3. Compound extract of colocynth, extract of jalap, and Castile soap, of each one scruple; make into twelve pills.

4. James' powder, five grains; calomel, three grains; in fevers, for adults For children, the following: Powdered camphor, one scruple: calomel and powdered scammony, of each nine grains; James' powder, six grains; mix, and divide into six powders. Half of one powder twice a day for an infant a year old; a whole powder for two years; and for four years, the same three times a day.

5. James' powder, six grains; powdered jalap, ten grains; mix, and divide into three or four powders, according to the child's age; in one powder if for an adult.

6. Powdered rhubarb, four grains; mercury and chalk, three grains; ginger in powder, one grain: an alterative aperient for children.

7. Fluid extract cascara, six drams; tincture aloes four drams; tincture hyoscyamus, four drams; neutralizing cordial, two ounces; dessertspoonful every four hours until the bowels move freely.

8. Nitrate of potass, one dram and a half; spirits of nitric ether, half an ounce; camphor mixture, and the spirit of mindererus, each four ounces; in fevers, etc.; two tablespoonfuls, three times a day, and for children a dessertspoonful every four hours.

9. Spirit of nitric ether, three drams; dilute nitric acid, two drams; syrup, three drams: camphor mixture, seven ounces; in fevers, etc., with debility; dose as in preceding prescription.

10. Decoction of broom, half a pint; cream of tartar, one ounce; tincture of squills, two drams; in dropsies; a third part three times a day. 11. Pills of soap and opium, five grains for a dese, as directed. 12. Ammoniated tincture of valerian, six drams; camphor mixture, seven ounces; a fourth part three times a day; in spasmodic and hysterical disorders.

13. Bisulphate of quinia, half a dram; dilute sulphuric acid, twenty drops; compound infusion of roses, eight ounces; two tablespoonfuls every four hours, in intermittent and other fevers, during the absence of the paroxysm.

14. Almond mixture, seven ounces and a half; wine of antimony and ipecacuanha, of each one dram and a half; a tablespoonful every four hours; in cough with fever, etc.

15. Calomel, one grain; powdered white sugar, two grains; to make a powder to be placed on the tongue every two or three hours. Should the calomel act on the bowels, powdered kino is to be substituted for the sugar.

16. Antimony and ipecacuanha wines, of each an ounce; a teaspoonful every ten minutes for a child till vomiting is produced; but for an adult a large tablespoonful should be taken.

17. Compound infusion of roses, seven myrrh, one ounce.

ounces; tincture of

18. Infusion of orange peel, seven ounces; tincture of hops, half an ounce; and a dram of carbonate of soda; two tablespoonfuls twice a day. Or infusion of valerian, seven ounces; carbonate of ammonia, two scruples; compound tincture of bark, six drams; spirits of ether, two drams; one tablespoonful every twenty-four hours.

19. Blue pill, four grains; opium, half a grain; to be taken three times a day.

20. For a Clyster-A pint and a half of gruel or fat broth, a tablespoonful of castor oil, one of common salt, and a lump of butter; mix, to be injected slowly. A third of this quantity is enough for an infant.

21. Chalk mixture, seven ounces; aromatic and opiate confection, of each one dram: tincture of catechu, six drams; two tablespoonfuls every two hours.

22. Carbonate of soda, powdered rhubarb, and Castile soap, each one dram; make thirty-six pills; three twice a day.

23. Lotion-Common salt, one ounce; distilled water, seven ounces; spirits of wine, one ounce; mix.

24. Dried sulphate of magnesia, six drams; heavy carbonate of magnesia, two drams; wine of colchicum, two diams; water, eight ounces; take two tablespoonfuls every four hours.

25. Compound powder of ipecacuanha, ten grains; powdered guaiacum, four grains; in a powder at bedtime.

26. Brandish's solution of potash; thirty drops twice a day in a wineglass of beer.

27. Bisulphate of quinia, half a dram; dilute sulphuric acid, ten drops; compound infusion of roses, eight ounces; two tablespoonfuls every eight hours, and as a tonic in the stage of weakness succeeding fever.

28. Flowers of sulphur, two ounces; hog's lard, four ounces; white hellebore powder, half an ounce; oil of lavender, sixty drops.

29. Iodide of potass, two drams; distilled water, eight

ounces.

30. Flowers of sulphur, half a dram; carbonate of soda, a scruple; tartarized antimony, one-eighth of a grain; one powder night and morning, in eruptions of the skin or face.

31. Milk of bitter almonds, seven ounces; bichloride of mercury, four grains; spirits of rosemary, one ounce; bathe the eruption with this lotion three times a day.

32. Sulphate of zinc, two scruples; sugar of lead, fifteen grains; distilled water, six ounces; the parts to be washed with the lotion three times a day.

33. Carbonate of iron, six grains; powdered rhubarb, four grains; one powder night and morning.

34. Aromatic powder and pepsin, each one dram; make twelve powders; one three or four times a day.

35. Sulphate of zinc, twelve grains; wine of opium, one

dram; rosewater, six ounces.

36. Sulphate of magnesia, six drams; sulphate of iron, ten grains; diluted sulphuric acid, forty drops; tincture of cardamoms (compound), halt an ounce; water, seven ounces; a fourth part night and morning.

27. Decoction of oak bark, a pint; dried alum, half an ounce; for an injection; a syringe full to be used night and morning.

38. Compound gamboge pill and a pill of asafoetida and aloes; of each half a dram; make twelve pills; two twice or three times a week

39. Griffith's mixture-one tablespoonful three times a day.

40. Ergot of rye, five grains; in a powder, to be taken every four hours. This should only be taken under medical advice and sanction.

41. Powdered opium, half a grain; camphor, two grains, in a pill; to be taken every three or four hours whilst in pain.

42. Syrup of balsam of tolu, two ounces; the muriate of morphia, two grains; muriatic acid, twenty drops; a teaspoonful twice a day.

43. Salts of tartar, two scruples; twenty grains of powdered cochineal; b of honey; water, half a pint; boil and give a tablespoonful three times a day.

44. Calomel, ten grains; Castile soap, extract of jalap, extract of colocynth, of each one scruple; oil of juniper, fivedrops; make into fifteen pills; one three times a day.

45. Infusion of orange peel, eight ounces; carbonate of soda, ne dram, and compound tincture of cardamoms, half an ounce; take a tablespoonful three times a day succeeding the pills.

46. Carbonate of iron, three ounces; syrup of ginger sufficient to make an electuary; a teaspoonful three times a day.

47. Take of Castile soap, compound extract of colocynth, compound rhubarb pill and the extract of jalap, each one scruple; oil of caraway, ten drops; make into twenty pills, and take one after dinner every day whilst neces

sary.

48. Spirit of rosemary, five parts; spirit of wine, or spirit of turpentine, one part.

49. Take of thick mucilage, one ounce; castor oil, twelve drams; make into an emulsion; add mint water, four ounces; spirit of nitre, three drams; laudanum, one dram; mixture of squills, one dram; and syrup, seven drams; mix; two tablespoonfuls every six hours.

Rules for the Preservation of Health.

PURE ATMOSPHERIC AIR is composed of nitrogen, oxygen and a very small proportion of carbonic acid gas. Air once breathed has lost the chief part of its oxygen and acquired a proportionate increase of carbonic acid gas. Therefore, health requires that we breathe the same air once only.

THE SOLID PART OF OUR BODIES is continually wasting and requires to be repaired by fresh substances. Therefore, food which is to repair the loss should be taken with due regard to the exercise and waste of the body.

THE FLUID PART OF OUR BODIES also wastes constantly; there is but one fluid in animals, which is water. Therefore, water only is necessary, and no artifice can produce a better drink.

THE FLUID OF OUR BODIES is to the solid in proportion as nine to one. Therefore, a like proportion should prevail in the total amount of food taken,

LIGHT EXERCISES AN IMPORTANT INFLUENCE upon the growth and vigor of animals and plants Therefore, our dwellings should freely admit the solar rays.

DECOMPOSING ANIMAL AND Vegetable SUBSTANCES yield various noxious gases which e ter the lungs and corrupt the blood. Therefore, all impurities should be kept away from our abodes, and every precaution be observed to secure a pure atmosphere.

WARMTH IS ESSENTIAL to all the bodily functions. Therefore, an equal bodily temperature should be maintained by exercise, by clothing or by fire.

EXERCISE WARMS, INVIGORATES and purifies the body; clothing preserves the warmth the body generates; fire imparts warmth externally. Therefore, to obtain and preserve warmth, exercise and clothing are preferable to fire.

MENTAL AND BODILY EXERCISE are equally essential to the general health and happiness. Therefore, labor and study should succeed each

other.

MAN WILL LIVE MOST HEALTHILY upon simple solids and fluids, of which a sufficient but temperate quantity should be taken. Therefore, overindulgence in strong drinks, tobacco, snuff, opium, and all mere indulgences, should be avoided.

SUDDEN ALTERNATIONS OF HEAT AND COLD are dangerous (especially to the young and the aged). Therefore, clothing, in quality and quantity, should be adapted to the alternations of night and day and of the seasons; and drinking cold water when the body is hot, and hot tea and soups when cold, are productive of many evils.

THE SKIN IS A HIGHLY ORGANIZED MEMBRANE full of minute pores, cells, blood vessels and nerves; it imbibes moisture or throws it off, according to the state of the atmosphere and the temperature of the body. It also "breathes," as do the lungs (though less actively). All the internal organs sympathize with the skin. Therefore, it should be repeatedly cleansed.

FIRE CONSUMES THE OXYGEN of the air and produces noxious gases. Therefore, the air is less pure in the presence of candles, gas or coal fire, than otherwise, and the deterioration should be repaired by increased ventilation. LATE HOURS AND ANXIOUS PURSUITS exhaust the nervous system and produce disease and premature death. Therefore, the hours of labor and study should be short.

MODERATION IN EATING and drinking, short hours of labor and study, regularity in exercise, recreation and rest, cleanliness, equanimity of temper and equality of temperature-these are the great essentials to that which surpasses all wealth, health of mind and body.

HOMEOPATHY.

PRINCIPLES OF HOMEOPATHY.-As homeopathy is now practiced so widely, and, indeed, preferred to the older system in many families, this department could scarcely lay claim to be considered complete without a brief mention of the principal remedies used and recommended by homœopathic practitioners, and the disorders for which these remedies are especially applicable. The principle of homœopathy is set forth in the Latin words "similia similibus curantur," the meaning of which is "likes are cured by likes." The homœopathist, in order to cure a disease, administers a medicine which would produce in a perfectly healthy subject symptoms like but not identical with, or the same as, the symptoms to counteract which the medicine is given. He, therefore, first makes himself thoroughly acquainted with the symptoms that are exhibited by the sufferer; having ascertained these, in order to neutralize them and restore the state of the patient's health to a state of equilibrium, so to speak, he administers preparations that would produce symptoms of a like character in persons in good health. It is not said, be it remembered, that the drug can produce in a healthy person the disease from which the patient is suffering; it is only advanced by homœopathists that the drug given has the power of producing in a person in health symptoms similar to those of the disease under which the patient is languishing, and that the correct mode of treatment is to counteract the disease symptoms by the artificial production of similar symptoms by medical means, or, in other words, to suit the medicine to the disorder, by the previously acquired knowledge of the effects of the drug by experiment on a healthy person.

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES are given in the form of globules or tinctures, the latter being generally preferred by homœopathic practitioners. When contrasted with the doses of drugs given by allopathists, the small doses administered by homœopathists

must at first sight appear wholly inadequate to the purpose for which they are given; but homœopathists, whose dilution and trituration diffuse the drug given throughout the vehicle in which it is administered, argue that by this extension of its surface the active power of the drug is greatly increased. Large doses of certain drugs administered for certain purposes will pass through the system without in any way affecting those organs which will be acted on most powerfully by the very same drugs when administered in much smaller doses. Thus a small dose of sweet spirit of nitre will act on the skin and promote perspiration, but a large dose will act as a diuretic only and exert no influence on the skin.

Great stress is laid by homoeopathists on attention to diet, but not so much so in the present day as when the system was first introduced. The reader will find a list of articles of food that may and may not be taken in a succeeding page. Below are given briefly a few of the more common ailments "that flesh is heir to," with the symptoms by which they are indicated and the medicines by which they may be alleviated and eventually

cured.

ASTHMA, an ailment which should be referred in all cases to the medical practitioner. Symptoms. Difficulty in breathing, with cough, either spasmodic and without expectoration, or accompanied with much expectoration. Medicines. Aconitum napellus, especially with congestion or slight spitting of blood; Antimonium tartaricum for rattling and wheezing in the chest; Arsenicum for chronic asthma; Ipecacuanha; Nux vomica.

BILIOUS ATTACKS, if attended with diarrhoea and copious evacuations of a bright yellow color. Medicines Bryonia, if arising from sedentary occupation, or from eating and drinking too freely, or Nux vomica and Mercurius in alternation, the former correcting constipation and the latter nausea, fullness at the pit of the stomach and a foul tongue.

BRONCHITIS. Symptoms. Catarrh, accompanied with fever; expectoration, dark, thick, and sometimes streaked with blood; urine dark, thick and scanty. Medicines. Aconitum napellus; especially in earlier stages; Bryonia for pain in coughing and difficulty in breathing; Antimonium tartaricum, loose cough, with much expectoration, and a feeling of, and tendency to, suffocation; ipecacuanha, accumulation of phlegm in bronchial tubes and for children.

BRUISES AND WOUNDS.-For all bruises, black eyes, etc., apply Arnica lotion; for slight wounds, after washing well with cold water, apply Arnica plaster; to stop bleeding when ordinary means fail, and for larger wounds apply concentrated tincture of Calendula.

COLD IN THE HEAD OR CATARRH. Symptoms. Feverish feeling generally, and especially about the head, eyes, and nose, running from, and obstruction of nose; soreness and irritation of the throat and bronchial tubes. Medicines. Aconitum napellus for feverish symptoms; Belladonna for sore throat and headache with inclination to cough; Mercurius for running from nose and sneezing; Nux vomica for stoppage of nostrils; Chamomilla for children and women, for whom Pulsatilla is also useful in such cases.

CHILBLAINS. Symptoms. Irritation and itching of the skin, which assumes a bluish red color. Medicines. Arnica montana, taken internally or used as outward application, unless the chilblain be broken, when Arsenicum should be used. If the swelling and irritation do not yield to these remedies, use Belladona and Rhus toxicodendron.