us that the llood, assisted by air, food, light, warmth, and exercise, is the Bource and fountain of animal and human life. "We know the effects of air in the purification and circulation of blood in the lungs; and we know that the effects of light upon the body are as pleasant as to the eye, and as healthful; and also that without exercise and warmth life could not be sustained. We know, too, that the food, after being taken into the stomach, is subjected to a process of digestion, Which converts the nourishing parts of it into a milky fliM called chyle; and this chyle is the basis of the black or venous blood. "We know, also, that in the blood originate all the humors of the body. The gastric and pancreatic juices; the milk; the sebacic acid; the bile; the urine; the prussic, zoonic, formic and bombic acids; the hard parts of animals; the humors of the eye; cartilages; brain; synovia; tears; mucus of the nose; cerumen of the ears; saliva; pus; semen; sweat; liquor amnii; eggs; hairs; feathers, silk, and all the secretions, spring from this common fountain. After coursing through the veins in a dark and heavy stream, the blood passes into the lungs; and in this wonderful laboratory its character is changed. Its color, under the influence of the oxygen or vital air, communicated by the air vessels of^the lungs, becomes a bright red; and being now fitted to feed, nourish and sustain the various parts and organs of the body, is transmitted through the channels running through the heart to every extremity of the system. There is not a fibre of the body of which blood is not a component and highly important part; and it follows of certainty, that upon the state of this material the diseased or healthy condition of every organ is greatly dependent. " A corrupt tree," saith the inspired volume, "bringeth not fbrth good fruit;" nor can corrupt blood impart health, beauty, good flesh or good spirits. Says Combe:—"The quantity and quality of the blood have a most direct and material influence upon the condition of every part of the body. If the quantity sent to the arm, for example, be diminished by tying the artery through which it is conveyed, the arm, being then imperfectly nourished, wastes away, and does not regain its plumpness till the full supply of blood be restored. In like manner, when the quality of that fluid is impaired by deficiency of food, bad digestion, im- pure air, or imperfect sanguification in the lungs, the body and all its functions be- come more or less disordered." The theory of the author then is, That "the llood is Hie life;" that by a diseased and poisonous condition of this fluid (contracted from contagious disease or vege- table decomposition) the seeds of fever, pain and death are conveyed to all parts of the system; that no medicine which does not renovate, purify and enrich the Wood can expel disease; and, finally, that this desirable object can alwayB be at- tained by the use of the proper vegetable remedies given by the hand of the Creator, when correctly prepared and understandingly administered. In view of these simple facts, and with a certainty of being able by the use of the proper means to cleanse the stream of polluted blood, the author offers bid 4 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. system of practice and his medicines to the public with a confidence in and cer- tainty of their efficacy and power in the cure of the varied diseases to which M flesh ia heir." His practice is based upon the truths of inspiration, the laws Oi nature, and the knowledge of chemistry; and his medicines are scientifically com- pounded from purely vegetable substances, received from manifold sources, and from every part of the habitable world. The productions of Nature from which they are prepared, have stood the assaults of the medical faculty from the first in- traduction and use of mineral poisons down to the present day. They were given, in the wisdom of the Creator of all, as we may see recorded upon the pages Oi Holy Writ, for the health and welfare of mankind, and it is only for us to make skillful and proper use of their virtues and powers that the designs of God in then first production should be fully realized. These medicines are composed of widely different vegetable ingredients, suited to the various diseases they are designed to cure : for nature furnishes no cure-aU applicable to every malady. They are, how- ever, all designed to subdue disease at its fountain-head—the blood—and thus ac- complish a radical cure. Notwithstanding, for one medicine,—the Blood Renova- tor, put up by me, whether used separately or in conjunction with other remedies, produces the most wonderful effects upon the health of the invalid. REVELATION ON THE BLOOD Revelation first announced to man that the life-giving principle of the flesh is in the blood, in the rebuke of God to Cain for the murder of his brother Abel:— "And the Lord said unto Cain, What hast thou done ? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from $he ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." Here the death of Abel is ascribed to the shedding of his blood; but if the life-giving principle had not been in the blood, its shedding could not have caused the destruction of his life. But this truth does not rest on mere inferential authority; for we have the most unequivocal and explicit declarations of Scripture that "the life of the flesh is in (he Hood," and "is the blood." God, by the mouth of Moses, thus spoke to the children of Israel:—"For the life of the flesh is the blood: it is the life of all flesh: the blood is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof." It has been recognized, both by sacred and profane writers, not only as the life of all flesh, but as typical of spiritual cleansing and healing. Hence both Pagans and Jews shed the blood of animals to propitiate the favor of their deities. The God of Israel directed the shedding of blood in sacrifice; accordingly, for thousands of years, the blood of victims slain streamed from Jewish altars. Christ is regarded as the great antetype of the Jewish sacrifices, and as having by the shedding of his own blood, obtained eternal redemption for mankind.__Heb. ix. 12. The following, from among a multitude, are a few of the Scriptural declarations in proof of my theory that the blood contains the life-giving power, and the con- stituent elements of life in every part and parcel of man and animal, which decla- rations are supported by chemistry, and by reason derived from observation and experience: THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE 5 "For the blood is the life."—Deut. xii. 23. "For the life of the flesh is in the blood."—Levit. xvii. 11. "For the life of all flesh is the blood thereof"—Levit. xviL 14 " He shall pour out their blood, for it is the life of all flesh."—Levit. xvii. 13, 14. If the above passages of Holy Writ be true, then I have proved that blood is, as it were, the maker of the body; and the theory that it is the life of all flesh is es- tablished upon a basis from which it can never be shaken. And if this point be thus established, then this inference surely and legitimately follows, to wit: That all poisonous impurities in the circulating stream tend directly to plant the Beeds of disease and death in the human system, and to enfeeble the constitution in propor- tion to the extent of their prevalence; and that health can only be enjoyed in its full perfection where the blood is kept in a pure, rich and uncorrupted Btate. Hence the necessity of pure blood, to give health, beauty, long life and happiness. What the sap is to the tree or shrub, so is the blood to the human system. Thia is most reasonable. If, as the voice of God declares, "the life of all flesh is in the blood," and " is the blood," reason would say, and observation confirm the decla- ration, that poisonous humors in the blood must inevitably corrupt it, and unless expelled, must sooner or later undermine the health and destroy the life of the victim. We have reason to believe that in no age of the world were mankind so ex- tensively afflicted with evils arising from impurities of the blood, as in the present Tens of thousands of all classes—old and young, high and low, rich and poor— almost our whole nation, if not the entire population of the globe—are in greater or less degree affected by derangement and impurities of the blood. Hence the 150,000 deaths annually from consumption in the United States alone, (constantly increasing,) with as many more from inflammation of the lungs and pleura, to say nothing of the millions of deaths annually from scrofula, erysipelas, cancers and tumors, salt rheum; hearty liver and lung affections; spinal disease, debility, fits, kidney and womb affections; insanity, physical and mental infirmity and diseases of other kinds, with deaths of children, which rise up before us wherever we go. The secret of skill and success in the prevention and cure of diseases tending to consumption must lie mainly in having the knowledge and means to restore the blood from a corrupted condition to a state of healthiness. These being possessed, and properly used, the physician will rarely fail to effect a cure, The veins and arteries in the human system are thousands in number. To give a_J| fidnt illustration of their great importance to convey the blood from the heart to'* every organ, for the support and sustenance of the flesh, and to return it again, the following plates (Nos. 1 and 2) are appended. The venous system, by which the blood is conveyed into the pulmonary artery, and thence into the lungs, is represented in the following outline engraving. The arterial system, which is much more complicated than the venous system, branching out by the grand avenue of the aorta, pervades every fibre of the frame, and has offshoots bo minute as to be invisible without a powerful microscope. It supplies the waste of nature, and upon the purity of the fluid with which it feeds the body in health, life and ease depend. Its multitudinous offshoots, which convey nutriment to the members as the sap vessels of a tree convey sap to the remotest branches and twigs, are depicted in the annexed plate. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAI LIGHTHOUSE. No. 1.—The Yenotjs System. No. 2.—Abteeial System. ^PRen CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD KNOWN TO SOLOMON. owned commentators on the Bible have supposed that Solomon (a man of great wisdom and intelligence) possessed a knowledge of the circulation of the blood, and as full an acquaintance with its workings in the system as could be expected in that remote age, when physiology generally was but little understood; and that he taught (in figurative language) this important truth Previous to his time, tliough the fact itself had existed the same for 3000 years, and the blood of myriads of men and animals had been poured out, it is doubtful if the attention of any one had been drawn to the subject 'The language of Solomon in Ecclesiastes xii. 6—"Or ever the silver cord (having reference to the spinal marrow, from its color,) be loosened, or tho golden bowl (the yellow-colored skull) be broken, or the pitcher (tto vena cava, which brings back the blood into the right auricle of the heart) be bnken at the fountain, (the heart) or the wheel (the great artery near the left ventricle of the heart) broken at the d»- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 7 tern (the ventricle itself)"—is thought by commentators to have figurative reference to the ch~euJation of the blood, and to show that thus much at least of physiology ivas known to the Jewish king. But according to the received authority of the day, the honor of the discovery of ihe circulation of the blood is due to Dr. Harvey, in the year 1619; but it has been tlaimed for Servetus, Columbus, and Cawalpinus. From the frequent and deadly practice of blood-letting in the last two hundred years, we would reasonably conclude that the discovery of the circulation had been a curse to mankind rather than a blessing. Solomon knew enough about the cir- culation of the blood and the effects of its shedding not to practice blood-letting. And blessed indeed would it have been for mankind had the followers of Harvey been as wise as the king of Israel. The destruction of human life at the hands of legalized man-killers, by bleeding, has been a heavy and needless tax on health and population. Could the voices of all those who have been hastened on their journey to the tomb by the murderous practice of blood-letting (and the voice of their blood crieth forth to the living as did that of Abel's) be heard at once, the earth would tremble with the shriek—" Murder 1 murder 1" Says Dr. King—" If em- ployment 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 destroyed." And Dr. Hunn has remarked—"Abominable is the murdering quack, who, forever impatient to unsheath his blood-thirsty lancet, draws from a fever patient the irrep- arable balsam of life." One of the professors in the Medical College of this city stated that he had fre- quently bled his patients to the amount of two hundred ounces, making ten pints, in three days. Another professor declared that he had taken three hundred ounces, making fifteen pints, in an extremely short time. A doctor of the city of Boston, stated in a public lecture, as an example for his students, that he had taken one hundred barrels of blood during his medical practice. (He ought to have said his slaughtering practice.) One hundred barrels, allowing thirty-two gallons to the barrel, makes three thousand two hundred gallons, or twenty-five thousand six hundred pints of blood I This would take the lives of eight hundred persons, allow- ing four gallons of blood to each individual I The Bame doctor stated also that he had given fifty pounds of calomel I making no mention of the number of blue pills. Of these remedies, Dr. Hamilton has remarked—"Among the numerous poisons which have been used for the cure or alleviation of diseases, there are few which possess more active, and, of course, more dangerous, powers than mercury." And other distinguished medical writers, most of them formerly of the " regular faculty," have concurred in saying that " Minerals exert a pernicious and baneful influence on the system; they seldom or never cure, but often destroy the patient Their operation is altogether uncertain, depending entirely on the state of the stomach whether they act at all or prove injurious." Blood-letting by medical men was but very little practiced, until 1615 or 1619, being up to this date, 235 years. The in- troduction, of calomel, or mercury, as a medicine, was in the year 1493, 122 years before the discovery of the circulation of blood; making to 1852, the space of 359 years. The introduction of quicksilver, as a medicine, was made in 1483, by Theo- phrastus Bombastus Paracelsus; and the German or vegetable doctors gave him the name of Quack, for using quacksalver, or quicksilver. If all the doctors for the last 235 years, once the discovery of the circulation of the blood, and the introduction 8 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. of the laacet and bleeding, had taken each one hundred barrels of blood from the Bick, and dealt out fifty pounds of calomel each, and given the other poisons also, what a wholesale slaughter had been carried on by the mineral (now " regular") doctoral In what in the name of common sense and reason, does the great skill of these "regulars" consist? In bleeding, vomiting and purging with blue pills, and prostrating the patient? Or what do they mean when they say that their mineral medicines are the only medicines, and their practice the only practice to give health to the sick? Such pretence is a libel on the creations and productions of Deity, for it places God, physiology, chemistry, and reason in the background of their assumed profundity. They would seem to say, while making these assertiosa, (like the barbarous savage to his captive)—" the dead tell no tales I " But they are not screened even by the death of their victims; for the very tombstones in the graveyards bear witness of the fatality of their practice. We have not a drop of blood to spare, under any condition of health. The neces- sity of changing the character of the blood, is of frequent occurrence, and can be ajways readily accomplished. During the treatment of over twenty thousand cases of consumption and disease in all its various forms, with the most perfect success, I have never as yet seen any necessity for bleeding. Nor do I think there can be any necessity for draining the vital fluid of life, in the cure of disease. Depreciate or take away the blood, and you take the life. Depreciate or take away the air, and you take the breath of life. How simple, important, and yet how truthful 1 Still, for hundreds of years have we had the theories of philosophers, and systems and schools of physicians and anatomists, attempting to guide our steps and assist our researches into the origin of our lives and natures, but in vain! They have all strayed into theoretical con- jectures, written in barbarous technicalities, about matter, spirit vitality, electricity, &c Age after age has seen all these theories, systems and guessings of physicians, after momentarily agitating the world, pass away, leaving mankind a prey to per- plexities, doubts, suppositions, diseases and death. Mankind should have held on to nature, the teachings of inspiration, and to the remedies which nature has pro- vided, instead of betaking to the poisons that kill rather than make alive. Vegetable or botanic medicines have stood the test ever since the creation of the world, under every possible form of disease, saving life in every case where life could have been saved. They are ordained and created of God, given to men and ftnimnla both for food and medicine, and therefore cannot fail to cure, if properly used, and the disease is curable. The animals hasten to their vegetable remedies, with perfect safety, under all conditions, and rarely die of disease unless deprived of their healing remedies by confinement or decrepitude. AIR THE BREATH OF ALL LIFE. Having proved that blood forms every part of the body, and is the life of al! flesh, I now propose a few remarks as to the breath of all life. We have the life. and the breath of life. Air is food for the blood, and blood for the various parts of the body. This reason and inspiration teach us; and this a knowledge of the won- derful effect produced upon the blood by air while in the lungs also teaches. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 9 In the Scriptures we read—"And God breathed into man's nostrils tho breath of fife, and he became a living soul."—Gen. ii. 7. Paul said, Acts xvii. 25, that " God giveth all life and breath" God, before the flood, said he would " destroy all flesh wherein was the breath of Efe (excepting Noah and his family), and they should all die."—Gen. vL 15. "Whose breath is in his nostrils."—Isaiah ii. 22. " They all have one breath."—EccL iii. 19. David said—" The Lord taketh away their breath and they die." Job said—" His breath was corrupt and his days were extinct; the graves were ready for him."—Job xvii. 1. Also, "his breath was strange to his wife, though he entreated, for the children's Bake of his own body."—xix. 17. Consumptive, is your breath corrupt, like that of Job ? Are you diseased, as was he? Are your spirits gone?—has hope fled your bosom? Job kept up courage during his afflictions, and trusted in a safe deliverer. Go thou and do like- wise. Avail thyself of the aids which science has prepared for thee from the pro- ductions of the earth. Remember, that while there is life there is hope; and that by the use of simple and suitable means, rightly administered, you can yet rejoice In health, good blood, abundance of flesh and buoyant spirits. While therefore, blood forms the body, air keeps the blood in circulation. Blood alone affords nourishment to the child while in the womb, and it is only after birth, when the lungs are inflated, that air becomes necessary for the continuation of living existence, and for the preservation of health during life. All this is dem- onstrable. If the umbilical cord of the foetus be cut or an artery of an adult be opened, the blood runs out and the subject dies: excluded from the air death imme- diately follows, after'birth or after the lungs have once been inflated. USES OF THE LUNGS. Having shown that air is the breath of all life, it may be well to explain the nature and use of the organs which contain the air. The lungs, before the birth of the child, are about one-thirtieth part of the entire weight They have no action or use, however, until the child comes into the outer world. When they have been inflated for some months, their weight in proportion to that of the whole body is as 1 to 18. There is no air in the lungs until after the birth of the child, nor even then, unless they are inflated. If the child dies before an inflation of the lungs, these organs will Bink in water. By this knowledge it cau be determined whether violence has been done to a dead child, and whether it died before or after birth The lungs are filled with thousands of air-cells and air-tubes, and when these are once inflated th* air can never be expelled from them, not even by cutting them into the smallest of possible pieces. In this condition—whether whole or divided in parts—they will not sink in water. The shape and size of the lungs in the adult person depend somewhat upon the form of tho chest and the condition of the heart and liver. In a natural state of the body, and where the chest has not suffered from violence or been distorted in obe- dience to 5—^e injurious dictate of fashion—such as tight hdng,—ihe lungs on theii I 10 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. outer surface are convex—on the inner, concave. In tho cavity or hollow of the left lung, which is expressly adapted to the purpose, and has been called the bed ol the heart, lies that important organ. The shape of the natural lungs is like that of a sugar-loaf, having the smaller end ttf>. The right lung has three lobes—the left but two, ordinarily; but there have been cases where as many as four to six existed. Each lung and their different lobes are Beparated by a membrane, called the pleura. The pleura lines the cavity of the thorax or chest This membrane, when inflamed, adheres to the lungs or chest; and is called a serous membrane, in distinction from those which line the mouth stomach, intestines and air passages, called mucous membranea The bronchial tube enters the lungs about midway, and divides into two branches which pass one to the right and the other to the left lung, where there is a sub- division into thousands of air tubes. This point is known as the root of the lungs. The blood vessels enter and pass out at the same place. These blood vessels are called pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins. The pulmonary arteries carry the blood from the heart to the lungs, to be purified by the air; and after there going through a chemical change, the fluid is returned to the heart by the pulmonary veins. By the color of the blood from bleeding lungs, it can be determined whether an ulcer or abscess has ruptured a vein or an artery. The heart is surrounded by a sac, called the pericardium, which is a part of the pleura. In a healthy state, the heart just fills the natural bed in the lungs; but when it becomes enlarged from any cause, it presses against the lungs, and some- times with such force as to produce great difficulty of breathing and to prevent the sir cells from being filled—from which cause arise sudden deaths. The larynx is the top part of the trachea or wind-pipe. Within the larynx are four fibrous vocal cords, which, when inflamed or otherwise diseased, as in cases of sore throat and bronchial and catarrhal affections, frequently prevent the utterance of vocal sounds. The internal surface of the bronchial tube and air-cells is covered with a mucous membrane, which discharges a lubricating fluid to moisten the sur- face. An organ called the glottis is a part of the vocal apparatus, which, when in- flamed, also affects the speech. The thyroid cartilage is a projection found in the neck of the male, but wanting in the female. This projection is vulgarly known as "Adam's Apple," from the whimsical idea that when Adam partook of the forbidden fruit (commonly supposed to be an apple,) a piece lodged in the throat in the act of swallowing I and hence the projection in the male throat and not in the female. The thyroid gland is situated in front of the trachea, and upon the side of the larynx. The use of this organ anatomists have never determined. It is larger in the female than in the male, and tends to give fullness and beauty to the female neck, if it serves no other purpose. As an offset to the projection on the neck of the male, known as Adam's Apple, may we not suppose the thyroid gland to be of special use in lubricating the larynx and throat of the female—she having much greater need of such a fluid to prevent serious difficulty in the use of the tongue and vocal organs 11 Nature having been wise in all her creations, and making no thing in vain, and no other use for this gland having been found, we should (unless the ladies complain of us) reasonably conclude that to be its office 1 Having sfoken of the organs themselves—the lungs, tubes, air-celis, Ac__ proceed to ». consideration of their uses in the animal ecorcmy. God, the b ' ni THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 11 infinite wisdom, taught the necessity of inflating the lungs, when he breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life; and all the prophets and wise men of old had an understanding of the " breath of life,"—which was no more than the air we breathe. The air is a fuel to consume carbon and to emit carbonic acid gas; and is used for the purpose of purifying the blood while in the lungs; the air also supplies the blood with electricity; by this means the blood which has just come in contact with air while in the lungs, and also while it is passing in the pulmonary vein to the heart, is found to be raised to a higher temperature than that which is in the arteries passing to the lungs. The blood passing to the lungs from the heart has been found to be 100 degrees Fahrenheit; that passing from the lungs to the heart from 101 to 102 degrees. By passing into the lungs air also loses its oxygen and electricity, and becomes when expired carbonic acid gas. Air is principally composed of oxygen and nitrogen, in the proportion of about one-fourth of the former to three-fourths of the latter. But it is evident that hydro- gen and electricity are also component parts of air. Oxygen and electricity are the principles of flame and animal life, while nitrogen extinguishes both. When air is inhaled, the oxygen and electricity are communicated to the blood, which being charged with iron becomes a conducting medium; while the nitrogen is disengaged and thrown off. The iron, which gives color to the blood, is instantly rendered mag- netic under the influence of electricity. The blood is at the same time oxydized by the oxygen of the air, and instantly becomes a cherry red. This oxygen generates in the blood an acidity, to supply an acid to the stomach, when there is not enough received in the form of food or drink. The blood magnetically prepared at the lungs is thrown upon the heart, and forced into the arteries, and is driven into every part of the system. The propulsion Of the blood in this manner creates animal heat which causes it to throw off the electro-magnetic power to the nervous system, for which it has strong affinity; or, in other words, electricity being the communicating fluid for the nervous system, it becomes nervo-vital fluid. This nerve-electricity, or animal heat, being secreted by the brain often in too great a quantity, disorganizes the connection of mind and matter, which softens the brain, destroying the balance of the mind and producing mental derangement or insanity. From this cause, in connection with impurities oi the blood obstructing the circulatory system, arise local diseases, with irritation and inflammation, often terminating in putrefaction or decomposition of the affected part^ frequently causing sudden death The air we breathe, then, purifies the blood, and by a chemical change in the lungs also produces animal heat. The blood in the pulmonary vein having come in con- tact with the air in the lungs, is rendered pure and brought to a higher temperatrrro than in any other part of the body. And by this wise provision of nature, through the agency of the blood and nervous system, all parts of the body become electrified, and heat nearly equally diffused throughout the system, by which we are kept warm and. alive. You now have a grand perception of the structure and uses of the lungs. With- out a perfect understanding of these important truths in the physiology of the hu- man system, no physician should attempt to administer medicines in any case of Lung affections; as pulmonary consumption can never be cured without a thorough knowledge of the true nature and state of the disease, and the remedies proper to be used. And yet not one in a thousand of the practicing physicians of the day 12 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. at all understanJs these matters thoroughly; they go blindly to work to relieve the sufferer, and failing (as they must) to effect a cure, declare consumption to be incurable. But I have the happiness of being able to say to the afflicted that it is perfectly curable. The first step and great secret of success is to distinctly ascer- tain the kind of consumption and the stage to which it has arrived. This can be done most successfully by the aid of my great invention—the infallible Lung Ba- rometer. By the use of this invention, I am enabled to correctly ascertain the nature and state of the disease, when the proper remedies can be administered without experimenting with the life of the patient Never believe your case to be beyond the reach of medical Bkill until you have tried the virtues of the Lung Barometer; for after using it I have cured thousands of consumptive cases that had been given up by other doctors as incurable. But be- cause others declare certain dis- eases to be beyond medical aid, that is no reason for me to re- linquish my efforts; as I have long since found them to be in- competent judges of the condi- tion of the lungs. As a medicine in all lung complaints, my Lung Corrector stands first and foremost. It is the best compound ever present- ed to the afflicted. For a view of the lungs and heart, see accompanying en- graving. The amount of air to sustain life, must be from three to five cubic inches in the lungs; but varies in proportion to the size of tiiose organs, and also in persons of different habits. The sedentary individual consumes much less air than the active one. Adults with large lungs can inhale from three to four hundred cubic inches of air, and if the lungs are extra large, from four to six hundred cubic inches, at a single inflation. So varied are the conditions and sizes of the lungs, from habits of dress, and the condition of the heart and liver, that adult persons, by a correct ex- amination with the lung barometer, vary from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty eubie inches of air at each ordinary respiration. The lungs are capable of great expansion and coBiraction. Active children, having plenty of outdoor exercise, consume as much air as adults, their breathing or respiration being quicker; but their lungs are not as large in general No. 3.—The Heart and Lungs. This engraving represents the heart and lungs in their natural position in the chest; the portion marked L be- ing the several divisions or lobes of the lungs, and the central portion the heart, marked H., the pulmonary artery and aorta, &c. RESPIRATION. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 13 From this necessity of children with large lungs to have plenty of air arises the spasms, convulsions, and sudden deaths of infants when confined in close rooms, or covered with bed clothes. Great care should be taken by parents to avoid these disasters, and to see that children have plenty of pure air. Ordinarily, about eighteen respirations occur in a minute. This gives the num ber of cubic inches of air inhaled in a minute, hour, day, and year of 365 days, as follows:— If 75 cubic inches at a respiration— Per minute. Per hour. Per day. Per year. 1,350 81,000 1,944,000 709,560,000 If 100 at a respiration— Per minute. Per hour. Per day. Per year. 1,800 108,000 2,592,000 946,080,000 0 at a respiration— Per minute. Per hour. Per day. Per year. 2,700 162,000 3,888,000 1,419,120,000 From this table it may be seen that the difference in the quantity of air inhaled by different persons is very great: but whether 150 or 75 cubic inches of air be taken in at a respiration, it must be observed that the use of the lungs for this pur- pose is a matter of vast consideration. The quantity of blood in the adult person averages between 30 and 40 pounds, or from four to six gallons. Compared to the weight of the body, the blood is about the one-fourth or the one-fifth part. The quantity of blood expelled by the heart at each pulsation or contraction, is about two ounces. As the pulse beats, or as the heart contracts, in an adult about seventy-five times in a minute, it follows that tho whole blood in our bodies passes through the heart and through the hings also, once in a little more than three minutes. According to this calculation, the whole mass of blood would perform twenty revolutions in an hour. We have here the estimated labor of the lungs when in health; but for a mo- ment imagine their extra labor when the blood becomes filled with humors or de- composed irritating matter from diseased lungs, fiver, kidneys, costive bowels, or disease of other organs of the body. Breatho upon a clean glass a single breath, and observe how it will become loaded with impurities, in the condensed respira- tion, when the breath is rendered corrupt and offensive from disease. And then consider of how great importance it is to the lungs that the blood should be kept clear and pure, and the air tubes unobstructed, that they may not be subjected to extra labor in the discharge of their important functions. Lnflation of the Lungs.—Inflation of the lungs is necessary at the birth of a child when the organs do not act Also when the breath has been stopped by the fall of an individual, and in cases of persons nearly dead from drowning. There Bhould be no time lost in inflation of the lungs in these cases, ere the breath of life has fled forever, or it will be impossible to continue living existence. God, when he had made man out of the dust of the earth, taught by " breathing into his nostril* 14 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. the breath of life," the necessity of starting action in the lungs and setting tbs human machine in motion. When once the action is commenced, it continues until death. Extra inflation of the lungs is necessary in cases of contraction of the lungs, either by a deformed chest habits of dress, or in case of ulcers, tubercles, phlegm, catarrh, strictures, or a collapsed state of the lungs and air tubes. The flat contracted, and crooked chest, by extra inflation of the lungs, can be changed to a full chest and noble figure, with large, healthy and useful organs of respiration. I have frequent- ly changed the appearance of a contracted, small and deformed chest to such a straight and beautiful figure, in such a remarkably short time, that the friends of the invalid would hardly know him. When extra inflation of the lungs is injurious, can only be determined upon by the aid of my Lung Barometer. No person should commence inflating the lungs until having first been examined with one of these in- fallible detectors; for those who may recommend the inflation, will not hy reason of not having the aid of this invention, know whether the extra inflation will prow beneficial or not It is with them a matter of experiment. They may wish to ben- efit you, but their advice is given ignorantly, and as the internal organs may be in a diseased state to them unknown, it is not impossible that extra inflation may finally be the cause of death. I have been for many years a careful observer of the use of inhaling tubes, ol various kinds, and have seen the most serious injuries caused by them. [See re- marks under the head "Abuse of the Lungs by Inhaling Tubes.1 ] Extra inflation of the lungs is of great injury in some cases of liver affection. Where the liver has been badly diseased or decayed and commenced to heal, the pressure of the lungs on the fiver, before the case was truly known, destroyed the growth of a new liver. The lungs often adhere to the chest or pleura, or to each other, and in these cases, extra inflation by tho inhaling tube would be very dangerous, and has often proved so. Had the invalids been examined with the Lung Barometer, the injury would have been avoided. The heart is sometimes enlarged with water; and, while in this state, the use of the inhaling tube might cause sudden death. An examination with the Lung Barom- eter would warn the physician of the danger to be apprehended from extra infla- tion, as by it he could determine the true disease. Cancers and tumors of the heart are seriously aggravated by extra inflation and the use of inhaling tubes. The liver sometimes becomes greatly enlarged with grubs, and presses the lungs; in which case, too much inflation might cause a rupture of the respiratory organ or break tho liver. There is no possible use for an extra inflation of the lungs when those organs themselves are not contracted or diseased, and the usual amount of air is received into and thrown out of them; but in many cases of disease of those organs it is de» cidedly beneficial. Extra inflation will always prove more or less injurious when the lungs are well, and the heart, fiver, pleura, stomach or spleen are affected with Borne of their peculiar diseases. So we can see that guessing and experimenting are always dangerous and liable to destroy the life of the patient By the use of the Lung Barometer all the evils attending extra inflation can be avoided; and if it be seen that inflation is necessary and expedient ^ can be prac- ticed with perfect and entire safety. And if at any time the disease should change THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 15 its locality, it can, by the use of this wonderful invention, be followed with the ap- propriate medicines with unerring certainty and successful result [See notice of Lung Barometer.] Death generally happens at about three cubic inches of air in the lungs, and is most certain to occur at that point But sometimes, in cases of cholera, sudden falls, heart diseases, faintings and fits, when the breath has been supposed to have entirely gone out of the body and the person thought to be dead, the subject re- covers his breath and lives many years. In many of these cases the Heart Regu- lator will be found to be of great use to give new impulse to the circulation and breathing. I have often examined lungs with the Lung Barometer when the inva- lid was living on three or four cubic inches of air more than is in the lungs when death generally occurs. To have six hundred cubic inches of air in the lungs at a time is a matter of not unfrequent occurrence with large, and robust a*11** active men, and with the Ameri- can Indians, and men accustomed to much " racing." The celebrated pedestrian known as the " American Deer," who has been successful in races against men and horses, can inhale more than six hundred cubic inches of air at a single full infla- tion. Jenny Lind, and many other great singers, can take into the lungs from focr to six hundred cubic inches of air at a single inspiration. Never shut up your houses tight from the air. If you want your children to be- come intelligent by study, ventilate your school houses. If you want a spiritual feast from the preaching on the Sabbath, ventilate your churches, else you will be a dull and sleepy hearer of the truth. If you wish to preserve the lungs of your minister, lawyer, judge, or orator, and get an animated speech from him, give him plenty of the pure air of heaven. With air we breathe and live—wfttout it we die. The young and old, the small and great, of all animate nature, breathe and live in the same atmosphere. It is food and medicine for all THE HEART. The history and development of the heart has been of the utmost interest to mankind, from his creation to the present time. The law by which the heart is developed is rather curious. Before birth of the child it is characterised by its great weight compared with the rest of the body. At the end of the fourth or fifth week of intra-uterine life, it is so large that it seems to occupy almost the whole cavity of the chest There is no use for the lungs before birth; no air has entered them, and but very little blood; therefore the lungs are very small and in a collapsed condition. But the heart at the end of the third month of the embryo state, or foetal life, is about one-fifth of the weight of the whole body. At birth, however, it is only 1-120th of the weight In adult life it weighs from seven to twelve ounces. Before birth, there is a hole, aperture, or door through the heart through which the blood passes from the mother to the child, and from one side of the heart to the other. At the moment of birth, when the first breath is drawn by the child, this door or opening closes forever, and the mode of circulation of the blood u changed. The closing of the orifice mentioned, is generally perfect at birth, although in some Tew cases it does not occur; but in these the child seldom lives, and if it does, not 16 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. often enjoys good health, unless it has particular medical treatment which physi- cians generally seem incompetent to a parts of the body except the lungs—the latter to the lungs alone. The strength or power of the left ventricle is equal to a weight of fifty-two pounds. The powerful muscular contraction of the heart is bo great that when placed on hot coals it will jump from four to six feet in the air 1 The heart of a rattle-snake at of a sturgeon will contract or pulsate for a long time after being taken from the body. The action of this organ is continued from seventy to one hundred and fifty years, or while life remains in the body. In some animals it performs its office for a much longer period than that mentioned; and, in old times pulsated in the human frame for several hundred years. Seemingly it never tires, laboring day and night with great endurance. Diseases of the heart (which are various) have hitherto, by all physicians, whether of great or little skill, been considered as incurable. But it affords me happiness to be able to say to the afflicted, that I am prepared to perfectly ascertain the condition of and to cure any heart disease, by the aid of my invention—the Lung Barometer —and the administration of the proper remedies. By the light afforded by this in- vention, the appropriate medicines for the particular disease can be prescribed with the greatest safety, and with perfect success. This, all persons troubled with any affection of this important organ should know. My Heart Regulator, for all diseases of this organ, and for fits, is without a competitor in the whole field of medicine. The subjoined section of a heart shows the right and left cavity (auricles and ventricles) into which the blood is received, No. 4.—Section or the Heart. and from which.it is expelled by the pow- erful muscles which surround them. NO OTHER BOOK TEACHES THE USES OF THE LUNGS. No book heretofore laid before the public has taught the true uses of the lungs. Many have been put forth upon the subject filled with nonsense upon the nature and uses of these organs. The lungs are nothing but air cells, air tubes, veins and arteries. Each cell has a pulmonary vein leading to it and a pulmonary ar- tery leading from it carrying to and from the heart all the blood in the system. The strength of the body is not in the lungs, as some lung doctors have pre- tended, but as I have proved, in the blood. The action of the lungs is partly voluntary, and partly from the control of the wilL They assist to brace the chest and prevent it from falling in under the effect of pressure; but they have no power THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 17 to send air to any other organ or to assist the strength. The chief uses of the lungs are to aid in singing and talking, to act as a furnace in the combustion of the air, to purify the blood and to assist in generating animal heat Under a proper condition of the lungs, heart and liver, and when the person is in health, and even in some cases of consumption, the lungs are capable of great expansion. They will expand from ten to one hundred cubic inches in a day, without producing any injurious effect This expansion, operating as it does upon the pleura, diaphragm, ribs, aud abdominal muscles, has tendency to give a full chest, large lungs, and a beautiful figure; and if properly practiced even for a few months effects a great change in the flat and distorted human figure. Previous to my invention of the Lung Barometer, physicians knew but very little about the nature and uses of the lungs; but by guessing and experimenting, they some- times accidentally afforded relief to the afflicted, though often doing in- jury. To tell to a perfect certainty whether or not the case is consump- tion, or whether it is consumption of the lungs or liver, is beyond the skill of any one who does not use the infal- lible detector alludedio. Nor can the whole of the medical fraternity cure the various kinds of consumption without experimenting, until first an examination is made with the Lung Barometer. This I unhesitatingly assert from the experience gained in the treatment of twenty-five thousand cases of consumption, of every possible kind and, form:— which is more than any other living physician has treated. Since the invention of the Lung Barometer, I am able to say—I am master of my business, which no other physi- cian can truthfully assert No. 5.—Heart and Lungs, WITH AETERTJES AND VEINS LEADING TO THE AIR CELLS. 1. Heart. 2. Pulmonary Artery. 3. Aorta—carrying the blood to the extremities 4. Air Tube, leading to the Lungs. ABUSE OF THE LUNGS BY INHALING TUBES. The abuse of the lungs by inhaling tubes is without doubt one of the greatest evffs arising from any invention of man under the garb of effecting good. That extra inflation in some cases is healthful I do not deny; but the good or evil arising must depend upon the condition of the internal organs and how it is accomplished. AH the good there can arise from the use of the inhaling tube must flow from calling the attention of the invalid to it two or three times a-day, and making him think it intrinsically valuable; when, in fact, the tube only enters the mouth; and extra Inflation can be had without the tube, as well as with it, by the nose—thus getting 2 18 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. all the good that may arise, without danger of the injurious effects that sometimes follow the use of that instrument. No extra inflation whatever of the lungs should be practiced, with or without inhaling tubes, for the reason that the diseased state of the lungs, heart, fiver, stomach, and spleen may be greatly aggravated, and a cure rendered more doubt- ful, except there is first an examination made with the Lung Barometer. The grand starting point, in doctoring, or in any other business, is to first start right; and whoever disregards this great principle of action, is lost in doubt' perplexity and disappointment, followed by failure in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. I assert boldly and from knowledge, that the advocates of inhaling tubes have no accurate scale or rule by which they can determine when to commence or leave off extra inflation of the lungs, or whether or not the lungs are deficient in air, or whether the various internal organs will admit with safety of extra inflation, or whether that course of treatment is needed- They may measure the chest with a string or the eye, without being more wise as to the state of internal diseases, than would a man who should attempt to decide what minerals were imbedded in the bowels of the earth by walking over the surface. The inhaling tube is dangerous to inhale air through, as it admits small particles of dust and contagious matter directly into the air-cells of the lungs, causing irritation and inoculating disease in healthy parts of the lungs, when the nose would act as &filte%, purifying the air, and preventing both dust and contagious poisons from entering the lungs. The mhaling tube often causes bleeding at the lungs, and produces dangerous ruptures of those organs and of the heart and liver. In cases of asthma, when the lungs are generally too large, its use is very injurious. It causes sudden death when there is an enlarged and dropsical heart, and by rupturing the liver and spleen when affected by grub; and induces disease from the inhalation of poisonous matter collected in a tube previously used by a consumptive whose lungs were badly diseased. By the use of such a tube, contagious matter is directly inoculated into healthy parts of the lungs, and thereby the whole system is poisoned. Goose-quills, sticks with holes through them, tin candle-moulds, and a great variety of tubes made of all kinds of materials and in different shapes, some more and some less liable to collect dust and poison, have been resorted to with eager and anxious expectation of benefit ever since the introduction of the instrument But the whole of them are worthless, and decidedly dangerous, to say nothing of the liability to contract disease from the use of tubes used by other persons. The whole mass of inhaling tubes should be carefully avoided. Physicians ad- vocating their use have no right to hold up to the world the remarkable longevity of Thomas Jenkins, Flora Thompson, and others, who have never seen or used an inhaling tube. There is no recorded evidence that any of the ancients were acquainted with the use of ii-haling tubes, and yet it is undeniable that they attained to a much greater longevity than do the great mass of mankind at the present day. It is obvious that conformity to the natural laws that govern life and health will do much more than all the artificial mechanical helps in the universe, in restoring ana preserving health, where these laws are violated. There is not the slightest evidence that a single individual of modern times, who has attained to great or remarkable longevity, ever saw an inhaling tube. It is at least then, unfair and uncandid for any physician to hold these up to the THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 19 world as fair examples of longevity to which mankind may, and will be likely to attain, if they will use inhaling tubes. For the examples to be relevant, it should be proved that the subjects, who have been adduced and held up to the public as having attained to a remarkable longev- ity, should, at least have used this artificial help for the prolongation of life. Still I do not claim that artificial mechanical helps may not occasionally be used to great advantage; but maintain that strict conformity to the laws of our own being, will accomplish more than all the artificial helps that have been devised by the ingenuity of man. Gymnastic exercise for the cure of diseases was introduced among the Greeks about the time of Hippocrates; and among them were walking, riding, running on foot or horseback, recitation, talking loud, holding the breath, &c, for the cure of lung complaints: but the inhaling tube was to them a thing unknown; and well would it have been for the afflicted if it had never been thought of It may reasonably be presumed that if inhaling tubes were indispensable to the health and longevity of mankind, some such provision would have been made by Nature herself, and that the proboscidate member of the "human face divine" would have been extended enormously beyond its ordinary length, the nares have been vastly enlarged, so as to take in, at each inspiration, much greater quantities of air for enlarging and strengthening the lungs. But as Nature has made no such extraordinary provisions, we may safely con- clude that no such were needed. MAN'S STRENGTH IS IN HIS BLOOD. This the experiences of both learned and unlearned men, for thousands of years, would prove; and still many are slothful to receive the great truth. If we can drain the blood from the most powerful of animals, he falls helpless at our feet Drain the vital fluid—the blood—from the giant an(i ^e becomes powerless as an infant Age after age has proved this, in the slaughter of men and animals'—yet many regard it not On the field of battle or at the bed of the sick, as you drain the vital fluid of fife, either with the sword or lancet, the victim falls powerless before you. Need I ask the dead to declare from their graves that this is so ? Has not God said that " tho blood is the life of all flesh ?" and did not Moses, David, Solomon and the ancient prophets declare this truth? Did not the bleeding side of Jesus when on the cross prove it ? Let the physician think of this when he unsheathes his lancet to draw the balsam of fife from the suffering sick 1 Let him think of it when he pretends that the strength of man is in the lungs, and that the inhaling tube and abdominal supporter are the only remedies for the prostrated sufferer 1 And let the emaciated invalid, with weak voice and feeble pulse, a hollow cough, a fluttering heart, a glassy eye, and a feeble step—trembling upon the verge of the grave—think of it Where is your full vein ? where the rich, pure and healthful blood ? Where the blossoming of health upon your face? Like the widow mentioned in the Scripture lamenting over the corpse of her husband, you may exclaim—Alas I alas I the a* ration of my face has departed. 20 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. No. 6.—The Emaciated Invalid. As seen in the annexed cut, where the blood has become very thin, watery, and impure, for want of good and wholesome food, or from working, living, and sleeping in badly ventilated and lighted rooms, or from any other cause, so that it loses its rich color and nearly all its nourishing qualities, great emaciation of vital, nervous, and mus- cular fibre speedily follows, accompanied by a constant sense of languor of body and mind; while the brightest and purest ob- jects that earth presents, tend rather to sink than to cheer the spirits of the dying invalid, from whose horizon the bright sun of Hope has been withdrawn, and set in darkness. Believe, then, no more the deluding quack, but go to a physician who has spent a life-time in searching out the hidden se- crets of health and long life, (which is in the blood,) and can send the pure, animating blood to the brain, give the flash of love and beauty to the eye, restore the voice to the lungs, strength to the muscles, elas- ticity to the step, power to the heart, carry health to the cheek, and flesh to tho emaciated frame. All this can be done through the agency of the blood, and in no other way. I have saved thousands from an early and untimely grave, while thou- sands of others have died, having had no access to my healing medicines or ever having heard of my successful endeavors, until too late, to heal and restore them to health and happiness. [For further particulars on the blood, see under the head of "On the Blood."] Blood Nourishes the Child before Birth, for when it is in the womb there . no digestion, and nothing but blood can nourish it The lungs are small and inactive, and the stomach is not used; but the blood of the mother passes to the foetus through the umbilical cord, and then to the heart and liver. The liver of the child is quite large before birth, but diminishes in size at birth, when di- gestion in the stomach and action of the lungs commences. In old times it was advocated that the child actually nursed while in the womb; and many physiolo- gists supposed, very strangely, that nipples were furnished to the child by the placenta or "after-birth," and that the child did really eat; but this whimsical notion was long since abandoned. Such a thing as nursing before birth could not possibly be. The umbilical cord is to be tied in two places with a waxed string—one not leas than an inch and a half to two inches from the abdomen of the child, the other an inch further along; the separation to be made half way between the two strings. When cut with the scissors, after being tied, one string aaves tho child from bleeding to death, the other the mother. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 21 No. 7.—The Foetus, showing the Umbilical Cord through wbto^jpehe Blood passes from the Mother to the Child. 1. Heart—large in the Foetus. 2. Aorta. 8. Lungs—small. 4. Liver -large. 6. Stomach. 8. Kidney—large. fr 7. Gall Bladder. 8 and 9. Umbilical Cord 10 and 12. Womb. 11. Placenta or After-birth The point where the scissors are seen shows where the cord is to be cut; the strings, when tt should be tied. GRATIFICATION OF THE PASSIONS. That the natural passions of mankind should be temperately and wisely gra- tified, is both natural and reasonable to infer from this fact, (if from no other,) that each organ of the system has its particular nerves leading to the brain, and its own representative stationed there, whose business it seems to be, by a law of r.r,~ 22 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. economy, to attend to the wants of the organ in the healthful gratification of ita peculiar desire. The brain may be described as a con- gress or assembly of phrenological organs, and the nerves as telegraphs, leading from the physiological organs to their respect- ive representatives in the brain, as see cut Lung, liver, eye, ear, stomach, genital and other organs have their representa- tive in the congress of the organs, and through that representative are their re- spective wants and natural desires made known. If the stomach desires food, Se- nator Alimentiveness moves the passage of a bill for the supply of a fresh lot of provisions; and though Senator Acquisitive- ness may speak against such an enactment, the bill is generally passed without great delay, and hunger is appeased. Dots man desire to be honored, Senator Self-esteem is desirous to procure the doing of some act which shall bring reputation and glory. Are children desired, Senator Philoproge- nitiveness is upon the floor with loud de- mands for the enactment of a law favoring an increase of the population; to him the smiles of the infant are powerful stimu- lants, and neither he or Amativeness, or their masters, the genital organs, will rest in peace till the desire for offspring is gra- tified. They will not be comforted with- out children any more than would Rachel of old, when shpTsaid unto Jacob, " Give me children^or else I die."—Gen. ■*•■*•■»■■ L Abraham and Sarah could not be content or satisfied until God had given them a No. 8.*-Nervous Telegraphio System. iU^fcfild, although Sarah was ninety, and TLbrt A back view of the spinal nerves con- nected with the organs and limbs, and witi the brain through the spinal cord. TLbraham one hundred years old, when God AlsoaTiewof a perpendicular section of gave them their desire, and they were ^ rcere^nmthe ^ ^^ ^ M °n th™ **** ^ ^Ugh- 2. Cerebellum. ed.—Gen. xvii. 17. How many males and females in this age of the world are dk- eontented and unsatisfied, who in their inmost souls cannot be sane, without having children, any more than Rachel, Abraham or Sarah. If sexual intercourse is desired by the youthful or aged, Senator Amativeness is eager to have a law passed by the phrenological congress that the sexes may unite in sexual love, to gratify the finer feelings, perpetuate the species, and yield fruit ento God, -who hath said, "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth." THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 23 ' God hath declared children to be his heritage, and the fruit of the womb his reward.—Psalms cxxviu 3. The gratification of the sexual passion keeps Senator Amativeness pleased and contented: so it is with the other phrenological senators; but it is more particularly so with Amativeness, for it is well known that animal electricity so abundantly accumulates about and stimulates that honorable person? age—whether in the male or female of the human species, or among the bruto creation—that he becomes perfectly unmanageable upon the subject and often takes the whole .phrenological congress by storm, seeks his sexual magnet and gratifies his desires, when he immediately cools down, and becomes as quiet and peaceable as ever. It is well known that the sexes are magnetic, both of men and animals, and their connection in sexual love produces animal electricity, and throws off tho semen or seed. An emission of the semen, in either men or animals, cannot tako place without the power of animal electricity, either by a connection of the sexes, masturbation, or by a concentration of the mind in dreaming, throwing the elec- trical power upon the genital organs. When the being is deprived^ of animal nervo-electricity of the sexual organs, thare can be no erection nor any emission of semen; and without proper health- fulness and power of these organs, all other powers of the physical and phreno- logical organs will fall into a state of stupidity and become incompetent to the rightful discharge of their duties. In the strength and richness of the blood, and in the nervo-animal electricity in the nerves, lie the grand secret of life and action. They are the propelling powers of the mind and body; and man is successful or unsuccessful in proportion as he is supplied with them. The young man or woman addicted to the habit of masturbation can tell you of the debility, loss of energy, and the perfect worthlessness to themselves and society, that follow a too frequent loss of the semen and the animal electric power necessary to indulge in co- habitation. There is no passion implanted in man but should have proper and temperate gra- tification, subject to the laws of our being and the dictates of reason. A rational gratification of the passions implanted within us by the Creator acts as a Bafety- valve to the system, and prevents many dangerous results that otherwise might follow. If any ergan is constantly kept over-charged with nervous animal electricity, insanity or bodily disease will as surely result as would an explosion follow the accumulation of an undue head of steam in the boiler of an engine. But where the electricity is gently conducted away by its own magnets, every organ performs its functions with pleasure and precision, and in harmonious concord with its fellows. The female receives the animal electric impression of the genital organs from the male, and the male from the female, in the act of cohabitation, by an electric emi* Bion of the semen. Rachel's natural passion could be satisfied only with a child; and so was it with Abraham.—Gen. xxx. 1. Paul's advice—an unfailing remedy for strong amativeness or animal electric heat of the genital organs—was, to marry. In 1st Corinthians vii. 9, he says, " it is better to marry than to burn." Thousands of both sexes have shortened the number of tnerr days upon earth by neglecting to gratify properly the natural passion, by connection with the opposite sex, (See Longevity by Marriage.) Others sink into an early grave from the effects of artificially producing electric emissions; (see Masturbation;) and still others from an 24 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. excess of cohabitation in the early months of married life, induced from the pas- sions having become ungovernable by delaying sexual intercourse until too late a period. (See Onanism of the Married, or Quick Consumption from Marriage.) Food satisfies hunger; water, thirst; property, acquisitiveness; music, tune; honor, Belf-esteem, and sexual intercourse, the organs of generation. Gratification is the safety-valve of the passion; and without it there must of necessity be an explosion. The heavenly planets seek their attracting magnets, and act in harmonious concord when obeying the laws of their nature; but if there should be a neglect to obey the natural laws of their several beings, the countless orbs that roll in the illimitable re- gions of space would be plunged in the chaos of confusion! And as it is with the planetary, even so with the human system. There can be no departure from the laws laid down by the wise Creator of all, but must result li more or less of con- fusion, discord and evil to the being. Man, in all his organs, is created perfect by the hand of God, and no organ has been made in vain or without wise purpose and design. Each organ of the system in due time develops its own peculiar passion, which wisely calls for a natural gra- tification, in accordance with reason and obedience to the dictates of prudence; and he who would attempt to impede the just workings of any law established in the system, must act contrary to the intents of the Divine Creator, and in oppo- sition to the health, happiness, and well-being of the creature. God has not created any principle in nature, nor implanted any passion in man, which in its right workings is calculated to produce injurious effects. To suppose that he has is to impeach either his wisdom or his goodness of heart. No organ of the human system, or its passion, may be tampered with and unwisely con- trolled with impunity, but it should be indulged in the natural enjoyment ordained for it by God. The complete restriction from enjoyment of any of the passions im- planted in the human being must sooner or later produce an injurious effect, and in- evitably lead to insanity or bodily infirmities, and finally to death 1 (See'Insanity, how induced.) It is a violation of the laws of nature; and when these laws, whe- ther in the animal or chemical world, be broken over, the punishment of the trans- gressor is certain and severe. This view of the matter is neither fanciful or unphilosophical; it is the correct and real view; based upon common sense and reason, proved by the experience of ages, and established by the testimony of the Bible. If we attempt to confine the electricity that is in the atmosphere beyond a due measure of power, it will break the bonds we have placed upon it, and launch forth, to the imminent danger of our lives; and if we attempt to put too great a restriction upon the nervo-electric fluid in the human system, it will be certain to burst forth in rage upon some inno- cent victim, or to shatter the system itself with the throes of its impatient desire. To restrict within the bounds of reason is both wise and prudent; to restrain wholly Ss contrary to nature, and dangerous in the extreme. The passions of animals are gratified; and there is in all the history of the world ao proof that injury has followed from obeying the dictates of nature in this re- spect When the sexual desires of animals are developed, they are gratified • but mankind are restrained by custom and teaching from marriage and indulgence in sexual love till 25 years of age, when puberty commenced at 12 to 15. The an*- mals have no venereal diseases, because of natural gratification of the sexual de- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 25 sire; but mankind, being restricted, burns into passion and violates tho command of God by plunging into piostitution, which is cursed with loathsome diseases. Generally speaking, the laws, customs and habits of society do more towards the deviation of men from the paths of virtue than the natural desires within them. This is proved by the records of crime, the statistics, of prisons, and of asylums for the insane and poor, to be beyond doubt or question. In some future age, the laws and customs of society may be arranged upon physiological and phrenological prin- ciples, and adapted to the legitimate wants of man and the proper gratification of his natural desires and passions. Could this be so, there would be more happiness for the race than is now enjoyed. But there are a few high-priests o" the schools of law, medicine and mental philosophy, who will attempt to dictate for a while longer. Let our children be encouraged in their natural desires, and schools of education and mechanical trades be established to phrenologically suit all, and give all a chance to become men and women in the world, and crime would cease to blot the pages of history, and our lunatic asylums be left destitute of inmates. EDUCATION AND DISEASED BLOOD AT WAR. Much of the popular education of the day, based upon erroneous views of the science of phrenology, is at variance with the infallible teachings of experience and contrary to the established truths of medical science. Acting upon the rules laid down by those who make of phrenology the all in all to decide upon the char- acter of man and the treatment he should receive, people are apt to overlook the effects produced upon the mental being by the diseased or healthy state of the sys- tem. Nor do parents, nor the teachers in our schools, nor our ministers, always es- cape the same condemnation. Upon the state of the body, as regards health, is dependent much of the every- day, and no little of the permanent, condition of the mind. So intimately and closely connected is matter and spirit—so woven together, and made as it were parts of each other—that it may be set down as a rule from which there are few if any deviations, that if the body is diseased in any vital part or portion, the mind will be diseased in connection therewith. Particularly will this be found to be the caso when the blood is " out of order." We may regard it as certain, that if the blood is seriously diseased, the brain will be badly affected thereby, and the character of the individual, for a longer or shorter period, be materially different from what it would otherwise be. From this it follows as a necessary consequence, that to decide of the character from the sinuosities of the skull with any degree of certainty is a matter entirely out of the question. And he who would attempt to base his education of a child upon a decision thus made, without having regard to the impressions the mind has received from the state of health of the body, is committing a most grievous error. If, as we have proved, the life of all .flesh is in the blood, the blood must be the life of the brain, and therefore the brain must be affected by the blood, and the charac ter in a greater or less degree dependent upon it The first step to be taken in education, or in the treatment of the insane, is to sel aright the health—to purify the blood and restore the physical system to order. When suffering from irritation the mind is incapable of acting in its fvll strength and 26 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. clearness—no matter from what cause the irritation may proceed; whether it be from a pin thrust in tho leg, the want of food in the stomach, a fever in the system, or a neglect to gratify rationally the appetites and passions. And when under tho effects of these or other existing causes, the character of the individual is so gov- erned or modified by them that phrenology cannot fathom it or decide upon ita quality. The body and mind reciprocally affect each other; whatever invigorates the body renders the faculties of the mind proportionably active and strong; what depresses the strength, lessens the spirit, (See in tables of Causes of Insanity,) the resolution, and the more active intellectual faculties, although the phrenological organs may have the same size and appearance. The circulation of the blood and the nervous electricity unite the soul with the body, and govern and direct its operations; with the circulation of the blood, the vital functions continue; they vary and cease to be according as the circulation varies or ceases. To preserve, then, the faculties of each, we must attend to the health of both in connection. And it follows from this that upon the diseased or healthy condition of the vital fluid much more of the character of man must depend than upon the size of bis phrenological organs. If decided upon at all, the character must be pronounced upon from the phrenological, the physiological and the nervous being in connection; and all these governed in a great degree by the state of the blood in the system. Phrenology, in the estimation of a modern school of mental philosophers, is the one great science connected with our being, by the aid of which we may determine the whole character of man, and guide him in safety through the world. But this school of philosophers has become over-zealous, and in their labors for their favorite science have overstepped the truth as established by the experience of ages. Phrenology can teach us the location and comparative size of the different phren- ological organs; but as to deciding with certainty upon the character of the individ- ual, it cannot; for, generally speaking, however learned the phrenologist may be in his favorite science, he knows little or nothing of chemistry or medicine; a knowl- edge of which it is essential to possess in ordec, to become fully capacitated to de- cide upon the mentality of the subject or to attempt his education, or to decide what in his character he should strive to overcome, and what to increase. The condition of the blood has been entirely overlooked by the fathers of phre- nology. Their science is wholly founded upon the bumps; and education of the or- gans is with them the great thing to produce a change of character. But how, allow me to inquire, can an organ be educated by force of will when it is acted upon and governed by diseased blood, or electric fluid, until these are first set right ? Or how can we decide from the size of the bumps upon the proper education of a child, when, from a diseased state of the vital fluid, the passion which a particular bump decides as weak manifests itself in the actions to be uncommonly strong f It is here that phrenologists have gone beyond wisdom, and are teaching contrary 10 the truth. They should retrace their steps, or the experience of future years will place the seal of disapprobation upon their favorite science. They have embraced a fatal error. Io give full force and weight to their science, they must know whether there has been deformity in the development of the organ or not, whether the natural desires and passions have been wisely and rationally gratified, and whether or no the nervo-electric fluid be diseased or the blood impure. And if they attempt the edu THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 2', cation of an organ without first knowing these things, they proceed ignorantb/ and dangerously. It often happens that when the physical constitution is out of order, men who nave hitherto been remarkable for their noble qualities of mind, manifest the most ungovernable evil passions. The condition of the physical being has in these cases overcome the strength of the moral phrenological organs; and it is by no means a matter of rare occurrence that such a state continues for a season sufficiently long to piace the character of the subject in direct opposition to that phase which the 6ize of the phrenological organs might seem to indicate to exist. When the derangement and inflammation of the moral and religious organs of the greatest and best of men takes place, as frequently happens, they sometimes uso the most profane language imaginable; and even where intellect is not de- throned, they frequently manifest but little religious inclination, and often a peev- ishness, and irritability, and unkindness, wholly inconsistent with the Christian character, and with that of their own, when in health. To attempt to educate per- sons in this condition, without medicine, is absurd and irrational. How important that moralists and religionists should sacredly guard their health, and do all in their power to preserve it, if they would not suffer loss in their moral and religious feel- ings. DJ then, as I have shown, not only the every-day, but the permanent, character of the individual is more dependent upon the state of the blood and the nervo-vital fluid than upon the size of the phrenological organs with which the subject happens to be born, of what vast importance it is to the individual and to society that the blood should be kept in a state of health, and the body in a correct condition. This should be the first subject of consideration; and it should be considered under- standingly, and without being led astray by false lights hung about these important sciences connected with mind and matter. Be he king or president governor or statesman, lawyer or divine, physician or Bcholar, general or soldier, merchant or sailor, mechanic or laborer—no matter what the station or calling of the individual—no matter what the condition or sex—uo matter what the age,—the health should be attended to—the blood should be kept good and pure; else both body and mind will be suffering in weakness and agony. Consider this as worthy your first attention, and hasten to avail yourselves of the great vegetable remedies which God has provided, and medical skill prepared for your restoration to health and happiness; for thus, and only thus, may you attain to fulness of days and fulfil the duties of your station. NO BOOK TEACHES THE TRUE CAUSE OF INSANITY. The brain, although the most important part of man, has never received that at- tention from medical men which it deserves. The brain is an assemblage of organs, whose business it is to answer the calls of nature and attend to a rational gratifica- tion of the desires and passions of the various members of the body. The desires of the members of the body are communicated to tLe brain by the nervo-electrio fluid, by means of the nerves. When the wants of the various members are made known, the organs of the brain act to reasonably gratify the desire, and in its pro- per and legitimate gratification, all the organs experience pleasure and delight 28 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. But when any member of the body transcends its duty as established by natare, and oversteps a proper path, there is tumult in the assemblage of organs, and inter- ference on the part of those not especially connected with the offending members. So that whether there be wer-gratification or neglect to gratify properly, there is discord and variance in the brain, which lead to disease and frequently to a dis- organization of mind and matter. The fact of this phrenological congress of organs existing in the brain of man to act over and for the various members of the body, is a powerful argument in favor of the American form of general government pre-eminent over all others ever es- tablished, and which must endure through all ages of time, because of the great natural and correct principles upon which it is based—which is a congress from the various parts acting in concord, the same as the phrenological organs act for the body. The fact of our government being founded upon this great natural principle presupposes an existence as interminable as the continuance of harmony, and de- stroys all the vain hopes of the monarchist against its permanence; even as the hopes of death are disappointed while there is harmony in the brain and the natu- ral wants of the various members receive proper hearing and attention. The quality of the blood in a great measure decides the character of the man; and if the blood be pure, rich and healthy, each and every member of the body will be healthy. The blood has never been supposed, until recently, to affect the mind, either when it was in a healthy or diseased condition. But it does strongly affect it The brain, in the intelligent person, is greatly charged with phosphorus, though in idiots it is not The inteUigent and nervous become insane, but idiots do not The brain contains more phosphorus than any other part of the body of equal size, and is sus- ceptible of greater electric action than any other substance. The substances con- taining the most phosphorus are subject to the greatest action—being acted upon most powerfully by electricity. The electric nervo-vital or nervous fluid passes in such rapid currents to the brain when any of the members of the body are heated with passion, and acts so powerfully upon the phosphorus of the brain, that it be- comes convulsed and sometimes disorganized, and reason is dethroned, unless the particular passion of the organ causing such convulsion is gratified. And this con- vulsion (or derangement), will continue until relief is had by a gratification of the passion or the effect of medicine. Thus, insanity may be caused by one or any of the passions of the phrenological organs; but its reasonable and proper gratifica- tion will prove a safety-valve, and the evil thereby be averted. In cases where the insane can be gratified with the enjoyment of what caused the derangement the disease will generally more readily yield, and work out ita own cure; but unless assisted by remedial agents, in those cases where gratification cannot be had, the nervo-electric fluid will not stop convulsing the brain, and a cure is rendered more uncertain. With proper food and treatment insanity in ninety- nine of an hundred cases can be cured; but not by the course ordinarily pursued in medical treatment The cause of insanity, then, is from the brain, (which is filled with phosphorus.) becoming over charged by continued shocks of the nervo-electric fluid, (arising from an intense concentration of the mind, or the warring of an heated passion or from any other cause sending too much nervo-electric fluid to the brain,) acting upon the phosphorus of the brain. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 29 Having explained the cause of insanity, I now shall prove its correctness from the following table, exhibiting the average proportions of substances entering into the composition of bone, muscle, blood and brain. Gelatine, .... Albumen, - Ormazome, .... Phosphate, sulphate, and carbonate of lime, also sulphates, muriates «nd phosphates of soda, potass, ammonia, White fatty matter, ... Free phosphorus, ... Water, .... Bone. Muscle or flesh. Blood. Brain. 30 7 0 0 0 22 3 7 0 0 2 1-5 70 2 12 6 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 2-5 0 69 83 78 100 100 100 100 From this tab je we perceive, that the only difference between the composition of the brain and the rest of the body, is the presence of white fat-like matter and phosphorus; but as ^6 fatty matter is composed of the same elements as the ordi- nary flesh, differing only in proportion, it remains conclusively that phosphorus alone gives the brain its peculiar quaUties and action. Galvani, an Italian Professor of Anatomy, in 1791, discovered in his experiments, that frogs and fish were greatly excited and convulsed by a spark of electricity from the battery—they containing a great portion of phosphorus. It is also a fact that the proportions and variations of phosphorus in the brain are found to correspond with the differences in the charac- ters through life; as I have said, idiots have very Uttle,—Uvely and inteUigent per- sons have much. Through the whole animal and vegetable worlds, the degree of susceptibiUty, sensibiUty, vitafity and power is evidently owing to, and has been found to correspond with the proportion of phosphorus in their composition.* The foUowing are the actuating El health, various kinds, Intemperance, Loss of property, Disappointed affection, Intense study, Domestic difficulties, Fright, Grief—loss of friends, Ao, Disappointment, ambition, Intense application to business, ReUgious excitement PoUtical excitement Metaphysical speculations, Want of exercise, Engagement in a duel, causes producing insanity:— Inventions, Hard labor, Tic Doloreaux, General debiUty, Want of employment Mortified pride, Cefibacy, Anxiety for wealth, Use of opium, Use of tobacco, Puerperal state, Nursing too long, Tight lacing, Excessive sexual intercourse, Injuries on the head, * Bostwick on Natural Death. 80 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. Stock speculations, Periodical cases, Hereditary cases, Costiveness, Jealousy, Trouble with chUdren, Indulgence of temper, Old age, Jaundice, Cancer, Paralysis, Love affair, Animal magnetism, Spiritual rappings, Epilepsy, Masturbation, Mental anxiety, Exposure to cold, Sun struck, Intense heat, Fits, Heart disease, Anxiety, Dyspepsia, Fevers, Grub in the brain, And various other internal and exter- nal causes bearing heavuy upon the mind and body. Although considerable attention has been paid to the subject of insanity, it has not received that amount which it deserves. More adequate provision should be made for the restoration of those persons. At present in the United States, the benefits of asylums are extended to about 4000 persons continually; but it has been found that the total insane population of the country is over 23,0001 So that though much has been done, there is much more to do. By examination of the reports of lunatic asylums throughout the country, we shaU find that aU classes and conditions of people are represented in the hospitals for the insane, and that persons of aU ages are Uable to this grievous affliction, although the difference in age is very great. The greatest number of cases of in- sanity occur between the age3 of 15 and 35, and particularly between the ages of 20 and 30. Persons may be attacked at any season of the year; though the debilitat- ing months of summer and the changes of weather in faU and spring, have a tenden- cy to add to the numbers of the afflicted. The cases of insanity among the unmar- ried are much larger in proportion to the whole number than among the married; and among the males, larger than among females, and among widows larger than widowers. In the dispensations of the wise Creator, it seems to have been estabfished as a law from which there is no deviation, that if mankind, either by neglect or improper action in eating, drinking or otherwise, aUow the system to become diseased, they BhaU receive punishment in pain and sorrow. But if there is a bane, let us be thankful that there has also been provided antidotes, which, by the labors of the physician, and the skiU of the master mind, are made subservient to the wants of man in the prevention and removal of disease. To these, in trouble, the sick man turns his thoughts and learns their efficacy for his reUeC Is insanity threatened you by an impure state of the blood, faU not to notice, that m the great blood medicines, which I have had the pleasure to prepare for the refief of th3 unfortunate, you may find fortification against disease and bo spared days and months, perhaps years, of sickness and sorrow. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 31 NO BOOK TEACHES THE CURE OF CONSUMPTION. The great number of deaths from this destroyer of the human race, and its rapid increase, call with trumpet voices for the genius of some son of Adam to devise means for the dethronement of its power and provide an antidote against its bane- ful effects. The fact that the entire archives of medicine have heretofore afforded no clue to the cure of this disease, and that physicians from the earUest days of the Bcience to the present time have been whoUy incompetent to combat successfully this destroyer, caUed forth the author into the field of medicine, and induced the pub- lication of this volume, and a series of lectures on health, which treat upon the pre- vention, causes, and effects of diseases and the remedies for the ransom of the sick and afflicted. The reason why we have heretofore had no treaties teaching the cure of con- sumption is, that there were no means of determining the different kinds of consump- tion or its exact location or condition; consequently medicines were given as expe- riments, and in doubt of their effects, and therefore physicians could not but get dis- couraged and give up their labors in perplexity and doubt. And aU this class of complaints was turned off under the wholesale name of consumption, and called in- curable. - Before the invention of the Lung Barometer, I labored under the same difficulties as other physicians; but I determined to overcome those difficulties or die a sacrifice Ln the cause. I kept my mind constantly upon the subject, at aU hours, whether eating, attending to business, or in times of leisure; and after six or eight years of appUcation and intense study I succeeded in producing an invention, by the aid of which, in aU cases and under aU circumstances, I could determine to a perfect cer- tainty the true nature of the different kinds of consumption; and then I could ad- minister the medicines suited to each and every particular case. I could take hold of a case of consumption knowingly, and ascertain daily and hourly its nature, and whether the disease was increasing or decreasing. And if it changed from one form to another, or from one organ to another, I could foUow it untiringly and certainly, until it was eradicated from the system. WhUe other physicians are content with jogging along in the old track, and class aU the deaths which they cannot prevent as " providences'of God" that cannot be helped, I am one that objects to such neglect of the means placed in our hands by the Deity; I boldly declare that doctors can cure each and every kind of consump- tion, if they wiU only come forward and arm themselves with the proper remedies, and reUnquish their old superstitious notions. I am annuaUy curing numberless cases of consumption, and saving from the grave thousands of the most lovely ladies and noble men. It is usuaUy this class of per- sons that faU victims to the scourge of this disease:—"Death loves a shining mark." Physicians, where not selfish, are constantly sending their most difficult cases to my care, and availing themselves of my books and medicines; and even express their inability to treat these cases with success—which I have always known, without their acknowledgment from examination of the bills of mortaUty from this disease. But it affords me pleasure to be able to say that since the inven- tion of the Lung Barometer, in all communities where consumptives generaUy have made appUcation to me, the number of deaths from this scourge has materiaUy do- 32 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. creased. Let not therefore, any say or think that consumption is incurable Genius has invented a detector, Nature has furnished remedies, and Science has pre- pared them for the saving of the people. Avail yourself of these, and your redemp- tion from disease is certain; neglect them, and you may be the next victim to fall before the insatiable destroyer. HEREDITARY DISEASE. "Visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children of the third and fourth generation." The transmission of disease from the parents to the child is the cause of much of the infirmity that afflicts mankind; but so seemingly reckless are people generaUy of the welfare of a being yet unborn, that they pay Uttle or no regard to the effects that may foUow to their offspring from the indulgence by themselves in the follies of fashion and in the vices of life. If they have a care at all, it is for their own weU- being—the creature that is yet to be is not considered in their estimates of effects foUowing causes; and of consequence we find that misery in both the corporeal and inteUectual man or woman is the inheritance of thousands, and often the only one they receive! It is universaUy agreed by aU who have paid attention to the subject of phy- siology, that a vigorous and healthy constitution of body in the parents wiU com- municate the most perfect state of existence to the offspring; and that if the parents be diseased, enervated, or suffering from bodUy infirmities, not the result of violent action, their children wiU be likely to be wanting in strength and vigor, or be lacking power in some organ. The transmission of diseases from parents to chUdren is a matter of universal notoriety; consumption, gout rheumatism, scrofula, and insanity, are weU known to descend from one generation to another; and so also do deafness and blindness. These last are often hereditary defects; they have been known to exist in a family successively for upwards of a hundred years. Parents frequently Uve again in their offspring. A celebrated French writer, speak- ing of the family of Guises, says—"for generations they were alike; they were aU six feet high, and with the same features." In regard to the transmission of bodUy quaUties, it has been noticed even in the growth of supernumerary fingers and toes and other like marks. Maupertius men- tions that in Germany there were two famiUes who had been distinguished for several generations by six fingers on each hand, and the same number of toes on each foot The causes which may result in the transmission of disease to the offspring are many and varied. In the hope of opening the eyes of the negUgently blind, and calling the attention of the indifferent to this important subject in medical science I wiU speak briefly of a few of the more prevalent inducing causes of hereditary disease, and of the mode of its transmission. The first and great cause of the hereditary disease found in children is in the im- pure blood and unhealthy system of one or both of the parents; and were the health of the parents what it should be, no complaint of mind or body would bo entailed on the offspring. 0ne of the more immediate and a frightful cause for the entailment of disease THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 33 upon offspring may be found in the improper modes of dress, prescribed by fashion and foUow'ed in foolishness by both ladies and gentlemen in this country—particu- larly the former. Bad habits in dress sooner or later prove detrimental to the health and welfare of a people. Tight lacing, and the wearing of heavy shirts that press down the bowels and derange the womb are prolific causes of complaints that are transmitted to the unborn chUd, and for which, in its years of breathing Ufe, it often suffers more than its sinning parent It is through these and simUar mediums that the iniquities of parents are visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations! They should be carefuUy avoided. The voice of reason rather than the voice of fashion should be hearkened to—comfort and health to both the fiving and the unborn should be more considered than the whims of pecuniarily interested mantua-makers and taUors. It is by no means contended that people should not dress comfortably and beautifully and in accordance with the requirements of civil- isation. This can be done, and no injurious effects foUow. It is uncomfortable and ungraceful costumes, and uncomfortable compressions of the body, destroying the beauty as weU as the health, with which the welfare of offspring is at war. Another source from whence is derived hereditary disease is the bad habit of eat- ing and drinking improper articles, and of partaking of the "good things" of.life to repletion. From these causes arise impurities of the blood, (manifesting themselves* in gout and kindred complaints or in offensive sores,) which impurities affect the- semen of the father, and are also conveyed from the mother through the umbiUcal. cord, by which means the " life of the flesh " of the chfid is poisoned and he be- comes possessed of the diseases of his parents. Care, therefore, should be taken- about what we eat and what we drink, and in what quantity, that the blood may be kept pure and healthful, and both ourselves and those who shall come after us be saved much of suffering and misery. A most prolific cause for the production of diseases to be transmitted to chUdren. may be found in the debasing habit of masturbation, indulged in by hundreds of both sexes, who take hold of and continue in the practice tUl both body and mind are wrecked, because not being married they do not find gratification of the natural desire in the legitimate manner ordained of God. The effects of this habit, bothi upon the person himself and upon the child that is born to him afterwards, are ter- rible. By it the whole system is reduced to a perfect wreck of matter, without ^ strength and without power to act, and the mind is tumbled in confusion and chaos —plunged in the darkness of insanity. From a parent thus conditioned, how can it be reasonably supposed there should emanate an offspring aught but a Ubel upon the human being as God designed him to be ? It is impossible that it should be otherwise. The man or the woman who has pursued this habit of masturbation till the grave yawns before the eyes, is no more fitted to generate a chfld, than are the icy mountains of the frozen zone for the production of the fruits of the tropica.' (See under head of Masturbation.) Excessive sexual intercourse, or tantalizing the passion, and suppressing emis- sion, (generally induced by too long delaying marriage,) are stiU other sources from whence originate evils to the system to be handed down to the children. The ■ effects of these are similar to, if not exactly Uke, those arising from masturbation;/ as injurious to the system, and as hurtful to the offspring. They should be guarded against " Be temperate in all things" was a wise injunction of the Apostle Paul, and one which we BhaU do weU to foUow. (See Sexual Onanism, or Pollution.^' 3 34 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. And stffl another cause is found in the inducing of pregnancy when in a state of beastly intoxication. Offspring germinated when one or both of the parents were in this degraded condition are often born with an inordinate appetite for the in- toxicating cup, and not unfrequently idiotic—they seeming to take the stupid and unintelligent condition of the parent at the moment of conception. It therefore behooves those who wffl indulge in the unpardonable foUy of stultifying the senses with strong drink, that they should not unless using the Male Safe or Prevention Powder, indulge in cohabitation while thus situated, lest they entail misery or idiocy upon the chUd that sliaU be born to them. Ladies suffering from leucorrhceal difficulties and womh weaknesses will find oftentimes that their children born whfle they are thus diseased wiU inherit bodily infirmities. Conceptions at these seasons are like to the wheat sown upon stony ground, which sprung up, but having no nourishment, withered away and died. It would be the part of wisdom to abstain from intercourse while thus con- ditioned, and betake themselves to the means afforded to produce a cure. Other- wise the eff'ects upon chUdren wiU be such as no parent, with the feelings of a pa- rent would like to contemplate or transmit. A further cause for the transmission of diseases may be found in the prostitution of females, and in the distempers so common among that class of our population, and so frequently contracted by those who visit their vile abodes. These diseases, often innoculated into the blood, become secondary, and are thence transmitted to chUdren, upon whom we often see manifested the horrid effects of syphiUtic poison If for no other reason than this, the home of the harlot should be avoided, and a rational gratification of the desires be sought through the holy and refined institution of marriage, ordained of God for the health and happiness of man While prostitution Uves and scatters the seeds of distemper and death, and contaminates the world, a fruitful cause of hereditary disease wiU have being _jnong us. And a stiU further, and I may say a wonderfuUy prolific source from whence flows hereditary distempers, is the poisonous mineral medicines dealt out needlessly to the sick by the members of the " regular" profession. These poison the blood, weaken the system, unstring the nerves, deaden the inteUectual faculties, and gender the whole body Uable to be easily affected by aU baneful and pestiferous outward influences—such as taking colds, running into consumptions, and kindred complaints. Mineral medicines generally induce more disease than they can pos- sibly cure; and bodily affections created by them are readily transmitted to the offspring. Therefore, and because of the fact that there is no good effect arising from their use that cannot be derived from some vegetable production which wiU leave no evU results behind, they should be discarded and kept out of the system. There are enough, certainly, of aggravating causes for the entailment of grievous physical burdens upon future generations that cannot be so easily avoided, without continuing to include this among the number. I therefore can do no less than cau- tion my readers against their use. If the " regular" physicians would cast in the street their calomel, and other mineral poisons, a great cause of hereditary disease and liability to colds, would be banished from our midst Parents disposed to consumption, to insanity, and to many other ills which °Towfrom impure blood, transmit their diseases to their chUdren. To prevent this deplorable lesult, end to save their chUdren from the afflictions that otherwise wiU be sown in THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 35 their systems, they should become whole themselves and have their blood renovated and restored to a state of purity. The health and the happiness of unborn nations of men and women demands this at the hands of the Uving generation. Let them see to it that this is done. It requires no sacrifice on the part of the Uving for the benefit of the unborn, for by the healing of themselves only can safety for those who are to come after us be ensured. For this nature has furnished the materials, that by partaking thereof the people may be healed. Hereditary diseases may be partiaUy cured in the chUd by the use of the proper medicines; but were the blighting first cause removed, hereditary complaints would inevitably die a natural death; but until this is done they will continue. EARLY MARRIAGE AND LONGEVITY. " "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord."—Prov zviii. 22. Op late years we have had put forth from the teeming press numerous works upon the important matter of marriage, examining it in aU its various phases, and volunteering much advice upon the proper age of entering into the state of wed- lock. In reason there should be needed no advice upon this point; for it would seem that nature in her wisdom had given the whole animal creation—man in- cluded— infallible and correct teaching upon the subject. But inasmuch as the wise Solons of this latter day and generation have seen fit to put forth their views contrary to nature and the teachings of God in His revealed word, I may be par- doned for expressing my ideas upon the subject, (which wifi be found in accord- ance with Scripture and nature,) and of attempting to show the unsoundness and faUacy of their opinions. Many of our popular (?) phrenological and physiological writers, teachers, and would-be guardians of pubfic virtue, hold fbrth that marriage should be put off by tho male tiU he has arrived at the age of twenty-eight or thirty years, and by the female tiU twenty-five or twenty-seven 1—because, as they say, earUer marriage wUl enervate the system, lead to a deterioration of the human race mentaUy and physicaUy, and induce disease in various forms. Now, if I understand what these people mean by not marrying tiU the age they in their wisdom prescribe, it is this— that the natural passions of amativeness and phUoprogenitiveness implanted in every member of the human famfly by a wise Creator, should be entirely sup- pressed until the certain period of Ufe which they appoint; that there should be in no manner a gratification of the natural desire; for certainly these men would not wish us to understand them as meaning that the passions of man should find gra- tification clandestinely and Ulegitimately, out of wedlock, and in the lazar houses of corruption that lay, Uke putrid sores, upon the system of society; in the bed of the diseased, blasphemous, abandoned and reckless courtezan, from whose heart aU feminine beauties have fled, and on whose face the blush of modesty is never seen. Nor that the natural desires and wants of the female should find gratification out of the pale of marriage, where shame and derision from every quarter await her exposure, or unrestrained Ucentiousness brings its train of mental misery, barrenness, disease and untimely death. No; God forbid that we should interpret 36 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. them thus. Nor can it be beUeved that they mean to say that the debasing aabit of masturbation should be resorted to and foUowed for ten or twelve years by the whole human fanuly, that by a discharge of the secretions in that unnatural man- ner the desire for cohabitation may be queUed and smothered. Certainly not; therefore it must be that suppression of desire is the doctrine they would teach. This being the case, it behoves us to candidly inquire, to carefuUy investigate, to examine in reason, and ascertain from facts, the effects that legitimately and in- evitably foUow a prolongation of ceUbacy to the periods of Ufe these writers make mention of The subject is important, considered in any view, whether as regards the health of individuals, the virtue of the people, the happiness of the race, or the spiritual salvation of those who may be affected by the teachings we have al- luded to. At the creation of man God implanted in his system certain desires and passions, to the end that through them and by a rational gratification thereof he might enjoy Ufe, drink the sweet waters of love, and propagate his species. And it is only by this rational gratification that Ufe can be made worth the Uving, or the race be continued. If we hunger, God designed that we should eat; if we thirst, that we should drink and be satisfied. And if hungering and thirsting we eat and drink not, evU is sure to come to us. Exactly so is it with any other natural desire within us. It is wisely ordained that the sexes should have desire one to the other, and if this ordination is not foUowed 01 effects are sure to come, as examination wiU show us. One of the sad results legitimately foUowing a prolongation of ceUbacy beyond the period designed by nature, is masturbation. This the reports of hospitals and lunatic asylums, and the testimony of physicians, and the shattered frames of thou- sands of victims incontestibly prove. The report from the New York State Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1850, shows that out of 816 cases of insanity 107 were caused by masturbation 11 being a little over g part, or about 17 per cent. Reports from various other institutions throughout the country for a series of years show a per oentage of masturbators ranging from 5 to 22 per cent, or an average of about 17 per cent, of the number of insane II It is weU known that there are thousands of other cases of insanity arising from this cause which never come within the ob- servation of the asylum. officers; and many cases of insanity ascribed to other causes arises from this prolific source. The total number, could we obtain them, would present a catalogue frightful to contemplate. It has been ascertained that amongst 411 male patients admitted to the Colony Hatch Lunatic Asylum, England, there were 170 married, 208 single, 25 widowed, and 8 not ascertained. Amongst 669 female patients admitted, 180 were married, 356 single, 109 widowed, and 24 not ascertained. These instances may be cited in addition to the many existing proofs of the tendency of " single blessedness" to foster insanity, especiaUy among the female sex. Who would not get married after reading such evidences? Every bachelor, and every unmarried lady, should keep tuis fact constantly in mind, and whenever they find themselves going in favor of ceUbacy, should turn it over and admit that they are half crazy already 1 Insanity is not by any means the only result of masturbation. It is a most fruit- ful cause of the monster consumption. Inducing, as it does, finaUy, emissions of the semen that cannot be controUed, both in waking hours and in sleep it exhausts the nervous vitality, wrecks the whole frame, and frequently sends the victim to an early grave. And if this result is escaped, the system is so enervated and reduced THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 37 that the offspring of after years will be found to be sickly and weak—inheriting in- firmities from the parent. In the treatment of 25,000 cases of consumption, I have found that the number arising from masturbation is 25 per cent Besides insanity and consumption, numerous other evils to the system foUow from masturbation [for which see article on this subject]. And of aU these the first cause is,prolongation of celibacy; for had the person wedded at a proper age, and found in the undefiled bed of marriage that temperate gratification which God and Nature designed he should have, his passion would not have driven him into the debasing and destructive vice. And upon the heads of those who advise the delay of mar- riage to a later period than Nature designed must rest much of the sin of this vicious habit. Prostitution, with its train of attendant evils and festering sores, is another sure and certain fruit of delaying marriage, which foUows for the same reasons as mas- turbation. From the pohce reports of London, Paris, and New York, where pros- titution thrives with luxuriance, we find that nine in every ten, or 90 per cent., of the prostitutes embrace the degrading trade of the harlot before arriving at the age of twenty, and thousands commence this Ufe as early as fourteen or fifteen years, cr soon after the development of the sexual passion. This fact speaks strongly of the danger of delaying marriage; for had these females married at an early age, and found gratification of their strong natural desires in wedlock, the appetite would have been appeased and they saved from disappointment in love and the fife of the harlot To give a faint idea of the extent of this evU (mostly arising from the cause mentioned,) we might state that? at one time in London, according to Dr. Ryan, Dr. Campbell, and Mr. Tabofi, every fifth female between the ages of fifteen and fifty was a harlot 11 In New York at one time the proportion was about the same; and at the present day it is as large as one in every eight to ten 1 Another evU arising from prolonged ceUbacy is the shortening of human life. This is conclusively shown by census returns, to be the case in aU countries!—a direct and pointed .contradiction of the theories and teachings of the self-constituted almoners upon the subject of marriage. The institution of marriage is a healthful institution—it is a prolonger of the days of man upon earth From statistics in four successive Registration Reports of the State of Massachu- setts, it appears that the average duration of'life after 20 years of age of those who die without having married is 15.82 years for the males and 25.60 for females; of the married 34.61 for the males and 24.77 for the females; of those dying in widowhood 53.94 for males and 53.67 for females. By coupUng together the figures of the married and widowers (who have been married)—34.61 and 53.94, and dividing by 2, we find, that the average duration of Ufe after 20 years of males who have enjoyed wedlock, is 44.27 years to 15.82 for those who have not; and a similar coupling of the ages of married ladies and widows, gives the years of the wedded after 20 as 49.22 to 25.60 for the single. The statistics of various European countries show a much greater difference of Ufe in favor of the married state. These statistics speak strongly of the influence of marriage upon health and long Ufe even after the persons have arrived at the age of 20 years; and when we recoUect the great number of deaths occurring from puberty to the age of 20 of complaints and from causes which marriage would have prevented, we shaU observe that we have a most powerful and convincing argument in favor of early marriage and against the thonl 7 of some of our modern phUosophers. 38 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. From these figures it appears that marriage and the influences foUowing thore- from have the effect of giving man upon the average, after 20 years of age, twenty- eight and a half years more of fife than he would have enjoyed without them; and to women twenty-three and half I This proves the pure, untainted sweets of nuptial bliss to be the life-balm for prolonging the days of man and woman upon the earth which God has given them for an inheritance. From this delay of marriage also arise the most of the iUegitimate births that occur in society. The natural passions seeking gratification—and which cannot be suppressed—plunge the young woman into sexual connection, and the fruit of her womb becomes to her a curse and the token of her shame and degradation in the eyes of a community. Had she been married at an earUer age, she had brought forth chUdren in honor; but being left to the sport of an ungratified passion which she could not always control, she is tortured in travaU with the reflection of being thenceforth branded with the mark of sin, and perhaps of becoming an outcast from the roof of her father. The results that foUow from this are weU known. Often the house of the procuress becomes her abode in her shame, and she is added to tho fearful list of those who pander to the salacious passions of the unrestrained and vUe. Once the portals of infamy are crossed, her steps down the path of vice and degradation are swift and certain; and but few years go by ere she is hurried to the tomb, unwept uncared for, and unregretted. And if the fruits of this evU result of delayed ceUbacy be not gathered in the home of the courtesan and the tomb of the abandoned, we may see them in the dens of abortion. Scarcely a day passes but we nf&y see recorded the finding of an infant in some out-house or by place, where the victim of a passion ungratified by rational sexual connection in marriage has cast it, to hide her shame and disgrace. The number of such chUd-murders—in good part arising from foUowing the teach- ings of the high-priests we have aUuded to—has become frightfuUy alarming. They are a disgrace to any people and to civilization, and should be a warning against the inculcation of the baneful theories of false teachers and phUosophers. Such are a few only of the baneful and damning results that legitimately flow from the teachings of those who have unfortunately obtained for their doctrines too great an ascendancy in society. In order to show that the phfiosophy of these men is not only pernicious in its influence,—detrimental to virtue, destructive to health, prejudicial to long Ufe, injurious to offspring, and contrary to reason and the laws of nature, but also in opposition to inspiration, and the virtuous ancient customs of marriage, the injunc- tions of the wisest men that have Uved, and to the natural teachings of godliness,—• we shaU adduce the testimony of the Holy Scriptures upon this important subject. In 1 Timothy v. 14, we read—" I wilL therefore, that the younger women marry, bear children, and guide the house." In Proverbs ii. 17, we read of the strange woman who has " forsaken the guide of her youth "—her husband; and hi Joel L 8 of " the husband of her youth;"—the Jews marrying very early, in obedience to the injunction—" Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." In 1 Cor. vii. 9__ " It is better to marry than to burn." In Hebrews xUL 4—" Marriage is honorable to alL" In 1 Cor. vii. 2—"To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband." In Psalm lxxviii. 63 it is reore- Bented as a mark of displeasure of the Deity that " their maidens were not given to | THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 39 From these and other passages in Scripture it wUl be seen that early marriage was enjoined by God and considered favorably of by the prophets and the apostles. The Jews esteemed marriage a matter of the strictest obUgation, and embraced it at an early age. The time prescribed was eighteen years for the men; and the virgin was ordinarily married at twelve. The Jews foUow the commands df the God of Abraham. They circumcise to prevent masturbation, and marry young to give proper gratification to passion. (See Circumcision.) The Hindoos also marry their daughters at twelve, and consider it as a great calamity and disgrace if they are not disposed of in marriage before that age. I do not wish to be understood as advising marriage before nature intended, but as combating the mischievous and baneful theories that have in great measuro obtained among us. My view of the subject is in accordance with the mjunctions of Scripture and the infaUible directions of Nature. For the correct and proper guidance of men and women in this matter nature has estabUshed signs that cannot be mistaken. Passion develops itself at the proper age; and when puberty has arrived, we may safely foUow the example of the whole anunal creation. And if we do not, there will, as we have conclusively shown, manifold dangers arise against the health and tho happiness of the human race. In reference to the subject of the " strength of the sexual propensity," as regarded in the Ught of a cause of loss of virtue by the female, in many cases, Dr. Holfick offers the foUowing remarks, which afford us a most powerful argument of the absolute necessity of early marriage in certain instances, if we would preserve the female from shame or from the" baneful effects of self-poUution. " In some females, the organs of susceptibility of sexual pleasure are so exqui- litely sensitive that it is scarcely possible for them to prevent their becoming excited and creating sexual desires. Even by contact of the clothes they may become congested, and excite both the uterus and brain. In these cases it is sheer nonsense to say, that the strong sexual desire experienced arises merely from depravity, or that it can be overcome by moral efforts alone. We might just aa reasonably conclude that the hunger of an empty stomach arises merely from an unruly appetite, and that it may also be overcome by moral effort. In making these remarks, I, of course, do not intend to deny the great power of a determined wiU over the feelings, under most circumstances, nor to discourage such efforts; on the contrary, they are most important and often highly effective; but I wish to draw attention to the obvious fact that theV alone cannot always succeed. It is unquestionable that in many females, and especiaUy about the age of puberty, the excitabiUty is so great that they cannot overcome or escape from the feelings and desires that this excitabiUty creates; and, beyond doubt, it is from this cause alone that many seek improper indulgence and become depraved. With these persons, therefore, it is not moral suasion alone, or threats, or the fear of consequences, that can be depended upon. * * Licentiousness is fully as often a result of the bodUy condition as it is of the mental disposition, or probably even more so. It should never be forgotten, when reasoning upon these subjects, that some persons cannot prevent sexual desires." And yet in the face of this weU-known physiological fact, men would teU us that no woman should marry tiU eight or ten years at the least after the age of puberty! The consequences to which such a doctrine, if carried out, inevitably must, and, in 40 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. maty cases, does lead, it is easy for the blindest to see,—is so palpable and plain " that the wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot err therein." To show what have been the opinions of eminent divines upon this subject we introduce an extract from Lectures on Magdalenism by the renowned Dr. Wardlaw, of Scotland, deUvered before forty ministers of the gospel and eleven hundred citizens of Glasgow—published by J. S. Redfield, New York:— ' " The causes which, by various authors, have been assigned as, some more and some less, conducing to the melancholy aggregate of wickedness and misery, are numerous. I can only select some of the more prominent " Whenever we think at aU on the subject the first thing which, in the order of nature, forces itself upon our notice is, the strength of the sexual propensity, and the comparative weakness of the moral principle which ought to hold it in restraint This, however, is a topic of which, whether absolutely or comparatively, I shrink from the pubUc discussion; and am glad to think that I can waive it without ma- terially if at aU affecting the completeness of my argument, or the force of my appeal It may be enough, on a point of such pecuUar deUcacy, to say, that whili other causes blend their influence with this, it is absurd to suppose that, but for this, they could operate with such fatal success: nor can it admit of a doubt, as to either Bex, that this cause does at times cloak itself under the allegation of others, which can be pleaded in extenuation with less of shame. " Early marriages, wherever they can be contracted with any ordinary regard to prudence, are among the best preventives of prostitution; and whatever contributes to hinder the formation of these, may be regarded as standing chargeable with their share of its encouragement, as ranking among the causes of magdalenism. I deny not that prudence is a virtue, and the question of marriage is a proper sphere for its exercise. But there cannot be a doubt that high notions, which, by the refinement and extravagance of our times, have been introduced, of the style in which young men entering on life must set up their domestic establishment have, in many instances, laid restraints on the early cultivation of virtuous love, and prevented the happy union of hearts in youthful wedlock. I cannot look upon this as at all an improve- ment on the homely habits of our fathers. Many are the young men who are thus tempted to remain single by their felt inability to start in what is regarded a some- what creditable style. Would to God I had the ear of all the youth in our city, and in our country, that I might teU them of the sweets of early virtuous union; and that I might earnestly and affectionately urge them to consult their own best interests, and to set an example pregnant with the most beneficial results to the community, by bidding defiance to the tyranny of fashion; by returning to the good old way; by finding a partner who wUl marry from love, and who wUl be willing, and more than willing, to begin upon Uttle, and by the blessing of providence, to rise grad- uaUy to more. That was the way in the olden time; and, although no croaker for the superiority of aU that pertained to ancestry, this, most assuredly, is a point in which I should say of the former days, ' they were better than these.' I would say to the rising youth—the hopes of coming generations—'Moderate your views- defy custom; marry; fear God; be virtuous; and be happy.' Could my voice and my counsel prevail, what a salutary check would be given to the prevalence of the vice which is our present subject. " Virtuous love operates with a most beneficial influence on the vicious princinles of our fafien nature; nor are there many sights on earth more delightful for t^e eve to THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 41 rest on than that of youth joined with youth in honorable and haUowed union— union of heart as weU as hand—and Uving together in aU the faithfulness and ten- derness of a first love. E\ en should their outset in conjugal Ufe be somewhat stinted, how much better, a Uttle mutual Belf-denial than that cold, calculating ceUbacy which is ever looking forward to some distant stylish starting point an(l which, in the mean whUe, is so frequent an occasion of young men ' falling into temptation and a snare,' and into 'foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown them in destruction and perdition I'' To the views of Dr. Wardlaw, thus expressed, I fuUy subscribe. They are wor- thy the attention of aU weU-wishers of the human famUy. And I would suggest to the eminent divines of this country, to such men as Drs. Beecher, Cox, Hawks, BushneU, Potts, Phinney, Wainwright and others, the propriety of foUowing tin exceUent example of Dr. W., and deUvering courses of lectures, similar to his, to the American people, which might be published for universal circulation throughout the country, so that every parent and every son and daughter in the land migh*. read and profit thereby. You have before you, in the pubUcations and teachings of some of the distinguished phrenologists and physiologists of the day, the theory of protracted ceUbacy: and in miUions of degenerated consumptives, broken down, insane, prostituted and death-struck human beings, you have presented some of the legitimate fruits that foUow the practice of such a theory; a theory which leads to degeneration of the race, is a bhghting curse to civilization, and Christian reUgion, a destroyer of wedded bliss, and a fruitful source of infant mortaUty. On the other hand, you have that theory of marriage ordained of God, advocated in the words of Holy Writ approved by reason, and prescribed by nature, to foUow which leads to health, virtue, moraUty, purity, happiness, and long Ufe to both men and women. The roads, with the results to which they inevitably and of necessity conduct the traveler, are before you: choose ye into which of the two you will direct your steps and the steps of those who are to fiU your places in the world. In addition to the foregoing, I would submit to my readers the foUowing opinion of the revered and celebrated Dr. Benjamin FrankUn, upon the subject of early marriages, as expressed in letters to his friends. The views of so observing a man are worthy of the deepest consideration: " From the marriages that have faUen under my observation, I am rather inclined to think that earty ones stand the best chance of happiness. The temper and habits of the young have not become so stiff and uncomplying as when more advanced in Ufe • they form more easUy to each other, and hence many causes of disgust are re- moved. * * By early marriage, youth is sooner formed to regular and useful Ufe • and possibly some of those accidents, or connections, that might have injured the constitution, or reputation, or both, are thereby happUy prevented. * * In general, when nature has rendered our bodies fit for it, the presumption is in nature's favor that she has not judged amiss in making us desire it. Late marriages are often attended, too, with this further inconvenience, that there is z.ot the same chance that the parents wiU Uve to see their chUdren educated. 'Late chUdren,' says the Spanish proverb, 'are early orphans.' A melancholy reflection to those whose case it may be! * * In fine, I am glad that you (John Alleyne,) are married, and congratulate you most cordially upon it. You are now in the way of becoming a useful citizen; and you have escaped the unnatural state of ceUbacy for Ufe, the fate of many who never intended it but who, having too long postponed the change 42 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. of their condition, find at length that it is too late to think of it and so Uve all their Uves in a situation that greatly lessens a man's value. An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set. What thmk you of the odd half of a pair of scissors? It cannot weU cut anything; it may possibly serve to scrape a trencher." No. 9.—Married Couple with their Child. ■ I will that the younger women marry and bear children."—1 Timothy v. 14. " Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled."—Heb. xiii. 4. [In the above cut our readers are presented with a picture of the married couple ir the enjoyment of bodUy health, mental vigor, mutual domestic happiness and peace, Uving in the pleasure of connubial bliss as ordained by God, and rejoicing to- gether over the beautiful chUd given them as the choicest blessing cf heaven__an honored image of themselves and of the Deity.] THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 43 And again: "The account you (John Sargeant), give me of your famUy is pleasing, except tlvat your eldest son continues so long unmarried. I hope he does not intend to Uve and die in ceUbacy. The wheel of Ufe that has rolled down to him from Adam without interruption, should not stop with him. I would not have one dead, unhealing branch in the genealogical tree of the Sargeants. The married state is, after all our jokes, the happiest being conformable to our natures. Man and woman have each of them quaUties and tempers, in which the other is deficient, and which hi union contribute to the common feUcity. Single and separate, they are not tho complete human being; they are Uke the odd halves of scissors; they cannot an- swer the end of their formation." MINERAL QUACKS. " The whole nation is groaning under the present practice of the medical profession, which fosters disease more than it cures it, and debases or ruins our constitutions."—Momsoir. The history of the term quack is as foUows: Mineral medicines were first intro- duced into use in the cure of diseases in 1493, by Theophrastus Bombastus Paracel- sus in Switzerland, and the German vegetable doctors caUed him and his foUowers quacks, from the introduction among other things of quicksUver or quacksal/er. When we apply the term of quack to that class of physicians which bleed and give mineral poisons to cure diseases, we by no means use it as a term of reproach, but as an appeUation that we have shown legitimately belongs to them, to distinguish them torn the class of botanic physicians which existed long before minerals were ever thought of as fit for the healing of the sick. And this name wUl cling to them in spite of themselves so long as they continue their present practice. It id manifestly absurd and unjust in the mineral doctors to attempt to cast the term of quack as a reproach upon the botanists, who never sanctioned the use of minerals as a medicine, but have steadfastly set their faces against them, and en- tered their protest against their use, as being unnecessary in any case, and often highly injurious. If the "regulars" are ashamed of the term, (as they evidently are,) let them cease to practice upon the principle out of which the name originated. Or if they wUl persist in their unnatural treatment of the human system in disease, let them manfully wear the name which their father Paracelsus earned for them, and not resort to the infamous trick of using it in abuse of those who continue in the practice of the Botanic system, that was ordained of God for the healing of the sick and disabled. Paracelsus in a great measure succeeded in overthrowing the Galenic system, which had stood the test of fourteen hundred years; and in its place he introduced the mineral or chemical system. The introduction of mineral agents into medical practice, caused great excitement The regular physicians of that day, the Galenic or Botanic, (now irregular,) contended with much zeal against minerals; whUe, on the other hand, the chemical practitioners, or quacks, inveighed against Botanies, as being weak and inefficient. The whole medical world was thus kept in commotion for two hundred years.' Both sides assaUed each other with the most opprobrious epithets, and the contest has continued to the present day. Since the days of Para- 44 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. celsus, the great mass of physicians have placed their chief reUance upon the Ian cet the knife, and a few acrid and poisonous minerals. But I rejoice that many distinguished physicians of the old quack school are beginning to abandon their poisonous quackeries, and enter their solemn protest against them. Of this number is Dr. Beach, President of the Reformed Medical Society of New York, and founder of the Reformed Medical CoUeges of the United States. Drs. Kenworthy and Price, founders of the Eclectic Medical CoUege of Petersburg, Va., gentlemen of the highest order of talent and skill in their profession; Dr. Anthony Hunn, of Kentucky; Dr. Bigelow, of Boston; Drs. Mathias, BlackaU, Cheyne, L J. Sperry, A. W. Russell, of Albany, Wm. Elmer, of N. Y.; and a host of others, too numerous to mention, who have abandoned their old method of mercurial quackery and gone to the vegetable kingdom for the great natural remedies which God has there furnished in rich abundance for the "healing of the nations." Let us hear the opinion of some of these noble reformers, in relation to mineral poisons as cura- tive agents: "Those," says Dr. Beach, "who wish to preserve their health, must avoid the use of aU minerals internaUy. They never were designed by the Author of nature for medicine. They injure the coats of the stomach and intestines, and, instead of re- moving, create diseases. Mercury, which is universaUy in use, is the worst of all Vegetables should be used in preference, being safer, and more congenial to the system." Dr. Hunn says: " The present calomel practice in fevers is a calamity co-exten- Bive with the empire of civilization; and war, with all its ghastly concomitants, must haU calomel its master." Dr. Bigelow says: "Mercury enters into every part of the body—the blood, bones, milk, urine, bUe, cutaneous discharges, serum, saliva, breasts, intestines, and there continues: and if the victim to such quackery Uves, his system wUl be a Uv- ing barometer, to denote the changes of the weather—great pain making the only difference." Dr. Cheyne says: "Minerals are the most destructive to animal bodies that maUce can invent beyond gun-powder itself, and even spuituous Uquors; for not only nature has provided none such, but as poisons in venomous creatures, to kiD their enemies. They become iron, bristles, nails and lancets, darting perpendicularly into the soUds of the body, so as quickly to tear, rend, and destroy; and, therefore, can never be proper for food or physic. "Whereas Galenical, or vegetable, productions have none of these bad properties, and are, consequently, designed for both food and medicines for the sick." Testimony to this effect might be multipUed to very great length; and it is most gratifying to the friends of the medical reform to hear these testimonies from those who have occupied the highest seats of honor in the school of Quackdom. We boldly predict that at tne rate medical reform is now advancing, the world ic twenty-five years, wiU not contain an advocate for mineral poisons as remedial agents for diseases of any description. The Galenic age, which has begun to dawn again upon the world, after a long night of over three hundred and fifty years, wiU spread its glories over the world. Signs of these glories meet us on every hand. The people have caught a glimpse of the true and genuine remedies, which the God of nature designed for the use of mankind under their various diseases. These THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 45 are aU found in the vegetable or botanical kingdom. They are found in and among the trees of the forests and the luxuriant productions of the hills and the vaUeys. Tbey grow in the crags and on the tops of the highest mountams; and lift up their enameled heads by the side of every lake and streamlet. These, like the leaves of the mystic tree which were beheld in the apocalyptio vision, are designed for the heaUng of the nations. These are our remedies. We have tried them, and found them to be safe, agiee- able, powerful in their effects, and fuUy efficacious in removing the most inveterate maladies with which mankind are afflicted. We have long and carefufiy studied their nature, and observed their eff'ects; and we find that,. whUe they are potent in eradicating diseases of every kind from the bUman system, they leave none of those baneful and crushing effects upon it, that often last during life; such as general emaciation and debiUty, increased action of the heart and arteries, tubercles in the lungs, scrofulous blood, inducing various forms of chronic disease; thickening of various membranes, particularly the pleura and the pericardium; metaUic taste in the mouth; pecuUar and offensive odor of the breath; rotten teeth and spongy gums; excessive flow of the saUva; swoUen and stiffened joints, tongue, and moveable palate; increased secretions and excretions; irritable state of the whole system; temporary delirium, palsy, and epUepsy; a pale, contracted countenance and trembling nerves; rapacious appetite for food, and bad digestion; disturbed sleep and frightful dreams; frequent aches and pains, darting through the limbs and various parts of the body; sudden loss of strength, as if dy- ing; shocking depression of spirits; tendency to commit suicide; loss of memory and judgment; sometimes incurable mania, and other evUs, too numerous to men- tion ; aU of which, to a greater or less degree, foUow directly in the wake of mineral poisons administered as curatives of disease. These dreadful effects cannot but be known to aU who are engaged in giving or directing their use; and, inasmuch as they know them, they ought immediately to abandon their use. Even admitting that mineral poisons have a direct tendency to eradicate any acute disease; yet when their ultimate chronic effects are considered, they ought nevei to be used; nor have physicians any earthly excuse for using them, inasmuch as the God of nature has spread out before them, on every hand, in the vegetable kingdom, remedies that wUl produce aU the good effects that can possibly be claim- ed to be produced by mineral poisons, without any of their injurious effects. If they are in doubt in relation to the correctness of this statement, their doubts will at once vanish, if they wiU but make the experiment with a strong decoction of Ms Versicolor, or Biue Flag-root steeped in alcohol, giving a tea-spoonful three times a-day; or they may use Eupitorium Perfoliatum, or Thoroughwort, in double the above quantity, after having boUed it down tiU it is very strong. Either of the above substitutes wiU produce aU the desirable effects claimed foi mineral poisons, without one of their undeniably pernicious effects. Why then should any physician longer persist in the use of mineral poisons? For them ho has no earthly excuse; and benevolence, at least to his patients, who confidingly trust their Uves in his hands, ought to prompt him, forthwith, to abandon their use. If the sword has slain its thousands, mineral poisons have slain their tens of 46 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. thousands; and that within its period of three hundred and fifty-eight years; prevK ously to which, as we have proved, they were whoUy unknown to the world as cu- ratives of disease, of any kind or form. For five thousand four hundred and ninety-seven years before the adoption of the mineral practice, during which the diuretic, abluent and botanic practice prevaUed, the world were, for the most part, strangers to those dreadful chronic maladies which have every where prevaUed since the introduction and adoption of the min- eral practice. Almost aU constitutions have become more or less affected by the use of miner- als, so that there is now very Uttle use for thermometers or barometers, to indicate the present or prospective state of the weather. A man has but to consult his own, or his neighbor's constitution, to obtain all need- ed information in relation to this matter. If you wish the blooming goddess of health, happiness, and long Ufe, to take up " To everything wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat."—See Genesis i. 29, 30 ; and Genesis ix. 3. No. 10.—The Vegetable or Botanic Medicines, Adapted to every age and to every condition of the bodily health, being both food and medicine far wun and animals, have been in constant use for nearly six thousand years, during which long period not one has ever died from their effects, or been injured, except through their misapplies. tion ; nor one in ten thousand, when compared with the mineral patients in three hundred and fifty-eight years. The chemical or mercurial medicines, first introduced to the world in 1493, by Bombastui Paracelsus, the great prototype of all succeeding quacks, have, in the short space of three hun- dred and fifty-eight years, sent death and destruction broadcast over the land, furnishing con- stant employment to doctors, dentists, coffin-makers, and grave-diggers J Make your choice The vegetable and mineral medicines are before you. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 47 her abode within your dwelling, banish all quack mineral poisons therefrom; and when any curative agents are needed, resort to such as Nature has provided in the vegetable kingdom, where you wUl always find an abundance adapted to the nature of man, either in a state of health or^disease. From these last I have labored many years to compound medicines suited to the various disorders to which the human system is Uable, each calculated to work be- neficiaUy in the particular diseases which it is designed to cure, and aU co-operating together to restore the disturbed system to its proper state of quietness and health From the proper use of these you wiU find refief from sickness and pain, and the number of your years be prolonged upon the earth. (See notices of medicines in another part of this volume.) VEGETABLE MEDICINES ARE OF GOD. " The Flora of North America is astonishingly rich m remedies. There is no doubt in my mind that, in more diseases than is generally acknowledged, vegetable simples are tho prefer- able remedies."—Prof. Waterhouse Vegetables were given by God to man both for food and medicine; and they have been used for these purposes since the creation of Adam, and stood the test through every age of the world. When man was formed and became a Uving soul, God particularly declared vegetables to be food for man. See Gen. i. 29 and 30. " And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upou tho face of aU the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shaU be for meat And to every beast of the earth, and to ever}' fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat." Gen. ix. 3, 4. " Every moving thing that Uveth shall be meat for you, even as the green herbs, have I given you aU things. But flesh, with the Ufe thereof, which is the blood thereof, shaU ye not eat." King David said—" Purge me with hyssop (not calomel or blue pills,) and I shall be clean."—Ps. Ii. 7. St. John said—" The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."—Rev. xxii. 2. Paul said—" The weak eateth herbs."—Romans xiv. 2. The IshmaeUtes came from GUead, with their camels, bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, carrying it down to Egypt.—Gen. xxxvU. 25. And father Israel said unto them—" Take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down to the man a present: a Uttle balm, and a Uttle honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds." Gen. xliii. 11. Would not this example be a good one for the minerals doctors to fol- low, when they visit their sick, rather than carry their deadly poisons; at least these are the medicines of the botanies; and their patients had rather see these than the lancet hlue pUls, or emetics. Jeremiah lamented for the Jews—" Is there no balm in GUead ? is there no phy- sician there ? why, then, is not the health of the daughter of my people recover. ed?"—Jer. vUi. 22. Jeremiah said—" Go up into GUead, and take balm." And he also pronounced the vegetables, in this case, as medicines; for he said—"In vain xhalt thou use many medicines, and shaU not be cured." This passage also proves that God afflicts persons with disease, and that they shaU not be cured; therefore provoke not God's wrath, that you should faU into incurable sickness. " Babylon is 48 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. suddenly faUen and destroyed; howl for her; take balm, (not minerals,) for her pam, if so be she may be healed." Am I judging too hard when I say vegetable medicines are healing remedies for the sick, and that mineral poisons are not of God, but from the devU? The whole- sale slaughter of mankind in every age since the introduction of mineral medicines proves this to be true. And the thousands Uving who have been tormented with diseases foUowing the use of the deadly poisons cry out against them; but t mineral quack heeds not their voices. In speaking of the moral corruption of Judah, the prophet Isaiah speaks o^ ointment.—Isa. i. 6; and in various portions of the Scriptures there is mention made of ointments, balms, myrrh, aloes, and other healing vegetables; but we find no mention of calomel or other minerals as medicines. The ancient Egyptians encouraged and profited by the growth of many wild plants of the desert, which were used for medicinal purposes. Many of them are BtUl known to the Arabs, and many others have fallen into disuse from the ignor- ance of the modern mhabitants of the country, who only know them from the Arabs, by whom the traditions concerning their properties are preserved. From what Homer tells us of "the mnnity of drugs produced in Egypt," the use o' "many medicines" mentioned by Jeremiah, and the frequent aUusion by PUny to the medicinal plants of that country, we may conclude that they were highly prized. Of vegetable remedies, Prof Rafinesque has remarked:—" The popular beUef, that every country produces simples suitable to cure aU the prevailing local diseases, is not void of truth; vegetable substances afford the mUdest most efficient, and most congenial remedies to the human frame. The numerous cures that are daily per- formed by the use of vegetable medicines are sufficient evidence of their super- exceUent virtues." Enough is here presented to show that mineral medicines were not appointed of God for the use of man, but that vegetable medicines were; and enough to banish the former and estabUsh the latter as the only true and safe ones. And the experience of ages has confirmed the wisdom of the Scriptures upon this point so strongly that aU .the mineral quacfcs in Christendom cannot shake it from its firm foundation. And when to these teachings of the Bible and experiences of the past we have added the dictates of common sense and reason, making an array of arguments that cannot be overthrown, we may be pardoned for asking why people wUl longer con- tinue in the use of these pernicious and baneful mineral potions—especiaUy when the labors of science in the vegetable kingdom have prepared for us remedies for the various diseases with which mankind is afflicted? HOMEOPATHY. Homeopathy we may regard as no better than allopathy, since aU the medicines used by the homeopathic physician that have any power in themselves are the same as those used by the aUopathic—being no more or less than tie deadly mineral poisons of the "old school" doctors—yet prepared in a more concentrated form. Their Uttle sugar pills, however, and drops of distUled water, possess remarkable THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 49 healing properties when administered to highly nervous and notional persons, who have no disease but what exists in the imagination. Such persons they not unfre- quently cure: such persons are often restored to health from an imaginary disease by a few doses of powerful and efficacious bread pills! The care of the homeopath to remove aU medicines but his own from the sick room, for fear of the loss of the power of his remedies by absorption, is a grand thing where the patient is nervous and whimsical, and has Uttle or no disease. The more of such affectation and pretension they practice, the better for that kind of invaUds. But as regards the system of homeopathy, when practiced upon the principle laid down by its head and father, Hahnemann, and considered aside from the nervous and notional state into which people having no real disease sometimes get, it is utterly worthless. I have seen it tried in various acute and real cases of sickness and it produced no effect whatever—unless medicines of other schools were used. The theory of practice, however, is perhaps a good offset to that of aUopathy; foi whUe physicians of the latter school give too much medicine, the homeopath gives none at all, but pretends to give, and by governing the diet and exercise sometimes effects good. I am not opposed to the practice, for, whUe it does no harm it may prove beneficial through the imagination. And did they adhere to their syitem in aU cases they would be much less accountable for the entailment of disease upon the subjects of their skill than the allopaths. But, unfortunately, tins is not the case. Prescribing for the imagination does not always answer, for there are cases of sickness of such severity and upon such per- Bons that the infinitesimal doses and bread piUs wUl have no effect upon them. In these instances they resort to the remedies used by the aUopath—calomel, arsenic, morphine, quinine, strichnine, delphine, veratrine and others, prepared in highly con- centrated forms and sugared over to hide the taste. These remedies constitute- almost the entire materia-medica of the homeopath—at least aU that have any real power. So that in reality they are under the same condemnation, no matter what their pretensions may be, for the injurious effects of the medicmes they use are the same as those produced by the agents of the aUopath. And from the use by the homeopath"of the medicines and practice of another school, we are brought to tho inevitable conclusion that the theory of Hahnemann has been found incompetent in cases of real sickness, to effect cures, saving and excepting the good wluch may bo wrought by any medicine through the imagination of the patient I and this, too, by the experience of the pretended disciples of the homeopathic school. The theory of Hahnemann is totally based, and homeopathy as a distinctive Bchool is entirely dependent, upon dilution, not concentration. The doctrine is that " Uke cures Uke," and medicinal agents are more active and powerful in infinitesimal quantities than in ordinary doses: for, says Hahnemann himself, " a grain of salt divid- ed to a miUioneth degree of attenuation, and a particle dissolved in dUuted alcohol, and the division of this extended to a miUioneth degree, becomes a powerful and heroical medicament which can be administered only with the greatest caution I" How absurd and ridiculous! This would be Uke throwing a spoonful of tea into the Hudson at Albany, and telUng the ladies of New York that therefrom they could dip up a cup of the exceUeut beverage at the entrance zf the river into the ocean! In the name of common sense how could a man grarip, or see, even by the aid of a powerful microscope, this truly homeopathic dose which Hahnemann speaks of? An atom of water or alcohol could not by any power be separated from its sur- 4 50 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. rounding atoms, but would contain an hundred tunes more salt than Hahnemann describes! And how could it produce any effect when every patient using it takes miUions of times as much with his daUy meals? and when Ids secretions, his gastric hiices, and every atom of his blood, contain always, as an indispensable constituent bilhonsof times more salt than he says wUl produce such extraordinary effects? Such is the whole doctrine of homeopathic doses; and we need not pursue it further in order that the reader may see its utter absurdity. It may be reasonably wonder- ed if the intelligence of those who believe in such a theory is not diluted to a greater degree than is one of their homeopathic doses I With reference to the other dogma, that " Uke cures like," or that " aU diseases may be cured by such remedies as are capable of inducing symptoms similar to each particular disease," it is by no means true. The doctrine is not based, as Hahnemann pretends, upon an invariable law. In some cases, it is true, that a certain medicine given to a person in health, wUl produce in him symptoms common in a disease. Creosote which is given to cure vomiting, will, if administered in a dose sufficiently large, induce vomiting in a healthy person; but it does not foUow that it cures in the one case because it induces in the other; for were this theory true, tartar emetic, which is almost sure to excite vomiting, when given in a large dose, would be sure to cure it when given in smaU ones, in aU cases where the vomiting was not induced by tartar emetic. But we aU know that it wUl do no such thing 1 So we see the fallacy of this dogma According to this theory of homeopathy, if a man is stung by an insect he must let a snake bite him as a cure; or to extinguish a fire we must throw on gunpowder or saltpetre. Would it not be more rational to use water to quench fire, and health- renewing remedies to destroy disease? The theory of homeopathy as practiced, whether it be acknowledged or not, is this and only this; they wish to dispense with the strength of medicines in many cases, because they have no confidence in them in those cases. But they cannot dispense with the use of something, because the patient is impressed with the idea that me- dicines must cure. They then start the theory of dilution, or giving the shadow of medicine without its strength or substance. DUuting the medicine, and at the same time impressing and concentrating the mind of the invaUd, it requires no real virtue in the medicine, because the concentration of the mind strongly impressed, acts with a magic and wonderful power on the nervous electricity and animal secretions, blood or fluids, producing the cures without a particle of medicine. This theory and its practice is in many cases a grand one; the theory of operating upon the mind is ex- ceUent; but it wUl not do in aU cases. But whUe we can indorse that part of homeopathy which operates upon the mind, we must enter our protest against their use of the deadly minerals of the aUopath, for reasons heretofore given in remarks upon mineral medicines. And if they would hold to the concentration of medicine, it is by no means necessary that they discard the vegetable remedies; for these, capable of producing aU the good, and leaving behind none of the Ul effects that foUow mineral antidotes, can be had in concen- trated forms highly poweiful and efficacious in the cure of diseases, divested of their cumbrous and worthless substance. TFIE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 51 LOVE-SICKNESS CAUSES CONSUMPTION. Love is a natural passion of both sexes. Properly influenced, love is animated With the noblest expectations, and an ardent desire to promote the happiness of its object. Though not in itself a disease, love often produces an unhealthy state of the system and leads to diseases. The symptoms of love as outwardly manifested are as follows: The eyeUds often twinkle; the eyes are hoUow, and yet appear as if fiUed with pleasure; the pulse is not pecuUar to the passion, but the same as tLst which at- tends soUcitude and care; when the object of the person's affection is near, particu- larly if the idea is sudden, the spuits are confused, the pulse changes, and its force and celerity are very variable; some, not conscious of their state, pine away, are Slothful, and regardless of food; though the wise, when they find themselves to love, seek pleasant company and active entertainments. As the force of love prevails, sighs grow deeper; a tremor affects the heart and pulse; the countenance is alternately pale and red; the voice is suppressed to the throat; tho eyes grow dim; cold sweats break out; sleep absents itself, at least un- tU morning; the secretions become disturbed; the heart dUated, and appetite lost; a hectie fever, melancholy, perhaps madness, suicide or consumption, end the Ufe of the victim. How to distinguish the love-sick, is particularly described above, which, in observing closely, wUl always determine the fact. Love-sickness is a most fruitful cause of decUne and consumption. I have found many fast inclined to consumption, who, had they not accidentaUy fallen under my medical care, would have soon died; but I am happy to say that I rarely faU of chang- ing the mind and directing it to other phrenological organs, by agency of the blood and diet, so as to effect a radical cure, and restore mind and body to health. Love- sickness is a fruitful source of insanity, as we may see from the reports of the vari- ous lunatic asylums in the country; the average of cases from this cause being set down at about six per cent. That consumption often grows out of love-sickness, physicians have been compeUed to admit; yet, very few of them are able to do any good to the sufferer. But by careful study of the disease, and observing how the mind acts upon the body, and upon the blood, and renders it impure, and how the blood in turn acts upon the brain and its several organs through the nervous elec- tricity of the system, I have been able to ascertain the nature and character of this disease and to prepare remedies for it which are offered to those suffering from its influence, with an assurance of their producing the most salutary results. Disease and Health coupled in Marriage.—In the present age, it has bo- come a matter of frequent occurrence that disease is united to health in marriage, without regard to consequences that wUl foUow to offspring. Owing ic customs of dress and habUs of Uving, in connection with the evils arising from protnw icd ceU- bacy there are few couples united at the age of twenty-five or thirty withou: seated disease existing hi either the lady or the gentleman. This is a serious objection to putting off marriage and to the production of offspring. The consumptive invalid, fast approaching the grave, is wedded in marriage; the female, having by tight lacing and heavy skirts broke down and deranged the health and functions of the womb, is a subject for wedded Ufe: the young man having de- stroyed his health, and caused weakness in the genital organs, derangement of th« 52 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. mind, involuntary emissions, or partial idiocy, from a habit of self-poUution, is fre- quently a subject for the matrimonial Ufe, (and what a piece of crippled mechanism is he too, to offer himself to a blooming young lady, fresh as the dew-drop of the morning.) This is aU wrong. Individuals, and society as a whole, should endeavor to set this matter right by beginning at the fountain head, and advising obedience to those laws of nature which, being foUowed in wisdom, wUl prevent falling into the infirmities I have mentioned. Then we should have sound couples given in marriage, and the race would be perpetuated in strength and health. PROTRACTED CELIBACY A VIOLATION OF PHYSICAL LAWS. Marriage, in my opinion, should be instituted as soon as the person has budded into man or womanhood and the sexual passion is fuUy developed. Delaying mar- riage ten or twelve years after puberty is altogether wrong—destructive to health, happiness and long Ufe. AU the secret habits which injure both the male and the female lay the foundation for sickness, break down the constitution, and induce consumption directly or indirectly, grow out of too long a separation of the sexes; for if the amative passion is not gratified naturaUy, it will be unnaturaUy; if there is no sexual intercourse, there wUl be self-poUution in nine out of ten cases, as ex- perience of the past most conclusively shows. And in aU other cases (if there be any such,) where the secretion of semen is not discharged through the natural pas- sage, it must be absorbed into the body in a decomposed state, to clog up the sys- tem, impart impurities to the blood, and derange the action of the lungs and heart; acting the same as costiveness in the bowels, which gives headache, derangement of the stomach and insanity; or as the urine, whiqh, when not discharged by ita natural passage, works out through the pores of the skin, and imparts a disagreea- ble odor to the body; or as the bUe, which, when obstructed, produces jaundice, known by yeUowness of skin. The point, therefore, to be considered by aU is this: ShaU we have natural or artificial gratification ? I say, most decidedly, the natural The average Ufe of married women is nearly twice as long as is that of the single. Woman is by nature a propagator of the human species. She is instinct with tho desire of offspring, and nothing but offspring can appease the desire. Her soulissilent- lybut ceaselessly on fire with a love of progeny; her physical form, her mental organi- zation, her tastes and feelings are constituted in harmony with the increase of tho human race. The eye was not more evidently formed for seeing, the ear for hearing, the nose for smelling, the' feet for walking, than was woman for the production of offspring. Deprive any of those organs of their proper functions, and observe the penalty of deprivation that is visited upon the system. And yet when God has es- tablished menstruation as an unmistakable sign of womanhood and marriage at fourteen or fifteen years of age in this latitude, (which ought as much to be heeded and foUowed as a shining Ught to man's or woman's health and happiness, as the unmistakable fiery cloud of God, hung in the heavens for a sure guide to Moses and the chUdren of Israel to lead them with safety to the promised land,) physiologists and phrenologists, with unblushing impudence, instruct us not to marry tUl twenty- fivo or thirty, whUe meantime the passion of amativeness is raging within and THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 53 bursting out into prostitution and self-poUution, because not quenched in the pure waters of connubial love. Proofs the most incontrovertible have been afforded by experience and observa- tion that early marriage is beneficial to the health, and consequently to the contin- uation of life in the aggregate, fanatics^ and others, teaching to the contrary notwith- standing. The foUowing table, giving the age when menstruation of the female commences, Bhows the time that nature has appointed for marriage. It is derived from Dr. Parr end Dr. Lee of England, and Dr. Meigs of PhUadelphia, and others. In 1781 females, the menses first occurred, , At 11 years of age in 110 At 16 years of age in 284 12 " ' " 144 18 " " 144 13 " " 356 19 " " 12 14 " " 366 20 " " 40 The time of puberty in the male sex is upon the average about two years later In Ufe than among the females, indicating the age for marriage according to nature '■*> be that much greater. But notwithstanding these plain teachings of the Creator, many attempt to deny men and women indulgence in marriage for ten or twelve years, and until they become possessed of wealth and great education from the schools. But if all waited for wealth, how many marriages should we have ? The race would become extinct; for statistics in the financial world show us that only pne man in a hundred ever becomes rich; and that the most of those who do, be- come so after marriage. And if aU waited for the education prescribed, the race would be broken down before the time of marriage came; for until the natural de- sires of the body are gratified, man cannot be properly educated—the mind cannot be brought to bear so strongly upon the education whUe the passions rage within, as after they are properly appeased. And it is the ne plus ultra of man's success in study, to first gratify the sexual desire. This done, he may attain the highest rounds upon the ladder of science; and not without, for ungratified exciting passion is constantly at war with education, and generaUy proves conqueror over it The rattle-headed young man is as uncontroUable and as unfitted to receive education if natural desire is not rationaUy gratified, as is the untamed Ughtning of the heavens, or the raging bUlows of the storm-driven ocean. Were this teaching of modern philosophers fuUy carried out among men, prostitution, self-poUution, and their legiti- mate offsprings, disease and short Ufe, would exclude nearly the whole human fami- ly from participating in the divine institution of marriage. A comparison of the average age of the married and unmarried affords a strong proof, in the prolongation of Ufe, of the wisdom of early marriage. [See calcula- tions upon longevity under the head of " Early Marriage and Longevity."] From such comparisons we are forced by facts derived from the most careful observation of distinguished men in various countries, to admit that length of days is in no smaU degree dependent upon obedience to the law of God and nature. God, as I have shown, has determined the time of marriage for both men and wo- men, by the token of puberty, or the first change of life. He declared, in the fall of Adam and Eve, that woman's desire should be unto her husband; and that 54 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. though in sorrow she should bring forth chUdren, obedienco to the law of marriage Bhould prolong her days upon the earth In my opinion, parents are accountable to the displeasure of God, and answerable for sin, [Psalms, lxxvii. 63,] whUe withholding their sons and daughters from mar- riage to so late an age as is often done, in order that they may start wealthy, or for some other unpardonable and wrong reason. Where there is true love, and no moral or physical reasons interpose, desire for wealth or station for the chUd, noi false and foolish pride of any kind, should keep young men and women from the happiness to be enjoyed in a state of wedlock, appointed of God and received from His hand by man. IMPERFECT MENSTRUATION CAUSES CONSUMPTION. Menstruation is a periodical discharge of blood from the uterus, vagina, or both, and continuing from about the age of fourteen tUl fifty. There is a difference as regards climate, in the age at which the first discharges take place; in warm clim- ates the average is about nine years, in temperate, fourteen, and in the arctic re- gions, nineteen. There is also a difference in different individuals, sometimes of as much as ten years—the extremes in this climate being ten years of age in the very precocious, and twenty in the very backward. The quantity discharged is from four to ten ounces, but in this there is much variety; the discharge continues from two to eight or ten days. In some relaxed constitutions there is occasionaUy not more than a week's interval; and in general the more lax the constitution, the larger is its discharge, and the longer its continuance. The indolent the sanguine, and the luxurious have generaUy a large periodical evacuation. UsuaUy, the earUer the menses appear, the sooner they disappear. In this latitude they disappear about the forty-fifth year, though, from some accidental circumstances, the cessation may take place in the thirty-sixth, or be protracted to the fifty-second year. Of the time when menstruation commences, much depends on the climate, mode of Ufe, struc- ture of the body, and peculiarities of the constitution. Thus in a warm climate the period may be accelerated to the age of ten or eleven, and in a cold one retarded to eighteen; a girl indulged in aU the luxuries of a modern fashionable Ufe, and the sedentary seamstress, or the laborious peasant experience equal prematurity or re- tarded expansion; a fuU-bosomed, plethoric girl, and a thin, attenuated one, withsmaH, deUcate limbs, and a torpid circulation, are respectively in the same circumstances. Somewhat depends also upon structure. Where the ovaries have been wanting, the menses have never appeared; and where we see masculine manner and growth, it is highly probable that the menses, if they appear at all, wUl be scanty, and im- pregnation impossible, as the female structure is in some important respect de- fective. The menses flow chiefly from the uterus, and occasionaUy from the vagina alone as happens sometimes during pregnancy. When the natural discharge is stopped, a vicarious bleeding takes place from the nose, the lungs, the nipples, the hemor- rhoidal veins, the stomach, the bowels, and even the gums, without any particular inconvenience. In some cases, the accumulation of blood that is usually thrown off by the vagina, is evacuated by the lungs and mouth, or nose. Instances are record- ed where the surplus of blood was entirely discharged in this way. When the men THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 55 ses have been suppressed, and there is a copious discharge of blood from tho mouth, it wUl gonerally be found of benefit to the person; and the physician who is ac- quainted with the phUosophy of this matter, and knows sufficiently of his business to detect this discharge from a discharge of fresh blood from rupture of the lungs, wUl not regard it as an unfavorable symptom for the health of his patient until he can restore the evacuation to its more proper and usual course. Bleeding at tho nose, to a certain extent, is favorable in cases of suppressed menses. The continuance of the discharge is different in different constitutions, but it usu- aUy continues from three to five days, when it ceases, sometimes leaving a serous discharge for a day or two, sometimes a mucus one, which, if continued, constitutes leucorrhoea. The recurrence of the courses is with more difficulty explained. Wo- men, from their sedentary life, and from a looser contexture of vessels, are more subject to plethoric congestions than men, and the uterus is from its structure more likely to receive these accumulated fluids. By degrees these topical congestions be- come habitual, and recur independently of any real general excess of blood. This explanation appears to be supported by the irregular terms of the catamenia in the earUer periods, and the irregular continuance of the discharge before the habit is es- tablished. Why the accumulation requires a lunar month before it is equal to pro- duce the effect it is impossible to ascertain, as why the courses should commence at about the age of fourteen or cease at about forty-five; or why the period of fourteen days should be most commonly required to produce the crisis of a fever, or why the seventh and the fourteenth years should be marked by striking changes in the consti- tution. Such is the determination of Him " in whom we Uve, and move, and have our being." When the monthly changes commence a great degree of irritaoiUty occurs, and sometimes considerable debUity. At this period in young women, we find a languor, want of appetite, terrors, tremors, and even convulsions, often running into fatal consumption. Where the constitution is more robust and plethoric, violent pains, flushing iu the face, and even feverish attacks, occur. OBSTRUCTION OF THE MENSES. Similar symptoms foUow the obstruction of the menses, joined with other incon- veniences and troubles that speciaUy arise therefrom. When there is a suppression independent of pregnancy, it generaUy results in disease, runs into tumors or can cers, attended with pains, uneasiness, or a disturbance of the functions. [See cut of cancel ous womb.] When the discharge does not take place, tho whole system be- comes languid, the complexion pale, the mucus secretions defective. The appetite is bad or fanciful, often requiring substances not alimentary. The mind is whimsi- cal and variable, the voluntary muscles convulsed, the sleep disturbed, the urine pale. In fact, the animal functions are almost whc% s^pf ended, and the vital ones feebly carried on, for the pulse is low and quick} the breathing laborious, consump- tion or palsy seem to impend, and the patient appears to sink rapidly to the grave. In this weak state women often continue for many years. Yet in most cases, hav- ing had great experience in the treatment of thousands thus afflicted, by giving at lention to the patients and administering proper aids to nature, the symptoms have taken a most favorable turn; a Uttle mucus or serous discharge, perhaps somewliat 56 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. colored, changes the scene, and gives most decided signs of returning health; the menses recur at distant and irregular intervals, attended each time with amendment of all the symptoms, tiU at last color, appetite, spirits, increase of flesh and strength, and perfect health return; and the once paUid and sickly female becomes a blooming and healthy woman. Suppression op the Menses.—When the habit of regularity in the courses is once estabUshed, and the discharge occurs monthly, it cannot be broken with im- punity. The most frequent causes of suppression are exposure to cold, frights, falls, sometimes fever, anxiety of mind, or confinement by Ul health. Suppression of the menses in females of deUcate habits induces pain and uneasiness. In plethoric hab- its the symptoms are different; if the cause occurs during the discharge, a feverish attack foUows, the face becomes flushed, the eyes red, pains in the head and back come on, with sometimes a bleeding at the nose. If the cause occurs in the intervals, and its effects are continued tUl the proper period for menstruation, the same symp- toms wUl be observed at each expected return, but graduaUy growing less, tiU there is a complete retention. When the symptoms denoting a suppression of the menses are found to exist advice should be taken upon the subject and remedies used with- out delay. I have found in my experience numerous cases of consumption, fits, and sometimes insanity, arising from the want of the proper attention to these matters; but where I have been consulted in season, I have seldom faUed to afford the desired reUef Difficulty of Menstruation is a simUar disorder, and an important one, for it pre- sents the completion of conception. On the occurrence of the discharge, the pain J5 pecuUarly violent; accompanied sometimes with obstinate constipation, or a suppression of the water. Frequently the spasms are so violent that the hold ol the embryo attached m the intervals of menstruation is broken. No disease is more distressing in its symptoms or consequences; and it should receive the im- mediate and careful attention of an experienced physician. GeneraUy, doctors know but very little about these matters—they do not understand the disease or its symptoms—they are ignorant of the proper remedies, and not therefore, to be trusted; but in the hands of a skillful physician there is safety. I have treated numbers afflicted with difficult menstruation, and always with the most gratifying success, seldom faUing of a perfect cure. Excessive Menstruation is a difficulty with which females are sometimes sorely troubled, and one which requires the most skillful treatment and perfect knowledge of the inducing causes. In this complaint most physicians have found difficulty in effecting good, and often the life of the patient is lost But from the experiences of my practice, I can say that it is easUy curable, if correctly understood and properly treated. Cessation of Menstruation, or " Change of Life," is the period when the dis- charges naturaUy cease; and it is of the utmost importance to the future health of the female that she should recejye the most careful attention at that tune. Gene- rally females attribute every future complaint to improper treatment at this period of their Uvea, The cessation of the menses is preceded by temporary suppression, continuing for two or three months, foUowed by an increased and continued discharge. This wfll sometimes occur at short intervals and in profuse quantities. In this way the change is effected often without disease; but the suppression is generally attended THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 57 with headache and wandering pains, and the excessive discharge, with debility. Great care should be taken in treatment of these cases, or else they had better not be treated at aU. The incompetent physician is better out of the way, and Nature is more to be trusted than an unskillful doctor. Where the proper assistance is given to Nature by the administration of correct medicmes, that wUl strengthen the sys- tem, purify the blood, and help her to removing the impurities from the system, and effecting the important change, everything may go on smoothly, and the fe- male Uve in health for many years. As medicmes to be used at this important period in the life of woman, I can with confidence recommend the Blood Reno- vator and Anti-BUious PUls as safe and exceUent and the best medicines to be used in aU cases where the female is not personaUy treated. I have put up many of these articles for ladies about experiencing a "change of Ufe," and have heard from them often as having given the desired aid to Nature, and strength and sup- port to the female system. The first appearance of Menstruation is an important event in the Ufe of the fe- male, and should be carefuUy looked after, so that it may in no way be interfered with; and also that proper means may be employed to bring it on at the requisite period. Every girl should be timely informed upon this subject by the mother or some other friend, to the end that she may conduct herself with reference thereto, and may not be unnecessarily alarmed at its first appearance. Says Dr. HoUick, " It is especiaUy important to bear in mind that females are usually more irritable and unsettled at these times, and that fuU aUowance should be made for their being so. In a young person this is more apt to be the case, from the very novelty of her situation. The strange phenomena that is occurring in her, system, the development of her person, and the new feelings and instincts that are awakened, aU exert a powerful influence, which is stiU further increased by the mystery with which everything relating to the wonderful operation is en- shrouded. In the absence of proper information, imagination is busUy at work, curiosity is excited, and the mind becomes filled with strange fancies and romantic dreams, which often exert a baneful influence in after Ufe. Proper instruction at the proper time, would give more correct ideas of her real duties and actual Bituation, and prevent much of that sickness and unhappiness of mind which is so commonly seen after marriage. " There are few objects more interesting to the phUosopher and philanthropist than a young female at this period of her existence, when the body is assuming its natural beauty of form, and becoming fit for its wondrous functions, and when the expanding mind receives the first faint perception of her real destiny. " To a great extent the development of the whole physical system depends upon the proper action of the organs of generation at this period. * * Every one must have noticed what an astonishing change occurs in a young female at that time. The bust becomes fuU, the pelvis enlarges, the features change—especiaUy in their expression—the mind takes a different turn, and tho manner and conduct become altogether different denoting the new feelings and instincts that begin to be experienced. In short, the girl is changed into the woman, and is conscious herself of the alteration." Speaking upon this subject, Dr. E. H. Dixon remarks: "The chUd dances, laughs and skips away its early years, and we are astonished at its growth, without 58 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. -being able to perceive in what feature it has altered. No marked distinction occurs to render one year more memorable in its existence than another until the approach of puberty, when suddenly the forces of life seem to acquire new strength; and before we are aware of the change, often within a few weeks, we no longer ad- dress a chUd, but a woman. " What has occurred to mark so important an era to her existence ? But yester- day she was pleased with the veriest trifle—a doU, a dancing puppet was to her a treasure. Now she is a creature prepared to sympathize and to love." GeneraUy, menstruation is not carried on during nursing, though it sometimes is, commencing the first month after the birth of the chUd, and continutog uninter- ruptedly. The reason for this is, that the blood from which the menstrual dis- charge is secreted before conception, is now used for the secretion of milk. During the months of conception, it supported the foetus. When menstruation takes place, either during conception or nursing, it must arise from a superabundance of vital energy and blood, by which both the functions can be carried on, or some of the organs of generation must be to an unhealthy state. In the first case, no injurious effects wUl be felt; • but in the latter, the double drain upon the system wiU exhaust the strength and impair the health of the mother. "From the age of puberty," says HoUick, " tiU the change of Ufe, Nature is con- stantly laboring at the functions connected with generation. This is the true ex- planation of those pecuUarities that are seen in the female character, especiaUy their excessive sympathy, sensitiveness, and excitabiUty, and also much that is pecuUar in their diseases. The incessant action of the ovaries keeps the nervous system to a constant state of irritation, and makes aU the organic functions liable to derange- ment, so that it is impossible for a female to preserve that equanimity of mtod, aud that evenness of temper and disposition, which to individuals of the other sex is a comparatively easy matter. The female is, in fact, in a great measure, Uke a man who is constantly subject to annoyance from those around him, and who is obUged to use constant efforts to keep himself cooL Her situation is, indeed, in Borne respects, even worse, because the cause of her uneasiness is inherent in her- self—she cannot escape from it and knows not what it is, and those around not knowing it either, she meets with but Uttle sympathy and consideration. There are numbers of females who are most unfortunate in this respect; some being subject to distressing depression of spirits, or the most melancholy despondency, whUe others are irritable or peevish, or subject to ebullitions of the most frantio gaiety; and others, again, constantly change from one mood to another, without any appa- rent reason for so doing. Ignorant persons attribute these eccentricities to mere caprice, or whim, and fancy that females can avoid them if they choose. Some- times they are blamed or scolded for them, and sometimes females even accuse themselves of being ungrateful, and in this way increase their distress. If, how- ever, the true nature of their constitution was understood, it would be seen that no blame whatever should be attached to them for these pecuUarities, since they can- not be avoided; on the contrary, every aUowance should be made for their invo- luntary aberrations, and the fuUest sympathy exhibited for the distress which they reaUy endure." THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 59 THE LUNGS MAY BE CUT, ULCEBATED, DRIED UP, TUBERCULOUS, BLEEDING, OR SHOT THROUGH, WITHOUT LOSS OF LIFE. To give a fuU description of the lungs under the various conditions mentioned above, and to prove the faUacy of the assertion that diseased lungs are incurable, is no easy task for the pen; but having a duty to perform, though in contradiction to the high priests of medicine, I shaU attempt to estabUsh the truth that the lungs can be ruptured in various ways, and yet be healed. As a consolation to the afflicted, I assert that the doctrine of diseased or ruptured lungs being incurable arises from the ignorance of physicians, and has no foundation to fact. If my reader is a person of unbiased mind, I would have him peruse this at- tentively; as I shaU prove, from the most reUable authority, that the human lungs can be cut torn, mangled, separ- ated, dried up, ulcerated, tuberculous, calculous, catarrhal, and bleeding, either from disease or the introduction of for- eign substances, as a sword, buUet dirk, pin, needle, or splinter,—and that they can be and are healed, and the person Uve years and enjoy as good health as ever. There are three important changes in the color and condition of the lungs. In the chUd, before birth, the lungs are small, and collapsed, with a pinkish color; at birth they become fiUed with air, and then change to a whitish pink color. In adults, the lungs are greyish, and bluish to the aged The lungs are divided into two lobes, each inclosed in a distinct bag or sac, formed of the pleura. The right and left lung have not the slightest communica- tion with each other, except by adhesion of the pleura, which often happens. The pleura covers and surrounds the lungs, and also covers the ribs. An inner laminae of the pleura passes into the substance of the lungs, in the infant I have previously said, to treating of the lungs, that there were from three to six lobes to each lung in some cases, but generaUy three of the right and two of the left. The whole mass of the lungs i» composed of air-cells and tubes, blood- vessels, lymphatics, nerves, and ceUulai membranes. No. 11.—Lungs pierced and dried up. 1. The wind pipe. 2. Represents a lung pierced with a dirk, which was afterwards healed up, to that the person enjoyed good health. Lungs have been shot through similarly with a ball, and healed up. 3. Shows a case where one lobe of the lung was dried up, so as to be completely imper- vious to air, and useless, and yet the person enjoyed good health for many years, with this condition of the respiratory organs. 60 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. There are two distinct sets of cells in the lungs, each being affected by diseases different from the other—which are the catarrh suffocatus and the hydroflwrax. Pulmonary arteries carry blood from the heart to the lungs, and pulmonary veini return it back after it has been purified by the oxygen of the air, and the injurious portions thrown out by the respiration. WhUe asleep, we breathe less than when awake. An office of respiration being to give heat to the system; and breathing being slower in sleep than in wake- fulness, persons require more clothing to keep them comfortable when asleep than when awake. Disease of the lungs hastens respiration, and action of the lungs; and concussions often arise from coughing; but notwithstanding these spasms or concussions, wounds often heal readily. Coughing is often the effect of a cold upon the lungs, but not always arises from that; frequently it is produced by tubercles or grub in the lungs, which cause cough Many persons of a scrofulous blood never have a cold to the commence- ment of a cough. Coughing is an effort of nature to free the air-cells and tubes, either in case of colds or tubercles. Hence the ignorance of many lung doctors and medicine dealers, in always attributing consumption or cough to colds. Numerous are the instances on record to which the lungs have been wounded by a sword, dirk, buUet, or other foreign substance, and the patient has been restored to full health. Bierling mentions a case in which one hundred and twenty ounces of blood were lost from a wound in the lungs, and the subject lived. What thmk you of this, who have bleeding lungs ?—are they incurable ? I have taught that they are not incurable; and in my practice have proved them not fatal; I have suc- ceeded in curing such cases, whUe other physicians pronounced them past redemp- tion. I have quite recently had ten cases of bleeding lungs, and not one fatal But with those troubled with bleeding from the organs of respiration, there should be no delay in obtainmg the services of the most skillful physician; for ignorance of the case or long delay may end in fatality. A German author gives a case where a baU passed through both lobes of tho lungs, and did not prove fatal In another case, the whole right lung was exposed and severely wounded, and cut in pieces, and then cured. The lungs,of soldiers in battle are often pierced by the bayonet and cut badly, and .yet heal The dirk of the assassin is plunged into the lunga, and a'cure is often effected. I have found abscesses in the lungs the size of an egg, and of an ordinary teacup, to which a cure was speedUy effected—but to only one way,—attending to the blood. I have had as many as eighty cases of persons with but one lung—the other having been lost by accident or disease, or been dried up or coUapsed so as to be perfectly useless. Such cases are not of unfrequent occurrence in my examinations and prac- tice. Rivinus, Haller, and De Haen have recorded numerous cases of the Uttle injury which has resulted from the concretions in cases of wounds, and Dr. Parr mentions cases where the whole of one lung was completely decayed or destroyed without any considerable inconvenience. Gangrene often affects the lungs, yet a cure is not doubtful Malpighi mentions cases of decay of one lung, and abscess of the lungs, in putrid epidemics, which oc- curred as long ago as 1648 at Pisa. A dissolution of one lung is mentioned by Fontanus; and a groat change in their texture, in the Memoires de Medectoes, THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 61 from HaUer. In the same coUection we find remarkable cases of the lungs being in a dried state. I have had more than eighty such cases, in my practice of twenty-five thousand consumptive invaUds. What say you to these facts recorded by English, French, and German physicians of the greatest repute ? Do you say that diseases of the lungs or wounds of the lungs cannot be cured? Go bide your ignorance; teU it to the trees, the stumps and stones; but never to this age of science utter it to a man or woman. By aid of the Lung Barometer, and by tho use of the proper remedies, I have cured and can cure, consumption in almost any case, even in the worst stages of ulcerated, tuber- culous or catarrhal disease; for the blood can be successfully treated; and unless both lungs are whoUy gone, a cure may be ex- pected. Some physicians have pretended that a person cannot die of consumption if the air tubes are filled or capable of being fiUed with air; and they palm off upon the public inhaling tubes as a means of lengthening Ufe. But this is without reason or founda- tion in fact If tho lungs are being de- stroyed by the poisons in the blood, aU the air and inhaling tubes in the universe cannot save them. The causes must be removed: the blood must be purified, and then the lungs can be healed of their affections. God did not think of an inhaUng tube for the mouth or nose of a man; if He had, it is reasonable to suppose He would have suppUed him with one. The causes of lung diseases are numerous. I wUl mention a few general causes, which are, protracted ceUbacy, disappointment in love, faUure to business, scrofula or venereal taint, miscarriage, Bexual poUution unnaturaUy by the married, colds, humors of various kinds, dyspepsia, masturbation of the young, disturbed menstrua- tion, with a host of others too numerous to mention.. Dust from stone-cutting and grinding causes consumption. I have the lungs of a man perfectly filled with steel and sand by grinding axes at CoUinsvUle, Ct Hundreds have died with grit to tho lungs, caUed grinders' or stone-cutters'^ consumption. About from six to eight years causes the consumption of the most strong and healthy. Beware of aU dust or grit to inhale in any business of Ufe. Mechanics' shops are very dusty and cause the death of thousands. RaU-road cars, dusty coaches, and streets of cities where the side walks are covered with fine dust, kicked by the feet, for persons to breathe,— the dust being a compound of manure, stone, iron, expectorated catarrhal and scro- fulous matter, hairs, leather, filth of sores, and a host of other deadly agents; these inoculate disease, and cause consumption in thousands of persons who ride in or frequent them much and continuously. From what I have said, it wUl be seen that though the lungs be wounded they can be healed, when particular portions thereof have not been injured; and that even if one lung bo entirely gone, the person can enjoy good health. And from NO. 12, This cut shows a lung laid open, ex- posing large and small sloughing ulcers, which were afterwards healed, and the health of the patient restored. 62 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. this it wfll be seen how wrong it is to give up the patient to death, and to say in aU cases that " consumption is incurable." It is not incurable. There are thousands and tens of thousands sinking into the grave every year, after being given up to death by their physicians as beyond aU hope of recovery, who, had they been at- tended properly, and received such medicines as I have prepared for such com- plaints, would have been saved to their friends and relatives and Uved years in the enjoyment of health. It is no less than an awful sin to thus let consumption carry away the gifted and beautiful of the earth, whUe the proper knowledge wiU give power to turn aside this monarch of disease and snatch from the grave its expected feast GRUB CONSUMPTION. To the readers, grub consumption wUl appear to be a disease of which they have never before heard. This wUl be true; but it is not less true that such a disease exists—or rather that a prevalent kind of consumption arises from grub located in one or many parts of tho human system. The disease nor the cause are at aU new —grub have preyed upon men in every age of the world; but to the establishment cf this fact I may justly lay claim to some credit; since, though ages ago the insect was beUeved to Uve in the human being, no physicians of modern times havo recog- nized or known of their existence. In anoient times, it was beUeved that men were troubled with grubs;"but after trying for ages to prepare a medicine which should reach, kill, and dislodge them, without success, they were ultimately lost sight of, and the task was finally abandoned. I have long been acquainted with this deadly insect, and of the fact of his having baffled every means used in the cure of consumption he produced—he being so leeply seated in different organs of the system, that nothing appeared to reach him with power of expulsion. After exhausting aU supposed remedies, I became nearly discouraged in my efforts to treat successfuUy cases of consumption produced by the presence of the grub; especiaUy considering my success in aU other cases. Yet to give up, and say that a mere insect should Uve in the human system and suck the very Ufe away, and no one devise means for his expulsion, was not in the spirit of Yankeedom. I did not make known the fact of my having satisfactorily ascertained the existence of the insect in man, for because of the difficulty of con- vincing the ignorant of the truth, one who announces aught that is new is Uable to lose his reputation. But I explored the whole vegetable kingdom, and fed the grub on various extracts and compounds, tiU finaUy I succeeded in getting a med- icine that would reach, kill, and expel him, without doing injury to the patient And I have now the pleasure of being able to declare, that the exact location of the grub can be determined, his post invaded, and he driven out and the consump- tive, (made so by bis presence,) be cured. By the-aid of the Lung 'Barometer, I have found that many cases of the worst and apparently incurable, kinds of consumption, are caused by the grub in some part of the system, where, Uke a thirsty blood-hound, he Ues and destroys the patient sending him a victim to the icy arms of death. The grub infests the Uver, spleen, uterus, bladder, ovaria, kidneys placenta, heart, brain, lungs, and even the muscles. He carries his sway over men and THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 63 animals, and is as destructive as the locusts that flood the land of the Pharaohs. He varies in size from a large pin head to a hen's egg, and is sometimes krger than this. I have succeeded in expelling them, whole and m pieces, or to matter. The insect is some times found alone, sometimes in clusters. Grub in the head of man cause pain, loss of memory, dizziness, dark vision, in- sanity, idiocy, and death. In the head of animals, as the sheep, they produce vertigo; and when in the Uver or kidneys of sheep or cattle, cause rot, horn dis- temper, weakness, and emaciation. In the lungs of man, they produce protracted cough, expectoration of a pecuUar kind, severe pain through the chest, short breath, bleeding lungs, and lung consumption. When in the Uver, they cause dyspepsia, enlarged gall and Uver, ulceration and consumption-of the Uver—with a dark, bad appearance of the skin. Grub to the womb, or ovaria, cause dropsy, gleet whites, miscarriage, false conception, tumors of tho ovaria and womb, deranged menstruation, and consumption of those organs, with great pain, weight, sinking feeUng in the side, stomach, abdomen and various parts. Grub in the kidneys cause great pain in the smaU of the back, dropsy of the abdomen, heart, chest, limbs, or other parts of the body. In the spine, they cause curvature, deformed and soft spine, pain in the back of the head and about the spine, and nervous feelings generally. In the stomach or spleen, they produce a sinking, gnawing feeling, dropsy, enlargement, and great pain and difficulty in the left side. Grub in the heart cause dropsy, enlargement hard beating,.ulceration, and great pain about the heart, bad circulation of blood, great debiUty of the heart, with strange and pecuUar conditions of the mind. The presence of grub produces but very little uneasiness ,at first, or wheu they are smaU, but the symptoms increase as they enlarge, and there are pains, uneasi- ness, discharge of mucus, gleet, blood, and pus, and expectoration ef a peculiar kind. Grub are found to sheep, cattle, deers, hares, hogs, goats, rats, and various other animals. I ha\ e taken pains to dissect different animals, and found them in soino part or organ, with few exceptions, (always when the animal manifested the pecu- Uar symptoms of the grub disease). Cattle, sheep and hogs in Olno, Michigan, and other parts, with the wUd animals, are weU known by the butchers to have the grub in them. The largest of the specie are found floating in the cavity of the ovaria and abdo- men. I have succeeded in expeUing them from the head, wnere they cause a gleet simUar to catarrh; from the lungs, by suppuration and expectoration, and from the Uver womb ovaria and kidneys. Sometimes they are found floating loose in tho oye (where they have been seen,) and in different parts and organs; but generaUy they are in nests, sac3 or cysts, and seem to hatch an(l he in great numbers. [See cuts of lungs, ovaria, eye and Uver, with grub in them, in another part of this work.] There are two or three species of the "grub, varying in color, which are grey, and spotted with black, with four or six fangs or blood-suckers on their heads. As there is no such disease as grub consumption known to other physicians, nor any mention made of it in modern medical works except here, 1 have given tho name of grub to this insect that infests the system; have described the symptoms arising from his presence in the various organs, and named the disease which he occasions. I shaU now give some ancient authority respecting the grub, from reUable sources, DUt known there by the more technical name of hydatids. Dr. Cullen was acquainted with them. They were found on the liver, brain, ovaria and other viscera of the human being, with heads and fangs. 64 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. Dr. Tyson discovered the hydatids in the Uvers and heads of sheep, Bartholine observed them to the Uvers of goats, Dr. PaUas discovered them to both men and animals, Dr. Pyerus observed the hydatids in the hog. Drs. Goeze, Batsch, Bloch, and others have added to the stock of facts. Dr. Pallas says the size of the hydatids or grubs, variesin size according to the age and temperament of the person or animal at whose expense they Uve, but from the size of a kernel of wheat to the size of the fist and often larger; and are found in the human person, chiefly in the liver, the spleen, the uterus, the ovaria, the kidneys, the placenta, the lungs, and the muscles or spine. Dr. Parr says those in the kidneys or accumulating fluids cause dropsy, those in the brain, insanity or idiocy; but wherever they exist they cause an acute pato either continual or temporary, and then* existence may be known or sus- pected by weakness, emaciation and oppression at the stomach. Dr. BaiUie saw these in a cyst, with coagulated lymph or pulpy substance, sometimes float'ng loose or attached to the side, and to size from a pin's head to that of a walnut; but the largest is found in the ovaria or abdomen; he also found them in both men and animals. They are found under tho tongue and to the fat and muscles of hogs. In animals they cause measles and leprosy. Dr. Goeze found the hydatids or grubs in the Uver, the uterus and hydropic sacs of the human race, and thinks they more fre- quently cause dropsy and other disease than pathologists have suspected. He says they are very numerous, in their nests or saesi and when in the ovaria of the female, (their most frequent residence,) cause female diseases and false pregnancy. Although ancient physicians detected the presence of the hydatids or grub in man, they found nothing to kUl and dislodge them; besides they seemed unable to account for their existence. My first assurance of the existence of the.grub was by its expulsion, when dead. By the aid of the Lung Barometer, I can now detect the location of the grub, and then by administering the sppro- priate medicine can kUl and dislodge them from the sys- tem, when a speedy cure 01 the afflicted patient can be effected. The grub causes the most fatal cases of consumption, oi any organ. And as I have previously stated that there were different kinds of con- sumption, growing out ol different causes, the cause and disease must be perfectly known and understood be- fore the invaUd can be cured. Thousands who die annuaUy might be saved were it not for the ignorance of medical men, upon this and similar subjects. But, being Ignor- ant it is not, to be supposed that they can give anv reUef to the afflicted. No. 13.—Lung with Grub in it and Ulcerated. This shows a lung laid open, exposing to view in one side the grubs of various sizes, encased therein; the other side represents ulcers in the lung, developed on the surface. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 65 WOMB COMPLAINTS Are produced by frequent colds, wearing thin shoes, tight lacing, disappointment in love, hereditary diseases, scrofula, venereal taint, cancers, tumors, protracted ceU- bacy, self-poUution, too frequent sexual intercourse, sexual or married poUution, loss of chUdren or friends, unhappy mar- riage, disappointed ambition, and a host of causes—both bodUy and mental. As seen in this cut, where a compUca- tion of diseases and weaknesses, arising from mechanical causes and impurities of the blood, appear, the individual wUl feel and exhibit a weariness and lassi- tude, both of body and mind, and that woe-begone expression of countenance and attitude, of which this is a fair resem- blance. Multitudes of females suffering from weakness pecuUar to their sex, early lose aU their bloom and elasticity of spirit and become whoUy unfitted for the dis- charge of the common duties of Ufe. No. 14.—Weariness and Lassitude. DISEASES OF THE WOMB CAUSE CONSUMPTION. The organs which are affected in this manner are the uterus, ovaries and faUopian tubes. The diseases of those organs are leucorrhoea or whites; yeUow, green, and black sickness; cancers, tumors, polypi, barrenness, flooding, miscarriage, irregu- lar and suppressed menstruation, &c. The symptoms attending these diseases are a clouded or black-spotted countenance, a pale and ghostly expression of the eyes and around the eyes, dropsy or sweUing of the Umbs, with pain, weakness of the knees, smaU of the back, shortness of breath, cough, emaciation, insanity or con- fused memory, expectoration, ending in consumption and death. These diseases often affect the heart and cause palpitation, dropsy and enlargement of the heart. I have known ladies to have from one to thirty-three miscarriages, by weakness of those organs. I have known a lady to have her courses periodicaUy from the Uver, lungs and stomach by vomiting, having had the womb lacerated in chUd-birth, which caused the mouth of the womb to close up; but to aU cases where the men- Btruation of ladies is not perfect as nature designs, an affection of the liver, lungs, and stomach immediately foUows, and if not regulated, consumption comes on. I do not recoUect a case of any of the above diseases where I have failed of a cure, when appUed to in their curable stages. These diseases should never be neglected, as they lead to helpless and incurable forms; although I have cured many cases pronounced by aU other physicians to be incurable. But I found that they were mistaken in the nature of the disease and its stage. T must say that great igaorauce pievailj among most of our medical a., r. ..id but 5 66 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. very few are qualified to treat successfuUy diseases of ladies. As a natural pre- vention of female diseases, girls should marry young, and prevent aU the weakening causes that break down and destroy the Uves of so many valuable ladies. Avoid tight-lacing, heavy skirts, wet feet, damp houses, sudden exposures to cold, and numerous causes which lead to disease. But if you are already troubled, make use of the Blood Renovator, tho Anti-bUious Pills, the Female Wash and German Oint- ment; if you have a cough in addition to other complaints, take the Lung Corrector; and sT any heart disease, the Heart Regulator, but not otherwise. STERILITY CAUSES CONSUMPTION. Barrenness is a great misfortune to woman, and incompetency of generation a misfortune to man. No person would be wiUing to take a partner for Ufe in mar- riage, who was incompetent to the proper fulfiUment of the requirements of nature for the generation of chUdren. The doctrine so prevalent among self-constituted teachers on marriage, generation and kindred subjects, that men should marry with reference purely to the inteUectual, and having no regard to the gratification of those passions sneeringly denominated animal, is a false, unnatural and pernicious one— detrimental to the bodily weU-being (upon which in great degree the inteUectual depends,) of both the parties themselves and the generations that shaU come after them. It is not less necessary that the animal passions should be consulted than the moral ones; it was designed of nature that they should be, and if we mako a rule of and carry out this doctrine of false teachers for a series of generations, the effect upon the race wUl be pernicious and hurtful in the extreme. Observations in this country and aU others have shown us, that in those cases where the strongest inteUectual love exist 3d before marriage between parties, the discovery after that either was incompetent, whether from malformation or disease, to the gratification of the sexual desire, banished the pure platonic passion before the natural wish for cohabitation. From this invariable experience of the past, the lesson of wisdom to be learned is, that the sexual as weU as the n ental should have due consideration to the formation of the marriage tie. Were it known before mar- riage that any cause existed in either party to positively prevent cohabitation, the parties would never be united; nor do I know that an instance of this kind has ever been recorded or has occurred—no matter how strong the attachment was be- fore the fact of incompetency was learned by the other party. AU of us are fond of our young; we are happy in our offspring; and though we nave a dozen, we do not wish to part with or lose any of them. This is to accord- ance with a principle of nature inherent in the human being. To woman belongs the honored name of mother, and the honor of having nourish- ed from her bosom the great and renowned of earth—poets, phUosophers, statesmen, heroes, pluianthropists, divines, physicians, artists, mathematicians, scholars and mechanics. And these honor and love the woman; they look up to and bless her Ll her character of mother. WhUe woman is honored in the noble station of mother of the human race man is blessed and honored as father. And who .among men is there that does not love to hear the sound of voices calling him father ?—who among women that does not love to hear the name of mother ? Thrice blessed are they that bring up children, in THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 67 obedience to the wise command—" Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth;" and how much of happiness is lost to those whom barrenness leaves destitute of the fruit of the womb, can be known only to those who are made happy in the chil- dren who are Uke, olive branches gathered about their tables. Barrenness, therefore, which is induced in the woman by diseases of the womb, by self-poUution in the younger days and before marriage, by an excess of sexual indulgence, and by dress and other causes that affect the purity of and weaken the blood, by which dcbUity of aU the organs is produced—should be carefully guarded against by her; both as regards her health and happiness and the natural desires and wishes of her husband. There are few ladies that care to bear the reproach of barrenness; for it is regarded as an ignoble infirmity. In aU ages it has been looked upon as the greatest deprivation of woman—that she could not bear child In the Bible we find it spoken of as an especial mark of the displeasure of God, manifested towards a people, that the women were visited with barrenness and the womb brought not forth its natural fruit. When this condition of the female is induced by colds, leucorrhoea, cancer, tumor, polypus or .other disease in the organs connected with conception and child-birth the female should speedily seek for relief from them, in order not only that she may conceive and bear child with safety, but be saved from running into a consumption; which foUows not only from tho cause I have mentioned, but is sometimes a" direct result of sterUity itself, as I have often satisfied myself. And if the barrenness be the result of " secret vice " in youth, or of excess of gratification after marriage, it is necessary that the weakened frame should be strengthened by proper restorative medicmes and the blood be made rich again by some renovating power, to order that the organs of generation be reinstated in their original condition and enabled to perform each its function with desired energy and effect. To this end, and from im experience gained in prescribing for many cases, I have prepared medicines that b.ave never yet faUed, when taken according to my directions, to effect the attain- ment of the desired end. But if these matters are not attended to, and nature receive no aid in its labors against disease in the enervated system, not only wUl barrenness bo continued, but consumption, as I have before stated, wiU fast lead the individual down the path of Ufe into the sUence of the tomb. In the male, the cases aro by no means of rare occurrence whore inability to cohabit exists. Tins may have arisen from one of many causes; but as a general thing, if I may be allowed to judge from observation, it is the legitimate fruit of masturbation or its offspring, involuntary emission. I need not here enter into any description of how this detestable habit finaUy produces an incompetency to per- form the functions that nature intended for the propagation of the race. The effect follows so plainly from the cause, that the observer, though more than a fool, can- not be mistaken. As a prevention of this, the best prescription that I have ever heard of is offered by nature in the person of the opposite sex—provided always that nature's medicine be taken in youth and before the habit has been formed, and the evil in greater or less degree produced. But where nature has not been heeded, and the habit of masturbation has commenced, it should bo broken off at once • though this d';es not always answer, inasmuch as it wiU be found that in- voluntary nocturnal emissions wiU quite often foUow masturbation; when there is no other course than to resort to the vegetable remedies that wUl restore to the weakened blood its strength, fortify and renovate the enfeebled system, aid to the • 68 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. retention of the secretions, and finaUy work out a cure for tin patient. Whe*. involuntary emissions have reached that degree where the whole system is badly affected by them, they must be suppressed, or they wUl surely result to an incom- petency to gratify amativeness naturaUy, and the marriage bed wUl be barren o* fhut; and worse than this, consumption or insanity wUl soon fasten upon the once deluded but now stricken sufferer, and his days be quickly brought to an end. There is another cause of barrenness, and of consumption, growing out of the genital organs, of which I wUl make brief mention here. It wiU be found more particularly treated of under the head of sexual onanism or poUution. That is excessive indulgence of the sexual appetite. Remember this good advice—excel- lent to aU times and seasons—Be temperate to aU things. Abuse not the gifts of God given to you for your happiness—not for your misery. The evils of excessive sexual indulgence are not unfrequently Uke those of self- poUution. Barrenness, debiUty generaUy, and consumption, often foUow from excess. To the young married, I would offer these remarks with an earnest feeling fot their welfare. Upon them depends to great measure the health and happiness of the coming generation; and due regard for their own welfare and the welfare ol those who shaU come after them should induce attention to these matters. Thousands are the cases of disease arising from a substitution of pernicious prac- tices for the healthful enjoyments of nature; for God having established laws, has also affixed penalties for deviations therefrom, and those who sin are sure to meet with punishment. Although a physician, and expecting to gain a subsistence as other physicians do, by curing those who are sick, I wish it distinctly understood that I teach the doctrine of prevention being better than cure, and that an obedience to a law of nature and the preservation of health thereby is a far better course than to disobey and afterwards be healed of the punishment of transgression. I do not wish any to get sick to be compeUed to caU on me or any other physician. Keep your own health; it is, to a great measure, within your reach, and is the richest gift of God to man. I have often been caUed upon to advise with, and prescribe for, young married people, to cases where the lady was sterUe, or the gentleman incompetent, and sometimes where both of the parties were incapable to perform the functions of nature to the production of offspring; and I have had the satisfaction of not only working a reform in their systems and making the barren fruitful, but of saving many such from death by consumption induced by the causes mentioned. Therefore let none despair, but apply at once and find comfort and perfect restoration. Nature has furnished the means for your reUef: come to her fountains and be healed. Floodings often cause Consumption.—Miscarriage gives rise to floodings; also they occur from weakness induced by masturbation and excessive sexual indul- gence ; also by strains and falls. At the " turn of Ufe" many suffer severely from this affliction. The effect is to weaken the patient and exhaust the blood, out of which arise debUity and consumption. For this complaint vinegar or spirits and water bathed upon the bowels is good, or a weak injection of white oak bark tea may be given. I mention these remedies for the reason that their aid is sometimes immediately demanded, and they may be easUy procured. A cloth wet with cold water and appUed to the bowels is also good. A cure of thia complaint is easily fffectod l ^ a skii '' ,r^ ■ Ih-vc 3 t THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 69 known a case that would not readUy yield to a course of medicine under my treat- ment. As a general medicine, to strengthen the blood and fortify the system against floodings, the Blood Renovator wUl be found invaluable. Irritants cause Consumption, for the reason that they weaken and destroy the general health. It is of frequent occurrence that when physicians, particularly of the AUopathic school, treat a weak organ, they blister it and cup it or burn it with a hot iron, sometimes aU of these in a few days. They produce effects decidedly injurious, weakening the part instead of restoring it to health. I have never known any last- ing good to flow from the use of such irritants, but they often lay the foundation for consumption, and frequently make the patient a cripple for Ufe. I would advise my readers to beware of such treatment; it is not only barbarously cruel, but lasting in its injurious effects. The parts on which the irritants are mostly appUed are the hips, legs, spine and chest Some of the most helpless cripples I ever saw, (if we except the victims 01 calomel,) were made so by a persevering use of counter irritants. By their appUca- tion, the once Uvely and active are laid under bondage to infirmities forever, or led Into consumption. I never make use of these so-caUed remedies to my treatment of the afflicted. I have never found need of anything more than some moderate " draw- ing" or irruptive article, Uke mustard paste, and I have successfuUy treated ten times as many of such cases as these irritants are usuaUy appUed in, as any physi- cian living who advocates them. This is sufficient to show me they are not needed. By giving the proper internal medicines to produce a quiet and healthy state of the Bystem, and applying soothing emolUents to the affected part, cures can be effected without having to resort to the barbarous practice that has been too long to vogue. If they cannot then there is no such thing as a cure to be looked for to the case. Gravel and Kidney Complaints are of more frequent occurrence than is gen- eraUy supposed by even the medical faculty. I have had the pleasure of curing many tovaUds who had been pronounced by so-caUed eminent physicians to be in consumption of the lungs; but the very expression of the countenance of the in- vaUd pointedly indicated the contrary, and a Uttle conversation with the patient ena- bled me to understand the disease; but to be certain in the matter, I examined the cases, and found that the disease was not consumption of the lungs or of the Uver, but of the kidneys, caused by gravel, grub, or ulceration of those parts. I never prescribe for these cases being blindfolded, as many physicians do. It is often the case that the practice is based upon guessing, or is an experiment. Those modes of treatment I renounce and denounce, having long since learned that there is danger to giving medical attendance in that way. I am proud to say that guessing and experimenting are no parts of my practice; the theory upon which I proceed has its firm foundations in the fixed laws of nature; the practice undert that theory is plain and simple, when once known scientificafly, and the results are always satisfactory in every case where the possibiUty of a cure exists. Experi- ments, to the matter of consumption, are no longer of service to me, since I have the means of knowing about the disease to a certainty. Because of this certainty, I make no mistakes, but cure where it is possible. There be those cases to which human skiU can offer no reUef—they are beyond the reach of medicine. StilL no one should give up to despair because of this, since none of us know that our pe- cuUar case is beyond redemption, untU we have satisfied ourselves by receiving the best of medical skUl and taking the best of medicines. 70 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. One affice of the kidneys is to manufacture or secrete the matter or urine from the blood, and the kidneys must fulfiU their office at aU hazards, or dropsy and con- sumption wUl foUow. When the kidneys are weak, either by an exhaustion of seminal weakness, masturbation or sexual poUution, gravel, obstruction and ulcera- tion, health is immediately dethroned, and restored only by making weU the kid- neys again. The kidneys are often affected by strains in lifting, riding or jumping, exposure to colds, wet feet. The symptoms are numerous, but the more general are pain in the back, fever, discharge of red or white gravel, high colored, bloody or wa- tery urine, gleet, red or white sediment in the water, Uttle or no water, debUity, vomiting, a ghastly looking expression, both to the face and eyes, a dilated, duU looking eye, and emaciation, ending to consumption. Both sexes are alike affected, and much oftener than is generaUy supposed, with one or more of the above diseases. The kidneys have another and higher office to perform—that of supplying the semen or seed from the blood—not directly, but in- directly. Too great an exhaustion of the semen debUitates and relaxes the muscles of the spine, brain, bowels, stomach, Uver, and lungs, and the nervous system. A dis- charge of semen from the genital organs is a draught on the whole body. The body of the male or of the female is as 8 bank, from which is drawn forth the se- men to be appUed according to the teach togs of nature. But if the waste of se- men is too great, the body wiU as certain- ly break down, as wUl a bank when ex- hausted of aU its specie. This is what I would caU the attention of aU to when I speak of consumption from those causes. Live temperately, and run not into consumption, is the advice of the author to Lis readers. Piles and Liver Complaints go hand in hand: and as a general thing, when the pUes are not troublesome, the Uver is out of order, and when the pUes afflict to* patient the liver is to good condition—provided either disease is about the system. The causes of pUes are, a dyspeptic or morbid state of the Uver and bUe, costive ness, pregnancy, drastic purges of puis or other medicine, doses of aloes, and corpn- lency. There are the blind and bleeding pUes, the external and the internal; also many tumors much resembling pUes. Thousands are afflicted with one or both kinds; they are exceedingly painful and troublesome, and often terminate in fistu- la, but are perfectly curable by the proper medicines. If troubled in this way, you should take the Anti-BUious PUls and Blood Renovator, and where they are external, the German Ointment also. [For more particulars,'see the notices of these medicines to this work.] No. 15.—Ulcerated Kidney. This cut represents a section of the kiUney in consumption, laid open to expose to view the ulceration in that organ, and the diseased state of the orifices leading to and from the diseased kidney. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 71 BATHING THE FEET. BAVBihii Aift \.>ev thoroughly and keeping them free from dirt, should be a matter of often attention, as a means of promoting health and keeping off corns and bun- ions. In case of fevers, it is weU to bathe the feet once or twice a day, as it will prevent the determination ot the blood to the head, and equalize its circulation. Salt wood asbos, or saleratus, may be sparingly used in the water. Consumptives should bathe the feet often to tepid or cold water; and, to fact every person should perform this ablution once or twice a week, sick or not Cleanliness is a great law of heaHh, from thg diso- bedience of which, we all sooner or later suffer m a larger or smaUer degree. And no Uttle of the health of the whole body may depend upon keeping the feet clean and weU-conditioned, so that the person may experience no difficulty therefrom to walking erect, and with a firm elastic tread, and to exercising, in running, dancing, etc. When the feet are sore, a stooping and crippled attitude is soon formed, which contracts the chest oppresses the limbs, causing fall- ing of the bowel!, crooked spine, and finaUy con- sumption. Keep the feet phablo by washing them and scrap- ing off the dead and waste skin, and after wiping dry, rub them over with a Uttle of my German Ointment, (which wiU keep them soft and free from sores,) and then retire to bed, and no colds wiU be contracted in the pursuits of daUy business, nor wUl any corns grow upon the feet. In the East, to ancient tunes, it was the custom to wash the feet of strangers coming off a journey. TraveUng being usuaUy done on foot, it was deemed essential that the feet should be kept clean, and by being clean should also be kept free from the sores that would retard the traveler. This custom stUl prevails in many eastern countries. Washing the feet is often made mention of in the Bible. We read that the woman washed the feet of Jesus, and anointed them with oint- ment This si 10 would not have done but that it was considered a matter of mo- ment that the feet should be kept clean and in health. The Saviour also washed the feet of his disciples—which indicates the necessity of keeping the feet clean. I would advise the foUowing of this exceUent practice, among our own people. It has been said by a learned and witty divine, that no man can be a good Christian unless he keep himself clean. I tocUne to that opinion. Cleanliness is so far apart of religion to some countries, that the foUowers of Mahomet regard ablutions as es- sential to salvation as prayers. WhUe I cannot subscribe to the superstitions of the Mahomedan, I can heartily commend his practice of cleanUness to aU my readers. Most of the business of Ufe is dependent upon an abUity to walk aVout without trouble and give attention to it; and this cannot be done with feet diseased wi soro. Hevvco tho importance of keeping them clean and to a healthy condition. No. 16.—Diseased with Piles. Bowel The above represents a section of the bowels laid open to ex- pose its appearance when in- flamed and ulcerated, and when the person is troubled with piles. 72 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. LUNG CONSUMPTION. The lungs rarely become diseased unless from an affection in some other internal part, operating upon those organs. Real lung affection, without derangement of some other organ, does not exist to one of a thousand cases; but to terminate life, the lungs are at last baffled in the performance of their functions—they be- come so diseased as to shut out the air, which prevents a purification of the blood, and impedes its proper circulation. In this condition the patient is said to be in pulmonary consumption, and his situation is far from being a safe one. But had his Btate been known before the lungs, had become deranged by the poison to the blood, and from other organs, he could easUy have been restored to health. By aid of my Lung Barometer, in connection with other means, I am able to watch the progress of disease to other parts of the system to its effects upon the lungs; also to see the rapid change to those organs from a diseased state to a state of health by the effects of medicines, and when under proper treatment, or vice versa. And this I claim to be the possession of a superior skUl to the case of aU complaints of this kind. By having the power to trace to the right organ the first seat of the disease, I possess the advantage of knowtog what remedies must be used, and of being capacitated to give such advice as will, if foUowed, keep the lungs from be- coming diseased. Lung or pulmonary consumption is chiefly confined to the fair, with Ught skins and blue eyes, florid complexions, contracted chests and high shoulders; yet other temperaments are not whoUy exempt. The disease often attacks insidiously. The patient grows tall, without a corresponding expansion of tho head and chest, be- comes languid, and loses his flesh and spirits. A sUght cough comes on, which is not often regarded; but if the individual be examined, he wiU be found with a pulse varying from 80 to 100. Sometimes the patient wUl not lie so easUy on one side as the other, and wUl have sUght chills, and often hemorrhage from the lungs, which is not at first much noticed. After this state has continued for a few weeks, there arise shooting pains to the ehest The chills are more strongly marked, and are foUowed by burning heat and copious sweat, when we say a hectic fever is formed. The cough becomes al- most incessant The cheeks have a spot of pure, florid red; there are flushings in the face after eating, and sleep seems to afford no refreshing power. The counte- nance begins to give signs of wasting health; the eyes are sunken, the cheeks pro- minent, and the strength begins to faiL The breathing becomes short, quick and offensive; and morning sweats are increasing. The expectoration becomes loaded with matter, is discharged with ease, and comes up in great quantity. After a time the fever and cough abate, and there is a diarrhoea. FtoaUy, the strength totaUy fails; fainting is added to the symptoms, the expectoration is changed to a dark brown color; the lower extremities swell, and unless the disease is checked, death comes for his victim. The distinction of consumption, particularly to its early stages, is of great con- Bequence; nor is it an object of small utiUty to point out its original source. At the age of about fourteen, to each sex, whUe the genital organs are assuming their proper powers, there is often debUity and irritabUity of the person, and to the female there is sometimes a cough At this period pulmonary consumption may THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 73 come on without suspicion, as aU the symptoms manifested are ascribed to the na- tural change then being effected. And this may be urged as a substantial argument to favor of early marriage and sexual intercourse at this particular time, to assist nature to make a more healthy man or woman, which might be said with safety to far surpass the healing power of medicine to the prevention of pulmonary consump- tion, by starting puberty or the courses to a natural and healthy manner. If there is sUght fever from cold at this period, or blood from the lungs, and a spasm or a cough on taking a deep breath, we may suspect the presence of pulmonary con- sumption. Says Combe: " Perhaps the most important time to the Ufe of a person born with a predisposition to consumption is that of puberty, comprising from the com- mencement of rapid growth to the fuU consolidation of the system, about or after the twenty-fourth year. In most young people, the transition from adolescence to maturity is so rapid, that for two or three years aU the animal powers are tasked to enable nutrition to keep pace with growth, and a corresponding debiUty of both body and mtod is often observed to co-exist, indicating to the clearest manner the necessity of a temporary omission from such studies and occupations as require much mental exertion or confinement within doors. The development and health of the physical system ought then to be almost exclusively attended to; and when the body has acquired its soUdity, the mental faculties wUl again become active. I have seen instances where a knowledge of the latter afforded substantial con- solation to young men who, whUe their bodies were growing rapidly, were apt to become despondent on account of the unusual sluggishness and inefficiency of their inteUectual powers. In the course of a few years, when growth and consoUdation were completed, the brain vigorously resumed its functions. "In such circumstances relaxation from study, residence to the country, exor- cise to the open air, plenty of food and freedom from care, wUl often do im- mense good, if sufficiently persisted to, and go far to protect the careful patient against the future invasion of consumption. Whereas, if, under the mistaken notion that such precautionary measures are a waste of time, a deUcate grow- ing youth is aUowed to continue at his studies, or his desk, tUl diseaso has actuaUy commenced, the disappointed parent may discover that it is too late to take alarm when health is gone." [In connection with this I would remark that we have to this presented to us a striking and powerful argument of the effects that a state of poverty may have in hastening death; a subject upon which I have treated at length to another part of this work under the head, " Effects of Wealth upon Health." In the present state of society, where the wealth of a country is so unequally divided, the great body of young men and young women are obUged, as it wore to keep to their labor at this as weU as aU other periods; the consequence of which, as Combe remarks, is, in many cases, to induce the early death of this class of people. I would not be understood as saying that at this age per- sons should not work at aU; what I mean is, that they should not be obliged to over-work in order to Uve. There is an extreme of idleness, and there is an extreme of labor; both these should be avoided, as calculated to shorten human Ufe.] True pulmonary consumption arises from tubercles or canker to the lungs, forming ulcers. Tubercles are enlarged conglobate glands. Their formation and 74 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. action depend rn different circumstances. They are formed in contracted chests, perhaps from the pressure of the parts around obstructing the passage of the fluids, and sometimes to consequence of an acrimony. As the tubercle does not regularly suppurate, it does not heaL The cyst of it, however, sometimes sup- purates, and tho contents are discharged; and when suppuration begins, all the Bymptoms of pulmonary disease supervene. If the tubercle be not deeply seated, it bursts in the chest; but if deep, the matter is discharged into the bronchiae. If the discharge is not large, the patient throws it off without diffi- culty; but if the quantity of pus be considerable, he dies from suffoeation. Tubercles are found, on dissecting, of sizes from the smaUest granules to that of a large bean. In the smaUer ones no cavity appears; but as they increase to size cavities are formed, some of which contain matter. Finally, these tubercles to some measure change their character, when they are known by tho technical name of vomica being an ulcer with matter that may be expectorated. Theso increase in size to two or three inches in diameter, with contents of a whitish- yeUow, ash-colored, or greenish hue, and sometimes fetid, and when ruptured, more or less reddish. The larger vomicae, or tubercles, or ulcers, are generaUy found empty; but on pressing the lungs, matter exudes. The branches of tho pulmonary artery and vein running upon the tubercle, are much contracted, often fiUed with fibrous substance, and their pendulous ends completely shut up and covered with a thick slough. This fact may explain why death from bleeding from the lungs has not occurred when so great a portion of the substance of those organs is destroyed. The parts of the lungs around the tubercle are inflamed, and more orlesssohd, and impervious to the air; the tubercles firmly cUng to the lungs, preventing communication between the cavities of those portions of the lungs and that of the thorax. When a cold does not exist and there are no symptoms of catarrh, nor any venereal poison to the blood, we may suspect a cough to arise from the presence of tubercles to the lungs, particularly if attended with shortness of breath on motion, and so trifling as to be denied by the patient or nas continued many months. The suspicions maybe stronger if the lungs have been injured by measles, local inflammations or other complaints, and confirmed, if in addition to the symp toms themselves, they are found existing in a person of thin, scrofulous habit hh° % and delicate complexion, with sweUed Ups, glandular swellings in the neck, and hectic fever. GeneraUy, tubercles are deposited to the ceUular tissue of the lungs; but they «re sometimes seated in the air cells, the bronchi, or upon the surface of the mu- cous membrane of the lungs. The changes which occur around tuberculous de- posits are congestion, ulceration and suppuration. When the tubercle softens in- flammation supervenes to the pulmonary tissues about it These tissues ulcerate, and thus i3 formed a cavity around the softening mass. Suppuration takes place to the cavity, which, mixing with the tuberculous matter, forms what is known as an abscess. These abscesses are not often about a stogie tubercle, but around clusters of them, so that the shape of the abscess is generaUy irregular; and they aro va- rious to sizes, from a pea to the occupancy of nearly the entire lobe of the lung. These abscesses, especiaUy when of large size, communicate by ulceration wil h the bronchi, and cut off the arteries and veins, causing great bleeding. When they destroy the air tubes, there results a rattle to the lungs during respiration. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 75 Dissections of lungs have shown that sometimes the tuberculous deposits have been changed in their nature, and the lungs saved. The marks of these tubercles are generally found at the upper part of the lungs. They consist of smaU chalky masses, or concretions, with often a harder substance in their nature. Everything connected with these concretions shows that they were origtoaUy the genuine tu- bercles, and that nature, striving against disease through extra inflation of the lungs, and a renovated blood, has changed their state and prevented their produc- ing fatal results to the patient. Frequently these concretions remain latent in the lungs for years, and health is enjoyed through a long Ufe. From this important fact to the history of tubercles, we may safely infer, that if nature has succeeded in a given case, unaided, in so changing the character of the tubercle by an Unproved state of the blood as to prevent injurious effects from its pre- sence, it is at least possible that if nature were aided in its labors by proper blood re- medies, other and many cases might be shown where the fatality of the tubercle was prevented and the Ufe of the patient savwd. No. 17.—Section of Tuberculous From this> as one reason- do * unhesitatingly t UN0 say that pulmonary consumption is not al- ways incurable. However, as these tubercles are deposited to the lungs at different times, it does not foUow because one deposition has been cured, consumption may not occur, for each successive deposit must be changed by the same process to prevent final death by the disease; or what is vastly better, if it is found that there has been one de- posit the blood should be cleansed and purified, that no more depositions from it shaU take place. In this manner we may not only cure cases of consumption, but we may prevent its occurrence. It has also been found, that in some instances there were incontrovertible signs qf tubercles ovw having existed in a iung, when, on dissection, no part of them remained in any condition whatever. In these cases, the deposition had either been entirely'absorbed, or thrown off by expectoration, when the wound made to the lung by the tubercle healed, and health returned to the patient. This is another way to which nature cures pulmonary consumption without any aid what- ever. And if this is done without aid, what, let me ask, may not be done when nature is assisted to its labors by a scientific and experienced physician, operating with proper medicines ? The depositions of tubercles take place to successive crops, the first of which is usually small This, nature often throws off; but if the patient, when in this Btate, gives no attention to his condition, and lets nature go on unaided, struggling against the disease, there wiU be other depositions made before the first are changed or absorbed, and so to gradual succession till the disease gains a decided mastery, not only over nature, but over all its known aids. The knowledge of this wUl show us of what importance it is that to the first states of the diseases, nature should have the assistance of science to some remedy for ihe reUef of the patient. It has been to this point that I have devoted myself to the study of con 76 THE PEOPLES MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. sumption; with what success the thousands who havo been saved by my mecfr cines#can attest I would take occasion to remark here, that these tubercles are not always con- fined to the 1 ings. They are found deposited to other organs of the body, where the nature and progress is the same as to the lungs, and their effects as destructive and fatal And the symptoms by which they are attended, aUowing for the differ- ence in the functions of the different organs of their location, are nearly the same. Tha deposit is not unfrequently found to the cranium, especiaUy among chUdren. It is found to the membranes, to the lymphatic glands to the neck; also in the spleen, Uver, bladder, kidney, uterus, heart, and to the structure of the bones. It aiay be questioned if there is any organ of the body entirely exempt from its effects. But it is a general law that when tubercles exist to any other organ, they may be found to the lungs. However, there are exceptions to this; and when these excep- tions exist is a matter of the most momentous importance to the physician who at- tends upon a patient But I feel caUed upon to say that there are few physicians indeed who are capable of determining with certainty upon this point In truth, they seldom think of it. It is by the aid of the Lung Barometer that I have been enabled to satisfy myself in every case presented upon this important matter, and am, therefore, better qualified to treat the patient. And it is from this knowledge thus gained that I so seldom faU to afford reUef and effect a cure, where the lungs are not entirely destroyed Pulmonary consumption we may consider as one of those diseases which is here- ditary—it is handed down from one generation to another to some famines as an "heir loom;" and though an inheritance not at aU to be desired, it comes without wUl or law, and as something which thousands are forced to look upon as their Bure and certain fate. But it is not always the case that persons born of a con- sumptive father or mother, or even of both, will be consumptive themselves. The chances are most certainly great that such wUl be the case, but it cannot be set down as a fixed rule. Generally speaking, those chUdren resembling to form, to complexion and temperament the consumptive parent, wUl bo afflicted with the disease, whUe those who are dissimUar to these particulars wiU not inherit the com- plaint The same is true in this respect as to respect to scrofula, asthma, and other oomplatots that seem to be transmitted from parent to chUd. It is sometimes the case, that neither parent is consumptive, but the chUd wUl appear to have inherited tho disease. It may be supposed, that where the family is predisposed to pulmonary consumption there may happen to occur a generation rn which the complaint wiU not manifest itself, but wUl appear as a truly hereditary disease to the next line of succession, There is a singularity connected with the manifestations of hereditary pulmonary disease, that is, that not only the general predisposition, but the period of Ufe at which the parent and chUd are affected aro the same, independent of external causes, savtog pregnancy in the female, and removing to a warmer cUmatejust previous to the critical pei iod. Either of these may put off death for a time but do not prevent final fataUty from the complaint The symptoms of pulmonary consumption have been noticed to occur repeatedly to the female, and to be re- moved by pregnancy, perhaps as many as four or five times. In Southern Europe, pulmonary consumption has been regarded as strongly in- fectious; and although not generaUy beUeved to be so to this country, I regard it THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 77 as in mauy respects a sympathetic and contagious complaint, particularly where persons are long and closely connected. To live to the same room or occupy the name bed I regard as decidedly dangerous, and in some cases have satisfied myself by close observation of the truth of this inference. In cases where there is a predisposition to pulmonary consumption, it requires great care to avoid the disease. AU exciting causes should be carefuUy guarded against, such as catarrh and fever, especiaUy at that period of Ufe when the com- plaint has manUested itself to former generations. By giving particular attention to aU outward causes that have a supposed tendency to bring on the first stages of the disease, and by taking such vegetable preparations as wUl keep the blood pure and prevent it from leaving poisonous deposits to the lungs, the person may be carried to safety beyond the critical period and his life lengthened out for years to the enjoyment of good health. And where women are predisposed to this complaint it has been found that marriage and pregnancy have sometimes not only carried the person beyond the expected consumptive time of Ufe, but that, aided by vegetable preventives, they have proved of more than temporary efficacy against this com- plaint It is not, however, always the case that marriage and pregnancy put off the ravages of the destroyer, yet it is very often so; which is a powerful reason to favor of early marriage and clnld-bearing, as efficacious to lengthening the Ufe of females, considered as a body—as proved by statistical reports, embodied under the head of early marriages and longevity. With regard to the per centage of cases of consumption arising from hereditary predisposition, there is great difference of opinion. Dr. Walshe, of London, gives 21 per cent, of males and 37 of females from consumptive parents. Briquet, of Paris, gives 30 per cent, from this cause. But I am satisfied, that from the inability to learn the facts to many cases of consumption, and from the weU-known reluct- ance of many patients to admit that their ancestors were consumptive, that the proportion is considerably larger than that given in either London or Paris—at least, that it is so to this country. With safety, it may be set down at 60 per cent, and many contend for a larger per centage. It is thought, too, that the cases of pulmonary consumption which seem to arise hereditarily are to general more un- favorable to regard to a cure or a reUef than those springing from other causes. Reports from the London hospital for consumption show the singular fact, that consumptive fathers most frequently transmit the disease to their sons, and tho mothers to the daughters. The reasons for this it would be difficult satisfactorily to explain. With reference to the proportion of males and females, there seems to be a contradiction from reports of hospitals. In some cases, there are more men attacked than women, in others the reverse. It would appear from statistics that In Paris, the number of women troubled of this disease is larger than of the men —say as about 60 to "70; while to London hospitals the number of men is 61 to 58 of the opposite sex. In the city of Geneva, Switzerland, the cases are as 115 men to 106 women. From the Sanitary Reports of the city of New Tork, we gather that of 1000 persons who died of consumption, that are about 22 more males than females. Boston shows a sinnlar difference, but greater. On the other hand, reports from New Tork State and from the State of Massachusetts—being country places—show a larger preponderance the other way, to about the proportion of 6 deaths of females by this disease to 3 of males. From this it would appear that some cause exists . countr towns to extend the disease among females; while diifarent # 78 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. causes exist in cities, to aggravate the disease to the other sex. From these facts it wUl appear that there is difference in locaUty as regards the outward influences of business under which the sexes are brought. This shows that consumption often anses from causes which might be guarded against; and it shows, too, that by having proper regard to those causes, and intently considering the occupations and habits of individuals, and ascertaining the character and nature of the inducing causes, we s*hould not only better know how to treat each individual case, but our labors would be attended with much greater success than generaUy faUs to the lot of the careless empyrics and unprincipled quacks that infest our country under the name of physicians. What these causes are, it may be difficult to decide with certainty, unless we attribute to the country ladies, then- exposures to wet feet, arising from the mud and snow, during the critical periods, habits in fashions of dress,—heavy skirts, tight lacing, open bosomed dresses, thin bonnets and dresses,—self-pollution by masturbation, disappointed love, and protracted ceUbacy; while the men in the cities are more confined in-doors, deprived of pure air, exercise and light, and sub- jected to the dust of workshops; and are given to excessive sexual intercourse by prostitution with the harlot, contracting the poisonous venereal disease of the cour- tesan, and early dying with consumption. If other and better reasons than these can be offered from statistical reports, I would be pleased to hear them. The influence of age on pulmonary consumption is somewhat remarkable. A very large proportion of consumptives die between the ages of twenty and thirty— probably over one-fourth. Probably three-fifths of those who suffer from it are attacked between the ages of twenty and thirty-five. But it is to be found in per- Bons of aU ages, and even the lungs of the foetus sometimes contain tubercles. Condition of life has its strong influence to inducing consumption. The circum- Btances which seem to increase the tendency are poverty, sedentary habits, a bent position of the body, impure air in workshops, the inhalation of certain mineral and vegetable vapors, or air loaded with a coarse or impalpable dust, or with Ught, thready, elastic substances; whUe those which exercise a preservative influence are easy circumstances, an active Ufe to the open air, and regular general exercise. Sedentary habits, especiaUy sitting much with the body inclined forward, exert a decided influence in favor of pulmonary consumption. Shoemakers and tailors are largely subject to the disease. Statistical reports show many curious facts relative to the difference of situation of countries in effect upon consumption. It has been commonly supposed that removal to a warmer cUmate would prove beneficial to the consumptive; but this is not always the case. The fact is, that a permanent residence in a tropical climate tends to increase the chances of death by this disease, though this is not true of all places in the .tropical region. In this respect the East and West Indies have been found to differ materially, though situate to the same latitude—the East being more favorable to the complaint than the West. This difference is so marked, that stati* tics show that the proportion of deaths in the West Indies from this disease is greater than in Great Britain. whUe in the East Indies it is less. The same may be said to be true with reference to this country; that removal to the East Indies might in the main prove of benefit, while to the West Indies it would prove dele- terious. But taking case after case, it may be seriously doubted if removal should be recommended. % THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 79 Reports from the army of the United States show 9 deaths among 1000 men from this disease in the Atlantic posts and those on the lakes, whUe those remote from the large bodies of fresh or salt water give only 5 deaths to 1000. This shows a decided advantage in the inland towns. At the same time, a sailor's life is de- cidedly favorable in lessening the number of deaths from this disease. It has been generaUy beUeved that inflammations of the chest and lungs produce a large number of cases of pulmonary consumption; but of the truth of this there is doubt. I think it would be found that where the symptoms of consumption have followed a bad cold or an inflammation, the tubercles had existed to the lungs pre- viously. The cold or inflammation might have forwarded the injurious action of the tubercles, but did not cause then- deposit. However, very serious results foUow often from colds and inflammations, and whether they reaUy cause pulmonary con- sumption or not, they should nevertheless receive careful attention Thus I have shown you the cause, character, symptoms, and history of lung or pulmonary consumption, with statistics connected with its rise, progress, fataUty to different places, ages and occupations; and also explained how, by the opera- tions of nature alone, the disease is, in spite of the commonly received doctrine, qften cured, and how it may be cured frequently if nature received the propci aid. And I wiU now assure you, whatever your physician may say, that con- sumption is not an incurable disease. And I do not make this assertion without any foundation—it is based upon the knowledge I have gained by experience and upon statistical information derived from various reliable sources. And let me here repeat, that it is only the ignorant who stUl adhere to the old opinion; being unable, because of their ignorance, to cure the disease in any case, they assert that no one else can cure it. This is certainly arguing from a poor premise, and infusing erroneous opinions among the people, which exert a tendency decidedly injurious. But to prove to you that I do not bo-ldly face the entire mass of physicians alono upon this point, (although the great body of them are against my assertion,) I wiU Btate here that a physician attached to the almshouse for aged women in Paris, found, on post mortem examination of 100 women, all over sixty years of age, and dying of various diseases, that 51 of them presented evidence, chiefly by chalky concretions to the lungs, of tubercles or ulcers once having existed in them, from the fatal effects of winch they had been reUeved. And a distinguished professor of New York Dr. Swett, to his lectures before medical students, has admitted that " facts and especially anatomical facts, prove beyond a doubt, that cases do recover, and that these cases are not very rare I" Speaking of consumption, Dr. Dixon, on page 114 of the "Scalpel," says: "When the constitution can be rapidly improved either by diet or cUmate, these ulcers may heal, and if no more tubercles form, and digestion and the skin be kept in fuU play of their powers, so as to produce plenty of material and it throws off carbon or the useless matter of the system, the person recovers." What more do we want in proof? And why should you believe the ignorant pretender when he declares that in your case there is no hope of recovery __n0 c]iance of escape ? His declarations are false!—I know them to be false—I have proved them to be false. Take courage, therefore; and if others toU you you cannot recover apply at once to some one who wul understand your case, and can afford the necessary relief. Give not up to death untU you have satisfied yourself by testing some one who has perfect knowledge of aU diseases of the lungs and Who if a cure is possible, wUl be able to effect it in the most speedy mannor. And 60 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. to those who are continuaUy discouraging the sick by telUng them that they are beyond hope, I would say—Go, ignoramus, and inform yourself; preach no more your abominable falsehoods; make yourself fit for a teacher before you undertake to prescribe for the afflicted. KINDS OF CONSUMPTION. The causes and kinds of consumption are so numerous, and physicians malcng no distinctions between them, but treating aU alike, when each should receive its distinctive medicine, that it is not at aU to be wondered at that most faU of doing the patient any good. This is the reason why they do faU. UntU physicians better understand these matters, they may as weU hang up their saddle-bags and do as they have always done—caU consumption of every kind by one name—a compound disease, not understood, and incurable. Is it true that the different kinds of consumption cannot be known and treated as they should be ? Unhesitatingly, I say no I I say they can be known, and each separately and distinctly treated with its own appropriate remedies. [See Lung Ba- rometer and its use.] There is consumption of the lungs, Uver, heart, kidney, stomach, womb, spleen, larynx, bowels, and other organs. A wasting disease in any organ affecting the general health may be properly classed under the head of consumption. When administered to under the knowledge gained by the use of the Lung Ba- rometer, a cure of all lung and pulmonic diseases may be regarded as nearly cer- tain : without this, recovery is mere matter of chance. I have cured many persons who had lost one lung entirely and had the other badly diseased. A man can Uve with one lung as wreU as with one eye or arm. The loss of one gives the other greater strength and power. Some cases of lung consumption we may regard as incurable; but I seldom faU of restoring to a state of health either one or both lungs unless the invalid is unfaithful to the directions given him. Many faU to ex- perience benefit because they wiU not sacrifice their convenience or taste; but me- dicines to aU cases must be compounded to suit the complaint and not the taste of the patient. Unless the invaUd is willing to make sacrifice of time, taste and conve- nience to a certain extent (provided such sacrifices are necessary,) to order to obtain health and enjoy a long life, I am not desirous he should apply to me for help; for it is in the treatment of such invaUds that I should lose my reputation for skill be- cause the public could never become conversant with the facts in the case; and by unfaithfulness the patient would be almost certain to lose his life. I have seldom treated a case of consumption but that the patient has began to improve in a very short time, and has gone on from better to better tiU a cure was finally effected, unless, as is not unfrequently the case, there has been an inatten- tion to the remedies prescribed and the advice given. Frequently I have known an tovaUd brought up from the very threshold of the grave, and placed in a situation where perseverance to the use of the proper medicines would have certainly made him a weU man; but, unfortunately, when the more serious symptoms of the dis- ease had disappeared, the patient would become careless, leave off taking the medicmes, go into 3 relapse and soon reach the grave. A relapse in these cases La ai-ao:t ai'.\ '-■...> It is indeed strange that a person who has had the cop THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 81 sumption for months, perhaps years, and has been looking for a speedy death, once reUeved of his complaint by the power of medicine, and feeling his lungs nearly healed, should give up to carelessness or indifference on some trivial excuse, such as that the medicines are unpleasant to the taste, or he has not time to take them, or it is not convenient to foUow advice; and by thus doing faU back into a state worse than at the first Persevere, should be the motto of every consumptive. If you get better, keep on tiU you are weU; and when you are well use the means and the preventives of disease to keep weU. I would enjoin this upon aU who ever expect to escape from the consumptive's grave. If it is not attended to, the invalid cannot reasonably hope for a cure. A physician to treat pulmonary consumption with that efficacy and good result that may attend his efforts, must know the real cause of it, and the effect which it has produced upon the organ afflicted. He must understand if tubercles or ulcers exist; if ossification has taken place; if rupture of the air-cells or arteries has oc- curred; whether the disease is increasing or decreasing; whether it be immediately dangerous or not; whether it can be cured to a long or a short time. He must know what state the blood is to, and whether the disease be scrofulous, cancerous, venereal, or arise from accumulation of animal decomposition, or from adulterated articles of food and drink, mineral poisons, from humors of the blood, or be induced by the action of the mind—disappointment in love or business, &c, &c. He must know the quantity of air the lungs wUl contain, and whether or not inhalation lias been deficient; whether stricture, or a contracted state of the lungs exists; the color of the matter expectorated, if there be any; whether the patient is troubled with canker, sore-throat or catarrh; whether the lungs are weak or strong; whether the Uver is affected or not; whether the liver has adhered to the lungs, and matter passes through the lungs from the Uver or not; ^whether the lungs have adhered to the pleura, chest, or to each other; and a thousand other things which may be ne- cessary to the case. And to get at these he must have a Lung Barometer; for by the use of the stethoscope or by sounding the chest, they can never be determined about with certainty. And a principal reason why I have had so much better suc- cess to the treatment of consumption is because I have used the Lung Barometer and other inventions of mine, by which I learn positively the condition of the parts affected, wlnle others only judge of and guess about them. SOUNDING THE LUNGS AND CHEST. The most eminent of medical men have of late nearly discarded the usp of the stethoscope in determining tho nature of consumptive diseases. And, in truth, ther« can be but Uttlo reliance placed upon it. In order that you may be able to compre- hend to some measure the difficulty of determining the condition of the lungs by Bounding the chest either with the stethoscope or by percussion (rapping on the cnest) I wUl endeavor to show you the doubts thrown over these methods by those who practice them, and the reasons why such soundings are rendered doubtful to their results. In the first place, to learn anything at all from percussion or rapping upon the chest you must clearly -anderstand tho natural resonance of each and every patient wlulo iu he;.:li; you run., knov/ tbc* elasticity of the internal o.gans, ind thf t> 82 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. parities of the chest. These are by no means alike to different persons—the lungs are not equaUy elastic to different individuals, nor equaUy charged with air; so that on examination we find much greater resonance to one person than in another, though the lungs of both be perfectly free from disease. There is also great difference arising from the presence of great or smaU musaes upon the7 chest, from the pressure of flesh to greater or less quantity, and from the condition of the heart, (which may be enlarged in its bed to the lungs, and caiae a very different sound on rapping from what would otherwise result) also from the condition of the Uver and spleen, (which encroach upon the cavity of the chest and cause to their weU or diseased condition much difference of sound.) When the muscles of the chest are thick, scarcely anything can be determined from rapping. In the female, the fullness and size of the breasts often prevent the gaining of any certain information of the conditions of the lungs in aU that portion over whitn they extend Upon the back, the shoulder blades extend over a large portion of the lungs, which makes it impossible to obtain any accurate information from rapping to that quarter. The degree of tension of the muscles also greatly affects the resonance of the chest, and it requires the nicest care to so place the patient that you can learn • by a comparison of the two sides how much one is affected; for if there be the smaUest difference to the tension of the muscles of each side, there wUl be a corre- sponding difference of sound. In addition to these natural difficulties, there is a greater one arising to the way in which the operator wUl percuss the chest; and from the chest of the same indivi- dual no two operators wiU obtain the same sound. That this is so, I wUl not ask you to beUevo on my authority alone, but to establish the fact to your satisfaction wUl quote from a series of lectures delivered at the New York Hospital by a distin- guished professor of the aUopathic school, Dr. Swett He says— " The act of percussion seems to be a very simple thing; you may think that you can practice it perfectly after a Uttle practice. But it is not so. It requires much practice and care to percuss the chest weU. Look at those who have practiced & for years, and what a difference is there to the results obtained by different practition- ers I One will render a slight difference to sound to different pr .lions of the chest quite apparent whUe another wUl obtain only the most unsatisfactory results I" The truth of this, as set forth by the professor alluded to, is admitted by the me- dical faculty generaUy—at least by aU that portion whose opinions are considered of any worth. Sounding the lungs by auscultation (that is by listening with the ear applied directly to the chest, or by using the stethoscope,) is Uable to tho same difficulties and differences to result and for the same reasons as percussion or rapping. There is such difference to different persons, whose lungs are perfectly sound, that urJess the practitioner has been acquainted with the respiratory sounds of his patient be- fore the patient was sick, and has a very nice ear and a retentive memory at that, he wiU be very Uable indeed to be mistaken not only in regard to the state of a dis- ease but often as to what the disease reaUy is. Accidental causes of various kinds —agitation of the mind—pains to other parts of the body, fear, nervous excitement, and numerous other causes, many of wliich it is impossible the physician should have cognizance of—so markedly affect the respiration, and through that the sounds in the lungs, that the chances are more than equal that the ebserver wUl not be able to determine the condition of those organs, even under tpose parts of the chest THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 83 where nothing intervenes to prevent the hearing. This being the case, (as is also admitted by tho professor aUuded to,) how can it be with any reason believed that even the closest observer can accurately determine the condition of the lungs by the means and to the ways mentioned. It is impossible. And yet I have been tofrmed on the most reUable authority, that a doctor to New York who claims for biraielf the highest skUl to the cure of consumption; and who is quite deaf of one ear, as often uses the deaf ear in his examinations of the lungs as the other one I This shows of how much service such an examination would be. Could a man partiaUy deaf hear those sUght and deUcate sounds made by the air to the lungs ? Certainly not Such an examination of the lungs is fit to be classed with the use made of the other deaf and blind catch-traps of this eminent (?) physician—shoulder-brace, sup- porter and tohaUng tube. These inventions, though useful at times and to certain ^ complaints, are quackish to the appUcation to which they are oftc put, and are used as mere hobbies to deceive people and lead them to resort to useless means to obtain relief from disease. Consumption cannot be cured by rule, nor can the dif- ferent kinds of this disease be subjected to the use of supporters, braces and tubes, as is pretended. Says Dr. Dixon, in the Scalpel, page 109:—" Many physicians carry about with them the stethoscope, a smaU cedar stick with a hole to it ornamented with ivory, to give it 'professional effect' in the eyes of the people; but it is for the most part a mere trap to get business byl" Page 110—"It is very mortifying to observe the uses made of the stethoscope by many physicians; to' see them frighten and fatigue a poor tovaUd, by their tricks and solemn countenances, when nature or over-feeding has made many of them so obtuse to their hearing and toteUects, that it can convey no particle of information." It being the case, as I have shown, that these means of determining the condi- tion of the lungs often prove faUacious and render every thing therewith connected uncertain, what is it the duty of the medical man to do? Should he continue in this uncertainty ? Are the matters of commerce and of pecuniary gain of greater ac- count than human Ufe, that man should be without a sure guide to disease, whUe by many toventions he is placed to comparative safety upon the ocean, and surely di- rected to his labors upon land ? The saUor, though no cloud looms upward to the space over which his watchful eye extends, regards with anxiety his barometer which foreteUs him of the coming storm; and ere the fury of the hurricane, which else had buried him in the bosom of the ocean, is upon him, he furls his sails and securely rides out the gale. And when the fogs of the ocean encompass, and the darkness of the night envelops him, so that nature gives no guide to his course, he watches the compass by Ins side and saUs forward to security. And so is it to the other fields of life. But in disease, we have been left without a guide, and aU action has been made to the dark, without certainty, and by guesstogs, experiments, and clap-traps. And so it might have continued for ages to come, had not the author entered the field of invention, and determining to devise some means to learn the exact condition of the afflicted sufferers, brought out the Lung Barometer as the fruit of his laborious toil. This has opened the door of knowledge—has made the crooked roads straight and given confidence and hope to the afflicted. By its use the state of the lungs is accurately determined, consumption is foretold, and the to- dividual warned to prepare his bark to encounter the coming storm; and comump. tion is placed in the list of curable diseases. 84 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHT HOUSE. The mineralogist as he traverses the earth to search of mines of wealth beneath the surface, is directed by his metaUic needle, which points downwards to the stores of ore beneath. But for this he had wandered far without profit; the mineral wealth of the world had lain undiscovered of man to the bosom of the earth, and where now plenty abounds, ruin and idleness have prevaUed. But though directed by toventions to the gold and the sUver that enriches, man has had no security against disease. Even whUe searching for that which he hoped would give ease and comfort to his later days, the fangs of consumption were fastened upon him, and he knew it not tni the destroyer was ready to slay. Had he been under the detecting eye of the Lung Barometer, he had escaped destruction; for this would have warned him of the first approach of the disease, and he might have heen saved to life and to the enjoyments of the world. We have the clock and the watch to give us the hour of the day; the scale to deter- mine weights to exactness; the thermometer to indicate the degree of heat; and numer- ous other toventions that detect with unerring certainty to the uses to which they are employed. Still, in that most important of aU earthly matters, tho health of the human betog, there was for ages no infalUble detector and guide. But this state of criminal ignorance no longer exists; the genius of man has finally invented the means by which aU conditions of the lungs may be determined, and through it the raging pestilence of consumption is forever robbed of the terrors that for ages have clung about its name. [See Lung Barometer.] A physician should be both a natural mechanic and an experienced practitioner, so as to know how to adapt his mechanical helps and his different medicines to each individual case of consumption; since no two cases wUl be found exactly alike, any more tlian the physiognomy of two persons wUl be alike. There may be a strong resemblance, but there wUl stUl be a difference. A physician can no more cure different cases of consumption by exactly the same treatment than a black- smith can fit one shape and size of shoe to the feet of aU horses, or a hatter one hat to aU sizes of heads, or a milliner one glove to the hand of aU ladies, or a taUor one coat to a dwarf and a giant IMPORTANCE OF LIGHT ON HEALTH. The effects of light on health and on the human system generaUy, both mentafly and physically, have not yet been fully elucidated and explained. We have only of late began to perceive with clearness and to trace with certainty its influence on vegetable, animal and chemical substances. Light to general separates oxygen; it changes nitre into nitrous acid, and the oxy-muriatic to common muriatic acid. Light also deprives many preparations of their pecuUar color and medicinal value, particularly phosphorus, and seems greatly to influence the progress of crystallization. Carmine requires to be exposed to a strong solar light f°r a cloud, it is said, will spoU the color. In the vegetable kingdom, and from the humblest plant to the tallest tree of tho forest, wo find that tile absence qf light deprives the leaves of their peculiar and beautiful colors, and the vegetables of their taste and healthfutoess. Humboldt found to shafts of mines that the leaves of plants were not shaped the same as vrert t .*y o: too aue kind growing in the Ught above. The florist can teU yoaof THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 85 the great importance of Ught to give a healthy and beautiful growth to his various plants and flowers. Plants grow very feebly and imperfectly without Ught Their growth is not whoUy dependent on the decomposition of water; but their color depends materiaUy on the decomposition of water and the carbonic gas. Animals which most usuaUy Uve to the open air, by confinement and exclusion from Ught, become feeble, and lose a great portion of their health, UveUness and color. Other animals, as the mole, the pangoUn, and some others which scarcely ever see the day, are not white, and are peculiarly active and inteUigent. Some antoials emit Ught in their motions, and this Ught is connected with their Ufe and activity, as to the lampyres, the glow-worm, the insects to oyster sheUs, and those which il- lumine the sea in storms; to these it seems that Ught enters into the composition ol those fluids to which their activity is owing, giving a Uvely action to the phoff.«»o- ric acid of which those antoials are greatly composed. The eyes of the cat give out a Ught in the dark; and if we rub the hah of this animal to the night, it wUl emit sparkles of Ught I have previously shown, when speaking of the causes of insanity, that aU Uving beings having the greatest proportion of phosphorus or phosphoric acid in their compositions, have the greatest activity and UveUness; and that the brains of aU animals, mankind included, containing the most phosphorus, gave the highest de gree of mental activity and inteUigence. I also stated that idiots, and animals of a low mental caUber, were destitute of a due share of phosphoric acid to the brain; that they must necessarily be so; and that chemical analysis had established this fact; and further, that persons having a very large share of phosphorus in their brains or bodies, were the most sensitive and nervous, and the most likely to be- come insane or broken down to their mentaUty, under the influence of long continued or rapid currents of nervo-electricity, passing to tho brain—caused by fright disappointment to love, or any other mental excitement—and convulsing the brain by action upon the phosphorus. It is a fact estabUshed by practical observation, that active, nervous and highlj sensitive persons, are the ones most likely to become mentaUy deranged by the per- plexities, disappointments, and embarrassments of Ufe: and with such persons men in their promises and transactions should be punctual and honest, and act with them according as they agree, or the mental balance of these persons may be over- thrown and perhaps destroyed forever—the nervo-electricity acting so powerfuUy upon the brain when it is unfitted for the shock, the connection of mtod and matter is dissolved, and saneness is dethroned. AU persons are aware, or should be, that the relations of accidents or troubles to interested persons, should generaUy be by degrees rather than hastily, for fear of the suddenness of tho matter communicated operating injuriously upon the mind. That those animals most susceptible to the power of electricity or galvanic batteries are charged with phosphorus in the largest quantities, was determined by the ex- periments of Galvani, from whence we argue that men containing phosphorus in large proportion are more likely to be injured by sudden electrical excitement than those possessing less. Light may properly be said to be a component part of our bodies; and it seemf to be particularly connected with the activity of the mind. At night or to the dark we are inclined to be duU and sleepy; and so it is with the animals. When we reflect that the general health is apparently connected with Ught and bG THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. that this pecuUar acid of the system, the phosphoric, has a powerful attraction for Ught and appears to contain it not only to a chemical combination, but when in the form of an oxide united with it and aUows it to separate without decomposition, we may suspect it to be a greater and more powerful agent to the animal economy than has yet been beUeved. In proportion as light is shut out of our houses, churches, and school-rooms, wih the mtod become sleepy and inactive, the body lose its strength and health, the UveUness and color depart, and the system become feverish; and if tho rooms are damp, we shaU lose our nervous and mental activity, and become scrofulous or con- sumptive, perhaps sicken and die. Deprivation of Ught destroys the health of body and mind, by destroying the phosphorus of the body. Dark, damp houses destroy the phosphorus and prevent the nervous electricity from passing on the nerves and acting upon the brain; and for this reason a person having great mental labor to perform soon loses something of his mental acquirements when he is confined to business to dark and damp rooms. And the same is true with reference to his bodi- ly health if he Uve to a dark and damp house. Dark and damp days are dreary and duU seasons to persons of Uvely mind and active body, with a large share of phosphorus and nervous electricity, because the diminution of Ught affects the phosphorus, and the dampness of the atmosphere prevents the easy and frequent flow of the nervous electricity. This it is that makes damp houses, stores, churches and other places of business so destructive to the health. A person with a smaU share of phosphorus in his blood is never remarkably ac- tive—never noted for acts of heroism. The reason why is, that he cannot be elec- trified by any nervous electrical excitement; but one having a large ehare of the phosphorus is fiUed with Ufe and overflowing with heroic deeds. The phosphoric acid of our bodies, with its attracting and absorbing power for Ught, together with its betog the highest principle to man's existence, when electri- fied with electricity from the body or nervous electricity from active passions ol men, is the source of the activity and UveUness of the person. And when we are shown by chemical investigation that phosphorus absorbs and requires light for ita support in connection with the support derived from the food taken into the sys- tem, we can see the wisdom of the Deity in so bountifully supplying us with light; not only to directly sustain our bodily and mental activity, but to give to the ani mal and vegetable worlds a large share of phosphoric acid, from which phosphorus is mostly obtained—that man may be constantly supplied through these sources with the active principle of his existence; for a person nearly destitute of this principle is but at best a drone in society, if not truly idiotic. Phosphoric acid or phosphorus is decidedly dangerous in its action when in tha form of a medicine, and should not, therefore, ever be used to a greater quantity than is found existing in some animal or vegetable substances, which are taken in the form of food. [See table of foods containing phosphorus.] AIR, AND ITS EFFECTS UPON HEALTH. Atmospheric air is a compound gas, the constituents of which are one-fifth oxygen and four-fifths nitrogen. Nitrogen, of itself, seems to possess no decidedly « lungs, he wUl manifest great uneasiness, and soon expire. So, if chUdren or grown persons be placed to a room poorly ventilated, they wUl suffer injury; and if the room were to bo made sufficiently tight, bo as to exclude entirely the ingress of the external air, they would aU soon die. All places of pubUc resort for great numbers—as churches, theatres, concert- rooms, school-houses, and the Uke—should always be weU ventilated, both for comfort and health. It is truly astonishtog to see how Uttle attention is paid to this important condition of comfort and health. If the evil were as apparent as it would be in twenty-four hours, if large bodies of people were to remain crowded together, it would excite universal attention, and the evil would be universally remedied. Much yet remains to be done for the improvement of the public, as weU as indi- vidual health. Moral phUosophers and Christian phUanthropists have a duty here to do, and great is their responsibility to their feUow men, nearly aU of whom, in relation to this subject, are " sitting to the region and shadow of death" If we ourselves would enjoy good health, and impart, so far as possible, the same invaluable blessing to our chUdren and others, we and they must pay a due regard to proper clothing and diet, must keep the skin pure and clean by bathing, sleep to weU-ventUated rooms, let the light of day be poured to upon us, and ever be Burrounded by pure and fresh air. This wUl give health, vigor and elasticity to our bodies, clearness and energy to our minds, and send the pure blood to healthful currents through every veto and artery of our frames. LOSS OF THE SENSES PRODUCES CONSUMPTION. The deprivation of the blessing of sight hearing, feeUng, tasting or smelling, is frequently a cause of consumption. Therefore, we should strive to preserve to our- selves these senses to their fuUest powers, not only that through them we may be enabled to enjoy Ufe to its fullness, but also that by the loss of any we may not be visited by disease. To be deprived of the great blessing of sight is indeed to be subjected to a calamity of magnitude. To be cut off from the enjoyment of aU the beautiful works of nature and creations of man,—to behold no more the green and growing grass of the fields, to see not the beautiful verdure of the waving trees, to be blind to the gorgeous colors of the rainbow and sightless to the presence of aU the works of the painter, the sculptor, and the architect, and to be unable to receive Ught toto the mtod from the pen of the poet and the scholar—to be away from and beyond the influences of these things, is indeed a sore affliction, such as only he who has once looked upon the fair face of nature, and then been shut out from the enchant- ing vision, can adequately feel. And when to these is added the thought that one can no more behold the faces of those friends near and dear to him upon the earth,—that he cannot bask to the sunshine of their snuies and look back love to those who gaze with fond affection upon him, how agonizing indeed inust be the 94 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE No. 18.—Grubs in the Brain and Optic Nerve. thought! It would seem that this were enough for mortal to endure, without subjection to the further infliction of disease. But unfortunately the individual does not always escape the latter trial; often consumption arises to him from the loss of Bight—the veins being so intimately connected with the brain—and hurries him forward to the tomb; and this, too, when the cause of disease is attributed to another source and his blindness left uncharged of his further trouble. The loss of sight is some- times caused by the presence of grubs to the optic nerve. A portion of the annexed engrav- ing represents the optic nerve, laid open, exposing smaU grubs therein. AL?o a grub is pre- sented to the brain, wliich would be likely to produce in- sanity. The cerebral grub, is tne animal which causes vertigo to Bheep; and by naturalists and physiologists has been supposed to occasion mania in man. And as with the sight, so with the hearing. It would seem that to be cut off from listening to the melodious voices of nature's minstrels, who make the woods and fields and the very heavens vocal with sweet sounds; to hear no more tho Boothing voices of sympathizing friends, the laughter of gay chUdren, the ripple of the dancing brook, the rustling of the soft wind making music in the trees, the Bounds of instrumental melody, and the thousand harmonious voices of nature that give pleasure to the mind through the listening ear,—are enough of worldly depri- vation and trouble, without having arise to us therefrom the ghastly spectre of con- sumption. And though we have a hope beyond this vale of tears, and look forward with something of anticipation to a happy meeting of friends and relatives beyond the grave, w,here we shaU hear the voices of father and mother, of brother and sis' ter, of wife and chUdren, and behold their countenances radiant with heavenly joy, we are not altogether resigned to Uve on to blindness of eyes and utter deadness to aU the sounds of earth. The loss of feeing also often causes consumption. The nerves of the human system, betog mUions in number, run over it in every part, so that a needle in entering the body punctures numbers of them; and through them do we experience the sensation of bodfly feeUng. Hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling also depend upon the nerves, and upon their being kept to a condition of health and activity; and the Ufe and health of these is dependent upon the condition of the blood and nervous fluid. Thousands are the dangers of Ufe to which we are exposed and escape from by the action of the nerves. If the nerves are cut off, the connecting link from the body to the mind is broken and sensation and nervous feeling destroyed. Blistering, cupping, b- rning, raising tartar-emetic sores, and such barbarous methods of treat- ment in the cure of diseases often separate important nervea leading to the brain, THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 95 lungs, Uver, and stomach, and cause an unhealthy inactivity of those organs, where- by consumption is induced. Various are our delightful enjoyments, that depend on the healthy condition' of the nervous system. Ask the deaf and blind, the importance of feeling; ask your- Belves the importance of feeling; and when you have realized it, never aUow a doc- tor to cauterize any part or organ, for fear of severing nerves leading to the brain, and thereby destroying sensation I Quack doctors have cauterized the nerves of the genital organs for a pretended cure of seminal emissions. But for the production of our species, such a course ia highly dangerous. Such cases only require the natural remedy to quench irritation and passion through the divine institution of marriage. For example, see how the nerves of foundered horses are separated above the hoof, thereby destroying ner- vous sensation without curing the disease. Beware of such quacks. Aside from marriage, seminal emissions can be cured without resorting to such barbarous sur- gical operations as cauterizing and separating the nerves running to the brain. I speak this from observation; for I have known many destroyed by such cauteriza- tion, and have cured hundreds without performing any such operation. Stopping or cutting off the nerves of the teeth at the ear to kUl the toothache, is an evidence to prove what I have asserted. A loss of taste also leads to consumption. Catarrhal diseases are a fruitful cause of loss of taste. This loss is attended with dyspepsia, indigestion, and stomach and Uver diseases, causing appearances simUar to those produced by consumption. Taste governs the seasoning, the quality and the kind of food or drink taken toto the stomach. By destroying the taste we make of the stomach a store-house for all digestible and indigestible matters, which, had the taste been alive, would have been properly chosen from, and the consumption arising from the presence of these matters to the stomach would have been prevented. By taste we make almost en- tirely our choice of food and drink; and by this monitor, when unperverted, the stomach may be generally safely guided. The nerves of the mouth are sometimes seriously affected by diseases, so that the taste is in a measure lost. But it is from the use of mineral medicines, administer- ed to cure disease, that the worst effects experienced here arise—particularly from mercury. This often ulcerates the gums, loosens and destroys the teeth, annihilates the sensation of taste, and makes of tho once beautiful mouth a pit filled with foul and sickening corruption. God forbid that the human mouth, that temple of speech 0l music, of smUes, of loving kisses, so important to us aU, should be turned from a house of purity and sweetness toto a den of corruption and filth!—by the use of poisonous potions from the hands of physicians. But when it is thus abused and transformed from its original state, can it be wondered at that consumption should flow from so foul a source? Certainly not. Beware, then, of tampering with the organs of taste, lest disease fasten itself upon you From the loss of smelUng also often foUows consumption. God, in endowing his Uvto"- creatures with senses for the enjoyment of the good things of earth, includ- ed among them the sense of smelling. In some species of the animal creation, this Bcnse may be said to be of an importance second only to the sight. To the hormd in pursuit of his game, the deer to fleeing from the presence of man, the horse in avoiding the claws of the Uon, or the bee in pursuit of flowers, the sense of smell is not merely important, but indispensable. 96 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. It would seem that to every Uving thing there had been imparted its natural odor or perfume, as also to the varied vegetations of the earth How sweet is the per- fume of the rose, and of a thousand other productions to the field of nature; how delightful those extracts obtained from the vegetable kingdom by the art of man. To deprive mankind of the important sensation of smell, would be to leave him to faU toto filthiness and consequent disease. The diseases most generaUy destroying the sense of smeUing, are catarrh, poly- pi, cancers of. the nose, venery of the nose and larynx. Also it is destroyed by mercurial EaUvating medicines, poisoning the mouth, larynx and nose. But per- haps the most fruitful sources of the loss of smelling, hearing, tasting, and seeing— to connection with their power of affecting the mtod—are catarrhal and blood humors and poisons. The above, and aU other diseases that destroy the smell, cause dyspepsia, Uver complaint, and consumption, frequently clostog to death. Remember that the organs of smell, and of the other senses,' are nourished and kept in health and activity by the blood, and that through the blood alone, (sometimes by the assist- ance of external medicines, and sometimes not,) can health be restored to them when they are diseased. In consideration of these facts, and for the benefit of those suffering from the loss of any of the senses, I have carefuUy prepared medicines for general use, which wUl bo found to be invaluable in their several departments as curatives. For catarrh, (which, as I have shown often affects the organs so as to destroy the action of one or more of the senses,) has been prepared the Catarrh Snuff; a com- pouad unequalled and invaluable. For diseases of the eye—where outward appU- cation can be of service—the Eye Water and German Ointment. For aU diseases of the ear, the Ear Lotion and German Ointment. For. loss of taste and feeUng, the Blood Renovator, Anti-bUious PUls and German Ointment The Blood Reno- vator and the Anti-biUous PUls will be found by aU patients to be invaluable as purifiers of the blood, and to renovate and restore it to a right and healthy con- dition. MUSIC AND DANCING PREVENT CONSUMPTION, The one by operating favorably upon the mind, the other as exercise for the body and enlarging and strengthening the muscles, whUe the mtod is acting in harmony under the influence of melody. Music, vocal or instrumental, raises the depressed and drooping spirits, and in- fuses toto the soul of man activity and strength, with patience, gentleness, kindness, forgiveness of evU, and temporary forgetfulness of the Uls and troubles of Ufe. The tones of the voice to singing soften alike the heart of the innocent chUd and the hardened sinner; they caU back the brutaUzed being to his natural humanity, and restore the backsUder to the paths of religious Ufe. Music cheers alike the young and old, the weU and the unweU; it reUeves the mind of its loads of trouble; it takes man from himself and from the outward world for a season, and carries him to a fancied region of happiness and joy, from whence he returns recruited and refreshed in body and spirit Music casts off gloom, ess and lowness of spirit- discontent and uneasiness de- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 97 part before it, and to their stead come #heerfulness, merriness of heart, love to man, contentment, and quiet of mind. And whUe from the former flow bodily ills in abundance—broken constitutions, dyspepsia, indigestion, consumption and other diseases—the latter breed health and happiness, as the sunshine and rains of spring bring forth fruits and flowers from the bosom of the earth Therefore, discard no* music, whether made by the human voice, by the songsters of your native woods, by the murmuring winds amid the green leaves of the forest, by the Uttle brook that babbles at your feet or by the numerous instruments that are of the invention of man, but haU them as aids to cheer you through the toUs and cares of Ufe. The hearts of men are dilated by joy, contracted by sadness, and broken by sorrow. They melt under discouragement, are desolate in affliction, and fluctuating to doubt. And when under these depressions, is it not well, both as an antidote to sorrow and a prevention against the disease which such states may induce, that Borne counteracting influence should be brought to bear ? And for this, what is there equal to listening to the sweet sounds of music that wUl float into the soul and fiU it with a quiet happiness, under the influence of which we become imper- vious to the effects of disappointments and sorrows of the heart? Among the Jews, to the days of David and Solomon, music was regarded as an indispensable part of reUgion. They conceived, and rightly, that it calmed the passions of man and prepared the mind for the reception of prophetic influences; and the prophets employed instrumental music to accompany their predictions. They, Uke the Egyptians, not only delighted in music and dancing, but the higher ranks deemed them a necessary part of education. At feasts, at reUgious services, at marriages, at ceremonies of aU kinds, music was with them one of the most im- portant items of the performance. In the disease with which Saul the King of Israel was affected, the remedy of music was appUed, and was certainly a most proper and fitting one. He was afflicted with an occasional melancholy, almost reaching to madness, (a condition that often leads to positive insanity, and powerfuUy disposes to consumption); and for the removal of this—to calm his perturbed mtod and re-instate reason upon her throne—David made music before him upon the harp. Its effect was moro power- ful than a thousand doses of medicine. Dancing, when practised properly, and removed from the bad influences that have been thrown around it by the perversions of men, we may class as not only an innocent recreation, but a valuable exercise in the promotion of health, by its caUing toto action aU the muscles of the body and setting them at work to har- mony with the mind. Exercise of any kind, when divested of any stimulus but that which is thrown over it by an idea of its betog healthy, becomes a task rather than a pleasure, and is, therefore, not near so exceUent to its effects as when done to harmony with the pleasure of the mind. This it is that makes exercise by dancing a most exceUent medicine. Not only the whole body is to it but the whole souL also; and when soul and body are exercising to harmony, the results upon the health are wonderful I have known the most exceUent effects to foUow from this exercise to many persons suffering languor, and bodUy and mental debuity. Dancing was much practised to ancient times,, and to the worship of the Lord, as we may see from various passages of Scripture. "Praise Him with the timbrel and dance," was the exhortation of David. And from this we may infer that the 98 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. exercise was beneficial, since it would%iot have been used to praise of the Lord had it been supposed injurious. That many times persons are greatly influenced for good, and indeed have been placed upon the road to health by the influence of musical sounds brought to bear upon them, and by the exercise of dancing, to connection with the melody, is what 1 not only firmly beUeve, but may assert has been often witnessed. That judicious exercise is good for the invaUd, no one wUl undertake to deny; and that many times persons have got weU of complaints over which medicine had had but little effect, by some power operating upon the mtod, is a matter of frequent occurrence. And as a general thing, there is in aU nature no power so capable of affecting the mtod to those states of quietness, contentment, resignation, forgetfulness of the dark hoars and dark sides of Ufe, (aU of which operate powerfuUy often to the cure of disease,) as music. It is a fact weU known to physicians, and to other men of observation, that where persons are brought under sombre and melancholy influences—where the face of every one wears a garb of sorrow, and smUes are scarcely known—where the enlivening strains of music are never heard, and a moody folly (wrongfully de- nominated godly piety) holds perpetual sway over body and mtod—that there mankind much sooner reach the tomb than where they rationaUy make merry, and •enjoy of the beauties given them by the Creator of aU. This fact has been fully substantiated by the statistics of convents and nunneries, and of other abodes of reUgious fanaticism, where the God-given principles of our nature are held in check or curbed into utter subjection. Such a Ufe not only hastens men and women to the grave, but is to opposition to aU the teachings of God, as manifested through His outward works, and revealed to his Gospels to men. If, then, music and danc- ing exert an important influence in the cure of many complaints, of how vastly greater efficacy must they be to the prevention. As I have before to substance aaid, they induce powerfuUy those states of mind under which the body throws off the disposing causes to sickness ; whUe, if they be altogether neglected, moodiness, melancholy, reserve, gloomy thoughts, dark fancies, hypochondria and other bad states of the mtod arise, out of which frequently flow consumption and various other diseases, and sometimes downright insanity. I would say then, let us have music and dancing, as in the olden time. Let us make merry with one accord. Let us drive melancholy and sadness away, and have thereby more health and more happiness. Nature in aU its works makes merry and rejoices—it wears no long faces and carries no doleful hearts, unless disease have fastened upon its parts. Melancholy and sickness are generaUy com- panions, whUe mirth and health walk hand to hand together through the world. STANDING ON ONE FOOT. This practice, altogether too common among us, is very injurious m its effectB ut re- gard the proper hours for sleeping and eating, rather than the kind of food, provided the food is not hurtful to you. We have a great many treatises now-a-days, prescribing for us what we shaU eat, by persons who of necessity can know nothing of our pecuUar tastes or our peculiar digestion. I deny the propriety of this dictation; for as the mind acts to a meas- ure with the stomach, and in a certain sense indirectly aids the digestion, it is obvi- ous that articles of food repugnant to the stomach and consequently to the mind wiU retard digestion and induce disease. It is weU known that the mind operates powerfully upon the muscles of the stomach, and that digestion is greatly influenced by it, as is also eating or drinking; for when the mind is composed, and we are eat- ing very heartily, being quite hungry, the sudden alarm of fire, or hearing of the death of some one dear to us, wiU instantly destroy the appetite and retard the di- gestion. This is frequently seen in both children and grown persons. Do not eat or drink under great excitement of mind of any kind; for food taken when to this state wUl do you but comparatively little good, and is almost certain to injure the digestion. The greatest composure of body and mind are important whUe eattog, and for a short time after, until digestion is over. Cheerfutoess whUe eating and drinking is excellent; and a chit-chat with an old friend after meals wUl assist digestion extraordinarily. Masticate your food well.—This .is of great importance. Food should never be taken toto the stomach until it is properly prepared by betog weU masticated to the THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 113 mouth. The' saUya of the mouth is the only natural substance for mixing the food and preparing it for digestion. To prepare the food, the mouth, teeth and gums, should be to a state of health, bo that not only it shah be weU masticated, but that disease be not imparted to it from a diseased mouth before it enters the stomach and is thence diffused toto the Hood. Hence I particularly deprecate and deplore the effects produced in the mouth by mercury and other mtoeral medicines. Their horrors cannot be told; and again I would caution you against their use. Two very important organs to' the physical economy, and thoso through which aU medicines act upon the blood and other fluids, are represented in this cut The Uver is the largest of the internal organs,' and generaUy weighs about four pounds.—Its uses are to secrete a fluid caUed bUe, necessary to the conversion of food into venous No. 23.—The Liver and Stomach. blood> and [t als0' when hea3-thj, separates impurities therefrom. Tho necessity of keeping this organ to proper order must therefore be obvious. The vessel in which the bUe is secreted, or gaU bladder, is marked G to the plate; the Uver L, and the stomach S. In the stomach the milky fluid caUed chyle is pro' pored, which, after being mixed with the bUe, &c, becomes venous blood Digestion in the Stumach wUl not take place properly unless the food is taken at regular hours and under a condition of composure, and the food be weU cooked. The gastric secretion wUl not consume Uving substances or animals: this is well. known to physicians and physiologists; and it is, therefore, a bad practice to eat meats rare, or with blood to them, as is frequently done. There be some men, having a digestion like that of an ostrich who seem to eat any thing and at any time without injury to them. But even these are finaU/ injured by their continued rebeUion against the laws of nature. And what such men do, it may seem to some all may do; but they wUl find it different. It will! never do for the man with a weak stomach, or'with the consumptive, to take pattern after the ostrich. The gastric fluid of the stomach wiU digest and sweeten the most putrid meats, but it wiU have no action on living substances; for it is weU known that various animals Uve in the human stomach. [See evets, frogs, snakes, Ac, to another part of this book.] Digestion in the Duodenum.—There are but two points to the human system for the digestion of food—one to the stomach, the other to the duodenum. In the first digestion takes place by the action of the fluids of the stomach; in the other, by the action of the bUe or gaU and pancreatic secretions, which separate the nutritious part of the food and prepare it for a union with the blood, when it is taken up or absorbed in the smaU intestines by the absorbents or lacteal vessels. In order to a proper digestion to the duodenum, it is necessary that the bUe be to a healthy and unobstructed state; for though digestion may go on after a slow manner, it is done imperfectly; and under this condition the body becomes emaciated, the strength 8 114 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. diminishes, and disease supervenes—often taktog the form of consumption, foi which it is mistaken. Absorption of the nutrient food is accomplished by the lacteal vessels, which carry the nutritive properties to the blood, which passes through the heart to the lungs. where it undergoes a chemical change by contact with the air. And thus you see fllustrated the theory I have presented to you, that blood is the Ufe of aU flesh, and air the Ufe of the blood. Without purity and strength to the blood, received from what is taken into and digested to the stomach, the workings of our machinery soon manifest symptoms of disorder, and the machinery runs to decay. In any case where the digestive organs neglect the performance of their duty, we may suppose that not only is there disorder to those particular parts, but that through them the blood is becoming diseased. And, indeed, it is very often the case that disorders to the stomach have their origin to an impure blood; for it may be possible that the immediate effect of indiscretions to eating wUJ not be upon the stomach, but upon the blood, and from thence re-act upon the stomach. WhUe, therefore, all wiU see the expediency to the first place of keeping the system from evU by due attention to eating at the proper hours and under proper circumstances, they wiU also see the necessity to aU cases, where disobedience of the laws of nature has "taken place, and dyspepsia or other diseases of the stomach have been induced, either directly, or indirectly through the medium of the blood, that the correctives should be administered to overcome th9 pernicious effects, and restore both stomach and blood to their natural and healthful condition. And the longer this is neglected the worse wiU the condition of the person become. OccasionaUy fasting for a meal or two wiU be found exceUent to restore the stomach to a healthj tone. For the benefit of those suffering from indigestion and dyspepsia, or from other complaints growing out of inattention to regularity in meals and taking improper foods toto the stomach, I would recommend my Anti-BiUous PUls and the Blood Renovator. These medicines wiU be found highly efficacious in aU complaints of this nature. They will restore the stomach to right condition and the blood to ita original purity, and remove obstructions to the bUe, to all cases where the disease has not been of such long standing as to have completely got mastery of the whole system. In the latter case, a regular course of medicines should be taken system- aticaUy and persevertogly, and thus wUl health be regained. DAILY EVACUATION OF THE BOWELS Is of the utmost importance in the maintenance of health. Without attention to this, the entire system wUl becomes deranged and corrupted. Beauty of person as weU as health depends in no Bmall degree upon regular daily evacuations; and a diseased stomach, bad breath, sallow complexion^ enlarged and diseased Uver, rush of blood to the head, loss of memory, headache, heart diseases, bleeding at tho lungs, a thick, coarse skin, loaded and contaminated blood and bUe, falling of the womb, dyspepsia, pUes, hectic fever, consumption, and confirmed costiveness, are induced by neglect of this matter. The morning—either just before or just after eating—is the best time for regular evacuation; and a habit of this should be THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 115 formed and strictly adhered to, aU business calls to the contrary notwithstanding^ or disease may be the result COSTIVENESS CAUSES CONSUMPTION. The toabUity to evacuate the bowels daily, or the neglect to do so, loads the lungs with impure deposits, and gradually grows worse and worse if it is not attended to, and finally seriously affects the system and frequently induces consumption In all ordinary cases this may be prevented by simply forming a habit by perse rertogry endeavoring at a fixed hour each day to induce an evacuation. People may think Eghtly of this, and many troubled with costiveness may say they have tried without contracting a habit. But I know that if the rule I have here lai. down is com- menced and adhered to faithfuUy before the disorder has got compkte mastery of the system, the effort wiU finally be crowned with success, and the health of the person saved to him. What matters it if you try a hundred times to produce evacuation, and do not gain the end? Try five hundred, yea ten times five hundred, rather than be led toto consumption through neglect and growing cos- tiveness. Where costiveness has been neglected and has gained a complete mastery over the system, it wUl often be found difficult to restore a healthy and regular action to tho bowels without recourse to some corrective medicine. For this, you will find in my Blood Renovator and Anti-BiUous Puis quaUties that wiU bring the bowels to a healthy state, and save you from consumption. These you may always obtain by sending to me. But in the want of them, and before you can obtain these as a reUef I would recommend the use of Turkey rhubarb as the next best remedy in your complaint, with occasional injections of cold water. URINATING OFTEN Is also a matter of great importance. People generaUy suffer more from long abstinence from urinating than is supposed by physicians even. I have had cog- nizance of cases where individuals have dropped down dead from long continued holding of the water. The health of the kidneys, bladder, and blood are much dependent upon proper discharges of the urine; for if it be not frequently drawn, earthy sediments are deposited, and gravel or inflammation or ulceration of the urinary organs foUows; or the matter is absorbed by the absorbent vessels and deposited in the blood, by Which the heart and lungs are affected, unless it be thrown off, with an offensive smell, by perspiration. Much of the watery portion of the blood is drained off by the kidneys and through the urine; and to stop the regular flow of this wUl produce an impure blood, and cause dropsy or kidney consumption. Thousands are the cases of kidney and urinaty diseases, attended with debiUty, emaciation, haggard countenance of various hues, and ghastly eyes, which many eminent physicians pronounce to bo cases of lung consumption, and treat according' ly. I have been so fortunate as never to be mistaken about these complaints, and U$ THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. invaUds have expressed the opinion that I had a miraculous power to detect disease and its location. Yery well; that is what should be done in aU complaints; for when the disease and its location and character are perfectly understood, appropriate medicines can be given; but not tiU then can any physician prescribe for bis patient with any surety of a cure. Persons are frequently troubled with pain on making water, with scalding or burning heat of the water, thick water, difficulty of holding the water, too much or too Uttle water, bloody urine, and red or white sediment in the water; and also with grub in the kidneys, producing many of the above complaints, together with a gnawing pain to the region of those organs and great heat and weakness to the smaU of the back. In some cases of these complaints a regular course of medicine is necessary to restore health to the organs; but generally the Water Regulator wUl be found sufficient to itself to afford the desired reUef Females troubled with any of the above diseases wUl find the Female Wash of great value, to connection with the Water Regulator. EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE Is an exceUent maxim to foUow. It is detrimental to the health to turn day into night; to be up tiU the early hours of morning, and then Ue to bed till the middle of the next forenoon. This is a transformation of the intention of nature, which sooner or later results to evU effects to the system. The beasts and the fowls retire at dark and are up with the break of day, with the exception of that portion which, by the peculiar construction of the eye, see better to darkness than to daylight, and were evidently intended by the Creator to be night-prowlers. But from the fact that man in the night season is comparatively blind to surrounding objects, the con- clusion is obvious that God intended he should sleep in the night and be awake to the day time. Particularly in cities, more than to the country, should this rule of " early to bed and early to rise " be observed, and more especiaUy by persons who are aUing, and require exercise and good air. But generaUy speaking, the reverse of this is true —country people do not so much turn day toto night and night toto day as those of the city. The chief reason why the tovaUd to the city should rise early is, that he may get with his exercise an air as pure as is possible to be had to his locahty; and for this he must be up to the morning. Then, before the vehicles have fiUed the streets with dust (so had for the lungs,) and the ten thousand chimneys have emitted theii deleterious smokes, and the reflection of the sun from the waUs and walks has dried up the freshness of the morning, the tovaUd may indulge a hope of getttog a few breaths of air comparatively pure and healthful, from which he wiU derive new ab-engtb and vigor. And this is about the only time he can get it. And besides the artificial causes that poison the atmosphere, the air of the morning is sweeter and better than that of any other part of the day: though to the country, remote from dust and filth, from smokes and steams, the air has always a species of fresh- ness and purity unknown to the city; and therefore it is not so essential that the inyaUd in the country should be up early for the purpose named. Sleep, " tired nature's Bweet restorer," is essential to aU animate creations—to none THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. \yj more so than to man. During sleep the functions of the bram have ceased; they are held to temporary suspension, whUe the action of the heart and lungs is nearly the same as in wakefulness. The recurrence of sleep is todispensible to recruit the faculties of body and mind, and prepare them anew for further labor; and when the body is to health and the mind at ease, this state of existence, if undisturbed, is perfect to giving new Ufe, vigor, cheerfulness and power to both the physical and mental being. But by what influence the powers of the body and mind are restored to the individual whUe to this state, or how the insensibUity is terminated of itself we have but vague and unsatisfactory ideas. The hours necessary for sleep differ to different individuals, and to proportion to the activity and size of the brain. Men, annuals and buds, having smaU heads or brains, sleep less, and actuaUy require less sleep than those having larger and more active brains. The causes that disturb rest are varipus—both bodily and mental—but greater to the day time than at night. Sleep is prevented by constant pain, by disorder to the nerves, by great heat or cold, by unusual noises, and often by light, because Ught in- duces activity of the phosphorus in the system, from which emanates activity of the brain, and darkness operates to check the action of the phosphorus, from which duU- ness and sleepiness of the brain supervene. For this reason night is preferable to day for sleeping hours. Also by distressing news—the death of a friend, faUure to business speculations, disappointment to love, connubial infeUcity, and by a thousand other causes, sleep may be broken; aU of which tend to debUitate and derange the brain, and often induce consumption and other diseases. To witness a person overcome by the power of sleep is sometimes laughable. The delights of courtship are often interrupted by this agent; the merchant is taken from his business, and the student from his book, by the power of sleepiness. Often when we exercise the greatest watchfulness it steals upon us; and again, when most desired, it is most distant. Many, Uke Peter of old, have wept because of oversleep, while others have sighed for the want of it. The best time for sleep is in the early part of the night Rest before twelve is much better for the system than an equal amount after that time. But the hours of its greatest strength are from about ten in the evening tUl one; therefore, this period should be spent to bed. There is no rule to govern the amount of your sleep, any more than the kind of your diet. Much of its duration wUl depend on the labors of the previous day, mentaUy and physicaUy; but generaUy from six to eight hours to the twenty-four are sufficient Some constitutions require more than eight hours; but there are but few who can labor hard and continue to health with less than six. Persons who are to the habit of betog often broken of their rest wUl be considerably recruited with four hours sleep; but if they habituate themselves to this there are but few constitutions but wiU suffer injury from it. CarefuUy avoid aU excitements tending to deprive you of the requisite amount Of regular sleep. And if your nervous system is suffering from derangement, and me- dicinal aid is required, you wUl find Root's Nervine an exceUent soother and pro- moter of sleep and rest to both body and mind. 118 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. EXERCISE AND LABOR Is order to the fuU enjoyment of Ufe, strength and health, the system of man requires a certato amount of exercise, either as labor understood to its general sig- nificance or as labor to sports and games of some kind or other. By exercise the limbs and muscles of the body gain strength and thus the in- dividual becomes better capacitated to withstand the shocks and physical trials of _ life. And the mtod also gains additional strength and power through the same channsl • for by these it is led from one change to another, which reUeves it of a sameness; and whUe acting to harmony with the muscles of the body it gains force and vigor which it would never attain to were exercise disregarded. For true and beneficial exercise, there must be harmony of action between the moving power and the power to be moved. The wUl and the muscle must both be directed to the same end at the same time, otherwise the effect wUl be imperfect Gymnastic exercises, which originated among the Greeks, are exceUent for persons of sedentary habits, and should in greater or less degree receive their attention. To the hard-working mechanic, farmer, or day laborer, there is no need to give ad- vice about exercise; for generaUy they get quite as much of it as is essential to health—except to cases of mechanical work which is of a sedentary nature. But persons whose business has no exercise to it should practice riding, walking, wrestling, pitching quoits, or some other kind, which wUl develop the muscles and strengthen the system. They are exceUent for the preservation and restoration of health, and often highly useful to the cure of diseases. Gymnastic exercises among the Greeks were somewhat different from the gym- nastic exercises of to-day. In the olden times they were designed to accustom the youth to feats of activity and strength and prepare them for the fatigues of war. Many of the affections to which men are Uable may be greatly influenced and often entirely removed by exercise. Glandular obstructions are best treated in this way. On the other hand, where exercise has been too powerful it occasions bodUy complaints—loss of appetite, loathing of food, costiveness, rigors and fainting. In these cases, a moderate use of good wine, warm clothing, quiet sleep, and a moist, nourishing diet afford the best reUef. Exercising the lungs by inflating them, is exceUent, both to disease and health, unless the lungs, heart or Uver are suffering under some pecuUar state of disease which makes inflation dangerous. H the body have no exercise, the orifices become fiUed up with the waste or de- composed matter which should escape through them; but if we exercise, the muscles are contracted about those orifices and the waste matter is thus forced out, (the same as the vermicular action of the bowels forces out the contents of the bowels,) and the body becomes free from obstructions. Choke up ihe system and we die; free it and we may Uve; for there is a decomposition and a renewal of the body con- stantly going on, and the decomposition must be aUowed to escape. Avoid betog housed up too much Beware of constant and close confinement in parlors and drawing-rooms. Give attention to out-door exercise, pure air, Ught and labor. Dancing and rope-jumping, moderately and rationaUy, are exceUent far the ladies. Dance after music, for music enUvaas and che»r<* the mind, and dancing THE PEOPLE'S,MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 119 to connection with it gives exercise to the muscles. Playing ball, pitching quoita, playing with the dog or lamb, or playing at tag, are excellent exercises for the chUdren. They carry with them an interest to the mind, and by keeping that in cheerfulness, and the muscles in action, often prevent consumption. The Ufe of the system is renewed and improved in aU its parts by moderate exercise—by neglect of this it is lost! Therefore, if you wish to enjoy Ufe and health to a good old age, exercise moderately. In argument of much weight to favor of exercise of the body by labor or by dancing, playing, &c, is, that an increase to the bodily action produces more copious respiration, which is essential to health. The larger quantity of air into led acting on the blood to the lungs, gives to the body an increase of nervous electricity, which increases the animal heat, whereby the pores of the flesh are electrically opened, and tho decomposed anunal matter is more rapidly thrown off, by what is caUed perspiration or sweat Electrifying the body with the galvanic battery produces the same effect, stimu lating the system, opening the pores of the flesh, and giving an increased perspi ration. Persons exposing themselves to the weather immediately after unusual exerciso, or after the use of the galvanic battery, are very Uable to take cold, if perspiration has been induced, and is suspended by a suspension of the inducing force. There- fore, persons should avoid sitting to currents of air, or otherwise exposing them- selves after unusual exercise or receiving galvanic charges, unless they put on extra clothing, until the perspiration has passed off EFFECTS OF HEAT AND COLD. The human system is subject in great degree to sickness from the effects of heat and cold; to the spring of the year, the heat sometimes coming on oppressively, we are induced to dangerous exposures to colds, from whence flow much sickness. Colds to the spring and summer are often more violent and fatal in their character than to the cold weather of winter; they take more violent hold upon the system; for to the winter season we are kept better protected from the dangers of the wea- ther, and colds do not seize us so easUy. Exercising and starting a profuse sweat, and then being chilled suddenly, is very bad for the health. It toduces the most dangerous kinds of colds. Wet feet is another source from which spring colds and fevers that often prove fatal I would advise you to carefuUy avoid these exposures. Against the UabiUties to disease from changes to the weather, there can be no particular rale laid down. Each person must attend to the condition of the weather himself and regulate his clothing accordingly. When changes occur, de- manding more clothing, you should put it on; but do not always throw off your warm garments upon the first warm day, for the next you may be chUled to the bone. Exercise judgment to this, and do not depend upon the physician, for he cannot stand by you through aU the vicissitudes of the year. 12C THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. ELECTRICITY OR MAGNETISM. This important agent (electricity) is of a very mysterious character, and al- though a constituent element of all life, and used with great medical advantage, is but Uttle known. It is too subtle to be weighed—it fills no appreciable space. It is a component part of the air and of aU Uving substances, animal or vegetable; and without its presence the nervous system would be useless for nervous sen- sation. Animal heat can now be demonstrated to aU by the action of the stomach and tones supplying magnetic and electric vitality to the nervous system. The stomach and lungs serve as a galvanic battery, to electrify and charge the system with nervo-vital fluid; whUe the food of the stomach and the air of the lungs. have a wonderful effect to influence the stomach, nerves, or other parts of the system. Were it not for the lungs, we should be charged with magnetic, hat not with electric, vitality; but by the lungs imparting electric, and the stomach magnetic, we have a union of electric and magnetic nervous fluids, so necessary to give vital action to the heart, pulsation and circulation to the blood, and health to the body. The acid to the stomach from food, or by oxydization of blood by^ union with oxygen, is the same as a solution of vitriol and water to the copper and zinc of a battery; and for this reason acidity of the stomach gives a great inconvenience by acting on the coating thereof (which is known as hunger,) when destitute of food, or to case of dyspepsia, the same as you wUl see the vitriol acid eattog and corrod- ing the zinc and copper of the galvanic battery. Thus you wiU readfly perceive that the union of the nutriment of magnetized foods, conducted from the stomach intestines, lacteals and heart to the lungs to a magnetized Btate, receives the oxygen and electricity to the lungs. The electro-chemical effect by < this union upon the blood, which is charged with iron, whUe the nitrogen and car- bonic gases are disengaged and respired, is, to produce animal heat, as tho iron (which gives color to the blood,) is constantly rendered magnetic (analogous to the needles to the galvanic battery) under the influence of this union. Hence calorio or animal heat is being constantly engendered I have previously explained, to treating of' the uses of the lungs, that the blood in the pulmonary vein, which passes that fluid from the lungs back to the heart, was one or two degrees higher in temperature than that passing from the heart to the lungs—one kind of blood having the principle of Ufe, the other of death. The blood being a good conductor of electricity, (from its iron) by means of it, in connec- tion with the nerves, electricity or heat, when generated to the lungs, is quickly conveyed to the various nervous poles or parts of the system. PhUosophers have not seen this, and have, therefore, faUed to show how animal heat is produced, But I shaU consider this view of it correct, unless a more plausible one can be presented. Chemists have long known that the stomach always contains an acid secretion, without comprehending its use. And this acid must be suppUed either from the food or by oxydizatron of blood in the lungs; but it is most reasonable to suppose It forms from tho food. A diseased state of the stomach and liver increases acidity to an alarming extent, as thousands of dyspeptics can attest. The oldest and most able chemists have wondered at the office of the acid secre- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 121 tion found to the stomach, but untU galvanism or electro-magnetism was discovered the wisdom of this secretion could not be determined. But now we see its impor- tance in the stomach (the same as the vitriol and water to the battery,) to impart nervo-electric vitaUty to the nervous system—the generator of animal heat—with out which we should be helpless creatures. Thus we see the importance of this secretion, wluch is necessary to Ufe, and does no injury except it be secreted in too large a quantity. It wUl be weU to remember that the nervous influence of some foods or medi- cmes, giving a favorable or unfavorable action to digestion, is as quit, k as Ughtning to reUeving or increasing pain and soothing or inducing disease. It may be weU to say that however large the quantity of food taken into the stomach only a sufficient portion of acid for health wiU be produced, if the stomach be in health. But to the stomachs of dyspeptics and rum-drinkers, where the internal coating is diseased, there is produced an over abundance of acidity, and the galvanic effects are felt upon the nerves, as seen to delirium tremens or hysterics. I am much to favor of the electro-galvanic or magnetic power to aid to the cure of a great many diseases, when employed in connection with medicines. I approve of and recommend its use; but aUow me to say, that nervo-vital electricity, being only one of the constituent elements of Ufe and health magnetism should be used with a knowledge of and with reference to this, and not be made a hobby of by assertions that it wUl cure all manner of diseases, as many to their zeal for it pre- tend. It is weU known that this power is sometimes productive of great good as an assistant of medicine; at other times its use has caused injury, where it has been applied improperly; therefore it is necessary to have a perfect knowledge of Its proper appUcation. Since electricity was first made applicable in the service of the physician, it has been taken up by many arrant impostors, who, for the purpose of lining their pockets, at the expense of the unfortunate, have from time to time thrown into the market for sale numberless so-called galvanic rings, belts, chains, eye is wUd, the pupU dilated, the alae of the nose contracted, the cheek flushed, the forehead poUshed as if glazed. In short, their presence in the system is not :only to the highest degree annoying, but decidedly dangerous to the Ufe. Tho tape worm varies in length, from a foot or less, up to the almost incredible point of one hundred and fifty feet. I have now to my possession one six feet long lately expeUed from one of my patients, who had been given up by her former phy- Bicians as to an incurable state of consumption. The patient is now to the enjoyment of good health, the medictoe administered soon destroying the worm. I found that her physicians, as is often the case, had made a mistake to the character of her com- plaint, and that what they beUeved was consumption, all arose from the presence of tape worm. The tape worm is very tenacious of Ufe, and therefore the system can not be re- lieved of one by the nostrums of every practitioner. When separated at its joints, each joint of the worm wiU often Uve, and become of itself a distinct worm. The tape worm is found to animals and fish, as weU as to the human system. I have been informed that the mackerel and cod fishermen often discover tins reptile to those species of the finny tribe. Calomel is generaUy administered in cases of worms. This substance is the chief ingredient of most of the vermifuges, lozenges, and other nostrums of the day, used in cases of worms. But, as I have shown, this medicine is highly dangerous to the Bystem; and certain I am that it need not be used to destroy and dislodge the tope worm, for I have brought them away by vegetable remedies repeatedly; and, to fact, have seldom or never faUed to expel them from the system of the sufferer. Pin Worms are very troublesome both to chUdren and adults. They are gene- raUy found about the anus, and frequently eat through the rectum. They cause great pain and soreness about the seat, and are often dangerous. The best antidote against the pin worm I have ever used, is my German Oint- ment, introduced into the rectum, and rubbed about those parts, just before the ope- ration of a dose of Anti-BiUous PUls. It never faUs to kUl the worm and heal aU soreness of the parts. This Ointment is also exceUent in the pUes. It never fails to give great relief, and sometimes alone effects a perfect cure. Used to connection with the Anti-Bilious PUls and Blood Renovator, the most obstinate pUes, whether blind or bleeding, yield to them, and a perfect cure is effected. Bound worms destroy thousands of children.—The stomachs and bowels of children are loaded with slime and mucus matters, which afford a bed or nest for worms; and the stomach of the chUd being weak and tender, the worms multiply rapidly, and finaUy choke up the intestines or other parts, and cause death AU ktods of green fruit induce worms to chUdren; and to particular is our city milk bad to ge- nerate worms. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 125 Children suffering from worms are often dosed with numerous sorts of medicines for other complaints, tostead of having administered to them the proper worm reme- dies, to dislodge these troublesome vermin; and few seem to know what is the mat- ter with the chUd, until, after its death, the worms discharge themselves from the stomach through the nose and mouth an appearance, and strengthen your con- stitution, so that the deUghts of happiness and long Ufe shaU be before you, and in- vite you to the gaieties and pleasures of the world In case of spinal curvature, use the Blood Renovator and Anti-BUious Pills; apply the German Ointment and use a weU-adjusted Shoulder-brace. No. 35.—Spinal Curvature. ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE Ddtfers from real scrofula to betog more irritable and fiery. It is very painful, and accompanied with swelling, It appears to various parts of the body, more especiaUy about the ears, eyes and extremities, and attacks persons of gross habits. It proceeds from morb'd or acrid secretions retained to the system. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 137 In this disease there is constitutional disturbance, more or less fever, and the secretions disordered. There is a shining redness and swelling of the parts affected, accompanied with very distresstog irritation; the inflamed parts have acute pain on pressure. Frequently serous or watery effusion takes place from the inflamed surface, elevating the skin toto vesides Uke those produced by blisters. Ulceration sometimes foUows, and becomes very distresstog; red, deep-seated ulcers being formed, particularly on the legs. This disease, though much dreaded, I have found not difficult of cure. GeneraUy my circulating medicines wUl not only heal up the sores but eradicate the evU from the system, so that the patient wUl not be again troubled; but where these fail, a fuU and thorough course of medictoe, according to directions, wUl restore the suf- ferer to health THE MERCURIAL SORE OR HUMOR Is a very fiery, red pimple, or spot stotilar to the salt rheum, whUe on t1 j skin. But if much mercury has been taken toto the system, pain is felt to the bones be- fore storms. Often it settles to some bone and entirely consumes it It always causes great diffi- culties with the teeth and gums. SCALD HEAD Is a species of venery, sometimes transmitted to the child, at others inoculated by the use of combs and brushes that have been used by per- sons troubled with the disease. Itch, when pro- tracted, more nearly resembles scald head than does any other complaint Never comb the head of your chUd with a comb used by other persons, and see that the nurse does not do it In fact no comb or brush should be used but by one person, and then should be occasionaUy washed. No. 36 Case op Scald Head. ITCH Is of two kinds—the simple and secondary, the last often bearing the name of scrofula. The simple itch consists of a number of Uttle fiery pimples, UBuaUy first appearing between the fingers. When squeezed, the pimples discharge a clear, watery secretion. When the disease is not checked it appears to the same form over the whole body, running together to larger bodies or blisters, and is attended with great irritation and itching. The Egyptian, or Seven Tear Itch, afflicts the fingers and thickens and destroys the Ufe of the nails, both on the flngers and toes. Itch of either kind, when suffered to remato in the system, becomes secondary to the blood, aid breaks out 138 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. to large blisters on every part of the body, subject to irritation. When pressed, the blister ejects a white, watery matter. A dry, white scab is sometimes found over it Itch is often a cause of lung consumption. Also, it causes the neck, ears, and various parts of the head to become very raw and sore, and is sometimes at- tended with a loss of the hair, the same as the scald head. BARBER'S ITCH Is a species of venereal humor, contracted by the use of combs, brushes and shaving utensils that have been employed about other persons, who have left upon. them the infectious virus to be toocculated by touch or taken up by the absorbents of the akin. It is exceedingly troublesome and painful, especiaUy where there is a thick, harsh beard. The same humor or poison wUl destroy the Uds of the eyes and the muscles of the nose, when very powerful. For the common itch Egyptian and barber's itch ^d scald head, use the Blood Renovator and Anti-BiUous PUls toternaUy; wash with CastUe soap two or three times a day, and then use the German Ointment For the barber's itch ^Q beard must be soaked soft and kept shaved as close as possible. SYPHILITIC HUMOR OR LUES VENEREA. This disease was first made distinct mention of to 1494, at Naples. Dr. CuUen gave it the name of syphilis. Hock de Brakenaw, Cataneus, De Vigo, Pinto, (a Spanish physician,) and others, agree to 1494 betog the first known time of its ap- pearance. The disease was contracted by the prostitution carried on among the soldiery, and was carried toto Spain, Italy, France and England, thence by emigration to America, and finaUy spread a horrible distemper over the face of the whole world, contaminating the purest blood, entering alike the hovel of the peasant and the palace of the prince. Of its origin to prostitution there can be but Uttle doubt; and it is through this channel that it continues stiU to affect the human race. This curse of prostitution should find its end—it should be stopped, especiaUy in those countries boasting of refinement to civilization. Marriage should be insti- tuted at an earUer age than is now common, as a salutary measure to check the flood of prostitution. If there be no other way to stop the progress of this foui practice, a heavy fine and imprisonment should be levied on aU who communicate the venereal disease, or who persist to leading the Ufe of the harlot whUe to a dis- eased state. That prostitution and the diseases growing from it are the cause, either directly or indirectly, of a very large amount of the mortaUty of almost aU countries, is my candid opinion, derived from observation and treatment of varioas complaints by which both sexes are affected. It rapidly spreads degeneration, con- sumption, and other evils, and sows the seeds of decay and death to the systems of millions. Prostitution is moraUy, physicaUy, toteUectuaUy and reUgiously wrong—wrong in every way. When the diseased—those afflicted with the worst of aU God's plagues—are suffered to carry on their loathsome trade and propagate distemper THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 139 without rtgard to law or justice, wherein is the safety of the purest of mortals from hereditary disease?—where security for the chUd unborn?—where peace to tho families' of a land ? It is a shame to us that we sneer at the ignorance of passion, and blush to warn our chUdren of the death that awaits them at the threshold of prostitution. In New York and -vicinity there are to-day 50,000 prostitutes, who carry on their business under the eyes of our legislators and officers of justice—the wives, daugh • tera, sisters and widows of the most respectable people, of correct and reUgious habits. More than 200,000 courtezans are now sowing the seeds of venereal dis- eases to almost every place of size to the United States I Throughout the world there are 2,000,000 prostitutes scattering the deadly poisons of their trade. As a physician, ardently desiring the health and happiness of the present and comtog generations, I would seriously ask, if the propagation of venereal diseases should not be made punishable by fines and imprisonments, as a means to save the virtue and the purity of the people, and check the inducing of consumption and death? Unless this be done, we may doubt if it wUl ever be suppressed Prostitution is by no means necessary to a gratification of the natural passions; for God has appointed a wonderful equality of the sexes, and instituted the divine law of marriage, so that each and every person may have his or her partner in love, and Uve to purity and virtue, and the diseases of venery never be con- tracted. And the health of all, the world over, depends to no smaU degree upon obedience to and conformity with the requirements of this institution. As a warning to those young ladies who would trust themselves to the thorny paths of prostitution, where aU the virtuous feelings of the woman are swaUowed up to debauchery and lust, where there is no real love or friendship, where the most dreadful diseases await then* every step, and perdition of soul is their certato reward, let me speak to you of the sudden and untimely death that comes to ninety and nine of the hundred who launch themselves upon this troubled sea. By the most carefuUy prepared statistics of the abandoned women to large cities, it has been shown that the average of Ufe among courtezans after embracing that business is only about six years. Six years of a most miserable existence—a foretaste of the horrors of heU—and the diseased body finds its way to a rough board coffin to some Potter's Field, and the poUuted soul its reward to the punishments laid up for those who disobey the laws of Nature and of Nature's God In a work intended for general family use, I cannot give fuU descriptions of syphilis and other venereal diseases. I speak of them to warn you against their deadly poisons, and to keep you from the fatal consequences that attend their pre- sence to the human system. PIMPLES OF YOUTH These are caused by the pores of the body becoming stopped up, whereby the natural waste or decomposition is prevented from passing off; and, betog retained under the skin, it breaks out often to the form of pimples, either having a white mattery secretion, or presenting a hard, knotty texture without any secreted matter. 140 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. STYES AND COLD SORES, Either on the Ups or oyeUds, also arise from a suppression of the natural decom- position, which toduces blisters or festers. BUes, carbuncles, and other excrescences of Uke character, arise from impurities of the blood, caused by some obstruction to the outlets of the waste matter of the body. In aU cases of humors, the blood is the only thing that wiU need to be purified. For that purpose, the Blood Renovator and the Anti-BUious Pills used toternaUy, and the German Ointment appUed externaUy, are superior medicines, and effect a speedy cure. Also they wiU be found efficacious in most of the diseases mentioned fust previous to this. LEPROSY. This disease is of two kinds—the white and red. The white leprosy is a foul cu- taneous disease, appearing to dry, white, thin scurvy or scabs, attended with vio- lent itching. Tho white patch is of the color of milk, and spreads aU over the face, hands or body, turning both skin and hair the same color. Bed Leprosy gives a reddish, shiny patch or elevation. A thin, white scale is formed on it which quickly flattens, while the base enlarges. The separate patches preserve their round and red appearance, with a wrinkled state of the skin. When the scales drop off, they are renewed again. This disease is very trouble- some, especiaUy at night when to bed.' I have cured persons of the red leprosy who have frequently taken a pint of scales from the sheets after a night's torture. Leprous humors very frequently terminate in consumption,—thje humor locating on the lungs, Uver, or other vital organs. Leprosy is a chronical disease; to warm climates infectious, but not evidently so to cold countries; though its infectious nature was formerly suspected, and the un- happy victims separated to distinct estabUshments from the rest of mankind. It does not seem to affect the general health of the person. Without assistance nature wiU not give a reUef to this disease. The signs of amendment in it are the dtoitoution of the ridge around the patch aQ(i the scales not reproduced when rubbed off We find often mention made to the Scriptures of the disease of leprosy, and it ap- pears to have been regarded among the Jews with a pecuUar horror. They consi- dered it incurable; and it has been generally so regarded to the East, where it now exists to much more numerous instances than with us. The Mosaic law gave no di- rection for the cure of this disease, but only to prevent its spread; and to this end lepers were obUged to wear a peculiar dress, and dweU apart from those not trou- bled with the distemper. The same custom prevails with regard to this disease at the present day in many of the northern countries of Africa, where it is very preva- lent The leprosy was formerly quite prevalent to many northern countries, as the nu- merous hospitals for lepers to Europe attests. But at the present day it appears only to rare cases, and does not seem to assume that horrible and fatal form which formerly accompanied it THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 141 Of the nature of this disorder, as it has sometimes appeared, we may gain an idea from the account given of it by Peysonnel, who was sent in 1756 to the island of Guadaloupe, (where it then prevaUed,) by the French government, to investigate the complaint "The commencement of the leprosy," he says, "is imperceptible. It increases imperceptibly, and continues for some years to be more and more manifest. The Spots, at first small become larger, and spread indiscriminately over the whole body; when the disease increases, the upper part of the nose swells, the nostrils distend, and the nose itself becomes soft. Swellings appear on the jaw bones, the eyebrows are elevated, the ears grow thick, the ends of the fingers, as well as the feet and toes, sweU; the nails grow scaly; the joints on the hands and feet separate and die off; on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet there are deep, dry ulcers, which ra- pidly increase, and then vanish again. In short, when the disease reaches its last stage, the patient becomes horrible, and falls to pieces. " AU these circumstances come on very slowly, for many years are often required before they aU occur; the patient has no severe pain, but he feels a kind of numbness in his hands and feet. These persons are not hindered, during the time, to any of the functions of nature; they eat and drink as usual, and even when some of their fingers and toes die off, the loss of the member is the only consequence, for the wound heals of itself, without attention or medicine. But when people reach this last period of the disease, they are horribly disfigured, and most worthy of pity." RING WORM Is an eruption on the skin to smaU vesicles, with a reddish base, and forming rings, whose area is red and scaly. The disease is a species of leprosy. The prog- nostic of death, from its surrounding the body, is false, the maUgnity of the disease affording the only ground of fear. Individuals at all ages are afflicted with ring worm; but there is a chronic kind pecuUar to old people, troublesome from the itching it excites, and sometimes dan- gerous. But it can be readily cured by the German Ointment, Anti-BUious PUls, and Blood Renovator, used according to directions. MILK LEG IS a disease pecuUar to mothers, and often appears after confinement, taktog cold, suppression of the milk, or local discharges. The whole system is sometimes affected, there being a derangement of the blood and secretions. The limbs, one or both, swell, appear glassy, and are very painful; are stiff heavy, and irritated by motion; are tender, have inflammation, and break out to deep, foul ulcerations. Milk sickness is usuaUy preceded by chUl and fever. The milk leg is difficult to cure to fleshy ladies, although perfectly curable when rightly treated. The Anti- BUious PUls, Blood Renovator, and German Ointment, in almost every case effect a cure. WhUe beto» used a wrapper of oU silk should be put about the limb at the sore, and it should be frequently washed with Castile soap and water. 142 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. • FEVER SORE Is a false name given to a sore that affects the limbs or other parts of the body,— thus caUed to hide the evils of mercury, which has settled in the affected part after a severe dosing with this mtoeral poison to some previous fever. Persons having had a run of fever, they are fiUed with mercury, and a fever sore attacks the bone, and causes it to become spongy and soft Uke the honeycomb. To effect a cure ol this, we must rid the system of mercury by the use of blood-renovating medicines, to connection with external appUcations and deanUness. Use the Blood Renovator, Anti-BUious Puis, and German Ointment and cleanse with Castile soap and water, which usuaUy effect a speedy cure, giving great ease, and comfort, and sleep. SYPHILITIC SORES Are caused by a secondary venereal poison to the blood The disease, although iriven from the genital organs, is left to the blood, and breaks out to the most loath- gome and disagreeable sores, on the Umbs, feet, nose, larynx, and other parts. Syphilitic humors are communicated from the blood to wives and chUdren, thus maktog innocence and purity their victims, and contaminating the whole race of a famUy. It is a disease of prostitution, and is most generaUy contracted by the hus- band ip his deviations from virtue, and by him transmitted to the wife, and handed down to future generations as a curse for the violation of virtue. The humor is often taken by a wife, if her husband has been imprudent; and though he may escape the foul sores of the disease, they wUl attack the woman with violence, the same as if originaUy contracted by her. Diseases of this nature are very frequent among the prostitutes, and among the men who visit them, and are communicated from one sex to the other to about equal ratio; but when they appear to married persons, they are most generaUy in- troduced by the male, aUured from the paths of virtue by the harlot The Blood Renovator, Anti-BUious PUls, and German Ointment used according to directions, wUl give great ease to cases of secondary syphilitic sores, and sometimes entirely cure them. But there are many cases where a thorough course of medicine must be given to entirely eradicate the poison from the blood and system. There are thousands of both sexes dying annuaUy of syphUitic consumption of the vital organs, who should have had particular treatment. I claim no particular skUl to the treatment of syphUitic diseases, nor want the credit of prescribing for them; but I am often compeUed to prescribe medicines to eradicate the poison to the secondary form from the system, before consumption can be cured. If I did not do this, the patient would soon find an untimely grave. I have found that syphiUtic quack doctors, to ntoe cases out of ten, give remedies which send the disease toto the blood, while they pretend to have effected a cure. In this condition, the physician who prescribes for consumption has a double task before him. The quack medicines of the ignorant pretender having driven the poi- Bonous virus toto the blood, the man of skill (who is generaUy resorted to only in the last stage,) finds that the lung3, Uver, heart, throat nose, or kidneys, have be- come affected with ulcers, and he is obUged to first eradicate the poison from the system, and then cure the consumption. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 143 I do not desire the treatment of these cases; but for the benefit of those inno- cent persons who have been afflicted by the sins of others, I would say that I have never known of a case of these complaints that I could not cure whUe it rematoed to the curable stage, either when affecting the genital organs, or having developed itself through the blood in consumption of other organs; and cure it not for the time being only, but eradicate every vestige of the poison from the system. I have never faUed to detecting the presence of syphUitic humors to the blood, when they have existed; and this is one reason why I have had such remark- able success to the cure of consumption and other diseases having their origin to this source. In truth I have cured many cases of consumption induced by syph- Uitic poisons, without informing the patients that I was acquainted with the ori- gin of the disease, and sometimes when they did not themselves suspect its true source. FROST BURNS, OR frosted sore feet or hands, however painful, may be cured by bathing the Gei man Ointment on them before a fire, and letting it thoroughly strike in. I have used this remedy with unvarying success. WHITE SWELLING, Or calculous humors, which may appear upon any part of the system, but most generaUy attack the joints, are caused by sprains, sedentary hab- its, or diseased blood. Gouty joints are more or less subject to obstinate white sweUings. I have cured a great many cases of gout and white swelling of the joints and limbs. White sweUings are exceedingly painfuL The skin about them is white, ■j$0 37.__'White Swelling. the joint sweUs, a white, watery fluid gathers at the place, the limb wastes- away, the cords contract, a sore breaks out ana" tne sufferer, but a Uttle while be- fore active and strong, is transformed toto a helpless cripple. Often hectic lever is induced • the patient becomes thin and pale, and debUity and consumption end his career. The white swelling is perfectly curable. No person need die from its effects, un- less he faU toto the hands of an unskillful physidan. The thorough cleansing of the blood, with the proper external applications, wUl produce a cure. The German Ointment Blood Renovator and Anti-BUious PUls are usuaUy aU that is needed They rarely faU of effecting a cure. Should they not eradicate the sore, call on me, and I wUl give you special medicines to produce a cure. 144 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE ONANISM OR MASTURBATION. Self-pollution is known and treated of under various appeUations—Onanism, Masturbation, SoUtary Vice, etc. It is the practice of having resort to artificial means of friction to induce a discharge of the semen or seed, and is indulged to by countless thousands of both sexes. The semen cannot be emitted, from either sex, except by artificial friction of the procreative organs, a concentration of the mtod upon subjects of an amatory char- acter, (as is often the case to dreams,) or by animal magnetic heat through the con- nection of the sexes. Sexual intercourse,'' then, is magnetic, and produces an elec- tric emission. When the semen, with the animal electricity it contains, is thrown off, the passion of the genital organs is appeased, and the male organ loses its elec- tricity, and its erection subsides; the same as the feathers of a quiU which have been charged with electricity, wUl faU down when the electricty is removed from them. God has wisely ordained, for the propagation of the human species, the power of cohabitation of the sexes; that nothing but sexual totercourse in the good old way should be productive of offspring; and the emissions of the secretion for the propa- gation of the race by any other than the natural means, should be attended with tho punishments of Ul-health, unhappiness, and short Ufe. The covenant of the Lord with Abraham, enjoining the circumcision of aU the males (which is to cut off the foreskin of the penis,) was made to part at least to prevent the evU of mas- turbation and induce marriage, whereby sexual bliss might be better enjoyed. [See Circumcision.] God knew, as does man, that masturbation detracts from the en- joyment of nuptial life, and tends to lessen the love for the other sex in the holy state of wedlock. Gen. xvii. 9 to 12.—" And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee, in their generations. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy 6eed after thee ; every man chUd among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circum- cise the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you." The institution of circumcision was not merely for a token that the Jews were the chUdren of the Lord in heart, and to mark the chosen people of God, but was intended to prevent the evil of masturbation, out of which flowed the grievous causes of disease, short life and hereditary defects of offspring ; and to have the species perpetuated in health, strength, and activity—bodily and mentally. To cut the foreskin from the penis prevented artificial friction and emission of the semen unnaturally; consequently, the Jews circumcised the males, sought early marriage, gratified the sexual passion after the manner prescribed by nature, produced off- spring, and raised up children 6trong and healthy—an honor to God in mind and body. God has declared children to be his heritage and the fruit of the womb his re- ward. Psalm cxxvu. 3. God cursed and slew Onan, forspiUing his 6eed upon the ground. Gen. xxxvui. 9,10. God knew, and so do masturbating men and girls, that the desire for marriage is greatly lessened, even to utter abhorrence, by the evU practice of masturbation. But not so with the male or female unpolluted by this secret vice THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 145 The sexes are to each other as magnets, whose greatest happiness is comparative misery, until joined to sexual love. A woman can never be satisfied with a man who has no electric semen pass to electrify her; nor can a man be satisfied, either by masturbation or with the other sex, unless he has an electric emission of tho semen. God has wisely instituted a practice of circumcision, which if carried out at this day, as to scripture times of old, would forever banish the curse of masturbation; and I have no hesitation to saying that masturbation can never be suppressed, ex- cept by early marriage or circumcision of the male chUdren. God disowns the masturbator as his own image, evidently, by the destruction of his health intel- lect, and powers of both body and mind. As God marked Cain for disobedience, Bo has he marked the masturbator, male and female. The female masturbator is branded by scripture as a harlot, because she loseth her virginity, substituting arti- fidal for sexual gratification, doubtless to avoid the sorrows of child-birth, which is her punishment for partaking of the forbidden fruit Gen. hi. 16. God slew Onan because of bis spiUing his seed upon the ground; he yielded no seed to God; and for the same reason the harlot was burned to death—she yield- tog no fruit from the womb, which equaUy displeased the Lord; for the fruit of tho womb is the Lord's reward. If man and woman disobey the laws of God and bear no fruit He causes them to be hewn down Uke the barren fig-tree.—Matt. vii. 19 j Luke hi. 9. Tho practice of masturbation is a violation of the laws of nature, in the face of common sense and reason; it is a sin against body and mtod; and is punished by Bevere afflictions—general debUity, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, leucorrhoea, faUing o* the womb, insanity, idiocy, consumption, and finaUy death an(i that, too, of the most awful kind. Early marriage is the great preventive for this sin^-it is the healing balm ; as has been admitted by the most eminent physidans of every ago of the world The sexual passion is holy; it was ordained of, and established by God, for the happiness of man and perpetuation of the species created in His image. It is a rich blessing—a noble gift of power to man to propagate the image of himself and his Maker, bestowed by the wise Creator and Father of aU; and while God has in- stituted the natural means of its rational gratification by creating an equality of numbers of males and females, it should not be abused by dther sex, either by art- ificiaUy procured emissions, or by futile attempts to utterly suppress its workings. To marry, multiply and replenish the earth, was the command of God; and how but by the right gratification of the sexual appetite can this command be obeyed ? A great cause of seU-abuse Ues in the delaying of marriage. In nine of ten cases, the parents are more to blame in this matter than the son or daughter. By- being kept to ceUbacy by persuasion or force, the young man or woman is induced by the strength of passion to give up to self-poUution, and thus is sown the seeds of death in the system. The doctrine that the sexual passion, heated,. raging and ex- rittog as it often is, can be suppressed and kept under by education, is false and per- nidous: unless that education is to furnish the desire through the medium of marriage. If amativeness is not gratified to the right and natural way, it will, in ntoe of every ten individuals, find vent through the channel of self-poUution. To put off marriage and then attempt to control amativeness, in either man or woman, from the age of 15 to 25—through ten years of Ufe when the gerjiUl or- 10 146 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE gans are more active and more easUy excited than at any other time, whfle love is pure and sensibUity strong, while the mind is inexperienced, and prostitutes and self-poUution open doors for the raging of passion to escape through, is worse than foUy or madness. Tell the hurricane to suppress its wTath before its fury is ap- peased 1 Say to the thunderbolt to cease while the cloud is yet fiUed with electrici- ty 1 TeU hunger to be quenched without food, and drought without water! At weU expect that they wUl obey you, as that the passion of amativeness wUl bo si lent while unappeased and constantly provoked to activity. God instructed tha\ the Ughtning should be attracted by some magnet; why not seek to punish it when the tree is blasted by its touch ? He intended that the hungry man should partake of food; why not punish him for eating when he has been starving? Attid if not so, then why, when God has created to men and women a desire for each other, be surprised that, where marriage is delayed, there are rapes, prostitution, stolen intercourse of the young, and masturbation ? In the Ughtning seeking a magnet, to the hungry man desiring food, and the thirsty water, we see a beautiful law of nature Ulustrated. Each principle to nature seeks its own magnet. In the amativo passion seeking gratification to sexual connection we behold a beautiful Ulustration of this law; and were not obstacles to this presented, prostitution and masturbation would be annihUated. These monster evils have their foundation to the obstades which the customs of society lay in the way of the natural and right gratification of amativeness through the divine institution of .marriage. I would appeal to the candor and good sense of all, and ask, if the passions of men and women, created by God, are raging to madness, whether it would not be wise and weU that mar- riage at an early age should be inculcated and practiced ? The evils of masturbation are manifold to both sexes. Its practice exhausts the activity of the body, enfeebles the whole system, deteriorates the power of the geni- tal organs, impairs the digestion and circulation, deranges the brain and nervous system, engenders in the mind depravity of various kinds, prevents offspring in some cases, and makes them feeble and infirm to others; it lessens the woman in the esteem of the man, and the man in the esteem of the woman. It is deatli, moraUy and physicaUy. The practice of masturbation is clung to with tenacity by many, because of the evanescent and fleeting animal pleasure derived therefrom. These should not forget the truthfulness of the sentence, "There is a couch which invites to repose, but to slumber upon it is death." The misguided victim of his own folly may experience to the act of masturbation a sensation of gratification entirely and solely animaL and may, therefore, conttoue the practice; but I wUl warn him that his road of pleasure is the road of insanity, disease and death; and if he flee not the enticing path the vengeance of retribution wUl be upon his head. Masturbation, as a fruitful cause of insanity, deserves especial attention. Out of 816 cases of insanity in the New York State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica, there were 107 masturbators! I This fact may seem startUng; but it is nevertheless true that the reports of other lunatic asylums show about the same per centage of mastur- bators, brought to insanity by indulgence in this habit This practice is often freely confessed and vigorously resisted. In the male sex the habit is not difficult of detection by the appearance; to the femato it is more BuccessfuUy concealed. The shy, timid, downcast countenance, combined with e debiUtated physique, with relaxed tissues, and varicose veins, arouses suspicions ol THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 147 masturbation. In some females the effect is the development of the coUular and adipose tissues, and gay, voluptuous manners; to others debUity and ema- ciation. It is often the case that parents and friends do not suspect the habit of mastur- bation to exist an engage in any way to the practice of abortion—either man or woman. That fallen and degraded man should destroy the Ufe of the unborn babe, does not surprise us; but that woman, whose soul seems fitted to be fiUed with heavenly love, should either procure or allow an abortion, seems impossible; it excites our astonishment and detestation. And yet, it is nevertheless true, that here iu the city of New York, and under the very eye of the law, fiends to the form and garb.of men and women carry on this their damnable iniquity I Speaking upon this subject an article to the Scalpel observes: " We have do- fined abortionism to be the knowledge and practice of expeUing from the womb the ovum, or the foetus, ere it is matured. "What an employment for a human being I The plunderer of a temple, or a church is justly execrated for his sacrilege, tho act of steaUng sacred things! Was ever any temple, any church more sacred, than the secluded sanctuary where an immortal being is preserved and nourished ? The Paradise of God is sacred beyond any other spot of this aU-haUowed universe, be- cause it is the dweUing-place and throne of God 1 The womb of woman is the holy shrine where God, in aU his wisdom and his love, creates another image ol himself fitted to Uve with him in his own Paradise, to blessedness and glory! Who dares to enter that august and lofty pile, solemnly dedicated to the service 0/ THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 161 the High and Holy One, and ruthlessly destroy the symbols and the elements of worship ? None but the burglar infidel—the Atheist thief! Who dares tovade the shrine of glory, where to His resplendent blessedness the Hierarch of the Universe of Being dwells—to plunder and destroy? The arch-fiend Satan, only, dared at- tempt the deed; and he, for the black act, was doomed to dweU to everlasting fire and chains of darkness! Who is it forces the sealed doors of the enshrined and dedicated sanctuary of the womb, and ravages and tears from thence the sacred image of divinity? The feU abortionist, who to his character combines the sacrilegious burglar and arch-fiend of heU! Can man, rejoicing to the vivid imageries of the beauties and deUghts of progeny, endowed with the creative power, and worshiping himself to the mysterious shrine where he was wondrously developed—can man, with fraud and force, enter the temple of creation, and with fiendish savageness destroy the image of himself tear down his throne, dUapidate and desecrate his temple, and overthrow his dynasty ? Can man do this? Can he who has been dignified with the exalted power of emanating an immortal being, and depositing the trust in the rich temple of formation; wUl he leap off from tho Creator's throne where all is light and joy, and plunge in the abyss of the destroyer, where aU is darkness, degradation and damnation? Yes, man, degraded, fallen, lost to aU his glory—man may do this! Can woman ? She is by naturo a pro- ducer, former, educator of her race. She is instinct with the desire of offspring. The perUs that attend on pregnancy and parturition sometimes occupy her thoughts; the joys of offspring always. 1 Man's love is of man's life a part- 'Tis woman's whole existence.' Her form, make, organization, thoughts and feelings are expressly constituted, aU for offspring." Woman is designed of God to feed and nourish with her blood the foetus, and bring it into the world of humanity a Uving image of the Deity and of man, en- dowed with the love of life and instinct -with affection. And yet, despite of this constitution of her nature, we sometimes find woman acting against herself and her sex, and vacating the fruitful womb of its precious burden! What is more awful to contemplate ?—what sensitive soul wiU not shrink back appaUed from the contemplation of such an atrocious deed? Yes, it is too true, that both males and females are daUy practising the wholesale butchery of innocent infants yet unborn, stUl none the less instinct with the Ufe that is God-given and immortal! And if there be a place on the earth where the business is carried on to a greater extent than to another, that place is this phUanthropic, moral and reUgious city of New York! Mother, father, or abortionist, dost thou love life ?—dost thou not plead for mercy at the hand of the murderer? Dost thou not ask of God the sweets of Ufe and loved friends, and for future happiness? Do you not desire the heart of the man who has you to his power, or of the God who rules over you, to be filled with mercy and ktod feelings, favorable to your Ufe ? And if your prayers and plead- ings, to beseeching speech, are heard and hearkened unto, cannot you see the Bweut and prayerful smiles of the innocent, speechless, and helpless babe, imploring 'he guardian spirit of God, and the fatherly and motherly care of parents to pro- 11 162 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. tect and cherish it and save it from destruction ? Cannot the heart feel erjs the murderous hand destroys the innocent unborn babe ? Remember a day of retribution and damnation wiU surely come, fearful and without mercy; and those wiU be visited with the wrath and vengeance of a just God, who have not had mercy upon infant innocence and unborn chUdren. The mighty God of armies wUl protect if not to this world, in the world of spirits, the innocent babe. And if there be a heU heated by ten-fold the usual power—if, I say, there can be a furnace or heU that can be heated by the blasting breath of the Almighty a thousand fold, it wUl surely be to readiness for the reception of the soul of the cold-hearted abortionist, WUl these beings continue to rise up amongst us? WUl there be another chUd- murderer ? WUl there be another person to enter upon the career of the hellish abortionist? God forbid! Can it be possible that abortionists, both men and women, ride through the fashionable streets of our city in the most gorgeous carriages, pointed at as they pass for their costly equipments and Uveries ?—and when it is known, too, in what manner they have earned their gold, and can support their extravagance ? Why is this so, to a civilized and Christian land ?—a city of bibles and churches, of wealth and refinement—the great emporium of the country—the fashionable star of America! Why aU this, I ask, without these murdering fiends being brought to justice and the gaUows, or the prison ? I wUl explain why it is so, after the manner of Solomon, the wise man of old Judges, lawyers, merchants, mtoisters, deacons, citizens of, and visitors to, this great city—many, too many of them, give wealth and support to the murderous abortion- ist ; they are tools and cat's-paws to uphold the vUe dens of child-murder and ravished innocence! They have themselves been at the door of the harlot and tho abortionist—they have rendered themselves Uable to exposure—they are pledged to do evU lest their own iniquities be pubUshed in the streets and from the house- tops—their honor is given unto others and their years unto the cruel'—Proverbs v. 9. The abortionist says to them all—to hundreds from aU classes of society— Attempt to punish me, and your profession and name shall be exposed, for I have had your patronage as weU as that of others! And so, by keeping the officers of justice under the fear of exposure, they escape themselves. May heaven protect the virtue and innocence of unsuspecting females, and guard the unborn child against the hand of the destroyer; and bring to speedy punish- ment the accursed abortionists, and destroy the dens of heU; for certato it is tho men who rule over us and try the criminals guilty of these sins wiU never bring them to justice. Could we have placed before us the number of infant murders and the deaths of chUdren resulting either directly or indirectly from this practice, the sum total would be truly alarming to contemplate. But to do this is impossible, since aU these transactions are done to darkness and beyond the reach of statistics. But by giving a sUght view of the prevalence and of the increase of stubborn chUdren and of premature births, and by reflecting how many of these are the effects, more or less remote, of previous abortions and of abortions attempted upon those thus born, we may be able to get a distant idea of the prevalence and growth of chUd-murder among us. The report of the city inspector of the city of New York gives the number of 1558 dead children brought toto the world to this city to the year 1851 THE TEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 163 How many were there besides of which the officers never knew or heard ? And how many of this number were killed either directly or indirectly, by the labors of the abortionists ? I leave it for the imagination of the reader to give the answer. To show the increase to the numbers of dead-born, and consequently the increase of the labors of the abortionist, it is only necessary to say—that to 1805 the ratio of dead-born children to the population was as 1 to every 1612 ; to 1850 it was one to every 386, or an increase of about 80 per cent! For this practice of abortion there never can be offered an excuse that can to reason be considered weighty. Certainly no one wni say that a woman able to bear a child without danger to Ufe should resort to expelling it from the womb before the natural time for birth; and for those whom, by reason of infirmity or malfor- mation, it is dangerous to have chUd, there are provided safe protections against pregnancy, whereby the sin of abortion need never to tempt them. These are found to the French Male. Safe and French Prevention Powder, which are employed by the most learned and respectable, and which are a great blessing to man and womankind, giving sure protection against disease and pregnancy. Our Maker bids increase—who bids abstain V—Milton. CHILDREN ARE BLESSED OF GOD; For Christ has said, " Of such are the kingdom of heaven."—Mark x. 14. Christ was fond of Uttle children, recollecting that he himseif was once a chUd, born of the virgin Mary. King David said, " Children are the heritage of God"—Psalms cxxvU. 3. He also speaks of the joy of a mother of a child.—Psalms cxni. 9. Solomon, the wise man, said, " Children's chUdren are the crown of old men, and the glory of chUdren are their fathers."—Prov. xvii. 6. In Ps. cxxvU. we read, " ChUdren are an heritage of the Lord; and the fruit of the womb, is his reward. As arrows are to the hands of a mighty man, so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that nath his quiver fuU' of them; they shaU not be ashamed, but they shaU speak with the enemies to the gate." I might cite many passages from scripture to prove that the blessing of God npon the world depends upon the care and rearing of chUdren. They are the joy of the father and the hope of the mother, and the greatest and the best of men and women of every age, have been those who loved and delighted to their children. Thereforo, have respect for the fruit of the womb, and destroy it not before it Cometh toto the outer weld of Ught and beauty. WOMAN BLESSED IN. CHILD-BIRTH. This is evident from the danger that awaits on difficult labor. If there is any one time when God's protecting care is exercised over mortal beings it is at the time of female labor ; and at no time in the Ufe of woman can she feel to lift up her heart and voice to praise God with more fervor, for his protecting care, and rejoice to his mercy more, than after a safe deUvery of a Uvtog helpless and innocent babe; for this suffering is the punishment for her transgression to Eden. We have the most posj- 164 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. live proof that God, in aU the perils and dangers of chUd-birth, wUl exert his espe- cial care to protect and shield. " Adam was not deceived, but the woman betog deceived, was to the transgression; notwithstanding, she shaU be saved in child- bearing, if they conttoue to the faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety."— 1 Timothy ii. 14, 15. From this it wiU appear that what I have elsewhere said of the faU is true; and that Paul knew that woman was deceived, and no condemns* tion rested on her, although she suffered punishment with Adam. Woman being the noblest work of God, was chosen as the medium for the giv- ing of Christ unto the world, and blessed with the honor of nourishing the Saviour of faUen man with her own blood. Noble, beautiful, and lovely woman—the fair- est and best of the creations of earth—dishonor not thyself to the loss of thy virtue and purity; for it was from thy purity that Christ came toto the world; and had he not received purity in his form of man from the pure woman, his blood would not have been innocent to have redeemed the world—it would not have been a pure sacrifice to the sight of God. Were the world to need another redemption, where could be found the pure blood —without hereditary taint or stain of personal sto of the world—to furnish a chUd for the sacrifice ? I beseech you, then, save thy blood from the taint of whoredom, lest the whole world be fiUed therefrom with the seeds of disease, leading to ^on- sumption and death, and moral degradation. Preserve thy purity, virtue and chasti- ty, and thy days wUl be many and pleasant upon the earth, and finaUy thou shalt become a chosen angel of heaven, to sing the praises of God and the Lamb. MISCARRIAGE CAUSES CONSUMPTION. The satisfaction of the womb is to receiving, retaining and supporting foetal life. To lose its fruit is just as much an affliction to the womb as for the hand to lose a finger, or the body an arm. It is impossible that its loss should be converted toto gain: miscarriage cannot be productive of health happiness, or long Ufe for woman. Miscarriage is one of the greatest misfortunes that can visit a woman—the most to be dreaded naturaUy: and what a pity it is to have the Ufe sacrificed by flood- ings and inflammations, arising from havtog the fruit of the womb expeUed before ita proper time. Every means should be taken to prevent this sad result. I have often been applied to by ladies who apprehended a miscarriage, and to aU cases where they have applied in season have succeeded to preventing the disagreeable result—even when the woman was far advanced to consumption. Pregnant ladies should be very careful.of lifting, jumping, reaching, sudden fright anger, and other causes that sometimes induce an abortion or bring on premature labor. They should be careful about wearing abdominal supporters, for by these things great injury is often done to the chUd, and frequently miscarriage produced. For a physician to recommend this instrument is to say that God did not make the necessary abdominal support by bones and muscles for woman to carry her young—it is a Ubel on the nature of our physiology. Good, rich pure blood is the only support wanted by the system, to travail Weakness, venereal diseases, sitting up late at nights, fear, grief violent emotions. poisons, violent purges, immoderate exercise, obstinate diarrhoea, great loss of blood. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 165 acute diseases of various kinds—aU these sometimes induce an abortion, and should, therefore, be guarded against Miscarriage is also often caused by a stricture of the uterus, or by a relaxed state, and faUing of the uterus. [See article on Womr Diseases.] The Signs of Miscarriage, or of the death of the foetus, are, the breasts growing sud- denly flabby; painful weight to the loins, which reaches to the thighs; pains about the navel, head and eyes; cold extremities; convulsions; coUc pains in the beUy, simi- lar to labor pains; shiverings; fainttogs; languid motion of the foetus, and less frequent than before. As the miscarriage draws nearer, the pains to the loins and hips increase; the womb dUates; watery discharge is perceived, often with blood, pure or clotted. The most certato sign is the discharge of a fleshy colored sub- stance, which comes away with the water. When these last signs appear, mis- carriage is unavoidable. I hopefuUy trust that these minute descriptions of the signs of miscarriage wUl be the means of directing attention to the matter, and thereby saving the health and life of many women, and preventing the loss of the foetus; for if women can un- derstand the signs of an abortion of the fruit of the womb, they may be induced to apply to season for the means of preventing such a result. Advice by letter or otherwise, to aU who may feel the need of it wUl be given faithfully and confidentiaUy to aU who sliaU choose to make application to me, send- ing one doUar as consultation fee. Having had much experience in this matter of miscarriage, and accurately understanding its signs, I have no hesitation in saying that I can give ladies such advice as wUl save them days of sickness and agony, and often be the means of preserving their Uvea To avoid Miicarriage.—Ladies known to be incompetent to produce a Uving chUd without danger to their own Uves, or who have a dangerous habit of aborting, should not suffer themselves to become pregnant This can be easUy avoided. I know of no safety to tho Ufe of the wife and the health of the husband, to these cases, except to the use of the Male Prevention Safe or Prevention Powder. And as prevention is better than exposure, or even a cure, these articles wUl be found perfect for the purpose. I know that if the sexual passion is to be enjoyed, there must be a fuU and free emission of the semen, without fear of danger: if there be not the husband wUl surely run toto decline and consumption. And if, on the other hand, there be no precaution, pregnancy wUl result to the woman, and death wiU foUow, as the conse- quence, or there be a dangerous miscarriage. [See cut of Ovarian Tumor, to Pregnancy.] To avoid these—to preserve the health of both husband and wife and to give enjoyment in sexual love—there is nothing equal to the means I have aUuded to. I would say here, however, expressly and pototedly, that no persons should use these articles except to cases absolutely requiring them for the protec- tion of Ufe and health; for, Uke all other good things, they may be abused, and a great deal of injury done to preventing conception where it should not be pre- vented. To prevent miscarriage, where conception has taken place, use, with Root's Ner- vine, cold drinks; gentle laxatives and moderate but not violent astringents wiU be found useful; but your physician should be caUed to your aid without delay, if your case is dangerous. Precautions to prevent miscarriage, during pregnancy, are not so effective as those used betwixt a miscarriage and the next impregnation, and the 166 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. advantage of this interval should byaU means be embraced; the particular disorders or weaknesses should be attended to and removed or overcome, and the general vigor restored if possible. Cold bathing, at bed-time, is good; lime-water, mtoeral spring waters, salt water air, and bathing are good; but the only sure cure is to the attention and directions of a skillful physician. Convulsions and floodings demand immediate attention and help from your phy- sician, as a cure is uncertain, and your Ufe at stake. I do not know when I have faUed of preventing miscarriage, if appUod to to season. I have treated thousands of ladies, havtog had from one to thirty-three miscarriages, with success. Ladies rarely suffer more than three or five miscarriages; and often date the commencement of decline, poor health, or consumption, from this cause. Let me warn aU ladies, both young and old, never to cause abortion, under any circum- stances, but rather study prevention of pregnancy, whereby your health wUl be saved, and the great sto of abortion wUl never be laid at your door. Thus you will escape the physical curse and the divine displeasure. UNHAPPY MARRIAGES CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION. Lv order to the enjoyment of health of the body, it is necessary that the mind should be properly cared for and consulted; since that m great measure, controls the nerves and muscles, and influences the body to a state of health or a state of Bickness. The cause of the consumption, and of the prostitution of many of the most re- fined, beautiful, well-educated, wealthy, and influential persons, may be found in tho thwarting of the heart's pure love. Love is the fulfilling of the law. Angels lovo, and are lovely; and those that love most are most godlike; for "God is love." Love is a constituent element of man, and the soul and Ufe of woman. None are whoUy destitute of its charms, of its sweets. Blot it from the soul of man, and you blast his nature. If a man and woman love each other, body and mtod partake of its nature; but if hatred, jealousy and discord are wedded to mariage, disease of body and mind wiU be the ultimate result as sure as effect foUows cause. But there is a " friend that sticketh doser than a brother." There is a tie stronger than life—it is that oneness of soul " which binds two willing hearts" todissolubly together, and makes "of them twato one flesh" This is connubial love—the " holy of hoUes" of human emotions. Parents, if you would see your chUdren weU and happy, study their safety to their love. Do not suffer them, nor compel them, to marry for wealth where there is no love. There is nothing more -revolting than to see a beautiful young girl led unwillingly to the altar, by a man for whom she feels to her heart not the least spark of love—compeUed to marry against her desires, and to give up the cherished idol of her souL to please parents or to secure wealth. Almost the certoin fruits of this course are—consumption and death by suidde or disease; particularly if the woman possess any of those soft and womanly feeUngs, and the sweet and virtuous sensitiveness that are the beauties of her sex. If we consider health and happiness anything, aU persons should marry to please themselves, as the first con- sideration; the pleasure of parents or friends is of secondary importance, and should ever be so regarded By reference to the reports of lunatic asylums, it wUl be seen that unhappy mar- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 167 nages are a fruitful source of insanity. When the pure love of the heart has been thwarted, and the victim of selfishness has been compeUed, as it were, to marry against choice, the mtod is frequently so powerfuUy affected by it that reason is de- throned and driven from its temple. This result is frightful to contemplate; and yet, to the face of it hundreds of people are forced to the risk of this unhappy fata Besides this, marriages contrary to the desire and the love, often entaU upon off- spring bad mental characters, for the reason that the parents were to no manner suited to or intended by nature for each other. These matters should receive the Berious attention of all particularly of those parents who desire the happtoess of their children. If ladies or gentlemen have formed an attachment of love, and intend marriage, although the union is not quite desirable by the parents, when those parents have neglected to place their young in the society of such persons as would be best agreeable in marriage, it is not always best to break or to rashly oppose the mar- riage on such ground, provided signs of insanity, suicide, or lingering consumption threaten them. If the sOn or daughter is to be brutalized, and their Uves rendered useless, either by death or otherwise, who shaU take upon them the horrible deed to execute ? If parents refrain from such a horrible deed, and of two evils choose the least, they wiU have no child to brutalize or murder; but if the wedded demon to the form of man, debases, murders, or uncivUizes his partner in wedded love, he alone is answerable to both man and God, the parents being free in the. sight of Heaven of wrong to their own chUd; and whUe they may lament over the faUen state, they wUl love them stUl; and although they be lost to humanity and useful- ness, parents wUl never have to reflect that they caused the fatal and horrible deed, or visit their own chUd a ravtog maniac or emaciated consumptive, made so by their own will. Inspiration saith love is stronger than death; and parents should act cautiously in the separation of the intended married. Parents had better bestow a few thousand doUars extra upon such chUdren, to give them a home, and encourage them to a useful and moral Ufe, rather than quarrel, and forever perplex and tor- ment them. NEVER MARRY RELATIVES, But cross the blood to persons of good habits and health no* given to over- drinking, gluttony, whoredom, love sickness, or masturbation before marriage; as all these evU habits tend to the transmission of disease to your chUdren, infecting them with the seeds of idiocy, insanity, or consumption and early death. Dr. Howe, Horatio Byington, and others, appointed by the Legislature of Massa- chusetts to investigate the causes of idiocy, report four hundred and twenty idiots found to seventy-seven towns only, by which they conclude the number in that State to be between fourteen and fifteen hundred. " Of the four hundred and twenty idiots proper, two hundred and eighteen are gluttons, and one hundred and two are given to self-abuse to an uncontroUable and frightful degree." These, by the con- ditions of their birth though made to the image of God, are deprived of aU instruc- tion ; confined in asylums -T are filthy, gluttonous, lazy, and given to abominations of various kinds. Left to this condition, they sink deeper and deeper in bodUy de- pravity and mental degradation. 168 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. It may be tmthfuUy asserted that this is the result of ignorance rather than of any unkindness; but the plea of ignorance can no longer put away the sin and disgrace. The report states that of the four hundred and twenty c?.ses of idiocy examined, in three hundred and fifty-nine of them one or both of the parents had violated the natural laws of health by becoming intemperate, by marrying blood relatives, or by excessive sexual indulgence, or masturbation, or were afflicted with scrofula or affections of the brain. The effects of hereditary indisposition upon offspring are very strong. Thus in insanity, out of eight hundred and sixteen cases in the New York State Lunatic Asylum, one hundred and eighty-seven were known to have had insane relations, and from tho known reluctance of friends to make this pubUc, there can be no doubt that the actual number is much greater. From this we may conclude, that where there is a predisposition in any family to any particular disease, or where any particular disease or mental deformity exists strongly in a family—whether there be scrofula, asthma, consumption, or frequent cases of insanity, or of idiocy to that family, or any other complaint or deformity, mental or physical, be often manifested to it (and there be but few famUies but have to them a prevalence to some particular infirmity or Ul)—the intermarriage of mem- bers thereof is highly dangerous to the health of offspring; toasmuda as by tho sexual connection of persons both suffering from or inheriting a tendency to a par- ticular disease, the offspring wUl be rendered doubly liable to the inheritance ef that disease. The same wiU be true of any quaUties existing to that famUy. Where both father and mother are consumptive, and the disease has existed to the famUies of both we may look for an almost certainty of the development of consumption to their chUdren, whether the parents be related or not And inasmuch as it is much more probable to a given number of marriages between relatives that there wUl be a predisposition to a particular disease to both, than a predisposition to both to a particular disease to the same number of marriages of persons not connected by blood, we may conclude it is better that there should be no marriages of relatives. Whether, in a case of marriage of blood relatives, where there was no predisposition to disease to the famUy, and both parties were to good health strong and robust there would be any greater probabiUty that the chUdren would be constitutionaUy ailing than to a case where no relationship existed, other circumstances being the same, may be doubted. It is in the fact that almost aU famUies possess some predisposition to disease, and perhaps some traits of a mental character wluch should not be cultivated by increasing them, that the objection to intermarriage, and the more frequent pernicious effects u^on offspring, lies, and not to the relationship itself. This I conceive to be the phUosophical and physiological explanation of the greater frequency of diseased, idiotic, or insane children from marriages of relatives than from other marriages, to proportion to the numbers; and, so far as I am aware, it is the first time a reasonable and phUosophical explanation, founded upon known phrenological and physiological laws, has ever been given to the public; although the matter has been a subject of comment for many of the most able writers to the sdence of medicine, and other sciences pertaining to the human body. In the report to the Legislature of Massachusetts, before aUuded to, the committee very plainly point out the fact that intermarriage of relatives is a source of idiocy, insanity and disease; but they do not explain why this should be so I The effect, but not the cause, is given. Speaking of the intermarriage of relatives, the rejiort says- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 169 * By giving this as one of the remote causes of idiocy, it is not meant that to a majority of cases the offspring of marriage between cousins, or other near relations, WUl be idiotic. The cases are very numerous where nothing extraordinary is ob- servable to the immediate offspring of such unions. On the other hand, there are so many cases where bUndness, deafness, insanity, idiocy, or some pecuUar bodily or cental deficiency, or a manifest tendency and liabUity to them, is seen in such offspring, that one is forced to beUeve they cannot be fortuitous. Indeed, the infer- ence seems to be inevitable, that such intermarriages are violations of the natural law, though not such flagrant ones as always to be foUowed by obvious and severe punishment. " If two fuU cousins, who are both to good health, and free from any predisposi- tion or tendency to any particular disease or infirmity, should marry, the probability is, that their immediate offspring wiU have tolerably good constitutions—though no one can say how much less vigorous in body and mind they wUl be than offspring bom to either parent from some one of a healthy famUy not related by blood. " But, on the other hand, if a man in whose constitution there lurks a predisposi- tion to any particular disease of mind or body, inherited from Ms father's famUy, Bhould marry a daughter of his father's brother or sister, there would be a strong probabiUty that the disease or infirmity would appear to the offspring; whUe the probability would be less if he married a healthy cousin by bis mother's side; and BtUl less if he married a person free from aU unhealthy predispositions, who was not related to him at aU." From evidence, it appeared that more than one-twentieth of the idiots examined, were the offsprings of the marriage of relations. Now, as marriages between near relations are by no means to the ratio of one to twenty, nor are even, perhaps, as one to a thousand to the marriages between persons not related, it follows that the proportion of idiotic progeny is vastly greater in the former than to the latter case. Then it should be considered that idiocy is only one form in which nature manifests that she has been offended by such intermarriages. The probabiUty, therefore, of unhealthy or infirm issue from such marriages, becomes fearfuUy great an(i "the ex- istence of the law against them is made out as clearly as though it were written on tables of stone. " The statistics of seventeen famUies, the heads of which being blood relatives, in- termarried, teUs a fearful tale. Most of the parents were intemperate or scrofulous; some were both the one and the other; of course there were other causes to increase chances of infirm offspring, besides that of the intermarriage. There were born unto them 95 chUdren, of whom 44 were idiotic, twelve others were scrofulous and puny, one was deaf and one was a dwarf. In some cases, aU the chUdren were either idiotic, or very scrofulous and puny. In one famUy of eight chUdren five were idiots!!" It is a general rule, that close affinity of parents produces a deteriorating influence on the children. The degeneracy, and even idiocy, of some of the noble and royal famUies of Spain, Portugal, and other European countries, from marrying nieces and other near relatives, is weU known. Defective brains to aU these cases may be ob- served. The toterknaniage of blood relatives usually degenerates the rich quality of the olood, the quantity of the phosphoric acid, and the power of the nervous electricity jpon the same principle that air or water become imoure without the totroduction of 170 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. new air or water, of a richer, purer, and more enlivening character. Animal and vegetable substances, as weU as air and water, degenerate and decompose, unless constantly renewed by the totroduction of new invigorating principles Intermarriages induce deficiency to the Uvely. animating, healthy principle of Ufe, phosphoric acid, by which persons can be electricaUy acted upon, and electricity im- parted to the semen in the act of impregnation, to give new quaUties to the foetus, and new animal electric Ufe. I have previously stated to this work, that idiots, or persons of inferior inteUi- gence, are deficient of phosphorus or phosphoric acid in the brain and blood; and that this phosphorus is the great principle to impart activity and toteUigence to the brain. Nervous and highly inteUigent persons have the larger share of this princi- ple, whUe idiots, and the degenerated offspring of blood rdatives, have but little. In the case of idiotic chUdren, it would be found, could we get at the matter, that the persons most defective mentaUy, chanced, during sexual intercourse, to predo- minate in heat of passion, or electrifying power upon the seed for the foetus, where- by a greater or less degree of imbecUity was caused to the offspring. This wUl ap- pear obvious from the fact, that intemperate persons electrify their offspring with a desire for strong drink, when impregnation takes place under the excitement and stimulus of the Uquor, which arouses the whole electric power of the system at the time of cohabitation. The one predominating to electric heat or excitement wUl im- press upon the semen his or her pecuUar quaUties, and govern' the character of the chUd then propagated,—whether it be Uvely and inteUigent or inactive and imbe- cile to toteUect Therefore the womb should be impregnated when the person hav- ing the greatest degree of toteUigence and composure, and least UabiUty to disease, is to a higher state of sexual excitement than his or her companion; and where either parent is from a diseased famUy, or a famUy where idiocy or insanity have prevaUed, this should be the only time that intercourse should be had, without pre- cautions against conception are taken by the use of the Male Safe or Prevention Powder; unless parents would transmit to thefr offspring disagreeable, unhealthy, or imbecUe quaUties of mtod and body; for be assured that these wiU foUow inat- tention to this matter, as certato as cause foUows effect IDIOCY, HOW CAUSED. The causes of idiocy to children arise from intemperance of the parents in eating; drinking adulterated, poisoned, and tobaccoed Uquors; immoderate use of tobacco; tight lacing, and heavy skiris; depressing and dragging down the bowels; disturb- ing and compressing the foetus; love sickness ; unhappy marriage; marrying blood relations; scrofula, or venereal disease; grub to the system; nursing the chUd too long, to prevent another conception; masturbation before marriage; weakness of the sexual organs, arising from protracted ceUbacy, or any other cause debilitating the powers of the parents; exposing the chUd to cold, striking it on the head, or abusing it with any violence. To prevent idiocy, misery, consumption, pain, and degeneration to the offspring, aU cause of afflictions should be carefully guarded against by the parents, and by those who ever contemplate becoming parents; for we know that diseases are trans- mitted to the chUd wh'le it is yet in the womb, and the physical and mental charac- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 171 teristics of its parents entaUed upon it If in your blood the seeds of disease, which may be transmitted to offspring, are lurking, do not have any progeny untU your blood is purified, and y iut system restored to health. Use the Blood Renovator and the Anti-BUious Puis, and become healthy before you farther propagate the race. These wiU cleanse your system, purify the Ufe of the flesh, and render you better fitted to "multiply and replenish the earth." If as has been estimated, there are to a city Uke this, an abandoned prosti- tute to every six or seven male adults, busUy employed to scattering the venereal diseases; and if, (as is reaUy the case,) two-thirds of the people before marriage practice self-poUution, and more or less impair the strength of their systems; and if these take no steps to make themselves whole before they beget offspring, how, in the name of reason, can insanity, idiocy, and consumption be prevented? Turn from evU and destructive habits, violate no physical law, marry early, and study purity, yfrtue, temperance, and holiness, and thy days shaU be many and happy upon the earth. Let the Ucentious, the glutton, and aU to danger of imparting in- firmities to thefr chUdren, read the foUowing from the Good Book:— " He that begetteth a fool, doeth it to his sorrow." " A foolish son is grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him." "But fools despise wisdom and in- struction." Wherefore " incline thtoe ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;" " drtok waters out of thtoe own cistern, and running waters out of thtoe own weU": "rejoice with the wife of thy youth, let her be as the loving hind and the pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at aU times, and be thou ravished always with her love"—that "thou mourn not at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed," and thy children fiUed with disease, "and say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; and have not obeyed the voice of teachers, nOr inclined mine ear to them that instructed me."—Proverbs. INFANTILE DEATHS—CAUSE AND PREVENTION. The causes of deaths of infants are exposure to cold, croup, dysentery, teething, Dad milk and food, attempts to abort by the mother, miscarriage previously, nursing to prevent pregnancy, inflammation or dropsy of the brain, grub in the head or Uver of the chUd, and many other causes, aU of which should be carefully guarded against. To preserve the Ufe of your chUdren, to infancy, see that they have sufficient warmth, pure milk and good food; do not nurse longer than ten or twelve months; let the chUd be carefully exercised, the father abstain.from totercourse during the period of nursing, unless he use the Male Safe—for if nursing wUl prevent pregnan- cy, it must affect and derange the milk of the mother, from whence sickness wUl fol- low to the ChUd; assist teething by cutting the gums; do not let worms accumulate too largely to the chUd; check bowel complaints without delay; never strike the chUd on the head; never dose it with powerful drugs; never put it toto strong sleep with paregoric or laudanum; do not rock or swing your chUd too much. To prevent stUl-born or premature births, keep the womb and general health in good condition; avoid heavy skirts, long walks, hard work, lifting, &c. About two-thirds of the entire mortaUty of the world is of children under five years of age. Tho ratio of deaths is 1 to 3 under one year of age, and 1 to 8 from 172 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. one to two years of age. The months giving the greatest number of infantile deaths are July and August—mostly of bowel complaints. [For these use the Dysentery Specific] Next to this list stand January, February, and March when the major portion of fataUty occurs from croup, colds, inflammations, convulsions and fevers, the results of the cold weather. May, June and July seem to be the most favorable months for cluid-birth, as re- gards the Ufe of the infant Children born to these months seem to have a better chance to survive past the days of infancy. The weather favors the tender plant and aids it to attain strength and power to better withstand the shocks its system encounters. More births also occur to these months than to the same number oi cold ones. If statistics were presented of the mortaUty of chUdren during the warm weather, on one side, and during the cold on the other, we should see that the greatest num- ber of deaths was to the cold months. This shows the importance of a proper degree of warmth for the cluld. The infant is helpless and inactive, and is there- fore incapacitated to generate heat by exercise and increased respiration. All animals or fowls that are active or capable of action whUe young, are better prepared to resist the influences of cold, as exercise and respiration generate animal heat Ducks and geese have a temperature of 100 to 107 degrees; the sea-gull has 112, and they are more active when young, and their lungs are larger to proportion to the s&e of the body than those of a man. The heat of the human body is 91 de- grees ; but to the newly-bom chUd, at the arm-pits, it is but 80 degrees. The younger the chUd is, the more readUy does it become chilled; there is more demand for external heat to early Ufe, when the supply from the system itself is Umited. A pale and shrunken aspect, with cold hands and arms, wUl often appear in the torant, arising from cold, When no sensation of cold is experienced by the adult And yet parents often keep much less warmth upon their young chUdren than upon themselves. ChUdren are often injured by betog kept to sleep without sufficient warmth Neither the infant or the adult breathe so frequently when asleep as when awake; and the effect of this is, a less degree of animal heat. The heat of the adult whUe asleep is 95 degrees—whUe awake, 91. The same difference wUl be manifest in the infant; consequently both require more clothes when asleep than when awake. A French author informs us that out of 100 infants born during the months of Janu- ary and February, 66 die in the first month after birth-and 15 to the course of the year, leaving but 19 survivors; that of 100 born to the 6prtog, 48 Uve beyond the first year, and that of 100 born in the summer, 83 Uve through the year. In Russia a similar result was,shown; 600 deaths to 1000 to some places, owing to the cold, says Hevriman to his statistics on the mortality of children, occurring to the first month after birth to the winter season. A prolific source of the deaths of chUdren in cities may be found to the filthy and poisonous dust that sweeps up and down the streets with every blast, fiUing the mouth throat and lungs with its offensive and disease-breeding particles. Children sel- dom guard themselves against this prolific source of death and consequently many of them have consumption and inflammations of the lungs and throat produced by it and are swept into the grave. In 1851 there were 1316 deaths to New York from inflam- mations of the lungs and throat, four-sevenths or 752 of which were chUdren under five years of age. Many of these deaths were induced immediately by the dust and THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 173 filth in our streets; and how many of deaths by other causes, inflammations in the head, &c., had their foundation in the same filth & ^ impossible to say. The number of deaths of chUdren under ten years of age, by consumption, to the same time was 366, many of which also, are chargeable upon the dusty filth of our streets—a destructive compound of fine stone, iron dust powdered manure, decom- posed animal and vegetable matters, and other elements, ground together by the hoofs of horses and (he boots of men, and mixed up with urine, tobacco juice, poisons from sores and expectorated matter, vomiting of drunkards and other nau- seating Uquid substances. Another cause of infantile deaths, to which I would direct your particular atten- tion, is atrophy. By examination of New York city reports for the years 1848, 1849, 1850 and 1851, I find that there occurred 385 deaths from atrophy. These cases, for the most part, arose from congenital syphilis—a disease of prostitution— nearly aU of the deaths being of chUdren under two years of age. They show that secondary syphilis was in the blood and bones of one or the other of the parents, as the effect of prostitution of the mother or cohabitation with prostitutes of the father! As women to these days are in the habit of nursing their chUdren nearly two years, to prevent pregnancy, and the husbands meanwhUe, have intercourse with both tho prostitute and their own wives, it is not to be wondered at that the child nurses death from the bosom of its mother; to whom it has been sown by the husband, and thence taken up by the blood and conveyed into the natural food of tho infant. The deaths from this source wUl not seem strange when we know that in the last two years there have occurred in this city 58 deaths by lues venerea, growing out of prostitution—the victims of which have not only suffered themselves, but have sown the seeds of death for their offspring. These deaths alone, to say nothing of cou- Bumptive and other invalids from the same source, are enough to demand that tho people should arise and banish prostitution from our midst. If these deatLs are to be attributed to the male, (as the most of them must be,) it may be seen that if he had avoided the house of the harlot to the first place, or, betog diseased, had made use of the French Male Safe, this sacrifice of infantile Ufe would have been avoided At first thought it may seem that there would be a greater number of deaths of infants to the warm than to the cold months, but statistics show us that this is not the case. The reason I have shown to be, inattention in many instances to the ex- posures of the clnld to cold, and ignorance of the laws of its weU-being. I shaU hope that those who may read this work and are by heaven blessed with chUdren, wUl give more attention to the rules and the facts here presented for their consideration. COMPARISON OF DEATHS OF MALES AND FEMALES. From statistics of New York and Massachusetts, and other States, it appears that the mortaUty of male chUdren is greater than that of females. The number of cases where the foetus is a male considerably exceeds the number of females. The ex- cess of conception of males, over that of females, according to the reports made in New York, is 2650 in a total of 23,530; or about 14 males to 11 females. The proportion of stiU-born and premature births of male chUdren is about as 4 to 3 females; and of deaths of chUdren the preponderance of males over females 174 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. is the same. Thus to a given time, the number of still-born and premature births in New York was 3605 males to 2754 females; the number of deaths of chUdren to a given tune; 8172 males to G177 females. The same law exists in adult Ufe; out of 7675 deaths of adults to New York, there were 4003 males to 3672 females. This law so generaUy prevaUs that notwithstanding the greater number of male conceptions and of births of males, the female population in New York is found by census returns to exceed the males, by 7477, or 26 females to 25 males. From this we may see that the probabiUty of Ufe of the female foetus is better than that of the male. The reason for this is the greater height and size of the male foetus and the consequent greater danger of its death at birth. The average weight of the male chUd at birth is 7.06 pounds, of the female 6.42; the average height of males 1.64 feet, of females 1.61. Why the mortaUty of male chUdren should so greatly preponderate over the mor- taUty of females, as is shown to be the case, has never yet been explained; and I know not to what to refer it, unless it be that the female chUd is better fitted by na- ture to endure the Uls of tofancy, is not so tender, nor so Uable to disease—as I be» Ueve is the case. This better chance of Ufe continues with the female to puberty, for the reason I have given. The higher rate of mortaUty to .male adults is owing to several obvious causes. Of these, greater exposure to accidents is one; thus the deaths to New York result- ing from casualties, in a given time, were 179, only 24 of which were females; by drowning, there were 162 deaths, only 15 of which were females. Besides the greater Uability to accidents, the males plunge more generaUy toto the various dis- sipations that lead to disease and death, particularly intemperance to using ardent spirits. They are more given to self-abuse than females, they indulge to excessive sexuaUty to a greater degree, confining themsdves less to the one companion at home. They do not marry so early, and from this fact the chance of long life is lessened, as we have shown elsewhere in this work. These and other causes com- bine together to make the number of adult male deaths greater than those of females. From the statistics here given, it wUl appear that, notwithstanding the dangers to Ufe resulting from conception and chUd-birth, the chances of the female to attain to maturity are considerably better than those of the male; although such would not be generaUy supposed to be the case. And these statistics also show, that, were it not that men more generaUy indulged to the dissipations of society than females, and thus decreased the numbers of their sex—thwarting the purpose of na- ture to this respect there would be in aU the years from puberty to a ripe old age, an almost wonderful equality to the numbers of the two sexes; which plainly says there shaU be one man for one woman, one woman for one man, and no polygamy, prostitution, or other kindred evils. EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY; But whatsoever you eat or drink, see that it is dean, fresh, unadulterated, un- poisoned, uncorrupted; and you wUl have added to life, health and length of days Never eat to gluttony; never drink to drunkenness; whether you pay much or Uttle for what you eat or drink, commit no sin for thy stomach's sake, but eat and THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 175 drink with moderation. Do not partake of too great a variety. Study ease, tern ■ perance, and moderation, and show thyself a vessd of honor rather than dishonor Never eat food half cooked, for such the gastric secretion of the stomach acts upon but feebly. Jesus said unto the man sick with palsy—" Be of good cheer; to the fearful, " Be of good cheer;" to the troubled in mind, " Be of good cheer;" " In me ye might have peace—to the world tribulation; but be of good cheer." Paul said, "I exhort you to be of good cheer." Solomon said, " Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than the staUed ox and hatred therewith."—" A merry heart maketh a cheerfu. countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken." I would say to aU my readers, " Be of. good cheer." Does not the stomach of the dyspeptic, to its desire for food of the right ktod, sanction this language:—for cheerfulness and love assist digestion, but hatred and other bad passions retard it. The sick, the fearful, the discouraged, and even the dying, should be of good cheer. If one die to the Lord, he may be of good cheer to the hope of a glorious eternity; and if he be to Uve, the hope of health and happtoess should make him of good cheer always. Whatever your condition, let me commend this to you as a comfort and an antidote against consumption and many other diseases. Christ, the master physician for diseases of both body and soul, exhorted to cheer- fulness. " Let your heart be cheerful, let none cast you down." If sick, take new courage, in the hope of a restoration to health; for "aU things are possible with God." "Bring out the fatted caff and kUl it—eat, drink and be merry; for it is meet that we should make merry and be glad." " Is any among you afflicted ?— let him pray." "Is any merry,—let him sing psalms." "A merry heart doeth good Uke a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones." " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart." Such nay readers, is the language of Scripture upon this subject. And in con- cord therewith, I might pUe up for you physiological proof as high as the mountains and immovable as the everlasttog hills; but I consider the necessity of cheerfulness, proper mirthfulness, music, song, and dance to be self-evident to aU reasonable men, in order that health happiness,, and long Ufe may faU to the lot of man upon the earth which God has given him for an inheritance. AU the face of nature smUes and is cheerful; the beasts and the birds make merry; why then should not the heart of man rejoice and his soul take comfort and be glad ? That it should be so is evident: therefore, it wiU need no further Ulustration. BATHING IN COLD WATER, Lv fevers, nervous and rheumatic irritation, and diseases of a consumptive charac- ter, is healthful and exceUent. It imparts vigor to body and mind. An occasional ablution, by imparting cleanUness, gives a healthy condition to the skin, opens the pores of the flesh, and encourages perspiration—which is important for the main- tenance of health. Five-eighths of the food and drink taken into the system escape, when the health is good, through the pores of the flesh m tQe form of vapory waste or effete matter. When the pores arc dosed by dirt, fevers, oils upon the skto, or to other ways, so that the waste matter cannot escape in tlie natural way, it is thrown back upon the system, deranging the action of the heart, lungs, Howels, and kidnoys. 176 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. Bathing to cold or tepid water, with the room at a comfortable temperature, U of much importance; but this, Uke other good things, should not 1)6 carried to excess, as is often the case. From one to three tunes a week is fuUy enough. Afta- coining from the water, rub yourself weU with a piece of flannel The rubbing wiL be of as much service as the bathing. Cleanliness of the skin, as weU as. a healthy and vigorous action, are indispensaUfl alike to moral purity and inteUectual vigor. Vicious persons are generaUy filthy in person, and one of tho first steps to moral elevation is physical ablution. To keep the skin clean is as important as to supply food to the stomach. I would not recommend bathing daily to any person. It may be making too much of a good thing: it wUl weaken and dissolve the skto, and waste the flesh. and if you bathe two or three times a day, the probable effect wiU be to give you a weak and watery blood, a clammy or slimy perspiration, general emaciation, feebleness and consumption. Never bathe too long at a time. Do not have your water too hot or too cold, unless it is used so for medicinal purposes, and is known to suit your constitution and condition. Avoid cold, shower or plunge baths, unless you are very robust and healthy, and even then rubbing with a coarse towel wet to water is to be pre- ferred. In bathing, every person must be guided by reason and • the results of his ex- perience, with regard to the temperature of the water. No rule can be laid down which wUl be proper for every one to follow, any more than we can fix the amount of food a man requires. Be governed by common sense, comfort and agreeablo feelings. Water, warm or cold, is a powerful dissolvent and is of great medicinal value, when judiciously used. But there are extremes in its use, wluch all should avoid Bathing, like diettog, has saved many Uves, and it has caused many deaths. There are various methods of receiving a bath—use that which best agrees with you A sponge is a poor tiling to rub with—use a linen cloth, and rub the body weU both before and after bathing. In the morning, or just before going to bed, are the most judicious hours for a bath though it may be taken at any time except soon after eating. A bath after meals tends to a disturbance of the digestion. Cloths wet in cold or hot water are highly efficacious applied to inflammations, fevers, pains, sore throat, bronchitis, pleurisy, head-ache, rush of blood to the head, rheumatism, qiiiisy, croup, and many other complaints. They should not, how- ever, be worn 1. the person is out of doors, in the cold I cannot recommend bathing as a cure-aU, as some " cold-water doctors" do; it is absurd to suppose that every " Ul that flesh is heir to" can be driven away by water simply. But I would by no means condemn its use. Water, used for oleauUness, and in the way of occasional baths, and by the appUcation of wet cloths, is often a most valuable assistant to the cure of disease, and in almost aU conditions of the body it may be appUed with good results, if used wisely, temperately, and with a correct knowledge of its effects. Bathing the head with cold water, and snuffing it toto the nose, wiU be found to be good for weafc eyes, and to the reUef of head-ache, dizziness and catarrh. In cases of chiU from cold water bathing, the German Ointment wiU be found pxceUent when rubbed on the bowels or chest to produce a reaction and necessary THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 177 warmth, and set the blood to active motion. Also to cases of croup, colic, and Dains induced by bathing, it may be used with efficacious results. The first effects of the cold bath are to contract the body, raise the bulbs of the hair, and make the skin resemble a newly-plucked goose. Considerable debUity and tremor ensue; a sense of weight is felt to the head; the respiration is quick and laborious. These appearances are foUowed by a very different series. A glow returns to the surface, the weight in the head is reUeved, and every function is carried on with increased activity. But if tho person stay for a longer period in the cold bath the glow will bo slighter and soon disappear, and every previous Bymptom of debUity wiU return and conttoue. If the immersions are at due inter- vals repeated, and the stay in the bath be not improperly continued, the general health and spirits are greatly improved, the different necessary evacuations pro- perly carried on and supported, and the body and mind appear to act with increased vigor. But, according to the arrangement of this remedy, we may secure very differ- ent and opposite effects. A sudden change in the determination of the blood and nervous power, which the cold bath effects, wUl produce a very different result from the continued, and this again from the repeated application; a distinction neces- sary to be attended to to treating the different diseases with the application of cold water. The repeated action of cold bathing affords numerous opportunities of reUeving Bome of the most obstinate and troublesome diseases to which the human frame is Bubject Every complaint arising from debUity to its varied forms and numerous consequences often yields to this remedy. Bathing in the sea is preferable, as the heat is more uniform, the water more re- freshing, from its agitation, and the salt acts as a stimulus. One form of cold bath is the cold air baih. This consists in exposing the body for a few minutes to the cold air, partly secured by a loose dressing gown. With pru- dent precautions this practice may bo useful, and even salutary. The effects wUl de- pend on tin heat of the atmosphere and the temperature of the body when exposed. The custom of bathing, so essential to cleanliness, was undoubtedly first prac- tised to hot countries, and to the open air; but the refinements of civilization, and the wants of man removed from streams proper for this service, have made.it a household affair. The Egyptians, of the highest rank, were accustomed to bathe to the NUe. Amoug the Hebrews, it was a civU law that the bath should be used; and with the Mohamedans, ablution is a part and parcel of religion. The Egyptians, tho Greeks, and the Romans, as they arose to civUization, erected pubUc batlis, somo of which among the latter people were decorated with the greatest splendor. In Oriental countries, the place of greatest attraction is the summer bath With those who can afford it, it comprises everything of seclusion, elegance and luxu- rious enjoyment. The bath of the Eastern man of wealth and taste, is a vast marble basin, or pool of pure water, through which flows a stream. This is sur- rounded by rose trees and shrubs of sweet perfume, wluch often cast their quivering Bhado over the bright and Umpid waters. Around the whole of this is buUt a buUding, generaUy of two ranges of chambers, one above the other, looking to- wards the bath, which are furnishod with every refinement of the harem that the nukrter can afford. These are for the use of the ladies, where they undress uid 12 !78 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. repose before and afte* bathing. The master frequently takes his noon-day npose in one of the upper chambers which encircle the bath, from whence he views the beauties of his harem. From such a bath-court, it is supposed by commentators, the beautiful Bathsheba was seen by David. Walking at even-tide on the roof of bis palace, to overlook his royal wives in the bath, he discovered the voluptuous wife of Uriah the Hittite, who w;is probably visiting the women of the king. The Hindoos make use of tho cold water bath to refresh them after labor. They do not plunge into tho water, but, sitting on their horses, naked, except a smaU strip about the loins, a servant, or companion, pours water upon them tiU they are refreshed. In Cairo, the women make a visit to the bath a kind of hoUday, and display the richest dress and jewels they can command; strangers enter into family gossip with each other, and frequently a mother chooses a wife for her son from among the bathers. In cases of marriage, or of a circumcision, when there is a family festival, an entire bath is hired for a party; a feast of sweetmeats and coffee is provided, and female singers engaged to amuse the company. ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER. The use of these articles is very apt to cause spinal diseases and weaknesses; they do more harm than good in most cases, although they have been most elabo- rately puffed up by those pecuniarUy interested in their sale, and who did not care whether they did harm or good, so long as there was a market for them. Some- times, however, their use is beneficial. I have never yet found any support to any part of the system equal to that giveD by the possession of good rich blood. Cases would be hard to find where a peisos having a pure, healthy blood would require the aid of an abdominal supporter. Mechanical supports of any kind, by causing an inaction of the muscles, render them thin, and enfeeble them, and unfit them for the performance of the duties required. If the hand is not used at aU, it wUl become weak—if proper exercise is given to its musdes, it wUl be strong. The eye, the ear, or any other organ, will become weak if it has no action. There are many kinds of supporters (all acting on nearly the same principle), each sort having claimed for it by its manufacturer a superiority over all others. 1 keep a stock of these articles, selected from among the best in use, though I seldom have occasion to use them, and then generaUy for only a short time. Cases 01 fatting of the womb are the most general ones where the supporter can be used. And even to these cases, I wUl say that I have never met with one that I could not cure to a few days with a simple herb tea, and the lady keep about the house during the time. The worst of aU supporters are the internal uterine supporters. If any lady would ever recover her health, from the falUng of the womb, and would bear chUdren, let hor avoid the use of this article; for there never was a case that needed one—there never was a case that could not be better cured without it than with it. Let the ladies lay off eight or ten extra skirts, cease fastening their skirts around the -waist instead of by straps over the shoulders, and there would be but Uttle nse for mechanical supporters. It is heavy skirts, bad fashions of dress, and a great THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 179 deal of running up and down stairs, that produce weakness and falling of the womb. So much going up and down stairs as ladies have to encounter in large cities is very bad No woman can do it long and be healthy. So far as is possible, their work should be on the same floor. Should any of my readers bo in need of a supporter, they can always obtato the best kinds by applying, by letter or otherwise, to my office. If a supporter aidB your health or adds to your comfort, use it, by aU means; for your health is your fortune; and it does not so much matter what you use, provided you gain health But as I feel confident that I can cure almost aU cases of fatting of the womb better without using a supporter than with one, I cannot recommend people to incur the extra expense of buying them. Ladies troubled with falling of the womb and weaknesses of the genital organs, wUl find (in cases where they cannot apply per- sonaUy to me) a cure resulting in almost aU instances from the use of the Blood Re- novator, the Water Regulator, the Female Wash, and the German Ointment whick can be had by writing to me in New York, or of druggists generally. CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS OF DRESS. There is much greater necessity of the proper and healthful arrangement of the habiliments of the female than the male, inasmuch as the welfare of offspring is much more dependant upon her than upon the man. The female has the charge, the nourishing before and after birth, and the bringing into the world, of the child; and if by indulgence in foolish habits or fashions of dress, she so deforms her per- son as to injure the unborn babe, a great sin must ever lie at her door. Nothing can interest a nation more than the fashions and habits which are to de- termine upon the health and character of its succeeding generation. Any practice, the obvious tendency of which is to sicken, enfeeble, and degenerate females and the coming generation, should be looked at with dread, and repelled with indigna- tion. Our bills of iufantUe mortaUty (see InfantUe Deaths) are truly astonishing in their numbers. They show great wrong flowing from many sources (of which this we are now speaking of is one), the sin of which wUl be laid at the doors of those who cause it It would seem as if women in almost all ages had been hampered, or had ham- pered themselves, with garments not at aU fitted to give comfort and health. The most extravagant, outlandish, ungainly, iU-fitting and unhealthy costumes have suo- ceeded each other to turn, with but very few fashions that comfort, convenience,' and health could honestly sanction. If, at any time, one portion of the dress has been such as an honest and capable physician—one who understands the laws of Ufe and health—could recommend, another portion has been decidedly prejudidal to the welfare of the woman, and doubly so to the children she might nourish in her womb. That millions of the fairest and most lovely of aU the creations of God— His last, best and most perfect work—have been carried to premature graves, the Belf-sacrificed victims of irrational fashions of dress, is a fact beyond dispute. And that stitt more millions of human beings have either died before or at birth, or have Uved but a short time, the victims o' the same folly in their mothers, is also a fact that no observing physician wUl for u moment gainsay. In this region of the world, the fashion of dress is in daUy fluctuation; and the 180 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. ingenuity of the manufacturers is constantly *axed to develop some new phases in rts appearance, as an incentive to tho devotees to purchase. In the Eastern coun- tries there is and has ever been, a greater uniformity in the style of dress, tliough it differs essentially to different nations. The greater part of their garments are long and flowing, loosely cast about the body, consisting chiefly of a large piece of doth The refinements of modern Western dvihzation would not tolerate such habiUments; but they are weU adapted for use in hot dimates, are more healthy, and have more dignity and gracefulness of appearance than belongs to the garments generally worn in this part of the world. The dress of the modern Arab corresponds very nearly to that worn to ancient times by the people of the Eastern countries. It is a blanket usually six yards long and five or six feet broad, and serves as a complete dress by day and a covering by night. The women among the Turks and Arabs wear drawers: unmarried women are distinguished from the matrons by having their drawers made of needle- work, striped silk, or linen. When they appear in pubUc, they fold themselves up dosely in a kind of cape, so that very little of their faces can be seen ; and in addi- tion to this generaUy wear a veil which completely hides the face from view. This veil in some countries, reaches nearly to the feet. Thus are the ladies trammeled in their dress; but not to the injurious extent practised to modern times among the nations of Christendom. Did spaco aUow, we might give the reader particular accounts of the various extravagant outlandish, and disease-breeding fashions of clothing that have from time to time prevailed in tins country and in Europe. At one time there have been enor- mous head-dresses, that would distort the neck; at another, high-heeled shoes, to turn the feet and ankles to deformity; at another, dresses with immense hoops at the bottom, so magnificent to point of circumference as to be an effectual barrier against the close approach of an admirer; at another, lacing of the waist to a wasp- like smallness; at another, disfiguring rolls of cotton or bran, caUed bustles, worn with the foUy of attempting to improve upon the beautiful handiwork of Nature; at another, an enormous load of skirts, to weigh down upon the bowels; and further, and among the worst of aU fashions, and the most enduring, shoes of Uttle better than gossamer materials, Which afford scarcely the slightest protection against the mud, snow, and wet that prevatt for a good part of the year in Northern countries; and with these, dresses, to the cold weather of winter, which, in the satirical lan- guage of Voltaire, are "cut off too late at the top and too early at the bottom;" end many other mischievous and unhealthy modes of dress have prevaUed, too ■umerous to mention, and too pernicious to their effects upon the race to be worn without sm to the eyes of the Deity. The person should be protected and kept in uniform temperature by clothing of fiie right kind, and worn at such tunes or seasons, to such manner, and in such quantities as are best adapted to promote healtfi; and net as now, to obedience to the beck of fashion, or the law of carelessness. Disease should not be allowed to invade the system by means of too much or too little clothing, or through any other defect or imperfection; but each person should wear just such clothing, at aU times, as wiU involve the least risk, and produce the greatest vigor and personal enjoyment. But so far from taking pains to obey natural laws upon this subject people labor di- rectly to the contrary, and wear and endure that style and cut of garments that they blow to be injurious to health! THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 181 In an article on Consumption, aUuding to the modern modes of female dress, Dr. Dixon, at page 112 of vol. i. of the Scalpel, says:—"When we reflect upon the in- sane adherence to fashion in our country, and the total want of that knowledge that would compel precautionary measures, why should it not be so ? It is a part of an American female's education to wear tight dresses and thin shoes; she esteems her- Belf, at least temporarily, degraded, if she does not do it What becomes of the blood—that is, of four or five pounds out of the twenty-five she has in her body— when it is driven from her extremities by cold upon the heart and lungs ? These organs struggle to overcome their bonds, and to pass it through the lungs fast enough to preserve the balance of the circulation, but they must faU; a dozen powerful hooks and eyes, if not a corset to boot—and one is just as bad as the other—resist the efforts of the muscles to raise the ribs, and the delicate blood-vessels fining the bronchia, tender from congestion, give way here and there, and she spits blood; it is merciful she does; it had better come out than remain to the substance of the lungs." On pages 250, 251, and 252 of th». Scalpel, treating of the evfls of fashion, a pointed writer says:—"The exposure of the neck and chest, so common to the ranks of fashion, is as injurious to the health of the body as to the purity of the soul. Dis- eases of the throat, the lungs, and the heart, are the necessary consequences, and thousands of the fairest of the fair are annuaUy the victims of consumption from this cause alone. " The practice of tight lacing, or dressing, obstructs the circulation in the muscles, and thus hinders their growth and development. The consequence of this is, that the whole of the trunk is weak, requiring support, and Uable to give way upon be- ing exposed to the ordinary endurances of domestic Ufe. " To diminish the space for the movement of the lungs, (which tight lacing effec- tually performs,) is to deprive them of a part Of their function. If the lungs are pre- vented from spreading out their surfaces to the action of the air, less of good blood is made than is required for the purposes of life, and the whole of the organization be- comes feeble, and the functions defective. Those portions of the lungs which are obstructed in their functions become debttitated and absorbed. There is, therefore, less lung than is natural, and that is diseased. Hence, there is a sufficient founda- tion laid for the supervention of consumption, dropsy, and diseases of the heart and lungs. " If the lungs have not room enough to play, they wUl force other organs out of their place in their efforts to obtain it. The heart, deprived of comfortable space for its movements, wttl palpitate, and bo irregular to its action, and diseased to its sub- Btance. The stomach wUl be pressed down out of its place by the superincumbent diaphragm, and the substance of the organ diseased, whUe its function of digestion wUl bo disturbed. Indeed, the whole of the viscera of the abdomen wUl be pressed out of place, and disturbed, more or less. " There are, however, two parts towards which the pressure is usuaUy most inju- riously directed—the womb, and the last portion of the bowel The cavity in which these organs are placed, is covered to with muscles, which are capable of, and in- tended for contracting and dilating. They resist pressure to a certain extent, but after that they give way and stretch, losing their elasticity. Is it extraordinary that so many cases of prolapsus of the uterus and rectum should occur ? A fashionable pair of corsets wUl add to the weight of resistance in the abdomen from ten to thirty 182 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. pounds: what wonder if something give way ? It would be a wonder if something did not "Upon the point of beauty involved to this matter, we may remark that the laws of beauty are the laws of nature. There is, therefore, no room for the argument that the beauty of a woman requires this pressure, for this is to pass by unheeded the great prindple that we are to learn from Nature, not to teach her. [See Frontis- piece—Man and Woman.] " A fashionable woman cannot have her maternal organs to a state of health, and therefore aU the functions appertaining to those modes of her existence wUl neces- sarily be accompanied with inconvenience and pain. The functions of gestation parturition, and lactation, are performed with debiUtated and diseased organs; and from the necessity of the case, must be disordered and disturbed." The female dress of the present time, as it is worn among us, is not fitted for health, convenience, Ughtness, proper warmth, or the welfare of the offspring. Her skirts, coffee-sacks, and heavy luggage, worn to give what is styled beauty and graceful- ness, and her show of goods to the form of long dresses, are anything but produc- tive of health to herself and child. The lower extremities of females, in the preva- lent fashion of dress, are much exposed to cold; her garments, fastened about the waist, are generaUy cumbersome, and drag down the bowels. She indulges to thin shoes, thin dresses, thin bonnets, low-necked and short-sleeved outer garments to improper seasons of the year,—when the cold winds chiU the blood, and predispose to consumption. And thus she becomes diseased and enfeebled, and is rendered in- competent to produce or nourish healthy offspring. Says Combe: " Female dress errs to one important particular, even when unex- ceptionable to material and quantity. From the tightness with winch it is made to fit on the upper part of the body, not only is the insensible perspiration injudiciously and hurtfutty confined, but that free play between the dress and the skin, which is so beneficial to gently stimulating the latter by friction at every movement of the body, is altogether prevented, and the action of the cutaneous nerves and vessels, and consequently the heat generated is less than that which would result from the same dress more loosely worn." The health of the chUd being much more dependent, to most cases, upon the con- dition of the mother than of the father, greater care should be taken to have her dress such as would not induce Ul health. But this is not the case. The reverse ia true 1 The body and the mind are enfeebled and diseased by seeking the vanities of fashion, rather than obeying the laws of Ufe and health. The richest gift of God to the race—the power of man and woman to procreate the divtoe image—is thwarted in its action, if not annulled, by obedience to the fotties of fashion in tight lacing, wearing thin shoes, and other Uke contrivances for shortening the span of human Ufe. As a striking evidence of the iU effects of the present female costume, we may point to the fact, that the Indian women of our country, when living in their natu- ral state, are never troubled with those female weaknesses pecuUar to the fashion- able lady. The back and bowels of the Indian woman are never subject to the dis- eases common to the ladies Uvtog to civilized countries; and what the Indian wo- man is to this respect, the white woman might be, if she would study and abide by the laws of Ufe and health. The honor of the redemption of the world, through the agency of flesh and blood, is die to woman; and if woman can redeem a faUen world, can she not redeem her THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 183 Bex from tho evUs of fashionable dressing, which hastens early consumption. A united action of the ladies could change or modify the female dress, so as to greatly promote the health and longevity of the sex. The most essential objection to be made by the males against a change in the present female costume, wUl arise from a supposition that a new style witt encroach upon the fashion of the male sex so closely as to prevent detection of the sexes. Therefore, if the ladies change their style of dress, they should not faU to wear some external sign by which they may be always known. There cannot be too much cau- tion exercised about adopting such a fashion as would attract the too earnest gaze of the opposite sex; and if the present dress should be shortened, the extremities should be so clothed as to afford no extra attraction for the gazer. Woman by nature is a source of great comfort and happiness to man. Her win- ning smUos, sweet songs, rosy cheeks, ruby Ups, loving, eyes, and beautiful form are to him fountains of exquisite enjoyment. Why should she detract from her charms? why blast herself by consumption ?—why ruin her own prospects to Ufe ?—why make broken-hearted mourners of parents, husbands, brothers, sisters and friends, for the sake of foUowing to the footsteps of fashion ? But these she does, by im- proper modes of dress, which take health and strength from the womb and bowels, Ufe from the eye, color from the cheek, elasticity from the step, vigor from the muscles, vivacity from the mind and loveliness from the spirits, and hasten her to the grave of the consumptive. A sickly, broken-backed, fatten-boweled, hoUow-voiced, sunken-eyed, saUow- complexioned, emaciated and consumptive nation of females, slaves to foolish fashions, is a grievous subject to contemplate; for such are not only a curse to themselves but to those who shaU come after them; a Ubel on the original creation of God; degenerators of the race; a disgrace to a reasonable, inteUigent civittzed and wise people, whose improvements to every work, save in that of caring for hu- man health, outshine aU the past generations of the world. Our country is flooded with stays, abdominal and uterine supporters, &c, ribbing the woman around as barrels are ribbed with the hoops of the cooper—which serve generally to deform the frame, disease the parts, and make the condition of the wearer worse instead of better. By the adoption of some different mode of dress, and by proper attention to health, these articles might be altogether dispensed with, and woman grow up to the original beauty and symmetry designed by nature and God. The effects of tight-lacing and wearing stays to compress the waist, and de- stroy both health and beauty of form, may be seen to the following cuts, Ulustrative of artificial and inartificial waists. If ladies destroy their natural attractiveness, they cannot expect to hold control over or even to influence the men. It has been said that woman is the most pow- erful of aU created beings; and, to a certain sense, this is true; at least it was so admitted by the ktog of the most powerful nation upon earth who suffered a fair damsel to box his ears—an act that certainly no man would have dared to do. When woman is to health and in full possession of her natural charms, man is her slave, to soUcit her favor, her smUes and her love; but when these depart from her, her power departs also, and her influence over man is lost to her for ever. In view of these considerations, I would suggest a modification in the existing modes of female dress. Let the garments be warm and comfortable about the neck in cold and damp weather; the arms be properly covered, in accordance with the 184 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. No. 39.—Artificial Waist. Natural Waist. ehanges of the season; the dress sit free, loose and easy about the chest; corsets and kindred contrivances be aboUshed; the heavy and burdensome skirts thrown off, and those worn hang from the shoulders by the Suspender and Shoulder-Brace; no un- natural protuberances attached posteriorly to make amends for a supposed deficien- cy in the work of nature; no weight or pressure be allowed upon the bowels; the lower extremities be properly clothed and kept warm, and the feet properly protect- ed with thick shoes or boots. These improvements would save many from diseases of the genital organs— (jjom falling of the womb; from ulcers, tumors and polypuses of the womb; from weaknesses in the back, spinal diseases and numerous other complaints, too numer- ous to be mentioned here, but by no means so unimportant that every means possible for their prevention should not be embraced with avidity and employed byaUL EXPENSE AND LABOR TO PRODUCE CONSUMPTION. The extent and fatality of consumption have been subjects for tovestigation ana comment since the first days of medical science; but the causes of it have been generally overlooked by writers, so that whUe physicians have labored for its eradica- tion, the people have been constantly engaged in various ways to propagate the dis- ease. Many of these ways I have spoken of in other parts of this work; I would now direct your attention more particularly to the mode of inducing consumption by the wearing of stays and corsets. That you may have some idea of the extent to which ladies are propped up by stays and corsets, I wiU submit to you the statistics of the stay and corset making business to the city of Paris. The stay-making business is carried on by 652 prin- cipal establishments, which -employ 3968 workwomen. The value of the manufao- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 185 ture is five miUion francs annually; and 1,200,000 corsets are made to P&ris annu- ally for exportation I If to this huge amount we add those made to other parts of the world—at home and abroad,—the sum total would be enormous. Of the extent of the manufacture of .hese articles to New York, I have not now at hand the means of informing my- self; but I know that it is greater than it ought to be, if the health of the people was considered. But we can see from the statistics of Paris to what extent these articles are worn, and I know that hundreds and thousands of females are voluntarily im- prisoned to them to the great detriment of their health and often to the production of consumption. A more ingenious method for killing women without exciting their alarm than the us-a of stays and corsets could not readily be devised; and to their inventors, first that great enemy of life, King Death, should award one of hi3 pre- miums. That such enormous sums of money and so much of labor should be expended in the production of articles to kiU ladies by degrees, seems strange indeed; but not so strange as that the ladies themselves should purchase and use the very articles that are their destruction, when their greatest happiness Ues in the enjoyment of good health. For while the manufacturer makes money of the business, the deluded purchaser is spending her money to procure articles that enfeeble her, and inducing disease that wUl caU for stUl more money to remove it from her system. The propriety of giving to the vital organization free play, cannot be too strongly enforced; and yet, to-day in civilized life, enlightened people are con- tinually and systematically engaged to cramping the motions of the heart and lungs, and compressing the space in which the machinery of Ufe performs its operations. This cut represents the bust and stomach of a weU developed female, as. she would be if nature were not thwarted. The next cut depicts her as she too often is, after being "cabined, cribbed, confined," by laces and whalebone, corsets and stays. Is it any wonder that we hear of heart diseases, consumption, dyspepsia, and female weakness, when there is actually no room for healthy pulsation and digestion? The blood made in such a contracted laboratory, must be imperfectly made, and must, therefore, be impure. Ladies, I would exhort you to leave these instru- ments of death in the shops where they are exposed for sale. Do not let them come nigh you; for forth from their embrace wiU spring pains, consumption and death. If you need support, that support must be had through a pure, vigorous and healthy blood, to obtain which, proper habits of Uving, exercise of various ktods, good food and air, and restorative and invigorating medicines must be had recourse to instead of compressing corsets and imprisoning stays. [See articles on Air, Diet, Exercise, &c] No. 40.—Natural Chest. No. 41.—Cdmpressed Chesi 186 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. VACCINATION—ITS EVILS. In vaccination great care should be taken to obtato the vaccine matter from a person perfectly free from disease or humors of any kind, or evils of magnitude wiU arise. The worst cases of scrofula, erysipelas and salt rheum have been given by inoculating for the kine pox; and syphilitic and cancerous humors are frequently communicated in this way, as is also consumption. The matter taken from the in- oculation of a person troubled with some disease is almost certain to infuse that disease into the blood of those upon whom it is used. It were much better to have the smaU-pox than suffer from some of the evU humors inoculated toto the blood with impure vaccine matter. If you wish to vaccinate yourself or your chUdren, be sure that the matter is taken from a child who has a pure blood and healthy system. Adult persons being much more apt to be diseased than chUdren, it is not advisable to take the infectant from them. It is better to get it from the cow, if possible. Distempers in the blood contracted from vaccination are very difficult of eradication; therefore I would ad- vise aU to use great caution to this matter. I have had many cases presented to me for examination, arising from this source; and though generally succeeding to re- storing the blood to its proper and original state of health, I know that it is not so easy to be done that any one would desire to become diseased to the way I have aUuded to. DISEASES OF TRADES. Man, to his several relations, is assuredly the most extraordinary and interesting being to the universe, for examination and reflection. His splendid and beautiful external form, and the number and complexity of his organs, their harmony and re- lationship, have from my boyhood up been a theme to me of never-ending gratifica- tion and study. But it has been one thing to view man as created by God, and another to exam- ine him in a morally and physically degraded state. Alas I and whom are we to thank for such a melancholy change ? His fellow man—he who should have been the first to have cherished and supported his toiling brother—who should have fed him when hungry, clothed him when naked, and given him drtok when thirsty, is, all over the world, found to be his greatest tormentor. In looking at the miracles of science and art; in looking at the beautiful fabrics of the loom, the hammer, the graver, or the needle, we may forget the thousands in mines, shut from the Ught of day, and the air of heaven—we may forget the crowd- ed factories, the damp workshops, the empty garrets, the pestUential diseases inci- dent to the industrious. I have to my travels and my practice collected much in- formation connected with the diseases of Trades and Professions, and I will therefore proceed to give a brief view of the agencies which are at work to produce them, hoping that from the inquiry, some improvement may result to those classes of our feUow-creatures. The Butcher.—Either diseases are multiplied artifieiaUy, or thev are not. If in- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 181 quiry proves they are, surely sett-interest, as well as benevolence, demands a full to- vestigation into the causes of the evU. If the negative, I shaU rest contented, gratified with the beUet that onr avocations are not injurious, and that the increase e>f mor- taUty is the infliction of the Creator, not the agency of his creatures. All who reflect on this subject, it is presumed, wUl admit that our employments are to a considerable degree injurious to health; at the same time they believe, that the evils cannot be counteracted, and that an tovestigation of such evUs can produce only pain and discontent From a reference to facts and observation, I am clearly convinced that in many occupations the injurious agents might be removed, or, at aU events diminished. EvUs are suffered to exist where the means of correction are known and readily supplied. Apathy is the great obstacle to success. But where no adequate remedy immediately presents itself, observation and discussion wUl rarely fail to discover one. I might even say that the human mind cannot be fairly and perseveringly applied to a subject of this nature, without beneficial re- sults. However, when an evU is conttouaUy kept before the pubUc attention, other investigations, or the march of science in other departments, often provide a remedy. Thousands of Uves have been lost by explosions in coal mines, and thousands more would have been added to the list, if the property of gases had not been ex- amined. Yet the miner, doubtless, has often said, before Davy invented his safety lamp, " These explosions are very shocking events, but we cannot prevent them— tbey are insuperable from the nature of our employment." Such wiU ever be the sentiments of those ,/ho are either too distrustful of science, or too selfish to investigate the cause of an evU. I wUl commence my remarks with those employments whose operations aUow the greatest physical perfection. First those of active habits, and whose employ- ment is chiefly to the open air. Butchers claim a priority of position; they Uve much in the open air, and take strong exercise. Most of the masters ride on horse- back to the neighboring markets, and are proverbially known to be fast riders, and good walkers. Butchers and slaughtermen, their wives, chUdren and errand boys, almost aU eat fresh meat twice a day. They are plump and rosy, and generaUy cheerful and good natured. They do not seem subject to such anxieties as the fluctuations of other trades produce, for meat is always to demand. They are sub- ject to few ailments, except those arising from the fulness of the system, or in New York, to the bad air of the markets. Consumptions are rare among this class— while their diet subjects them much less than other businesses to dysentery or cholera. Out of 1000 patients, my average rate of butchers I find to be only about two per cent. Notwithstanding the favorable circumstances of the butchers, long life is rx>t greater in them than to the majority of employments. In short, until our authori- ties erect better market stalls and slaughter houses, butchers wiU have to fight with damp feet and bad air, also with too high living, and perhaps intemperance. Cattle and Horse Dealers.—Cattle and horse dealers, leading an active Ufe in the open air, are generally healthy, and would be almost exempt from ordinary maladies, were it not for their habits of irrregularity or intemperance. Wet and cold would rarely produce temporary ailments, provided these individuals were careful to keep the blood clean and cool, so much is their employment conducive to 188 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. health and vigor. But On the whole, their appearance is at once indicative of a carelessness, or ignorance on this point and I generaUy find them deranged about the Uver, stomach and blood Fishmongers, or fishermen, are of necessity, greatly exposed to the weather, and its consequences. They appear not to be subject to rheumatism or other in- flammatory maladies. GeneraUy hardy, those who are temperate, enjoy health, and those who have some knowledge of physiology, Uve to a considerable age. Very far different are those who are addicted to intemperance—they are subject to catarrhal, Uver and lung complaints, and as a consequence sickly and short-Uved. Carters.—This class, though exposed to atmospheric vicissitudes and influences, are healthy in proportion to thefr regularity, temperance, and nourishment Many of them however are poorly employed and of course poorly paid—many have their employment so very uncertain that it causes them to be improvident and intemper- ate. Consumptions and rheumatisms are not unfrequent among the poorer portion. Laborers.—Laborers to this country are better paid, and more healthy than in Europe. Nevertheless, many, betog of European birth, are from their habits and imprudences of living, neither properly dad nor fed. They generaUy congregate to very ttl ventilated and noxious apartments and streets, which with drinktog bad Uquor, makes them the victims of todigestion, scrofula, ulcers, &c.; and they also suffer from every kind of epidemic which may visit the locattty to which they labor or reside. Omnibus Drivers, Cabmen, Railway Guards, and Postmen.—Postmen, or in- dividuals who ride much on horseback, have plenty of air and exercise, but the ex- ercise is objectionable. Their position to the saddle is bad, and the arms are used unequally. Hence curvatures of the spine are common among them ; they are also subject to aneurism of the large vessels of the heart. The drivers of cabs and omnibuses, have more moderate and equable exercise; \ut their position subjects them to aneurism of the artery to the arm—omnibus men more, however, than cab drivers. These men generaUy suffer from disorders of the head and stomach RaUway guards, are, by the pecuUarity of their position, rather irregular to their habits of eating and drinking, and havtog less muscular exercise than drivers to counteract its effects, suffer more from sickness. In addition to morning sickness, and such other affections indicating impurity of the blood, they are affected with congestion of the abdomen, and of the head, productog apoplexy and palsy. The guards of raUways, besides betog exposed to loss of Ufe from accidents, suffer much from eye diseases and bronchitis, produced by the dust an matter from where received, can never sustain the body of eithei chttd or adult to health and vigor; contrawise, it wttl induce physical suffering, and often death. In connection with the subject of infantile deaths, a comparison of statistics of Eu ropean and American cities show some startling facts that should arouse our atten- tion. Statistics of London show that during the last hundred years, the diminution of infant deaths there has been from 74.5 per cent, to 31.8 per cent., and the same principle is true of other cities of Europe. But to American cities, so far back aa information is to be had, there has been a constant and steady .increase of infant mor- tality, to nearly an inverse ratio to the decrease to Europe I So that at this time nearly two-thirds of the mortality of the city of New York is of chUdren under five years of age; and PhUadelphia and Boston are but a smaU per centage better; while, at the same time, the total mortality of the European cities is greater in proportion than that of the American III To what is tins startling fact to be ascribed, save in a great measure to the use of unhealthy milk, which breeds disease, and carries thou- sands of infants to the tomb ? And this is the more apparent from the fact, that in Europe the curse of stttl-fed mttk is not allowed to tho extent that it is carried on in free America. And hence the difference 1 We would naturally conclude that every- body to America felt free to scatter death to the extent of his ability. No one looking at these facts can conclude that the unhealthy influence of bad milk is exaggerated. In New York, Brooklyn, and the places adjacent, it is proba- ble that at least 6,000,000 of gallons of mttk is annuaUy consumed. In these places there are some 30,000 chUdren under five years of age to whom this milk is the principal food. At least 4,000,000 gaUons of this mttk is poisoned by base adultera- tions, or is the product of stall-fed and still-fed cows, and consequently fit only for the gutter. And when this, the chief support of infant Ufe, carries death in its every drop, is it to be wondered at that the chUdren perish Uke the leaves of autumn be- fore the bttghting frost ? Says Mr. Hartley, " There are many weU-disposed persons, who are accustomed to ascribe this terrific waste of infant life to inevitable and fatal necessity, irre- spective of the observance or neglect of those secondary causes, through which Providence invariably fulfills its designs. But can such be the purpose of the bene- volent Creator ? Is so large a number of his rational offspring born with such feeb'.e powers of vitaUty that Ufe necessarily becomes extinct on the threshold of existence ? [And ;an a divtoe, knowing of these evils, in his sermon at the grave of an infant regard as a " divtoe dispensation" the death of that infant, and say that God to his goodness has taken it away ? Has it not rather been murdered by men ? If he can preach thus, with a clear conscience and a beUeving heart, let him say on ; if not, let him rise and caU for the wrath of heaven to banish such iniquities from our midst.—Author."] Such cowlusions, being inconsistent with the teachings of his Word and Providence, must be rejected as impious and absurd. Il this mortaUty was the appointment of a divine decree, independent of any agencies under human control, then might we become indifferent and fold our arms in in activity, for any exertions of ours to prevent it would prove as unavailing as our THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 227 regrets. But how are these views reconciled with the increase of infant deaths among us from 32 to 60 per cent., in the course of a few years, whUe to foreign dties in the same time the result is reversed?" The truth is, our milch cows are shut up to close and filthy stables, deprived of air and exerciso, and there fed on detestable compounds tiU both themselves and their milk is diseased; this mttk is peddled out to rear our chUdren, and thus the seeds of disease are sown to the cradle, and the fountains of life poisoned at their source. In Europe, these things are not altogether so; more scrutiny is exercised, and men are not so freely aUowed to kttl their fellow men in this way. Here, there is a species of lawlessness in these matters; no inspection is instituted, no checks im- posed, and not only does every man " sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree with none to make him afraid," but he peddles death among his feUows with no restraint of anythtog but his caoutchoucy conscience. It would be well if we had less freedom and more law to these matters. The result would be beneficial to the mass, against the pockets of the few. And not only do infants suffer from this cause, but adults likewise; though their food betog less of this kind, the effects of it are not bo visible among them. To give the reader a correct idea of how matters are managed at the slop-dairies, we wttl condense a description from a memorial to the authorities of the city upon this subject. Says the memorial, (which I find to " Cause of Natural Death,") " I had occasion to watte through Fifteenth-street to the Hudson river. When I had passed the 9th Avenue, my olfactory nerves were shocked by a stench such as it would be difficult to imagine, and impossible to desoribe. I found it proceeded from the extensive cow stables attached to a distttlery. From near the 9th Avenue to the river, I observed long, low sheds, occupying the entire space between Fif- teenth and Sixteenth streets. On inspection, I found that each shed was occupied by cows, stalled close together, from eight to ten to a row, arranged cross-wise, and Btandtog back to back so near that a man could scarcely pass between them. The Btable appeared to be as free from filth as the nature of the case would admit; but Btill the stench was horrible I The animals were each tied by a short rope to a trough; and I was informed that they are never taken out after betog once stalled, untU they cease to give mttk, or become sick, when they are sold to the butcher 1 The troughs are branches of a main trunk, connecting them with the distttlery, from which they receive the smoking swttl that makes their chief food " The foUowing conversation, which I had with several respectable laboring men to the vicinity of the distiUeiy, wttl serve to enUghten the consumers as to the quaUty of the article which is so extensively distributed under the name of mttk: " Q. ' Are not these cows Uable to disease from being confined so closely and fed on swUl ?' "A 'That indeed they are, sir. If you will take the trouble to look toto tho lots opposite the stables, you may see from two to six of them staggering about, and ready to drop dead. Sometimes six of them witt die in a stogie day.' " Q. ' Do they conttoue to mttk them after they are turned out to die ?' " A. ' Yes, sir. I have seen them do it frequently. I have seen them when they were so exhausted as to be unable to stand long enough tc be milked, and one man would hold them up while another would mttk them.' " Q. ' Do they reaUy seU that milk through the city ?' "A. 'Yes, sir. They carry it round to their customers every day, under tho 228 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. name of Westchester county, or Orange county milk. It is a very common thing for country mttkmen to bring their cans toto the city half full and fttl them up at this establishment' " Q. ' What becomes of these sick cows which you speak of? Do they re- cover ?' uA.lI believe not a stogie case of recovery has been known. They appear to die of consumption. Many have been examined after death, and the lungs are always found to be badly diseased. When they stop milking the butcher gets them.' " Q. 'Is it possible that those diseased animals are sold for beef through the city?' "A. 'Why, sir, that is no secret I They are carded off to some slaughter-house during the night, or they are taken out of town and cut up, and then brought back to the butcher shops.'" A gentleman who visited another of these establishments says: " As we ap- proached a range of stables, an open window* induced us to draw near it when, unobserved ourselves, we saw a man inside milking one of the cows, whoso bag was evidently diseased, and extremely sore. After attentively noticing it, for a few minutes, we discovered that one side of the bag, and one teat, were very much swoUen, and that the bag on the swollen side had recently been lanced, and was in a most offensive state of suppuration. But the dairyman, unwilling to lose the milk, was carefully stripping three of the teats, whilst at every pressure of the fingers bloody and yellow corrupt matter was forced from the wound, ran down over the back of bis hands, and mingled with the mass of milk to the pail which was doubtless afterwards sold and eaten by his customers I " The cow stables are indescribably filthy, and so is everything pertaining to the rnilk arrangement The milk room is to the midst of the steam and effluvium of the pens, and scarcely a whit purer, which is sufficient of itself to taint and spoU the best milk. The milk-strainers are used for dish-cloths, and then slapped up against the stable-door to dry. Sometimes a handful of straw is gathered from the stable floor, and whisked around a patt or other vessel when the vessel is put aside for use." In order to deceive the purchaser, the milk peddlers of New York and vicinity, as weU as the grocerymen who deal in milk, hang out false colors upon thefr carts and at thefr stores. When they know that the article they are setting is the pro- duct of still-fed cows, or is basely diluted and adulterated, they unblushingly make use of such labels as "Orange county Milk," or "Westchester," or "Essex," or "Long Island," or some other place, and these lying labels are generaUy accom- panied with the prefix of " pure." • Pure I then is Lucifer himself pure in the sight of God I The truth is, that in ntoe times out of ten this milk never comes from the country; and as to the purity of it, there is not used in New York one gallon of pure mttk to one thousand of adulterated I If we were to beUeve these lying labels, the counties about New York must be UteraUy covered with cows, to produce the quantities of mttk purporting to be brought from them. If we are to suppose that Orange, Westchester, Essex, Putnam, and other counties around us, produce such a detestable article called milk as is sold to our streets, we must conceive a very poor opinion of them—in fact that their soils must be beds of poisons I WUl the farmers of those regions be content to have an estimate of them based upon the filthy hquid that is peddled to this city? That there is mttk brought here from the country is very true; but it is taken by the dealers here and manufactured over THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 229 before it is sold; first diluted with water to increase the quantity, and then charged With base ingredients to keep up the color; or worse, it is taken to the distilleries and there mixed with the still-fed milk of diseased cows. Milkmen have various cows and quaUties of mttk, comparing to price according to the quality of the cow and their food. You can get the mttk from the deep red cow, the black cow, the country cow, the stall-fed cow, the cow with one horn, or the cow with two horns, the cow with long horns, or the cow with short horns. As the butter is contained in the horns (1) of the cow, varying according to the number and length of the horns, so they say the price for milk must vary. In ad- dition to these you can get sheep's milk, or goat's mttk; chalk, or ochre mttk; watered, or not watered; from cows that are able to stand up, or those that have to Ue down; from some fed on grass, or from those that cannot eat at aU; somo that have teeth and some that need a new set. In fact, a dairyman can furnish you with any quality of mttk you desire I but what is remarkable in the matter, he invariably suppttes aU the different kinds from one and the same can. That there is some good, pure mttk sold here is undoubtedly true; but to get it you must know the one who furnishes you, and you must pay him at least six cents a quart; for good, pure mttk cannot be afforded in New York at a less rate than this. Never buy mttk at four or even five cents. Use less, and get that which is good. One quart of pure mttk will contain more nourishment than a gallon of the diluted; therefore, it is cheapest to buy the best In view of these facts, is it strange that our bills of infant mortality are so large ? Is it strange when we look at these matters, and the other adulterations, and tho infringements of the laws of health in various other modes, that consump- tion stalks in our midst with a haughty front and sweeps his thousands yearly to the tomb ? GOOD TEAS ORDAINED OF GOD. In the artide of teas, there is also a large amount of adulteration carried on; man* baskets of beach-tree and dover leaves are annuaUy cooked and rolled up ant mixed to the favorite beverage of the ladies. A poisonous matter is also used to the coloring of some tea, to make the water look black and " strong" after it has been steeped. In the beach and dover leaves there may be nothing deleterious to the system, unless they be destitute of that bitter principle which operates as a corrective upon the water and upon the secretions of the stomach which is un- doubtedly the case; but then, its totroduction is a fraud upon the purchaser. But of the poisonous colorings used, there cannot be too much care exercised to avoid them, for they are hurtful to the system. This work is generally done by the in- habitants of the "celestial empire," where the same principles of imposition seem to be to vogue that are practiced among the " outside barbarians" in more enUght- ened and Christian countries. Whether the one learned the lesson from the other, I know not; and if so, which was teacher and which pupil is beyond my power to dedde; but I think neither: undoubtedly it is the product of "original sin,'' springing up abundantly and thriving luxuriously to aU countries and to aU dimes whithersoever the foot of man has trod, and the principle of self-aggrandizement has been the foundatfon of society. 230 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. There has been a great deal written by modern philosophers deprecating the -f his Creator. Any deviation from this design must manifestly be injurious to him No wise design can be infringed with entire impunity. But this glorious law of uprightness has been and is constantly being infringed. Hence feebleness, disease, and death, everywhere prevatt. The human body may aptly be compared to a machine perfectly adapted to accom plish certato ends, and never to fail, except through violence or aeddent, untU those ends are accompttshei So the human*body, with its various, compUcated, and wonderfil parts, is a ma- / THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 243 chine pre-eminently adapted to accomplish important ends, and not to fatt, except through violation of the great law of mechanical equiUbrium by which it is sustain- ed, until it has accomplisl ed those ends. Then, and never till than, did nature design that " the dust should return to tho earth as it was, and the spirit to God who gave it." The mechanical equiUbrium of the human body may be disturbed or destroyed b} submitting to a stooping or bending attitude to the pursuit of any occupation. Habit, and not necessity, makes people stoop and bend in their occupations. By these habits, thousands annually ruin their health and destroy their lives, to foUow- ing thefr occupations. In all healthy and weU-organized constitutions, the habit of stooping is formed; it is not natural. It begins on the floor at home; from thence it extends to the in- fant school; and, as soon as may be, from thence to the common schools, where it prevails universally. [See article on Erect Carriage.] Mechanical equiUbrium may be destroyed and poor health induced by wearing the clothing too tight around the waist. This is always attended with danger, and especially when the size of the waist is thereby diminished, as is the case in milUons of instances. This is one of the most fruitful causes known to our world for the wide-spread havoc which disease, in its varied and multiplied forms, is making among the fairest and brightest part of creation. Close dressing, or "tight lacing," as it is sometimes called, is not exclusively practiced by the ladies. Many of the male sex, particu- larly young gentlemen moving to the more fashionable circles of Ufe, carry this prac- tice to nearly as great an extent as the ladies themselves, though it is generaUy less known, they being somewhat more private about letting the secret of thefr wasp- waists get abroad. From this cause mUUons of both sexes are constantly suffering inexpressible in- juries. By contracting the chest unnaturaUy, the heart and lungs are prevented from easUy discharging their office, and these, in their turn, by sympathy, affect the organs of the lower bowels, and thus the foundations of Ufe and health are aU dis- turbed and thrown out of their equttibrium, and hence a large share of the physical evils and suffering which we everywhere behold. It has often been asked what mean those sallow complexions, and languid eyes, and pallid lips, and hollow cheeks, and hurried breathings, and trembling nerves, and sepulchral voices, that abound in every community ? Derangement of mechan- ical equiUbrium, by tight lacing, is the answer. -> What mean the untold multitude of spinal weaknesses, and pains to the side, and kidney affections, and falling of the bowels, and hacking coughs, that meet us wherever we go. Derangement of mechanical equttibrium and support, by tight lactog, in connec- tion with weak and impure blood, must be the answer. It is impossible here to enumerate but a few of the many evils that follow in the train' of too tight lactog of the waist. The evUs are extremely deplorable. Hundreds of thousands from thw cause annuaUy descend into untimely graves. And still new victims are constantly multiplying to take their place. Shall there be none to pity ? none to warn ? A voice seems to come up from 244 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. the grave, and sound to our ears the note of alarm, which the Uving are slow to givo. The mechanical equttibrium of the human body may be disturbed and deranged by acddents, so caUed. It would be utterly impossible for us here to particularize the numerous ways in which the just equttibrium of the human body is constantly being disturbed and destroyed by accidents, and thus producing all the evils winch we have enumerated. Neither their number nor extent can ever be told; yet we know they are frightful causes of shattered health and untimely graves. No people, nation, or kingdom un- der heaven is exempt; no age has ever been free. They vary from the sUghtest disturbance of mechanical equUibrium and support to the most perfect annihilation, and are productive of the evUs to mankind, to pro- portion to the nature and extent of the disturbance. . Intentional violence is another fruitful and terrific cause of disturbance and de- struction of mechanical equttibrium, inducing the loss of health and Ufe. How vast and shocking is the field here presented to the eye of the philanthro- pist I How dreadful to the contemplation even of a stoic or a barbarian I It embraces within its Umits aU the murders that have ever been committed: all the mutilations, carnage and death of every private encounter, and of every battle- field of maddened and desperate men, throughout all tune. Let the carnage upon the bloody battle-fields of the world bear witness to tins. Let the mutilated and shattered frames, and broken constitutions of thousands from those fields of strife, bear witness. ^ Therefore, let those who value health, and who would enjoy the world to comfort to a ripe old age, take good care that they do not, to any way, destroy the mechanical equiUbrium of the body; for, as shown here, and in the article on "Erect Car- riage," the loss of this is the loss of health and the cause of premature decay and death But if the equUibrium of the body is already lost, and you are suffering from any weakness of the spine, chest loins, shoulders, &c, recoUect that these de- fects must be remedied as speedily as possible. To this end, you should se- cure one of my celebrated Shoulder Braces, which prevents the shoulder blades from spreadtog apart, and keeps them to thefr regular position; opens and expands the chest, and gives large lungs, with free respiration; braces the loins, and strengthens the small of the back; and, when used in connection with medicines for removing pains to those regions, and purifying and strengthening the blood, wiU give you an erect and handsome figure, vigorous with elasticity and strength. [See articles on Shoulder Brace, and Erect Carriage, and notices of Medicines.] LIVE YOU MUST, AND DIE YOU CANNOT, Until old age takes down your body of clay, provided you obey the moral and physical laws appointed for your governance, and moderately and temperately gratify the desires of your nature to the legitimate way. Excess to anything con- nected with the system, will induce disease and bring on death prematurely; but gratification in moderation and temperance, wttl prolong Ufe and give health and happiness. Keep the blood pure and healthy, and do not lose the mechanical THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 245 equdibrium of the body, and you wttl remato long in the land given you to inherit; but if you choke up the system with earthy matter, and suffer the blood to get thick and humory, death wiU soon take down your tabernacle of clay. Let all the powers of the body be naturally and moderately indulged in their instincts. Be men and women of wisdom, given to observation and instruction, rather than children of ignorance, given to disobedience. Obey the laws of health, and you may long and pray for death, but it wttl be far from you. Be cheerful, be happy and contented, yet patient and persevering; never given to idleness or Ucentiousness; study purity of body and mind, and length of days wttl crown you with success and plenty. CONSUMPTION OF THE LIVER This is caused byunprudence to eating and drinktog, by compressure to lacing, by imperfect menstruation, caustic bile, gall stones to the Uver, humors of the blood, worms, and grub in the Uver. A person troubled with consumption of the Uver often has a great change of the countenance, alternately pale, yeUow, blue and spotted; has sometimes enlarge- ment of or pain in, the right side, cough expectoration, attended often with vomiting, raising the food, costiveness, and hot flushes; also, frequently a weak, palo or blue blood, with smaU veins and weak and slow pulse, with more or leas pato and soreness in the region of the Uver. Grubs in the Uver often produce a copious discharge from the bowels of a bttious, watery substance, frequently accompanied with a quantity of the vermin. They also give a constant uneasy crawling or gnawing pato, indicative of the Uve aninialculae which inhabit the Uver. Sometimes an issue or running sore is formed on the side, by which the grubs matterate or are discharged to great quantities. I have known from a pint to a gatton of grubs, with secretions, burst toto and be dis- charged from the bowels in a short time. Tho grub often cause running issues or fistulas in an extremity of the system, remote from the organ they inhabit Grub in the spine or muscles of the back or hips, often cause running issues about or near those parts, which are frequently mistaken for white swellings or scrofulous sores, yet may be easUy deteded by a competent physidan. [See Grub Consumption.] Consumption of the Uver is often mistaken for pulmonary consumption by most physidans. And no man is properly capacitated to treat tovaUds suffering from this disease untU he first learns to accurately distinguish between the two. He must do this before he can cure either. The first grand Becrets to curing consumption are to ascertain the nature of the disease, the location and the cause. But this m cannot be accurately done without the aid of the Lung Barometer. Thousands of tovaUds who had consumption, induced by the presence of grub to the system, have said to their physidans, "Give me something that wttl stop this sickening, gnawing pain." But the physician, not knowtog the cause, could not remove the vexatious feeling. I never fully understood the sufferings of tovaUds troubled with consumption by grubs till I discovered and dislodged them from the system of a patient. Then I no longer wondered at his strange feelings. Had I known of the existence of this 246 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. viper to the human system years before I did, I might have saved thousands who have gone down to the tomb. But now I am ready to say, Come one, come all, and find deUvery from the foul destroyer. KIDNEY CONSUMPTION. The office of the kidneys is to secrete from the blood the wateiy portion thereof, or the urine. Consumption of the kidneys may be caused by humors of the blood, falls or strains, masturbation, venereal taint, scrofula, excessive sexual totercourse, gravel, mercurial poisons, imperfed menstruation, wearing heavy skirts, tight-lacing, colds, and grub, or kidney snake. Grub to the kidneys causes dropsy, bloated legs and feet, enlarged abdomen, gleet and seminal discharges, to both sexes; a white mucus gleet in ladies, offen- sive urine, and a grumbling pato to the region of the kidneys. The kidney snake causes similar symptoms, but the pain is more intense—the snake being more powerful and deadly than the grub. The kidney snake varies to length from four inches to three feet, and to diameter from one-eighth to one inch. This reptile is often found in antoials. I have frequently taken them from domestic animals by dissecting, that I might study their nature and habits. The presence of the kidney snake often produces a weak back, as if the back were broken; so that there is no use of the body below the small of the back. The effect of this is to give a bed-ridden tovaUd, who finaUy ends his days to con- sumption. Grub, or kidney snake, also cause a sore or a curved spine, pain to the back o« the head, idiocy, insanity, convulsions, spasms, fits, and paralysis. To cure these diseases, when caused by the presence of these reptiles, they must first be de- stroyed and dislodged from the system. No description of symptoms can be given to determine whether or not the grub or kidney snake exist to the system, from the fact that the symptoms closely re- semble those to toflammation and chronic diseases. Experience and practice are the only safe guides to detect the presence of these animals and thefr location ; as they are as difficult of detection from other diseases as common worms or tape worms. I have cured many cases of kidney consumption, both when induced by the grub and by other causes; and to the few instances of kidney snake in the system of my patients, have succeeded to expelling them also. So that I feel no hesitation in saying that any troubled to any manner as above indicated, and who wttl apply to me for reUef shaU be restored to health, unless their disease is of such long stand- tog as to be past aU reUef by medicines. Jn aU ordinary cases of affections of the kidneys, the Water Regulator, the t Anti-BUious PUls, and Blood Renovator, used to connection with the German Oint- ment appUed over the seat of the disease, will give reUef and effect a cure without further treatment. In addition to these, it may be useful to occasionaUy apply electric power from the galvanic battery, or make use of the Magnetic Compass. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 247 ENLARGEMENT OF THE SPLEEN. The office of tho spleen seems to be to act as a reservoir for the retention of the blood when there is an abundance to the system, and to discharge it when the blood in the veins gets low. The spleen is often enlarged by tumors and diseased by cancers, and is a favorite location for the grub, he deUghting to Uve where he can drink the purest blood and drain the vital sweets of life. The grub is found to great numbers to the spleen, clustering to bunches Uke grapes. When located there, there is great pato and a gnawing sensation in the left side, a Uttle below and to the left of the heart. Grub to the spleen cause emaciation, pato and ex- haustion, shortness of breath, and consumption, as to other organs. The grub is dislodged from the spleen to the same manner and by the same me- dicines and treatment as from other organs; and he being removed, and the system properly renovated, health ensues to the patient SEXUAL LOVE A HAPPINESS TO AND STIMULATOR OF MANKIND. " A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenneM in his bones."—Prov. xii. 4. Without the existing differences of man and woman, how dull, tasteless, gloomy, unloveable, unrefined and worthless would Ufe be to both sexes 1 God Baid, " It is not good for man to be alone," Gen. U. 18; and if alone, it is easy to see how Uttle pleasure there would be in Ufe to either sex—how poorly would Ufe be worth the living. The youth looks forward with joyful anticipation to that day to the future when, by acts of kindness and attention, he shall win to himself the object of bis greatest affection, and take her, with her sweetness and sympathy, to his bosom, to be the partner of%is joys and sorrows, a soother to the hour of affliction, a com- forter for his days upon the earth Of aU the creations of God, woman is to man the dearest and the best. To win and enjoy the society of tho female who has captivated his heart is the highest and the hottest ambition of the man; and that day in which she places her hand to his to be thenceforth lus devoted and loving wife, is the happiest of his earthly existence. How noble are the acts of youthful love I How forgetful of self is he who exerts his every nerve to give pleasure to the idol of lus affections I How sweet the hour when the first kiss of confiding love from ruby Ups is placed by the beautiful girl upon the cheek of him who is to be her stay in Ufe—her comfort and hope of earthly happiness; about whose heart the tend-ils of her sweetest affections shaU twine as the cttnging ivy grasps the sturdy oak To the devoted lover, the day of marriage is the happiest of his earthly existence; for then is opened to him the gates of connubial bliss, and that joy winch is the greatest of earth—the joy of a Ufe of wedded love—has its hallowed commence- ment. To attain to this there is no hardship he will not encounter, no care ho wttl not bear, no toil he will not endure, no tempest he wttl not brave, no thorny path of Ufe he wttl not tread, no ocean but ho wttl plow, no land but he wttl tra* 248 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. verse, no mountain he wiU not climb; for over, and through and by these, he ii ta reap the reward of sweet smiles, and gentle, loving words, and kind attentions, and endearing sympathies from the one adored object of bis heart And when enjoyed in its purity and hottness, this connubial love—this joy of wedded life—is at once the greatest happtoess of man, and the greatest possible of aU stimulants to lauda- ble ambition and exertion. But there be many who enjoy it not—many more to whom it does not come to the fullness of fruition. And why ? What is it that often tears asunder the loving hearts of man and woman ?—that invades the peace •f happy famUies ?—that stings with the venom of the serpent the hearts of the fondest ?—that snatches from Ufe that cup of connubial joy, in which, as it were, ia a foretaste of the deUghts of heaven? Prostitution and its concomitant evils 1 And if it remain unchecked for a few more years, spreading its foul diseases and bttght- lng influences over the land, what wttl become of the sweet happiness of wedded fife ?—what of the health of our people ? The marriage bed wttl become desolate in dishonor, and the once pure blood of the whole human family be filled with the seeds of consumption and premature decay 1 Disease and Death, and Pollution and Harlotry, wiU reign upon the earth 1 Health and Virtue witt desert the land, and the race become miserable victims of sto! Shall an evil of this ktod conttoue unrebuked? ShaU sin sap the foundations ol life and virtue ? ShaU lust triumph over wedded love, and the desire of the devU prevatt? All men know of the existence of this evil; they may be apprised of ita magnitude; they may behold its bUghting eff'ects upon health and upon reUgion. Be they divines, or physidans, or laymen, their eyes cannot be closed against the hideousness of the sin that stalks to our midst at noonday, and revels untrammeled at midnight. And yet, they do not wrestle against it, as did Jacob of old with the angel of God. The medical shepherds have gone to sleep to drunkenness on the gains of sickness; they have feasted on the ignorance of those whom they should have warned from evil and taken the last dollar from the unwary victim of disease. What wttl be the fate of those men, to the day of judgment, who, betog in trust upon earth, did not perform their duty to thefr feUow-beings by warning the youth of the land against the great evil of prostitution, and so instructing them that they should escape its snares ? And what will be the punishment of those parents who rear their children in ignorance, and warn them not of this evil, because of foolish deUcacy or of indifference ? Against the spread of this monster vice, and to the furtherance of health and happtoess of man and woman, the grand prescription is rational todulgence of the richest gift of God to man, to early marriage, where is purity of both sexes and happtoess unalloyed. To this should parents and teachers give countenance, that the evils of Ubertinism and prostitution may be suppressed, and health and happi- ness be the reward of all WEDDED LOVE PREVENTS CONSUMPTION. The greatest and best object of Ufe being attained, and happtoess enjoyed to con- nubial love, the mtod is placed at ease; it partakes of a species of contentment that operates to bestow health upon the system. It is not difficult to see how happiness in tho wedded state so operates as to produce health, or at least in great degree to / THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 249 prevent sickness. Who does not know that often sickness is induced by the mind t—that the mental so works upon the physical as to breed disease where nona before existed, and often to carry its victim to the grave ? Every physician of ex- perience wttl tell you that in case of sickness the mind of the patient must be kept quiet, and, as far as possible, from anxiety and trouble upon every point, inasmuch as trouble of mind not only retards recovery, but often prevents it. And surely it, mental anxiety retards recovery to sickness, mental repose and contentment wfll keep disease, to a measure, from invading the system. Disappointment in love is a fruitful cause of disease, physical and mental; and particularly is it a friend of consumption. It is also an aid to prostitution. Look back upon the acquaintances of your younger days, and how many of you wttl recoUect of this one who was carried to the grave of #fie consumptive through dis- appointment in love, or to the retreat for the insane from the same cause, or to the Ufe of the courtesan. There have been thousands who have fallen victims to these and other evils, because of a disappointment in love, who, had they wedded the choice of thefr hearts to early Ufe, would have become happy and shining ornaments to society; and there be thousands more who have been saved from untimely ends by participation to the joys of connubial Ufe. Diseases havtog their origin in a disappointment to love matters, or in deception with regard to marriage, I have found to be the most difficult of cure of any class that the physician encounters. Indeed, consumption arising from this cause almost always baffles human skill, when there is no hope that the invalid witt ever be re- ceived into the bosom of that object whose indifference or dupttcity has caused the decline of health. If the party giving offense chances to die, the invalid from dis- appointed love is more likely to recover health, than if the person Uved and married another. And in case the disappointed or deceived one chances to find another object of love, equaUy captivating and kind, on which the affections of the heart can be confidingly fixed, the probability of recovery is rendered almost certain. The heaUng remedy is in giving to the afflicted heart the first, or another object around which the tendrils of love can twine. But where' tins cannot be done, and no marriage with which the soul can be satisfied can be brought about, a disease having its origin to disappointment in love, no matter what form it may take— insanity, consumption, or other complaint—is most difficult of cure. I have a dread of undertaking cases of consumption arising from this cause, more than any other. Were tho antidote required in the shape of a medicine, I could feel confident of suc- cess ; but where it is in the shape of a stubborn man or sinful woman, who wiU not yield, and give a return of love, I can claim no skill in the cure of disease. Could I influence the estranged party to prescribe himself or herself as an antidote (as I have many timeo done), there would be but very few cases that would baffle the power of the treatment mora especially if full faith and confidence between the parties could be restored. No individual, of either sex, should make promises regarding marriage, or mani- fest symptoms that will give token of an existing love for another party, when marriage is not fully and heartily intended. To tamper with the affections of another is a most grievous sto: a source from whence often flows sorrow, sickness, and untimely death. Coquetry in either sex is despicable and unpardonable. Surely, no man or woman would like to look back upon an insane, a dissipated, or ghastly consumptive person, brought to that state through their instrumentaUty, eupecialty 250 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. if there had been no cause for offense on the other side. Let those who would :.ot look upon such an object of thefr own maktog, beware of trifling with the affections. In general those who marry the first love, and take a partner to early Ufe, to whose heart is friendship and esteem, enjoy the greatest happiness in wedded Ufe. Late marriages are very apt to be faulty; too often there has been previous decep- tion, previous love, disappointment, perhaps sexual gratification, frequently self- poUution, and less of undivided love. At least tnere is much greater probabiUty of one or several of these, than in cases of early marriage, as witt be obvious to all; since the passage of time gives more and more opportunities, and presents more and more temptations. The woman of twenty-five to thirty years of age, who has been "to company" ten to fifteen years; who has passed through a dozen seasons of balls and parties; who has danced with one, and rode with another, and been on excur- sions with a third, and to a watering-place with a fourth, has sung and read with a fifth been waited on to concerts by a sixth, has practiced on the piano with a seventh " set up" with the eighth, had her hand squeezed by the ninth, and her foot gently trod on by the tenth, and her Ups kissed by the eleventh, and her waist encircled by the arm of the twelfth; and who has been through and done a hundred other things, must be something more or less than woman, with a woman's soul and a woman's passions, if the thirteenth man find her heart whole, and her virtue untarnished. It is almost beyond the nature of things that goods so long and so often handled—that have been so many years to the market to be gazed at and perhaps admired, and sought after by we know not how many, should not become tarnished in greater or less degree 1 And what is true of one sex in this respect is true also of the other. Therefore, to the very nature of things, it is easy to see how much more probable it is that happtoess wttl foUow a marriage consummated to youth than one brought about to later Ufe. With those authors who encourage protracted ceUbacy, as being better for the health of the married, and better for their offspring, and as more Ukely to give de- voted love and true happiness to after Ufe, I beg to disagree. Neither reason, na- ture, inspiration, or experience sanction thefr views; on the contrary, they are con- tradicted by aU these, as I have fully shown to other parts of this work. To give the reader a faint idea of the effects of disappointment to love—which early marriage would have to most cases prevented—I wttl add a few statistics from reports of tosane asylums. The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane reports 32 cases of insanity from disap- pointed love out of 1806; • Worcester Retreat 94 out of 2326; and the Utica Asy- lum, 60 out of 2376. In addition to these, it should be recoUected that there is a large number the cause of whose insanity is not know n; and, could we get at the truth it would be found that a much larger number of the insane than these figures todicate are the victims of misplaced affection. Let those who have been to the habit of trifling with the love of those whom they meet to thefr society, look at these facts and be restrained, lest they also cause irreparable evil. Of the number of consumptives annually sent to the tomb by this cause, it is impossible to give any correct idea; since all persons dytog of consumption are re- ported as victims to that disease, without the cause of the disease itself being named. But the number very greatly exceeds those made tosane in the same way, and, were it possible to see them paraded, the sum total would be such as, I am sure, would restrain every man and every woman from foolish and premeditated THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 251 trifling in matters of love and marriage. These remarks I make for the purpose of showing to you a great cause of sickness and insanity, in the hope that a knowl- edge of the causes will lead many to guard against them, and thus save much of misery to their fellows. That you may aU profit from the reading hereof, is the Bincere wish of the author. DOMESTIC QUARRELS. "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.»-PB0- VEBBS XV. 17. Domestic quarrels are a prolific source of misery, of disease and death. Where there is quarrelling in the married state, we may expect evU to flow forth, if not to the parties themselves, to their offspring. Of the causes of domestic quarrels I wttl mention a few of the more prominent: intemperance, loss of property, infidelity, difference of religious views, abuse by words or acts, bad government of the children, spendthrift habits, disappointments by interference of the other party, use of snuff or tobacco, marrying to please friends or to get money instead of for true love; (UssimUarity of tastes, and likes and dislikes of pleasure; jealousy, with or without cause; venereal disease to either party; deformity, or inabttity to cohabit, kept secret tiU after marriage; and a host of others, any of which not only breed discord and turn what should be a paradise of peace into quarreUing, but often produce insanity and consumption, and operate in greater or less degree banefully upon offspring. The most of these might be avoided by candor, obedience to the laws of health and morattty, forbearance, pru- dence, and consulting the heart in marriage. The number of cases of insanity arising from domestic afflictions are reported at the Pennsylvania Hospital as 53 out of a total of 1806; at Worcester* 311 of a to- tal of 2326; at Utica, 92 of a total of 2743. Besides these a large number of pa- tients are reported of whose ailing the cause is " unknown," and a good propor- tion of these, undoubtedly, are the victims of domestic difficulties. The number of deaths by consumption induced by domestic quarrels, it is as im- possible to give as to give those induced by disappointments to love, and for the same reason. It is greatly to be regretted, for the benefit of comtog generations, that more particular statistics upon tho causes of disease, as well as the causes of the death, immediately, are not kept to every place. Such statistics would be of immense value to the physician, and to mankind generally. They would greatly enlighten the minds of the people, and would open means of instruction by which health and length of days would be greatly promoted. A vast amount of domestic unhappiness is caused by persons marrying without reference to the desire of the heart—for wealth, or station, or to please friends. In order to the enjoyment of that perfect happiness which God designed should ac- company the marriage state, there must be between the parties confiding and un- bounded love, sympathy of soul, union of interest similarity of taste, mutual desire to do att for and be all in aU to each other, with disposition to yield, and forbearance, and forgiveness of trivial faults, the birth of moments of irritation. Where such feettngs as these exist there will be affinity of souls and reciprocation in deeds of love that wttl insure bucU happiness as is to bo enjoyed only to the married state. As two 252 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. drops of water when brought in contact will mingle toto one in perfect harmony bo will two souls, when fitted for each other as I have described, be mingled togoth' er to the blessed existence of a wedded Ufe. But where love is not found—where there - is not union of interest, affinity of spirit and reciprocation in the offices of affection, the souls united at the altar wttl not mingle together; they wttl be Uke unto oU and water, which mix not Dut forever remain at enmity. And though the world may judge them happy as man and wife, the world will be deceived; for happiness is not their lot Persons deceived by, or dissatisfied with, their com- panions, may put up with their lot; they may bear their chains in silence, rather than that the world should have knowledge of their misery. Where there is no real love, and when blind passion has given way to sober reflection, or where there has been nothing wedded but gold, there wttl be repulsion if not disgust, and the final effects are unhappiness, consumption, or death, or departure from chastity to revel to the waters of unhallowed lust. But when true loving souls are united, there is harmony and bliss, that to a great degree aid to health and long Ufe. Life in the one case is rendered most miserable; to the other, it is the nearest approxi- mation to perfect happtoess that can be attained upon the earth. RESTORATION OF SEXUAL LOVE, Where it has been lost to a comforter and cause of domestic happiness. Where true love reigns, sorrow has no permanent abiding place, and hatred can never come; each soul is a delight unto the other; each person is a fountain of happiness to the partner of Ufe. Where there is true love between the sexes, neither wttl tire of the other, nor grow weary in providing each for the other's comfort and hap- piness. ; By sexual Jove is the whole world stimulated for good and baptized into virtuous deeds, directly or indirectly. Through the influence of this, the one sex is wiUing to labor day and night to gather that which shall give happtoess to its companion of the opposite sex. Sexual love has greater power than is contained in all other forces of the universe combined. Destroy lawful sexual love by propagating prostitu- tion, and the virtue, the happiness, and all the choicest of earthly blessings would be obliterated from among men. Pure and uncorrupted connubial love is the prime mover for joy and happiness upon earth to man and woman; and it must not be suf- fered to be destroyed by prostitution, or deteriorated by unlawful impressions with other persons, for thereby unhappiness, disease and death would come to make miserable the whole human race. Sexual bttss is the fountain of happiness for man in domestic Ufe; it is the ruling power of aU animal creation. And if to this mankind obeyed the obvious dictates of God, and married young and kept themselves pure in the matrimonial state, con- sumption and many other diseases would soon be banished from among us, and the whole race would become healthier, happier and wiser. Shame upon the judges and the rulers of the land, that they do not put forth their power for the suppres Bion of harlotry, and thereby save thousands from disease. Shame upon the mem- bers of the medical profession, that they do not instruct the people of the evils ol Magdalenism, instead of enriching themselves from the pockets of the ignorant Shame upon the divines, who should be bold teachers of the people, that they do THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 253 not cry aloud against the continuance of this evil in our midst. Why should they be dumb to the interests of man and of heaven ? Why not come forth, clothed in the armor of God, and speak the truth unto the people, even though it cut right and loft, like the two-edged sword of the angel of God? Shame upon those who pronounce harlotry " a necessary evil," (when there is one of the opposite sex for all,) and thus discourage early marriage, virtue and purity of the sexes; from winch discouragement come disease and degeneration. Woe is unto these, for by them have offences come. Upon the women of the country I would call—upon the mothers and daughters of the land—to come out and uphold the purity of their sex and labor for the re- generation of the fatten; to strive to banish the sin of harlotry, and so use their in- fluence that the amorous desires of nature, the passion which is holy and pure, shall be quenched in the sacred waters of connubial love. If they will do this, they wttl receive the thanks of millions yet unborn, and find laid up for them in heaven a crown of glory, for savtog thousands from sorrow, sickness, pain and early death LOVE HAS ITS MAGNET. The magnetism of true love is wonderful: the electric fires of this passion have led many and many a person over sea and land to unite to the sacred enjoyments of connubial bliss with the attracting magnet. Truly has it been said that " love ia Btrong as death."—Songs vfii. 6. True love is an offspring of God: for God himself is love. And when the soul of man or woman has found its counterpart—its own attracting magnet—and is joined to its feUow in the bonds of matrimony, the very angels of heaven wttl smUe a smile of gladness and joy. But if the soul find not its magnet, the truo breath *&& essence, and spirit of the marriage relation cannot be enjoyed. How often do we see the magnetism of love operate to carry a man thousands of miles away, that he may unite his soul to the soul of her who seems to have been appoint- ed for bis bride. How often do we see the maiden refuse many offers of marriage, reeUng within herseff that she has not yet found the counterpart of her heart—that her attracting magnet has not yet drawn her soul away toto the soul of another. The man and woman feel within them an instinctive longing after the magnet of their souls, and are not satisfied untU they feel the magnetism of another soul and are drawn irresistibly to the bosom where the longing of love is quenched to mat- rimonial bttss. As the soul of the godly man searches out the soul of another Uke unto itself, or as the soul of the ungodly searcheth for another ungodly soul so does the love of man or woman go forth to find and meet its attracting magnet. And when, finaUy, the heart has found its magnet and t^o earnestly loving spirits are united together, there peace and happiness will abound; there health will be much more likely to be found than where two dissimilar and unloving hearts are joined together; there will be better tempered, more lovely, more intelligent, more health- ful offspring. But where marriage has taken place without this affinity of soul, dis. cords, and coldness, and contentions come, breeding unhappiness and longings for what is not possessed, which to their turn generate often decUnes and consumption, fhat lead swiftly to the tomb. 254 THE PEOPJ-E'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. SECTARIANISM A CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION. It is often the case that we find in a family a great diversity of opinions upon what may well be termed the non-essentials of religion; and see the husband be- longing to one church the wife to another, the son to a third, the daughter to a fourth Each of these will be set in his or her way, and will generally consider that only by the particular road he or sho has chosen, can heaven ever be attained—be- Uevtog that the others are astray from religion and from God. The results of this diversity of opinion upon religion, or rather this sectarianism, are often lamentable in a high degree. They give rise to disputations, to bickerings, to discords; and of- ten by them love is turned toto hatred Such a state of things is not only to be deplored as doing much to the injury of religion, and the cause of christianizing the world,-but also as a source of sickness in innumerable instances. WhUe the members of different churches are at heart at war with each other—whtte the wife cannot partake of the sacrament at the same table with the husband, nor the son at the same with the daughter, or the children with the parents; all are to go down toto the same grave, and each one hopes to arrive' at last in the same heaven. But instead of doing that which shall earn heaven, by having charity one towards another, they let animosities rankle in the heart. True religion knows no hatred, or jealousy, or envy, or uncharitableness; it is filled with affection towards mother, father, husband, wife, son or daughter, brother or sister. It scruples not to bend the knee to worship of Jehovah at the same altar with those who differ to non-essentials; it prays alike with its own church member and the member of another church; it is fitted with love to all and for att, and wor- ships God not after forms, but out of the truth of its heart, and from pure love of God and Clirist; it sees one God for all one Saviour for the redemption of alL Sec- tarianism is not of God, but of man; nor witt God, in the hour of judgment, judge men as the members of a church but by the righteousness or wickedness of their hearts. Sectarianism is a fruitful cause of consumption and early death; therefore I would warn my readers against indulgence in the feeling that it too often breeds. The seeds of disease once planted to the system from this cause, the person is much less likely to recover health than if some bodily difficulty gave rise to the complaint. The healthiness of the mind should be preserved by purity of religion, and harmony of worship, as well as the body protected from disease. For the benefit of the race, it would be well for us to ^ave a union church where all the children of God could be gathered together under the shadow of the cross, by the love of Christ,—a church where all could be united; where they could pray with souls to unison, and partake of the Supper of the Lamb together; where baptism should be in accordance with the dictates of their own conscience; where husband, wife, son, and daughter, could unite in supplication unto the Lord of Hosts, as weU in the church as at the family altar; where there would be one God. one Saviour, one religion, one love, widi unity and haf mony. Pure religion is a love of God for all heaven for all, earthly commu- nion and happiness for alL Sectarianism is love for a part, God for part, hatred for part, church for part, communion for part, heaven for part anQ" neu for part. The seeds of consumption should not be sown in the botly by sectarianism. But in the way these matters are often managed, this result too frequently happens. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 255 Strifes arise, discord and hatred come, and these are followed by consumption, by insanity, by sickness, and disease. Again, then, let me warn you against this to- dulgence of ungodly sectarianism, which is from the aspirations of men, and not ol God. The reports of the Utica Lunatic Asylum, show 250 cases of insanity from reU- gious anxiety and excitement, out of a total of 2743 ; Worcester 248, out of 2326; Pennsylvania 67, out of 1806. Of the number of cases of' consumption from the same cause, we have no means of knowing; but certain it is that there is a great number every year, (far exceeding the lunatics,) the victims of sectarian discord and trouble. If our readers would examine the lunatic reports throughout the country, «hey would see at a glance the evUs of sectarianism as a fruitful cause of insanity, (as it is of other complaints,) and strive not to let it breed discord among them. THICK BOOTS AND SHOES Abe exceUent as guards against consumptive diseases. The habit indulged to in .fashionable society, and especiaUy among the female sex, of wearing thin shoes, through which the water penetrates as easily as through a piece of brown paper, is very destructive to health. Thousands by this means are every year hurried to the grave. In fashionable society it is considered exceedingly ungenteel to wear a shoe or boot sufficiently thick to exclude the water met with at every turn to wet weather. A patent leather, or a cloth gaiter, or very thin caff-skin, must be worn in aU wea- thers ; and through these the water penetrates the instant the foot touches it, and the cold from damp ground; and then, often, the person remains through the whole day with his feet in this damp or wet situation. The effect is generally a severe cold, followed by a cough, and suppressed menstruation, and consumption, ending to untimely death. Many and many is the man and the woman that can trace decUne directly and unmistakably to this source. In respect to this evU, the ladies suffer more than the gentlemen. It is notorious that the pale and delicate woman, who looks as if a breath of wind would blow her away, or a severe frost nip her down as eastty as a leaf, wUl wear shoes in the cold- est of weather that are no more protection to the feet than paper! And if you sug- gest that they should use something else, they wttl seem horrified at the idea of it 1 They wear a thick boot!—they would as soon think of wearing a basket upon the head I Now, why a woman, who has been tenderly reared to all the enervating re- finements of modern civilization, should be able to enjoy health with less protection to her extremities than is required by a robust man, passes my abttity to understand. It is not to be wondered at that many of them become consumptive from this cause; and they wttl continue to become consumptive, and wttl bring unhealthy offspring toto the world, until they abandon such pernicious habits. Wear good thick shoes that wttl keep out the wet, and keep the feet from sudden chttls on going into the cool air. I do not mean by thick shoes that you should put on a pair of clumsy and uncomely shoes, but use your own sense; see what sort of a Bhoe witt protect your foot, and then wear it despite of fashion. And when you go out doors to cold, wet weather, use rubbers; and although with these you may not receive so mauy compliments of owning a pretty foot as you walk the street yoi 256 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. wttl have the better satisfaction of possessing a rosy cheek, a sparkling eye, a lively countenance, and of enjoying good health as a reward. AIR-TIGHT STOVES. Among the toventions cf modern times to destroy health, we may reckon the air- tight stove, which is betog brought toto use in many places. This article is decid- edly injurious to the consumptive person, as weU as often aiding to induce the dis- ease. I would advise the discontinuance of their use. Though you may save by them a few dollars to fuel, you wttl lose many more by having yourself or some one to the family made sick by them. Air-tight stoves operate to all rooms where there is not a fresh circulation of the air, to destroy the oxygen or vital principle of the air. And thus the afr is made impure and unfit to breathe, and becomes the medium of disease and death. Also, there not being any draught whereby the gases generated by the combustion of fuel are carried off through the pipe, they find their way into the room, filling it with a poisonous atmosphere that no man can breathe and remain in good health. And as this bad atmosphere is continued hour after hour, and day after day, and often througu the night, in rooms where persons sleep, it wttl be obvious to any one that ill health must be produced thereby. If these stoves are to be used, they must be allowed a free draught through them, the same as others, or no person consumptively todined and living by them, can expect to get better. I have but Uttle hope of the power of medicine to cure any one Uvtog to the room with an air-tight stove. [See Arti- de on Air.] As I have shown to other parts of this work, no man can continue in good health who is constantly breathing an impure atmosphere. It is often the case that persona Bit day after day to a room where an air-tight stove is consuming nearly aU tho oxy- gen of the air that is admitted, and filling it with gas. And if they do this, it is not at all strange that they become sick. Illness after such treatment of the lungs, is but the effect of an obvious cause; and those who see the cause, and do not endea- vor to guard against it, cannot to reason expect to escape consumption. If you would not precipitate yourself toto the tomb, you must discard those articles, and abandon those practices, which lead thereto. THE DEATH OF A RELATIVE OR FRIEND Often breeds a consumption, under which the victim is carried to the grave. That sorrow " which witt not be comforted" is extremely injurious to health and often fatal to life. Whatever the cause of a great sorrow, if the sorrow be not put away in a certain degree, it will eat upon the body, and carry its vidim to the tomb. An unrestrained indulgence to anguish over that which has passed, or winch is in- evitable, is both irreUgious and unphttosophicaL is forewarned against by God, and Bhould be banished from every person. If it has been the choice of Providence to remove from us a beloved husband or wife—a dear child, or a fond parent, it is our duty to receive such dispensation with feelings of resignation, and not bow down in utter subjection unto sorrow. Or if any other afflidions have come upon us, it is in opposition to true piety or to sound philosophy, to give up wholly to sorrow. To THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 257 have sorrow for the death of a near friend is both right and natural; but to let it prey upon the spirit, and wear out the body, as is often done, is neither right or na- tural ; not right because it doubts the power of God to raise to new life; not natu- ral, because it becomes a feeling of morbidness and irreUgion, rather than a godly Borrow of submission. The victims of undue sorrow are many. The loss of friends, the loss 0 property, defeat to tho attainment of some desired point, the sickness or sad fate of children, disappointment to love—these and many other things generate to sympathetic na- tures a sorrow so lasting and poignant as to wear out the person. Young females who have been disappointed to love, are particularly the subjects of this. Havtog lavished upon the idol of the heart aU the richness and sweetness of their love and affection, and then being deserted, they fall into what sometimes proves an incura- ble sorrow, and often pine away and die. This is at once wrong, foottsh, and sin- ful ; wrong, because it produces evil effects upon the body unnecessarily, and which work no good to any one; foottsh, because indulgence therein can neither mend nor restore that which is broken or lost; sinful, because it brings anguish and sorrow to others also, and is in opposition to that godly piety and resignation which should dweU to every heart Besides the victims to consumption from grief, numerous persons are thereby mado iusane. The Report of the Pensylvania Insane Retreat gives 268 cases of insanity from sorrow, induced by loss of friends, loss of property, disappointed affec- tion, disappointed expectation, and domestic difficulties, out of 1806 cases in total; at the Worcester Retreat 645, of a total of 2463, are referred to the same cause; and at the Utica Retreat 855, of a total of 2743, are similarly reported. As an antidote against disease, cheerfulness is excellent; but undue sorrow is . the reverse; therefore it is the part of wisdom to " take trouble by the smooth handle "—to lay not up sorrow to the heart, but to feel even though affliction settle around you, cheerful and resigned. Troubles taken thus become less difficult to be borne; their weight is sensibly diminished; and under their presence neither soul or body feels so acutely the burden as if they were met by either a complaining or a Borrowing spirit To preserve health an(i to Uve to a good old age in enjoyment of the world, learn to take " trouble by the smooth handle," and, however much you are afflicted, to look upward and ahead with a hope unending, and that canno* be overcome. CONSUMPTION, A CHILD OF FASHION. " Then why thus fade the loveliest flowers ? Oh, why do the young and the beautiful die, lire they drink of tho rapture of summer's sweet hours, Ere the brow hath a cloud or the bosom a sigh V Consumption is, to a great degree, a child of Fashion, though it is found in almost all parts of the world. As I have shown to different places to this work the fashions of dress, of eattog, of drinking, of turning night toto day, of delaytog marriage, of marrying without love, and numerous others, are the causes of many cases of consumption, as weU as of other diseases. To show how much we are mado victims of consumption by our fashions and habits, we may look at the North 17 258 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. American Indians, among whonAhis disease is of very rare occurrence. Although they are subject to the vicissitudes of aU sorts of weather, they seldom become Weakly and run into decUne. They have no health-destroying fashions. They are not brought up in the enervating and destructive habits that prevail among rivilized people; and therefore when meeting accidental causes to disease that would produce a fatal efcct upon the enervated dtizen of the fashionable town, their systems are able to withstand these effects, and they escape the colds and the consumptions so prevalent and so fatal among us. And the deleterious influences of our fashions may be shown to other respects, by comparison of our fashionable women with the Indian women, and those of other uncivilized nations—as to parturition. Every physidan, and every mother, knows of the pains and the labors in child-birth among us. But how is'it in this matter with the Indian woman ? Says Stephenson, in his " Twenty Years' Residence in South America," " Among the Araucariian Indians, a mother, immediately on her deUvery, takes her child, and going down to the nearest stream of water, washes herseff and it, and retires to the usual labors of her station." And Lawrence, in 41 Lectures on the Natural History of Man," observes—" The very easy labors of native Americans, and other women in the savage state, have been often noticed by travelers. This point is not explicable by any prerogative of physical formation, for the pelvis is rather smaller in these dark-colored races than in the European and other white people. Simple diet, constant and laborious exertion, give to these children of nature a hardiness of constitution, and exempt them from most of the Uls which afflict the indolent and luxurious females of civilized societies. Analo- gous differences, from the Uke causes, may be seen in the animal kingdom. Cowa kept to towns, and other animals deprived of their healthful exercise, and accus- tomed to unnatural foods and habits, often have difficult labors, and suffer much in parturition." These facts are sufficient to show that to a great degree the ills of civttized Ufe are fairly chargeable upon the habits and fashions of the people. If we would discard the pernicious practices which I have labored to point out and would obey the laws of Ufe and health there would be for us aU a much larger amount ol physical strength than we now enjoy; we should improve as a race, consumption would become a rare disease, and we should be mentally and physically superior to what we now are or ever will be while pernicious fashions rule. It is found to the history of the American Indians, once inhabiting the whole Oi this continent where consumption now prevails, and occupying the very localities our consumptive population now inhabit, that a case of pulmonary consumption was never known among them while living in their savage state! But when tfcy are brxight toto white settlements, and civilized, and adopt the habits prevalent among us, they become as Uable to consumption as the whites 1 Now, what are the physical characteristics of the Indian in his wUd wo»Ai&? Ho is remarkable for betog straight to his figure; his chest is full and symmetrical, in- dicating fuU play of the lungs; his shoulders and shoulder-blades are laid flat against the chest and the whole weight of his arms, shoulders, and shoulder-blades, 5s thrown back of the chest—this always operating to expand it instead of contract- ing it; he is much out of doors, and breathes freely of a pure, fresh air; he never stoops to his walk; he pursues no avocations that have a tendency to contract the chest; and he indulges to athletic exercises. And this fact holds gc od among the THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 250 animals; for they do not have consumption in their wttd state, but when brought under unnatural habits, frequently suffer therefrom. This shows how much con- sumption is a child of fashion. ASTHMA, A CURABLE DISEASE. This painful disease is an affection of the lungs or bronchial vessels, and generaUy of a spasmodic nature, occurring to paroxysms, which take place usually at night Under its influence there is a short and difficult respiration, wheezing, stricture oi the chest, and a cough*; all of which are worse when lying down than when sitting. It is more general among persons of a fuU and plethoric habit than with others; more common among men than among women. Asthma havtog once manifested itself to a person, it usuaUy returns periodicaUy, especiaUy if excited by certain causes, such as a sudden change from cold to warm weather—from a heavier to a Ughter atmosphere; severe exercise, which imparts a quicker circulation to the blood; an increase in the size of the stomach from over- eating or from a coUection of air to the stomach; exposure to cold, obstructing perspiration, and causing an accumulation of blood in the lungs; irritations ol smoke, dust and other noxious particles to the air; disagreeable odors; and violent exdtements of the mind. There are two species of this disease—tho humid, and the dry, or spasmodic When there is a free discharge of mucus, it is termed humid; when there is Uttle or no expectoration, it is designated the spasmodic asthma. The fits of asthma are brought on by almost anything which increases the action of the heart, and stimulates and fills the vessels of the mucous membranes. In- tense heat, Ughtness of air, severe exercise, full meals, stimulating drinks, exposure to cold, effluvias, and strong mental emotions, produce the asthma to many persons. Congestions of blood, or of serous humors to the lungs, sudden changes of temper- ature, rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous and scorbutic taints, dyspepsia, irritation of the organs of respiration", suppression of accustomed evacuations, frequent catarrhal attacks, water to the chest, aneurisms, general debUity, polypi, concretions of grum- ous blood in the large vessels—all these are causes from which this disease may arise to different individuals. In many cases it results from a malformation of the chest either a defect at birth or brought about by bad habits of dress; and in many more it is the result of an hereditary predisposition. The patient is generaUy forewarned of the approach of an asthmatic paroxysm by heartburn, todigestion, languor, flatulency, itching of the skin, sleepiness, and pain over the eyes. The attacks are commonly at night an THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 269 No. 45.—Womb and AppENDAGEa plaint, and the patient is dosed with medicines utterly inadequate and often injurious. Cases of polypi are often mistaken for uterine enlargement. The annexed engraving repre- sents the womb or uterus, with its appendages. The vagina, or passage leading to the womb, is laid open, exposing a polypus therein. Some- times these polypi appear to the womb itself, where they are often mistaken for a foetus, as if preg- nancy existed. At the sides of the womb are seen the ovaria. In this engraving, one of the ovaria has grubs growing to it; in the other may be seen the ovum or eggs of the female, which, betog impreg- nated with the semen of the male, are developed into the human being. A polypus in the vagina or womb, and grubs to the ovaria, seldom ap- pear at the same time: but this en- graving will convey an idea as they exist separate. When any of the organs of generation are affected as here described, child-birth is difficult, and dangerous to the life of the woman; and whoever they exist pregnancy should, if possible, be prevented. The polypus generally arises from the presence of humors in the blood, and while those humors remain, it wttl continue to in- crease to size. It may be overcome in many instances by the use of internal medicines, but often a surgical operation will be found necessary. In all cases, however, medicines should be used to purify the blood, so as to prevent a re-appearance of the tumor. Ulcerations of the 'Womb.—The neck of the womb is Uable to be afflicted with ulcers of various kinds—Originating sometimes through the vices of prostitution and kindred evils—sometimes by misfortunes of a dif- ferent character. When these are of a scrofulous order, they present very alarming symptoms. It is only necessary, however, that the physician should understand the nature of the disease, to order that, if he Na 48'~Canceroto **» Ulcebatki have skUl in the preparation of medicines, womb. 270 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. he may cure it with ease. AU cases of ulceration of the womb may be said to be perfectly curable. When the womb is in the condition represented in cut No. 46, cohabitation should not bo aUowed by the woman, nor indulged to by the man, without the use of the French Male Safe. Cancer of the Womb.—This is a complaint of very frequent occurrence. In my remarks upon cancers generally, I have spoken of their often appearing upon the organs of generation—particularly upon the breast It is the purpose to this place to speak more particularly of those appearing upon the womb. The supposed origin of cancers to the womb are various. In some cases they have been claimed to be hereditary; and there are certato facts going to support thia theory, to many cases. But as a general thing, it will be found that this theory does not explain their origin. Where there is a humor transmitted to the blood from one generation to another, of a character that develops itself to cancer to the first instance, it is easy to see that it wiU also be manifested in the same way to the next and succeeding generations. In this Ught it may be caUed hereditary. But in the majority of cases, cancer of the womb is beUeved to arise from a slow toflam- mation of that organ. And, as inflammations to this organ are kept aUve by impurities of the blood determined to that point, we are brought back, in the con- templation of this affection, to the original theory of my practice,—that from the blood do all these affections find their chief support; and that, if the blood be puri- fied, the patient may be reUeved Cancer of the womb often appears after the natural cessation of the menses, and in cases where there is difficult and scanty menstruation. The period at which it more generaUy occurs is between the fortieth and fiftieth years—or on cessation of the menses; which shows, that the impurities of the blood not betog any longer thrown off through the medium of menstruation, they remain in the system to break out to cancers and other ktods of sores. Two disttoguished French writers have given the foUowing as the results of their observations on the time of appear- ance of cancers, which agree with observations made to our own country. Of 409 cases of cancer of the womb, 12 occurred under 20 years of age. 83 " 20 to 30 years of age. 102 " 30 to 40 " 201 " 40 to 50 " 1 " 50 to 60 " •4 " 60 to 70 " Married women are much more subject to this affection than single. The cases are found to be about three of stogie ladies to twenty of the married. Cancer may attack any part of the womb, but generally it appears upon the lower part or neck. It is not unfrequently the case that a lady bears children while the cancer is waiting for th6 birth of the chUd to manifest itself It would seem that the irrita- tion and extenson of the parts to chUd-birth precipitated the appearance of .the cancer. I have noticed many instances of this kind. Inflammations of the Womb.—These are of often occurrence, and may be either acute or chronic The acute inflammation may be induced by a blow on the abdo- men, a fall, mechanical irritation of any kind, irritating injections, use of violent me- dicines injudiciously given to force tho menses, or to procure abortion, leucorrhcoa, THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 271 cold bathing of the lower extremities when warm, iced drinks dunng the period of menstruation, violent exercise of any kind, heating and stimulating foods and drinks, wounds, or mental disturbances, such as to stop the flow of the menses, vio- lent labors in chUdbirth, retention of the after-birth, and attempts at abortion by mechanical means, and by dresses pressing down upon the bowels, and thus irritat- ing the membranes where parts are brought to contact. This disease is often caUed child-bed fever. Every female troubled with it should seek immediate reUef. Chronic toflammation often follows the acute. It is also induced by the fashions prevalent in large towns, heretofore alluded to—idleness, effeminacy, sedentary Ufe, excess in fashionable amusements, studies that give too great activity to the ima- gination to a particular direction, reading of pernicious books, artificial puberty, con- centration of the mtod on subjects that keep the genital organs to a constant state of excitement &c, &c. Under the effect of inflammation of the womb, the patient becomes nervous, fret- ful, and capricious, even though before her temperament was equable and happy. This chronic inflammation is the cause of many cases of bowel derangement that often prove obstinate; also it toduces nervous affections, characterized by loss of appetite, sleeplessness, sudden starting, and great irregularity of feeUngs. I have known this nervous sensibttity manffested in cases of toflammation of the womb, very often. Where chronic inflammation exists, there wttl be pato in the lower part of the ab- domen, increased by standing or exertion; the menses may be regular for a time, and then disappear entirely. After a while there wttl be an uncommon flow, con- tinuing for some days, and leading to emaciation and exhaustion, and giving a duU look to the countenance. Sympathetic enlargement of the breast will often be no- ticed,—there will be loss of appetite and vomiting. In aU caajes of inflammation of the womb, acute or chronic, and in enlargements, a cure is without difficulty effected by the skilful physician, if he be aUowed to ob- tain full knowledge of the case, and the patient wttl follow his advice. Otherwise, as I have remarked under the head of Falling of the Womb, there will be but Uttle use in giving medicines. It is absolutely necessary that .the physidan should "un- derstand his case thoroughly, and the patient should foUow his advice. I have treated many cases of inflammation, and other diseases of the womb, and have often wondered at the uncharitableness manifested by friends and physicians, (who do not understand the complaints,) to attributing the changes of the mind to which they give rise to " hypo," or hysterics, or fooUsh notions. Certainly a woman suffering from any of these complaints, has sufficient to endure without betog accused of betog " hypoy" and notional The Ovaria.—These bodies are situated one on each side of the womb, and are connected with it by two tubes, through which the ovum passes into the womb. In a healthy state they are placed very low down to the groin, and even into the pelvis. When either of the ovaria becomes diseased^and enlarged, it rises above the groin, and causes a prominence of the abdomen on that side where it is situate. An in- flammation of an ovarium wttl often close up the tubes leading to the womb so that tho matter from the affection wttl remato therein, and produce an enlargement bringing on fever, which wttl require the immediate attention of a physician. Tumors of the Ovaria.—These are of frequent occurrence, generally arising from an inflammation, and are of slow growth. Both the married and the single are ha 272 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. ble to them. They are of a fleshy character, and usually solid. The uterus ia occa- sionaUy affected with a like tumor at the same time. They have been known to attain the enormous size of one hundred pounds to weight and to cause sudden death where good health had theretofore been enjoyed, by pressing upon the lungs and stopping respiration. GeneraUy they give no pain, from which circumstance they may be readily distinguished from cancer, and from thefr hardness may be known from dropsy. The subjoined cut represents a case of ovarian tumor; the tumor is seen below the head of the child, and has been driven toto the va- gina by the head of the child de- scending, in parturition. In a case of this kind, a living child could not be born, and the life of the woman is Ukewise endangered Hence, we may see the necessity, when a tumor is suspected, of pre- venting conception by using the French Male Safe, or the Preven- tion Powder. The removal of tumors from the ovarium by surgical operations, has been attempted, and in a few in- stances with success. But the far greater number of cases that have died under the operation, and the fact that the patient under the ef- fect of proper medical treatment, may attain the aUotted period ol nfe to "comfortable circumstances, even if the tumor be not displaced, would forbid a resort to surgical operations. And to most cases a perseverance in medical treat- ment to purify the blood, by which the food of the tumor is taken away from it will dieck its growth entirely, and cause it to wither away. I have rarely failed in at- tempts to cure this affedion, espedally if appUed to in season. Cancer of the Ovaria.—A cancer on an ovarium is usuaUy of very slow growth; often it is many years in comtog to maturity. It attains to a greater size than the uterine cancer, and frequently affects the uterus through the connection of the ova- rian tube. It occurs with the single and married, but is much more frequent with the latter. This disease rarely attacks but one of the ovaria, so that menstruation is not af- feded at the commencement The tumor is hard and irregular in shape. Its causes, symptoms, and effects, are similar to those of cancer of the womb. Surgical opera- tions for its removal are dangerous, as in cases of tumors; and as they may be ex- terminated, when taken in season, by toternal remedies, operations should never be performed to remove them. In most cases of cancer of the womb, or ovaria, the Cancer Eradicator, Blood Renovator, Anti-Bilious PUls, and German Ointment wttl effect a cure, if their use is persevered in, and they are taken to season. But a cure No. 47.—Ovarian Tumor. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 273 cannot be looked for with certainty, unless a fuU course of medicine be used, pre- pared expressly. Dropsy of the Ovaria is ol very common occurrence. It may occur in either the married or the stogie state, but is most frequent in the former; it usually appears from the twentieth to the fortieth year. The disease consists in the formation of one or more Uttle sacs within the ovarium, filled with fluid, which gradually en- large from the size of a pin-head, until they fill the whole abdomet, giving all the appearances of common dropsy. They have been known to grow to the size of containing ten gallons I In cases of large colledions of water, both ovaria wttl generally be found affected. Dropsy is frequently accompanied with a cancerous state of the sac, but this is not always the case. The symptoms of this disease are very obscure at its commencement, and it is often thought to be pregnancy, from productog enlargement of the breasts and abdomen, and from causing sickness and caprices Bimttar to those generated by pregnancy. This Ulusion is dissipated by the enlargement continuing beyond the season for par- turition. In cases where but one of the ovaria is affected with dropsy, it is possible for the woman to bear child without serious difficulty; but conception to cases of this dis- ease are not advisable. Indeed, to all the complatots I have treated of in connection with this, ff cohabitation is continued, (of which there is no difficulty very often,) the French Male Prevention Safe, or Powder, should be invariably used. When only one of the ovaria is affected with dropsy, menstruation may be con- tinued ; but ff both are diseased, either by dropsy or cancer, it must cease. In some cases the sacs in this complaint have been known to burst, and the water being thrown toto the abdomen and absorbed, the patient has recovered. Also it has been tapped and drawn off with fortunate results. Operations for the removal of the sac should never be performed. Tapping ought to be resorted to in extreme cases, where the size of the sac threatens to produce suffocation. The ovaria are often inhabited and affected by grub. [See Grub Consumption, and cut Vff Grub to the Ovaria, No. 45.1 » I would observe here, that cancer may attack other portions of the pelvic viscera, —as the passage leading to the uterus, the rectum, and the outlet of the bladder. The treatment proper to these cases is the same as to cancer of the womb and ovaria. FISTULA. " It is owing to our ignorance that there is any necessity for instruments to cure disease."— Abtrnethy. Fistula is a kind of ulcer resembling a pipe, and is generally the consequence of abscesses. The seat of a fistula is to the cellular membrane. It is known to be pre- sent when there is an aperture on the surface of the body from which any matter either flows, or may be pressed out. When left to itself it runs upon the bone and produces a caries of the bone. When so situated as to open into the neck of the bladder, or when attended with a caries in the adjacent bone, particularly the os sa- crum or coccyx, (lower parts of the spine, or vertebral column,) it is a very danger- ous complaint. Fistula in Ano.—No part of the body is more subject to abscesses than that im 18 274 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. mediately surrounding the lower part of the rectum; it is much exposed to pres- sure and to external iujurios, which irprede the free motion of the blood; the circv> lation being languid, obstructions soon occur, and purulent matter is formed. As the Bkin is thick about the rectum, the pus wttl insinuate itself toto the soft neighboring parts, and form sinuses, which degenerate toto fistula?. This kind of fistula is caUed complete when there is an opening into the gut and another externally; incomplete when there is no external aperture. The symptoms of the incomplete ktod are analogous to those of the piles, and not readtty distin- guished from them; the complete kinds are more readtty distinguished. Fistula in ano may also be caused by costiveness, relaxation of the bowels, derangement of the Uver, high living, and pUes. It generally commences with swotting near the rectum, attended with great pain, fullness and inflammation; it advances slowly to suppu- ration, and matter is formed. In the commencement of the disease, the adjacent parts are generatty sound, but when it is of long duration, they frequently become diseased The most common form of the fistula in ano, after inflammation has taken place, is an opening o~ orifice extending from the verge of the anus, and running ob- liquely, and penetrating it or the rectum. Sometimes there are two or more of these openings, near to each other, or far apart. They appear to different directiona about the anus. Tho common way of treating a fistula is by a surgical operation; but this should never be resorted to. Although it is practiced by the so called Solons to surgery and medicine, no person should ever submit to the operation; because it is exceedingly painful; it is dangerous and often fatal; it seldom or ever effects a cure, even where several operations have been performed; and it may be cured without the use of the knife—effectually and radicaUy. I have been applied to by many persons who had submitted to operations—in some cases as many as five times; but I have never met a case where a radical cure had been effected in this barbarous way; but the cases to which operations have caused death in a short time are innumerable. And often operations, if they do not result in inflammation and death, produce the most deplora- ble results in consequence of severing the arteries. The sphincter ani is often cut in these operations, and the patient is thereby rendered unable to retain the faeces, which pass off involuntarily! That surgical operations have sometimes afforded a temporary relief, is true; but they do not effect a radical cure. The practice is pain- ful and unnecessary; and if the physician has more regard for his patient than love for old forms and the use of the knife to display his skill, he may learn how to treat the disease effectuaUy by medical instead of surgical means—without confining the patient to the house or keeping him from his business. A few candid and careful physicians (who have abandoned the knife and taken to medical treatment) have been aucoessu'il to the permanent cure of fistula in ano, and others might if they were not too egotistical and stubborn to learn. I have had the most perfect success in many cases of this disease. By reason of its inveterate nature, fistula to ano is not a disease that can be cured in a day or with a single dose of medictoe, particularly if it is of long standing. A permanent cure must occupy considerable time. In some cases it may be effeded m a few weeks; to others, several months of persevering attention to advice and the appUcation and use of medicines wttl be required But if the patient will persevere, he may tofattibly be cured of this most loathsome and distressing complaint Fistula is a complaint which should never be neglected tor its ravages are often THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 275 extensive, and become fatal In some cases the toner portion of the rectum be- comes completely denuded as far up as can be seen. In others it destroys the parts from the auus to the testicle, as well as for a great distance around; and to women it extends into the vagina and destroys the adjacent integuments. When the disease becomes seated, there is apt to be an absorption of the matter which it generates into the system, causing disturbance and general constitutional dobttity. Frequently this virus matter is translated through the blood to the lungs, and induces consumption; and this is the most general way in which the disease re- sults fatally. Fistula in Perinozo consists in an opening to the skin, corresponding with one in the urethra Through this the urine is sometimes passed. A fistula from the urethra runs in various directions before it reaches the external opening of the skin; Bo that when the latter is near the anus it may be mistaken for a fistula in that part, unless the urine be observed. The fistula does not heal of itself, but continues to discharge for years, unless it be attended to. These abscesses are sometimes produced during child-birth, by the pressure of the child's head causing communications between the passage leading to the uterus and that of the bladder, or the rectum. The treatment of the fistula to perinaeo is the same as that of fistula in ano; and the remarks on the latter with re- ference to the use of the knife, may be applied here with equal force. Fistula Lachrymalis is a disorder of the canals leading from the eye to the nose, which obstructs the natural passage of the tears, so that they trickle down the cheeks. In its first stage an inflammation on the part is alone observed; to the next, matter is discharged, which flows with the tears; and to the last and worst degree, the matter of the abscess corrodes the subjacent bone. The symptoms are frequent dropping of tears, and of purulent matter, especiaUy to the morning, with- out any manifest external inflammation. In this disease also the knife is brought into often use, and unnecessarily. By it ten times more hurt has been done than good; and though partial relief may bo afforded to an occasional case and no permanent injury done, it is much wiser, and far less painful, to obtain a cure by medical treatment. In aU cases of fistula the Blood Renovator and the German Ointment will be found efficacious; and in its earUer stages these alone often stop the progress of the disease and effect a cure; but to other cases nothing short of a thorough and regu- lar treatment wttl overcome the complaint In these instances, I prefer to have the patient where I can attend him daily. HEART DISEASES. Ehlargmment and Palpitation of the Heart.—Enlargement of the heart may present itself to various forms, and may be general or partial. Sometimes it is confined to one side, at others not. Sometimes the muscular structure alone is increased to aize; to other cases the cavities of the heart become enlarged, whtte the muscular structure remains unaltered; but to the majority of cases, the two are combined. Enlargement of the heart is met with at aU periods of life. The almost constant cause of enlargement is beUeved to be a rheumatism of the heart. GeneraUy this disease is manifested by palpitation, and by pato in the precordial region • there is 276 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. shortness of breath, particularly from exertion; pato, and a sensation of tightness of the chest, and pato over the region of the heart; difficulty of lytog to a recum- bent position; the feet begin to swell, the strength fatts, the pulse sometimes stops, the countenance has a pale and haggard appearance, and there are very distresstog paroxysms of pain, in which the patient is liable to be suddenly taken away. By placing the hand over the heart to this complaint, usuaUy it will be found to be beating heavily. Whatever weakens the heart may bring on these symptoms; the disease may olso be induced by great excitement of the mind, venereal excesses, and intemper- ance to eating and drinking. Rheumatism in the Heart is quite frequent. This disease (rheumatism) it is known may locate to almost any part of the system; it is a species of traveling disorder, shifting from one place to another. When driven from one organ, it wiU frequently appear immediately to another; and the heart is liable to its attacks. When trans- lated to this organ the patient is seized with acute pato and great anxiety over that region, palpitations and partial fatotings. Inflammation of the Heart.—This is an inflammation of the membranous bag or sac which surrounds the heart, to secrete and contain the vapor of the pericardi- um, by which the heart is lubricated. The symptoms are similar to those in en- largement of the heart. Softening of the Heart sometimes occurs, as a consequence of inflammation. In these cases the impulse becomes feeble, and the heart flutters and beats irregularly. Fatty degeneration of the Heart.—In this complaint, the contents within the sheath of the muscular fibre are changed to fatty matter. Under this effect tne power of the heart is weakened, and the consequences of obstructed circulation ensue. The conditions under which this form of disease mostly appears are associated with a general tendency to corpulency. Popularly, corpulency is supposed to be an index of good health, but this is an error. It is by no means an evidence—often the re- verse. Usually persons of corpulent habits are deficient in both mental and physi- cal energy; and they are much less capable of endurance under fatiguing action than men of the "bony," muscular order. Tubercles and Cancers, as I have before stated, are often found to the muscular substance of the heart, or to the false membranes of the pericardium. Also grub, Berous cysts, and apoplectic effusions. [See articles on Cancers and Grub.] Dropsy of Qie Heart, or of the pericardium, though not a disease of often occur rence, sometimes occurs, generally accompanied with enlargement of the heart The symptoms of this disease are the same as those of enlargement. Polypi in the Heart.—These are found to many instances, on dissection. Un doubtedly they arise from an impure state of the blood. They are usually elonga ted, with one extremity twisted among the tendonous chords of the heart—some- times adhering to the Uning membrane by cellular tissue. The extremity that •* loose, Ues to one of the cavities of the heart, or extends into an orifice. Ulcers of the Heart often appear, arising from the presence of tubercles, acting the same as in the lungs. Though there is a popular notion that consumption never appears except to the lungs, post mortem examinations have shown that tu- berdes are frequently formed in the heart, and to other organs, finaUy running into clcers, and causing death by consumption. As has before been remarked in this THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. jgTI work, consumption may be manifested to other organs—as the Uver, the bow- els, etc. In aU cases of heart disease mentioned above, the patient should abstain from every exciting cause-»-as anger, or any kind of violent emotion, or of hard exercise. Never overload the stomach, or take exercise immediately after eating. Avoid late Buppers, and crowded houses. Besides these, he should endeavor to counteract obesity. There have of late years appeared from the press empyrical works upou consumption, setting forth the absurdity that enlargement of the heart is a favora- ' ble symptom in pulmonary diseases, and to fact that it aids in the cure of con- sumption. Than this, nothing can be more irrational or absurd—less reasonable or true. The reverse of this theory is correct, as wttl appear obvious to any one who wttl consider the absolute necessity of a healthy state of the heart in order to a pro- per circulation of the blood—upon which, to great measure, the health of the lungs must depend. Besides this, an enlarged heart wttl press upon the lung, keep- tog out the air from portions of it, and impeding the circulation therein; and if this is done, it will be obvious that the lung itself wttl be much more Uable to become diseased than ff correct action be aUowed to every part of it. An imperfect circu- lation wttl produce a stagnation of blood to the lungs, under the effect of which those organs must become diseased. The theory that a diseased heart will cure pul- monary complaints is too irrational for any sensible man to entertain for a moment In addition to the diseases of the heart above mentioned, this organ sometimes becomes hardened or ossified, to the same manner as ossification of the bones takes place to growth In diseases of the heart, use should be made of the Heart Regulator, Blood Ren- ovator, Anti-Bttious Pills, Water Regulator and German Ointment. These usually restore that organ to a state of health; but there may be cases of long standing in which specific treatment wttl be found necessary. In aU such medicines wUl be expressly prepared on appUcation to me to person, or by letter stating the disease. FITS—CAN BE CURED. The term fit or convulsion is appUed to aU kinds of spasmodic affections, such as epilepsy, hysteria, &c Generally fits assume no specific character. They occur to children or adults, proceeding from some acrid matter in the intestines or stomach such as various kinds of poisons; from teething, worms, flatulence; from sudden emotions of the mind, as anger or fear; from recessions of some ktods of rash, or the retreating of some kinds of eruptive disease, as small-pox or scarletina, diabetis, and kidney affections, and from consumption to the bowels. Previous to a fit there is often great debility, and an unnatural appearance of the eyes and countenance. At other times the convulsion comes on suddenly; the pa- tient is seized with a spasmodic affection of the whole body; he trembles violently and suddenly falls down, and remains msensible for a time, with involuntary twitchtogs, clenched teeth, a discharge of saUva from the mouth, and contracted puptts of the eyes. Sometimes fits recur to a patient year after year. In these cases, the cause should be definitely ascertained, before there will be much use to give medicines to effect a radical cure. There is often a fatal mistake made to cases of fits; the pa 278 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. tient is medicated for a long season to relieve him from their recurrence, when per- haps he is conttouaUy to the todulgence of some habit, or his system is under the effect of a cause not in the least suspected, which induces the fits. In this case, it is not to be thought that he can ever get over them. Often fits to chUdren are in- duced by the presence of worms; but worms not being suspected, the patient ia treated altogether different from what he should be, and the least unfavorable re- sult is that both the worms and the fits conttoue; to some cases the Ufe is lost by not understanding the cause of the convulsions, and so administering medicines which should not have been given. I may remark here, that every physician should, to a great number of cases, un- derstand the cause or causes as weU as what is the disease itself In a variety of complaints this is absolutely necessary to order to meet with success; for there bo those cases to which there is no kind of use to treat the effect and leave the cause alone. Thus ff there be worms, and these produce convulsions, it is necessary to treat the worms or cause to order that the convulsions or effects may be overcome. In some cases, as perhaps to worms, the cause only need be medicated for; toothers, as where wetting the feet has induced a cold, the effect only is to be treated, the cause betog removed; and to others, as where humors to the blood have produced cancers or other eruptive sores, both cause and effect must receive the attention of the physician. In cases of fits which recur one after another, perhaps for a long season, a cure can almost always be effeded, ff the cause be properly understood, and the patient witt persevere in the use of medicine. In many instances, a very brief period only wttl elapse before the worst ktod of convulsions wttl entirely disappear, simply by removing the cause. In these cases, the system wttl often be found to be material- ly disordered and weakened by the great number of convulsions that it has under- gone ; but if the convulsions are overcome, we can generally build up the system by proper blood medicines, and correct diet and exercise. In those cases where a single fit occurring to adult Ufe has nearly overcome the vital powers of the system, just leaving the patient aUve, a cure is not so readily to be looked for; but even these are susceptible of successful treatment. It would, however, have been much better for the person if he had paid proper attention to his health previously, and eschewed those practices leading directly to an almost total paralysis, (if not a sud- den death,) to a fit. In many cases of fits, the cause of which could not be ascertained by other phy- sicians, I have found, by examination with the Lung Barometer, that they arose from a pecuUar disease of the heart The patient betog reUeved from his heart dis- ease, the fits did not recur, and he was restored to health I have met with but very few cases of recurring fits to my practice where the heart was not more or less diseased. In cases of fits generaUy, where specific treatment cannot be had, use should be made of the Heart Regulator, Blood Renovator, Anti-BUious Pitts, Water Regulator and German Ointment. These almost invariably effect a cure. But to many cases, a course of medicine is necessary. This can be had by applytog to person, or by letter, carefully describtog the condition, age, appearance, and symptoms shown in tho patient. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 279 DYSPEPSIA. " What's rank or title, station, state or wealth, To that far greater worldly blessing—health 1 What's house, or land, or dress, or wine, or meat, If one can't rest for pain, nor sleep, nor eat, Nor go about in comfort 1 Here's the question: What's all the world without a good digestion V Dyspepsia is a derangement of the digestive functions, the immediate cause of which appears to be a diminished quantity, or unhealthy quaUty of the gastric eecretion of the stomach. It is brought on by intemperance to eating and drinking, want of proper exercise, intense anxiety of mind, depressing passions, superfluous evacuations, intense mental appUcation immediately after eating, excessive venery, Qse of mercury, obstructions in the liver and spleen, and improperly masticated food. These, and various other causes so weaken the coats of the stomach that the latter becomes incapable of performing its office. From the close sympathy existing between the stomach and every other part of the system, people suffering from dyspepsia or indigestion, are often troubled with distresstog affections to parts remote from the stomach. The symptoms manifested are these—nervous debUity, sick head-ache, costiveness, scanty and painful evacu- ations, pUes, jaundice, depression of the mind, oppression after eating, female ob- structions, flatulency, distension of the stomach and bowels, heartburn, furred tongue, sickness at the stomach, dizziness, loss of appetite, pato to the side, and torpor of the Uver and bowels. Persons troubled with dyspepsia should leave every exciting cause which may have given rise to the disease; strict attention should be paid to the diet, late hours and indolence should be dispensed with; exercise taken regularly to the open air; intense study not pursued; excessive cohabitation guarded against, and proper medicines perse veringly taken. It is too often the case with dyspeptics that they consult a dozen physicians in as many days; and if they do this and are dosed by aU, they may not expect to recover. Of the necessity of regular exercise to the due performance of the functions of the stomach, every one is fuUy sensible; walking, sawing wood, shoveling, &c, are good. They can never be compensated for by the passive exercises of the indolent and luxurious, who are often the victims of dyspepsia. Tho sofa and parlor exer- cises of ladies to the fashionable world witt not keep off this complaint; nor wttl an occasional stately walk up and down the thronged streets of a crowded city, to make a display of the outward trappings and of the elegant artificial bust The fashionable ladies of our cities, who lounge luxuriously in the parlorfrom morning till night and feel incapable of the smattest exertion, and who are, therefore troubled with indigestion, would find an excellent medicine to the loose dresses and the old spinning-wheel of their grandmothers; or, to lack of that by giving atten tion to their household matters. They should not be afraid of work. By this I do not mean that they should become slaves to toil There is a long differenco between fifteen hours of hard labor to the kitchen by " Bridget" and the fifteen hours of shoox idleness of the mistress to the parlor. The lady would find that a few steps 280 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. on her part, which would give the servant a trifle less of toil, would be of great service to the health of both. To those dyspeptic ladies who may read this, (and the number wttl be large, for such cases are in abundance,) I would submit this hint as worthy of their attention, and good to be followed Next to fashionable ladies, there come to the class of dyspeptics, students. Many young men to our colleges, ff they do not plunge toto aU species of pernidous practice that they can find, settle down to confirmed idleness to all matters but study. This is essentially wrong. I know not which we may class as the worst— the practices of the "rattle-head," or the folly of him who pays attention to nothtog but his books. The over-studious young man, unless he has a con- stitution Uke iron, soon injures himself by close appUcation and neglect of proper bodily exercise. In this way, hundreds of the most talented young men of the country bring themselves to the tomb. H they would attain to the summit of their ambitions, they wttl find that the body as well as the brain wttl require attention. Volumes of law, of theology, and of medicine, wttl not keep the functions of the body in proper order; and though the student swallow ever so many, he witt find them neither food, drink, or exercise. Dyspepsia is a prevalent disease to this country. This fad is owing mostly to the habits of the people, and has been to great measure attributed to the injurious pradice so common of "bolting" the food. Says Combe, "Nowhere does man hurry off to business so immediately as to the United States, and nowhere does he bolt his food so much, as if running a race against time. The consequence is, that nowhere do intemperate eattog and dyspepsia prevail to such an enormous extent Rapid eating almost invariably leads to overloading the stomach ; and when to this is added a total disregard of the quietude necessary for digestion, what can be ex- pected to follow but inveterate dyspepsia ?" In this case the stomach has to per- form the office of the teeth, and it becomes deranged to consequence. No man or woman may expect to be free from dyspepsia who does not labor some to one way or another. The human system is not calculated to sit down in luxurious indolence and idleness. Under such a state the stomach wiU not perform its func- tions properly, neither will the muscles have thefr healthful elasticity and power. Li short, the whole system wttl become debttitated and enervated, and the mind wttl lose its strength. In cases of dyspepsia or consumption, tovaUds wttl be much more likely to recover health who give attention to some species of manual labor or of exercise; for these are the medictoes of Nature, carrying off the waste of the system and giving to it new vigor and power. The idea that persons troubled with dyspepsia or consumption must Ue down and take medidne, is absurd, for in this condition neither nature or the medicine can operate to the favorable extent that they would ff proper exercise were taken. CHOLERA, CHOLERA MORBUS, CHOLERA INFANTUM, DYSENTERY AND DIARRHCEA. The Asiatic Cholera, which has swept over the Eastern continent two or three times with great devastation, and also prevaUed to various parts of this country, seemingly traveUng from one city to another, as if its causes were borne upon the wings of the wind, is a disease the origin of which is stitt unknown, although much THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 281 Investigation has been expended upon it. It generaUy appears like an aggravated or malignant type of the common cholera morbus, with looseness of the bowels. Sometimes the patient is carried off by it in a very few hours; in other cases its effects are comparatively Ught Its symptoms are very similar to those of the cholera morbus. It prevails mostly to cities, and almost exclusively in the latter months of the summer season, carrying off thousands to a few weeks, and then nearly disappearing, perhaps for years. Occasionally it wttl appear to some of the smaller dties, often nearly depopulating the place. The cholera, Uke many other diseases, is governed to great degree by the clean- liness or the filth of a locality. Its power is derived chiefly from the circumstances which attend it Usually it will pass house after house where cleanUness and the other laws of health are attended to, and aUght with virulence to the abodes of filth and impurity, among subjects fitted for its approach by intemperate and irre- gular habits. In tho year 1849 the cholera provatted extensively to this country. The deaths in New York that season by the disease were 5011. Many towns to Western United States were nearly left destitute of inhabitants under its sway. Upon the first indication of cholera, or any unusual evacuation of the bowels, use should be made of the Anti-Bttious PUls, to cleanse the stomach and intestines, after which take the Dysentery Specific to check the discharges. For this purpose these articles sliould be kept always on hand. If the case runs toto a cholera, a physician should be called. Cholera Morbus is a disease of the stomach and alimentary canal, characterized by vomiting and purging, severe griping pain, cramps in the stomach abdomen, and extremities. It is very prevalent in hot weather. The immediate existing cause of the cholera morbus is^beUeved to be the action and stimulus of an acid secreted to the Uver, or formed to the stomach and alimen- tary canal, and which produces an irritation of the mucous membrane of those parts. There are many predisposing causes—indigestible and irritating articles of food and drink, unripe fruit ^ articles that contain much add, and liquids that quickly fer- ment But these are not likely to produce the disease unless the system is predis- posed to it by a debttitated state of the digestive organs, or by general relaxation and exhaustion from the influence of great heat. Cholera Morbus is a common and dangerous disease, often fatal to twenty-four hours or less. It generatty comes on suddenly, commencing with nausea and pain to the stomach, griping and distress to the abdomen, followed by vomiting and purging. The evacuations are thin and watery, then bittous. As the disease ad- vances, vomiting, purging, and pain, are severe and incessant; there is a spasmodic affection of the abdomtoal muscles and extremities, and the patient is drawn up oa every attack; the thirst is great: the pulsa becomes small and feeble; the extremities cold; the countenance palUd; a cold sweat comes on, and great prostration follows. In cas^s of cholera morbus, use should be made of the Dysentery Specific. If this does not check the disease, take a dose of the Anti-BiUous PUls, and then em- ploy again the Specific. This wiU be certain to overcome the complatot Cholera Infantum is a cholera of infants, resembling that disease in adults, and differing iu some respects. It is very prevalent among chUdren during the summer season; is hi{r. C. thinks that only recent and acute cases can be speedily cured; the old ones are less tractable; and, as to all other diseases, there are instances where the patient is past cure. Dr. C. expresses the opinion, to which I agree, that nothing would tend more to diminish the prevalence of habitual drunkenness, than to have it deemed and proclaimed a form of madness, and dealt with accordingly. " Hos pitals erected for the reception of drunkards with authority given to confine them there, would be among the most important institutions that could be established, and would effect an immense saving of life, health, property and reputation." Of the transmission of this tendency for strong drink, Dr. CaldweU observes: " Every constitutional quaUty, whether good or bad, may descend, by inheritance, from parent to child. And a long continued habit of drunkenness becomes as essentiahy constitutional as a predisposition to gout or pulmonary consumption This increases, in a manifold degree, the responsibility of parents in rdation to temperance. By habits of intemperance they not only degrade and ruin themselnie\ THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 29a but transmit the elements of Uke degradation and ruin to their posterity. This is no visionary conjecture, the fruit of a favorite and long-cherished theory. It is a settled belief resulting from observation on inference derived from innumerable facts. In hundreds and thousands of instances, parents, having had chUdren bom to them whUe their habits were temperate, have become afterwards intemperate, and had other children subsequently born. In such cases it is a matter of notoriety, that the younger children have become addicted to the practice of intoxication much more frequently than the elder—in tho proportion office to one /" At the present time there is a general movement in several states to suppress by law the evU of intemperance, by prohibiting the sale of ardent spirits except for medicinal or mechanical purposes. Of the expediency and the constitutional right to prohibit the sale of liquor there are conflicting opinions; but that, if the sale were prohibited, and men could not obtain the means of intoxication,, it would result to an invaluable benefit to mankind and to society, would save much of poverty, misery, sickness, crime, personal abuse, premature death, and expense to the state, by liquor now engendered, there can be no manner of doubt. No man, however much ho may be opposed to legislation upon the subject, can deny the truth of tins statement. And this being the case, it certainly is a question worthy of the most serious consideration of the physician, and philanthropist, if it would not De both wise and proper to suppress the evil by legislation. Without this it may weU be doubted if the monster folly of intemperance, with its long train of miseries, witt ever cease to exist If good and pure Uquor could be used with discretion, and as it ought to be used, it would be a useful article; but as experience shows us that this is not always done, and that much evU results from its abuse, an experi- ment in the form of legislation against its sale might with wisdom be made, as a part of general sanitary regulations. This would soon give us the whole matter to a Ught where the benefits and the evils of liquor could be pronounced upon statisti- cally, and thereafter the subject would be less open for question. EFFECTS OF WEALTH UPON DISEASE. The effects of wealth upon the health as weU as upon the happiness of the univer- sal people of any nation, is a matter worthy the attention of the philanthropic physician, the enlightened theologian, and the profound philosopher. By wealth, I would bo understood as moaning that sufficiency of money, or of other worldly goods, which shall provide to every individual and to every family not only tha bare necessaries of life, but a certain amount of luxuries, and of easo, at proper intervals, and of leisure for recreation to make merry and be glad; and to placo them so far beyond want at aU times, that there shall be no danger of corruption by their political views or their baUots becoming marketable goods to be purchased by the gold of tyranny and despotism. To this extent did God in his wisdom in- tend that all men should enjoy of the world; but by the seeking out of many devilish contrivances by the cunning, and by the establishment of systems of so- ciety wherein the laborer does not in one case of an hundred receive the just and full rewards of his toil the intent of the Creator is rendered void, and the conse- quence is an enormous addition to the sum total of human misery; to the murders, the suicides, the sicknesses, the premature deaths, and the countless evils that sur- 296 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. round us, as punishments therefor; and a correspondtog diminution in the total of the happtoess, the intelligence, and the health of the mass of any nation. It is commonly promulgated that wealth is the parent of the great bulk of aU crimes, whether of nations or of todividuals; and that its opposite is the father of the vast majority of virtues and the mother of the happtoess that is among men. I boldly deny the truth of this doctrine; and do so not only by the sanctions of com- mon sense and reason, but under the teachings of the tovariable experiences of the past from the creation of man to the present hour. The commonly preaclted doctrine upon this point is falladous and without good foundation—the practised one is correct, and has been so acknowledged by the actions of mankind through all ages, notwithstanding his hypocritical tongue may at times have denied tho truth. Of the effect of wealth upon the general health of a people, any candid observer wttl admit that it is to the main benefidal That evils to many cases, both in a moral and a physical sense, arise from it, is true; but these are the results of the foolish abuse, or tyrannous use, of it by men, and not of its judicious investment under the directions of wisdom. That to the wealthier classes there is a greater average duration of life than among the poor, is a truth that careful statistics have proven, as I have shown in the articles on Lung Consumption, and in Occupation on Health, and elsewhere in this *work. This fact is undeniable; and it is easy to see why it should be so, since we know that the poorer class of people are ne- cessitated to eat worse kinds of food, to Uve to worse tenements, to breathe more impure air, both to their abodes and to their business, and that they enjoy less of almost everything that contributes to health. Who does not know that aU epidemic diseases manifest themselves more powerfully and deadly among the poor class of the people, and this for the reason that the poor class is obliged to dweU* to locattties and houses which breed disease, and to eat foods often which do no better. Says a report on the cholera in Boston, to 1849, speaking of the abodes of that class of people among which it mostly prevailed: " Some of these (cellars) are divided off' into One or more rooms, into which hardly a ray of Ught or breath ol air passes, and where, notwithstanding, famUies of several persons reside. How the lamp of life, under such circumstances, holds out to burn, even for a day, is, perhaps, as great a wonder as that such a state of things should, in this community, be Buffered to exist. That such residences become the permanent abodes of fever, ■n some of its forms, is weU known to the medical men who visit them; and that they tend to shorten life we may already infer from the statistical tables of Mr. Shattuck, who states that the average of Irish Ufe [the class mostly inhabiting these places] in Boston does not exceed fourteen tears," whtte the average du- ration of Ufe of the entire population is about forty years! ! This one fact is suffi dent of itself, especiaUy when we remember that the same proportion holds every- where else under Uke circumstances, to establish the truth of the point I would claim; once we know that it is the poverty of these people that keeps them inhabitants of such vile abodes. A committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society, to a report made in 1849, present the foUowing remarks upon this subject: " There is a very common notion that the privations and discomforts of poverty are at least compensated by health. The robust strength of the laborer is often re- ferred to as in example of this compensation. The children, especially of the poor, who are often neglected and uncleanly, in want of proper clothing, and exposed to THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 29? die severity of the elements, are quoted as proofs of the uselessness of attending to many of the rules of health. But all inquiry toto the condition of the poor shows the fattacy of these opinions and the evil consequences of following them. " Mr. Chadwick's report on the sanitary condition of tho laboring classes, shows that within the reach of his inquiry, the average age at death of aU persons, in- cluding father, mother, and children, in the families of the most prosperous classes was 42.6 years, and in the famUies of the poor only 20.4 years! [A difference of more than one-half.] Among the prosperous only 20 per cent, and among tho poor 50 per cent, of the deaths were of children under five years. "According to Benoistan du Chateauneuf, among 10,000 persons Uving at each age, and in eaoh class, to Paris, there died— Age. Rich. Poor, 30 to 40 108 157 40 to 50 111 213 50 to 60 199 359 60 to 10 360 750 10 to 80 804 1456 " An analysis of the bills of mortaUty of the town of Dorchester for more than a quarter of a century showed that those who had died within that period in the famUies of the poor had enjoyed an average longevity of only 27.4 years, while those who died in the famUies of the prosperous had Uved, on an average, 45.6 years. Among the poor, 31 per cent, and among the prosperous only 12.4 per cent, of all the deaths were of children under two years of age. Among the poor only 9 per cent., whtte among the rich 21 per cent. Uved to the age of threescore and ten years. " Wherever this inquiry has been made a simUar result has been obtained; the revelation of a lower degree of health, and a shorter life among the poor, and a higher degree of health, and a longer Ufe, among the more prosperous classes." Under this point I may quote from Combe, who says: " It has been very common to eulogize the simple food and hardy habits of the poor and laboring classes as eminently conducive to health, when contrasted with the debiUtating effects of tho cares and luxuries of the rich. Experience unfortunately reverses the picture, and shows, by arithmetical arguments, that the excess of work, and the privations to which tho poor are habitually exposed, produce a much higher rate of mortaUty cnong them, especially in seasons of scarcity or commercial depression, than among che richer classes, of society. And the same thing is further proved by the fact, ihat to the army and navy the officers almost invariably suffer less than the men from changes of climate, and from the fatigues and calamities of war. In France, «he mortality among the infants of the poorer classes is said to be nearly double that iccurring among those in more affluent circumstances; while, in the wealthier depart- ments the average of life is twelve years greater than in those which are poor! ! In London, according to Dr. Granvttle's tables, only 542 infants out of every 1000 births among the poor survive their second year; and in Paris, also, the mortality to the quarter inhabited by the working classes, is nearly double that which occurs among the more wealthy 11 The influence of impoverished diet, defective clothing, and an unfavorable moral position is strikingly exlubited among the c'lttdren of 298 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. soldiers, of whom according to Mr. Marshall only a very smaU proportion roach tho age of manhood, most of them betog stinted to their growth, scrofulous to con- stitution, and bad in morals." As another evidence, take these remarks of the City Inspector of New York: " As a great and growing cause of unhealthiness to many sections of our city, permit me earnestly to caU your attention to the reprehensible practice of erecting dwoll- togs to too close contiguity, and still worse of dividing them toto numerous, con- tracted, and Ul-ventilated apartments, each of which cupidity fiUs with a famUy, by the tempting offer of a cheap rent, but ruinously dear to the end to the occupants," because it breeds disease. Of such tenements, it is weU known that poor people are the inmates, because they are not able to hire more cleanly and healthy abodes. But to show the effect upon health of cleanUness and air, and other sanitary causes, may be considered supererogatory to this place; it has been already done, and it must be evident to aU men. But this being admitted, the questions arise, how is health to be promoted through sanitary measures, especiaUy to large cities, except by the use of wealth t and how is wealth to be used, unless it be first had ? It becomes obvious at a glance that no public sanitary measures could be adopted among a people aU poor, and it is equaUy obvious that every individual who is poor is more or less compeUed to abandon those sanitary measures in the case of himself and his family that ensure health and a continuance of Ufe. The cause is so aUied to the effect that it is utterly impossible to separate a certato amount of wealth from any family, and keep that family in as good a state of health as it would be from a wise and proper use of the wealth. It follows, there- fore, that a people dwelling to poverty, dweU also in doser contiguity to disease and early death. As an Ulustration of the effects of wealth, wisely used to pubUc sanitary measures, both as regards health and moraUty, we may look back upon ancient Rome to the days of her richness and power. Says a writer—" The Romans were the most sa- gacious and extensive legislators to these matters. The arrangements for supplying the houses of Rome with water were most minute. Those for ventilation and drain- age, stttl traceable to the remains of Roman amphitheatres, have struck our most advanced sanitarians with surprise. It is easy to see from Viturvius, and from por- tions of the coUection of Graevius, that the rules and operations for the protection ol health to Rome, were of a very radical and peremptory' charader, and allowed no minor interests to interfere with the»n. It seems to have been a rule with them, that from the time when the foundation of a city was laid, to that of the summit of its greatness, no structural operation, public or private, should be permitted to take a shape which should rendor it a harbor either for disease or crime. And it is to this vigilant forethought that we must attribute the success with which that remarkable people preserved social order throughout so dense and vast a mass of human beings, as the inhabitants of the imperial city to the days of its greatncrc." This, be it remembered, was when Rome was " mistress of the world," and wealthy. But how was it after her fall ? Says another writer—" The cause of public health received a fatal check when Rome felll Wealth departed from among the people, and existed for centuries only to the hands of a few feudal barons. For five centu- ries there were no sanitary regulations. The people were too poor to construct the means 1 In those dark ages frightful epidemics often appeared to desolate the land I" And to accordance with this is the history of pestilence to aU ages of the world 1HE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 299 Health s chUdren in God, knowing that Jesus is able and has promised to raise us up from the grave and regenerate and make us new to him. He has passed through death and is in life; the way is made Straight for us, with a mighty arm that can defy all the powers of the adversary, and place us to a heaven of bliss, free from aU pato and sickness, woe and sorrow of the heart. INCREASE OF THE POPULATION. Among modern would-be phUosophers there has of late become prevalent a doc- trine used by them against early marriage, and to impeachment of tho wisdom ol Deity, to wit: that according to the present rate of increase of the population of the world there would in a time not far distant arise such an immense number of human betogs that the world would not afford sustenance for them. A more foottsh con- clusion than this, ff arguing from correct premises, could not weU be arrived at With these men it is customary to take the increase of population to some family or fast-growing place, and arguing therefrom, they people the earth to overflowing to a comparatively few years. They seem not to remember, or they purposely avoid allusion to the fact, that whtte one portion of the earth is increasing in population, another is decreasing. Thus, at the present time, while the United States is fast growing to the number of its inhabitants, many parts of Europe are betog thinned by emigration to this country. And it is by no means an impossible matter, that the day may come, when, this country betog well filled, the tide of emigration wttl set back agato and the population of America decrease. Of the increase of the population of the universal world to the last one hundred or one thousand years, it is quite impossible to speak with exactness; but it is by no means so great as to put the most fidgety upon this point to fear that the doc- trine of the famous Malthus will have to be put in practice, nor so great as to bo any argument against the people embarking to marriage at the proper age. Even in this country, where the increase of the population is greater than at present in any other part of the world, there is no immediate caU for the appUcation of a-ay Malthusian theories. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. sin Taking the city of New York, which increases in population very fast to propor- tion, we find that in the year 1805 there was a population of 75,770; to 1850 there was 515,394; increase 439,624. In this time—from 1805 to 1850—45 years—the number of deaths has been 127,671. So that to 45 years there has been an in- crease of only about 3 J times the number of deaths. This rate, it is very true, would soon give us an immense number of people; but the question immediately arises, how much of this increase was natural t Of this we may gain some idea from the fact that in the year of 1851 alone, there were nearly 300,000 emigrants landed in New York from foreign countries, besides a large number of in-comers from the country places of our land—which is always larger than the out-goers to the country. The number of deaths of children under ten years of age in 1851 was about 13,000; and as it is known that much less than two-thirds of those born ever arrive at the age of ten years, we shaU see that the number of births to New York is not larger (and in truth it is not so large, the number of emigrants making the deaths here more to proportion to the births than in places where there is no emi- gration,) than the number of deaths. And from this we infer, that though the growth to population of particular places is sometimes great, the increase to the population of the whole world is by no means so extensive that men and women need fear to "increase and multiply and replenish the earth" though modern phi- losophers in their much-pretended wisdom do place them on their guard It is true that the population of this country is increasing rapidly, mostly by emi- gration. But it may go on increasing at the same rate as heretofore for many years before the country will become unable to find food for the hungry, if it be properly titted. The valley of the Mississippi is alone capable of raising provisions to sup- port 250,000,000 of people I It will be some years before our population is that large. And ff it should ever arrive to that number, and three times greater, the earth would yet support them, if tilled scientifically and every inch improved; for as yet the science of agriculture is to its tofancy to a certato sense: but a smaU portion of the earth is tilled at all and that but miserably. A society which should give to labor its earnings, and a population so dense as to require the utmost capaci- ty of the earth scientifically and chemically titted to support, would develop in the soil a power of production such as but few men have ever thought of; and did this state of things exist a man would get a better living off of ten square rods of ground than do many now off of a mtte square. Why then should modern philoso- phers urge people to Uve out of the divtoe institution of marriage, and to disobey reason and the injunctions of the Deity, by holding up before them the bug-bear of over population ? Such doctrine is the sheerest nonsense, fit to be promulgated only by the veriest fanatics. The lank, cadaverous countenances and glassy eyes of tins class of philosophers, who see horror to every being that comes toto the world, is the best of comments on the folly of their teachings. i DEGENERATION. That a degeneration of the human race is at present speaking fast going on, there can be no doubt. The habits of dress, tho unhealthy fashions, protracted ceUbacy, prostitution, abortion, masturbation, excessive sexual todulgence, and other evUs, Which breed insanity, idiocy, consumption and other degenerating diseases, bid fan 308 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. to reduce the race of mortals far below the standard which it has held. By these evils the vigor and strength which should be to man is to great measure taken from him. By reference to figures in other parts of this work, showing the beneficial effects of sanitary regulations to aU cases where they have been introduced, it wttl be seen that where people have been brought under the influences of sdentific physicians and philanthropists the average duration of human Ufe has been increased. But, unfortunately, the numbers of those who have not been brought under those influen- ces to the extent of abandonment of bad habits is so large to proportion to thoso , who have, that notwithstanding the improvements in medical science from the intro- dudion of tlie vegetable remedies to the last fifty years, and notwithstanding the fact that from the obUteration of numerous predisposing causes of disease to the country itself (such as pestilential marshes, &c, that always produce many deaths in a new land), the natural Uabttities of disease are decreased—the reports show that the proportion of deaths to the population is about the same now as fifty years ago I As for instance, to the city of New York, the proportion of deaths to 1805 was 1 in 32.98; in 1850, 1 to 33.52; and in 1851 the proportion of deaths was greater- there being in 1850 but 15,377 deaths, while in 1851 there were 19,234, which, al- lowing a reasonable increase of the population that year, would make the propor- tion of deaths to tlie population greater than it was to 1805! That the natural predisposing causes to disease are much less than they were fifty years ago, because many of those causes have been removed, there can be no doubt; and that °v the totroduction of vegetable remedies, and by the improvements to medical science, the same disease is more generaUy mastered than it was fifty years back, is also doubt- less true. These premises being admitted, (and no one pretends to deny them,) to what can we attribute a continuance of the same ratio of mortality, but to the bad habits that have become prevalent to civUized, refined and fashionable society ? There can be no other reasonable cause given. It is to the evils growing out of protracted ceUbacy, (more common now than half a century back,) to bad fashions in dress, turning night into day, indulging in Ucentious habits generaUy—and in. short, disobeying the natural laws of health, which induce a degeneration of the pres- ent race and witt make the succeeding ones worse and worse—that we must attrib- ute a continuance of the same ratio of deaths as prevailed here at the beginning ol the century. Therefore, I say, the race is degenerating; and it wttl continue to degenerate, in spite of improvements to medical science, and to spite of obliteration of natural predisposing causes of disease, untU those pernidous habits aUuded to, which war conttouaUy against science and labor, are abandoned by the universal people and they return to nature and the better habits of their progenitors. Could we at this day have a people living in the homespun and temperate habits that more generally prevailed half a century back, and bring that people under the influences of the improvements to medicine and destructions to great measure of local causes of disease, we should see, that tostead of a ratio of deaths of about 1 in 32 annually, we should not have more than 1 in 50. And this is found to be the case wherever the modern improvements and the olden habits exist together. But where improvement is compeUed to war against new fashions the contest is and ever must be about equal, if indeed fashion does not obtain tho mastery; and the race must continue to degenerate. This condition of things, when viewed with reference to the health and happiness THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 309 of the future generations, calls loudly upon us for a reform and a return to the laws of nature and of God. And be assured, that if reform does not take place, it wttl be found that the " stos of the fathers are visited upon the children unto the thfrd and fourth generations," as certain as those generations arise; and finally our peo- ple become degenerated and pass away, as have the nations of old, for disobedience of the laws of God and nature. OLD AND YOUNG SLEEPING TOGETHER The practice of old and young persons sleeping together should never be aUowed; as in all cases, it wttl be found to act injuriously upon the health of the young. It is not an uncommon thing to families to put a young girl to sleep constantly to the same bed with an aged grandmother, aunt, or some relative, or a boy with a grandfather or uncle. The practice is reprehensible. The effect of it is that the young person is often made sick; and, if not that directly, it imparts an unhealthy tone to the Bystem that wttl be felt sooner or later. A young and healthy person should no more be put to sleep with an old and decaying one than with a diseased person. It is remarked by acute observers, that where a young person sleeps with an old one, the old is benefited at the expense of the young. So weU has this been un- derstood that to many cases wealthy people have hired young persons to sleep with old ones, that the old might be strengthened. In some instances young females have been procured to sleep with old men, so that the latter might be strengthened thereby, as they generally are, though the young suffer a loss by it Such practi- ces are generaUy discountenanced now, though it is by no means rare that we heai of a young woman plactog herseff to this position by marrying an old and broken- down man of seventy or eighty years, for the sake of getttog his property I In many cases where chUdren have slept with old persons their death has been induced thereby in lingering consumption, without the cause betog suspected. The explanation of this fact uPon frue principles, is easy. It is weU known that all Uvtog bodies are constantly throwing off a part of their substance through the pores to insensible perspiration. [See article on Offices of the Skin.] The substance so thrown off, is in the same state, with regard to age and health or disease, as the per- son from which it comes. Also, the body is constantly absorbing, by the lungs and through the skin, whatever comes to contact with the body to a form that permits of its betog absorbed. Now as the emanations from the bodies of young and healthy people to the form of msensible perspiration are comparatively fresh and wholesome, and. those from old and diseased persons are the reverse, it follows that by an absorption of the healthy emanations from the young by the old, the old witt be benefited ; and by an absorption of the unhealthy emanations from the old by the young, the young will speedtty decay and become likewise old. Also, the old body being deficient to annual electricity, and less warm than the young, receives warmth new Ufe and energy from the young—conducting away the animal elee- tridty, which gives to the body its vigor and healthy youthful tone. Thus the young person loses an amount of annual electricity necessary for the healthy con- tinuance of existence, to order that the old one may be benefited by absorbing it Than this nothing can seem more probable and rationaL When once explained, tb* Vmndesr will be able to see the philosophy of the matter. 310 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. The practice of hiring young married females to attend at certain places, for • number of hours to a day, to associate with superannuated old men, has obtained to some extent in London and Paris. Not only do these young wc men associate with aged patients, but also act as wet nurses I This they are in a manner compelled to do to obtain a Uving. Fortunately for the people of this country we have not yet arrived at that point of poverty where women are compeUed to this unnatural and degrading purpose ;• and it is to be hoped we never may: for when a man has be- come so aged and superannuated that he cannot be longer kept to Ufe without re- course to such a means, it is better that he should die peacefully than to attempt the elongation of his existence for a few weeks at the expense of the health of a more valuable and useful person. In att cases where the health of a young person has been injured by sleeping with an old one, it wttl be found that the system generally has become contamina- ted with the waste thrown off from the old and decaying body. This being the case, the course to pursue is plain,—take immediate measures to purge the system of the unhealthy matters it has absorbed. This can be effectually accompUshed by the Anti-Bilious PUls, operating in the stomach and bowels; the Water Regulator, operating upon the kidneys, to take off impurities through the urine; and the Blood Renovator, which wttl cleanse, renovate, and renew the blood. ART OF EMBALMING—BURIAL GROUNDS. Embalming, a process which consists to filttng dead bodies with spices for the purpose of retarding or preventing decay, is of frequent mention to the Scriptures Though originating with, and best understood by, the Egyptians, when that nation was to its glory, the practice of embalming was not confined to them; for the Jews, Persians, Arabs, and Ethiopians possessed the knowledge of the art In the New Testament we read that Nicodemus carried myrrh and aloes to embalm tlie body of Jesus, and to envelop it in linen with aromatics, after the manner of the Jews. The art of successful embalming was long since lost by the Egyptians, and is unknown to any nation of the present day; but by knowledge gained from interesting re- Searches, and by referring to ancient writers, numerous particulars of the various processes may be given. Diodorus Siculus speaks of three modes of embalming. The first cost the equiv- alent of about $1000; the second about $400; the third a much smaUer sum, which is not mentioned. It has been thought that the bodies must have been put into stoves or kept at a warm temperature in convenient vessels, to incorporate intimate- ly the resinous substances with the animal matter. After this, the body was frequently gilt over, and sometimes wrapped to sheets of gold. Among the Egyptians, there was a set of persons who engaged to perform the whole service of embalming for a certain sum. With a sharp stone an incision was made to the left flank of the dead person. This task, as seeming to imply disrespect and cruelty towards the dead, was so hateful and degrading as to oblige the dis- sector instantly to fly, as ff he had committed a crime. The embalmers then came forward These men seem to have belonged to a taste hereditary in Egypt held to high respect, looked upon as sacred, and per- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 311 mitted to have access to the temples and associate with priests. They removed from the body the parts most susceptible of decay, washing the rest with palm wine and filUng the inside with myrrh cinnamon and various sorts of spices. After this, the body was put to salt of nitre for about thirty days After swathing the body to fine linen bandages, glued together with a thin but powerful gum, they spread over it the richest perfumes. It was then returned to the hands of the relations, and by them frequently kept to the house to an open case, they not thinking it right that the features of their dead relations should be unknown or forgotten by their own kindred. For the prevalence of this custom at a certain period we have the authority of Dioiorus Siculus and of Lucian, the latter of whom mentions having been present when mummies were placed at table as ff they had been alive. GeneraUy, however, the bodies were swathed to cloth strong- ly saturated with asphaltum or a bituminous pitch, placed to the coffin and con- signed to the tomb. The perfection of the embalming may be judged of by the condition of the hair. It has been found measuring two feet four inches; and on the head of a female mummy »* Thebes, the hair was found plaited and turned up over the head in three distinct portions. The manner to which the plait was made corresponded exactly with that adopted by females of the present day. By the side and at the feet of the mummies are often found the emblems of tho trade or profession of the deceased, such as the net of the fisherman, the razor and stone to sharpen it of a barber, paints and brushes alongside that of an artist, instru- ments of surgery by the body of a physician, a bow and arrow by the side of a hunter, a lance by the soldier, and the style and receptacle for tok by the side of the derk. Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson, who examined the mummies of Egypt, is of opinion that the embalmers were members of the medical profession, since the knowledge required for that purpose appears to be connected with their pecuUar studies; and it is also said by Moses, " The physicians embalmed Jacob." Belzoni conceived that the balsam employed by the Egyptians in embalming consisted of powdered colocynth, commonly called bitter apple. The mention of aloes to embalming frequently occurs to the Bible, but there is no positive authority of its use by the Egyptians. Besides the record of St. John of myrrh and aloes brought by Nicodemus to preserve the body of Christ aloes is mentioned as a per- fume in other parts of Scripture. " I have prepared my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon."—Prov. vii. 17. "Spikenard and saffron; calamus, with all tree3 of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices."—Cantic. iv. 14. The skull and body of the Egyptian mummy is found to be filled with the dust of woods having an aromatic odor—the brain and the bowels and stomach having been displaced. Attempts numerous, but unsuccessful, have been made to modern times to discover and restore to betog to its andent perfection the art of the olden nations to embalming. Many subjects have at different times undergone processes, but only with a partial success. Bodies have been preserved for a few months oi years; but there is on record no account of any lasting embalment in modern times. Fanjas de St. Fond, to his " Travels through England and Scotland," gives an in- teresting relation of the method Mr. Sheldon employed to preserve the body of a young lady. The vessels were injected to different parts with alcohol saturated vrith camphor, mixed with a small proportion of turpentine. The skin was pre- 812 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. pared with f nely powdered alum, rubbed on with the hand. The intestines ard all the toternal parts were taken out and covered with a varnish composed of a mix- ture of camphor and yellow resin, and afterwards rubbed slightly with alum. The viscera were then replaced, and the crural artery injected with a strong solution of camphor in rectified spirit. To imitate the color of the skin of the face, a colored tojedion was thrown toto the carotids. The body was then placed in a case of Virginia cedar, on a layer of calcined chalk, enclosed to another, and not again opened for five years. It was then found perfect without havtog experienced any injury from insects. The French chemists have labored assiduously to discover some method of em- balming ; and recently one M. Surquet has succeeded in preserving bodies for a time; but how long they will keep is not known. This process is as follows:— " A current of sulphurous acid gas is passed through a solution of carbonate of Boda, of the strength of from twenty to twenty-two degrees Baume (sp. gr. 1.160 to L180), until the whole of the carbonic acid is displaced, and the solution contains a slight excess of sulphurous acid. The fluid should then have a specific gravity of 1.200. It is next placed in a vessel containing dippings of zinc, and Allowed to remato in contact with the metal until it has become sensibly neutral—the blade of a knife dipped toto it not turning brown on exposure to the air. From four to aix Utres (about a gaUon or a gallon and a half) of this preparation are employed to in- ject a subject This solution is thrown into the carotid arteries by injection. After twenty-four hours dissection may be proceeded with, and continued without any in- convenience, for twenty, thirty, or even forty days. One of the great advantages arising from the employment of the sulphate of soda consists in the beneficial influence it exerts to cases of the accidents to which the operator is subject in the dissecting-room." "Another preparation, which wttl succeed equaUy well With the above, is the fol- lowing:—Throw clippings of zinc into muriatic add untU the Uquid ceases to effer- vesce, and wttl no longer stain a knife blade, and then inject as before. "Animal matter subjected to the adion of either of these preparations will no longer decompose when exposed to the air." To many of the present day it would appear that the ancient Egyptians took especial pains for the preservation of the dead; and it may seem that in this respect they went beyond reason to their labors and expenditures to this end. But aside from the fact that only upon the highest classes was the process of embalming practised, it wttl not appear at all strange, ff we will but remember our own feelings at the loss of a near friend—a father, mother, husband, brother, sister, or child en- deared to us—that they should have felt an earnest desire to preserve in entirety of person the forms of the departed. The art of preserving the body for any length of time having been lost to modern nations, the civilized now manifest their feeUngs for the dead by the location c beautiful sites for burying-grounds,-and by erecting over the ashes of the departed Buch monuments or tombs as shall perpetuate their memory. The custom which prevaUed a century or half century ago, both to Europe and America, of burying the dead in yards to the very centre of a populous town, from whence tlie effluvia filled the air, has not only been found to be offensive, but destructive to health. Innumerable cases of disease have been engendered by this cause; and it is with pleasure that the philanthropic physician hears of the passage of laws forbidding th« THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 313 Interment of tho dead in the boundaries of populous towns. Within a few minutes' walk of the thick-settled parts of Now York Island, there is now a place of pubUc burial known as the "Potter's Field," the which if burials be continued therein, wttl in a very few years, become a prolific source of fevers and other complatots. I speak of tins here to suggest that this spot be no longer used fdr tins purpose—that- Bomo other place, away from the city, be procured, for the interment of the poor that die among us. And to whatever place this work may go, I would say to the people of that place, see that your burying-grounds do not contaminate the air around you, and generate sickness: see that the dead are buried sufficiently deep to keep any effluvia from decay arising to the surface. Burying-grounds should be selected to a somewhat secluded place, and should be combined with such natural scenery as wttl tend to inspire those feeUngs of solem- nity and decorum which should ever surround the place. A spot should be sought never Uable to be encroached upon for any purpose, and where the tenants may remain forever undisturbed. In cases where a city has grown up around a burying- ground, it may be weU to remove the bodies to a more secluded place. In the careless manner in which burial places have been seleded, it often happens that the coffins are dug up to make room for the cellars of houses and for the track of a railroad. Says a London writer: "When the Uving bodyis exposed to putrid emanations to a higlily concentrated state, the effects are immediate and deadly; whea more diluted, they still taint the system, inducing a morbid condition, which renders it more prone to disease in general, but especially to all forms of epidemic disease, and which further predisposes it to pass toto a state verging upon if not actually that of putrefaction. The recent examination of the grave-yards of the metropotts appears to us to show that they contain putrefying matter enough to communicate this putrefy- ing process to those who are exposed to it. * * The placing of the dead body to a grave, and covering it with a few feet of earth, does not prevent the gases generated by decomposition, together with the putrescent matter? which they hold to suspen- sion, from permeating the surrounding soil and evaporating into the air above and the water beneath. Under the pressure of only three-fourths of an inch of water, gas rapidly makes its way to the surface through a stratum of sand or gravel several feet to thickness. The evolution of the gases of decomposition takes place with so much force, that they often burst the coffin to which the body is confined— even if a lead one; and when, as to a common grave, they pass without restraint toto the surrounding earth they are only in part absorbed by the soil, but are dif- fused to every direction, chiefly upward, thus directly poUuting the air. These gases will find exit even from the depth of eight or ten feet. I have made several exam- inations, which showed that the gases were not thoroughly absorbed by the soil I know church-yards from which most foetid gases are evolved; and gases with similar odor are emitted from the sides of sewers passing in the vicinity of church- yards, although they may be more than thirty feet from them. In old grave-yards, the ground is absolutely saturated with carbonic acid gas, so that when a deep grave is dug, such an amount of it is rapidly coUected that the workmen cannot descend without danger. From the law of the diffusion of gases, it may be seen how this death-laden gas wttl spread through the atmosphere of a w'nole town, and contaminate, to a greater or less degree, the health of the people." I may add, that I have passed many burying-grounds from which the odor of de- 314 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. caytog bodies was perceptible to the sense. In some instances, where a side-httl is used for interments, I have noticed that by repeated washings of rains, the grass at the foot of the hill would be kttled by the power of the putrescent matter washed down to the soil I Side-hills should never be used for burial purposes. Nor should churches be buttt over vaults where dead bodies are deposited, as is sometimes done. Disease may be bred in this manner to the congregations. Of the two modes of interment practiced to this country—graves and tombs—the former is to be preferred. Dangerous gases often escape from tombs, when they are insecurely dosed, or when opened to deposit new coffins. It is gratifying to notice that within the past few years the attention of our peo- ple has been directed to the subject of procuring proper places for the burial of the dead, and of keeping those places in a condition worthy a civilized nation. Among theso " Mount Auburn," at Cambridge, for Boston; " Greenwood Cemetery," on Long Island, for New York and Brooklyn; and " Laurel Hill," for Philadelphia, are worthy of note, and conspicuous. Besides Greenwood, several other cemeteries, as that of the " Evergreens," and " New York Bay," and the " Cypress Hills," have been laid out to the vicinity of New York. In all these there is prevalent a Bpirit of beauty, a holy quiet, a refined cultivation, a tasteful adornment a subdued, appropriate and beautiful natural and artificial embellishment, speaking of respect and love for the departed, such as no man can view without feeUng a humanizing influence upon the soul, and betog thereby made a better betog. Though it may not be possible that every dty to a country can vie with the cemeteries mentioned in extent and elegance, there is no place but should pattern thereafter, in a degree, and prepare proper resting places for the ashes of the departed That the ancient art of embalming should have been lost to man, seems to have been wisely brought about by the Creator, to order that man should not make of himseff an idol to absorb the affections and prevent the mind from a proper contem- plation ofj and preparation for, death, the judgment and eternity. God claims the whole heart of his every reasonable being; and when man attempts to rob him of that honor by seeking to give immortality to the material body, the Creator stripa from him his idols, that he may the more readily turn to the contemplation of the Deity and His wonderful goodness, and trust to Hun as the rock of his future ex- istence and salvation. PROSTITUTION—SUPPRESSION OF MAGDALENISM Of all the subjects that at the present time can interest the people of this coun- try, and which should receive attention from the fathers and mothers, the brothers and sisters, the husbands and wives of the land, there is none of such vital import, Whether considered with regard to health or morality, as that of harlotry. Of the duties of the people with reference to this subject and of the importance of early marriage as the great power for its suppression, I have spoken to other parts of tliis work; but will endeavor, avoiding reiteration as far as possible, to present Borne new features of the subject to this place. Of the numbers of abandoned women to large cities, statistics give some infor- mation. In London, to 1821, there were reported to be 90,000 prostitutes, two-thirde at THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 315 whom were under twenty years of age 1 The average duration of the life of these women after entering upon the career of the harlot is about five years 1 Paris has probably a stttl greater number, to proportion to the population, of those who carry on tlie trade of the courtesan. And what shall be said of the chief city of the United States in this respect?—of moral, religious, enlightened New York ? WUl it be credited that this city affords a prostitute for every six or seven of its adult male population ? And yet, ff reports be true, such is the fact I Alas, for the re- ligion and the moraUty of the place that affords such a demonstration as this of its depravity I Not less than 100,000 harlots are at work nightly to the dties and large villages of the United States to rend asunder the sweet bond of marriage, to torment with venereal diseases and scrofula the sinful and the innocent alike, and to corrupt the virtue and the blood of the people. Mostly they practice their traffic boldly and without the fear of law before their eyes. They walk the streets with brazen faoes, flaunting to silks and jewels, and glorying to their shame. Prostitution obUterates the sentiment of connubial love from the bosom of the woman; and the indulgence to promiscuous totercourse removes it from the breast of man. The love and esteem the male sex have for the female, aside from the mere animal gratification, has its foundation to great degree to the virtue of the Woman. The female betog greatly dependent upon the male for protection and maintenance, is blind to its own true interest when it suffers prostitution to come into its ranks. Promiscuous indulgence destroys connubial love and attachment of the wife to the husband, or the husband to the wife. It crushes the purity and sanctity of the marriage covenant and makes of the household altar a temple for sacrifices to false gods and to deceitful lust. 3y harlotry, that most sacred temple of the body, the first house of the immortal boui, is turned toto a den of poUution and filth, unfit to bear the image of God. By it the nobleness of woman is cast down; and she, the fairest lovettest, most useful work of creation, becomes a tenement of sin. disease and death. Prostitution has also the effect of depriving many virtuous women of husbands and the delights of married Ufe; for often, by attracting to herseff several young men, the prostitute keeps them from matrimony and the company of the pure and good. There be many men who, so long as they find gratification of the amorous passion beneath the roof of the harlot, wttl no£ marry, and solely for that reason. Were no courtesans ready to sell their charms for gold, the young man would seek matrimony and make a good husband, where now often he is a diseased libertine. A bad effect upon the female sex of thus keeping young men from marriage be- cause they find gratification without marriage, is to induce in many females who wttl not seU themselves to harlotry the habit of masturbation. And often because they do not see that they are to be married, and feeUng the promptings of a natural desfre, they resign themselves to the hands of an artful seducer to the moment of passion, and thence often plunge into prostitution itself 1 And thus is lost to the virtuous world, and to society, many of the best and most lovely of tho sex, who had they found husbands at the proper age, and gratified desire in the holy bed of wedlock, would have been ornaments to their lords and to the world__the adored of loving husbands, the ktod mothers of happy chUdren—dutiful, upright, pure in aeart and to action, beloved of men and blessed of heaven. And thus does one 316 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. harlot indirectly cause the downfall and destruction of thousands of her own sex, independent of the various other evils that follow her deadly steps 1 There is another way in which this vice operates most disastrously. If a pros- titute seduces a young man to her embrace, and infects him with the poison of her calling, the mind of that young man will be very Ukely to feel thenceforward not only a hatred of the woman, but he witt curse, and despise, and revtte the whole- sex The innocent maiden, pure as the snow from heaven, and the abandoned harlot Wttl be alike the objects of bis hatred and scorn. His first impression of wcmen, which was intended to be good, wttl be a bad one, and he wttl hate the whole sex through Ufe, and have no respect for female virtue and purity. Often this has been the cause of domestic discord to after life; and when we know of the great num- bers of young men thus poisoned, how widely extended and how powerful we may see this influence to be 1 And a female infected by disease in like manner, feels no less of hatred to the other sex. Often it becomes the object of her Ufe to communicate disease to as many as is possible for her to do I Prostitution opens the door for jealousy, anger, attenation of affection, crimes of various hues, and often murder. Let a man or woman get venereal disease from the partner of their wedded Ufe, and they wiU ever disbeUeve the honesty and purity of all of the opposite sex, and curse them for their sin. What numbers, aU the world over, faU victims of diseases without sto of their own—receiving it from the unfaithful partner of their wedded lives 1 The abandoned woman sows the seeds of insanity, consumption and death over the face of the whole eartiv She contaminates the blood of the world. Destruc- tion foUows upon her footsteps—her flowery paths are fitted with hidden thorns; from the cup which she enticingly holds to the Ups of the unguarded youth a thousand envenomed tongues of hideous and poisonous serpents protrude—the more dangerous that the infatuated youth does not behold them with his eyes. He is blinded by the outward show; he gazes upon the outer side of the platter, and sees it washed, cleansed and painted, and thinks not there is foulness and dis- ease within. But he is deceived; for the harlot is like the " sepulchre whited with- out," that " within is full of corruption and dead men's bones." Prostitution often takes the loved husband from his wife; it makes the husband miserable; it causes the murder of unborn children; it leaves destitute and mother- less many an innocent babe; it obttterates from the bosom of man and woman every vestige of pure love, and leaves unholy lust in its place. The horrors that this curse inflicts upon males and females, can never be known till the judgment of God. The curse of the Lord is upon it, and upon all who lead the life of the prostitute, to visit them with the most loathsome and foul diseases, and send them to an early and mis- erable tomb. Of the effects of unlicensed commerce upon chUd-bearing, carefuUy prepared sta tistics show that the numbor of births where it is practised is comparatively few That conjugal appropriation is, beyond comparison, the most efficient method for the maintenance and tocrease of the race, there can be no manner of doubt. The barrenness of whoredom is proverbiaL The number of abandoned women whose offspring come to maturity is very smaU. The curse of God is upon the Larlot " *° give her a miscarrying womb and dry breasts"—her " glory flies away Uke a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception;" and " though they THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 317 bring forth, yet wttl I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb," saith the Lord.—■ Hosea ix. A French writer says—" On a review of all the returns made to my inquiries, to- gether with what I have found in various ancient and modern books, the conclusion forced upon mo has been, that a thousand of these women yield scarcely six births to the course of a year." Were harlotry to universally prevail, the human race would become extinct I And thus would the intents of the Creator be abrogated. Sexual totercourse is necessary to the important end of the multiplication of the species; and with a union of wisdom and kindness, the Author of our being has con- nected this intercourse with the most exquisite pleasure. Had it been otherwise, it is evident that the race would not have long continued. But it is not k?ss evident that to seek the pleasure merely, without regard to the end intended, is not to fol- low nature. To do so is an abuse of God's wisdom and kindness, which is criminal, because, as we have shown above, it destroys the end designed of God. Of the effects of venereal diseases upon the individual, I wiU say nothing further in this place; but that the picture I have previously drawn of its effects upon soci- ety generaUy may not seem to you aggravated, I will quote from a celebrated French writer upon the subject He says: " Of all the contagious distempers which affect mankind, and which work the largest amount of detriment to his social existence, there is no one more serious, more dangerous, more to be dreaded, than syphilis. I may affirm, without fear of contradiction, that the calamities of which it is the source, surpass the ravages of att the plagues which from time to time have spread consternation through society. It does not lt to true, like many other diseases, take off its victims suddenly; but not- withstanding that, the number of those victims is immense. By the debility which it induces, it incapacitates for the production of a vigorous progeny; and, where it does not occasion sterility, gives birth to an unfortunate and degenerate race, unfit for the duo discharge of any functions, whether civil or military, and which becomes an absolute burden on the community. And, finally, in our modern society, there ia no security against assaults, even to the purest innocence. How many hired nurses, how many faithful wives, how many sucklings, are from year to year the subjects of its cruel invasions!" The effect of the diseases of harlotry may be seen at tho Anatomical Museum in this city. In leading men on to the commission of other crimes, harlotry has a pow- erful influence. Who does not hear of the robberies and the murders beneath the roofs of the harlots? And besides, how many a young man is led astray from tho paths of virtue, and then toduced to rob his employer to obtain the means of his foottsh indulgence! Often he becomes the victim of his folly; his peculations are discovered; his character is lost; he abandons himself to vice and misery, and finds early disease and death, now many young men are thus led astray! Now, as in the days of Solomon, the harlot " Ueth in wait as for a prey; and increaseth the transgressors among men."—" Now she is without now to the streets, and liefh to wait at every corner."—" Her Ups drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than ott; but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword • her feet go down to death ; her steps take hold on heU; lest thou shouldst ponder the path of her life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them." Hearken unto the wisdom of Solomon—" Remove thy way far from her; come not nigh the door of her house." But to spite of the warning of heaven—how many of the inexperienced, 318 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. the thoughtless, the unsuspicious, the reckless, light-hearted and gay are led astray and corrupted forever 1 Such are a few, and only a few, of the causes of harlotry. To bring them all be- fore you would require an entire volume; and hoping that I have presented a suffl. ciency of proof here and elsewhere to this work to deter many who shall read from indulging therein, both of males and females, I witt proceed to a consideration of some causes of this monster vice. In other parts of this work, I have expttcitly pointed out to the reader as a great cause of protracted celibacy, the evil of prostitution, which abounds among us, with all its foUowing effects, such as venereal diseases, scrofula, hereditary disease, con- sumption, and others, which millions of our young men and women contract before marriage, and often carry with them through life and toto the grave. Many men by putting off marriage to a late age, become so steeped in disease in houses of pros- titution, that they are not fit to marry, for thefr children will be partakers of the pun- ishment in hereditary diseases and mental tofirmities. And I have shown that were early marriages made general, Magdalenism would receive a terrible blow. To every parent I would submit this question,—Shall early marriages be encour- aged, and a lawful, healthy intercourse of the sexes allowed, which nature, reason^ and revelation sanctions, or shall indulgence be had through the diseased, polluting, contaminating, and baneful channel of unlawful and ungodly harlotry ? This should be carefully considered; for, rest assured, one or the other of these will prevail, according as it is encouraged. That this delaying of marriage to a late day, leads many into the ways of illicit crime, of both sexes, there cannot be the shadow of a doubt.—[See Early Marriages and Longevity] Speaking of early marriage, a little work, entitled "The Friend of Chastity," says: " That it is not good for man to be alone, is among the earliest announcements 01 God to man. Marriage is not only honorable but necessary. That ancient institu- tion is among the very greatest earthly blessings. " The effect of setting marriage at naught, is to throw ourselves back upon aU the Hcentiousness against which it was so wisely designed and so well adapted to guard us. And in just so far as it is set at naught, to just so far will evil prevaU. " The Roman priests and the Shakers reject marriage altogether. Among both, BoUtary vice is said greatly to prevaU. But all this is just what might have been expected. When man sets at naught a divine arrangement, made expressly for his benefit, he always has, and always will, make full proof of his folly. Established ceUbacy ever will, as it ever has, result in unchastity. " But not only life-long celibacy, but also the delaying of marriage too long, has the same general tendency. Early marriages, as they promise greater felicity, alsc more securely guard against unchastity. As a general rule, no matter how early matrimony is sought after eighteen in the woman and twenty-one in the man. And when matrimony shaU be considered a duty as weU as a privilege, and early mar- riages sliaU be sufficiently encouraged, prostitution and other forms of unchastity wttl have received a great check.' Another great cause of prostitution is clearly and certainly traceable to the poverty of the party embarking upon that Ufe, or of some one or more dependent upon her for support. As this was most clearly set forth in the article of " Effects of Wealth on Disease," it wiU be unnecessary to add further proofs here. However bad the courtesan may be, it is my beUefJ that those who make and administer our THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 819 laws, and whose business it is to attend to matters concerning the public good, will be held more guUty to the judgment day than many a courtesan who walks the Btreets, and who embarked upon her vUe career through a necessity for support of herself or some infirm and helpless relative—perhaps an orphan sister or brother. Where there is little or no protection offered to a poor and helpless female against the oppressions of wealth and power in the hands of avaricious and souUess men, ft is not at all to be wondered at that many a woman falls into the paths of the prostitute through the wants of nature—through the want of properly paid labor for her hands or head. Where no protection is rendered by government to labor— where capital sways, and the system of cheapening wages even down below the Uving point, prevails (as it now does in many countries), poor people wttl often be tompelled into crime—the forlorn and destitute orphan wttl often feel obliged to make traffic of her virtue to purchase the bread she shatt eat and the garments she shaU wear. What a shame to any nation. Protection to labor, and different laws, would give different results, and thousands of females would be every year saved from an entrance into the hells of pollution. Let us have a society where the hands of the willing should find employment and iust reward, and the unmoneyed millions would rejoice. They would be well dothed, well fed, well educated, well conditioned in life, and there would be among us much less of sin, of misery, and of prostitution, than we now see around us on 3very side. The worst of all states of society is that where the poor are obliged to work for nothiug, or next to nothing, or seU their virtue to live; and the worst of ail legislation is that which does not strive to make provision against these evils to the universal millions. Such a state of things is disgraceful to any nation. Health wealth, happiness, virtue, religion, and every comfort of the mind and body among the people, is more or less dependent upon the amount and the remuneration of labor; and government should give encouragements to industry, as the great moans for tho " greatest good of tho greatest number." When it fails in this, it has faUed in the right discharge of its most important function. But these two, though prominent causes of harlotry, are by no means the only ones. Frequently the wo- man is the victim of the wUes of the unprincipled and heartless seducer, who, having robbed her of the brightest jewel of her Ufe, deserts her, and leaves her helpless in the world, with scarcely any other resort than that offered by the pro- curess. The chttdhood of the female is unsuspecting of the wttes of the devil and of the intrigues and deceptions of man. Her natural character is pure and noble; but, by listening to the voice of the tempter, she falls into sin, and is lost to houcr forever. There be thousands of females in the ranks of the courtesans who were led to that path only by the greatest cunning and duplicity, and after years of pa- tient and devilish labor on the part of some fiend, who sought their seduction and their ruin to gratify his unholy lust. Their confidence had first to be gained, their love earned, their sympathy obtained, and marriage promised, before the woman yielded herseff to the embrace of the Ubertine. Fair speeches—fair arguments__ professions of affection—kind offices—soft glances—gradual approaches—rides__ attentions to parties and the theatre, and not unfrequently drugged drinks are among the means employed by seducers to entrap their victims. Who can wonder these means prove so successful when the young, loving lady has not learned to distinguish between true and false love, and to distrust appearances of men. Woman is confiding to leve, even to a fault, in aU professions of honesty, sincerity, or 320 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. affected love; and truly hath it been said that Love is blind, and cannot see tho faults of the deceiver. In this way have thousands been led to ruin, and repented when it was too late. But the victims of soduction are by no means the only sufferers in these cases. As a pebble cast toto the sea raises a ripple that extends over a large surface on every sjde, so does a seduction cast a saddening influence around it on every hand A dagger is pierced through the soul of parents—a dreadful pang is felt in their loving bosoms. In anguish of heart they exclaim, " 0 my daughter! my ruined daughter! would to God thou hadst never seen the light, or had died upon thy mother's knee! For then we might have been gathered to our fathers in peace, but now must our ' gray hairs be brought down to sorrow to the grave.'" " Saw ye not the bitter wo, Such as parents only know, When the boon most prized below, Is forever gone ? Fangs like these have thousands felt, When in anguish they have knelt; Tears have flowed o'er shame and guilt, But have flowed in vain!" And brothers and sisters, and friends and relatives generally, feel a pang when a female falls, and is dishonored. And a virtuous community will feel the shock, and its eyes wiU be turned with pity and sorrow upon the miserable victim. The seduc- tion does not end with the stogie instance in all cases; for often the seduced one becomes in turn a seducer; and when the charm of female influence is prostituted to the seductive art, it leads many a young man to destruction; for truly hath the courtesan " cast down many wounded; yea, many strong men have been slain by her."—Prov. vii. 26. But though it be true that woman is thus sometimes led astray, and ruined after a long and cunning siege of her virtue, it is not less true that many fall through their own desiee, and many more with very little coaxing. Every woman is the guardian of her own virtue—the keeper of her own virginity; and if she resolutely wills not to yield her person unless in marriage, she can preserve herself, except force, or drugs, to stupify her sense, be used. Woman should not aUow herseff to fall toto temptation; she should guard against every approach of the devil; she Bhould not gaze upon the serpent till she is fascinated beyond her power to recover; Bhe should not play with edged tools. With woman lies the choice to give, or not to give, to man, the gratification of his desire. Often she is not less anxious than man for participation to the sweets of unlawful love, though restrained by the fear of consequences; and if she yield through this influence, she is as blameworthy as the mpn. If her passion be wrought upon by the cunning of the seducer, she falls; but it is her business (and the business of her parents) to see that she be not thus wrought upon. She need not allow those Uberties of her person that rouse the passion to an ungovernable fierceness, ff she will not. The squeezing of the hand, the clasping of the waist the pressing of the lips—aU these she may keep away from her, as thousands do, by a stogie word, or a look even: and if she do not do this, she cannot be acquitted of blame. It is too true, that hundreds of young women have been lost, because, like the foottsh child, thoy played with the burning brand. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 321 In almost aU cases, the woman weU knows that the power of choice in this mat- ter is with her, and not with the man; and man knows this, too. Woman knows she can tantaUze man toto an almost uncontroUable passion, and still be master of her virtue. AU the arts and powers of man cannot triumph over the virtue of woman, ff she resolve to keep it to herseff, and to avoid temptation. But if she thrust her hand in the fire, it may be burned. WeU does the female know that the charms with which she has been gifted by nature, and learned by art give her an almost irresistible power over the other sex. Her rosy cheeks, her soft curls, her deUcate foot her sweet smUes, her pretty ankles, her loving words, her studied airs, her tantalizing dresses, are att so many snares to wind about the will of man, and bring him to her feet to admiration, and to excite passion to his bosom. And then, if she chooses to indulge with him to crime, she may do so; ff not, she can repulse him. Man may brave the enemy at the mouth of the cannon; but before the blan- dishments of the woman who has excited bis love he falls powerless, and she may lead him whithersoever she wiU. Therefore, we may say, that the actions of the woman are to many cases the cause of her seduction, and the means whereby the dens of poUution are recruited with new victims. Besides these four mentioned, protracted celibacy, poverty, studied seduction, and unsought consent, which may be caUed the more direct causes of Magdalenism, there are numerous indirect causes, of which I cannot undertake to treat so particularly to a work of this character. My object in speaking upon the subject at all is, so far as in me Ues, to arouse attention to the matter on the part of those who read; and, by pointing out the causes and the fruits of this great eviL to save many from poUution and disease. Of what we wttl catt the indirect causes of Magdalenism, there may be mentioned^ nereditary licentious tendencies, bad education, ignorance of the final effects of to- dulgence, bad influences brought to bear upon youth, stimulating the amorous pas- sion by gluttony in exciting foods and drinks, habits of idleness, bad books, pictures, con- versations and actions before the young; tight lacing, by which the blood is made to« settle in too large quantities in the inferior abdominal region; want of parental care, want of employment pride in dress and desire for display; inconsiderate and ill-assorted marriages; intemperance, harshness and unkind treatment of parents or other relations; the regards held out to vice, and the small encouragements to virtue in modern socie- ty. These, and numerous other fostering causes, operate to fill the dens of prostitution in our midst. And all these it should be tho duty of parents, guardians, teachers, ministers and public instructors to guard and warn the young against test they fall toto temptation and are lost to virtue. And to addition to the labors of men individually, it should be the duty of the legislature to enact such laws as should best prevent women from embarking in this business. It should see that the willing and the able have employment and proper pay, as I have before set forth And another important point is, that it should guard against the desertions of females by their seducers, by making every unmarried male and female who are known to have cohabited together (that is in every case of seduction, properly,) man and wife to the eye of the law; and subject to aU the duties and the Uabttities of man and wife, with no right to marry or co- habit with another, and with the same obUgations for support as if united by the minister or the judge. This would be not only justice, but in accordance with the teaching of that great expounder of the Christian reUgion, St Paul, who conveys to 822 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. us in the words—" Know ye not that he which is joined to a hartot is one body? ft* two shaU be one flesh"__1 Cor. vi. 16,—the doctrine that where cohabitation takes place, there is true marriage in the sight of heaven. To whomsoever a woman first yieldeth her person, to him is she truly married. Her organs of generation are im- pressed with an electrical touch from that man, which endure! through Ufe; his Bpirit is imparted to hers; his form is engraven upon her soul; and the probabtti- ties are that from whoever she have chUdren afterwards, those chUdren wttl be more Ukely to resemble the man with whom she first had connection than the father himseff; especially where the first cohabitation is an illicit and unlawful one; for it is these that make the strongest impression upon the mind, and through that upon the genital organs. As bearing upon this point, and showing the effect of the imagination upon the foetus, it is related to a work entitled " Outttnes of the Veteri- nary Art," that Lord Morton, of England, bred colts from a male "quagga" and a chestnut mare. The mare was afterwards bred from by a black Arabian horse; but still the progeny exhibited, to color and mane, a striking resemblance to the quagga I A sow of the black and white kind, was bred from by a boar of the wttd breed, of a deep chestnut color: the pigs produced by this intercourse were duly mixed, the color of the boar being to some very predominant. The sow was afterwards bred from by two other boars, and in both instances chestnut marks were prevalent to the progeny! but previous to the cohabitation with the chestnut boar, the young of the sow had never exhibited these marks. These facts show the impression left upon the mind of the mother by the person having intercourse with her, and thence transmitted to and made manifest to the child: and this oc- curs not less in the human race than among animals; and no less influences the mental than the physical being. The man who first impresses the genital organs of a woman in the embrace of love, thereafter remains dear to her. His remembrance is ever in her mtod—he fills her imagination, and her imagination often decides the character of the child. And this is one strong argument to favor of early marriage; since with those who are married in early life, there is less probability that Bexual impressions had taken place with another person before marriage, than in those cases where mar- riage is delayed. Indeed, early marriage, made in love, is the sovereign antidote for the Uls of prostitution; and without this is brought about to some way or other, harlotry wttl never be subdued. And I will go a step further, and say that to every case where it can be satisfac- torily proved that an unmarried man has cohabited with a harlot, the two should in the eye of the law be man and wife I If a man would not Uke this law, he would not be obliged to incur its penalty. If bis passion is so strong that he cannot com- manrkit, let him marry. " It is better to marry than to burn."—St. Paul. But if he wttl indulge with the harlot, and thereby encourage and aid to keeping aUve prostitution, and aid also to keeping to being an unlawful and ungodly institution, that every year spreads disease and death among the people, he should suffer a penalty therefor, no less than the man who poisons his neighbors by keeping an in- tolerable nuisance in bis house. The law does not recognize the right of any man to keep a nuisance in his own house which breeds disease among his neighbors; neither should it recognize the right of a man to indulge to that which breeds death among the people in any other way. God instituted a road through wliich the amorous passion may be indulged without injury; and man has no right to go THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 323 astray from that path and aid in keeping disease aUve, anymore tlian he has aright to burn down his house and turn his wife and chUdren into tho street homeless. He is not aUowed to do this last because he brings a burden upon other people. And so also does he bring a burden upon other people when he seeks the roof of the harlot Were a law of this kind enforced, young men would rarely be found in the embrace of tho courtesan; they would be afraid of the consequences; they would not want a harlot to wife; nor would they Uke the reputation of being di- vorced from one; and thus the foul trade would be without customers, and the business might die out, if in connection with such a law, another was enforced which severely punished every married man who could be found to have had carnal intercourse with the abandoned woman. In connection with the subject of unUcensed commerce, 1 must notice an argu- ment to common vogue among many men of influence to society, to wit—that har- lotry is a " necessary evil"—that the existence of this class of females is necessary to the preservation of the general virtue of the community—and that without this ungodly traffic in flesh, there would be Uttle security for the chastity of our wives and daughters from the wttd passions of a lawless libertinism! This argument though nothing can be more fallacious, is made a great handle of. And, indeed, if we are to encourage the folly of modern philosophers, that people shall not marry till ten or fifteen years after puberty, and then not cohabit in matrimony more than once a year, this argument may be sound! The one has its foundation upon the other 1 And, as I have before said, if celibacy is protracted, harlotry must and wttl thrive ! And this is the point for our consideration; for ff marriage were instituted at the proper age, this "lawless Ubertinism " of which people speak would relapse toto proper desire, and no man's daughter or wife would be in so much danger from its workings as now, when prostitution exists; for the more a man indulges with the abandoned woman, the more does he become bold and daring to attack the virtu- ous; but copulation to marriage breeds no such presumption, since it does not show man that he can trifle with the other sex: to the one case he is taught to believe the sex all vulnerable; in the other he comes to have respect for female virtue. It is notorious that those men who indulge in Ucentious pursuits have little faith in the purity of females generaUy; therefore, they are emboldened to attack those who are virtuous; but he who keeps himself to his own wife has confidence in the honor of woman, and therefore, presumes not to attack her virtue. But aside from this conclusive answer to the plea of necessity of harlotry, I may ask, with Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, " What special title have the wives and daughters of those who employ this plea to the protection of their virtue more than other wives and daughters ? Why are theirs to be protected at the expense of others, and not the others at the expense of theirs ? Who, to the community, are to be the victims— the vice-doomed safeguards of the virtue of the rest—the wretched safety valves of unprincipled and unbridled passions ? Are we to have a decimation by lot of the virginity of the country ?—or is some inferior class to be sacrificed to the demon of lust for the benefit of those above them ? Is vice essential to the preservation of vir- tue ? That were indeed a hard necessity. Where is the individual, male or female, and to what rank soever of society—whom I am not to dissuade from vice ?—whom it would be wrong so to dissuade ?—the successful dissuasion of whom would be an injury to tho pubUc?—by prevailing with whom to give up her evU course I should incur the responsibUity of one who shuts a high-pressure safety valve?__ 324 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. where the individual whose body and soul I am bound to leave to death and perdi- tion, lest perchance some others should come to be exposed to temptation?" That harlotry has always existed, is a melancholy truth; that it must always continue to exist is the affirmation, made with aU the coolness of indifference, of the reasouers in question. Such affirmation is worthy only of the days when women were regarded merely as the instruments for the gratification of the Ucentious passions of men. It is in opposition to the enttghtened progress of the age which has come to regard the female as to many respects the superior of the male, and to see that upon her virtue is dependent to great degree the character, the civUization, the christianiza- tion, the health the virtue, the purity, and the welfare of future generations. In respect to Ucentiousness, the example of the past is no more to sanction the future, than is the barbarism of the dark ages to be the guide for our governance in mo- rattty, to science, or to religion. Our motto should be, godly progress, to lead us to a higher and more noble state of civUization. If it be the fact that we have among us a class of women now virtuous so far as action is concerned, but whose virtue is propped up by the prostitution of others, it shows that such are at heart no better than the prostitute, and that under the first temptation to sto they wttl be likely to fall. Harlotry will never savo such wivea and daughters!—on the contrary, they will be by it tempted to sin! But it is not true that the virtue of any woman is thus sustained; though man may assert it, that thereby he may persuade legislators to give tolerance to courtesans that he may gratify his lust every virtuous woman to the land will deny the impeachment: for every woman knows that she is the keeper of the virgin safe, and that no man can unlock and plunder it without her consent. But if prostitution is to be allowed, we should at least learn wisdom from the cities of Europe, and so proceed as to prevent it while the harlot is diseased. This the health of the people imperatively demands. What can be more devttish than for a diseased harlot to sting and burn with the venom of death a score of males ? or for a man to poison as many healthy females ? A most rigorous punishment should be inflicted upon every person, male or female, who, knowtog himseff or her- self infected with venereal poison, should cohabit with another person. If we adopt measures to prevent the spread of cholera, the typhus fever, or the smaU-pox, why not also venereal diseases ? Certainly, greater care should be taken to this last; for its victims are as an hundred to one of either of the other complaints mentioned, and it is far more baneful to its final effects. Let it be kept within bounds and with- in doors; let there be a thorough medical inspection of every one who follows the trade, to prevent disease, and a costly charge be put upon it and I tocUne to the opinion that the toterest of the pocket would study economy to early marriage; and happy wives and husbands, health to man and woman, and to offspring, would be the glorious results. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 326 " Pleasant words are at an honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health .o the bones."—Pro? Xii. 24. GOOD NURSES—CHEERFUL COMPANY. The importance of proper nurses to cases of sickness is a matter that receives but a trifling consideration, and is often thought as of but Uttle account even by many physicians. Frequently it is considered that if the patient take the medicines pre- scribed, that is aU that can be done. But this is far from being correct. There are thousands of cases every year where a good nurse is of not less importance than a BkiUful physician; indeed, there are many cases, as any candid physician witt teU you, where a good nurse is of theirs* importance; cases, in which no matter hov» many doctors there might be, the patient would never recover without the most at- tentive and careful nursing. In some diseases, and particularly in certato stages of a disease, medictoe is of very Uttle use, and often worse than useless, unless changed to suit the nature of the case. In these cases, all the assistance nature requires is care and attentiou to the patient by a competent and proper nurse—one who will watch the tovaUd and the disease, and bestow such offices at proper times as wttl aid nature. No physician has practiced much without encountering cases where, by reason of the patient not havtog a good nurse—one who would carefully follow his directions and take care of the patient—in spite of his skill and his medictoes the patient has died. No ex- perienced practitioner will feel easy in a critical case of sickness, if he care for either the Ufe of his patient or for his own reputation, unless there be a good nurse to attendance. In many cases of sickness, where the mind is seriously affected, where the patient is melancholy, or nervous, or easily disturbed and injured by the sUghtest shock, a careless nurse, who pays little attention to the sick one, wttl perhaps talk too much or too Uttle; or wttl say what ought not to be said, or not say what it would be weU to say. In mdancholy, a nurse who can act the part of a cheerful companion, » may do much for the recovery of the patient's health In other cases, a person given to conversation is better away, so that the sick one may not be disturbed. No todividual conversant with the incidents of a sick room, but has noticed cases in which a patient would speedtty improve under the care of one person, whtte he would not gain a whit with another. Who has not seen the exceUent effect often produced upon an tovaUd by the kind attentions of a loved wife or husband, or an affectionate mother ? Often but for the attention of these or some ether kind and loved friend, many an invalid would have surely died I speak particularly of this subject hoping that it wttl engage attention; mow- ing, as I do, that it is a matter of great importance to many instances, and one not to be forgotten or disregarded to any. In this connection I wttl introduce some remarks of Dr. HoUick, touching the effects of good nurses and proper mental treatment to many cases where females are affected by the diseases pecuUar to them, and by the sympathetic effects of their or- ganization—the results of reciprocal action of the genital organs and the nervous system. He says:—" It is often the case, that a female suffering from indisposition is not benefited at aU by medical treatment, but through some pleasing impression 326 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. on the mir.d ox feelings is reUeved immediately. I have often seen females complete* ly prostrated, with scarcely energy or abttity enough to breathe, who have been re- stored almost instantaneously by a word of hope, an expression of sympathy, or a Uttle ktod and pleasing attention, especially if it was from some wished-for but un- expected quarter. In such cases, uninformed people are apt to suppose that there had been no real indisposition at all because the improvement was so rapid, and without medicine. A proper understanding of the subject, however, would show them that these apparent caprices are as real as any other forms of disease, and that moral or mental medictoe may be as active as drugs, and often much more beneficial In short, ff the nervous system is kept to a constant state of irritation, and the feel- ings and sympathies are habituaUy outraged, it is often impossible to do much good to female indisposition. The conduct of those around the patient is of more conse- quence than the physician's prescription, by far; and may, according to its propri- ety or impropriety, either accderate or impede the cure. There are many men who habituaUy ad to such a way towards their female companions, as to both cause them suffering and prevent its removal, and that, too, without either desiring or intending to do so. They do not act from unkind motives, but thefr ignorance prevents them from seeing the consequences of their conduct; conceiving females to be Uke them- selves, and knowing that they can shake off the vapors, as they caU them, and that their nervous systems are not easily irritated, they cannot feel a proper charity to- wards their sensitive companions. Females, on the other hand, feeling that they are not understood, nor their condition properly appreciated, and havtog no one to repose confidence to that they think can appreciate them, are apt to become morose, and retiring within themselves conceal their suffering and disquiet from every one." Upon the subject of nurses, the Sanitary Report of Massachusetts, has the fol- lowing:—"Let a physician bo ever so skillful and prescribe his remedies with ever so much care and sagacity, if the nurse does not follow his directions, or if she ne- glects her duty, or performs it unslrillfully, or imperfectly, or with an improper dis- position, the remedies will be unsuccessful, and the patient wttl suffer and perhaps Ufe is lost as the consequence. On the other hand, let a physician of moderate ca- pacity prescribe with ordtoary skttl ff his orders are carried into execution by a nurse who understands, loves and conscientiously discharges her duty, the patient is reUeved, and Ufe is preserved as the consequence. It is thus that bad nursing often defeats the intention of the best medical advice, and good nursing often sup- pUes the defects of bad advice. Nursing often does more to cure disease than the physician himseff; and to the prevention of disease and to the promotion of health, it is of equal and even of greater importance. Many and many a Ufe which might have been saved, has been lost m the hands of quack nurses." HOW TO GAIN THE AFFECTIONS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX The attention and the admiration of an todividual of the opposite sex may be gatoed to various ways; and love may be and is often engendered where none is felt by the opposite party. But aU this is accomplished by playing upon some pas- sion or passions of the todividual whose love is desired and whose hand is to be won. Thus some are obtatoed by playing upon the desire for wealth or high sta- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 327 tion to sodety; others through their pride, by flattery of thefr persons; others through their kindness, by excittog their benevolent feeltogs; others through their natural amative passions, by exciting the desire of sexual love; others by Bhowing one's self to possess, or by pretending to possess, kindred sympathies and feelings—kindred emotions of head and heart—kindred likes and dislikes—kindred tastes and sentiments. To win the affections, therefore, we should learn the charac- ter of the individual whose love is sought. That being known, shccess is to be ob- tatoed by bringing tho batteries to bear properly upon the prominent traits of that character. True love arises from a principle of sympathy—from a oneness of feeUng—from a similarity to some points of character, although other points may be very disshnttar, 1—from showing that you possess something which the other admires. Acting upon this you may induce to another love for you, and cement the affections upor you. Upon this subject I give you the phrenological teachings of 0. S. Fowler, who Bays:— " If approbativeness predominate, and causaUty be moderate, you may flatter, and if the brain be rather small, put it on thickly. Praise their dress, features, appearance on particular occasions, and any and everything they take pride to. Take much notice of them, and keep continually saying something to tickle thefr vanity; for this organization wttl boar all the ' soft soap' you can administer. When you have gato- ed this organ, you have got the 'beU-sheep,' which all the other faculties will bUndly follow on the run. But ff approbativeness be only full or large, with reason and morality quite as large or larger, and the head of a good size and weU developed, 1 soft-soap' wttl not take, but wttl only sicken; for reason wttl soon penetrate your motive, and morality wttl reverse the other faculties against you, and destroy all chance of gaining the affections. See to it that you really esteem those with this organization—esteem them not for their dress, beauty, manners, &c, but for their moral purity, their elevated sentiments, their fine feeltogs, and thefr intellectual at- tainments. As they estimate themselves and others, not by a standard of wealth beauty, dress, Ac, but by a moral and totelledual standard, so your showing them that you really esteem those quaUties which they prize so highly, wttl cause them to perceive that your tastes harmonize with theirs, and thus turn their leading or- gans to your favor, and unite and endear them to you "If benevolence predominate in the person, show yourself kind, not to the to- dividual alone, nor in Uttle matters of modern poUteness, but as an habitual feeling of your soul, always gushing forth spontaneously at the call of want or suffering, and ready to make personal sacrifices to do good. Be philanthropic, and show your- self deeply interested to the welfare of your fellow-men. This will gratify his or her benevolence, and bring it over to your behalf which will draw the other facul- ties along with it "To one who has large totelledual organs, do not talk fashionable nonsense, or* words without ideas—chit-chat, or smaU-taXk.—I mean the poUte tete-a-tete of fashionable young people; but converse toteUectually upon sensible subjects- evince good sense and sound judgment to all you say and do; present ideas and ex- hibit intellect Tliis wttl gratify their inteUects, and lay a deep inteUectual basis for mutual love, as weU as go far towards exciting it " J the person be pious and devout be reUgious yourself, and your reUgious feel- 328 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. togs wttl strike a chord that wUl thrttl through her whole soul, kindling an irresist- ible flame of mutual love. " If the todividual be a timid damsel, do not frighten her; for this wttl drive away every vestige of lurking affection, and turn her faculties against you; but be gentle and soothing, and offer her all the protection to your power, causing her tc feel safe under your wing, and she will hover under it, and love you devoutly for the care you bestow upon her. " If ideaUty be large, show refinement and good taste, and avoid all grossnesi and improper aUusions; for nothtog witt more effectually array her against you than either impropriety or vulgarity, or even inelegance. Descant on the exquisite and Sentimental on poetry and oratory, and expatiate on the beauties of nature and art, and especially of natural scenery. If order be also large, see to it that your person be neat apparel nice, and every trace of the slovenly removed. "But since it is the affections, mainly, that you wish to enttst show yourself af- fectionate and tender. As Uke begets Uke, whatever faculty is Uvely in you wttl be excited to them; therefore, your friendship and love, as they beam forth from your eyes, soften your countenance, burn on your Ups, escape through the soft and ten der tones of your voice, Ught up your countenance with the smile of love, or im- press the kiss of affection, imbue your whole soul and are embodied to every look, word and action, wttl as surely find a way to thefr hearts as the river to the ocean, and kindle to them a reciprocity of love. By these and other Bimttar appUcations of this principle, the disengaged affections of almost any one can be secured, es- pecially if the organs of both be similar; for the command thus obtatoed over the feeltogs, wilL and even judgment is almost unlimited." Bi aU ages of the world there have existed numberless condiments, drugs and charms, through the use of which it was beUeved that love and affection might be won. Old crones to almost all ages have possessed some little bag, or some par- ticular herb, or thing to be worn about the neck, or over the heart, through the mysterious influence of which the wearer would soon be blessed with the heart of his adored, and enjoy the sweetness of her charms. Some tribes of the American Indians have also possessed the knowledge of some remarkable herbs provided by the Great Spirit as they say, which is prepared by them to tocite love to the hearts of the timid and bashful, and enable the warrior to win the favors of his dusky charmer of the woods. The decoction of these herbs is rubbed upon the hands, or infused toto the clothes of the person, and the odor therefrom is supposed to excite the feeUng of love to the bosom of the desired object. This wonderful article was long kept a secret by the " Medidne Men" of tho Indian tribes, but through an uncle residing among the Oneidas, located a Uttle west of Utica, in New York state, the author obtained from a celebrated doctor among them, a knowledge ol this curious vegetable preparation, as prepared by the Indian physician; it is re- presented to be perfectly harmless. I have long been acquainted with this article; but speak of it only as a matter of curiosity, as one among many other curious things for simUar purpose. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 329 PROCREATION OF THE SEXES AT WILL This has always been a fruitful theme of discussion for physicians, physiologists and people generally; and theories almost numberless have been advanced. That the matter witt be eventuatty understood is highly probable; for the difference to the sexes must be owing to some one or more physical laws; and that these, to the march of science, will sooner or later, be discovered, is by no means improbable. The old ideas upon this subjed were utterly unfounded, and as absurd and fool- ish as they were incorrect The theories based upon lying upon this or that side, or that which had reference to the time of day, were worthy only of the considera- tion that would be bestowed upon an old whim. Upon this subject Dr. Hottick has remarked: " The fact appears to be that the sex is determined by the joint adkm of several disttod causes, the principal of which, at least are known, so that the great major- ity of children can be made of whichever sex is desired, providing the following suggestions are attended to. This assertion is not based upon theory alone, but upon certain observations, and also upon a long series of experiments with animals. "It has been found by adual observation of some thousands of cases, that the oldest parent most frequently imparts the sex, unless the age be so great as to verge upon decrepitude. When the fathers are younger than the mothers, there wttl be born about 90 boys to 100 girls, and very nearly the same when they are of equal age. When tho fathers are' from one to six years older than the mothers, there will be 103 boys to 100 girls, and when the fathers are from nine to eighteen years the oldest 140 boys to 100 girls; but ff they be more than eighteen years okkr, the boys will be 200 to 100 girls. " In the same way just in proportion as the mothers are the oldest, the numbei of girls wiU predominate, till when they are from eighteen to twenty years older than the man, there wttl be twice as many girls as boys. " It may, of course, happen that this rule may not hold good to many stogie famUies that maybe noticed, but it wttl always do so when the average is taken of a large number. In every case where the father is over eighteen years older than the mother, it is two chances to one that the chUd wttl be a boy, and to 300 such births there would be 200 males to 100 females; whUe if the mother be so much the elder, the chances and results will be just the same the other way. " The relative age, therefore, has a most potent influence over the sexual forma- tion ; but still there are evidently other agencies, because it does not operate to every todividual case. My impression is, that where the elder parent does not im- parl the sex, it is owing to the younger being much the more vigorous. This shows why it is that the greater age is no advantage beyond a certato period. Thus, if the father be fifty, whUe the mother is under thirty-five, the rule wttl change and the number of girls wttl predominate. The greater number of first children are boys, especially ff born soon after marriage, owing to the father being naturally most powerful then. In Ulegitimate chUdren there are most girls, probably because in many of these cases, the female is more vigorous than ordinary. In those coun- tries where polygamy predominates, or where the men have several wives, there are many more girls born than boys, owing, no doubt, to the male power being 330 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. weakened by excess, and expended on so many, which causes the female power to preponderate. For this reason, polygamy must always continue itself because the number of females wttl continue to be greater than the number of males; and i* there were no foreign admixture to take place, a nation would probably become extinct in time, under such an institution. " The production of either sex is, to a very great extent within our own power, providing we can fulfil the principal of the above indications. If a boy is desired, the father should be older than the mother, say at least five years, and conception should not be allowed to take place during the first five days after the monthly period. The relative warmth of the temperament should also be regulated, so that the female do not preponderate, especially at the time of conception, and during the first two or three weeks afterwards. If a girl be desired, the opposite condi- tions should exist; and in every case where the age is not appropriate, the other particulars must be the more scrupulously attended to." I may remark that though to most cases success wttl attend the observance of tnese rules alone, there are several other hints and suggestions upon the subject that apply only to individuals, depending upon certato matters upon which no rule to be followed by every one can be laid down. One of these has reference to the comparative warmth of temperament or animal electric Ufe of the parties, which may be increased or diminished in either sex, and which is matter for medical con- sultation and skill Under proper treatment the most impulsive may be to a degree subdued, or the most indifferent made to experience the desired warmth of feeUng. Where nature has inclined to a preponderance of one sex, by medical skill the in- fluence of nature may be overcome, and the preponderance reversed. As persona are married without knowtog upon which side the preponderance of vigor exists, if it be found upon the undesirable side, they must have recourse to skilfful medical aid, to order to change the preponderance at the right periods. These rules for the propagation of the sexes at wttl, are well understood by many inteUigent breeders of animals, who wttl undertake to propagate any proportion of either sex, by havtog regard to age, vigor, and frequency of association of the parents. In France an experiment was made to reference to the matter of sex with two flocks of sheep, to the following manner. When the greater number of females was desired, very young rams were put to the flock of ewes, whtte to the flock from which male lambs were mostly wanted, were put strong and vigorous rims 0/ four or five years old. The following was the result of the experiment FLOCK FOE FEMALE LAMBS. Age of the Mothers. Sex of the Lambs. Males. Females. Two years, ..... 14 26 Three years,.....16 29 Four years, 5 21 Five years and older, 18 8 Total ii 84 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 331 There were three twin births in this flock. Two rams served it; one fifteen months, the other nearly two years old FLOCK FOB MALE LAMBS. Age of the Mothers. Two years, - Three years, • Four years, • Five years and older, Total, Sex of the Lambs. Males. Females 1 3 15 14 33 14 25 24 80 55 There were no twin births in this flock. Two strong rams, one four, the other five years old, served it. It will be observed, that in this table the general rule previously laid down holds good. Could att the various known influences be brought to bear, there is but Uttle doubt that to the vast majority of cases, the sex of the offspring might be determined before its birth, and the wish of the parents in this respect be gratified. In many cases,' as where property is concerned, it might be worthy of consideration. ADVICE TO PREGNANT LADIES. Upon the woman who bears to her womb another being, soon to be ushered into Ufe, there rests a great responsibttity. After conception, the foetus remains to tho womb for nine months; and during this period, every lady who is expecting to be- come a mother, owes it not to herself alone, but to her unborn babe, that she should be circumspect to all things, physical and mental, and preserve to health and strength her system, and keep also the mental betog in healthful tone. The development of the foetus within the womb, is as much a function of the mo- ther as is her digestion, or her breath, or the circulation of her blood, and is as much influenced by moral causes and emotions. A mother is a mother as actually whtte tho child is to the womb as when born. Her cares and responsibttities for it are no less during the whole period of gestation than after birth; and if she is responsible for its Ufe after birth, she is equaUy responsible for it before. An emotion of fright or J°yt or g"ef wu* often destroy the appetite, stop the di- gestion, and suppress the circulation of the blood, so that fainting wttl ensue; and these emotions also influence the foetal development as is condusively shown to the article on Impressions on the Foetus. There can be no doubt that the bodtty condi- tion and the temperament of the human betog is to a great measure determined be- fore its birth. And here it should be borne to mtod, that the chttd is formed entirely from the mother's blood, and is, therefore, dependent upon that blood for its future well-being. If that blood be diseased to airy-way, or be imperfect tne chttd must be diseased and imperfect also. The necessity, therefore, of the mother to keep her blood pure, rich, and healthy, is obvious and apparent; and to guard against every thing winch shaU disturb or disease it is her duty, and should be her joy. And it should be recollected, that it is not bodily disease only that can affect and change the quaUty of the blood, but that this may be done by certain states of the mtod and 332 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. feelings, and thus the child be injured. It is a fad weU known to the physician, that the state of the blood maybe very much affected by the mind, through the emo- tions experienced. In grief or when laboring under despondency, the blood hf comes thin and watery, and circulates sluggishly. Anger makes the blood rush quick and fast through the veins, and changes its very composition; but in joy, tho circulation is brisk and healthful the nutrition perfect and the blood rich and pure. In fever, the blood becomes so changed, that when drawn from the system it wttl Boon putrefy; and it is rendered nearly the same by a violent fit of rage. There- fore, when we remember how sensitive females generaUy are during the months Oi pregnancy, and how often they meet with causes to disturb and annoy them, it can- not but be seen that the offspring is much under the moral influence of the mother. When the female is pregnant with a female child, a fact for the deepest contempla- tion is presented to the philosopher ; for there are three generations betog nourished by the same blood at the same moment—the mother herseff, the chUd in the womb, and within the last the rudiments of the ovaries from which other children may be formed. So that, indeed, not one only, but two generations, may be said to be un- der the influence of the pregnant woman! A violent emotion of the mtod may, con- sequently, have its effect upon both child and grandchildren. Many diseases of the womb are toduced often by anger, by griefj by hatred, by jea- lousy, or by fear; and miscarriages not unfrequently occur from the same causes. And from this also we may conclude that the foetus is affected by those emotions. It has been observed that to revolutions and civil wars, where the women were brought under the effect of the baneful emotions which such a state of things ex- cited, miscarriages were much more frequent than to times of peace, and more idiotic and tosane children were born. From these, and from many other facts which have been presented to other parts of this work, every pregnant woman wttl at once comprehend the absolute necessity, if she has any regard for the weffare of her unborn babe, to conduct herseff most circumspectly in all things; to guard well her health °7 proper food, proper dress, proper habits, proper exerdse, and due equanimity of temper. She should avoid all occasions of undue excitement; she should follow the advice I have laid down un der the head of Impressions on the Foetus; aucr^endeavor to so conduct herseff in all things, as to secure the greatest good to the chttd that shaU be born to her. Dr. Charles CaldweU, an able and philanthropic physician, urgently enforces ra- tional care during the period of gestation, on the part of every mother who values the future health and happiness of her progeny. Among other things, he insists on the necessity of mothers taktog more exercise to the open afr than they do; and cautions them against allowing a feeling of false delicacy to keep them confined in thefr rooms for weeks or months. " For the same reason," says Combe, " the mtod ought to be kept from gloom or anxiety, and in that state of cheerful activity which results from the proper exercise of the moral and social feeUngs and toteUect. But if sedusion and depression be hurtful to the unborn progeny, thoughtless dissipation, late hours, dancing, waltzing, and rough exercise on horseback, toritebiUty of tem- per, and peevishness of disposition, are not less injurious. Hence, the Margravine of Anspach most justly remarks, ' that when a female is likely to become a mother, she ought to be doubly careful of her temper, and, in particular, to indulge no ideas that are not ctowfuL and no sentiments that are not kind. Such is the connection between the mind and body, that the features of tho face are moulded commonly in- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 333 to an expression of the toternal disposition; and is it not natural to think that an in- (ant before it is born, may be affected by the temper of its mother ?' " I would add here, that it is the duty of woman, to obedience to the command of God, to bear children. When pregnancy has taken place, never interfere with the course of nature, unless in a case where malformation or disease has rendered it cer- tato that death wttl be caused by parturition: in Buch cases, where it is the Ufe of the wife and the* mother on one side, and the Ufe of the unborn on the other, theles- Ber evil may be justified to the sight of God and man. But as I have before ob- served, the true course in a matter of this nature, is to take the proper steps to pre- vent conception, as previously pointed out; and thus there wttl be no occasion to choose between the Ufe of the woman and the Ufe of the unborn child. Hear the language of God—Gen. ui. 16—"Unto the woman he said, I wttl greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; to sorrow thou shaft bring forth chUdren," ftc. The inspired Paul a devout expounder of God's Word and Law, saith: "Not- withstanding, she shaU be saved to child-bearing, ff they continue to faith, and cha- rity, and hottness, with sobriety."—1 Tim. U. 15. Rachel chose death rather than to be deprived of children. " And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no chUd- ren, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die."—Gen. xxx. 1. Hear the exhortation of David: " He maketh the barren wo- man to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord."— Psa. cxiu. 9. Again, hear the language of David, expressing his delight in children as the future strength and power of a nation's glory, and the pleasure of God: "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb his reward. As arrows are in the hands of a mighty man, so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak With the enemies in the gate."—Psa. cxxvii. 3, 4, 5. If there is a time in the whole life of a female when she bears her Christian cross, and can lift up her whole soul to God in thankful praise, it is when she has been Bafely deUvered of a chttd. If there is ever a time when angels gather about to pro- tect her, and make all heaven echo with their joyful and harmonious lyres, it is then. God rejoices at his new-created heritage; and angels rejoice; mother, father, and friends rejoice; and heaven and earth rejoice together to harmonious praise. FOOD FOR PREGNANT AND NURSING MOTHERS. As a means whereby the pains of labor to child-bearing may be greatly lessened, 1 would offer a few remarks to this place, which may, ff attended to, be of benefit to pregnant ladies. From experiments that have been made, some chemists have reasonably con- cluded that the bulk of the bones of the foetus, and the degree of their sottdity or hardness, depends, to great degree, upon the calcareous matter to the food of the mother during the period of pregnancy. If this be true (and experiments and ob- servations seem to establish it as a truth), it is obvious that the pains of child- bearing might be greatly lessened by the woman taking care to eat, during gestation, mostly of those kinds of food which wttl retard foetal ossification, whereby the child, at tho time o( birth wttl be rendered more elastic and yielding to its body, an 834 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. escape through the pelvic strait with much greater celerity and ease. And that there is philosophy and truth to this we may infer from the fact thatin somc parta of the world, the females are comparatively free from the great pains endured among women in civilization, in child-birth, and that only two reasons for this fact can be given—the one, exercise and labor, to strengthen the system of the mother; tho other, the nature of her food. In many tribes, the usual period of all the matters connected with delivery is not more than fifteen minutes. Formerly, it was supposed that this must be mainly owing to the physical structure, and the climate; but these ideas have been exploded—the latter by observing that the females of the North American Indians have as easy delivery as those of the Central and South Ameri- can ; and the former by the fact that has been given us by Professor Lawrence— " that the pelvis is rather smaller to these dark-oolored races than to the European and other white people!" To what then is the difference owing? I say, to food and habits. And both these may be so regulated as to make child-bearing com- paratively easy to what it now is. A female in London made an experiment upon this point to assuage the pangs of parturition. She had previously endured agony to chUd-birth. Though seven months advanced iti pregnancy, she commenced eating oranges and apples, at first lightly, and increasing the quantity. Her food consisted chiefly of fresh animal flesh, green vegetables, roasted apples, sago, milk, some potatoes, and a very little bread and butter; no pastries. When she began this course, her legs and feet were sweUed and painful, and the veins large and full In six weeks aU these had subsided, and she was as active and light as previous to her pregnancy. She was perfectly well up to the night of her deUvery; at twelve o'clock a physician was sent for, and at one he had left the room, the lady having been easUy and safely deUvered. Dr. Bostwick records a case of " a lady who had given birth to four chUdren, and who suffered from the two first and the fourth aU the dangers and difficulties usually attending parturition, while the third was born with the greatest ease. It was quite fresh to the memories of her friends that from an early period, and during the whole time of gestation of the third chttd, she was excessively fond of oranges, limes, and lemons, wluch she took in such abundance that she required but very Uttle other food. Her desire for these fruits was so very great that although the husband re- monstrated, and friends advised her to leave them off, lest she should injure herseff, she continued to Uve almost entirely upon them. To her own and her friends' surprise, however, she gave birth to a fine chttd, with so much ease and safety, that notwithstanding the supposed impropriety of so dotog, she was able to resume her ordtoary duties to a few days afterwards. During her first second, and fourth periods of gestation, she Uved in the ordinary way." These facts go to show that if during pregnancy, the lady live chiefly upon those ktods of food which retard ossification of the bones of the foetus, she may lessen her pains and dangers to deUvery! The more of ripe fruits they eat and the less of other ktods of food, hut more espedaUy bread stuffs and the Uke, the less difficulty will they experience. In order that females may take advantage of this rule, to their own benefit &• following table of foods, with the proportion of calcareous mattor to each, is ap- pended. They can select according to their own desires and appetites. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 335 2 25,000 lbs. of apples, pears, plums, cherries, strawberries, gooseberries, rasp- berries, cranberries, blackberries, mulberries, bilberries, elderberries, cur- rants of all kinds, melons, oUves, peaches, apricots, ptoe apples, nectarines, tamarinds, pomegranates, prunes, raisins, figs, lemons, limes, oranges, grapes, etc., contain of calcareous matter . • • . 1 lb. Eggs of all kinds, average . . • • • . 2 lbs Turnips, carrots, onions, radishes, cress, celery, leeks, spinach, lettuce, parsly, cucumbers, rhubarb, mushrooms, vegetable marrows, and herbs and flowers generally, average Cabbage, savoy, broccott, artichokes, asparagus, cauliflowers, and greens in general, average ... • Cheese .... Milk, from ..... Beet root, parsnips, and mangel-wurtzel Linseed ..... Fish of all ktods, including shell-fish and turtle Rice, arrow-root, tapioca, and sago . Lamb, veal and young animals generaUy, average Beef, mutton, pork, and the flesh of animals and fowls, in the adult ratty average nutmegs, doves, ginger, coffee, cocoa, bark. . 10 « 10 to 20 " . 14 « . 17 " . 18 « . 20 « . 15 " state, gene- . 26 " . 65 " . 85 " . 90 " . 100 " . 118 " . 140 " . 150 " . 183 " . 206 " 220 to 300 H a, 300 ■ 360 " 500 u Barley Peas Potatoes Rice Oats Rye Kidney beans Fresh garden beans Dried field beans Wheat flour Peppers, cinnamon, etc., average Indian corn . Common table salt The ladies will perceive, by this table, that they have a large and abundant field from which to select foods, without going into that part where the greater amount of earthy matter is presented. It might be well to advise to go no lower in the above table than to potatoes, except a very Uttle of the article of bread, and to eat very sparingly of potatoes, peas, etc. Fish flesh and fowl, fresh, may be eaten. Avoid salt foods, and aU sorts of spices. By following these rules with reference to food, and by taking such exercise as shall keep the system strong and vigorous, and elastic, I am convinced that the labors and dangers of parturition may be materiaUy lessened. Food during Nursing.—The subject of what should be ate and what should not be ate during nursing, is one that has occasioned much talk, and given rise to a great deal of foUy. The remarks made under the head of " Dietetic Nonsense by the Volume" may be appUed to this place with force. In general the rule should be (after the sickness tocident to parturition is over), to let the mother consult hor 336 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. own appetite and desire, governed by her knowledge of the good or Ul effects of this or that ktod of food upon her system. When the woman is nursing, she has to make more blood than when not •* it ia from this that the mttk is secreted. And she should eat those nutritious articles which wttl make a good, rich blood; for good mttk cannot be secreted except from good blood; and good blood cannot be obtained from slops, gruels and cradters, nor from vegetable substances alone, after the Grahamite teaching. The nursing mother should have a due mixture of good, rich animal food, fresh vegetables, fish fowl fruits, cooked or raw; to short, anything which did not disagree with her be- fore conception. If her appetite asks for beef, lot her have beef; or ff it be pork, or mutton, or fish, or chicken, or peach or apple, or grape, or preserve, or pickle; or, to short, any article that other people are eating, let the nursing mother be grati- fied with it The idea that a woman whtte nursing must abandon the instinct of her appetite, and give up those articles of food which were previously good for her, is an absurd folly. A woman while suckling is by no means forsaken by the laws of nature. In short, we may say that the appetite should be consulted and fol- lowed just so far as it was consulted and foUowed before conception; and what waa found to be best before, wttl be found to be best after. Of course this is not to apply while the woman is sick, any more than it would apply to a man sick with fever; nor should it apply to those artides which are Known not to digest well in the stomach of the person; nor should the mother eat or drink to excess. But to these two latter points, what is correct after parturition vas correct before also. Of course there wttl be particular cases in which a particular class of food may be desirable; but such wttl occur no oftener than if the woman be not nursing. There be times when the stomach of the nursing mother is out of proper order; and so, also, is that of the woman who has no child, and of the man. In such cases particular classes of food may be desirable; but these matters do not hinge themselves upon the fact that the woman is giving nurse. I may say, then, that the nursing mother may eat and drtok what her condition asks for by her appetite, the Bame as any other person would do. And tins wiU be found the best advice that can be given upon the matter of diet. I may add to the above, that the clothing of the nursing mother should be agreea- ble to her feelings; no more nor no less on account of nursing. The breasts should bo kept easy and free—and not covered up with flannel to keep them warmer than comfortable; for to do so is to create fever and inflammation, make the breasts hard, and spoil the milk. Keep the entire person clean by the necessary ablutions; take exorcise daUy; have a sufficiency of good air, and plenty of sleep; and keep the mtod to a calm, contented, and joyful state. Do not consider nursing an infliction, and your chttd a nuisance, and both yourself and offspring will enjoy good health and be prospered. Do not allow your child to nurse too often. The mttk of the mother, when drawn from the breast often, is constantly thin, and affords very little nourishment to the child. Therefore, it is essential to healthy nutrition that the totervals of suckltog be as great as possible without injury to mother or child; and when the infant is placed at the breast, it should be allowed to remato until it draws away all that will come freely, for the last is invariably the richest and best * THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 337 Particularly should every woman, whtte nursing, keep command of her temper, and not aUow any violent emotions to take possession of her mind; foi from this have often arisen disastrous effects to the.infant What has been said in reference to the matter of the emotions of the mother affecting the chttd before birth, maybe appUed here, by observing that during the periods of nursing, the chttd is not directly affected, but that its food is subject to great degree to the mental emotions of the mother, and through that the child may be injured. Says a writer, "There is greater variation to the quality of tho mother's milk, than in that of any animal This is the case not only with different persons, but with the same person under different circumstances. These irregularities are attributable to diet to the state of the physical health, and often to the influence of the mental .emotions, which as they happen to be unfavor- ably affected, produce a change to the mttk which may seriously injure the health of tho chttd, and have been known to prove fatal." Dr. Von Amnion, of Saxony, records an instance of a woman whose husband was attacked by a soldier, with his sword; she first trembled with fear, then suddenly threw herseff furiously upon the soldier, and wrested the sabre from his hand. Soon after, and whtte laboring under this excitement, she gave her child nurse. In a few minutes, it stopped nursing, became restless, panted, and expired on its mother's bosom. Other instances of the extraordinary effects produced to this manner might be ad- duced here, were it necessary to estabUsh the fact. But the truth of* the matter is too weU understood by all scientific medical men to make further illustration neces- sary. That the child is often thus injured, there is not the least doubt although cases of sudden death being caused may be rare. Generally the effects are of such character and of such power that they are not observed at the time; bat, though not observed, they are none the less injurious. I shall trust that every mother, and every woman who expects to be a mother, who may read what is here written, witt remember it, ponder it and be froverned wisely to secure the safety and health of her offspring. Pregnant ladies of delicate constitution, and weak blood and thin habits of pei- son, would find in the Blood Renovator an excellent medium to enrich the blood and strengthen the system. It should be taken occasionally for some months before parturition. The German Ointment should also be bathed upon tho abdomen, to strengthen and relax the musdes and parts, to make deUvery more easy, expedi- tious, and safe. DEVELOPMENT OF THE FCETUS. It is not tiU about from the seventh to the twelfth day after conception has taken place that any indication exists to the uterus of a new being. Generatty about the eighth day there is a mucilaginous film, and from thence to the fifteenth day is formed a grayish, semi-transparent vesicle, about the size of a pea, containing a thick fluid, which is now termed the embryo, the weight of which is about one grain. A small white thread may be sometimes seen as early as the fifteenth day, being the commencement of the brain and spinal marrow. Its appearance is represented at figure 1 in the accompanying full page cut of foetuses. The mouth is visible also from the fifteenth to the twentieth day; and often the eyes appear. At twenty-five days the embryo is the size of a large ant, and weighing three or four grains. 22 338 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSK No. 49.—FCETUSES. FROM FIFTEEN DAT8 TO NINE MONTHS I THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 339 The first month the foetus is of the size of a bee, weighing about ten gintos. It resembles a smatt'worm bent together. The arms appear Uke two warts. The head is as large as aU the rest of the body, and distinctly shows two black dots for / the eyes, and a line for the mouth. A representation is given at figure 2, en the fuU page engraving. ' The second month, the weight is about one drachm, the length one inch The general form of tlie human betog is developed. The upper members have cp- peared; the fingers are united together Uke the toes of a frog; and to the ribs, clavicles, and jaw-bones, ossification has commenced. The rudiments of the first teeth nay be seen. The representation at figure 3 is of the foetus at forty-five days; at 4, at the end of two months, suspended to the placenta or after-birth and floating to the liquor-amnii, as seen from 1 to 4. The Hiird month, the length of the foetus is four or five inches, the weight about two ounces and a half. The heart is developed and beats forcibly, and to the larger vessels red blood is seen. The eyelids have become visible previously, and also the external ear. The eyeUds are distinct but closed; the lips perfect, but drawn together; the fingers and toes may be seen, and the muscles begin to ap- pear; the organs of generation are quite prominont; and from the form of the head, dorsal spine, thorax and abdomen, the sex may be determined. Cut 5 shows the foetus at three months, detached from the plpcenta and womb. • Tlie fourth month development has incre9S-3d largely. The foetus weighs seven or eight ounces, and measures six or sever todies. Ossification has taken place in a great part of the extent of the bones- the rudiments of the second set of teeth are visible under the first. The intestines are closed in, and the muscles become distinct At this point the womb has become so enlarged that it cannot remain in the lower part of the pelvis, but rises up into the abdomen, where there is more room. This is what is known as quickening. Sometimes this change takes place gradually, and is not noticed, but often it is done suddenly, and produces disturb- ance of the internal organs until they become accustomed to the change. Cut 6 on the fuU plate shows the foetus at four months. At five months the weight is fifteen or sixteen ounces, and the length eight or ton inches. Every part has increased in size, and approached towards perfection. The lungs have enlarged, and to a certain extent are capable of being dilated: the situ- ation of the nails can be discerned. In the period from the third to the fifth month is formed the umbUical cord. Cut 7 represents the foetus at the end of five months. At the sixth month is seen the first development of hair: the natts are marked; a Uttle fat is formed. Weight one and a half to two pounds; length about 12 inches. At seven months the length is about fourteen inches; the weight about three pounds. The bones are tolerably firm, and the nails formed, and the hair perfect Figure 8 represents the foetus at the end of seven months. At eight months the weight is from 3 to 5 pounds, the length 16 inches, and a de- velopment so perfect as to be almost capable of performing the functions of inde- pendent existence. At the ninth month the head has considerable firmness, ossifi- cation is more complete, all the organs ready for action, while the length of the foetus is about 20 inches, and the average weight about 7 pounds. The chttd is now born—tho crown of woman's bliss—the true effect of wedded love is accomplished —hum/in offspring J 340 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. Figure 9 on the full page engraving represents the foetus at the end of nine months—the period for birth to take place. No. 50.—F03TTJS IN THE WOMB. " Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house; thy children Uke olive plants round about thy table."—Ps. cxxviii. 3. No, 61.—Twins in the Womb. " I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak re- proachfully."—1 Tim. v. 14. In cases of twins, the chttd wttl usually be found some smaller than where there has been a stogie foetus to the womb, the average being five pounds twelve ounces; bu£ here, also, there is great difference to size; tostances not betog rare where twins weigh ntoe pounds each at birth, and to some cases as much as eleven or twelve pounds. A case recently came under my cognizance where a pair of twins weighed together twenty-two pounds! Neither of them lived. In tostances of triplets, or more, the children will generally be found fighter than to single births; though in the aggregate weighing much more. A woman in Connecticut, some six years ago, gave birth to four children at a time, which averaged seven and a haff pounds, maktog a total of thirty pounds I The mother and one chttd died: three of the diil Iren lived. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 341 In cases of twins, triplets, or a larger number of children to the womb at one time, (as see accompanying engravings,) the growth of each is the same as to cases of the single foetus only, though they are not usually so large as where there is but one. Each foetus is distinct in itself—has its own placenta, and seems to every way disconnected from its feUow, except to those remarkable cases of the Siamese twins and tostances of Uke charader. Cases of twins are of very common occurrence; triplets are by no means rare, and to remote tostances four and even five chUdren have been born at one birth The average weight of chUdren at birth as noticed in a large number of cases, is 7.06 lbs. for males, 6.42 lbs. for females. But there is very great diver- sity to size; to some cases the chttd wttl be found to weigh not over three pounds; in others its weight wttl be twelve pounds; and extraordinary tostances are recorded where the weight was four- teen, and even up to eighteen pounds! Such tostances are, however, exceeding- ly rare; and, to almost all cases where the chttd is either very small or exceeding- ly large, it will not Uve; betog generally lacking in vitality when so small, and when very large encountering such pressure at birth as to induce its death No. 52.—-Foue nr the Womb. " As many arrows are in the hands of a mighty man, so are children of the youth: happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them ; they shall not be ashamed," etc—Ps. cxxtii. 4, 5. PERIOD OF GESTATION. The usual period of gestation, (carrying the child in the womb) as derived from extended observation by medical statisticians, is found to be forty weeks, or 280 days. Ladies generally count nine solar months, which is a Uttle short of 280 days The difficulty of determining from which particular act of cohabitation conccptioi took place, and stitt more, the impossibility of knowing on what day the semen of the male impregnated the ovum of the female, (as this may not occur for Borne days after copulation,) renders certainty upon the length of gestation, to a day, quite out of the question, to any case. But by close observation, and tak- ing a great number of cases, it may be ascertained to within a brief period, when conception has occurred, and from thence, the average duration of gestation may be drawn. But upon this potot as upon all others connected with the subject 342 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. of generation, it wttl be found that there is no fixed period for parturition to take place. It may occur before the expiration of 280 days; it may not happen tttl after that period. There have been undoubted instances where gestation hns been prolonged to 300 days. The law of France fixes 300 days as the period after the death or absence of the husband wherein the chttd shall be considered le- gitimate. In Scotland, the term is ten months. In one case, to this country, a chttd born 311 days after the decease of the husband, was decided by the court to be legitimate; but physiologists would be dubious upon the legitimacy of the infant in a case so elongated as this. On the other hand, children are often born before the expiration of the 280 days. Seven and eight months children, that Uve, are by no means uncommon. And there have been recorded cases of children born at even so short a period as twenty-four weeks after conception, which Uved—the chUd itself, from the formation and ossification it presented, giving evi- dence that it had not been any longer than that to the womb. A church court in England decided a chUd legitimate born twenty-seven weeks after marriage In cases of this kind, the chttd itself is the best evidence; the appearance which it presents showing to the medical man generally very near its foetal age. And there are so many instances recorded, and well-attested cases, where chUdren have been born at a much less time after conception than ntoe months, that no woman should be accused or suspected of wrong from the time of the birth of the chttd after marriage merely. It is exceedingly unjust to do so; and that spirit which induces people to talk harshly of a lady from,the single fact that her first chUd comes into the world seven or eight months after marriage, is illiberal, unjust and unchristian. From the mortification that many sensitive ladies, entirely innocent of evil expe- rience, and the mental anguish they endure, from such unthoughtful remarks as the ignorant upon these points are too prone to make, it is to be hoped that men and women wttl better inform themselves upon this subject, and from a knowledge be toduced to abstain from unjust conversation and condemnation. PREVENTION OF PREGNANCY The subject of the prevention of pregnancy is one which has excited much atten- tion to all ages, and various theories for that object have been advanced, and nu- merous nostrums have been put forward for this purpose, the which by reason of the obscurity to which the subject of impregnation is involved, have never been of avail unless they were of such a powerful character as to be dangerous to the Ufe of the woman. Of the expediency of preventing conception in certain cases I have elsewhere treated; this has always been apparent; but untU the totroduction of the French Male Safe and Prevention Powder, the objed could never be with Bafety and certainty accompttshed. The phttosophy of impregnation, although much investigated, is still to a measure wrapped to obscurity. Many theories upon the subject have been advanced, but were unsatisfadory; and one after another has fallen to the ground. The most national, and the ono which at present prevails, is, that the semen of the male, being fitted with animalculie, one of these, finding its w,ay to the womb, there comes in contact with and impregnates an egg discharged into the womb from the ovaria through the faUopian tube. Proceeding upon this theory, some physiologists havo / THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 343 undertaken to show that the egg is discharged into the womb at the period of men- struation ; that it rematos there only for a certain length of time (as they say from one to seventeen days); that it is then discharged from the womb through the vagina, and that only while the egg is to the womb can conception take place. This may be so, and it may not; it is yet to be proved by experiment. But admitting it, how are we to know with certainty that the egg comes into the womb at the period of menstruation, and how is the woman to know when it is expelled from the womb ?—for without certainty upon these points, it wttl be obvious that copula- tion cannot be had at any time without liability to conception. Those who havo advocated this theory, have had the shrewdness to extend the period of the egg re- maining to the womb over a considerable number of days—it may remain, say thoy, eeventeen days. And ff it may remain seventeen days, who among them shaU say that it may not remain twenty-seven days, during any time of which conception may follow copulation ? In truth, not the first argument has been advanced to Bhow that it may, or that it does not m many tostances, remain till another egg is discharged from the ovaria. And untU this is done, it is evident there is no safety to trusting to such theories. Could the exad time of the entrance and the expul- sion of the egg be ascertained by the female, she might know at what periods con- nection without liabUity of conception might be had; but this point of knowledge has not yet been reached, and cannot be known by symptoms, either by the female or the physician. In some females the menses occur as often as once in two weeks: these would be always Uable to conception. In others they are very irre- gular, and they might have brought the egg into the womb before it was suspected. And in all, as they do not know when the egg is expeUed from the womb, it is ob- vious that whenever copulation takes place without guarding against pregnancy by Borne artificial mode, there is Uabttity to conceive. These facts are advanced for the purpose of showing to those who, by reason of some deformity or disease, cannot bear chUdren without danger to Ufe or destruc- tion of health, the Uabttity to conception ff they trust to theories upon this subject The only safety is to be found to the use of the articles I have mentioned. These will prevent at att times; they are ever infallible, safe, do no injury, and may be used at any time. AU other things witt be found tallacious, and all theories wttl lead to trouble, ff confidence is placed in them. In my opinion, it would be found, if the truth of the matter could be ascertained, that impregnation could take place at any time. But it is weU known that to almost all cases, the day, or even week, and sometimes the month in which impreg- nation takes place, is not known even to the lady herseff! How thin is she to know when it may or may not occur ? In fact there is nothing to be known about it:—the time when it may occur, the time when it does occur, in almost all cases, are involved in obscurity and uncertainty; and there are thousands of ladies who have had from one to ten or a dozen children, and who did not suspect them- selves to be in the family way in any instance except from the cessation of the menses; and even this sign is sometimes so fallacious that they have believed the suppression of the courses to be attributable to cold caught from wetting the feet or some other exposure ; and experienced physicians are often in fault to deter- mine whether a lady is encicntt or not titt three or four months after conception 344 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. IMPRESSIONS ON THE UNBORN CHILD. " Matter and spirit toiled within one yoke- Were they disjoined, the law of God were broke. This subject, considered to a medical view, as weU as to relation to the mental character of offspring, is one of the most interesting and important kind; one which has always excited attention, but stttl remains shrouded in mystery in refer- ence to the principle upon which certain events noticed are brought about as a^a0 of the manner to which supposed causes in given instances are brought to bear upon the physical or mental characteristics of offspring. Of the fact itself there can be no doubt: the modus operandi has not yet been discovered. These impressions result to several ways, or are the results of several and distinct causes. Of them, I propose to give you some specimens, coupUng therewith the opinions of learned medical men as they occur in the relations. Of the theories that have been advanced upon this subject, that of HaUer ascribes the effect to a permanent impression made by the semen of the male on the genitals, and more particularly on the ova, of the female; another is suggested by M'Gittiv- ray, who ascribes it to an influence exerted by the foetus to utero on the constitu- tion of the mother; a third is that entertained by Sir Everard Home and others, that it is an affair of the imagination. It may be proper to remark, that so far as we may be able to judge from, observations made there are some cases in which the imagination only has produced an effect upon the offsprtog; in others the imagina- tion has nothing whatever to do with it—the effect resulting from one or the other of the two causes first mentioned. But though we may not always know the cause, we should not be bttnd to the affed; for it will be seen that often upon the matter of prior sexual totercourse, or through the imagination of the mother, the charader and physical constitution of offsprtog may depend. The testimony on these extraordinary subjects, grows every day stronger against the sin of ill-assorted marriages—made often upon a basis of wealth or morbid passion, rather than upon a kindred sentiment of souls, which is the essence of true love. And those trafficing parents who hesitate not to make merchandise of their daughters for filthy lucre—selling them to the embrace of some wealthy sensualist to wife—may see, whtte contemplating these matters, the expediency of Ufttog their eyes above the money of a suitor, and look weU to see ff he has not become a blood-poisoned libertine. If they do not they may havo cause, as have thousands of others, to repent their foUy in sackcloth and ashes. Impressions on the mind of the mother, especially those received through the senses, often produce a palpable effect on the offspring. This optoion is one of very aneient prevalence, and may be traced back so far that its rise can hardly be at- tributed to the speculations of philosophers, and it is difficult to account for its origin, unless it be ascribed to the observation of occurrences. Combe relates a case of idiocy of a child whose parents had three intelligent children, and who could give no other cause for the idiocy of that one than that some months before its birth the mother saw an idiot boy at her house, who made a strong impression on her, and who complained at the tune that she could not get nis appearance cut of her mind. Dr. Mason Good, speaking of deaf and dumb THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 345 children, says it is often observed that when once this defect has made an entrance into a family, often haff of the after progeny, and in some instances the whole, wttl be deaf and dumb also; and no reason could be given but the effect produced by the first on the mind of the mother. He relates a case of nine deaf and dumb chUdren to succession, and another of ten. The effects produced upon the brain of the animal by impression, to determine the color and character of the offsprtog, are weU known to* breeders. The account in the Bible of Laban and the peeled rods laid before the cattle to produce spotted calves, furnishes an example. An instance is recorded where the color of a pale gray horse was objected to, by the owner of a mare who took her to get with foaL The groom placed before the eyes of the male, another female of very particular but pleasing colors, asserting that the latter would determine the complexion of the off- spring; and it did so. The same experiment was tried in the case of a second female, and the colt was so exactly Uke the first that they could scarcely be distin- guished apart, although their spots were very uncommon. In the raising of dogs, this point receives much attention. The Spitalfields weavers assert that they can insure almost to a certainty, to the Marlborough breed of spaniels, which flourishes among them, any given quantity of color, length of ooat and texture of it, and regulate its disposition to curl or remain straight. The Here- ford ox is bred to a white face, or a haff white face; and the length of horns can bo ensured to an inch. The color of the game-cock is arbitrarily imposed by the handler and feeder; and the experienced pigeon-fancier can breed to a feather. And it should not be lost sight of that mental as weU as personal quaUties are also cul- tivated, so to speak, by impressions made upon the minds of parents. An interesting question has arisen, as to whether, when a female, either of the human or animal, has conceived by one male, after sexual intercourse with another would cause the offspring to resemble the second partner. From observations of experiments made upon animals, it has been shown that in many instances, the second partner really imparted his likeness to the offspring begotten by the first 1 Dr. Hottick says:—"In one instance I knew a widow who secretly married to about three months after the death of her husband, and whtte, as it appeared after- wards, she was pregnant by him. The child, however, resembled her second hus- band, though there was almost a certainty that no previous infidettty had been prac- ticed, because the todividual was at a distance when the conception must have occurred!" It is most generaUy supposed, that the influence of the male upon offspring is confined solely to the one conception which is the result of the intercourse: but this as I have elsewhere remarked, has been found not to be true to all tostances. In many cases, either by electrical impression of the female genital organs, or by im- pression upon the imagination of the woman, or by influence exerted by the foetus while in the womb, the male may, by a single act of copulation, have an influence upon children born afterwards, begotten by another person I This fact has been proved by experiments on animals; and we should remember, that what is true with animals to these matters, is true likewise with human beings. I have advanced this as one strong argument in favor of early marriage: it being clear to every one that the sooner a female is married, the less liable wttl she be to have been impressed in this manner by copulation with another person. Men, therefore, who would have thUdren wholly their own, and would be certato about the matter, might not find it 346 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE amiss to bear this fad in their minds. Not that I wcrald convey the idea that every woman not married young has been thus previously impressed; by no meanfi: I liave too high an opinion of the sex in general to entertain such a view; but, when we know that tostances are continually occurring of women being seduced and de- serted, it cannot but be seen that the longer a woman Uves unmarried, the more Uable is she to be tampered with by some viUain of the other sex. I will again quote from HolUck:—" Instances of this are sometimes seen in human beings. Thus a female married a second time will have children resembling the first husband, and sometimes even in a third marriage, as I have witnessed myself Such resemblances can be explained only by supposing a pormanent influence to be exerted by the male; and probably that influence is most likely to be exerted most powerfully by the first partner." Dr. H. concludes, from experiments made, that these results are not always the effect of imagination, but are rather caused by tho permanent influence of the male upon the female organs of generation. He con- tinues :—" A friend of mine made some experiments upon animals, for the purpose of testing this curious question. Many of these were so managed that the imagina- tion could not possibly operate, and yet the influence of the first partner was dis- tinctly perceptible during several conceptions afterwards. Among other singular cases bearing on this subject, is the following, which was told me by an old physician in Scotland, who knew all the parties concerned. A young female was forcibly violated by a person whom she did not know, and under such circumstances that she could not see him; it was known, however, by her friends, who he was, but from a wish to avoid exposure the occurrence was kept secret, though unfortunately she became pregnant to consequence. The chttd strongly resembled its guilty parent; and, what was singular, two children which she had by marriage, after wards also resembled him, though they were by her husband—the guilty young man having previously left the country!!" In treating upon this subject of impression, Dr. Harvey, physician to the Aber- deen Royal Infirmary, advances the following:— " Instances are sufficiently common among the lower animals, where the offspring exhibits, more or less distinctly, over and beyond the character of the male by which they were begotten, the pecuUarities, also, of a male by which their mother had at some former period been impregnated. " Mr. James M'GUlivray, of Huntly, a veterinary surgeon, offers the following theory upon this subject:—' When a pure animal of any breed has been pregnant to an animal of different breed, such pregnant animal is a cross ever after; the purity of her blood being lost, to consequence of her connection with the foreign animal. If a cow, of the pure Aberdeenshire breed, is with caff by a buU of the short-horn breed, in proportion as this calf partakes of the nature and physical characters of the butt, just in that proportion will the blood of the cow become contaminated, and herseff a cross, forever tocapable of producing a pure caff of any breed. The great variety of nondescript animals to be met with are the result of the crossing system; the prevailing evU of winch is, the admission of bulls of various breeds to the same cow, whereby the blood is completely vitiated.' " A consideration of this subject suggests the following questions:—1st. Whether, to case of a woman who has been twice married, and borne children to both hus- bands, the children borne to the second husband ever, or generaUy, partake of the pecuUarities of the first husband ? 2d. Whether, to a famUy of several children, THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 347 4 • the younger children rather than the elder, are disposed to exhibit the characters of the father? 3d. Whether a woman who has borne several children by the same husband may not ultimately acquire some of the physical characteristics, or at least imbibe and manifest some of the morbid tendencies, of the latter ? " A mare belonging to Sir George Ouseley, was covered by a zebra, and gave birth to a striped hybrid. The year following, the same mare was covered by a thorough- bred horse, and the next succeeding year by another horse. Both the foals thus produced were striped and partook of the characters of the zebra. And it is stated by Hatter, and also by Becker, that when a mare has had a mule by an ass, after- wards a foal by a horse, the foal exhibits traces of the ass. Cases are recorded of mares covered in every instance by horses, but by different horses, on different oc- casions—where the offspring partook of the character of the horse by which im- pregnation was first effected It has often been observed that a well-bred bitch ff she has been impregnated by a mongrel dog, witt not, although lined subsequently by a pure dog, bear thorough-bred puppies in the next two or three Utters. The Uke occurrence has been noticed in respect to the sow. Breeders of cattle are famttiar with analogous facts as occurring in the cow. Says M'GilUvray:—' Among cattle and horses they are of every-day occurrence.' "Dr. Dyce teUs me that he has certainly known one instance (if not more) where a mulatto woman bore fair children to a white man; and that the same woman had afterwards to a mulatto man other chUdren, who bore much resemblance to the white man, both in features and complexion. "Rev. Charles M'Combie, of TUlyfour, minister of Lumphanon, in Aberdeenshire, informs me that a lady neighbor of bis was twice married, and had issue by both husbands. The children of the first marriage were five to number; of the second three. One of these three, a daughter, bears an unmistakeable resemblance to her mother's first husband. What makes the likeness the more discernible is, that there was the most marked difference, to thefr features and general appearance, between the two husbands. "Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh communicates to me, that a young woman re- siding in Edinburgh, and born of white parents, but whose mother some time pre- vious to her marriage, had a child by a mulatto man-servant to Edinburgh, exhibits distinct traces of the negro! He noticed particularly that the hair had the quaUties characteristic of tho negro! "It is of more immediate toterest, however, and of greater practical moment, to ascertain whether, through the medium of the foetus, the husband may impart to'his wife either the syphUitic virus, or the scrofulous diathesis, or any other constitu- tional morbid tendency which he may possess. " Dr. George OgUvie informs me of a case which feU under his own observation, where a woman was twice married, and had children by both husbands, and where tho chUdren by both husbands were scrofulous, although only the first husband had marks of that diathesis; the woman herseff, and her second husband, being to all appearance quite healthy. "Professor Prire, of Aberdeen, communicates—that Mrs. H—, apparently free from scrofula, married a man who died of phthisis. She had one child by him which also died of phthisis. She next married a person who was to aU appearance equaUy healthy as herself, and had two chUdren by him, one of which died of phthi 343 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. Bis, the other of tubercular mesenteric disease—havtog at the same time scrofulous ulceration of the under extremity. " In these cases, before the mother could have imparted the scrofulous taint to her offspring by the second husband, she must herseff have imbibed it from her first husband through the medium of his offspring whtte to utero. And, although soem ingly stttl free of the taint it may have required only the appropriate external con dition to call it into full activity to her own person. And with regard to the syphi- Utic poison, there is no difficulty in understanding, and it is quite within the bounds of probabiUty that the foetus, ff contaminated with it by its father, may convey it to the mother. It has been affirmed, indeed, that a man who has once had syphilis, but been seemingly cured of it for many years, may yet so retato the taint of it as to contaminate his offsprtog without at the same time tainting his wife. Very possible. But this does not prove that he may not contaminate his wife also; and the obser- vation itself is to that respect fallacious, inasmuch as, to any given case of the kind, the wife may really have imbibed the virus, although to a latent form, and might subsequently give proof of the reattty of the fact by tainting the offspring begotten by another and a perfectly healthy husband. Adopting this view, it may be fount? of importance, to contemplating marriage with a widow, to inquire into the consti tutional peculiarities of her deceased husband I" To this I may add, that it may not be amiss to contracting marriage with a wo man never before married, to order to be the better assured upon these points, tc consult the expediency of early marriage. Also, a knowledge of these facts, may lead young kvlies to be careful about selecting a partner, to know, ff possible, that he has not run the round of Ucentious indulgence with abandoned and diseased wo- men ; and it may, by showing young men the Uabttity of contaminating the wife and the child with disease, even after being seemingly cured of venereal disorder, impress them with the expediency of keeping aloof from the courtesan, and seeking gratifi- cation of the amative passion in early and holy wedlock. In this way, and only in this way, unless we are to suppose the impossibility that men and women can always control the sexual impulse born within them, can there be security for husband, foi wife, or for offspring, against the deadly virus of venereal diseases. But to return to the influence of the mother upon the unborn chUd. I witt quote from the Scalpel some tostances of this nature :— " A few years since we were requested by Dr. Moore Hoyt to examine an tofan> of a few months' age. We found a healthy child and mother; the former presenting an eschar directly across the knee-pan of each knee. They were as if made by the Bcratch of a nail and from two to two and a haff inches to length Dr. H was as- tonished on seeing these marks at the birth of the chttd ; but examtoation made it evident that this state of the knees had been produced within the womb! But how ? The mother had spent, for a number of days, some hours daily on her knees, leaning over a cradle, and nursing a sick child. She complained of pain on rising! but did not anticipate any deformity in her child. When we saw the eschars they were completely healed " Thei next case occurred to our own practice. A lady, during the second month of gestation, was presented by her husband with a pair of ear-rings. She was de- sirous to wear them the same evening to a party, but found it impossible to insert the loop toto one ear, as the hole had partiaUy grown up. The attempt was aban- doned, with some disappointment, and the expression of apprehension that her chttd THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 349 would be marked. At birth the child presented a hole to the centre of one lobe of the ear, so nearly perforated, that on stretching it slightly with two fingers, the unperforated part proved so thin as to be absolutely diaphanous; a deep cleft run- ning downward for a quarter of an inch from the centre of the hole. "Mr. A., of the northern part of this state, married some forty years since. Pe- cuniary circumstances rendered offspring undesirable. Within a year, however, tho wife thought herseff with child; on expressing this beUef to her husband, she was at the. moment qmte shocked at the dissatisfaction with which he received it. Tak- ing his hat, he left the house, and was absent for near an hour. He was distressed on his return to find Ins wffe in tears. He assured her he was rejoiced to learn the probable reattzation of her announcement; that he was now satisfied with the condi tion of his pecuniary affairs. The wife dried her tears, but expressed her convic- tion that her offspring would suffer from her agitation. Her fears graduaUy to- creased as gestation advanced. A healthy and well-formed boy was born. After some months, it manifested an extreme unwittingness to approach the father. Tins gradually increased, until its dissatisfaction was manifested by loud and continued screaming when brought near him. As age advanced, the most persevering efforts were made to overcome this repugnance, but to vain, and the attempt was aban- doned in despair. This state continued, and at the time of our receiving the infor- mation, the son, then an active and rising.member of the bar, had never been able to speak a word to his father, though the most painful efforts were made. " The next case was related to us by Dr. Cox, now practicing at WUUamsburg; Long Island. A lady was in constant attendance upon her dying father; his dis- ease was a cancer on the forehead, and required repeated daily dressing; this was done by the daughter, who was in the early period of pregnancy. In a few months the father died, and the daughter was deUvered, at the full period, of an infant dis- figured with a large tumor on the forehead. This the doctor assured us became an open sore, to all respects similar to the one of which the child's grandfather died It resisted every appUcation, and soon terminated the child's Ufe. " If such results do really sometimes follow the exposure of mothers to disagree- able objects, tho appearance of the maimed foreign paupers that shock their feeUngs at the corner of our streets should be instantly put a stop to by legislative interfer- ence. And if mothers desire to be blessed with healthy offspring, they had better not only avoid disagreeable sights during pregnancy, but observe all the laws of their being, and keep a rigid watch over their most secret thoughts and actions." A correspondent of the Scalpel gives the following cases:—"A gentleman of Brandon, Vt, removed to New York city, and while there, went one day to visit the Zoological garden. Whtte there, his wife, who was enciente, and who was of a highly nervous temperament, became alarmed at the ferocity of a beautiful Bengal tiger. The lady fainted. In process of time, she gave birth to a healthy boy, which grew Uke other children. After the chUd was old enough to run about, he exhibited the strongest of tempers when vexed at anytliing. At such times he would growl and shriek, and fly at the faces of his companions with aU the ferocity oi" a wUd cat—tearing their clothes, biting and scratching thdr faces, and the Uke__ his eyes, during tlie paroxysms, betoe; of a fiery or green color, Uke those of a cat when angry. As he advanced to rears, it became necessary for an older person to accompany him, to prevent his injuring his playmates during nis paroxysms of fury At other times, he was of a most amiable disposition. 350 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. " In the same town of Brandon lived a man who one morning desired his wife (then with chUd) to assist him in kitting a calf. The wife of the man's brother tried to dissuade her from going, but she went. The caff was thrown upon its side, and as the man was in the act of applying the knife to its throat his wife helping to hold it down, it suddenly sprang up, receiving at the same time a severe cut across tlie mouth and nose, the knife passing over and cutting off one of its ears. The woman became alarmed, and ran to the house. In due time she gave birth to a Uving child, which had a hare-lip, each Up being deeply cut through, apd the cleft in the superior one extending entirely through it, and far back toward the posterior part of the palate; it had also but one ear. The child died soon after birth. " In Rutland, Vt, a married lady had a favorite pet cat, which she loved immo- derately. One day, the husband came in, and found her holding the favorite tabby, as usual Being under the influence of liquor and passion, he seized the cat, and, with an oath, dashed its head against the hearth. The wffe was greatly affected Somo months after she gave birth to a female child, whose physical organization presented strange peculiarities. Its face bore the general resemblance to that of a cat—having no chin—with the mouth quite at the lower part of the face—the nose long and depressed, and the eyes like those of the cat The hands were deformed— very short fingers, crooked and sharp nails. When she was nine years old, tho chttd had never spoken a word, but made known her wants by a ktod of yawling, cat-like sound, which was horrible to hear. " In the same town resided a chttd upon whose face was a pecuUar red stain. At a wedding party given to a young couple soon after their marriage, the bride re- ceived the contents of a wine-glass upon her face as she was playfuUy running from one room to another. It spattered her face, neck, and breast, and caused her much confusion of mind, and not a Uttle anger. Her first-bom child came into the world with its face, neck, and breast well covered with claret. As it increased to years, the color of the mark became brighter. " In the north part of the same town there lived, some seventeen years since, a young man, one-half of whose forehead was covered with an unseemly mass of coarse red and black hair. The father of that young man owned a favorite heifer winch one day got mired, and no man being about, the wffe exerted herself to ex trieate the animaL It was to vain. She sat down, exhausted, and commenced patting the dumb animal upon the head, admiring and playing with the curl to the center of its forehead. Some months afterwards a child was bom, having a tuft of coarse hair, quite unlike, in both color and quality, to that upon the rest of the head, covering nearly one-half its forehead, having the same curl, or rosette shape, which existed on the forehead of the young cow. " Some years since, a gentleman from Clarendon, Vt., was crossing the North River, near Albany, in an open boat, to company with two other men. When cidway the stream, one of the men suddenly seized an oar, and struck the man first aUuded to over the head, cutting a severe gash through the scalp, and rendering him senseless. The object was robbery. The circumstances were soon communi- cated to the wife of the injured man, and she was greatly distressed. Some seven or eight months afterwards she gave birth to a chUd, upon whose head was a wound, corresponding to shape and position with that made upon her husband's head, THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL JGHTHOUSE. 351 wttoh had not healed when he returned home. Adhesive straps caused the wounds to heal kindly, and the child Uved. " Some few years since, a clergyman of Providence, R. I., was riding out with his Wffe in a covered sleigh. They were met by another team, the horses to which were running away. In passing, the head of one of the horses came in contact with the covered sleigh, and carried away part of the top, slightly injuring the gentleman, and greatly alarming his wife. The idea took hold of her mtod that all his head, above his eyes, was carried away, and she repeatedly put up her hand to ascertain if his head was really where it ought to be. Some months elapsed, and the lady gave birth to a living child. The chttd had a face, but above its eyes it had no head or brain. It of course Uved but a very brief period." These cases might be multiptted indefinitely. Scarcely any person of observation but has noticed similar. I call to mtod a case where a lady, enciente, while on a visit to a house in which I resided, took some cranberries, without permission, from a cupboard which she opened. On going home, the thought came that perhaps she Bhould not have taken them without asking. Her chUd, born a few months after, had a tumor on the forehead, exactly resembling a cranberry. I was acquainted with a gentleman (now dead) of the town of Manchester, Conn., whose father, whtte he was yet to the womb, brought home a dead owl, and threw it suddenly into the room where his wife was. The lady was much frightened The eyes of the person closely resembled those of an owl, and one leg had a with- ered appearance, correspondtog to the appearance of the leg of a bird. He was always known by the nick-name of " Owl-Eye." I am acquainted with another man, now residing to Hartford, Conn., whose mother was frightened by a rat whtte he was in her womb. The sight of a rat will throw this man toto a fit!—but to the presence of any other species of animal or reptile, he manifests no extraordinary emotion. But it wttl be useless to further multiply facts upon this point. It is of often oc- currence that marks of peaches, strawberries or other things appear, upon offspring. The modus operandi is beyond our knowledge; but, as such things do occur through the imagination of the mother, it is plain that it is the duty of every woman, so far as is in her power, to govern her passions, to control wisely her emotions, to keep aloof from scenes of a loathsome or revolting character, calculated to work power- fully upon the mind ; to keep herseff from att morbid thoughts; to bo calm, lovely, serene, and as quiet as possible, while carrying in her womb another being. And husbands, who have affection for their wives, and who would havo healthy offspring, cannot bo too kind nor too careful of their wives while they are in the condition to become mothers—particularly to the earlier months of pregnancy. When a woman to her pregnancy, is desirous of anything not unreasonable, the husband should, if possible, obtain it for her, even though to ordtoary circumstances, he might not in- dulge her with it. It is by no means, however, the case, that when people look beforehand for some mark, or expect some effect from a cause upon the mtod of the offspring, that it occurs. The reverse of this is more generally true. Very many ladies long for this or that during the months of pregnancy, and exped their child will be marked, but this docs not happen; while others, who do not to tho least anticipate such an event, find their offspring disfigured. This shows us how much the results witnessed are beyond the comprehension in the way tfiey are brought about It will generally 352 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. be found that the impressions upon the child in utero are caused by sudden emotions of the mind of the mother—something which takes forcible hold of her thoughts, and for the time affects her entire being. Hence the necessity of guardtog against sudden anger, fear, fright or allowing the mtod to receive any absorbing impression of any kind whatever. The effect which the sight of an idiot will have sometimes upon the foetus of a woman, has been noticed in many instances. Powerful impressions are often wrought upon the mind of the mother, and through her upon the offspring, by the Bight of an idiot. Therefore, it should be the duty of the law to remove from the midst of society all idiotiq persona and place them under proper care in some school, or upon some retired farm fitted for the express purpose. This would be not only better for the idiots themselves, but it would in a certain degree prevent the multtoUcation of this class of unfortunate beings. THE SERPENT AND ADAM CAUSED THE FALL; THROUGH WOMAN No. 53.—The Temptation- and Disobedience. " And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and gave also uuto her husband with her, and he did eat."—Gen. iii. & TEE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 353 Foe long ages the disreputable credit of being the cause of the fall of man Las been fastened upon tonocent woman; and none have had the generosity to take up the pen in her behalf and disprove what seems to be generally beUeved. Though by men adjudged guUty of the fall such is not the Scriptural fact, as I shall attempt to show. The truth is, that the serpent and Adam caused the fatt, whtte through woman has been worked out the redemption of mankind. God created Adam in His own image, and endowed him with a superiority of knowledge, and gave him power over the whole animal creation; but despite of his superior knowledge, he yielded to temptation and caused the fall. The serpent, being more subtle than att the beasts of the field, (Gen. itt. 1,) deceived Eve, and beguiled her into the belief that by eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, she would be made wiser, and herself and husband become happier. And in the innocence of her heart, and fiUed with benevolence and love for her husband, and desiring to increase his happiness, she hearkened to the voice cf the tempter, and partook of the fruit of the tree. Her offence was committed in inno- cence, and from motives of the purest benevolence, and with a proper desire to add to the amount of happiness enjoyed by herself and husband. She partook because of the deception of the serpent and not in a feeling of disobedience to the commands of God. The fruit of the tree was " Good for food, pleasant to the eyes^ and to be de- sired to make one wise and happy;" therefore she did eat thereof.—Gen. iii. 6. But disobedience was not in her heart This view of the case can be proved from renowned commentators, and is sustained by the testimony of Paul. And it is evident, from scriptural proofs, that God re- garded woman innocent, for he cursed the serpent, and the ground for Adam's sake and,said unto the serpent, (Gen. iii. 14,) "Because thou hast done this," Ac. But he did not curse woman, as the language of Paul proves; yet, woman, betog in the transgression, though innocent, God greatly multiplied her sorrows in conception and chUd-birth, and adjudged her to be ruled by man, which, heaven knows, is not an easy punishment for woman! But Adam transgressed the law of God in knowledge, and without being operated upon by the beguiling words of the deceiv ing serpent Adam hearkened unto the voice of the woman to do sin, and com- mitted it in direct violation of the command of God, without first having been de- ceived. So that guilt to the spirit and in the eye of God was with him, and not with the woman, and by him (Adam) and the serpent came the falL Now for the redemption. God, viewing the matter of the cause of the faU in tho Ught we have presented, resolved that sinful man should have no part or lot in tho great scheme of redemption: but that through innocent woman should the work of salvation be commenced. Viewing man as a sinner, he could not be allowed any agency in a holy work of redemption. Therefore it was that the Virgin Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost and made to conceive of God a child, tho great Messiah of our race—even Christ Jesus, to whom aU the dead in sin may be made alive. God found favor in her sex, as we see from Luke L 30—" Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God." Again, " Behold a virgin shaU be with'chttd, and shall bring forth a son."-Matt i. 23. Again, " Mary was with child of the Holy Ghost"—Matt. L 18. Again, "For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shaft catt his name Jesus for he shaU save his people from their sins."—Matt. I 20, 21. Again, "Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man ?" (Had Bexual 23 354 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. No. 54.—The Punishment for Transgression. " And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayst trecly eat : bnt of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shaltnot eat of it: for in tho day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die."—Gen, ii. 16, 17. "And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and abovo every beast of the field : upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."—Gen. iii. 14, 15. "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow, and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children ; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."—Gen. iii. 16. " And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying thou shalt not eat ol it," &c.—Gen. iii. 17. intercourse with a man.—Author.) " And the angel answered and said unto her The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over- shadow thee; therefore, also, that holy thing which shall be bom of thee shaU be called the Son of God."—Luke I 34 and 35. This proves Christ to be the Son of God, bom of a woman, who had never known man. We see, therefore, that God gave his own Son to be bom of tonocent woman, that the race, through his death, should be brought back to its original state without the agency of sinful man, THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 355 Those facts are incontrovertible and undeniable—no ingenuity of man or devtt cai disprove or overthrow them. God's command not to partake of the forbidden fruit, was unto man, or Adam, and not woman, or Eve.—Gen. il ,15, 16, 17 verses. "And the Lord God took the man aud put him toto the Garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely eat; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evtt, thou shalt not eat of it: for to the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." There are various ridiculous, as well as reasonable opinions, as to what the for- bidden fruit consisted of, but very evidently it was vegetable fruit; but the sin was not go much in the kind of fruit, as to test Adam's obedience to God's command, or law; foe kind of fruit having been designated, of which he was keeper, and of which God gave him charge and held him responsible for the faithful fulfillment of that charge. The serpent may have been commissioned to tempt Adam, and to accomplish his object beguiled Eve, or woman, although she was innocent of what would be the punishment. Adam's obedience to fulfill the command was to be tested, and wo- man's aiding to disobedience did nothing to excuse him. Nowhere to Scripture is the sin expressly attributed to woman, but often to man. And why ? Simply because of her innocence to do wrong. Hear what tho Scripture saith, (Rom. v. 12,) " Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all men have sinned." It will be remem- bered that the law, or command of God, was first established before the transgres- sion, and that command became a law unto Adam. As the inspired Paul, the great law expounder, has done justice to the subject, I shall give his teachings in part from the 5th chapter of Romans, commencing at the 13th verse, and continue through the chapter: " For untU the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the simiUtude of Adam's trangression, who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offence, so also is the free gift For if through the offence of one many be dead; much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justi- fication. For ff by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign to Ufe by one, Jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon aU men to condemnation ; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of Ufe. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover, the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sto abounded, ^race did much more abound: That as sto hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign, through righteousness, unto eternal Ufe, by Jesus Christ our Lord." Paul's epistle to the Corinthians is, as elsewhere, proof positive cf the mnoeonce of woman causing the faU of man, and settles the truth of the whole matter to a ▼ery few words, viz., (1 Corto. xv. 21, 22,) "For stoce by man (not woman) came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam (not Eve) aU die, even so in Christ shaU all be made aUve." 356 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. No. 55.—The Redemption. " Hail thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." " And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Masy ; for thou hast found favor with God. And be- hold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus."— Luke i. 28, 30, 31. WnrLE on earth, Christ had the greatest resped for woman—for her motherly love, her charity, her purity and her acts of benevolence. Evidently he considered her in the light we have presented; that God, to accomplish the great work of re- demption, took the pure woman as his vessel of honor, that through her Christ might be made manifest in the flesh; and unto her sex, in the hand of God, does the honor, of the restoration of man to his original state of holiness justly belong. In this day and generation, when the light of the Gospel is being carried to the uttermost parts of the earth, it is due to the. female sex that the truths I have set forth upon this subject should be known, and that she should receive the credit that is justly hers: and yet, commentators, ministers, and att others, seem strangely to bave overlooked the important truth we have presented. Woman is educated to a consciousness of having wrought the fall of man; the burden of the sin is cast upon her shoulders. This, particularly in a mind of a religious cast, is the cause of great evU; for it oppresses her mentality, impairs her usefulness, lessens her in her own esteem, and detracts from her ability to perform those deeds of goodness in the re- THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 357 Uef of suffering humanity, the regeneration of man, and the christianization of the race, that she is peculiarly fitted to do. It greatly impairs her usefulness in woman's proper sphere, (which is not among the roughness of men and in the coarser walks of Ufe, but amid the duties of domestic existence, in the church and by the side of the sick and suffering,) and renders her less a noble aid to man than she would be with a conscience void of sin in that which is laid upon her. For ff the belief remain that the fall of man was caused by woman, how can we have that confidence to her sex necessary to giv.; force to her works for his redemption. But the reproach is un- justly laid upon ner; she to many is a guardian angel of purity, to infuse virtue, morality, and religion toto his heart, and impress them upon his offspring. And mtoisters and commentators do wrong to thus destroy confidence in her purity and integrity. Aside from these, the consciousness of this great sin frequently leads to insanity, consumption, and death. And to the hope of being able, by caUing atten- tion to the subject t-o lessen such disastrous occurrences, the author has deemed it proper to introduce the subject to his readers. Woman, thou who hast so long borne unjustly the reputation of causing the ori- ginal sin of mankind, and unrighteously incurred displeasure for that of which thou art not guilty, and been without an advocate of thy cause for the honor of being made an instrument in the redemption of the faUen race,—be no longer cast down in the false belief that upon thy head rests the sin of the fall. In the innocence of thy puro heart thou partook of the fruit of the tree, and therefore was not guilty of the great sin. But upon man and the begutting serpent does the weight of iniquity rest I Grieve not therefore, longer ; shake off the oppression of consciousness, and beUeve thyself innocent, as Paul and the Apostles have taught. Thus shalt thou become better fitted for the duties of thy station, and be saved from hours of mental anguish that lead to the dethronement of thy reason, and the destruction of thy Ufe. It has been often said that woman brought death toto the world, and that she is the most wicked creature God ever made. A clergyman once made a remark to this effect to a lady, and received for reply—" If one rib taken from man is so awfully wicked, what must the whole body of man De ?" If woman has been to every age of the world so wicked, it is very curious that man should be so desirous of obtaining from such a creature the favor of a look, a nod, or a kiss! Man has ever arduously courted and sought to associate with these wicked beings; and many have become raving maniacs because they could not get one of these most wicked objects that God ever made 1 Strange, indeed, that the smiles and love of so sinful a creature should be to such demand among the sex who arrogate to themselves a great share of godUness I Strange that man wiU brave every tempest, and endure every hardship, for the sake of a kind word or a sweet kiss from one of those wicked beings, woman I It has been said that woman should not speak to the churches—that she should not raise her voice in public to plead for religion and Christ. She has been veiled, enslaved, and looked upon by many as unworthy and too sinful for this; and yet, in making sa- cred music to praise of God, her sweet voice cannot be dispensed with Was woman, 'the mother of Jesus, too wicked to be a pubUc teacher, preacher, and helper of man__ whom G od saw was too sinful to be the father of him by whom salvation was to come to aU that beUeved ? 0 man! hide thy face to shame, that to this age of civUization and Christianity thou seekest to cast down rather than to raise up the noblest and purest work of tlie Deity, even woman. 358 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. WOMAN THE GLORY OF MAN. ' But the woman is the glory of the man," was the language of wisdom tliat fell from the lips of the Apostle Paul the great teacher of the Christian reUgion.—1 Cor. xl 7. Solomon, a man of great wisdom and understanding, uttered a simUar sentiment of honor to the female sex, which is worthy the attention of aU, parti- cularly woman herself—"A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."—Prov. xh 4. And God himseff uttered these words, which speak that he considered well of this creation of his hand: " It is not good that man should be alone; I wttl make bim an help meet for him."—Gen. ii. 18. And to maktog a help meet for man, it would be to impeach the wisdom of Deity, to suppose that she was not created with such virtues and qualities as should command the esteem and admiration of the other sex, and be worthy of their love, and purest and highest honor; for less than this would have tended to degrade rather than elevate the man. Adam acknowledged woman to be " bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh;" " therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wffe; and they shall be one flesh."—Gen. ii. 22, 24. Evidently the intention of our Creator in maktog man and woman for each other's happiness, was that they should be inexhaustible magnets oflove to each other—each having charms for the other that should never be exhausted or blotted from the remem- brance : " For love is of God."—1 John iv. 1; and " Love is strong as death"— Songs viil 6. Would the Umits of this work admit I might give you the whole history of wo- man, from her first creation to the present time; how she has been fettered by dress; prisoned to stifle her usefulness and love; vetted and shut up in lonely houses and nunneries, to hide the beauties and smfles of her lovely face; sttenced in speech that men or angels could not be overwhelmed by the sweetness of her honeyed words, and charmed with the loving kindness and abundance of her heart In many ages of the world, by the superstitions of reUgious beUef, woman has been tortured, fettered, imprisoned to action and speech, doubtless because of her supposed transgression to the faU of man. She has been enslaved, prostituted, and turned into a defiled body of abominations by sinful man. In the present age, in Christendom, mankind seemingly abhor such treatment, and attempt to givo woman the proper education, honors, and Uberty. both to society and the hearts of men, which she so nobly deserves. Woman is the noblest work of God. The mother of aU and beloved by att, she Is fitted with affection, charity, patience, hope, endurance, fortitude, and all the en- nobling quaUties of human nature. She is as a fountain of sweet waters unto man; the richness and beauty of her love, the angettc goodness of her heart, cannot be equaUed upon the earth Man admires, honors, respects, and almost adores her, and acknowledges the matchlessness of her charms, and the power of her attractions by bending to worship at her shrine. She is an inexhaustible fountain of love to com- fort man and to cheer h im, whether on land or on sea, to war or to peace—whether he be in the house of worship, to the theatre, to the grove, or to the parlor—whe- ther he be at home or abroad. In the adornment of the richest palaces, to the embellishment of halls of pleasure, in exhibitions upon the, walls of galleries of the fine arts, we do hor or to woman, and THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 359 manifest our estesm and love for her, by suspending her portrait in conspicuous po- sitions and high places; and even in the monetary concerns of our existence—upon the faces of checks and bank biUs—we meet the shadow of woman's beauteous face, crownod with wreaths of honor and the horn of plenty. The delineations of her graces may be found mingled in all the adornments of Ufe. Man may boast of his heroic deeds upon the field of battle; but woman has the higher boast the honor of being mother to aU. Man may talk of his sufferings to War for the glory of his land; but he is outdone to endurance by woman, who suf- fers the pains of travail to raise up sons to fight the battles of her country. Man may boast of the genius and talent of his children, whom he has educated in wis- dom ; but to woman is due the greater credit of impressing them with genius before their birth, nourishing them in foetal Ufe with her own blood, and supporting them in infanoy from the rich treasures of her bosom. Woman is the first to lend an ear to the calls of the needy—the first to send the Gospel to the benighted nations of heathen lands. She was first at the tomb of a crucified Saviour ; and wherever she is found, her hands are filled with pity, sympathy, charity, and love. And for the graces of her person, and the noble qualities of her mind, man loves her—he can never forget her. For her he visits and explores the uttermost parts of the eartli, and the vast depths of the mighty seas, that he may gather costly jewds, furs, and garments to decorate her angelic form; for her he dares the tempest and tho hurri- cane, the shock of battle and the faggot of the barbarian; for her he delves by day and by night beneath the heat of the scorching sun, and to damp and loathsome pits, where the rays of heaven never come—that, when his toils are over, he may rest him to her embrace, and hearken to her notes of sympathy and love. Man, without his love for the fairer sex,' would be Uke the earth without the cheering and genial rays of the sun: Uke an icy mountain of Greenland, which ne- ver melts, but remains cold and hard forever. But when the love of a pure and virtuous woman reigns to his heart, and leads him to the nuptial state, he becomes Boftened, dvttized, and humanized, and fitted for a foretaste of the joys that await the good beyond the boundaries of the tomb. To give an idea of the influence exerted by woman upon the character and des- tiny of nations, we subjoin the foUowing extract from M. Aime Martin, showing the respective condition of females in European and Oriental countries, and the condi- tions of the countries themselves:— " Whatever be the customs or the laws of a country, it is the women who give the direction to its manners. Whether free or subject they reign, because they derive thefr power from our passions. But this influence is more or less salutary according to the degree of estimation to which they are held; be they our idols or our companions, courtesans, slaves, or beasts of burden, the re-action wttl b« complete; they wttl make us what they themselves are. It appears as ff nature attaches our intelligence to thefr dignity, just as we attach our happiness to their virtue. Here, then, is a law of eternal justice; man cannot debase women without becoming himself degraded; he cannot elevate them without becoming better. " Let us cast our eyes over the earth and observe the two great divisions of tho human race—the East and the West; one half of the old world continues without improvement and without ideas, beneath the weight of a barbarian civUization; there the women are slaves. The other half progresses towards equattty and en- jghtenment and we there see women free and honored. Contrast with a European 360 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. or American famUy an Eastern one; the former is based upon equality, the la iter upon polygamy and slavery, which leave to love its brutal fury, but which d?prive it of its sweet sympathy, and divine iUusions. A man may shut himself up w'th a number of women, but it is impossible that he can love severaL See him then re- duced, amidst a crowd of young beauties, to the saddest of all conditions, that of possessing without loving, and without being loved. Inebriated with the coarsest pleasures, without family to the midst of his slaves, without affection in the midst of his children, he imprisons his companions, and makes of his house a place c' pun- ishment crime and prostitution. And, after all, does this animal Ufe yield him last- tog happtoess ? No; his senses become blunted, his mind becomes enervated, and he vainly pursues unto the brink of the tomb the sensual delights, which, whfle they excite him, elude his grasp. Polygamy is a purely animal state; it gives us only slaves; marriage gives us a loved and cherished companion; the former estab- lishes misery and debauchery to the house of the man, the latter forever banishes it, and sanctifies the house," renders the bed undeflled, the wife a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house, the chUdren as ottve plants around about thy table, the domestic home a sweet paradise of GodUness and the man as a worthy citizen. We may add that civUization, uncorrupted, is only possible by means of conjugal bliss and marriage, because to marriage alone the sexes can enjoy the uncorrupted sweets of sexual bttss, and women caUed upon to exert their intellectual and moral powers. At the creation and beginning of the world God created only one man and one woman, and to the womb of the female God creates tho sexes at his plea- sure, either male or female; and ever since the creation of man and woman he has caused to be bom the sexes about equal to numbers. Thus each man ought to have his own companion; it is the law of nature; all the rest is only barbarity corruption and debauchery. Viewing woman and her influence in this Ught, and believing her created of God not only as a help-meet to man but as a guardian angel to lead him and the fallen of her own sex from the pools of toiquity and the stoks of degradation to a high and lofty stand by her side in the holy temple of virtue, morality and religion, we deem it matter of most momentous consideration, that she should take the greatest care of her bodily health and keep disease far from her. Without doing this, she to great measure must become unfitted to discharge properly the important duties of her station in the world—to rear up the future generations in health and virtue, to minister to the afflicted, to afford happiness to the companion of her wed- ded Ufe, or enjoy for herseff that modicum of pleasure in the world which the Creator designed should faU to her lot. To this end she should avail herseff of the means prepared by medical skill to give purity to her blood and preserve her person in all its origtoal beauty and glory. And for this the author has prepared his celebrated Medicines for the Blood, which preserve and restore the bloom to the cheek, elas- ticity to the step, strength to the frame, and consequent vivacity of spirit in tha discharge of all the varied functions and duties of her Ufe. WOMAN'S LOVE NEVER CHANGES: It is firm as the everlasting hills—immovable as the mountains. If woman has once truly and sincerely loved a man, she can never dislike him. He may ill-treat THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 361 abuse and misuse her, but she wttl love him still. He is a magnet of great attrac- tion for her—her desire is unto him—she never will forget the object of her young heart's idolatry. And though he be far away at sea or in battle, her anxious heart is with him; though he die and be carried from her embrace to the cold and silent tomb, she will ever think of him—mourn for him, and steal away from the gay and giddy crowd to plant the rose of affection upon his grave, where the gentle breezes of heaven come and the birds sing their songs of sadness. She will frequent his lonely tomb, and refresh the flowers with her tears of sorrow. Though dead, ho Uvoth in her sweet remembrance. Woman is the just pride of a nation—destroy her virtue and the downfall of a people is certain; suffer her health to become bad, and deterioration must ensue. She keepeth man's love from corruption—she is to him as a fountain of Uvtog waters, which bringeth forth a continual pleasure. How important, then, that she should be kept in health—that in and through her man may be blest and happy. How essentiaUy necessary that the greatest care should be taken by all husbands to watch over the health of their wives, lest consumption steal upon them unawares, and they be borne away by the spoiler Death. Think of this,all ye who love and care for the chosen partners of your joys and sorrows, and see to it that by a timely use of the great remedies of nature you preserve them from the fangs of death, and keep them to bless your remaining days. If the first appearances of distemper havo manifested themselves, lose no time in procuring a remedy against the growth of the destroyer. This you may always find among the Circulating Medicines I have prepared for the afflicted, by the use of which thousands have already been rescued from the cold embrace of the tomb, and the day of dissolution put afar off. For the proofs of this, and for the*nature and character of the medicines I prepare for the diseased, see certificates of cures to another part of this volume. INVALIDS IN OFFICE. The question of whether tovaUds should be allowed to hold office, or to be in- structors of the people to any capacity, or legislators, or lawgivers, is one, consid- ered in a sanitary point of view, as weU as an intellectual one, of vast importance, though seldom thought of. Every person is aware that, very often,—so often as to be tlie rule rather than the exception,—the Uls of the body disqualify the mtod; and that a mind to be sound should inhabit a sound body, or rather one which has no disease properly speaking. A person may be deprived of an arm or of a leg, and bis mind not injured thereby; but if he be constantly suffering from some bodily iU that gives continual pain or is a constant source of annoyance, or if his person be weak and sickly, it must be obvious to all that his mind is in greater or less degree badly tofluenced thereby. Tins we know by experience. There be cases, it is true, where gigantic intellects rise above and become superior to the infirmities of the body; but these are exceptions to the general rule. How fit is a judge upon the bench, when suffering from the twinges of the gout, to give a candid hearing to the case before him ? How capable is a man to legislate for his country as he ought when weak and enfeebled by disease? Considering these things, it is not absurd to ask, ff it would not be better that nc diseased person should hold office? In my opinion, the cause of human healtk 362 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. would eventuaUy be greatly benefited by a regulation of this kind, and the .titel lect of the people be also improved: for then all who had aspirations for place foi themselves or for thefr children, would use much more effort and care than now to be healthy themselves and bring up their children to health. There would be added a powerful stimulus to the possession of soundness of body to those already existtog. If persons supposed that they might arrive at station by becoming sickly, and could not without would not that be a stimulus for many to make themselves so? And ff this is so, surely the contrary would be a much stronger stimulus. As it is now, it is fashionable to be sick; sickness, or pretension to infirmity, breeds sympathy and obtains place. It is used as a cloak for idleness, and to cover disgrace. It will be noticed that physicians seldom feign sickness or infirmity, because, if they did so, invattds would say to them, " Physician, heal thyself!" By feigning sickness they lose their reputation and their business; and it would bo weU if all other stations to society had a correspondtog penalty attached. If a man infringe the laws of health, and thereby become diseased, detracting from his own usefulness and perhaps injuring his offsprtog, to justice he should receive the punishment of disgrace. If it could be known that no man or woman could hold a high place to society, or any lucrative office, unless sound in body, tho sick among us would rapidly decrease; we should not have haff so many invaUds as now; every possible sanitary measure would be put in operation; nothing would be neglected calculated to promote health; exercise would be sought where now it is neglected; houses would be purified and ventilated; food would be taken at proper seasons, and of the right ktods; and the whole race would gradually grow healthier, stronger, happier, and wiser. Weakness of body and weakness of intellect would to great measure depart from among us. STUDY THE BIBLE—THE GREAT LAW BOOK. The Bible is the great law book for man, and a guide to health, to happiness, to honor, and to corred action to all things pertaining to the welfare of the human race. It is the law and gospel of the Father laid down for the governance of his children, through obedience to which to all things they may arrive to the enjoy- ment of the greatest amount possible of human happiness in the present world and Becure salvation to that to which this is but the place for preparation. Whoever will study the Bible carefully and with an eye to its precepts for the obedience of laws that shall give health to the system, wttl find therein such direc- tions and advice from the inspired prophets, and apostles, and teachers, as cannd be disregarded without bringing upon the todividual the inflictions of disease. The wise Creator of all knowtog that man was liable to disease, and that without in- struction he would fall into sickness and pato, commanded him, through the mouths of his inspired servants, to strive to preserve his health and todicated certain mles which it would be~ necessary to obey to the end that health should be enjoyed. And from these rules whoever departs is liable to sickness and premature death These rules are for physical and moral governance—for the mental and the pi ysical man; to many things closely connected together, indispensable to and depending upon each other; so that he who does wrong morally, physically commits sue against his own flesh, and suffers the penalty therefor in sickness and early decay THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 363 And in many things, ff we would find a law through obedience to which health may be enjoyed and length of days tocreased, we havo only to turn to the pages of Holy Writ aQd ff is hefore ua. And so also in law, and in att things pertaining to government and upon rules for the regulation of society. The disposal of riches, the necessity for labor, the foUy of idleness, the miseries of whoredoms, the evils of abominations of every grade, the fruits of intemperance to att things, the punish- ments of unholy lusts, the horrors that fall to the seff-poUuted, the sto of him who taketh away the bread of the poor, and of him who enslaveth the people to political bondage;. upon these, and upon aU things whereon-the mind of man has ever run, does this great Book of God speak the language of tospiration to tho words of soberness and truth; and which, ff they were but obeyed, would lead us to hap- piness and to health The greatest men of past ages have made the Bible their study and thefr guide; the best of men have been its disciples and its foUowers; and, indeed, no man can be what he sliould be, without going to this great source of wisdom from the Creator, and drinktog to its precepts, its teachings, its rules, and its religion. Assured oi this, I would point my readers to its pages—would urge them to a consideration of its truths, and ask obedience to its rules, confident that thereby they would be enabled to escape much of eviL and experience less of both mental and physical misery. From this you may learn to— "So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." STATE WORKHOUSES FOR THE POOR The subject of the establishment of institutions for providing for the poor is one, considered phUanthropically or to relation to health of vast importance. Of the expediency and necessity of such institutions there is Uttle use to speak, as it is a matter that has received general attention in almost aU civilized nations. But the-e are connected therewith one or two points, to which I desire to turn attention. Commonly, a person who, from any reason whatever, becomes the inmate of the poorhouse, is considered a recipient of the public bounty—no matter how much labor he may be capable of performing, no matter how much more he may earn for the institution than he takes therefrom to board and clothing. There are a great many who can and do earn more than they consume. To such, there should be adjudged reward; and for this purpose, every poorhouse should be an industria, home, where persons out of employment might avaU themselves of the facttities oi labor offered by the institution, and receive that compensation which they justly earned, the same as ff they worked for a private individual to any business. 364 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. As now considered, all poorhouses are to a certain senso disreputable, and bt who enters one is to certain manner degraded. If a person has been unfortunate, and is without ti:<* means of obtaining a livelihood, and he apply to the public au- thorities for reUef, to is looked at as an object of pubUc charity, and treated as such when, ff he were given work under the direction and authority of the government he could not only earn his own living, but also could save a little fund to purchase a nome for the future. Now, all our institutions for the relief of the destitute should De founded upon this principle—they should not be altogether poorhouses, but national workshops; and every person who earned more than he received should have credit and pay therefor. This would keep the man wttttng to labor always above the tyranny of capital, so long as he was able to work. But now, ff a man labors for the state or town in the poorhouse, all his earnings are taken; he is in a measure disgraced; he sees no-hope ahead; he has nothing to the future to give him stimulus, and he becomes dejected, downcast, indifferent, and often reckless. There is for him no hope in the future; and when the hope of man is lost what can there be expected of him but that he will labor the least possible to get his Uving, and decline toto that apathy which makes him not much above, to aspirations at least, the ox or the swine ? Such a state of things ought not to be. The really un- able should be supported, not by the surplus earnings of other poor people, but by the state; and all able to work should be placed at labor, stimulated to industrious' exertion, shown the road of hope leading to personal competence to the future, and then be paid a reasonable compensation. In other words, the general and state governments of our country should be employers on a large scale of all the able- bodied poor who could not find employment elsewhere. In addition, it ought to be the duty of pubUc officers to arrest and commit to these national workshops all persons found begging in the streets. If they are able, let them go to work; if not able to labor, send them to the hospital It is a shame and disgrace to any nation oj city, that the comers of its streets are infested with beggars, to annoy and impor- tune the passer-by with haggard looks, rum-bloated bodies, disgusting and infectious sores, filthy forms and disease-breeding rags. Many of these persons are arrant im- postors ; others, though poor enough, spend their beggtogs for bad liquor instead of for food and clothes, and ought not to receive charity except through the hands of those who know how it is applied. Under a proper regulated system of national workshops or state farms, which should be industrial homes for the poor and hospitals for those of them not able to work, and to which every person found begging should be sent—there to be ex- amined by a competent physician, and his abttity or inabttity to labor pronounced upon,—where att able to work should be made to earn thefr Uving, and aU able and willing should be paid for all they do over and above a Uving, pauperism would to great degree be overcome. Many of those who now give themselves up to despair and idleness, and become burthens to the state, would be stimulated to exertions; and with the prospect ahead of having a Uttle sum of their own to emi- grate to the West or to 8tart m business, would be encouraged to such exertion as would rid the tax-payers of the burthen of their support. And through this, also, the state would be enabled to erect many of its pubUc buUdtogs at a cost compara- tively smaU, as well as to construct many works of great general utility, which are now thrown into the hands of corporations, and can be enjoyed by the people only at an expense. THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 365 Conceiving, as I do, that the health of a people is to a measure dependent upon the amount of comfort and happiness which is enjoyed, I cannot pass over remarks upon the public institutions of our country, without neglecting matters upon which the prevention of disease and premature death in some measure depend In truth investigation wiU show us that the general health of a nation will be found great or small exactly in proportion as all the causes winch lead to disease are removed or neglected. Without reference, therefore, to the bestowal of charity, the subject of state and national workhouses may be justly considered as worthy of attention, on the ground of health alone; and on that ground should receive the consideration of the legislator and the physician. FEMALE INDUSTRIAL HOME. The immediately preceding remarks have had more particular reference to the proper employment of poor men; but while we are considering their wants, we should be careful not to overlook the wants of females. K" the interest of a poor male population requires national workhouses, the require- ment of the same class of institutions for poor females is much stronger. The great number of women who find it difficult to procure a sufficiency of work at decent wages to live on comfortably, is immense; they are generally less fitted to rough it to the world, and less capable to enter into competition with the crowding and push- tog of modem civilized society; tlie result of which is that they suffer longer and more acutely, though, perhaps, making less complaint. Fur this class of females there should in every state be provided industrial homes, where, under the direc- tion of proper officers, they might labor at some branch of business that would not merely support them, but would allow the industrious to lay up something for future comfort. These institutions should be separate from the male homes or workshops^ and the inmates employed upon some branch of labor where females can be most lucratively engaged. In other respects, they should be conducted upon the same principle as the male houses. From institutions of this character there can be no doubt that a vast amount of good would flow to the poorer classes of our country; and that they would greatly tend to the banishment of abject poverty from among us, with the concomitant evUs of disease, mental and moral degradation, and crime, I most fully believe. In- deed, it may be so asserted, without reservation or doubt upon the subject. The articles manufactured at these state institutions should be so disposed of as to reattze the largest profit, instead of being thrown into the hands of speculators; nd the surplus proceeds should be distributed for the benefit of the laborers. ' REFORM SCHOOLS. The subjed of instituting Reform Schools, or State Farms, for the purpose of edu- cating in habits of moraUty, and instructing in useful brandies of mechanics, or in agriculture, the vicious and criminal youths of a country, instead of putting then: between tho waUs of a prison, and in company with old and hardened men, has en 366 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. gaged, of late years, the attention of legislators to this country. And wheiever tlu idea has been carried out ft has proved of the most beneficial character. Maine has its Farm School for this purpose, of about two hundred acres,' two mttes from Portland, recently estabttshed. Boston has its " House of Reformation-' for youths, which has been to operation for twenty years. The institution has been the means of great good to juvenile offenders. They are there educated, and, after a period, discretionary with the directors, are apprenticed out to farmers, mechanics, or seamen—and become good members of society, a blessing to others as well as themselves. Massachusetts has a large State Reform School at Westboro', which has been in operation four or five years. The inmates are employed in various ways—some on the farm, some put to trades. Many have been apprenticed out, and the reforma- tory process has been beyond the expectation of the most assured friends. Providence has also opened a " House of Refuge" for juventtes, with what suc- cess I am unable to state. Connecticut has also made appropriation for the same purpose, and, I beUeve, it is thought the institution wttl soon be in operation. New Jersey has an tostitution of this kind, under an appropriation of about $15,000 from the Legislature. It is located on a farm of seventy-five acres, three miles southeast of Princeton. It has not been in operation a sufficient length of time to judge of its moral results. Philadelphia has its " House of Refuge." About two thousand boys have been apprenticed from this institution, and without doubt the most of them saved from a Ufe of crime. It has equaUed the anticipations of its founders. The earnings of the boys, in the workshops, are about one-fourth the expense of their support. Baltimore and Cincinnati have also established Houses of Refuge. New York city estabttshed the first institution of this kind to the country, twenty- eight years ago. There have been five thousand received toto it. At Rocl^ster, there is another tostitution of this character, established in 1846. The farm contains forty-two acres. The number apprenticed from these estabttshments (being considered as greatly improved to their character), is full of encouragement. The proceeds of labor speak well for the good habits of industry which the inmates form. The expenses of these establishments are but a Uttle more than twice as much as the labor of the juvenile delinquents, so lately arrested, so short a time committed, so soon to be ap- prenticed, of an average age not exceeding thirteen years, and not long since placed to drcumstances tending so powerfully to utter ruin. Into these places, where they may bo reclaimed from viciousness «nd sin, where they may be taught virtue, morality, and religion, and educated in the common branches, and from whence they may be sent out toto the world good and useful members of society, every youthful offender of the laws should be put, instead of to the prison. In ninety-nine of an hundred cases, they wiU be improved by it And also, all those children who have no parents to take care of them—who have no work—no means of education—no stepping stones to virtuous Ufe,— but are left to the society of the abandoned and the vile, to be led down the road of sin—should be taken. It would be a great step to prevent much of misery and crime; and I hope we may live to see the day when every State to the Union, and every city of THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 367 size, wttl have established a Farm School, or a House of Refuge, as a home for the destitute youth, and a place of reformation for the juvenile offender. To send a youth to the state prison for an offence against the laws, can hardly faU of being productive of evU. To enter a prison stamps the youth with ineffacea- ble and eternal infamy, Uke the mark of the heated iron upon the Uving flesh; makes him an outcast from society forever; sets his mind in enmity against his fel- low-men ; accustoms him to the company of the hardened culprit and fits him for the commission of other and more desperate deeds of crime; so that he comes forth into tha world, at tho expiration of hia sentence, having taken unto himself seven other devils worse than at the first; and instead of being redaimed, and made a respecta- ble man of by proper kindnesses and persuasions, he is rapidly hastened forward in the downward road of crime, that leads to infamy forever! Therefore, we should establish and sustain reform schools for youthful violators of the law, and other kiudred meritorious and heaven-pleasing institutions, through which to minister to the moral, tlie reUgious, the intellectual, and the physical wants of those over whom circumstances in life have exercised deleterious effects. The only objection of moment that rises up against these institutions is one made oy unthinking tax-payers—that it costs so much to support them. Let us consider of and dispel the force of this objection. It is indeed true that a reform school for juvenile offenders draws somewhat upon the treasury of a state; but it operates upon just this prindple. A man who has caught a severe cold, may, by a trifling outlay of trouble and expense, succeed in breaking it up, and rettevtog his system of its injurious effects. But, ff he neglect it—if, because a dose of medicine wttl cost a shitting, he suffers it to go on, and more to be added to it—the result sooner or later very often is, that a fever is in- duced, or a consumption propagated, the which will not only cost the todividual many dollars, instead of a shilling, but may carry him to an early grave. So that considered in a mere pecuniary view, the shitting for reformation at the outset would havo been wisely used. Now the vicious boy stands in the same pecuniary relation to society as does the cold t® the human system. If we do not spend a doUar to reform him, the chances are ten to one that his after career will cost society, in various ways, many hundreds of dollars. He will be likely- to become a non-pro- ducer ; he will make cost to other people to watch him; he wiU very probably oc- casion several trials, before courts; he will become an expensive man to society m numerous ways. So that we may certainly consider that every dollar of taxes used for reformatory purpose upon the young, wttl save the expense of an hundred doUars upon that person, which he would incur for us if left to his vicious ways. And what is true here, is also tree to all matters of like character, and in aU preventive and reformatory measures, and also in all properly conducted sanitary measures for the prevention of sickness. This is a potot which should not be over- looked; one which is obvious, and yet one that continually rises up before the phi- lanthropist from the brains of men who do not investigate such matters. MAGDALEN ASYLUM& Ix all largo places where prostitution exists, there should be a Magdalen Asylum, with a hospital attached. Here both body and soul of tlie abandoned woman 368 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. should be cared for. She should be restored to health, if possible; she sliould be instructed to the ways of virtue and religion, and every means taken to restrain her from a life of misery and shame, and restore her to the world in some useful, honorable and noble capacity, where she may become purified in mind and fitted for happiness in eternity. By this method I have no doubt much could be done to- wards the suppression of prostitution; and, at the least, much of the disease that grows out of it migkt be avoided Upon tlie subject of Locke Hospitals, says Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, in his lectures, " Even on moral and religious grounds, apart entirely from the claim which all suffering, whatsoever may have been its cause, has to pity, I should conceive it unmerciful to object to such an institution. The disease in question, if left to itself, would hurry its victims to a wretched end, and thus put a speedy close to the possibility of any means for their spiritual and eternal benefit—for their rescue from sin and perdition. On this ground, ff for no other, for the sake of giving them space for repentance, I would plead for the cure of their bodies." To this is added the moral necessity of a Magdalen Asylum, so that, when restored to health the woman might find some other way of Ufe than going back to the path of poUution; that there should be attempts to instruct, restrain, and save her from further sin, and to time send her forth toto the world a usefol member of society. "There can be no question," he continues, "that a large amount of benefit, both temporal and spiritual, has resulted to fallen females from the tostitution of asylums, as places of refuge from the temptations of the world, and from the imminent danger to which, to their state of outcast degradation, they otherwise stand exposed, of returning to their former courses." Every institution of this description should seek to raise the fallen and reform the guilty; and should stretch out the hand of mercy to the destitute and homeless female, when no prospect but that of prostitution,. from abandonment and want ia presented before her. It should also see to finding places of lucrative employment, of an honest and fitting kind, for all women desirous of abandoning the Ufe of the harlot—after being restored to health. Upon this principle institutions have been founded to London, and through their saving influence many thousands of female* have been reclaimed—been reconctted to their former friends, have found good places to earn an honest UveUhood, and many have married and Uved creditably. None of us can but be aware of the difficulty that is met with by a female to en- ?eavortog to return back to respectable society, even after she has committed no other fault than that of yielding her pern: not against the weffare of the sick, but to the end that aU may 374 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. enjoy health and attain to the fullness of days without encountering the waves o sickness or the seas of trouble. No. 66.—Health fob the Sick. CURE OF CONSUMPTION. " The fault is not in the physic, but in the rude and indiscreet handling of if Doctors generaUy pretend that consumption is incurable, because they cannot cure it themselves; but this does not make it true. Many mechanics witt work on a job all day, and after doing nothtog but to spoil the material, they wttl tell you it never can be done to the way you want it. But by applying to a better workman- one who thoroughly understands his business—you wttl get your work accomplished in shape. In this respect there is the same difference to be found in all trades and profes- sions. The bunglers to mechanism, to the arts, in law, in theology, and in physic, wttl •ay such and such things cannot be done. And it is very true that they could not be if all men were like themselves. But, fortunately, there is another class of men; and these, when they take your case to hand, do the job as you want it, or restore you to health—according as is your desire. We have only to remember this fad to understand why one physician should pronounce that incurable which another can cure. In mechanics, we sometimes find that by the possession of superior means, by some new tovention, of which he has the sole use, or by the greater ingenuity of his mtod, one person wttl make or do what no other one can. Exactly it may be so to physic. And this is the very reason why I have had such great success over att •thers to the treatment of consumption. By having the original genius, by pos- sessing the Lung Barometer, which enables me to clearly determine the nature of the disease, and by havtog such remedies for consumption as no other physician ever had, I make bold to say, that I have, and can, effect cures of this disease beyond the reach of any other man. To prove this to have been the case, I might give you numbers upon numbers of certificates from men and women given over to the grave, but who were rescued and restored to health by the persevering use of my THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE. 375 remedies for consumption. But it is not necessary for me to do so here; for the fact of one man being able to do what another cannot, will be evident to all who read the Illustration preceding. If the consumptive wishes further proof than this, I can only say, come and satisfy yourself by trial of my skUl in the cure of your com- plaint or read certificates of cures. DE. H. K. ROOT, M.D., THE SEVENTH BON, AND CELEBEATED DOCTOR OF THE BLOOD, Standing in the midst of a constellation of great and rare geniuses, as the Wonder of the Age in the Healing Art. The number seven has to all ages been considered as a remarkable number, And as containing great mystery and power; and those comtog under its influence have been noted for remarkable possessions and natural gifts. Among the Jews, seven was a sacred number, and supposed to contain rrany mysteries. The cause of the veneration may be traced to the hallowing of trm serrenth day at the creation of the world. The Jewish traditions also ascribe to it a mystic hottness, from its betog composed of the sacred numbers three and four— threo referring to tlie mystery of the Trinity in unity; and four to the ineffable name of Jehovah, as written with four letters in the Hebrew. Seven was also re- garded as the perfect number, because to that number of days God perfected the work of creation. The sacrednoss of the number seven may be traced throughout aU Scripture 376 THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL LIGHTHOUSE.' Besideu the seventh day or creation, there was the seventh consecrated year nt can teU him what to do. If inflation is needed, as is some- times the case, 1 give him the necessary and proper directions; and by this treat- ment and the aid of my medicines combined, tubercles are made to suppurate and discharge; ulcers are healed; grubs dislodged; the air-cells enlarged; the blood Bupptted with plenty of good, pure air; new Ufe and vigor is imparted to the lungs THE SUSPENDER AND SHOULDER BRACE. 387 and blood; expectoration is made free and easy; coagulated and diseased blood fr the lungs is rendered pure, or forced out; a rapid circulation of pure blood insti- tuted ; bleeding at the lungs prevented; no blood allowed to remain in tho lungs to coagulate or putrify, and disease and ulcerate them; and many otner benefits derived. By the tovention of the Lung Barometer, I have been able to save at least 80 per cent, of those consumptive cases given up by other physicians, and pronounced in- curable. I am happy in knowing that through this consumption is made a curable disease; and take pleasure in being able to say, that I seldom fatt to restoring a con- sumptive patient to health, when he is persevering, and faithful and honest, to tok tog the remedies prescribed. [For further knowledge of the Lung Barometer a»d its uses, see other articles in this book.] Since the invention of tho Lung Barometer, and its introduction, a number of years ago, before the public, by the author, numerous persons have made repeated unsuc- cessful attempts to imitate the article, and* have endeavored to deceive and mislead tho unsuspecting by asserting that the contrivances they possess are exactly like the Lung Barometer of Dr. H. K. Root. I deem it a duty to the afflicted to say, that the asseverations of these unprincipled men are base falsehoods. It is a fact weU known that the first instrument of the kind ever introduced to> the pubUc was brought out by the author; and as its principles and mechanism have always been kept secret with the inventor, and no one has been aUowed to examine the article, all imitations of it must be base and worthless. There have never been but three Lung Barometers constructed: two of these are now and always have been in the possession of the inventor; the third is deposited in the Patent Office at Washing- ton. Every article called a Lung Barometer, with the exception of the three mado by the author, is no more than a blow-pipe—and all of them are entirely destitute of the pecuUarities of internal construction which characterize the Lung Barometer of Dr. Root. They are no more capable of testing the condition of the lungs than would be so many tin whistles. As the value of the Barometer of Dr. Root has become widely known, and as the fad that $100,000 were offered the inventor for the patent right of it has transpired, it is not at all surprising that designing men should endeavor to imitate the inven- tion, to order to make money. Cupidity is the inducement of base and vicious peo- ple. Therefore, in order that the pubUc may not suffer from the deception of false Ughts, I take this method of placing them on thefr guard. Remember that the only Lung Barometers ever made are the three of Dr. H. K. Root—that one of these is to the Patent Office, and the others are to possession of the inventor; and that only by applying to him can you have your lungs accurately examined. Should the Lung Barometer of the author ever be introduced for sale, the public wttl be informed ac- cordingly, and instructed as to where they can find the genuine and perfect article. SUSPENDER AND SHOULDER BRACE. This artide is of great importance to expanding the chest, and strengthening tho chest and spine. I have invented a Suspender and Shoulder Brace combined, wliich serves a double purpose; and which is pronounced'by those who have used it to be altogether superior to any other now in use. The object of it is to counterad tha S88 THE SUSPENDER AND SHOULDER BRACK tendency to round shoulders and contraction of the chest strengthen the spine, ex- pand the chest and give play to the lungs; and to give an upright and gracef'U figure, conformatory to the laws of life and health The Suspender and Shoulder Brace wttl support the pantaloons with much moro ease and freedom than the common suspenders. I am confident that many con- sumptive cases have been in great measure induced by the use of India rubber elas- tic suspenders, which are constantly acting to produce round shoulders and contrac- tions of the chest and to stop healthy action of the ribs; and these result in smaU lungs, capable of containing but Uttle air; and this, to its turn, results to debUity, disease, and death. Suspenders, and straps on the bottom of the pants, have caused the death of many people. Ladies wearing my Shoulder Brace, attach their skirts to it, thus relieving the bowels of the weight of those garments. Many cases of fatting of the womb, mis- carriage, continual menstruation, green sickness, or whites, and other female com- plaints, might be prevented by the use of the Suspender and Shoulder Brace. The power of the Brace can be regulated, as well as the set of the skirts or pants, by means of buckles, which let out or take up the Brace at your pleasure, so that every one may be perfectly fitted Exact symmetry of the person is obtained by the use of this article; whtte it has no pads, belts, steel-boards, or India rubber, to cause weakness, as many braces do. No brace, belt, suspender, or strap, should be allowed to hinder the action of the chest to respiration.' AU persons, to whatever pursuit of Ufe, should wear a weU- adjusted brace, to give proper symmetry to the chest and shoulders, and strengthen the spine. Where one shoulder or one hip is higher than the other, this article wiU be found excellent. A weU developed, large, round, and erect chest we m&7 consider as an excellent basis of good health, as it indicates large lungs, perfectly expanded to every part— every cell filled with air at each respiration. Without this the lungs wttl tend to tuberculous and ulcerated conditions, ending to death of the patient by consumption. The evils of poor braces were bo manifold and great, that I found myself compel- led, in the treatment of some cases of consumption, to invent a brace which should be exactly right, and would answer all the purposes required, without in the least injuring the health. The result of my labors in that direction was the production of the Suspender and Shoulder Brace which I now offer the public. One of the annexed figures repre sents a person who has used the Sus- pender and Shoulder Brace, which has given him an erect and full chest, such as nearly every person can ob- tain by attending to this matter. The other that of a man of stooping form, and small chest and lungs, who has No. 59!"— Flat Chest. Full Chest. never aPPUed ProPer braces> nor tekeu any pains to expand his chest, but SUSPENDER AND SHOULDER BRACE. 389 No. 60.—Contracted and Well-Devet* oped Chest. Contracted habits that lead to the contrary. Such a person would be addicted to disease of the lungs, heart and stomach and would naturally be a short-Uved person, because his lungs, heart, and Uver wttl be contracted and small One of the figures annexed is that of a lady who has worn the Brace. The ladies of Furopo will be found to pos- sess this figure more generally than the ladies of this country, because they take more interest and pains to cultivate a fine, full chest. I would recommend their example as worthy of imitation; for a full chest not only gives better se- curity for health, but is also much more ^beautiful. A weU-developed chest is a glory to any woman. A person of the other form would most surely be an in- valid, with weakness throughout the lungs and chest, and would also have that soreness and sinking at the pit of the stomach, which is always produced by stooping forward. The ladies will find my Suspender and Shoulder Brace excellent for their use, it being light, elastic, and easily adjusted, so as to support the weight of tho under garments, and secure them in their proper position. The figure and attitude of the ladies of this country is sadly neglected. How few of the young and beautiful walk erect with dignity and grace. They contract a habit of bending over while engaged to their various occupations, and this is not counteracted by any system of physical development. One might suppose the object was to contract the chest, and thus deform it and provoke disease, whtte it should be to develop that portion of the human Bystem, and thereby not only beautify the figure, but give strength and vigor to tho whole system. How often the remark is made, " She is a beautiful creature, but what a pity she stoops:" or, " how feeble her constitution." Every one should know that stooping and round shoulders are alike destructive to both elegance and nealth, and that " a perfect and noble chest is the grand basis of all good health." In this country symmetry of figure is almost entirely overlooked by every class of people. Considering the high toteUigence of the people generaUy, the universal ne- glect of this important subject seems almost unaccountable. From the great negli- gence of the best principles of health and symmetry in our person, result many dis- eases which awfully shorten human Ufe. At a very early period, with scarcely a thought orbits bad consequences, either upon health or elegance of figure, a great many persons allow the habit to creep upon them to a most insidious manner, ol stooping and aUowing the weight of the shoulders to press forward upon the collai bones, breast bone, and ribs, which materially contracts the chest, compresses the lungs, heart, and stomach, (the most vital organs of the human body,) and thus bring on some of the most fatal diseases. The price of the Suspender and Shoulder Brace for ladies or gentlemen, varies from $1 to $2 per single one. Terms cash They can be sent by express or other 390 PREVENTION SAFE AND POWDER wise, according to direction, to any part of the country, or may be had at my office, 612 Broadway, New York. FRENCH MALE SAFE, AND FRENCH MALE PREVENTION POWDER, FOR THE PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION. The French Male Safe is an invaluable and indispensable assistant in the main- tenance of health. The gentleman should use it in all cases where the wife is la< boring under poisonous mucus discharges from the uterus, or ovaries, produced by cancers, ulcerated tumors, venereal or leucorrhoeal poisons, or menstruation; be- cause the male being electrified by the female during the act of sexual intercourse, he partakes sympathetically to greater or less degree of her disease, and thereby is made sickly. m The Safe should be used if either party be to a state of intoxication, or excited by strong drink, and persists to cohabitation at this period, for the reason that if conception take place at this time, the semen will be electrified with the influences of that intoxication or excitement and the effect upon the offspring wUl be lament- able. The child will be very Ukdy to be foottsh or be gifted with an irrepressible desire for the intoxicating cup. Also, ff either party is under the influence of any strong excitement the Safe should be made use of. In this connection I would quote from Plutarch's Morals, where he says: " I would advise that no man keep company with his wife for issue sake, but when he is sober—as not having before either drunk any wine, or, at least n°t *° such & quantity as to distemper him; for they usually prove wine bibbers and drunkards, whose parents begat them when they were drunk: wherefore Diogenes said to a stripUng somewhat crack-brained and half-witted, ' Surely, young man, thy father begat thee when he was drunk.'" It is remarked by Burton, to his Anatomy of Melancholy, that " ff a drunken man gets a chttd, it wttl never, likely, have a good brain." Combe remarks " that the faculties which predominate to power and activity in the parents, when the organic existence of the chttd commences, determine its fu- ture mental disposition." Of this he gives several striking instances. And it was remarked by the celebrated EsquiroL " that the children whose existence dated from the horrors of the first French revolution, turned out to be weak, nervous, and irritable to mind, extremely susceptible of impressions, and Uable to be thrown by the least extraordinary excitement toto absolute insanity." The Safe should be used to every case where the male has any disease of the genital organs, so as not to impart it to the female; also, ff he have poisons in Ins blood, to prevent conception till his system is purified from them. Also it should be used during the nurstog months, to keep the food of the chttd from being injured, Every lady is aware that nurstog does much to prevent pregnancy; and if so, it is obvious that the secretion of mttk for the chttd must be disturbed, and wttl perhaps be poisoned, by cohabitation without the Safe. What parent is so blind to cause and effect as not to notice the uneasy, nervous and pale condition of the nursing child, with sickened stomach and impaired digestion, arising from the impurity ot its natural food, often made so by sexual intercourse ? From this cause many an innocent child has been hurried to the grave to the nursing months, and many more rendered unhealthy througi life. WhUe prostitution abounds, there is no security PREVENTION SAFE AND POWDER. 391 for J»fo and health but to the use of the French Male Safe. Thousands of the human family are every year betog corrupted in their blood, by poisonous humors trans- mitted from one to another in sexual intercourse, and by cohabitation whtte suffer- ing from diseases of the womb and organs of generation, all of which might be avoided by the use of the French Male Safe, and can be in no other way. Tlie Male Safe should also be used in all cases where the wife has any malforma- tion which renders the production of offspring dangerous to her Ufe, or is to any other way so situated or constituted that the birth of a child endangers life. There are many ladies who could not pass through child-birth and live; and where this is laa case, surely no man who has any regard for his wife would risk her life in that manner. Therefore it is best, in these cases, to always make use of the Safe or Powder, and prevent a conception. It is the only security; and those who do not avail themselves of it may repent over the corpse of a loved wffe in sackcloth and ashes. Indeed, there are tostances constantly recurring, where it is the part of wisdom in both parties to make use of these articles. The prevention of conception is in many cases not only due to the woman as re- gards her health and life, but is truly a religious duty. Would it not be sinful in 'lie sight of man and in the sight of heaven, to let conception take place, where there was almost a certainty that it would cause the death of the woman, and per- haps take from a famtty of children their mother and their guide ? He who would not avail himseff of the discoveries of science, in such a case, is not deserving the joys of the married life. In all cases of malformation, to those of inabttity to bear diildren without obvious danger to Ufe and health, in cases where the female has contracted a habit of miscarrying, and in many cases of consumption, it is the duty of both parties to avoid a conception. Physicians generally have neglected to guard their patients agatost death hi this particular; and the result is that thou- sands have been carried to an early grave whose Uves might easily have been saved, to be tlie joy of husbands and children in after years. And those physicians who, being acquainted with these matters, do not open the door of salvation to tho wearied, are guuty of a most grievous sin of omission. To wives and husbands situated as I have noticed above, the French Male Safe offers full security to health to Ufe, and to the proper state of the infant's food, by preventing conception in all cases, and by avoiding any impression upon the genital organs of the mother; whtte, at the same time, it allows of perfect enjoyment to co- habitation, and thus saves the risk of consumption incurred by many husbands by a suppression of the semen. To prevent conception, merely, the French Male Pre- vention Powder may be used with entire safety. Both these articles are designed for the male. They operate to prevent conception, but not to disturb the foetus af- ter conception has taken place. Iu relation to the matter of conception and of prevention, Dr. Hollick has the following remarks: " It is well known that there are many severe diseases to which females are subject that can never be removed while they conceive; but wliidi, ff uncured, are sure to become fatal and probably also descend to thefr ahttdren. Some females also have deformed pelvises, and can never bring forth live chUdren, while others are certain to die if the chttd remains in the womb tttl it is a certain size. Besides these cases, how many there are that remain in constant Ul- health and suffering from conttoued child-bearing, without the possibttity of reUef x escape 392 PREVENTION SAFE AND POWDER. "It is not generaUy known that it is the regular custom to medical practice, when a female has a deformed pelvis, or is otherwise incapable of being delivered at the full term, to produce abortion. This, howover, is the invariable custom 1 and it is done because it is thought better to sacrifice the foetus only than to let both die, as they assuredly would if tho gestation were aUowed to proceed. Now it may well be a question to such cases, whether it would not be better to teach how to pre- vent couceptiou altogether. I am confident that .much of the horrible practice oi procuring abortion, now so prevalent among married people, is caused by the want of simple and reliable means of prevention. " There are few persons except medical men who have any idea of tlie extent to which the revolting practice of abortion is how carried, nor of the awful conse- quences that frequently foUow from it. Every female who undergoes any of the disgusting operations practiced for this purpose does so at the risk of Iter life, and to the almost certain destruction of her health if she survives. Those that take drugs are also equaUy exposed to risk. Every female may bo told with truth—and, in- deed, every one ought to know—that there are no safe means of abortion. It is true that some few may undergo the ordeal in safety, but none can depend upon doing so, and the chances are ten to one that death, or the evUs referred to, will follow A general knowledge of this fact would do much to prevent the practice, but it would not do away with it altogether, unless some reliable means of prevention were known, and in many cases it must become a choice between abortion and preven- tion. " Some people wttl say that it is possible for persons to avoid having a family without using preventive means. But the deprivation required will not be under- gone by the great mass, and cannot be undergone without the most immoral conse- quences. It is sheer absurdity to suppose that the promptings of nature can be to- taUy unheeded; and illicit intercourse and vicious habits of self indulgence would certainly follow a total deprivation of the marital right in most instances. The most obvious means of prevention is that alluded to in the Bible, as having been practiced by Onan. But this is not advisable. It is a mere act of masturba- tion,—unsatisfactory and tojurious. It is extremely hurtful to the male. A por- tion of the semen remains undischarged at the time, and escapes slowly afterwards, giving rise to a weakness and irritation of the urethra and seminal dupts, which in time becomes permanent and lays the foundation for involuntary losses and final impotence. I have known many married men much injured to this way, and am confident that much female exhaustion and nervous irritation result in the same way. The use of caustic or mineral injections after association, to destroy the semen, has led to serious evils. Nor are they always effective, though doing seri- ous injury to the vagina. Suitable vegetable decoctions aroofar preferable, in all respects, betog both healthful and certain. Very many I have met with seriously injured by the constant use of mineral injections; besides this, they in a short time destroy the sensibility of the parts entirely, and lead to total indifference and sterility. The introduction of a sponge, as iB sometimes the case, prevents the contact of the womb with the male organ ; and this contact is often necessary (or the production of a proper state of excitement, without which there is simply an injurious irritation to the female, without any gratification. Among some a plan is adopted more injurious than any of the above—it con- sists in forcibly compresstog the male organ just previous to emission, so that the PREVENTION SAFE AND POWDER. 393 •emen cannot escape. In aU cases where this is done the emission is as com- plete as if nothing of the kind had occurred, only it takes a different course. The semen passes into the urinary passage, and enters the bladder, and is ex- pelled with the urine. The consequence of this is that it soon begins to take that course always whether compression be practised or not, and the man becomes Bterile in consequence, and is liable to inflammation of the urethra, vera mon tanum and bladder, and suffers from spermatorrhoea, till eventually his powers are lost altogether. Masturbators who practice the same thing are liable to the same difficulties. It is a most destructive practice. Females who are in the habit of taking a dose of quack prevention pills, or powders, as often as having sexual intercourse with the opposite sex (which is not unfrequently from two to six times per week), will deeply repent in the hours of sickness, poor health, and consumption, such foolish imprudences (bo dangerous in the extreme) of preventing conception, as weU as the destruction of health, with such nostrums. Ladies should never take any internal medi- dnes whatever, by the mouth and stomach or otherwise, as it is unnecessary, and uncalled for in the prevention of pregnancy. The idea is absurd ; and for a woman to dose her life and bowels out with the most poisonous drugs— immediately after one, and every intercourse, which is sufficiently debilitating —is totally abusive. The prevention of pregnancy is a great moral and vital subject, of importance to the incompetent to bear child, which concerns, and should claim the prompt attention of the male sex, that man may be able to protect the woman with safety, should such prudences be deemed necessary by the parties respectively concerned. As some may be ignorant of the method referred to, it may be prudent to Btate that the French Prevention Powders are not taken internally, like all other obnoxious preventions (by the mouth and stomach), but are a simple, pleasant, and effectual remedy against the prevention of conception, without causing any irritation, inconvenience, or ill effect to the sexual organs—ana used only by the male. But aside from these valuable preventions (and they lead all other like discoveries, heretofore known), the wisdom and science of the age adds a still more important secret and revelation respecting this same great subject, whereby even the Male ISafes and the Male Prevention Powders can be dispensed with, if desired 1 The discovery is of a late modern date, and is so near perfection that a more superior prevention will never reach the annals of medical science. This last discovery does away with the use of any inter- nal medicines whatever, pills, powders, caustic washes, and of all such expen- sive and useless nostrums,—allowing the gratification of the passions in their most full and natural enjoyments. This wonderful discovery was made by the Author. On the receipt of §10 by letter, post-paid, or otherwise ordered, full particulars and directions will be given to any lady or gentleman in regard to the new and valuable discovery of preventing conception. The price of the Male Safe is $5 per dozen; $3 per half dozen ; $1 the single one. Of the Prevention Powder, $5 a box. These articles must be ordered direct, and if by letter, the money must be inclosed. They can be sent by mail to any part of the country, at common letter postage, and with perfect safety. No agents allowed to sell them; so that there can be no counter- feiting, and the articles may be perfect All letters considered confidential, and promptly attended to. Directions for use accompany the articles. DR. E K. ROOTS SIXTEEN VEGETABLE BLOOD REMEDIES WHAT IS LIFE? A twisted yarn—a whirling flood— A curious web of circulating blood. "Fori will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed."—Joel iii. 21. DR. ROOT'S BLOOD REN6VATOR, For the speedy and permanent cure of General Debility, Female Complaints, Scro- fula, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Nale Humor or Itch, Cancers, Tumors, Ulcerated Sores, Fistula, Scurvy, Tetter, Scald Head, Ring Worm, Pimples, Blotches, Piles, Deafness and Discharge from the Ears, Blindness, and all Diseases of the Skin, Head, Lungs, Liver, Spleen, Stomach, Kidneys, Womb and Blood. The perfection of any art or science depends upon the certainty, or truth, of the principles upon which it is based. Many pursuits are dignified by being called arts and sciences that deserve no such names, because they are based merely on as- sumed facts, or hypotheses, and have neither truth nor stability. Astrology and magic were once catted sciences, but not being based on true principles, or facts, are now neglected and despised So of that branch of medical science, called the "Regular," which-being based on the deference paid to antiquated authority, cramps the mind, bUnds by bigotry, warps by prejudice, deals with isolated facts, and scorns an tovestigation toto first principles. The consequence is toevitable—the system and men of the lancet, mercury, calomel, and dangerous mineral poisons, and horrible and useless butchering operations, are losing caste, and may be soon mat- ters of history. In Genesis, chapter U and 7th verse, we read:— "And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into bis nostrils the breath of Ufe, and he became a living soul" This passage proves that air is the real and first grand cause of primary human action. We also read, that:— "The life of the flesh is the blood thereof."—Gen. ix. 4. "For the blood is the life."—Deuteronomy xii. 23. " For the life of the flesh is to the blood."—Leviticus xvii. 11. " For the life of aU flesh is the blood thereof"—Leviticus xvii. 14. Blood, therefore, forms the body. Air keeps it in circulution. Blood alone is the producer of every part of the body whtte in the womb; it is only after birth when the lungs are expanded, that air becomes a primary element for the continu- ance of existence and health during the period of life. Dr. Root's theory is, that as aU diseases have their origin in the blood, through the blood only can the cure be effected, and the science of life and the art op health understood. All diseases, I beUeve, take place, either: 1st. Tlie seeds are sown before birth by the constitution of the parents. 2d From touch, totroduction, inoculation, coUection of impurities, poisons and costiveness. 3d. By the diet habits, treatment of disease to youth, or carelessness, which begin to lay the foun- dation of bodily misery; but stUl every person has within him the germ of pure DR. ROOTS ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS. 395 ruood, which being purified of its dross, as a machine, when deansed of the materials which have clogged its movements, goes as weU as evor, so also does the blood course freely and purely along its arterial avenues when under the influence of the Blood Renovator. Dr. Root declares health and long life to be within the reach of all. Price of the Blood Renovator......$1,00 per bottle. Orders for single bottles or by the quantity filled by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broad- way. Terms cash. All letters must be post-paid, to receive attention. Country dealers suppUed by Dr. Root, or by whofosale druggists to New Tork. DR. ROOT'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, For the prevention and cure of Qostiveness, Bad Breath, Indigestion, Acidity in the Stomach, Jaundice, Sallow Complexion, Liver Complaint, Piles, Summer Complaint, Grub of tlie Liver, Spleen and other organs of the system, and all humors and impu- rities of the blood, &c, &c. Nothing has stimulated the curiosity of man, nor tasked his inteUectual faculties, more than the art of preserving health and preventing disease. We have innumer- able remedies for different disorders, but hitherto nothing has been discovered for their prevention, and for the removal of the cause when they make their attacks. Indigestion is a great cause of human maladies, but although Abernethy knew this fact, he could not discover a remedy for it. Nebeus, the ancestor of Hippo- crates, confessed, that if an antidote could be compounded to the first cause of ill- ness, the skill of the physician would seldom be required, and Hippocrates made the same admission. It was a saying of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius to Galen, that medical men satisfied themselves with lopping off the branches, and then the trunk of a disease, but never went to its root This complaint has been reiterated in our own time; but fortunately for the suffering world, the invention of Dr. Root's Anti-Bilious Pills has remedied the evil. They are the most beneficial discovery for mankind thtt ever was made; a few pills taken weekly will nerve the framo against every complaint—and those whose constitutions are already impair ed by disease wttl find to them a panacea which witt restore them to the bless- ings of health, untU the decay of nature puts a termination to their lives. What renders them more valuable is the fact, that being strictly botanic and vegetable, they may be taken without hindrance of business, or danger to the body, either of man, woman or child. The epicure may gratify lus appetite without dan- ger of incurring apoplexy, or other results of over-eating, by the use of these pills. Another remarkable feature possessed by these Pills, is, that, to addition to prevfvting or removing disease, they enrich the blood and strengthen the bodyl AU other pills weaken the frame, produce debUity, and physic and reduce the bfood, so that they are worthless and hurtful rather than real blessings to the to- vaUd. % 39G DR ROOT'S HEART REGULATOR. Dr. Root's Anti-Bilious Pills are healthy agents, and combine a two-fold opera- tion in their wonder-working powers; they are purgative and tonic at the same time, and only operate to strengthen; just as we melt the brittle ore previous to harden- ing it to the same furnace. The most feeble constitutions become repaired and for- tified by them. AU therefore that need be added, is a recommendation to every famUy to possess themselves of them, which, ff done, the whole countrt would BE FREED FROM ALL DISORDERS. Our Vegetable Anti-Bilious Pills we unhesitatingly pronounce superior to any piUs ever before offered to the world, for every possible purpose for which pill? are ever taken. They cause no pato, sickness or griping. They are easy, safe, and efficadous. They are purely vegetable. Not one particle of mercurial or mineral poison enters into their composition. They are the result of immense study, pains, and expense, to bring them to their present perfection; and the pubUc may be cer- tain that these pills are the ne plus ultra of all purifying medicines. Besides, they are more than three times as cheap as any others; inasmuch as one pill is sufficient to thoroughly cleanse the system, and ordinarily half of one; whereas from three to four is the ordinary dose recommended of all the pills of the greatest celebrity that are now offered to the pubttc, so that in purchasing one box of the PUls at twenty- fiaie cents, you get to quantity, to say nothing of their superior quality, what in other pttls would cost you one dollar. Individuals and famUies have only to try them, to be astonished at their redeem- ing qualities, and to adopt them tostead of any others. Retail price per box, 25 cents. Stogie boxes can be sent by mail to any part of the country. Orders by letter from merchants m any part of the country, addressed to Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway, or to any wholesale druggist to this city, wttl receive im- mediate attention, and the PiUs will be forwarded by freight or express. No medicines forwarded from Dr. R. till paid for. All letters must be post-paid to receive attention. DR. ROOT'S HEART REGULATOR, Permanently cures Palpitation, Spasms, Stoppage or Debility of the Heart, Ossi* fication of the Heart, Veins or Arteries, Rheumatism, or Water about the Heart, Fits, Nightmare, or Stagnation of the Blood, Sinking, and All-gone feeling of the Chest, &c How many and sudden the deaths caused by Heart Disease! Ladies and gentle- men, men of every occupation, are more or less afflicted with dreadful diseases of the heart. The merchant, the professional man, the clerk, the mechanic, the day laborer, the mariner, and ladies in all the varied walks of society, are alike Uable to affections of or about the heart; and when once this great vital engine of life has become dis- eased, there :s no security against the individual at any moment fatting into the jaws of Budden death, unless he gives proper attention to his health, and uses the means which scientific research and profound study have collected to restore the diseased DR ROOT'S LUNG CORRECTOR. 691 Organ to its original state of health and strength Physicians have in tin es past considered diseases of the heart to be beyond the saving skUl of medictoe; but by the tovention of Dr. Root's celebrated Lung Barometer, and the discovery of his Heart Regulator, he has tho pleasure to announce that they may be cured, when all other means have proved of no avail. The grand starting point—the difficulty *f ascertaining the true state and nature of the complaint—has heretofore been the /eason of the unsuccessful treatment of these diseases, which is now overcome. We must know the nature of the disease, then the appropriate medicine for that aisease can be safely given, without experiment or failure. Never be without tins invaluable and redeeming Heart Regulator, as it has saved its thousands from sudden death. Keep it to your bed-rooms—take it with you on journeys, and as you value your Ufe, which is above aU price, never for a moment be without it at your command. Keep the heart healthy, and the blood pure, and you will Uve to old age, and die with the natural decay of the body, Uke the vege- tables of the fields or the trees of the forest Heart Regulator, per bottle . ... . . . $2,00 Terms cash; can be ordered direct from Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway, or from any wholesale druggist in this city, and be sent by express, or as freight with other goods, to any part of the world DR ROOT'S LUNG CORRECTOR, ^ For the speedy and permanent cure of irritated, inflamed, ulcerated and tuberculous or bleeding Lungs; Grubof tlie Lungs or Liver; Bronchitis, ulcerated or tuberculous Sore Throat; Loss of Voice; Chronic Catarrh; Tickling Cough; Night Sweats; Hectie Fever; Croup, Asthma, and Expectoration of a thick, watery, white, yellow, bluish, greyish, or dark colored matter, and all Pulmonary affections. Tears of the severest trial, instead of to the least impairing the confidence in this medicine of those who have used or known it, has gained for it an enviable reputation, far beyond the most sanguine hopes of the proprietor. Nothtog but intrinsic merit, as manifested to the cure of thousands of persons, could have gained, and so long maintained for it, the great appreciation which at this day it enjoys. WhUe hundreds of quack nostrums, put up by ignorant pretenders, and thrust upon the pubUc with an eye stogie to pecuniary gain by unprincipled men, have had their brief day and gone out Uke the Ught of a farthing candle, because there was no virtue'to them; the Lung Corrector has lived to gain new friends at every trial, and to effect cures too remarkable to be ever forgotten, and too numerous to bo recorded. As the passage of time spreads wider and wider these undeniable facts, the Lung Corrector is becoming to be the standard and reUable medictoe in all tlie complatota for which it is prepared, in all classes of society, from the humblest laborer to tho most renowned statesmen, theologians and men of sdence. Throughout the length and breadth of the land, from the regions of the Aroostook to the banks of the Rio Grande, from the shores of the rock-ribbed Atlantic to California's golden Bands, this remedy for all lung and kindred complaints is taking the lead and bo- 398 DR ROOT'S GERMAN OINTMENT. coming to be considered the very perfection of medicines for pulmonary complaints, and hundreds of the most eminent physicians now employ it in all dangerous affeo- (tons of the lungs, as well as in mUder cases, and among children. In common practice, to the navy, in the army, to public institutions, in hospitals, and in fad everywhere, the Lung Corrector is considered an indispensable medictoe. The Lung Corrector is a choice selection and concentrated medictoe from the dodor's numerous invaluable pulmonic preparations, to meet the general wants of the consumptive, and is put up under the direction and supervision of the doctor, who, havtog personally treated more than 23,000 consumptive cases, to every condition and form of consumption, knows perfectly wett the wants of the sick; so that if people guard themselves against counterfeits, they may rely with safety upon the efficacy of every bottle. To physicians this medicine is an agent on which they can depend for good results in the treatment of their patients, and to the afflicted It is a remedy that never fails to afford rettef Prepared and sold by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway, New Tork. Price, per single bottle, $1, which can be sent by express to any part of the country. Dealers in the country wttl be suppUed direct from the proprietor, or they can order of any wholesale druggist in this city. All orders to Dr. Root must be accompanied with the cash, and if sent by mafl rrnist be post-paid to receive attention. In case you cannot get the Lung Corrector in your neighborhood, writo imme- diately to the proprietor, Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway, New Tork. DR. ROOT'S GERMAN OINTMENT, For Inflammation in any part of the Human System, or in any stage of disease. Inflammation in the Head, Eyes, or Sore Eyes of any kind, Lungs, Bowels, Breast, or any part; Burns, Scalds, Fresh Wounds, Felons, Biles, Cold Feet, Sprains, Lame Back, Erysipelas, putrid or not; Pain in the Side, Chest or Heart; Broken Breast, or Sore Nipples; Rheumatism in any form; Black Tongue, Fevers, Dryness of Skin, Scald Head, Piles, and any Unusual Dryness of the Skin, or Unusual Heat of the System- is Inflammation, one name and one remedy. Lstflammation locates to a hundred different parts of the system, but can no more exist under a due application of this ointment than fire can exist in the elements ol water, or the composition of gunpowder can exist to an atmosphere of fire; for ft w Nature's own remedy, and its appUcation safe. In aU cases where the bronchial vessels or orifices have become contracted, swoUen or obstructed, they are caused to discharge their putrid matter, the ob- structed perspiration is made to pass off free, and the inflammation to escape through the pores, by the use of The German Vegetable Ointment. Nature has provided appropriate remedies for aU our diseases; Nature's calls can be amply suppUed by means of the Vegetable Kingdom. Deprive her of thifl Bource, and death will deprive you of your near and affectionate friends. The art of healing had its origin in the woods, and the forest is still the best medical schc+L The German Ointment is Nature's infallible remedy for inflammation d DR. ROOT'S CATARRH SNUFF. 399 every name and kind that affects the human system, arising from a sudden tran- sition from heat to cold, or by the pores of the flesh betog closed, and the insensible perspiration betog stopped; or, to other words, the retaining of the worn-out blood and other juices in the system, which should be continually expeUed through the pores, to give place for new. Hence, when these sources become stopped, fevers and inflammations of the bowels, lungs, eyes or kidneys supervene; or sore eyes, Uver complaint, consumption, rheumatism, or some disease of the head, lungs or throat immediately follows; or it takes the form of scrofula, erysipelas, salt rheum, or other cutaneous eruption. For all these diseases the Ointment is one of Na- ture's remedies, and performs its office like a perfect workman. The German Ointment is really one of the wonders of the age, for an external appUcation of it will reduce inflammation of the bowels, and produce a passage of them, when the whole army of internal cathartics, calomel and otts of the most power- ful nature prove ineffectual In many cases which have been pronounced incurable, the patient has been relieved to one half hour by a plentiful application of the Ger- man Ointment on the bowels and sides. For constipation, it is invaluable, leaving the bowels in a healthful condition. For cold or colicy bowels, or to cases of worms in children, it gives speedy relief. Physicians and parents should know this fact an^ avaU themselves of the benefits of this ointment. Bathe the bowels of chUdren troubled with worms or 'colic, and the chttd wttl laugh and play to five minutes. It will save your getttog up at night with your Child. One general expression of all that use this ointment, (and it is used in every State to the Union,) is, that it surpasses to efficacy and utility all the external re- medies, and is the best ointment in this lower world. No lady witt ever regret ita invaluable and redeeming power in the relief and cure of inflammation of the breast or hroken breast an(i womb diseases. A word to the wise is sufficient Office 512 Broadway, New Tork. Price, per bottle . . . . . $0,25 Orders for single bottles, or by the quantity, accompanied by the cash witt be fitted by the proprietor, and the ointment sent by express to any part of the coun- try. Country dealers supplied by the proprietor, or by wholesale druggists to New Tork. DR ROOT'S CATARRH SNUFF, For the permanent cure of Catairh, Deafness, Discharge from the Ear, Loss oj Task\ Loss of Smell, Headache, Dizziness, Loss of Memory, Grub in tlie Head, Offen- sive Glanders in the Head, dec. This snuff should be used by consumptive persons havtog a cough, expectora- tion, brondiitis or cankered sore throat Catarrh is one of the most offensive and often one of the most dangorous difficul- ties with which wo are afflicted. It not unfroquently coats the mucous membrane extending from the nostrils to the mouth the eyes, the ears ana the lungs, thereby 400 DR. ROOT'S CANCER ERADICATOR obstructing the passages and causing loss of taste, smelL heartog and sight. Ca- tarrh is also a fruitful causo of coughs and puhnonary affections. It coats and ob- structs the bronchial tube and air cells of the lungs, thereby shutting out the air from those passages necessary for oxygenizing the blood. By this means the blood comes to the lungs and returns without betog purified by the air, (which is the life of the blood,) and hence arise humoral impurities, by which both mtod and body are affected, and fall into emaciation, weakness and decay. To guard against the approach of these evUs, the catarrh should be speedily and permanently removed. For this purpose there have been offered the' pubUc nu- merous remedies, most of which are taken with but Uttle effect; and never have I known of any preparation capable of reaching and removing grub in the head ex- cept the Catarrh Snuff, which I now offer the afflicted. It is well known that the grub affects the head of the human being, as well as that of the sheep and other beasts, causing insanity, dropsy to the head, and other kindred complaints. Dr. Root's Catarrh Snuff has been taken with never-failing success in thousands of cases; and wherever it has been used, and its virtues become known, no othei remedy is sought after or bought. This of itself is sufficient recommendation of its efficacy. So great has been the demand for it that it has sometimes been impos- sible (by reason of the difficulty to obtaining one of the chief ingredients from ita native sott at the sources of the river Amazon, to Central South America) to supply the orders for it. Price, per bottle . . . . . $0,50 Terms, cash. Orders fiUed by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway, and the medicine sent by express to any part of the country. Country dealers suppUed direct or by wholesale druggists in this city. AU letters must be post-paid. DR. ROOT'S CANCER ERADICATOR, For the cure of Rose, Spider, Wolf, Bloody, Bone, Sleepy, Fissure and Black Scaly Cancers; Fungus Tumors, Polypus, or Bleeding Tumors of any kind. This medicine speedily eradicates the Cancer, whether on the head, face, neck, Umbs, or other parts of the system—externally; or internally, to the womb, Uver, bowels, stomach or other internal organs. The Cancer Eradicator has been used by Dr. Root with uniform success in hun- dreds of weU-attested cases. The horror and dread with which cancers were for- merly regarded need no longer be felt; for, by the timely use of this sovereign specific, att cancerous poisons are speedtty driven from the blood and a cure easily effected. [For particular description of cancers and their causes, prevention and cure, see article on Cancers in this work.] Price, $3 per bottle, Orders for stogie bottles, or by the dozen, filled by Dr. H. K. Root 512 Broad- way, and sent by express or as freight. Terms cash All letters must be post- paid. Dealers supplied by the proprietor, or by wholesale druggists to this dty. DR. ROOT'S WATER REGULATOR. 401 DR XOOT'S FEMALE WASH. This invaluable preparation should be in the possession of all females troubkd with Leucorrhcea, Whites, or Mucus Discharges from the uterus or bladder, Scalding of the water, Itching or Burning of the water, and Cancers or Ulcerations of the Uterus. It is a safe, efficient and valuable remedy; and never fails to cure. It is a pre- paration of the greatest celebrity, and is to use by thousands of ladies throughout the country. Price, 50 cents per package; Orders for stogie packages or by the quantity filled by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broad- way. Single packages can be sent by mail. Terms cash. All letters must be post-paid. Country dealers suppUed by the proprietor or by wholesale druggists to this city. DR. ROOT'S WATER REGULATOR, For the cure of Gravel, Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys, Scalding or Burning heat of the Water, Thick or difficult holding of the Water, too much or too little Water, red or white Sediment in Water, Offensive Urine, Irritation of the Neck of the Bladder, Grub of the Womb, Kidneys or Ovaria, Strictures of the Water Passages, Ulceration or Wasting Disease of the Kidneys, Seminal Emissions, Giant Strongle or Kidney Snake, Dropsy of the Limbs, Abdomen, Chest, Heart, or Brain, and other kindred af- fections arising from an improper and unhealthy Watery Secretion from the Blood. Hundreds and thousands of our feUow-beings are every year carried suddenly down to the cold embrace of the tomb by diseases of the kidneys and bladder, and often without fully knowtog the exact character of the complaint that afflicts them; and thousands of others have implanted in their systems the seeds of a slow consump- tion from the same fruitful causes. Without a proper regulation of the water health cannot be enjoyed; for all improper secretions aristog from a derangement of tho water, whether manifesting themselves to the form of dropsy, gravel, stone, or otherwise, must, unless attended to, sow the seeds of death to the blood, and finally carry the victim to the gravo. For the benefit of sufferers from kidney, bladder, and womb diseases, Dr. Root's Water Regulator has been prepared, and is offered to the pubUc with confident assurance of its powerful efficacy to affording reUef and finally restoring the secre- tions to a healthy condition; thus saving the patient from excruciating pains, years of suffering and untimely death. Although ancient physicians, and many of later times, were aware of the exist* ence to the human system of the grub, aU efforts to obtain a medicine which should reach and destroy it have been without success; until, by the scientific researches and labors of Dr. Root ^his desirable result has been obtatoed. It foUowed as a consequence of their inabiUty to find a remedy, that the fact of the existence of tho grub in tho human system was lost sight of for many years; but the Water Regula- 26 402 DR ROOT'S HAIR PRODUCER. tor having reached and brought them away, the fruitful cause of many deaths not theretofore known is explained and understood. To reach the grub in the womb, kidneys, or ovaries, or the kidney snake, there is no other medicine than this upon the face of the globe. The Water Regulator kills and dislodges them from their seats in these organs, and they come away whole or to pieces, and tho patient is rescued from the jaws of death Price, $1 per bottle, Orders for single bottles, or by the quantity, fitted by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broad- way, New Tork, and sent by express to any part of the country. Terms cash Att letters must be postpaid. Country dealers suppUed by the proprietor, or by the wholesale druggists to New Tork. DR ROOT'S HAIR PRODUCER, To soften and beautify the Hair, and to keep it from falling off; loss of the Hair by fever, Baldness, &c; to remove dandruff and scurf from the head; to cure humoral eruptions on the scalp; loss of hair by scald head and dryness of Hie hair; also for keeping the hair in dressing and imparting to it a beautiful glossiness and lustre. The thousand nostrums put up by unprincipled men, and palmed off upon the public as certain guarantees against baldness, and warranted to produced a growth of hair upon the barren scalp by a few appttcations, and which utterly fail to give the satisfaction hoped for by the purchaser, have placed people upon their guard against quacks and pretenders, and finaUy wrought out this good—that the pubtto wttl no longer trust the safety of their hair to any preparation unless it be known to have emanated from some physidan of scientific attainments, who thoroughly un- ierstands the laws of the whole system, and has devoted his time to the study necessary to produce an article for any given complatot or affection that shaU cer- tainly work out the desired results. Tho day of quack hair nostrums, that kill the hair and ensure its certain lass, has gone by—the pubUc wttl no longer be humbugged. Henceforth only preparations prepared by men of sdentific attainments, who tho- roughly understand the philosophy of the growth and decay of the human hair, witt be purchased by those troubled with diseases of the scalp, or who fear the Loss of their hair, or have already become bald Assured of this from observations he has made, Dr. Root now offers to the world his Hair Producer, to confident expectation that it will be hailed with joy by thousands who have been deluded into purchasing the vile and filthy nostrums thrust to their faces by ignoramuses and charlatans. The Hair Producer is a compound of powerful but harmless vegetables and oils, and is chemically prepared with a certain knowledge of the wants of the hair, to keep it in a soft, healthy and proper condition. When used according to directions it will keep the hair from fatting off; and persons already bald may soon dispense with their wigs ff they wttl persist to its use for a length of time sufficient to have the scalp become softened, opened and restored to a healthy state. As a dressing for the hair and an article for the toilet table for ladies, Dr. Root's HaIr Producer is unrivalled. No artide ever offered to the pubUc can compare DR. ROOT'S ETE WATER. 403 with this to give a beautiful silken gloss to the fair locks that adorn the heads of America's daughters. Price, 50 cents per bottle; Orders for single bottles, or by the quantity, filled by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broad- way. Terms cash. AU letters must be postpaid Country dealers suppUed by tho proprietor or by the wholesale druggists to this dty. DR. ROOT'S ETE WATER, For the cure of Weakness, Soreness and Inflammation of the Eyes, Egyptian Sore Eyes, Grub in the Eye and Optic Nerve, and for every affection of the organ of sight which can be reached by an external application. Dr. Root's Eye Water has been prepared with great care, from an experience gained in the treatment of a large number of cases—some produced by outward causes, and some aristog from a diseased state of the blood, or from fits of sick- ness. The knowledge gained by a successful treatment of hundreds of cases to aU the various affections to which tho eye is liable, has enabled him to compound from his remedies an eye water that he unhesitatingly offers to the pubUc as havtog the power to do aU for the diseased visual organ that it is possible for an outward appUcation to perform; and the uniform success winch has attended its use gives him the gratifying assurance that his labors in behalf of those suffering from weak and sore eyes have been crowned with the just reward due those who strive to impart health and comfort to their fellow men. In the loss of that great and inestimable blessing, sight we suffer an indescriba- ble affliction. Only those who have once enjoyed the sweet blessing of beholding the beautiful things of earth and then been cut off from the light of the day, to Uve to darkness deep as night where the faces of relatives and friends, the flowery gar- dens and the green fields beautified and made gorgeous by the fructifying showers of nature, the glorious works of art and att that instructs, amuses, and gives happi- ness and pleasure to the mind through the outward vision, can adequately feel the keenness of affliction that follows the loss of sight. Imagine yourself returning from some distant land after years of absence, to visit the home of your childhood, and the green fields, the shady woods and the meandering streams where you sport- ed to the sunny days of youth; and to be again with those near and dear friends, made nearer and dearer to the heart by the flight of years; and then picture to yourself the sensation that would cast a saddening sorrow over all anticipated joy, by the recoUection that utter darkness was upon your vision, and that you could never more see the beautiful things you had hoped to behold, nor the kind faces of those whose society you would again enjoy! How would it detract from your happiness 1 And yet this, and worse than this, (an inabttity to give-attention to ousiness and procure for yourself and family the necessaries and comforts of life) may fottow from your neglect of weak and sore eyes. When once the dedicate organs of sight are se- riously affected, it is difficult to preserve or restore them to health Therefore, you should be wise to time. If your eyes are weak, or inflamed, or sore, from any cause, 404 DR ROOT'S EAR LOTION. whether outward or toward, you should immediately take steps for their recovery. Not a single day should be lost. As an outward application, Dr. Root's Ete Wa- ter is now used by many practistog physicians and by thousands of the afflicted. In cases where weakness or toflammation of the organs has been toduced by sick- ness or by a diseased state of the system, the German Ointment Blood Renovator, Catarrh Snuff and Anti-BUious PUls should be used to connection with the Eye Wa- ter; for where loss of sight arises from internal causes, the blood and system must be purified and restored to health before any outward appUcation wttl produce the desirable effect Price of the Eye Water, $1 per bottle, Orders for stogie bottles or by the quantity filled by Dr. Root, 512 Broadway. Term cash. WUl be sent by express to any part of the country. AU letters must be post paid. Country dealers suppUed by the proprietor, Dj. H. K. Root, or by wholesale dealers to this city. DR. ROOT'S EAR LOTION, For the cure of Deafness, Humoral Discharge from the Ear, Dryness or loss of Wax of the Ear, Buzzing and Roaring Noises in the Ear, Ear-ache, and other affections of the organ of hearing. Although perhaps not so great a loss as that of sight, no person who has been deaf but will feel keenly that it is no sUght deprivation to lose the power of hear- ing. To be cut off from listening to the sweet sounds of nature and the pleasant voices of loved friends, which afford often the most exquisite enjoyment; to hear no more the soothing words of solace, spoken to affection and love—is indeed an affliction to att upon whom it may fall But not to reference to pleasure alone is the loss of hearing to be considered; for chiefly it is to be looked at to a potot of utility. How useful to man is this sense I wttl not undertake to describe; those only can appreciate the blessing of a good heartog adequately who have been deprived of that sense. The inconveniencies and annoyances to which the deaf person is sub- jeded are too well known to require a rehearsal. Agatost this affliction every person may guard himseff, by the use of Dr. Root's Ear Lotion, a truly invaluable artide to prevent deafness and to restore the hear- tog after it has been lost. Hundreds of persons, who had been deaf for years, and who had abandoned almost all hope of recovery, have had this sense restored by the use of the Ear Lotion, taken to connection with some of my other medicines. People who had for long months been obUged to make use of an ear trumpet to or- der to hear anything, have cast that instrument aside as no longer needed, to an exceedingly short time after applytog the Ear Lotion. In ear aches, so distresstog, and often so violent as to almost make the person crazy, the Ear Lotion wttl afford miraculous. reUef. And to cases of buzzing and roaring sounds to the ear, loss of the wax in the ear, or to humoral discharges, fre- quently the forerunners of deafness, the Ear Lotion will be found invaluable, never fatting to remove these affections and prevent deafness ensuing. It has given tho DR. ROOT'S WORM KILLER. 405 most perfect satisfaction in every instance where it has been used, and has reUeved thousands from miseries indescribable. As deafness, and aU other affections of the ear, are to most cases the results of some toternal disturbance, it wiU generally be found necessary to use the Blood Renovator, Catarrh Snuff, Anti-Bilious PUls, or German Ointment to connection with the Ear Lotion; and in some cases, aU of these will be required—to order that the system may be entirely purged of all those disturbing causes from which deaf- ness or other trouble to the ear has arisen. Price of the Ear Lotion, $1 per stogie bottle; Orders for single bottles or by the quantity fitted by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broad- way. Terms cash WiU be sent by express or otherwise to any part of the coun- try. Att letters must be post paid. Country dealers supplied by the proprietor, or by wholesale dealers in New "ork. DR. ROOT'S WORM KILLER, Ibr destroying the life of and expelling from the human system Tape Worms, Round Worms, Thread Worms, Pin Worms, Evets, Frogs, Snakes, and every living thing, of whatever kind, that may be existing in the stomach or bowels. The Worm Killer is the result of many months of close appUcation, and long ex- periment to procure an article which should be certain death to worms of aU kinds, and at the same time do no injury to the system of even the most dettcate person or the smaUest infant. And, after faithful trial of this vegetable compound, as I now prepare it, I am prepared to say that it wUl be found a never-failing remedy to aU cases of worms, whether in chUdren or adults. A single dose of it wttl en- tirely purge the system of these destructive agents, when all ordinary remedies have failed to produce any effect whatever. Tape Worms are invariably expelled by it. Also, Evets and Frogs have been dislodged from the stomach by ita use, and to several cases Snakes, drank in with water when small, and retained to the stomach tttl they attained a large size, have been removed by the power of the Worm KUler. It is well known that many children die from the effects of worms. All the pre- cious lives thus lost might be saved, by the use of a stogie bottle or less of the Worm KUler to each case. I have received hundreds of certificates from parents, informing me of the restoration to health of their chUdren by the use of this medicine. My Worm KUler betog a compound entirely vegetable, its use does not leave to the system any of those deleterious effects arising from the administration of tho poi- sonous drugs usuaUy employed to expel worms. In this respect it stands alone. I do not know of another single article for this purpose but contains for its chief in- gredient some • drug most deadly to the human being, when taken without the greatest caution. At the same time, my Worm KUler will be found far more effica- tious than any drug ever administered for worms. 406 DR. ROOT'S DTSENTERT SPECIFIC. No faniUy where there are chUdren should be without a Uttle of this artide ia the house. Price of the Worm KUler, per bottle...... 50 cts. Orders for stogie bottles, or by the quantity, fitted by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broad- way, New Tork. Terms cash. Will be sent by express, or otherwise, to any part of the country. All letters to be post-paid. Country dealers supplied by the proprietor, or by wholesale dealers in New Tork. DR ROOT'S INHALING FLUID, For use in cases of Pulmonary Consumption, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Throat or Lungs, Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Asthma, Checked Expectoration, Dry- ness in the Throat, Catarrh in its first stage, Influenza, Debilitated state of the Air Passa- ges, Relaxed state of the Lining Membrane of the Lungs, and other affections of tht Throat and Lungs. This article is skttffully compounded from a number of ingredients used in inhala- tion for diseases of the respiratory organs, and is. so varied that the patient by simply stating the nature of his complaint can be suppUed with an article exactly suited to his wants, and which wttl prove of the greatest benefit. Used to connec- tion with my other circulating medicines, it has aided in the permanent cure of nu- merous cases of confirmed consumption, asthma, bronchitis, and other complaints above mentioned. When administered according to directions, it does not irritate or inflame the lungs, but soothes, invigorates, cleanses and heals. By being skiUful- ly combined, all the deleterious effects of articles used separately for inhalation are destroyed, and their virtuous and healing qualities retained. Price of the Inhaling Fluid, $1 per stogie bottle; Orders for single bottles or by the quantity filled by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broad- way. Terms cash Will be sent by express or otherwise to any part of the coun- try. All letters must be post paid. Country dealers supplied by the proprietor, or by wholesale dealers to New Tork. DR. ROOT'S DTSENTERT SPECIFIC, For the Prevention and Cure of Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Clwlera Infantum, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Summer Complaints generally, and any Looseness of the Bowels. This artide, if taken according to directions, to connection with the Anti-Bilious Pitts, is a sure and certain guarantee agatost all attacks of bowel complatots; like- wise, it cures these diseases to almost every instance where it is applied; betog supe- rior to any other article for the same purpose now before the public. Many cases of the most violent dysentery or diarrhoea have yielded to the pecuUar heaUng powers of the Specific; and by it many valuable Uves have been saved. DR. ROOT'S NERVINE. 407 Among the numerous diseases that afflict the human race, there is nono, con- sumption, perhaps, excepted, that carries more to the grave than the class that comes under the general head of bowel complaints. Athough in general but Uttle feared, it is indeed a most dangerous,and highly fatal form of disease, as all may see who wttl notice the number that it annually carries to the tomb. How important, then, that every person, and particularly those who are subject to attacks of this cha- racter, should avaU themselves of the discoveries of medical science to ward off its approaches, by placing the system to such condition as wttl leave nothing for it to fasten upon. This may be always easily done by keeping constantly on hand, and occasionaUy taking, Dr. Root's Dysentery Specific and Anti-Bilious Pills, according to the directions that accompany the articles. Let those who would guard against death to this form be wise in time, and fottow the advice hereto given. Price of the Dysentery Specific, per single bottle . . . . $100 Orders for single bottles, or by the quantity, filled by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway. Terms cash. Will be sent by express, or otherwise, to any part of the country. All letters must be post-paid. Country dealers supplied by the proprietor, or by wholesale dealers in New Tork. DR ROOT'S NERVINE, For the relief and cure of Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Irritability, Uneasiness, Twitch- ing of the Nerves, Restlessness, Crawling Feeling of the Flesh, and Nervous Affections generally. This article has been in extensive use in my practice, and always with the most pleasing and favorable resulte. Its efficacy in the relief of the affections above- named is truly extraordinary. One package has cured the very worst cases of nervousness, and restored the whole nervous system to a state of health and quietude. Every person troubled with uneasiness, or difficulty of sleeping, should make use of this article; and from it the most beneficial results wttl be experienced. Price of the Nervine, per single package.....$1 00 Orders for stogie package or by the quantity, filled by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broad- way. Terms cash. WUl be sent by express, or otherwise, to any part of the coun- try. AU letters must be post-paid. Country dealers supplied by the proprietor, or by wholesale dealers in New /brie. I 408 ADDRESS TO THE SICK. DR. ROOTS ELIXIR OF LIFE. For use in cases of Nervous DebUity, loss ofJVervous Electric and Procreating Energy, N«% ralgia, Nervous Headache, Hysteria, effects of Masturbation, Nocturnal Seminal Emis- sions, Impotency, Barrenness, Mental Imbecility, diseases of Ladies inoident to decay of propagating functions, dfca, dbc. That involuntary loss of physical energy which occurs during sleep, so harass- ing, and productive of so much mischief to the nervous system, is speedily re- strained by the U9e of this article. Tlie mental and physical symptoms of disease vanish together under its influence. The stooping, trembUng victim of depression and debility, becomes a new man. He stands erect, he moves with a firm step; his mind, which was previously sunk in gloom, or an almost Miotic apathy, becomes bright buoyant, adive; and he goes forth fresh, regenerated, and con- scious of new vigor, to his accustomed occupations. Married people, or others, conscious of inability, from whatever cause, wttl find this Cordial, after they use a bottle or two, a thorough regenerator of the system. Where want of offspring ia a cause of regret it is of inestimable value. In all directions are to be found the happy parents of healthy offspring, who would not have been so, but for this ex- traordinary preparation. And it is equally potent for the many diseases for which it is recommended. Hundreds of young men have been restored to vigor by ustog it, and not to an instance has it failed to benefit even those in the last stage of disease. Price, $3 per bottle; Orders for stogie bottles, or by the quan- tity, filled by Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway. ADDRESS TO THE SICK. Opposite is a correct representation of Dr Root's permanent residence and office, 512 Broadway, directly opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel, New Tork, where advice and consultation can at aU times be obtained, on the various diseases—particularly to Pulmonary and other ktods of Consumption, Diseases of the Liver, Heart, Kid- neys and Spleen, Scrofula, Cancer, Dropsies, Fevers, Ulcers, Eruptions, and all diseases of the blood, and where remedies exclusively vegetable, for the treatment of those complaints, can at all times be had, prepared by Dr. Root's own diredion, and under his superintendance, and upon scientific chemical prindples. Dr. Root's practice, experience and investigation, have eUcited the truth, that there must be first principles to medictoe as weU as to philosophy, which though simple, are yet invariable and incontestible, and like the needle and stars to the mariner, conduct the physician to the origin and cure of diseases I Accidental suc- cess to the administration of Sarsaparillas, Whale, Seal, Cod-Liver, Sassa- fras, Croton, and Castor Oils, does not compensate for the multifarious dangers arising from the bttnd and incautious administration of some specific remedy. Human nature cannot and does not endure the violences done to her by these pana- ceas, prescribed generaUy by individuals utterly ignorant of the functions and laws of the body, the most beautiful and complicated of God's machines! DR. ROOT therefore addresses the chUdren of humanity of every degree, inform- ing them that he is prepared to promulgate health, long life, and happiness to att. Through him the silvery paths of happiness, and even fortune, are thrown open —the intricate windings in the mazy labyrinths of-lffe made straight and clear to all; by a magic touch unknowrn to the ignorant or unphilosophicaL man may hence- forth walk to the Creator's paths, and drink at the fountains of Hope. ADDRESS TO THE SICK. 409 No. 61.—Dr. Root's Office, 512 Broadway. (PRINCIPAL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL OFFICE for the sale of DR H. K. ROOT'S Superior FAMILY VEGETABLE BLOOD MEDICINES, adapted to the wants of the sick and afflicted; composed of the best ingredients that this and foreitrn lands can produce, and ten times cheaper, purer, stronger, and more effectual than any Medicines used.] The medical and mechanical genius of the Doctor, and his successful triumph over Consumption, have eUcited public admiration. His wonderful invention for correctly ascertaining the condition of the lungs, together with his unequaled practical advan- tages to the examtoation of over 23,-000 tovaUds, leaves him without a competitor, —the Champion of the Healing Art. He invites the attention of those laboring under any of the various characters or forms of disease—such as Consumption, Can- cers, Tumors, Diseases of the Heart, Lungs, Liver, Stomach, Spleen, Kidneys, Bowels, or Womb, Dropsy, Gravel, Fluor Albus, Ulcerated So7-es, Fistula, White Swellings, Worms, Fits, Tic Doloreux, Deafness, Blindness, Debility, Sterility, Nervousness, Pa- ralysis, Spinal Deformities, Diseases of Ladies and Children, and Infectant Humors of all kinds,—to caU and consult him, or to address him by letter. His system of treating diseases does not make sick to make well—or restrain in diet or exercise. If you were starving, it would be a long time to wait six or twelve months for food to satisfy your hunger! Why wait as long for medicine to eradicate diseases ? The Doctor would be happy to cure all who suffer with sickness or pain, that no cherished nopes or friendships should be sundered by disease and death. 410 ADDRESS TO THE SICK. The great blessing, health, may be attained by using the remedies and foUowing the advice of Dr. H. K. Root, a physician who has studied in the school of nature for twenty years, and who, from his youth, has been gifted with a rare and peculiar insight toto the cause and character of diseases, and possessed a controUing power over them, which has sometimes seemed wonderful even to himseff. To the healthy, the world is full of beauty and happtoess, and flowers cheer such even to the ead of time. But to the poor tovaUd, worn down by disease, and almost shut out from the Ught and beauty of the world, there is no comfort, no joy. But let him not despair, for health may yet be restored I and the happtoess of Ufe be again enjoyed For the benefit of the sick and distressed, I have devoted many years to seeking a knowledge of diseases and remedies, and am now prepared to accompttsh wonders to restoring health to the sick, beauty and freshness to the emaciated and sunken cheek. I have prepared remedies for diseases known in the various sections of the country, North South, East, West—and thousands who have tested their virtues, stand ready to testify of their efficacy. It is my candid optoion that there is a re- medy for every disease which flesh is heir to; and the idea of giving up to die so many of the young and strong, just because consumption, or some other disease, has fastened upon the system its fangs, is a disgrace to the medical profession in this age of enlightenment and scientific progress. There is ample room for hope for each and, all, as my patients in every section, cured of the worst forms of the most obstinate diseases, are Uvtog monuments. Therefore, do not despair; but visit Dr. Root, and be restored to health and happiness. DR, ROOT'S LECTURES. This work of 150 pages, large size, has met with a heavy sale yearly stoce ita pubttcation. It consists of a series of LECTURES ON HEALTH, By DR H. K. ROOT, the SEVENTH SON AND DOCTOR OF THE BLOOD, respecting the great Principles OF Life ; wherein his distinguishing views are dearly stated and defended; together with the great andunparatteled success which has attended his method of treating att manner of diseases, arising from loss of me- chanical equttibrium and poisonous humors of the blood; the whole illustrated by numerous engravings ; together with an Appendix, containing many rare and valuable Receipts and Directions for individual and family use. The Lectures comprise the following:— 1. On the Preventives of Poor Health, in which the best and most approved means to accomplish the end, are distinctly stated and demonstrated. 2. On the Causes Productive of Poor Health Disease, and Death; from which it is shown, from Physiology, Reason, and Scripture, that there can be no possi- ble escape, unless the productog causes be removed. S. On the Evils to Mankind, arising from Disturbed Organism. 4. On the Remedies for Disturbed Organism and Poor Health; embracing a range of remedial agencies, new to the American people, and astonishingly efficacious to removing all manner of diseases and weaknesses with which mankind are afflicted 5. General Yiew of Diseases common to Mankind, and their Symptoms. This work can be sent by matt to any part of the country. Price 25 cents. Address Dr. H. K. Root, 512 Broadway, Now Tork. TESTIMONIALS OF THE SKILL AND SUCCESS OF DR. H. K, ROOT. From among an enormous mass of testimonials I have received from my patients in various parts of the country, who have been cured by my treatment and medi- cines, the foUowing have been selected at random. They teU a tale of truth that ia the best advertisement the physician can have. In most tostances the full name ol the party has been appended. In those cases where only the initials are given, the full name has been omitted at the desire of the person sending the certificate. I would take occasion to say here, that to any case where a person is desirous of send- tog to me a certificate of cure, as an expression of thanks, he or she need not be re- strained on account of not wishtog to have it made pubUc- to a notice; for if the person wttl have the kindness to say that the testimonial is intended for my own pleasure, or for those who may wish to see it at the office, the desire wttl be care fully attended to. In att cases of receiving a testimonial from one whom I have had the pleasure of restoring to health where it is intended as private, I do not make pubUc use of it: of this class of testimonials I have received thousands. The certificates foUowing are published with the consent of the parties, and in many tostances at their desire:— CURE OF CONSUMPTION IN ITS LAST STAGE. To Dr. H K. Root—Slr: I beg leave to send you my pubUc and most grateful thanks for the wonderful cure I have received from the adoption of your advice and remedies. It is now above five years stoce I was first afflicted. I have had the best advice ana treatment from the first of the faculty; I have expended vast sums of money to r.o good purpose; I have been treated for consumption to its last stage! and when considered hopeless, was given up for death, my friends having taken (what they conceived) their last leave of me. Ktod Providence, however, decreed other and better things for me, by directing the special means, through my perfect recovery from this declared incurable state, of sounding your praises to aU distant times. The fame of your wonderful powers having caught the attention of my friends—a cure well known here, havtog toen published, simUar to my own—diseased Uver, GRUB IN THE SPLEEN—CANCER 413 eonsumption, stoppage in my breast chest and throat—everythtog appearing to drop into some unnatural hollow space, from which my medical advisers concluded that I had an inward abscess, of an alarming nature, from which they led me to hope for no cure. From this pecuUar similar case to my own, I was induced to request an- interview with the " Great Natural Physician," who from the first cheered me with hopes of ultimate recovery, and, not less to the astonishment of myself than to my numerous friends, those heavy afflictions, which had borne me down for years, gave way to a few weeks I and, by perseverance, I am happy and proud to declare, before att the world, thus publicly, and ready to enter into more particulars than can here be expressed to any number of appttcants who choose to give me a call, that I am now to full health and vigor, and from the power and influence of your inestimable remedies alone. I hail, with joy, your success in this state and neighborhood ''My gratitude to you can never be fully expressed. I am, however, your devoted and sincere advocate, Catharine Hutchtns. New Tork, March 10, 1849. . ENLARGEMENT OF, AND GRUB IN THE SPLEEN. Dr. Root—Sir: Tou wttl recollect that when you were in this city last winter, I called upon you to have an examtoation to my case. Previous to that time, I had been troubled with a sort of disease for about three years, but what it was none of the physicians here, (of whom I consulted not less than a dozen,) could tell me. It would be impossible for me to tell you what were the feelings I experienced during this period—they were indescribable; no words of man could convey an idea of them. Tou promptly told me that I had an enlargement of the spleen, and proba- bly grubs in that part. Undoubtedly you were correct; for to three weeks after I commenced taking the medicines you gave me, I began to feel better, and by the first of May, I felt that I could say—/ am entirely well. Since then, I have no return of my bad feelings, and beUeve I am cured. In justice to you, and to return my thanks, I write this letter, that you may make pubUc my case for the benefit o* others. With many thanks, ORRrN Sumner. Boston, July 2, 1851. DREADFUL CASE OF CANCER CURED. This may certify, that seven years ago, my wife, Mrs. E., had a cancerous tumor In the left breast, for which every possible means were used for its removal, without the slightest benefit It conttoued to tocrease both to size and painfulness, untU aU hope of savtog her life, but by a painful operation, was abandoned, which after a consultation with several eminent physicians, was performed, and the entire breast was removed, and after examtoation of the tumor, was pronounced by all present a cancer of the most malignant character. In about three months, after enduring to- credible sufferings, she was enabled, though broken to spirit to get about again She remained feeble, and her general health was exceedingly bad, as indeed, it had been for several years before. Five years after her breast had been removed, a painful tumor agato made its ap- pearance immediately over the part formerly occupied by the nipple of the right l 414 SPINAL CURVATURE—CONSUMPTIVE ASTHMA. breast This tumor steadily tocreased for several months, and became so painful afl to deprive her of rest Finally, another tumor appeared in the right breast. It was evident that an operation would not now save her Ufe, and the physicians do- clareu she would die of the cancer. But hope nevor deserted us, and we consulted other physicians, and among them Dr. H. K. Root, who thought my wife might bo Baved. We procured some medicines of him, and commenced to use them. The tumor conttoued increasing to size for about six weeks, and was at times very pain- ful, when the pato suddenly ceased altogether, and the tumor sweUed out at the base, and became soft, and then began to diminish and continued gradually decreas- ing until every vestige of disease was removed. The tumor to her left breast was also dispersed. No cancerous or scrofulous tumors ever appeared afterwards; and her general health, which had been so bad for fourteen years as to make Ufe a bur- den, was effectually and permanently restored. E. H. E. East Tenth-street. New Tore, January 6, 1852. SPINAL CURVATURE CURED. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir: I write to say that my daughter, who has been afflicted with a severe spinal curvature for eight years, for which we consulted many physicians in vain, has been at last restored to health by the use of your Medicines, and Suspender and Shoulder-Brace. ^Her affection, as you know, was very bad in- deed ; she was bent over upon one side to a frightful degree; she could not stand up straight; her lower Umbs were without power, her chest was becoming con- tracted ; and to short, her condition was one of extreme misery, both to herself and friends. But, thanks be to a kind heaven, she is now, through your skill, restored to uprightness, to health, to strength, to beauty, and to happiness. We shall never forget you to our daily supplications before the throne of grace. HORATIO BOND. Provtdence, February 28, 1851. CURES OF CONSUMPTIVE ASTHMA, ETC. To Dr. Root—Sir: For the benefit of the afflicted you are at Uberty to make known to the world a case and a cure from a consumptive asthma, which has afflicted my son for the last three years, he being now to the 23d year of his age. He had decUned in strength daily, until supported five nights out of seven with pttlows in his chair, not being able to Ue prostrate to bed, for fear of suffocation, when he was given up for death, as in the last stage of consumption. Where, however, four medical gentlemen could give no relief, your inestimable advice and remedies, have, under your prompt and judicious labors, performed a perfect cure, to the short space of six weeks. In addition to this miraculous preservation of my son's Ufe, I have also to state, my husband has been sorely afflicted with eruptions, asthma, &o. Ac., for many years, who has received reUef instantaneously from your tovaluable reme- dies. With our best wishes for your continued success, I am, sir, your devoted friend, Anna Maybury. Albany, January f>, 1848. FEVER SORE—CONSUMPTION—FITS. 415 FEVER SORE CURED. Dr. H. K. Root : In the spring of 1849, I obtained from you a course of medi- cine, being then confined to my bed, without sleep, for a week, occasioned by a violent pain, from a regular fever sore, of long standing, on my right leg. My phy- Bidans advised me to have the Umb amputated, saytog it was the only means likely to save my Ufe. After ustog the medicines one week, the pato began to subside, and to three weeks I was able to transact my regular business. By the time I had finished the course, I was as weU and sound as I ever had been. I have no hesita- tion to saying that your prescriptions were the means, under Providence, of savtog my Umb, and I doubt not my life. I most cheerfully recommend them as the best article extant for the purification of the blood. Tours, most respectfuUy, Wm. Lathrop, Jr. Rochester, April 22, 1851. ANOTHER CASE OF CONSUMPTION. I AM disposed to state that Dr. Root cured me of consumption, which was evi- dently in its last stage. I had a deep, hoUow cough, expectorations purulent, much streaked with blood, &c, pain to my right side, diarrhoea, night sweats, no appetite, restless, greatly emaciated, &c. My attending physician had given me up long be- fore I appUed to Dr. Root, and so had other eminent doctors whom I had consulted. Seeing one of Dr. R's circulars, I resolved to call on him at all hazards. It was a great exertion. I~was nearly exhausted when I arrived at his office. Upon exa- mination, the Doctor gave me but little encouragement; but I resolved to make one more trial; and I owe my life, health, and aU to this world, to that determination. I did not take his medictoe more than a week, before I perceived a marked change to my symptoms for the better; my night sweats had almost entirely ceased, diarrhoea much abated, cough less aggravating, breathing much easier, and my feet and hands began to feel warm and natural. I took Dr. Root's medicine twelve weeks, and found myself to a good state of health, so that by proper care I attend to my bu- siness. Too much cannot be said in favor of Dr. Root's skill in removing chronic diseases. I am knowtog to other wonderful cures which he has effected, and I can heartily recommend him to the afflicted everywhere. S. B. F, Member of Congress. Washington, March 27, 1852. CURE OF EPILEPTIC FITS AND CONSUMPTION. To Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : I should not do justice to you, or to my own feeUngs, wore I to withhold from the world, for the sake of sufferers like myself, tlie wonderful cure I have derived from the use of the " Vegetable Universal Me- dicines," and, with them, the restoration of the greatest of blessings—health. For upwards of ten years, I have been subject to epileptic fits, in constant suc- cession, and to an alarming degree, attended with aU the horrors of nervous and debitttating affections, usuaUy concomitant with that dire disease. It is impossible to explain tho depth or extent of my sufferings. Physicians and doctors could with more ease sound the depth of my pocket than they could that of my disease, and left 416 CONSUMPTION—NEURALGIA. me to end my weary career to what they termed a confirmed consumption. I waa never safe without a friend to attend me m att my movements. My last serious at- tack was on a coach from Falmouth. With great difficulty I was conduded home, and havtog heard of the great " Natural Physician," I was induced, as an almost hopeless resort to put myself under your judicious directions, being cheered by not only hope of relief, but of certain cure. I have no hesitation to saytog, that from the first hour of my adopting your advice, I never felt the least symptom of those horrid spasmodic affections which had for so many years so dreadfully oppressed me; and that, to short, one month's continued use only, effeded a complete cure, to the surprise of aU my acquaintances who had known me through the long course of my Bufferings. I have now been eight months a perfectly sound man, and en- joying a better state of health than I ever had to my Ufe, and attended with a flow of health and vigor which few men can boast of, as is evinced by the weU-known fact, that I have absolutely gained forty pounds in weight stoce I first commenced taktog your medictoes. For the good of the afflicted, I have long been anxious to publish my extraordinary case and cure, and have only been restrained by my fa- mUy, who wished to be certain of no relapse taktog place. In the mean time, I have not been sttent, and I am happy to learn that many who have heard of my mi- raculous restoration, have appUed to you with the same happy results. I remain, sir, your highly indebted friend, W. J. P., Merchant.. Jbesey City, Jan. 24, 1849. CASE OF NEURALGIA CURED. Dr. Root came to the city of Providence to tho month of January last. At that time I had been afflicted with a bad humor for several years, which brought upon me Uver complatot, dyspepsia, and general nervous prostration. I was troubled with cold feet and hands, my hair feU off; restless, extreme pain through the fore- part of my head, and across the small of my back, pato to my right side, &c. I was attended by a skillful practising physician, but aU to no purpose. Large doses of laudanum were resorted to with no advantage; .my case became one of confirmed neuralgia. I was hardly able to watte toto Dr. R.'s office, after being carried to the door. The doctor saw me but about ten minutes, and gave me medicine, which did me more good than anything that I ever took before to my Ufe. I did not take a drop of laudanum after taktog the doctor's medictoe. I am now to soundness of health I give this certificate to Dr. Root, because I feel for those who suffer as I have suffered, and hope that the above statement wttl give the afflicted confidence to his skill, and that they may apply to him, where they wttl obtain those remedies which an all-wise Providence has created to restore the sick to health My case is not all that I am knowing to that he cured to this place. Miss Hannah Willis has been cured of the wcrst ktod of Uver complatot by Dr. Root's heaUng medicines. I can recommend him to those afflicted with chronic diseases, above any other phy- sician that I ever saw. Jane A. Bolles. Providence, April 12, 1851. I SCROFULA—CATARRH—DROPST—JAUNDICE. 417 SCROFULA CURED. Dr. Root cured my little girl of scrofula, which no other physician or nostrum could do. She had two ulcers on her neck, and one under her loft arm, when I took her to Dr. R. She took the doctor's medicine about two months, and was en- tirely cured. There is no swelling about the neck, and the sores are entirely healed. She is now the picture of health. James Melville. Utica, N. T, July 29, 1851. CURE OF CATARRHAL AFFECTION. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : I have been afflicted for seven years with the catarrhal affedion, producing bronchitis, combined with great soreness, wliich has fre- quently prevented me from foUowing my usual avocation. I had applied to my physicians and tried many remedies, without any beneficial effect, until I very for- tunately appUed to you, and obtatoed advice and a course of medicine, which gave me the most perfect relief, which I had not known for seven previous years. I was also enabled to enjoy a good night's rest, which I have not before been blessed with. I most cheerfully recommend your system of practice to those who are similarly afflicted Henry Zeinger. New Tork, Oct. 24, 1850. ANOTHER CONSUMPTIVE RAISED. Dr. Root—Sir : I have been laboring under a disease of the lungs for the last two years, and became so far reduced that I was unable to speak above a whisper, or raise my head from the pillow without assistance. No one supposed I would Uve a month. I had several able physicians, and was constantly under their care until they gave me up. I used the popular medicines also, but none of them did me any good. Whtte to this low and perilous state I sent to you for advice and a course of medicine. I am now at my work, and my health is restored. The change wrought in me is indeed wonderful. Few would credit that a woman so sick as I was with consumption of the lungs, could be restored to health by any medicine, or to so short a period. But such is the fact. I glory to making it known; and I also feel willing to testify to the world that yours were the medi- cines that cured me. I have no wish to deceive any person on this subject, and I shall therefore be glad to communicate with persons similarly afflicted, who wttl take the trouble to caU on me. Sarah Jane Hull. New Tork, Nov. 8, 1851. DROPST, JAUNDICE, AND CONTRACTION OF LEG. I do hereby certify that I was grievously diseased with a dropsical swelling, jaundice, and contraction of my left leg, owtog to a fatt which severely wrenched my back, and the interior part adjoining. I catted in two physicians, but my health Btttl conttoued to sink rapidly away, so much so that they told me they could do no more for me. In this state, I heard of Dr. Root, and of his remarkable cures. I 27 418 BACHELOR CURED—REMARKABLE INSIGHT. sent to him for advice and medicines, and to about two months I was restored to health I firmly beUeve that but for him I should now be to the grave. Susan Spares. New Tore, Nov. 20, 1850. REMARKABLE CURE. After Uving a bachelor for forty years, having lost my health to youth, I acd- dentally saw Dr. H. K. Root's notice, and gathered new hope from the manner in which he spoke of treating disease. I called on him to New Tork; he examined my case, and said ff I would follow his advice strictly, he would prescribe for me, and make me a well and sound man. I felt the importance of health and agreed to do as he directed. He said to me, " Select the most amiable and lovely young lady to the circle of your acquaintance, marry her immediately, and let her love and purity be your guide. Cherish her, and her only, and within two years, (with this Uttle package of medicine,) you will be blessed and happy, and enjoy good health" I did not think this was a very bad prescription, although somewhat surprised. I immediately followed it, and the most salutary effects ensued, so that within two years I was perfectly well as happy as any mortal may hope to be, and blessed with one of the most beautiful and lovely children the city could boast. H. B * * * s, 2d Albany, 1st Jan., 1850. REMARKABLE INSIGHT. COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. JOHN BALDWIN. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : I know, and realize now, the truth of my case, as stated to me by you. One physician told me one thing, and another one would contradict it, until I lost all confidence in all physicians, beUevtog them all to be a set of ignorant, doubtful humbugs. God knows I had come to the determination to give you the only and last trial to restore me to health. I admit I was cross and Baucy to you, from the Ul-treatment I had received at the hands of other physicians, but you began an examination of my case, which, in fact, astounded me, as every question probed every disease from my head to my feet; and it did seem somewhat miraculous that your examination should bring to light every sore and diseased spot. But it was so. I began to think before you had got through my examination, that my whole body was transparent, and that you saw where every diseased spot in my body was, and touched them with your fingers as you went along. I frankly ac- knowledge that I never had any physidan- look through me before, or one that I Delioved could do it, until your examination. Allow me to say to you, that I have never valued the twenty-five dollars I paid you, and if you call on me I havo twen- ty-five more at your service. I am now well, and on my legs again, and hope to remato so for many years, from my present soundness. I remato your humble servant, John Baldwin, 98 Greenwich-street New Tork, Dec. 6, 1849. OBSTRUCTION—TUBERCULOUS LUNGS. 41& CURE OF SHORT BREATH To Dr. H. K. Root—Sir: Jacob Hinds, gardener. New Jersey, ninety-two years of age, returns Mr. Root his best thanks, (with some vegetables for his acceptance,) for the cure of his cough, and shortness of breathtog, which had been very trouble- Bome for some months, and appeared of a settled character. Under your judicious treatment he is completely restored to health, and again enabled to walk twenty miles a day. His sight and heartog are perfect, and yet his age is ninety-two. July 30, 1848. CURE OF OBSTRUCTION IN THE AIR TUBES OF THE LUNGS. Dr. Root—Sir : With grateful thanks to God, I take the liberty of informing you the benefit I received from taktog your valuable remedies. I was afflicted with an obstruction in the lungs for upwards of three years; I was attended by doctors, but they could give me no relief; not knowing my disorder, I, Uke many others in this country, tried the water doctors, who aU prescribed, and put me to a great expense, all to no service. I was in as low a state as man ever was—no one ever thought I could Uve a single day longer, nor did I expect myself ever to be better. But pro- videntially one of my friends, who had reason to remember the efficacy of your to- valuable "natural remedies," persuaded me to see you: for which interview I Bhall ever remain thankful, as from that day I began gradually to mend, and in one month was completely restored to health and vigor. I hope this wttl be made pubUc for the good of my fellow-citizens. Trusting that the earth's choicest blessings may attend you to your works of mercy, I remato, Sir, yours ever gratefully, Henry J. Lovelace. Brooklyn, L. I., October 20, 1848. A CURE OF TUBERCULOUS LUNGS. Dr. H. K. Root—Sir : I feel it a duty I owe you, through whose instrumentattty I am restored to health, to lay my case before you, which, for the benefit of the pub- Uc at large, I authorize you to make what use you think proper of. From excessive blowing on every kind of wind instrument, as leader of bands in the navy, with the heavy duty of master-at-arms, my health and general constitu- tion has been considerably impaired. Attacked with tubercles and ulcers in the lungs, general debUity followed, so that I was compelled to lay aside the operative part of my profession, and sought for a remedy to my growing disease, which I found could not be effected by the bracing medictoe given me by the doctors: when, by the blessing of heaven, I met with you, and, to my astonishment, received great relief from the first week I took your re- medies and after following your advice for three weeks, I was perfectly restored, and capable of going through all my old exertions with confidence and ease; and' what is best of all, I feel assured of having secured my health, (barring all accidents,) to a gcod old age. With the conviction that your system of purifying the blood, and thereby securing health by means of "natural remedies" only, is correct, I am, Sir, your debtor for my health, Most sincerely yours, George Horlack. 420 INWARD HUMORS—SWELLED NECK' BLEEDING LUNGS CURED. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : Knowing that too much testimony cannot be givon to favor of one who justly merits praise, I wish to inform you of the benefit I have received from the use of the course of medicine sent me, and from following your advice. I was greatly reduced by frequent bleeding from the lungs; I usually dis- charged near half a pint of blood at a time. I was obUged to relinquish iny catting, and thought myself quite past recovery. I employed a number of the most emtoent physicians to city and country, to whom I paid a large amount of money, without receiving any permanent benefit; they at length despaired of affording me any re- lief; and advised me to visit the South and try the influence of a warm climate; but having fortunately seen the lungs pierced with a dirk, to one of your papers to the hands of a friend, I was made by it to hope that I might be saved. I sent to you $25 for a course of medicine. Before I had taken them up, I was restored to health. I now have a good appetite, have regained my flesh, and feel myself well, and have resumed business agato. I do most earnestly recommend your mode of treatment as most salutary and effective. Tours to the bonds of christian love, RODOLPHUS BOGART, Minister in the M. E. Church. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 10, 1851. INWARD HUMORS, STIFFNESS OF JOINTS, NUMBNESS, GENERAL DE- BILITT, &c, CURED. One year ago I was suddenly attacked with a severe sore throat; the pallet seemed to be ulcerated; and after trying many remedies which had been recommended to me, without any relief) I employed several physicians, without receiving but little benefit from their prescriptions or medicines. Soon after this I began to feel quite a soreness and distress to my stomach and att over my system, together with a stiffness of joints, and numbness, and general debility, and much distress from my food; and being fully satisfied that all these complaints proceeded from an inward humor, I was induced to apply to Dr. H. K. Root for a course of his Blood Medicines, having heard them highly spoken of for the cure of difficulties arising from a bad blood I was five weeks taktog up the articles he gave me, and at the end of that (now three months) I declare I was completely dettvered from all the distresstog symptoms that had afflicted me, I would commend his remedies and practice to aU troubled with disease. John B. Forbes^ Machinist. New Tork, March 8, 1849. SCROFULOUS SWELLED NECK. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : It is with great pleasure that I inform you that your me- dictoes have been most astonishingly successful in completely removing from my daughter's throat and neck, a large scrofulous tumor or swetting, which we first ob- served about ten years ago, and which conttoued to grow and tocrease to size till it became as large as a person's fist, producing great deformity, and uneasiness by ita pressure upon her throat so that many times it was almost impossible for her to get GOITRE—SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION. 421 her breath; your medictoes have, however, happily removed it, and now ?ot a ves- tige remains to be seen. It was nine months from the time she commenced -wmtr your remedies tiU the swelling was completely destroyed With great respect, ELIPHALET T. BARROll Concord, N. H., Sept 1, 1850. ENORMOUS BRONCHIAL GOITRE CURED. Dr. Root—Sir : Enclosed I send you the certificate of a lady who has been un- der treatment by you for a goitre, or derbyshire neck. Tou witt see that she hay been perfectly cured. We regard it as a most astonishing case, for the lady ha^ previously consulted many physicians and taken a large amount of medicines, aF to no purpose. Mrs. H. is a married lady, next neighbor to me, so that I know he* certificate to be true. Tours, &c. Jonas Hale, Merchant. Toledo, Ohio, June 12, 1851. I hereby certify that I have been afflicted with a very large goitre, or sweUed neck, of the most alarming kind. It was for ten years graduaUy but constantly en larging, until I was unable to do any kind of needle work; I had no hope left me, but was constantly to dread of suffocation from the rapid enlargement of the tumor Happily, however, a friend recommended me to write to Dr. Root, of New Tork. I did so, and ordered from him a course of medicine, thinking I would try onc< more, though I had but faint hopes of experiencing any benefit. But soon after 1 commenced using his remedies, the swelling began to go down. I was encouraged, and persevered to the use of Ins medicines, (taking four fuU courses in aU,) and now, I am most happy to say, I am entirely cured of the goitre, as well as much improved to my general health This cure was effected in 1849, and though two years have now elapsed, my health is still good—nor is there any sign of a return of the swell- tog. Mrs. Jane Havens. Toledo, Ohio, June 9, 1851. CASE OF SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION. Dr. Root—My Dear Sir : My daughter has received the most astonishing bene- fits from the use of the remedies you sent us—so truly astonishing that I cannot forbear to return you our sincere and heartfelt thanks. Indeed, it does seem to me that my dear daughter has been rescued as it were from the very grave; for I had given up all hopes of her recovery to health titt recommended to you. For six months the natural flow to which unmarried females are subject was suppressed; and un- der the effects of this truly alarming derangement she fast declined to health, till her former bloom was replaced by a lodk more resembling that of a corpse than a Uving person. She could not watte across the room alone, and I expected to soon mourn her snatched from a mother's arms. I appUed to several physicians to this place, but none of them afforded my daughter any reUef. At last, when it seemed that one foot was already in the grave, we wrote to you. And r ow, through the 422 HEART DISEASE—DROPST—DTSPEPSIA. Bavtog power of your remedies, she is restored to full health and to her former beauty. Truly the heart of a mother is rejoiced; and I know not how to thank you suffi. ciently for saving my dear daughter's Ufe. As she is to be married next week, 1 thought to inform you of the wonderful cure to her case, that you might rejoice with us. With a mother's warmest thanks, I am, dear sir, gratefully, Tour obUged servant Mrs. C----H. B----. Chickopee, Mass., August 9, 1841. A COMMON CASE. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Albany, My Dear Sir :—My wffe has been perceptibly sinking for some three years or more, to consequence of her great anguish and suffering some months before and during her confinement; every successive one more and more debttitated and pros- trated her, putting her Ufe to imminent danger, and which was, on the last occasion, iespaired of. I supposed that this state of things was inevitable, and resigned myself to meet the worst. Fortunately at this timo, (now a year ago,) I was told that you could give m© such advice as would save the Ufe of my wffe. Tou wttl remember that I caUed upon you; and I cannot express the reUef your words af- forded to my distressed mind. They opened a prospect to me, which I little con- ceived was possible. But for this, ere another year would have passed over my head, to aU human probabiUty, my wife would have been to her grave, and my chUdren left motherless. Now, thanks to you, my wffe is well and happy, spared to me and to our chUdren, to be a comfort and blessing to us att With the most unbounded thankfulness, I am, dear sir, your obUged friend, J----- H. W-----. Albany, July 6, 1852. HEART DISEASE, DROPST, DTSPEPSIA, &c, CURED. I had been troubled with dyspepsia for over thirty years, and had made a trial of all nostrums advertised for the cure of that disease, and had applied to several emi- nent physicians, but could obtato no reUef. I could eat nothing without distress, and my food tasted more like sand than anything eatable. Once to about a week, I had coUc pains of the worst kind, that would last me sometimes twenty-four hours. Fortunately one of Dr. Root's circulars was thrown toto our house. I was at once struck with the rationattty and beauty of bis theory. I, with my wffe (who had been afflicted over twelve years with a heart difficulty, dropsy, strangury, Ac), immediately consulted the Doctor at his office. He at once told us that he could cure us, and we accordtogly procured medicine, which had the most wonderful effed with us both I did not have a colic pato after commencing with the Doctor's medictoe; it has been some time since I have taken any, and am now perfectly weU. I can eat anything without the least pain, and everything tastes good. My wife's dropsical swetting has entirely ceased; she can now go up stairs without get- ting out of breath, and her other difficulties have entirely left her. We are now ASTHMA—DEEP CONSUMPTION. 423 both of us in the enjoyment of good health, of which we have been deprived the best part of our lives. Our cases are few among many whom the Doctor has cured to my certain knowledge. We have the greatest veneration for his truly remarka- ble pkiil, and would say, ff you are sick, go immediately to Dr. Root, who witt cure you. Harvey J. Bliss. Boston, May 8, 1852. CURE OF ASTHMA, PAIN IN THE HEAD, &c. To DR. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : The remedies you recommended to Mrs. Ham- Bon when we providentially met you, whUst journeying to Leicester, I have taken myself, as we thought it better for me to commence, that we might observe their effects previous to their being administered to her, to the afflicted state you saw her. For the last ntoe years I have been afflicted with an asthmatic complaint, attend- ed with a constant pato in the head, noise in my ears, dimness of sight, and dread- ful nausea, arising from the disordered state of my system, which I beUeve was choked with the impure humors of the blood; and in proof of what I now state, am persuaded that it has been rapidly spreading for some time. From these dis- tressing forms of disease I never expected reUef; but now I declare I am perfectly cured. Gratitude to the Almighty, as the dispenser of all good, with duty to you and my afflicted fellow creatures, dictates the step I have now taken to publicly ac- knowledging the benefit received Tours to gratitude Jacob Harrison. Baxter-gate, Loughborough, March 9, 1848. ANOTHER CURE OF A DEEP CONSUMPTION. To Dr. H. K. Root—Sir: Residing in France, where I had long labored to a hopeless state of consumption, from which I could get no reUef from the first of the faculty, a friend in New Tork who was well acquainted with your abttities in eradi- cating all diseases from the blood, prevailed on me to come to America, and as a last resort to put myself under your care and directions. I came—we met, you gave me hope at the first interview, and in the extremely short time of two months, performed a perfect cure, for which I can never sufficiently express my eternal grati- tude. It is now five months since my recovery, and as I have had no indication of a relapse I now give my case for pubttcity. I am about to return to France, where I shaU carry self-evident proofs to the afflicted of the weU attested efficacy of your remedies. Accept sir, my profound regards, and highest sense of gratitude, for this new ife you have given me, and beUeve me ever, Tour obUged and humble servant, Mente Sanohl Jan. 1<>. 1848. 424 BHEUMATTSM—DTSPEPSIA—SCROFULA. DESPERATE CASE OF RHEUMATISM. I DO hereoy certify that I was grievously diseased with the iheumatism foi over eleven years. During that time my right leg became two inches shorter than the other, by reason of the pain in my right hip. At the end of eleven years :1 became much worse, and settled to both legs and every joint in me, so that I could not stoop down and pick anything from the floor. My knees were thrown asunder, so that I could not bring them together within seven inches. My feet, legs, and hips became so cold, that in winter I very often burned them in trying to get them warm. My appetite began to fatt, and my activity forsook me. After trying every- thing that was ever thought of, I gave up all hopes of ever being any better. But seeing the advertisements of Dr. H. K. Root in the Boston papers last winter, I de- termined to try once more. Accordtogly I sent to him, and received a course of medicine, with directions. I commenced treatment, and to six weeks I was com- pletely relieved and restored to perfect health If any one thinks that this is not true, let him call on me, and see for himseff Philip Hale Chelsea, Mass., June 6, 1851. CASE OF SIXTEEN TEARS' STANDING. Dear Sir—It is now sixteen years since I was first troubled with the dyspepsia, and derangement of the stomach. I have taken advice of the best physicians in this city and New Tork, in London, Paris, Germany, and Italy, followed their pre- scriptions, and visited the several sulphur and other springs in this country, the watering places of Germany, and elsewhere to Europe, and had found no relief. Stoce taking your medicines, I have never bad a return of the dyspepsia, which daily troubled me of late years to a very great degree. My appetite has returned; the extreme flatulence, severe constipation of the bowels, general debUity, and sleepless nights under which I suffered, have entirely left me. Having found so great rettef from this most discouraging disorder, I have recommended a trial of your medicines to many of my friends, who are now using them to great advantage. And I cannot refrain from writing to you in their favor and praise, for the good you have bestowed upon the community; and trust that what little is in my scope to offer in extending the circulation of your remedies, will be done with grateful plea- sure at all times. Tours, very respectfully, J. B. O'S., Clergyman. Philadelphia, Aug. 8, 1851. CASE OF SCROFULA ALL OVER. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : The effects of your system of practice to this vicin- ity have been truly surprising, for I have not heard of a single instance in which it has not done all that was expected, and one case is particularly worthy of note. It is that of a lady, who has suffered from a scrofulous affection for thirteen years, during which time she has tried medicines innumerable, and been under the care of the most celebrated physicians of this and other States, without obtaining relief Ife.;i-.--.,s ~_.'i. ''.£> Xs-i<-- t-;-" rr,r".'TPsi of the disease, that her face was at times an LADT SAVED—GRUB IN THE LIVER. 425 entire sore, and the sight of one eye had been lost for many years. Her body was broken out with scrofulous sores in every part. Such was her condition last spring. At that time, by my advice, she sent on a description of her case to you, with money for medicines to relieve her. During the summer she took three courses of your medicines; before the first was finished, there were decided signs of improve- ment. To att appearance she is now cured. The sores are entirely healed, she has to a great measure regained the sight of her eye, her general health is good, and her flesh is acquiring its natural color. This wonderful cure i3 known in all the immediate neighborhood, and it has added to your reputation. There are several other hard cases here, which I hope to induce to apply to you, that they may be cured. RespectfuUy, Henry J. Spaulding. Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 9, 1851. SAVED FROM DEATH. To G. D. H, Esq., Hartford. My dear Brother :—It affords me the most unfeigned pleasure to be able to Btate that I now consider the Ufe of your sister, my dear Jane, safe from the death I had long feared would finally be hers. When our last child was born, now three years ago, through the carelessness or ignorance of her attending physician, my wife was so injured that thereafter she was not able to retain the fruit of the womb, but, when about three months with child would be subject to abortion, causing the most frightful bleedings, which, as you are well aware, have no less than four times placed her life in the most imminent danger. But, thank heaven, through the ad- vice of a friend, she is now safe! I was told to write to Dr. Root, 512 Broadway, New Tork. I did so, stated the difficulty to him, and have found the means ot safety at last, for which I am truly thankful. If there ever was a blessing to females to preserve Ufe and health, it is found in the articles I received from Dr. R. J. H. P. New Haven, Oct. 8, 1851. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : I enclose to you a letter from my brother-in-law, in New Haven, which you are at Uberty to use, pubttcly, provided you choose to do so over initials only. Enclosed are $5, for which please to send me by return of matt, the saving remedies alluded to to the letter enclosed With respect G. D. H. Hartford, Oct. 20, 1851. CASE OF GRUB IN THE LIVER. Dear Sir :—I send you a statement of the effect produced in my case, by your treatment, which you can pubttsh for the benefit of those similarly afflicted. Foi three years previous to my writing to you last spring, I had been troubled with a strange sensation in the region of the liver, which I could not adequately explain in words, and which my attending physicians seemed to know nothing of, telling me simply that I had a Uver complaint, probably consumption of the liver. They prescribed for me, but their medictoes did no good. I graduaUy grew worse and 426 VAGINAL POLTPUS— DRIED UP LUNG. 1 worse, the strange sensation becoming every day more and more horrible to bear At this point I chanced to see one of your circulars, speaking of grub in tlie liver. I immediately wrote to you describing my case, and received an answer which in- duced me to send for a course of your medictoe. Thank God I did so; for I have no doubt but that for what you sent me, I should be to the grave, whereas, I am at this time entirely reUeved from my difficulty, and to the possession of a degree of health greater than I have enjoyed before to many years. In two weeks after I commenced taktog your medicines the strange feeUng I have aUuded to entirely departed, and from that time I conttoued to improve, till now I weigh thirty pounds more than I did last fall. Truly thankful that you have saved my Ufe, I am, respectfully yours, Oscar Davis, Palmer, Mass. To Dr. H. K. Root, New Tork. VAGINAL POLTPUS CURED. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : The medictoes you sent us for the difficulty with Which my wife was troubled, have produced the most astonishing result. The tumor, or polypus, has disappeared, shrinking up gradually until it no longer causes the slightest trouble. My wife suffered for two years with this polypus, but we did not dare to have it removed by a surgical operation, fearing it would cost her Ufe, for an immediate neighbor of ours, who was troubled with a polypus in the vagina, and who submitted to an operation three years ago, died the foUowing day from the effects thereof, which was a warning to us. We tried many medicines, but in vain, and we were almost to despair, when a friend handed me a copy of the " Medical Adviser," in which we noticed that you spoke of cures of the vaginal tumor. This toduced me to write to you for medicines, and truly they have proved them- selves worthy the name of infallible. Myself and wtte send you our heartfelt thanks. With due respect, 0. B. P. Portsmouth, N. H., May 1, 1850. CASE OF DRIED UP LUNG. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : Tou wttl recollect that when you were in this city last winter I procured from you a course of medicine for an acquaintance of mine, who was thought to be near bis end with quick consumption. He was then unable to rise from his bed, and was extremely feeble. His physician informed him that his right lung was completely destroyed, or dried up, and that the left one was badly diseased. His friends beUeved he must soon die, unless relief could be obtained for him and I toduced them to give you a trial. After procuring tho medicine, I im- mediately left town, and you may judge of my surprise on my return, to meet him in the street on my way home from the cars, and find he had entirely recovered Eight weeks from the day hd commenced taking your medicine, he was at work at his arduous trade of a carpenter. Although this may be a strong case, it is not the only one to which, to my certato knowledge, your skill has wrought almost miracles, Truly yours, Jonas C. Miller, Boston, May 10, 1852. House Builder LOSS OF SMELL—ASTHMA. 427 LOSS OF SMELL RESTORED. This will certify, that, for one year previous to last sprtog, I was entirely deprived of the power of smell, resulting from a violent and long-continued catarrh. During this time, I appUed to three of the most eminent physicians to this city, but they not only did not afford me any relief, but expressed an opinion that I would never be restored to the use of the sense. FinaUy I went to New Tork and appUed to Dr. H. K. Root He said he could cure me; and though I somewhat doubted it I paid him $20, and got a course of medicine. I commenced to take the remedies, and to four weeks my catarrh had entirely disappeared, and my sense of smell was restored as acute as it ever was, and has so continued to this time. Artemas B. Rich. Albany, July 10, 1852. CURE OF ASTHMA. Dr. H. K. Root—Sir : Havtog been a great sufferer from asthma, for twenty years, and lately derived so much benefit from a few weeks' use of Dr. Root's reme- dies, I feel grateful in making the acknowledgment, hoping it may lead others to the same means, and happy termination. During the above period (twenty years), I have been under various medical treat- ment to different parts of Europe and South America, but to no purpose. I now enjoy rest at night, relish my food, and with cheerfulness attend to business. I am, sir, yours respectfully, Arthur Clare. New Tork, Sept. 6, 1851. CURE OF ASTHMATIC AFFECTION. Mr. H. K. Root—Snt: It is with great pleasure and satisfaction that I now ad- dress you, the purport of which is, to state to you my late distressing case, and to request, for the benefit of others, that you witt make it pubUc, and my cure, from your " universal natural remedies." I was iU for some time, by reason of taking a Bevere cold, which fell upon my chest and lungs, attended with a cough and hoarse- ness, and also with a great deal of expectoration, to a serious extent, for which I appUed to several medical men, and took medictoe for three months regularly, but without any change of my distressing symptoms, until I became weary of their pre- scriptions, and their protracted hopes of dotog me any good. I was at length pre- vailed upon to apply to you. I found but Uttle reUef the first two or three weeks, but at the end of the month I began to feel great reUef, both in my cough, hoarse- ness, and expectoration; and to a week or two more, I was dettvered of my com- platot in a wonderful manner, by the blessing of God and your tostrumentattty, and have conttoued so for several months. I have the happiness to enrol my testi- mony to the long Ust of your miraculous performances, and am conscientiously recommending my feUow sufferers to your advice and sympathy. Sir, yours in gratitude, T. Jones, Jr. New Tork, June 2, 1849. 428 SALT RHEUM—INVOLUNTART EMISSIONS. CURE OF SALT RHEUM. To John H. Mosely, Augusta, Me. Dear Friend—Three years stoce, I was attacked with salt rheum upon my right leg. The eruption was at first very trifling, but exceedingly troublesome; being attended, as usual by a burning, itching sensation. Very soon, however, it began to spread, and in the course of a year, very nearly encompassed the limb, about the knee, until the flesh became raw, to more than the bigness of both of my hands. A copious discharge of a watery humor had long compeUed me to keep it bandaged, both day and night. The irritation continuing and increasing, rendered me, at times, unable to walk without limping. Betog entirely ignorant of the nature of the complaint I dared not apply any remedy to heal it, and became alarmed at the possible result of the difficulty. At this stage of the disease, I happened to read in a newspaper, a statement by Dr. H. K. Root, to the effect that he could cure the worst and most obstinate cases of this disease, when aU other methods of treatment had fatted. Though I had my doubts about the truth of such a statement, I nevertheless sent a description of my case to him, and received by express a course of medicine. I commenced to take them immediately, and before I had finished, was completely cured of the salt rheum, and experienced a general renova- tion of my health. From my own experience, and what I have since learned from my acquaintances, I have perfect confidence in Dr. Root's medicines to cure the most inveterate humors; and as you tell me that you are now troubled with the complatot that once afflicted me, I send you these facts, that you may know where to apply for reUef. With respect, A-----B. S-----, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Portland, Me., April 18, 1851. CASE OF INVOLUNTART EMISSIONS. - Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : I write to you to return my thanks for restora- tion to health. Six months ago, I did not believe that at this time I should be among the Uving; but, thanks to your skillful treatment, I am now well, and, what is further, I feel that I can now with safety enter the matrimonial state without fear. What a change I Six months ago, through the emissions I could not prevent, the results of a habit contracted in youth aud before I was acquainted with its hor- rible effects, I was a skeleton in body, and a miserable being in every way. I felt myself an outcast from society; I looked forward only to the grave, and often me- ditated suicide. Strange that my friends did not know what it was that was has- tening me to the tomb. But, thank heaven, one of your circulars fell into my hand, and by that I was instructed, and also induced to apply to you for relief. Now I glory to being a man, saved from the grave, and placed to the road to happiness, through your skill. In six weeks from this I expect to be married—a consummation of joy that once I never expected to realize. That you may Uve long to save others, Uke myself, ignorantly led astray, is the fervent wish of Tour humble friend, N. 0. K New London, Conn., March IT, 1850. OVARIAN TUMOR—PARALTSIS. 429 AN OVARIAN TUMOR CURED. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : Agreeably to your request to keep you informed of the progress of Mrs. W——s, I write to state that, happily, we now consider her cured ! ! Eight months ago, I would not have believed any medicine that the skill of man could compound would ever destroy that frightful tumor; but that it has disap- peared under the effect of your medical treatment, there is no room for doubt I give you liberty to make this letter pubUc; and, for the benefit of others, wttl state more explicitly the case of my wffe. Three years ago, there appeared a sweUtog upon one side of her abdomen, which increased in size for eleven months, when her physicians pronounced it to proceed from an ovarian tumor. At tho Bame time, she was unfortunately with child, and five months thereafter was put to bed in travail. When the physician arrived, he found that it was impossible for the chttd to be delivered aUve, in consequence of its head, in descending, having forced tho tumor toto the passage to such a way as to not only prevent delivery,, but to nearly fill the entire strait We dared not have the tumor extirpated by operation, fearful of destroying the Ufe of my wife, to consequence of bleeding; and so the chttd had to be taken away piece-meal, by instruments. Determined not to inciu uhe risk of having to perform another such horrible operation, I took a separate chamber, which I have continued to occupy till within the last four weeks. As all the physicians with whom I consulted agreed in saying that the tumor could be got rid of only by a surgical operation, we did not administer medicines, until I met you in Worcester, when you said it could be overcome; and now, nine months later, I write to say that your words have been verified, and that the tumor has disappeared. Gratefully yours, J. H. W. Norwich, August 1,1851. CASE OF PARALTSIS CURED. Ln July, 1849, now two years ago, my eldest daughter was thrown from a wagon, striking upon her side, which accident finally resulted in an almost total paralysis of the left side. Her periodical evacuations were entirely suppressed, and she had lost the power either to retato or expel the urine, and involuntary discharges were the consequence. One side was so completely paralyzed that she could not move a muscle. In this condition she suffered for over a year. We tried several doctors in this time, but none of them did her any good. I then appUed to Dr. Root, of New Tork, who gave me a course of his medicines, and a Magnetic Compass. This treatment proved more successful than I had reason to expect, for in about three weeks afterwards, the periodical suppression was entirely removed, and the invol- untary discharge of urine ceased to annoy her, and in the course of three months, both sensibttity and the power of voluntary motion returned. His remedies seemed to work as ff by magic; and but that we knew the recovery of our daughter was the effect of human skill, we might well have believed a miracle had been performed by some betog higher than man. D. C. B. Greenfield, Mass., July 10, 1851. 430 FALLING OF THE WOMB—ERTSDPELAS. A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : Without detailing the horrors of mind and body of a consumptive tovaUd, surrounded with friends, with bright prospects of future hap- piness, soon to be blasted by death allow me to say to you, my dear sir, your in- genious examination toto the true nature of my case, the life-giving power of your medicines, your kind directions to tho recovery of my health have effected my great cure of consumption. My heart is fitted with tenderness and love for your future prosperity and success. Accept my best respects, and believe me to be your devoted friend and advocator. Wm. H. Wright. North Providence, R. I., April 4, 1849. CASE OF FALLING OF THE WOMB. I have used the abdominal supporter, and a great variety of medicines, for falling of the womb, etc., but could find no reUef. But accidently hearing of Dr. H. K. Root °f New Tork, I caUed to see him; he gave me a Uttle package of herbs. and I took four or five doses, which cured me. Mrs. Elizabeth Cook. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 20, 1850. CURE OF ERTSTPELAS. Dr. Root—Dear Sm: I desire to give my testimony to favor of your celebrated Blood Medicines, in the cure of erysipelas. And this I do from my own experience. My family physician said I could not Uve. A counctt of physicians pronounced me to a dying state. Both my limbs, from the knee down, were so swoUen that the Bkin was cracked open to many places, and of so dark a purple color, that it was Bupposed they had commenced mortifying. I could not move except with the greatest difficulty on crutches. I obtained a course of your medicines, and now, at the end of eight weeks, I am perfectly cured, and am as well and hearty as any man of my age, which is T3 years. The cure to my case is considered in this vicinity truly the most remarkable ever known. With the highest esteem, J-- H. W--, Ex- County Judge. Charlestown, Mass., March 28, 1851. TESTIMONIALS OF TWO LADIES. Dr. H. K. Root has, by his great intuitive knowledge, ingenuity and perseve- rance, in detecting and fully ascertaining the secret.of Ufe and health, achieved the highest honor of his profession. He is a perfect, accomplished, Lady Doctor— skillful, successful, kind, sympathizing and obttging in the cure of diseases peculiar to ladies. I have never seen his equal to my case either by physicians in Europe or America Emtline Howland. New Tork, Dec. 10, 1849. FROM A PHTSICIAN AND A LADT. 431 I have been cured of diseases pecuUar to females by the celebrated Dr. H. K. Root 612 Broadway, New Tork. Lucy Phelps. New Tork, July 20,1850. RECOMMENDATION FROM A PHTSICIAN. For that dreadful and destructive disease, consumption, attended with large ex- pectoration, bleeding lungs, night sweats, and wasting of flesh, Dr. H. K. Root ia the physician, and the only physician to rely upon. The Doctor's keen eyes and quick understanding detect the lurking seeds of consumption to the blood, when no other Doctor could do so. BeUeve me, Dr. R. has no equal on the globe for ame- liorating the condition of the sick. Charles Gardner, MD. Buffalo, Nov. 20, 1850. ANOTHER CASE OF CONSUMPTION. When I had been given up to die with consumption by att of my physicians, a new hope fitted my soul of recovering sweet health. Dr. H. K. Root, of New Tork, I had full confidence to as betog the instrument of my redemption. Physicians, having given me up to die, learned of my applying to Doctor Root, and took the U- berty to caU and tell me my case was incurable, and that Dr. Root was a quack, and I should certainly die if I took his medicines. Die I must without medicines; die I must with the physicians I had had; and to die with Dr. Root's medicines, as I was told I should, I must say, hemmed me in with death on every side. I perseveringly tried Dr. R.'s remedies, which soon relieved my cough, pain, expectoration, and diarrhoea, and flesh returned to my bones, strength to my muscles, Ufe to my eyes, and blooming health, which is the Pearl of Great Price. When weU, I directed a note to those physicians, thanking them for their uncalled-for kindness and sym- pathy to my hour of sorrow and affliction. Mrs. J-----H. A-----. New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 20, 1850. ANOTHER LADT'S TESTIMONT. This is to testify that I have suffered for a long time with the liver complaint, falling of the womb, nervous fits, and other weaknesses, such as are common to females. To all appearance I was fast going toto a consumption. My complatots were such as to confine me to my bed. I had also lost all hope of ever being agato restored to health, till happtty I saw a notice of Dr. Root's, and was induced to caU on him at his office in New Tork. He gave me a full course of medicine, with much valuable advice, which I endeavored to follow; and by doing so, and osing his remedies, I am happy to say my health has been completely restored. My nusband feels deeply grateful to Dr. R. I would recommend any of my sex, trou- bled with female difficulties, to call on him. Mrs. R. H. Hartford, Nov. 30, 1851. 432 WHITE SWELLING—CANCEROUS ULCERS. WHITE SWELLINGS—ULCERATIONS AND EXFOLIATION HEALED. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : I wish to present you the facte in the extraordinary cure of my aunt, Mrs. Washburn, Uving with me in this place, by two courses o*. your medicines; the first of which I obtained at your office in person, the second sent us by express. This case proves your skitt in the treatment of this class oi complaints. Mrs. W. has been afflicted for the last sixteen years with necrosis 01 white swelttngs, attended with ulcerations and exfoliation of various bones, dur- ing which time many pieces have been discharged from the frontal bone of the cra- nium, from both her arms, wrists and hands, and from both legs, and from tlie left femoral bone, and from the right knee, besides painful ulcers on other parts of her person, which have baffled the skill of a number of the most eminent physicians of our city. During most of the time her sufferings have been excruciating and deplo- rable. About six months since she commenced with your medicines, and they had an astonishingly happy effect upon her, by removing all pain and swellings, and caus- ing the ulcers to heal while at the same time her general health has become com- pletely restored, so that she now weighs some 201bs. more than she did before she commenced their use. No one, I am sure, need despair of being cured of a white swelling, when they hear of this truly extraordinary case. Samuel Beresford, Attorney. Buffalo, Aug. 16, 185L CANCEROUS ULCERS OF THE WOMB CURED. This certifies that I was for upwards of five years grievously afflicted with an ul- cerated womb, (according to the testimony of physicians,) which gave me the most excruciating pains at times, reduced me to a skeleton, and also made child-bearing im- possible. During all this time I suffered more than tongue or pen can tell; and only one who has been similarly afflicted, can have the sUghtest idea of the agonies this terrible affliction occasioned. My regular physicians prescribed for me about three years, and then declared the case was beyond their skiU; and told my hus- band that the disease would carry me to the grave to a very few months. But as we clung to hope, and sought every possible way of escape, Mr. H. purchased large quantities of syrups and sarsaparttlas which we saw advertised, trying no less than eight different kinds, but they did not help me. I had almost begun to despair, and my friends thought I could live but a few days longer, when an aunt of ours from Worcester, Mass., made my family a visit. She had but just recovered from a long attack of malignant scrofula, under the treatment of Dr. H K. Root, of New Tork, and insisted that I should apply to him. After much persuasion on her part, my husband was induced to visit Dr. R., and state my case to him. He returned with a course of medicine, which I began to take, and in four weeks thereafter I began to feel much better than 1 had at any time in the five years previous. More medi- dnes were obtained from Dr. R., and I continued to use them for six months, at the end of which period, strange as it may seem, I found that my difficulties had entirely disappeared. My health returned; I fleshed up wonderfutty, and since then have had a sweet babe added to our family. I am truly grateful to Dr. Root for restoring me to health and happiness, and shiJl neTer forget him while my Ufe is Bpared Mrs. 0. B. BL Jersey City, Dec. 31, 1850. BLEEDING LUNGS—CANCER—GRUB. 433 EXTRAORDINART CURE OF BLEEDING LUNGS. t To Dr. Root—Sir : I beg to acquaint you of the astonishing reUef I have obtatoed from your invaluable advice, and stUl more invaluable remedies. I have for some time past been subject to bleeding from the lungs, attended with extreme weakness and general debility of my whole frame, which, together with the continual cough- ing and shortness of breath, rendered me unable, at times, to do any ktod of work, or scarcely to walk. I had recourse to various medicines to obtain relief, but aU proved ineffectual; my complaint stUl remained, and I had given up all hopes of ob- taining it, believing, after what had been tried, that it was impossible—that my case was one of those for which no remedy could be found. But I was happily intro- duced to you, and within eight weeks was in such a state of health as I had not for many years before enjoyed. Having now adopted your remedies for a short time only, I have scarcely any remains of my complaint, and beUeve I shaU be perfectly restored to health and strength in another month or two. I feel it vaj duty to do my utmost to making known to others your truly precious remedies. If you choose to publish my case, I am ready to satisfy any one who may apply. I am, Sir, your humble servant, William Stockton Brooklyn, L. I., April 1, 1862. EXTRAORDINART CURE OF CANCER. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir: I have been for more than fifteen years afflicted with cancerous tumors to both my breasts, for which every possible means, as I thought, were used for their removal, without the slightest benefit They contin- ued in size and patofutoess until they became running cancers. My friends gave up aU hopes of my life. At length one of your papers was left at our residence, to which I saw a representation of a case of cancer exactly like my own, cured by you. At that time it was with difficulty I could raise my hands to my head, neither could I dress or undress myself without assistance. My husband then caUed on you and got some medicines, which I began to take. I continued them for five months, and they eflect!ed a perfect cure. The ulcers have healed, and the pain and hardness are removed. I feel that I have been rescued from the jaws of death; and I can, therefore, conscientiously recommend all similarly afflicted to call on you. With gratitude and esteem, Lucy Lord, West Sixteenth si New Tork, March 1,1851. BLEEDING LUNGS AND GRUB. To Gerald W. Higgins, Richmond. Dear Sir : As you have requested a statement from me of the difficulty with which I was afflicted a year ago, together with the means of my cure, I will en- deavor to comply. After havtog been troubled with a severe cough an• REMARKABLE CURE OF PLEURIST. This certifies that I have used Dr. H. K. Root's celebrated German Ointment for a severe attack of pleurisy, and have found decided reUef by its use; I therefore FALLING OF THE WOMB—LADT SAVED. 441 cheerfuUy recommend it as betog a safe and tovaluable medicine for this terrible disease. Henry D Wdlcox. Chester, Mass., Nov. 23, 1845. FITS, FALLING OF THE WOMB, AND GRAVEL. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : I am at a loss how to express the value of your medictoes for the above complaints, as I have for a long time been afflicted with them, attended with fits from two to twenty times a day. Having had some of the most eminent physicians without receiving any help, I had made up my mind to suffer, tiU one of my neighbors persuaded me to send to Dr. Root, and get some of his medicines. I procured the Heart Regulator, Blood Renovator, Water Corrector and Female Wash. These articles entirely cured me in two months' time. Two months have passed, and not the least of the complaints have made their appear- ance. A sense of duty has caused me to bear testimony to the above, that others may know where to obtain relieC Mrs. J. H. B. Saratoga, Nov. 8, 1851. SAVED BT THE LUNG CORRECTOR AND INHALING FLUID. Dr. Root—Sir: Last spring I was severely afflicted with a cough, which my friends and physicians thought would terminate in an incurable consumption. I gave up all hope of being cured, as my physicians could do nothing for me. I then bought a bottle of sarsaparttla, but instead of doing me any good, it seemed to drive the disease in, and fasten it more firmly in my system, and instead of maktog me stronger by its use, I became so weak I could scarcely hold up my head. One of my famtty fortunately saw your advertisement, and I sent for three bottles of your Lung Corrector and two bottles of the Inhaling Fluid. The first doses of these I used, 1 felt better. They produced a remarkable sensation through my whole body, and I began to improve to strength rapidly. My dry, hacking cough left me,vand I felt like a new man. Although this is an imperfect statement of my case, yet I firmly beUeve these medictoes saved my Ufe, and I wish to testify my thanks. Tours, &c. Wm. Heyworth, Clerk. Providence, July 9, 1851. ANOTHER LADT SAVED. Dr Root—Dear Sir: I wish I could tell all that suffer with a cough, what your Lung Corrector has done for me. It does seem they might be benefited by the information. I had a lung fever which left my lungs weak and inflamed. Betog very feeble and unable to gain strength at att, my friends thought I must soon sink in consumption. I had no appetite, and a dreadful cough was fast wearing me away I began to take your beautiful medictoe, by the advice of a clergyman, who had seen ita effects before. It eased my cough at first, and gave me rest at night In less than a fortnight I could eat well, and my cough had ceased to be trouble- some, mj* appetite returned, and my food nourished me, which soon restcred my 142 HEART DISEASE—CHOLERA AND WORMS. strength. Now, after five weeks, I am well and strong, with no other help than your Lung Corrector. Tours, with respect, Sarah Bevtns. Cleveland, Ohio, June 12, 1850. I hereby certify that the above statement of my wife is to conformity with my own views of her case and her cure by Dr. Root's Lung Corrector. Joseph Bevtns PALPITATION OF THE HEART.- Dr. Root—Dear Sir: My little daughter, aged ntoe years, was afflicted with palpitation of the heart, attended with depression of spirits, loss of appetite and general languor. The symptoms became alarming. I had recourse to your Heart Regulator. The effect was wonderful. One dose stopped the palpitation entirely I I conttoued to administer it for about four weeks, and an entire cure was effected. One year has now elapsed, and not a symptom of the disease has returned. With great esteem, Wm. Meigs. New Haven, Feb. 6, 1851. A CURE FOR QUINST, CROUP, Ac. I have been cured of quinsy, or a severe sore throat, with Dr. H K, Root's celebrated German Ointment—the wonder of the age. Joseph C. Whitney. SPRrNGFTELD, Mass., Nov. 20, 1846. I have witnessed the same speedy effect from Dr. H. K. Root's Ointment. Irena Stockwell. New Hartford, Ct., July 1, 1847. SAVED FROM CHOLERA AND WORMS. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : Though I may be a stranger to you, you are not to me. I have become acquatoted with you through your invaluable medictoes. Tou have been the means, under God, of saving the Ufe of my only surviving child, and I should feel myself ungrateful not to express the deep feeUngs of obligation I am under to you for havtog sent forth medicines so weU calculated to reUeve and as- suage the Uls of our suffering world. Let me state the case of my loved chttd She is nearly five years old; was attacked with cholera to a most violent manner. For a time I gave her up as lost. I used your Dysentery Specific and Anti-BUious Pills freely. She threw up two worms, which inclined me to believe worms to be con' nected with the attack. I consequently gave your Worm Killer. The disease was checked, and judge my surprise to see a discharge of worms, knotted together, some of them eight or nine toches long, kttled by that tovaluable remedy. She is now wett, and I am confident nothing but this remedy could have saved her. I havo ased your medictoes for some four years with great success, and value them very highly. With grateful respect, Herbert Longstreet, D. D. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. l, 1850. FITS—PALPITATION—CATARRH. 443 EPH.EPTIC FITS AND PALPITATION OF THE HEART. Bv the request of Dr. H. K. Root's agent I hereby state that for the past six years I have beon subject to attacks of epileptic fits of a severe character, which were gradually increasing to severity, and had rendered my general health very poor. I also had constant palpitation of the heart I tried many things, and con- sulted many physicians, but with very Uttle relief. The Heart Regulator and Blood Renovator were recommended to me; which I procured and used with the Anti- BUious Pills, according to directions. The effect was an immediate benefit—and by peraeverance in their use, I now feel justified to saying that I have quite recovered my health having had no attack of epttepsy for over seven months. Charles Carpenter. Boston, Mass., Dec. 2, 1849. WONDERFUL GOOD FOR FRESH WOUNDS. Dear Sir: I received a severe wound on the knee-joint with an axe, which gave me much fear of losing my Umb. I was persuaded to use the Great German Remedy caUed the German Ointment, prepared by Dr. H K. Root, which extracted the inflammation, healed the wound, and restored it to immediate use. Joseph Law. Beoket, Mass., Oct. 1,184b. CASE OF CATARRH CURED. Dr. Root—Dear SrR: I wish to give my evidence in favor of the remarkable properties of your Catarrh Snuff, to the cure of that distressing affection, catarrh I was severely troubled with this complaint for many years, sometimes almost choking me to strangulation. Frequently I have been awakened by it to the night, and thought that I should certainly die, by reason of its seeming to fill up my throat and head completely. For eight years I tried first one thing and then an- other, to vain endeavors to get rid of my complatot, but all to no avail; it kept growing worse and worse, to spite of my efforts for reUef; and, I doubt not, but that I providentiaUy fell to with your remedy, it would finally have^ caused my death. Early last spring (one year ago) I was in New Tork, and had the fortune to pick up one of your circulars in a hotel. It gave me courage to try one more remedy. I procured at your office two vials of the Catarrh Snuff, a box of PUls and a bottle of the Blood Renovator. On my return, I commenced the use of these articles, and before they were gone I was not only reUeved, but as I truly beUeve, permanently cured, for I have not had a return of the catarrh up to this tune. I recommend it to all I meet troubled with this affection, and I know of not less than twenty cases whero it has proved equally valuable as with myseff Tou are at Uberty to make this public. With much esteem, Henry G. Seaman, Flour Merchant Buffalo, N. T, June 10,1852. 444 DYSPEPSIA—DIARRHOEA—BLINDNESS. INFLAMMATION IN THE ETES. This certifies that I have used Dr. H. K. Root's German Ointment and Eye Water, for inflammation in my eyes, which effected a speedy and permanent cure. I have also used the Ointment in my family for toflammatery complatots, and believe it to be the best compound for inflammatory diseases that has been introduced into my family. Dwight Gibbh. Otis, Mass., Sept. 1, 1845. ANOTHER GREAT CURE OF DTSPEPSIA. Tlie Blood Renovator and Anti-Bilious Pills. Dr. H. K. Root—Respected Sir : I feel that no sense of pride, or deUcacy, Bhould deter me from expressing pubttdy my gratitude, for the astonishing power and efficacy of your Blood Renovator and Anti-Bilious Pills, to restoring me to health affer suffertog more than six years from dyspepsia and Uver complaint during which time I had the best medical advice, with no benefit except temporary reUef Some three years ago, my case became more hopeless, from an attack or diar- rhoea, which confined me to my bed for eight weeks, causing great prostration of the whole system. I obtatoed a little relief) but tlie diarrhoea continued, and the constant pato and suffering I endured, can hardly be described; the most dettcate food distressed me, causing severe headache, flatulency, and acidity of the stomach; my spirits, too. at times, were so depressed from the disease, that I felt as if nothing could ever make me cheerful again; even the singing of birds, and music, of which I was always so fond, tended only to fiU my soul with sadness, and render my spirits more gloomy and depressed About two months ago, I was so much* reduced that I could eat scarcely any food whatever, and was obliged to take my bed, to despair of ever getting any better, and feeUng that my disease was beyond the power of medictoe. At this time I read one of your advertisements, and obtained some medictoes. However Burpristog, it is nevertheless true, that I was almost immediately reUeved of every symptom of my various complaints, and gained so rapidly, that I was a wonder to aU who knew me after ustog them for about two months. I am now to better health than I have enjoyed for many years, and attribute my restoration, by tlie grace of God, to your tovaluable medicines. I shall recommend al who suffer from any similar complaints, to try these wonderful remedies. Respectfully yours, Miss Jane E. Burdick. Springfield, March 6, 1851. BLINDNESS CURED. Dr Root—Sir : In return to you for the extraordinary cure wrought upon me by the use of your Blood Renovator, Anti-BUious Pills and Eye Water, I take this opportunity to bear testimony to the afflicted, that it is by the use of the above medicines only that I am indebted for the restoration of my sight Last spring I Was taken with an inflammation to my eyes, which tocreased to blindness, or so FALLING OF THE WOMB—MOTHER SAVED. 445 near it that I could not see a chair or table when I was near enough to touch it Four of the most eminent physicians attended me, and pronounced my case incura- ble. I commenced taking your Renovator and Pills and using the Eye Water, ac- cording to tho directions. The first ten days my sight greatly improved. After this, by perseverance, my sight was restored, so that I am now well, and able to at- tend to my business. With an unbounded gratitude I shall ever subscribe myself your grateful friend. There are many ready to attest to the above, if wanted. Tours, with respect John Farnham. Pittsfield, Aug. 18, 1850. FALLING OF THE WOMB CURED Dear Doctor :—I was attacked by all the symptoms of confirmed consumption, viz: great debUity, pain to the side, extending to the small of my back, incipient coughing, &c, together with being afflicted with falling of the womb, and a leucor- rhceal difficulty. To such a state was I reduced, that my physicians had entirely given me up, and I had lost all hopes myseff of ever recovering, when fortunately for me, I saw one of your papers containing engravings of the falling of the womb, and of the consumptive. My husband sent to you for the Blood Renovator, Lung Corrector, Anti-Bilious PiUs and Female Wash, though he had little faith in them. I commenced ustog these medicines, and persevered six months, (growing all the whUe better) and am now restored to a state of perfect health, such as I have not enjoyed before for ten years. I make this statement pubUc, solely for the benefit of the afflicted, as I am fully convinced that your medictoes saved my Ufe. Harriet B. Ware. Oswego, Nov. 28, 1849. A MOTHER'S LIFE SAVED. To Dr. H. K. Root, New Tork. Dear Sir :—I am desirous of expressing to you my thanks for placing me in the way of saving the Ufe of the mother of my children, and restoring her to a state ot blooming health. I am a man to moderate circumstances in Ufe, nearly dependent upon the labor of my hands for the support of a family of six chUdren, born to eight years after marriage. My pecuniary circumstances would not aUow me to keep hired help in the house except when my wife was confined, and in conse- quence of having chUdren so fast and being compelled to labor continually to take care of them, the health of Mrs. B. became seriously impaired; she was being worn out and hurried to the grave; and I foresaw that further increase of family would surely cause her death, and leave my children motherless. I kn6w not what to do; but chancing to be to Boston, and seeing your notices in the papers, I was toduced to call on you at the Marlboro' Hotel, and ask your advice. I am thankful to the Lord that He led me to do so; for, through your advice and the means obtatoed at your hands, the tocrease of my family has been suspended, and the Ufe of my wffe and the mother of my children saved to me and them. I am, dear sir, truly yours, With a thousand thanks, H------B------d. Concord, N. H., July 20,1861. 446 HD? COMPLAINT—SCROFULOUS CANCER. EFFECTS OF THE SHOULDER BRACE. Dr. Root—Sir : I wish to inform you of the effects produced in my case by the use of your Suspender and Shoulder Brace. I am by occupation a farmer. Previ- ously to seeing you in New Tork last spring, I had suffered about six months from a severe pato to the stomach, for which I found no relief, though trying various remedies. Tou will, perhaps, remember fitting me with a pair of Braces. On com- ing home, I went immediately to work, and was enabled to work through the day; whereas, before wearing the Brace, during about five months, I could work only a part of the day, and then to much pain. The pain diminished daily by the use of the German Ointment, and in less than a week I was free. I would not be without them were the cost $10, or more. I have found them far more easy and comforta- ble to work in than suspenders. GratefuUy yours, Silas Conklin. Ulster, N. T, Oct 1, 1850. LAME SIDE AND STOMACH. I have used Dr. H. K. Root's German Ointment in my family for erysipelas, lame side, stomach, &c.—which relieved as by magic power. Samuel Burr. Wolcottvixle, Ct. July 3, 1841. DREADFUL HIP COMPLAINT. This is to certify, that for the past two years I have been afflicted with the dis- ease called the hip complaint, during which time I was attended by several physi- cians of this city, without receiving any relief. The severity of the disease was Buch that I was obUged to give up my business, and I have often laid several days without being able to turn in my bed. The medicines I took made large sores on the hip and only made me worse, and I was daily getting more and more helpless. Early last winter I procured some of Dr. Root's Blood Medicines, and commenced the use of them, under his advice and directions. Immediately I began to improve. I am now stronger than I ever was previous to my sickness, and am so far re- covered, that I can suffer any fatigue. I consider Dr. R's Lung Barometer and his Blood Remedies invaluable blessings, and have made the above statement vol untartty, and as a matter of duty to-the afflicted. James H. Miles, Carpenter and Builder. Syracuse, Aug. 8, 1849. CURE OF SCROFULOUS CANCER. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : Duty to my fellow-creatures demands that I should add my testimony to the well established efficacy of your Cancer Eradicates And Ger- man Ointment. I have had what the doctors all pronounced, an incurable scrofu- lous cancer, of three years' standing. After a faithful use of the remedies of the profession, untU my patience in their use and hopes in their efficacy were com- pletely fcxhausted, I commenced taking your Cancer Eradicator. After I had taken it about six months, I was not only cured by it, but my cancer was Uterally rooted out GENERAL DEBILITT—HAIR RESTORED. 447 and dropped off. I am now completely and permanently cureeL and have no hesi- tation in saying, that the Eradicator is the most efficacious constitutional remedy ex- tant. I have no scruples nor fears in undersigning its virtues and commending it to all simttarly afflicted. Respectfully yours, &c. Sarah J. Warburton. Hallowell, Me., March 8, 1850. REMARKABLE CURE OF INFLAMMATION AND BLACK VOMIT. Tlie Great Wonder of the Age, and can be so called with propriety and truth!—I feel it my duty to inform my fellow men of one of its great cure3 of toflammation of the bowels. I was attacked with a severe colic, which was followed by toflam- mation and black vomiting. My case was considered hopeless by the most emtoent physicians. I despaired of Ufe until an appUcation of Dr. H. K. Root's great Ger man Remedy was used. To the astonisment of my friends and physicians, my bowels were moved, and my health restored. I am, with respect, your obedient servant, James W. Newton. Pittsfield, Mass., Jan. 19, 1846. CURE OF GENERAL DEBILITT. Dr H. K. Root—Dear Sir : This is to certify that my wife has been afflicted for the last twenty years with general debUity, prostration, sour stomach, costiveness, pttes, dyspepsia, and nervous sick headache. She has suffered also with pain over the small of the back, and a burning sensation and oppression over the chest and abdomen. All those difficulties were brought on from taking a violent cold during menstruation, which fastened upon her system with such tenacity and violence, that it broke down aU her strength and made her a helpless invaUd. She has truly been a sufferer during many long years, but I have spared no expense in employing phy- Bicians, or in using the popular remedies. She has tried almost everything, particu- larly sarsaparilla, but they did her no good. -She has now been taking your Blood Medicines less than three months, and they have done her more good than all the rest put together. They have removed her costiveness entirely, also the piles ; her Btrength has been restored to her, and she seems Uke another person. She has no headache or dyspepsia The neighbors are now trying them, and they are being cured also. We did not have much confidence in them at first (having been so many times disappointed by other remedies) but now we know them to be the best medicines to use for female complatots. We give you ten thousand thanks. Augustus A, Lord. Poughkeepsie, March 8, 1851. HAIR RESTORED. [certificate of dr. balch.] Dr H. K. Root1—Sir : I deem it my duty to state some facts respecting the in- estimable value of your Hair Producer. Several years ago, after a severe fit of sick- ness, my wife lost all of her hair, the scalp appeared diseased, and the hair grew out harsh and uneven. About a year ago, by another fit of sickness, she lost aU her hair a second time, and for a long time there was apparently no action in the 448 PILES—DEAFNESS—WORMS. scalp. After various applications, which effected no good, I wan induced to try your Producer; and now, after the use of a few bottles, her hair has grown out as thick, as lustrous, and of as beautiful a color as ever. I can therefore cheerfully recom- mend it to all who are afflicted as my wife was, as the best article I have ever seen. Most respectfully yours, &c, Homer Balch, M.D. Cleveland, Ohio, July 16, 1851. UNEQUALED FOR PILES. I have been effectually cured of this troublesome complaint by the use of Dr. H. K. Root's German Ointment, applied on the affected part, or as near as possible. My case resembled the engraving you have given of diseased bowels and pUes. John L. Dixon. Bristol, Ct., Sept. 8, 1846. DEAFNESS AND DISCHARGE FROM THE EAR CURED. Dr. Root—Sir: My wffe had been afflicted with a most distressing disorder in her head for five years, constantly discharging a very offensive matter from her ears, bo that I had nearly lost aU hopes of her ever being any better. She began to grow deaf; had strange buzzing noises to her head, which often kept her awake nights; with severe ear-ache at times; and finally, about one year ago, she had grown so bad, that hearing was quite impossible for her. I had tried almost every meins that could be thought of, prescribed by the most emtoent physicians, without any benefit, till she commenced using your Blood Medicines and Ear Lotion. In six weeks after first taking these, the pato, noise, and discharge were overcome, and at the end of two months her heartog returned. She has not enjoyed better health for twenty years than she does at present I can cheerfully recommend these medi- cines to the afflicted, knowtog from their effect on my wife that they are valuable and efficacious. With many thanks, I am, dear Sir, humbly yours, Allen G. Boyd. Manchester, N. H., Feb. 28, 1850. CURE IN A CASE OF WORMS. Dr. Root—My Dear Sir: My daughter, a Uttle girl of five years, has been af- flicted for one or two years with worms, and, in consequence, became greatly ema- ciated and reduced to health; and havtog tried various medicines without success, I began to despair of her recovery. But having had my attention directed to your Worm Killer, which was recommended to me as a certato cure, I was toduced to purchase a bottle of it, and test its efficacy. In a very few days I was rejoiced to see that it worked most admirably. My Uttle daughter was soon entirely cured; her cheeks acquired a bloom, and, in short, she became a new creature. Stoce then I have often taken occasion to recommend your Worm KUler, and am cognizant of more than twenty cases to winch it has evidently saved the Ufe of chUdren troubled with worms. Tou-have my authority to make this pubUc, for the benefit of those whose Uttle cbil dren are troubled with worms. With many thanks, Harvey Miller, Baltimore, Sept 2, 1851. Commission Merchant. CHRONIC RHEUMATISM—ULCERATED THROAT. 449 WELL ATTESTED IN A CASE OF POISON. This may certify that I have used Root's Great German Remedy to a case of poison, and found from the appUcation immediate and permanent relief. I havo also used it to my family, for the stings and bites of insects, and believe it to be unrival- led by any other compound in effecting a cure. L. Stoddard. Worcester, Mass., Sept 21, 1845. CURE OF CHRONIC RHEUMATISM. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : I feel it my duty to make known to the pubUc the great virtue of your remedies. I have been afflicted a number of years with rheumatism in my Umbs, and a stiffness to my joints, and so weak at times that I could not Btoop to pick up anything from the floor. After using five doUars' worth of your invaluable medicines, the rheumatism entirely left me, and my joints became strong as usual I would recommend those who are troubled as above, to make trial as I did, and they vail be sure of speedy cure. Tou are at Uberty to make use of this as you please. RespedfnUy yours, i Oscar Duggan. South Brooklyn, March 18, 1851. CASE OF ULCERATED THROAT. Dr Root—My Dear Sir : FeeUngs of gratitude induce me to make a pubttc ac- knowledgment of the benefit I have derived from the use of your medicines. I havo for several years been afflicted with scrofulous sweUings in my head, which at times would gather and discharge at my throat nose, and ears, and at others would break out to different parts of my face and head. These continued, untU my throat, faco, and head were almost one complete sore, and for a long time 1 was so hoarse that it was with the utmost difficulty that I could speak above a whisper. During tho time I had several attacks of pleurisy and other diseases. I consulted different phy- sicians, and tried various remedies, but received no benefit untU I commenced ustog your remedies. I am now weU; the sores are all healed, and I attribute the result entirely to your valuable medicines. Tours, with respect and gratitude, Mary Mortimer. Worcester, Mass., June 10, 1852. SPINAL AFFECTION. This certifies that I have been afflicted with a diseased state of the spine, caused by a fall, and have found dedded benefit by the use of Dr. H K. Root's German Ointment. Ruth Spencer. Colebrook, Ct., July 31, 1847. 2me of our best medical men, but they did me no good. I accidentally, but very fortunately, obtained one bottle of Root's German Ointment —the wonder of the age—which worked Uke a charm, and effected a speedy and permanent cure. Samuel Jorden. Worcester, Mass., February 14, 1846. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : I have been affected the last twenty years with the inflammatory rheumatism, which finaUy settled in my left knee, and deprived mo entirely of the use of it for nearly fifteen years. I was advised by my friends to uso Root's Great German Remedy, and after using one bottle, I found immediate reUef, and can recommend it as the best remedy now to use for the Uke diseases. I am, respectfully, yours, PHINEAS J. nOMSTEATX New Ashford, Vt., January 18, 1845. 456 DISEASE CONTRACTED IN CALIFORNIA. This may certify, that I have used Root's Great German Remedy in a case of poison to my son, and found from the appUcation immediate and permanent relief I have also used it in disease of an inflammatory nature to my famUy, and beUeve it to be unrivaUed by any other compound to effecting a cure. Maxon Haley. Chester Factories, Mass., September 25, 1845. This is to certify that I have tried Root's celebrated German Ointment for the toothache and ague to the face, and was surprised at the speedy relief of all pain. Tucker Haley. Blandford, Mass., February 14, 1846. I have witnessed the same speedy effect of this celebrated Ointment for the tooth- ache and ague. Maria Ons. Chester, Mass., October 12, 1845. REMARKABLE CURE OF CONSUMPTION. Dr. BL K. Root—Dear Sir : I deem it a duty to the public to state, that I have found your Lung Corrector to be the only medicine that is reaUy all it claims to be. Among the numerous cures it has performed to our county, is a most remark- able case in my own family. My brother, about four years since, was taken with a most severe cough, and for some eighteen months used many of those nostrums, that whtte they seemed to quiet tho disease, left it steadily working its way toward death, until at the end of the tune mentioned, he became entirely bed-ridden, was taken with spitting blood, pains in the side and chest and became reduced almost to a skeleton. His case was considered one of confirmed consumption, and he was given up to die by the best physicians to our county. At this crisis, whtte our friends considered him past all hope of recovery, and feared he would soon be laid in the tomb, I earnestly sottcited him to use your Lung Corrector, havtog heard of the many astonishing cures it had made. He commenced using it, only to the hope that it would soothe his last moments, when the foUowing results took place: For the first few hours it sickened him much, but it caused him to raise a largo mass of corruption, and mucus or phlegm; and then, strange as it may appear, he commenced rapidly to improve. The medidne penetrated to the fountain-head of the disease, and restored him, whom we thought would soon be. among the dead to perfect health, and for the last two years he has been robust and hearty. Artemas Hall. Hallowell, Me., June 2, 1851. CURE OF DISEASE CONTRACTED IN CALIFORNIA. Dr. Root—Sir : During my stay in San Francisco, which did not exceed eight months, I suffered occasionaUy from costiveness, and havtog occasion to go to Panama, where I rematoed twelve months more, I was there much afflicted with diarrhoea. Finding that there was no hope of my health improving, I returned to WHISKERS—HEART DISEASE. 457 New Tork. When here about five days, I was extremely Ul indeed, from fever occasional chills and diarrhoea; in fact, I became completely prostrated, notwith- standing my having recourse to every remedy within the reach of purchase. Hav- tog made my situation known to a gentleman, he at once assured me, (havtog tested their efficacy himself,) that ff I -would take your Blood Medicines and Dysentery Specific, in one week I would have the consolation of being restored to my former health and vigor; and it is with no ordinary feelings of pleasure and satisfaction that I am enabled to inform you his prediction has been verified to the letter; for, after having taken them for eigl»t days, I find myself in the enjoyment of excellent health and spirits. I feel I never can be too grateful for the salutary advice of my friend, and also to you; and I earnestly entreat those who read this plain and truthful narration of facts, should any of them labor under similar sufferings to mine, to have immediate recourse to your remedies. With great respect I remain, Your grateful and obedient servant, Hiram W. Fowler. New Tork, May 8, 1851. GENTEEL WHISKERS RAISED. Dr. Root—That Hair Producer that you gave me to make my whiskers grow has had a desired effect. I felt very bad to see other young men with a handsome pair of whiskers, and I had none. I have used it six months. I have now as handsome a pair of black whiskers as the best of them. I now say to those who have light whiskers on one side and heavy on the other, they can be made mates— or entire whiskers made by the use of the above article. It will make hair grow on children's heads when nothing else will. Giles Morgan. Auburn, N. T., Dec. 6, 1850. HEART DISEASE CURED IN A SHORT TIME. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir : 1 esteem your Heart Regulator as the king of me- dicines. It has done for me in five weeks what three physicians fatted to do in as many years. In 1845, I became a victim of the heart disease and,nervous affec- tions, which have been growing on me ever stoce, until I procured your Regulator, although I had wasted several hundred dollars for medical attendance. During tho last two years I was obliged to keep my house nearly all the time, and gave up business to consequence of my itt health. I had lost nearly all hope of recovery; my complaint was of that class under which " nature sinks and life becomes a burthen." Seeing your Regulator advertised I concluded to give it a trial, and be- fore finishing the third bottle I felt like a different person, and was able to resume business again, entirely cured by taking seven bottles. For the benefit of those afflicted with similar complaints you are at Uberty to publish this. Tours, Ac, Otis B. Sanger, Newspaper Reporter. Boston, Nov. 8, 1851. 458 RHEUMATISM—DTSPEPSIA—WORMS. CURE OF CHRONIC RHEUMATISM. Dr. Rooi"—Dear Sir : It gives me much pleasure to be able to certify to the heaUng qualities of your Bbod Medicines. I have been much afflicted with disease to different forms, for the last eighteen years past. Eminent physicians told me that my liver was much decayed, my lungs had grown to my side, &c. I was much afflicted with chronic rheumatism, also. My health continued to decUne until July, 1848, when I was attacked with toflammatery rheumatism, which rendored me helpless. I remained to this way a short time, then gained a little so as to be able to watte with a crutch and cane. I hobbled about in this way some time, not ex- pecting ever to be any better, until I went to New York, and I was induced by a friend to purchase some of your remedies. I got some, which helped me visibly This encouraged me to try more, which raised me to a better state of health than I have enjoyed for years. For twelve years previous to taking this me- dictoe I was obUged to sleep to a sitting posture most of the time. Now I Ue to the natural position and sleep quietly. I have witnessed then* salutary effects upon Beveral of my acquaintances to this vicinity. I beUeve them to be invaluable, and can cheerfuUy recommend them to all Tours respectfully, Rupert B. Johnson. Rochester, July 16, 1851. ANOTHER DTSPEPTIC MADE HAPPT. Dr. H. K. Root—My Dear Sir : I am much pleased to have it to my power to add to the many high testimonials you already have, in favor of your Blood Renovator. Having suffered severely with dyspepsia for a number of years, and finding no relief from the many remedies advertised for that ailment, I abandoned all thoughts of being cured, and confined myself to simples, gaining temporary reUef for a lew days. The attacks becoming more frequent, and increasing to strength I was much reduced to body—my mind suffering much also. . A young friend of mine, a druggist of your city, on whose judgment I rely, re commended the Blood Renovator. I tried one bottle, and found some relief. Aftei taktog two bottles I was entirely cured. Three months have elapsed and no return of the disease; hence I may say, with a degree of truth, that I am cured. So fully am I impressed with its power over the diseases for which it is recom mended, I have sent some of the artide to a friend to Scotland, Great Britain, who is similarly affected, and doubt not his report wttl be favorable to the reputation ol the medictoe. I am, your obedient servant, John B. Landsear, Importer of Cloths. Baltimore, June 10, 1849. CHILD SAVED FROM WORMS. This is to certify that my child, four years old, having been for a long Ume sick, and become very emaciated, about the first of March last I purchased a bottle of Dr. Root's unequalled Worm Killer, and administered it according to the directions FEVER AND AGUE—WATERT SCURVY 459 accompanying the medicine. In the course of twenty-four hours the child passed between ten and fifteen large worms, and immediately began to recover, and is now wett. I most cheerfully recommend the use of the above medicine to the pubUc. Orlando P. Jones. Albany, June 2, 1852. ANOTHER CASE OF BRONCHIAL AFFECTION. Dr. Root—Dear Sir : I feel it to be due to you to say that a young lady, a member of my famtty, had been suffering for several years under a bronchial affec- tion, and the disease had made such progress, notwithstanding the be«t medical aid had been consulted, that great fears were entertained that the disease wi|h her, as with many others, might speedtty terminate in death. I was induced, through the persuasion of a friend, to try the effed of your Lung Corrector, Catarrh Snuff, and German Ointment. The result was really wonderful, for to two weeks she was completely oured. Truly yours, Stanley Boyd, Counsellor. Philadelphia, July 1, 1852. MORE FEVER AND AGUE. This is to certify that to the month of October, 1849, I was attacked with fever and ague, while employed on the New Tork and New Haven railroad. I took medicine from a physician for a long time, but got no relief, until I was advised to take Dr. Root's Anti-Bilious Pills and Blood Renovator. After taking six doses as directed I was entirely cured, and have never enjoyed better health than I havo Bince. And I can sincerely recommend them to all persons afflicted with the Uke disease. Rudolph Whttacher, , Bridgeport, August 8, 1850. CURE OF A WATERT SCURVY Dr. Root—Dear Snt: I feel it my duty to inform you of the benefit my wife has derived from the use of your Blood Renovator, Anti-Bilious PiUs, and German Ointment A watery humor has been oozing out from behind her ears for more than three years. During last summer, it began to spread over the neck, chest and shoulders, leaving the surface of the skin in an ulcer as far as it went, with a copious discharge of water and pus. She could scaroely bear the smeU of it; be- sides it looked frightful. We tried three doctors without receiving any benefit. They pronounced it to be tho salt rheum, and treated it accordingly, but still she got worse. Her head became so much affected sometimes that we feared it would prove fatal. At last we heard of Dr. Root. When we called upon you, you pronounced it to be a watery scurvy, and you said you could cure it. After trying your medicine for a few days, the sore began to look better, so that now it is quite healed. The skin is resuming its natural appearance. She is now able to go out in the enjoy- ment of good health. Indeed, the cure has been so unexpected and sudden that / 460 SCROFULA—COUGH—TIC Dt. LOREUX year medicine operated more Uke a charm than otherwise Tou can make any use of this you wish Miles E. Andiness, Greene street. New Tork, June 10, 1852. SCROFULA BANISHED. Dr H K. Root—Dear Sir : Miss Irena B. Savage is the name of the lady who has been using your medicines for the cure of scrofula. She had been afflicted with that disease for more than eight years to my knowledge. It had often broken out on different parte of her head and face to large tumors, and to January last, when she commenced taktog your medictoes, there were four tumors rising and nearly ready to break, two on her face, and two on her neck, and at the same time she thought there were tumors to her throat which broke at that time. I gave hei your Lung Corrector, which caused considerable discharge of matter from her throat and to our surprise to a few weeks att the tumors disappeared, and her general health was much improved. She has taken in aU eleven bottles of your Blood Ren- ovator, ten boxes of the Anti-Bilious PiUs, three of the Lung Corrector, and used twelve bottles of the German Ointment All the food she could receive was through a gap to her mouth, caused by the loss of some of her fore-teeth but now she can open her mouth, and eat and talk and laugh, and strange as it may seem, she says sho beUeves she is entirely cured. She is 45 years of age, and I can see no appearance of disease except the large scars which the scrofula has left. With respect Leander JoNsa Portsmouth, N BL, July 1,1850. ANOTHER BAD COUGH STOPPED. Dr Root—Dear Sib : FeeUng under obttgations to you for the restoration oi my health, I send you a report of my case, which you are at Uberty to pubttsh for the benefit of others. Last autumn I took a bad cold, accompanied by a severe cough and made use of many medicines without obtaining relief I was obUged to give up business, frequently raised blood, and could get no sleep at night A friend gave me a bottle of your Lung Corrector, the use of which I immediately com- menced according to directions. I have just purchased the fifth bottle, and am nearly recovered. I now sleep wett, my cough has ceased, and att by the uso of your valuable medictoe. Watson Randolph. Ohio City, Ohio, Aug. 8,1851. CURE OF TIC DOLOREUX A year ago last November, I was severely attacked with tic doloreux to the nerves of my face. The pain was very severe from the first an(^ gradually increased, so that I could scarcely open my mouth, and I was unable to masticate food of any ktod The agony seemed to tocrease at every change of the weather. My physi- cian gave me strychnine and other powerful remedies, which were of temporary avail; but after their action subsided, the pain was, if possible, more severe than before. I then consulted other physicians, but with no better miccestv At last I REJOICING WHERE BEFORE WAS SORROW. 461 was toduced to try Dr. Root's Blood Remedies and Nervine, and the result is that they have entirely cured me. Tlie relief was nearly immediate; on the second day I was much better, and by the end of tho first week the disease had completely vanished. For the past year I have been entirely free from the complaint, and I am now as weU in every respect as I have been at any time during the past fifteen years. By my recommendation, Mrs. Henry Boyce, in this city, made a trial for tha same complatot, and with the same happy result. Warburton W. William3, Grocer. Boston, Dec. 30, 1851. REJOICING WHERE BEFORE WAS SORROW. Dr. H. K. Root—Dear Sir: I know you wttl have the kindness to bear with me to encroaching upon your time, whUe I acknowledge (in behalf of myself and wffe) the obttgations we feel ourselves under to you. If I express myself rather warmly, you will see that I cannot do so too warmly, when I inform you of the extent to which I have been benefited. I wttl state my situation when I obtained from you the articles that have been so efficacious. I had been married some ten years, and was the father of seven children. I was long struggUng unceasingly, to the end that I might gain a moderate competency, but the results of my utmost ex- ertions at the end left me about where I was at the beginning of each year; and that only with the most Btinted economy, sufficing with barely the necessaries of Ufe. FinaUy, this constant effort Was beginning to have its effect upon my health; I felt less capable to endure its continuance, whtte I felt the necessity of perseve- rance. This constant, unceasing struggle on my part was imperative in consequence of the prostrated condition of my wife (with occasional intermission) for six years, much of the time confined to her bed, and of course incapable of taking the charge and management of household affairs. Oh I what would I have given had I the six years to Uve over again! What would my wife have given to have been spared the long days and still longer nights prostrate on a bed of sickness!—all of which would have been avoided, had I known ten years ago, as I now do, that the means of evading att this trouble are to be obtatoed at your hands. Accept our sincerest thanks and best wishes. J. C. V. Stamford, Ct., Aug. 8, 1851. To the foregoing there might be added an enormous volume of like character and ktod, were it necessary to dc so in order that th e skeptical might be convinced. But that is unneoE'Ssary; for ff «hey io not beUeve from the mass of testimony here presented, neither would ihej 1 e convinced though one rose from the dead NOTICES OF THE PEESS. Dr. Root.—Dr. H. K. Root, of New Tork, who left our city on Saturday last, after a sojourn of about one month, is without doubt one of the most skilfful and original physicians in the country. We took occasion to make ourselves somewhat conversant with his method of examining disease, the nature of his medicines, and the manner to wliich he treats the thousands of cases that come under his care. The more we saw, examined, understood, the better we thought of the man and his practice. To us it is not so strange, after att, that he cures so many diseases, and is everywhere followed by so many patients. His system of doctoring ia the right one. He takes hold of the very vitals of disease, and with heroic, and ad- mirable, and unexampled facility, succeeds, in almost aU cases, to driving it from tho body. We have never known a physician to examine a patient with such com- plete and exhausting thoroughness. And this is one of the two great elements of his wonderful success. He knows with the utmost intelligence what he has got to overcome to a given case. And then his medicines are aU drawn from the vegetable world, possessing great power to grapple with disease, but acting with great friend- Uness upon the system. This is the second and finishing element of his success. During lus visit he was waited upon by at least five hundred patients, many of whom had been extreme sufferers from disease, and we have not as yet heard of one sotttary instance where he did not very materially aid, while in most cases, after sufficient time shall have elapsed, he will effect permanent cures. The merits of such a physician should be known, for there are thousands who would be glad to avail themselves of his remarkable skUL We say thus much uu- sottcited by, and without the knowledge of, Dr. Root. We sincerely regard him as one of the greatest benefactors of the time, and trust that his visits to our city may be frequent, for there is an immense field in the metropolis of New England for the exercise of his original and energetic powers, and for his consummate, and successful, and correct practice.—Boston Daily Bee. Great Success in Curing Disease.—The wonderful cures which are daily per- formed by the celebrated Dr. H. K. Root, of New Tork, is the general topic of con- versation in our city. This is not at all strange. The man who grapples with consumption and vanquishes it; or who brings to health those whom other doctors have scaled for the grave, is very likely to create a sensation. Such half-miracles he is doing every day. Those who have the misfortune to be suffering from disease, and who have hitherto been unable to find reUef, should caU upon Dr. Root.— DaUy Journal, Boston. Dr. H. K. Root.—We are pleased to know that this distinguished physician is meeting with his usual unparalleled success. We called at his rooms yesterday, and found them filled with patients, waiting for his skilfful advice and assistanca No man in the country knows better how to treat disease, and we are unacquainted with any one who has met with so much success.—Utica Herald. • NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 463 The afflicted should bear in mind that Dr. H K. Root, of New Tork, is one of the very first physicians of the time. His system of treatment his examinations, and his every procedure is different from others, inasmuch as more and deeper study toto the nature and source of disease has taught him to avoid a thousand errors which have been practised for ages. Dr. Root has invented a most ingenious and scientific instrument termed the Lung Barometer, by which he can ascertain to a nicety, the precise power, capacity and condition of the lungs. A treatment based on knowledge Uke this, rarely fatts to effect a speedy and gratifying cure. We would suggest to all who are suffering from disease in any shape, however for- midable it may appear, to call upon Dr. R.—Boston DaUy Herald. Do Tou Wish to Enjoy Health again ?—We ask this of those whom dis- ease has weighed down with heavy hand and darkening hope. Tou who have consumption to any of its numerous forms; or scrofula; or heart, Uver, kindey, lung, brain, spinal disease. Tou, in fact, who are laboring under any physical de- rangement, and have failed to obtain relief, we urgently advise you to at once call upon the celebrated Dr. H. K. Root. He is a thoroughly educated physician, and has studied diseases from their very fountains. His remarkable success is the marvel of all. And yet it is all very simple. He follows the true teachings of nature, to combination with the highest achievement of art, and almost of necessity cures a great majority of the most fearful diseases. We sincerely advise the afflided to caU upon him, for they wttl assuredly find it for their advantage.—Utica Observer. Astonishing Success.—Dr. H. K. Root, of New Tork, is original in practice, and takes no authority as an infalUble guide; but rather examines, judges, and weighs for himself. Hence he reaches the very roots and vitals of diseases, and is enabled to apply thorough remedies. The reason why he brings about more cures than others is, that he understands better both diseases and medicines. Those who desire to consult a most thorough physician, and who wttl assuredly give " aid and comfort," should call upon Dr. Root.—Boston Daily Times. Lung Barometer.—This splendid piece of mechanism looks like a beautiful "mantlepiece clock. Upon a betteT acquaintance, however, you ascertain that it tells you not the time of the day, nor the state of the weather, but the condition of your lungs. However incredible as it might seem, it will indicate the power and ca- pacity, and, consequently, the soundness of your lungs beyond a doubt. The pro- cess is as simple as it is unerring. We have seen it tried, and can vouch for the fact. No barometer ever indicated the fury of the coming storm with more cer- tainty than this proves whether your lungs are strong or weak, sound or decayed. The condition of your lungs being ascertained, Dr. Root prescribes such reme- dies as your case may require.—Troy Daily Post. To Cure Disease is. one of the noblest of benefaotions; and that man who cures tho most, and above all, those which are the most difficult, is the greatest bene- factor. We know of no one who succeeds so well in the treatment and cure of disease, as Dr. H. K. Root, whose fame has now become a household word through- out this section of the country. Those who are suffering from disease should call upon him.—Springfield Sentinel The faculty have long needed some mechanical invention to assist and direct the 464 NOTICES OF THE PRESS. curative processes of nature and science, and much time, labor, and capital have been expended by British physidans in endeavoring to constnw.t such an instru- ment It is needless to say that aU these attempts have failed, and that to our transatlantic cousin is due the honor of having made this valuable contribution to medical Bcience. By means of the lung barometer, the sUghtest defect to the lungs can be,readily discovered, and its amount definitely ascertained; and m such uncertain cases as wUl sometimes arise, where the practitioner is to doubt as to the location of the disease, it serves as an unerring guide.—Chambers' Edinburg Journal Another Extraordinary Invention.—We were yesterday shown one of the most remarkable toventions we ever beheld, and one that is of incalculable benefit to mankind. The article we refer to is "The Lung Barometer," invented by Dr. H. K. Root, the celebrated consumption and blood doctor. By it he can ascertain exactly how far the lungs of a patient may be diseased, which cannot be told oy any other means. The doctor has had remarkable success in curing the worst cases of consumption. We know of a case betog cured by him after being given up as incurable by three of the faculty. We intend to give the particulars of this astonishing cure one of these days. Dr. Root treats all diseases of the lungs and blood, and removes all deformities, such as "spinal curvature," Ac., with astonish- ing success. His residence is at 512 Broadway, where he can be personally con- sulted daily. The barometer is a great curiosity, and merits the approbation of the most learned professors of physiology to its philosophy and utttity.—U. S. MUitary and Naval Argus. Have you the Consumption? or the scrofula, or the cancer, or any other des- * perate disease that has ordinarily been supposed to be incurable ? If so, go to Dr. H. K. Root The doctor has searched the vast world of medictoe, and mastered the longest reach of sdence; and this added to his thorough knowledge of disease, his immense practice, and original method of treatment at once mark him as the physician to consult. We have never known a man examine a patient with so much particularity as Dr. R., nor prescribe with so much directness and effective- ness. We suggest to all who may be suffertog with disease, and who desire tc obtato health to at once call upon Dr. Root—Boston DaUy Democrat Great Success in Curing Disease.—The well-known physician, Dr. H K. Root, of New Tork, is celebrated throughout the Northern States as the " Blood and Consumption Doctor." The almost miraculous cures he is daUy performing is indeed full of hope and comfort to the afflicted; and it is no wonder that "the sick and the lame, the blind and the halt" s66^ *ne ^ °f hi8 wisdom and practice. Those suffertog from consumption, scrofula, and dyspepsia, to their worst and most desperate forms, should at once consult the doctor, for they wttl find it for their immense benefit.—DaUy Post, Boston. To the Sick.—Dr. H. K. Root is aUowed by competent judges to be a tho- roughly scientific professional, the cdebrity of whose skUl in curing disease is a household word His apartments are conttouaUy filled with eager seekers after that first and best &a^ m(>ie than all other blessings, Health. Those who have disease, and especially such as have confounded and made dumb the general run of doctors, should bj all means call upon Dr. Root He has spent the best part of a vigorous NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 465 and devoted Ufe in investigating diseases and their cure, and by going beyond books to nature and vital common sense, has succeeded to obtaining information and a corresponding skitt, which others cannot boast. It is no wonder that one who thus thinks, investigates, acts for himseff, should have a success in reattty which others only have in hope, or dreams. Those having diseases should at once obtato bis advice.—Boston Commonwealth. The Astonishing Success of Dr. H. K. Root, is as gratifying to the pubUc ge- neraUy, as it must be flattering to that gentleman personaUy. Were it not that the doctor's success is founded on the highest reaches of science, the widest range of philosophy and observation, and the teachings and conclusions of an immense prac- tice, it would indeed be a mystery. But it is none to those who analyze his course. He goes to the very depths of disease on the one hand, and to the outer- most bounds of nature on the other; first to ascertain what and where the disease is, and then apply the fit remedy. We advise all who are in any manner diseased, and who desire to have the best of advice, to caU upon Dr. Root.—Hart. Weekly Gaz. Disease is so prevalent in this sin-stricken world, and health is so rich a blessing, that every discovery in medical science, which tends to ameliorate the condition of suffering humanity, must be hailed with joy by every philanthropist and lover of his race. In this view, Dr. Root, of Broadway, is entitled to the highest place in the estimation of mankind. His highly celebrated vegetable Blood Renovator, next to that of his incomparable "Lung Barometer," is without exception the most useful article of the age.—N. T. Public Shield, 1850. Lung Barometer.—Among all the ingenious mechanical inventions to assist and direct the curative processes of nature and science, we think the Lung Barometer of Dr. Root must take the lead. For by means of it, the slightest defect to the lungs can be readily distinguished, and its extent definitely ascertatoed; and in many cases which are brought before the physician, where he finds it almost impossible to locate the disease, the Barometer points tofaUibly to the seat of the distemper.— Worcester Spy. A Speedy Cure.—We have Uttle partiality for puffing, and least of all for puff- tog medicines of any sort; but an instance has come to our knowledge which de- serves a passing mention. Daniel Lahy, a laborer, for some years employed in this office, has been suffertog for the past six months from the effects of white swellings on the knee-joint. He has received more or less benefit from a variety of applica- tions ; but from the use of medicines obtained from Dr. H. K. Root, he declares he has been more reUeved than from aU other sources, and soon expects to be^on hk "pegs" again as good as new. From various certificates which we have seen, we have no doubt Dr. R.'s medicines are well adapted to cases of rheumatism, cancers, sweUings, &c.—Troy Whig. Dr. Root's Lung Barometer.—This invaluable and beautiful piece of mechanism, invented and patented by Dr. H. K. Root, of New Tork, receives the approbation of men well versed in science; and aU who have become acquainted with its phil- osophy and utility in ascertaining the power, capacity, and condition of the lungs, pronounce it one of the most wonderful and useful inventions of the age. Dr. Root treats aU diseases of the blood as well as of the lungs.—Providence Herald. 30 466 NOTICES OF THE PRESS. Lnvalid Campaign.—We are glad to know that Dr. Root, the great Pulmonlo Physician, from New Tork, inventor of the renowned Lung Barometer, has already received many visits from the afflicted of our city. His examinations of those who advise with him are always careful and minute, betokening the good physician, and the thoughtful and ingenious man. He has performed many remarkable cures in various parts of New England, and his skill to difficult cases is certainly surprising. All who call on him wttl be received with courteous attention, and have their com- plaints properly and thoroughly considered.—Providence Post Dr H. K. Root, a disttoguished physician from New Tork, is at present tarrying in our city. Dr. R. has met with the most signal success in diseases which have of- ten baffled the profession. His new Lung Barometer is one of the best instruments for an examination of the lungs and adjacent organs that has ever been used— Providence Morning Mirror. Consumption now Curable.—We have often been led to doubt the correctness of doctors' opinions to ascertaining whether the lungs were diseased or not, by sounding the chest. Why not the merchant learn the ktod of goods in a box sent to him by sounding it ? Why not the tattor sound a box, to order to learn whether there are pants, vests, or coats to the box ? Put, ff you please, different kinds of bees to a box, and sound them, and then decide which bee makes a sound. It has been a question whether doctors could correctly decide as to the diseased lung or healthy with any certainty. If so, why do doctors contradict each other to their opinions ? The sick are discouraged, friends are not satisfied, doctors disagree, and it is time medical men awoke to improvements to the healing art A curious in- vention, catted the Lung Barometer, seems to take the rag perfectly off any and all inventions to lung and consumptive diseases. Dr. H K. Root is a great Natural Doctor, and deals to vegetables, attowing his patients to eat, drink, and be merry, exercising, &c. He suppttes the lungs with air, and the body with rich blood; and att who call on him will be pleased with his great originaUty to the cure of disease. —Boston Daily Times. Lung Barometer.—We saw this truly useful and ingenious thing. By it the strength of the lungs is ascertained, and tins done, the judicious physician knows whether his patient is consumptive, and what remedies, ff any, wttl benefit him. By its aid, Dr. H. K. Root *^e inventor, is remarkably successful to treating con- sumptives.—Hartford Herald. Dr. H. K. Root.—A few days stoce we had the pleasure of calling upon this dis- tinguished physician. We were shown his Lung Barometer, a curiously constructed instrument, for the purpose of testing the strength and volume of the lungs. By this instrument the Doctor is enabled to ascertain to a remarkable nicety, the precise condition of these important organs, as weU as those lying in immediate contiguity. The instrument itself is a most exquisite piece of workmanship—being ornamented with mosaic work of pearl of various hues, laid in a ground of black. We are glad to know that Dr. R. has already received many visits from the af- flicted of our city. We believe him to be a wett-educated and scientific physician, and a man of much originality to his profession. He has performed many remarka- ble cures in various parts of New England. His examinations of those who advise NOTICES OF THE PRESS 467 with him are always careful and minute, betokening the good physiciaa and the thoughtful man. We were also shown a large number of cases, drawn on canvas, which the Doc- tor has treated and cured, and which, in many instances, had been thought beyond remedy. His skill in many cases is certainly surprising. Att who call on Dr. R. wttl be received with courtesy and attention, and have their condition carefuUy inquired into and attended.—Boston Daily Bee. Wonderful Detention!—There is in town a master piece of mechanism, in- vented by Dr. H. K. Root, of 512 Broadway, New Tork. It seems to be an inva- luable and indispensable guide in the treatment and cure of consumption. What the compass is to the mariner, or the telescope is to the astronomer, the Lung Ba- rometer seems to be to the successful treatment of consumption. It merits the ap-' probation of the most learned professors of physiology, in its philosophy and utility. The Doctor claims the highest laurels of his profession in correctly ascertaining and curing consumption, and his Barometer is as perfect a test to a thousand different cases of consumption as a pair of scales to ascertain the weight of as many persons. We have learned that his remedies are vegetable, and his system of practice is based on furnishing the lungs with a plenty of air, and the body with pure and rich blood. The Barometer is splendidly ornamented with pearl, and is a great curiosity. Where wttl inventions and improvements end ?—Hartford Courant. Tou can get your Health.—There is no greater mistake than to suppose that because diseases which have long and sadly afflicted mankind, have not been cured, that therefore they are beyond cure. This is bad logic and false premises, and only those wUl presume to question it who are exceedingly short-sighted. The truth is, that there is rarely a disease which in proper hands, may not be cured, and cured to a prompt, thorough, gratifying manner. This is proved by the professional ca- reer of Dr. H. K. Root. He has taken hold of consumption and mastered it; he has attacked the formidable race of cancers, and they have been dissipated Uke dew be- fore the sun; he has met the rushing tide of scrofula, and driven it back with he- roic facttity. And so of other diseases. By the force, originattty, science, toteUi- gence, and nature of his treatment of human iUs, he finds nothing which does not succumb to his hands. Go and see him, ye who are diseased.— Saturday Gazette. Continue to Come.—The caU for the advice and treatment of Dr. H. K. Root is continual. Such is the unparalleled success which follows his masterly and vigor- ous practice, that it is sometimes thought he must be possessed of some power not vouchsafed to man. But the whole secret is, that he goes deeper, examines more thoroughly, and watches more intensely the cause of disease, and the action of me- dicine than others, and consequently cures where others fail.— Weekly Banner. Taejs the Advice of Dr. H. K. Root.—We feel entirely safe to recommending those afflicted with disease to call upon Dr. H. K. Root. The Doctor is educated to the full capacity of the medical profession, and combines with the widest range of learning, a sound and original judgment. He examines, weighs, studies, judges for himself • and while he refuses no light that other celebrities to the profession may have shed, he strikes out new and original paths for himself This explains why he meets with so much more success than others—he depends upon himseff; first giv- ing each special patient and disease the most thorough examtoation and considera- 468 NOTICES OF THE PRESS. tion, and then following it with a masterly and vital practice. It is to such men- men who seek the very depths of disease and nature—that the public wttl always resort, and with a confidence only to be equaled by the most gratifying results.— Courtland Herald. Dr. Root's success in curing diseases continues to astonish att. Tho faciUty with which he raises the prostrate frame, invigorates it with new life, and charms it with bright hope, is the mystery and admiration of the hour. His method of examina- tion, his deep insight into disease, his profound knowledge of the materia medica, are all proverbial. Where others practice at hap-hazard, and in the dark, he seema to tread in the light of certainty, and as a consequence, conquers disease. All should consult him who wish for a speedy cure and thorough advice, especially those who have either cancer or consumption, in both which the Doctor has had the most re- markable and gratifying success.—New Britain Journal. The Great Consumption and Blood Physician, Dr. H. K. Root, may be con- sulted by att who desire to have the very best possible advice, and the most tho- rough and effective treatment. His rooms are constantly thronged with eager pa- tients, come from every quarter to obtato the benefits of his great knowledge and science. His cures of consumption have astonished the medical world, whtte not a few of the general pubUc think he must use some diabliere to accomplish so much But the whole truth is, he goes deeper, and understands both disease and medicine better than others, and hence accompttshes more. His Lung'Barometer continues to excite the admiration of alL—Boston Mail. Dr. H. K. Root is daily waited upon by hundreds of patients, who express the highest satisfaction with his practice. AU who are to any way afflicted with dis- ease should caU on him. His lecture to the ladies yesterday afternoon attracted a crowded house, and is pronounced one of the best ever given in this city.—Boston Post. Dr. H. K. Root has cured more desperate diseases than any one that has ever been to this section of the country. The boldness, vigor and toteUigence with which he attacks the most formidable of diseases is only equaled by the facility and mar- velousness with which he vanquishes them. There is no sort of necessity for so many deaths among us by consumption, scrofula, Uver complaints, diseases of the heart, lungs, &c, &c. By foUowing the inteUigent advice and the masterly treatment of Dr. Root, this frightful mortality amongst us would be materially decreased.— Christian Herald. Dr. H. K. Root is famous for the manner to which he arrives at a knowledge of a given complaint, and no less so for the facility with which he brings about its cure. His medictoes act upon the system at once, and the patient experiences their cheering influences without those doubts and delays so common to other practices and compounds.— Washington Spy. Why be miserable, and suffer pain and disease, when it is within your power to obtain such advice and treatment as witt make you, in good time, free and happy ? Dr. H. K. Root continues to advise with the afflicted. His success is astonishing: and all because his treatment is dJfcrent—more thorough and heroic than others. Consumption, to his hands, is rendered a pttable disease; and so of cancer, scrofula, NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 469 and that legion of maladies growtog out of a distempered blood. Those who desire to be cured, however bad may be their complatots, should lose no time to consulting the Doctor.—Gazette and Banner. Continued Success of Dr H. K. Root.—This renowned physician, whose bold and enlightened treatment of many of the most formidable diseases with which the human family is afflicted, is as remarkable as it is gratifying, is constantly thronged with those seektog for health and its concomitant blessings. The doctor is one of thpse original caste of men that take nothing on hearsay, or book-say, or any other saying; but at once goes to the head and heart of things, and sees with his own eyes whether they are founded to reason or not Hence he has discovered that no Uttle of the practice of the present day is as much opposed to nature, as it is to reason; and that many of the diseases pronounced incurable, are clearly curable. Thus consumption has become to his hands a tractable disease, as weU as scrofula, diseases of the heart, spine, brain, &c. Those suffering from any one of those ma- ladies should lose no time to consulting him.—New Tork Journal. Consumption can be Cured.—What then is the reason that so many die of it every day ? It is obvious: the disease is not treated as it should be. That it is ourable when managed aright, is fully and undeniably shown by the records of Dr. H. K. Root, of New Tork. We had the curiosity a few days since to examine his books, and were astonished at the wonderful cures he had effected in this formida- ble disease. And yet it is not so wonderful after all, for the matter plainly is that the Doctor thoroughly comprehends the disease, and as thoroughly the required remedy. No man gives the todividual case more profound and accurate investiga- tion, and none proceeds to its treatment with more caution and light. As in con- sumption, so in other maladies: in scrofula, cancers, the vast train of diseases originating in an impure blood. He brings the same masterly theory and practice to them aU; and with equally gratifying success. Go to him, ye that are sick, and be healed.—Daily Chronicle. Inventions.—It is not always that which receives the greatest distinction, and is most widely known, that is of the greatest real importance to the happiness and prosperity of mankind. In the tovention of some powerful machinery which shaU transport men to some far off region in a space of time theretofore incredible, or in the manufacture of some terrible instrument that has power to exterminate crowds of men to marvelously few moments, we seem to take greater interest than in thosa more important and truly useful inventions and discoveries that have for their ob- ject the perpetuity of human life in the enjoyment of health and happiness. Thus we reflected whtte lately examining at the medical office of Dr. H. K. Root, No. 512 Broadway, to this city, a remarkable product of the Doctor's genius, bearirg the name of the " Lung Barometer." Truly, thought we, this is indeed one of the most remarkable toventions of this inventive age, and one which must be of invalua- ble benefit to mankind; and yet how many thousands there be, Uvtog to the enjoy ment of health, who would pass it by unnoticed. But not so the consumptive, Btandtog with his foot trembling upon the edge of the grave. To him it is the greatest of all inventions; and thousands there be, who, after abandoning hope of health and Ufe, have, by the use of this instrument, and the medicines of Dr. Root, had cause to thank God, to fullness of heart, for this tovention of the " age of in- dentions." 470 NOTICES OF THE PRESS. The object of the Lung Barometer is to afford a certato test of the power and strength of those deUcate organs, which when once diseased, are sure to lead to death unless scientifically and knowingly treated. By the use of this ingenious piece of mechanism, Dr. R. is able to determine with the utmost surety the exact condi- tion of the lungs; and knowing their condition, he is then prepared to treat them accordingly. Dr. R. is one of the most successful physicians we have ever known. His re- markable cures have earned him the just title of the " celebrated consumption and blood doctor." He has visited hundreds of our large cities, where thousands afflicted with divers diseases have appUed to him with almost certainty of aid; and often the cases given up as utterly hopeless by other doctors have been by him en- tirely cured, and the patients restored to health and happiness.—N. T. Weekly Dollar. An Improvement in Dress.—Up to a period within our own memory, the lower garment of civilized man was upholden by the waistband, and, so far as we know, that of the civilized woman is upholden to the same way. About one generation ago, suspenders, or gallowses as they were first called, came into use, a great com- fort to fat men, and .imparting a feeling of security to att; but the ingenious Dr. Root, of New Tork, has got up a contrivance to supersede suspenders, and serve both men and women not only the purpose of upholding those articles of dress which come no higher than the waist, but of preventing any ugly stooping from the line of godlike perpendicularity. It is a very easy, quiet thing, reminding you of your faults, and only putting Uke all nature when you violate the laws of nature. Ladies will find Dr. Root's tovention admirably adapted to their purpose, for the reason that, in attaching their skirts to it, the weight of their clothing will act in such a manner upon the elastic bands as to open the chest and support the body to a natural and healthful position, instead of distorting the form and impeding the action of important functions, as the dress does very frequently to the present mode o'wearing it.—Maine Democrat. We have worn one of Dr. Root's Braces long enough to fully test its worth and we are satisfied that, for convenience as a substitute for suspenders, for its use as a shoulder brace, and especially for its beneficial effect to securing an erect posture, a well-developed chest, and healthy lungs, it is unequaled. Wo commend the sub- joined notice, and, stitt more, the Brace, to the careful attention of all who would substitute those healthful blessings for the stooping shoulders, the cramped lungs, and the consumptive forms of the men and women of the present day.— Ohio Gospel Banner. Were it required, there might be added to the foregoing a list of notices almost interminable to length hi praise of Dr. R., and of his medicines, and of his inven- tions for ascertaining and curing disease, and of the success of his treatment in aU the complaints to which mankind is Uable. Wherever he has traveled and practised, the voice of the press has been to unison with what has been presented. But as multiplying these notices can be of no use—there betog a sufficiency given to con- vince the most credulous—we forbear further quotations. RULES FOR LIFE. t. Love, fear, and reverence the God of nations, and keep his commandments. 2. Never steal or beg, lie or swear. 3. Let your pledged word and agreements be sacred and faithfully executed. 4. Pay a debt of one penny as promptly as of one dollar; and, above all, never be pestered with dunners, sheriffs, or suits at law. 5. Advertise your business, so that every man, woman, and child may know you; and be particular to always pay the printer. 6. Plan your business right; then execute with indomitable perseverance and despatch. 1. Be charitable to the poor, merciful to the dependents—hopeful and benevolent. 8. Speak well of thy enemy, but have no dealing with him; and thus you witt heap coals of fire on his head. 9. Have all your agreements in writing, and your bitts receipted when paid. 10. Calculate your business well, and be sure that you start right; then, do not constantly worry about it, but be patient and calm for success. 11. Marry first love, and marry early. 12. Eat and drink with the brain as well as the mouth. 13. Labor for the education of your children, and the christianization of the world. 14. Avoid extravagant dinners, livery, and laziness—as being both offensive to God, and destructive to human happiness. 15. Do not let extravagant notions of Uving prevent your marrying. 16. Never fall out with Labor—for he is your best companion, be you rich or poor; and strong mu3cles and mind wttl not forsake you. 11. Retire early and rise early, and have no fellowship with the sluggard. 18. Save money against the day of want, for it is one of the best earthly friends; but as it is sUppery as an eel, hold fast upon it. 19. Never be bought or sold by the gold of despots. 20. Be a true and faithful Repubttcan, standing fast for equal rights, and ever ready to defend the constitution, hook and line, bob and sinker, both in war and peace. 21. Allow no European nation to interfere in our national or domestic concerns. 22. Be a man, a mouse, or a long-tailed rat; no matter what, only that your co- lors may be known. Tho greatest dinners ever feasted on by man are provided by the American peo- ple, viz.: Republicanism, large territories, unbounded oceans, lofty mountains, equal rights, religion, food, clothing, air, light, low taxation, and wealth for all. Such are the dtoners of Americans; but they are more than can be digested by the stomachs of the tyrants of despotism. Dr. ROOT'S PERPETUAL ALMANAC. EXPLANATION. Look at the top for the century; then to the right or the left for the odd year; and in a line with that directly under the century is the Dominical Letter for the year. Under the given Dominical Letter to the lower part of the table, find the day of the week, and in a tine with it in the calendar, you have the day of the month. ODD TEARS. 12 10 5 11 16 17 23!28 34 18 29 19 24!30 25J31 20 26 35140 _|41 36!42 37143 21!27:32i38 22 |3339 44 CENTURIES. 2000 1600 2100 1700 2200 1800 G G ODD YEARS. 51 56 6 57 59 55 63 173 68!74 79 72 75 84 90 8591196 86 197 87I92J98 J9?99 88|94 8995 EXPLANATION. N. B.—Every Leap-Tear has two Dominical Letters; the latter only is designated to this table, as the first serves only till the close of Febru- ary: e. g., 1848 has B and A. At the beginning of every century Leap-Tear is omitted, except every fourth century 1600, 2000 etc., being Leap- Tears, and the intervening three centuries exempt from the common rule. DOMINICAL LETTERS. JAN. 31. OCT. 31. 15J22 29 16|23 30 17!24,31 18' FEB. 28. MARCH 31. NOV. 30. 19 1320 14=121 19126 20127 21:28 22 29 23:30 2431 18 251 APRIL 30. 9 16 10 17 11 18 12 19 13 20 14 21 15 22 30 MAT 31. 14|21 15:22 16;23 1724 18 25 1926 20|27 s Sat Mon. S Tu. Mon. Wed. Tu. Th. Wed. Fr. Th. Sat Ft. Fr. Sat S Mon. Tu. Wed. Th. D Th. Fr. Sat. S Mon. Tu. Wed. E Wed. Th. Fr. Sat. S Mon. Tu F Tu. Wed. Th. Fr. Sat. S Mon. G Mon. Tu. Wed. Th. Fr. Sat S JUNE 30. 3110,17 JULT31. 916123 1017 1118 12 19 13 20 14 21 1522 AUG. 31. SEPT'R 30. DEC'R 31. 10 11 12 13 714 815 31 21,28 22i2C- 9 16 23130; 1 !!!