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of the male there is more tone, more strength, more rigidity, and, as a natural consequence, a greater proneness to inflammatory affections; females, on the other hand, have more sensibility and excitability, and a more lax and delicate fibre, with a strong tendency to nervous affections, and to diseases of debility. The sexual functions of menstruation, child-bearing, and nursing, and their cessation, exercise a very marked influence upon the health of the female, especially in the production of nervous disorders.

STAR-GAZING.

Reading by moonlight, or gazing steadfastly on the moon for any considerable length of time, is a common practice with many young people, but one which cannot be too strongly censured. Even total loss of sight has sometimes been the consequence of astronomers pursuing their observations of the moon for too long continued a period, without sufficient intervals of repose; and in all cases the sight is more or less dimmed and weakened by exposure to such influences. It may not be amiss here to caution naval officers, in their desire for the promotion of science and for the effective performance of their arduous

duties, against too-frequent and long. continued straining of their

sight by looking through powerful glasses at the moon and other

celestial objects; many have in this way so seriously injured their vision as greatly to have prejudiced their usefulness to their country; and others, from mere uncautiousness in this respect, have frustrated the object upon which they were most intent, and for which they would cheerfully have sacrificed their lives.

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Ax ill-regulated and unbridled imagination, associated, as it necessarily is, with strong and varying emotions, must be inimical to the health both of mind and body. In regard to their effect, it matters, in truth, but little whether the passions have their incentive in the creations of fancy, or the sterner truths of reality.

ONE PENNY.

fiction, and their vivid and fantastic imagery, displayed in the chimeras and the arabesques of their palaces and temples. In these regions all the passions are uncontrollable and wild. In northern climates, on the contrary, every thing is cold and calculating.

When the feelings are unduly excited, as they necessarily must be, by the wild dreams of the imagination, they react with a morbid influence on the various functions of the body; and if the habits are at the same time sedentary and retired, a train of moral and physical infirmities, generalised under the name of nervous temperament, will be the probable result. The subjects We are all, at one time or another, subject to the tyrannic of this unhappy temperament are commonly irresolute, capricious, sway of the imagination, and innumerable are the diseases that and morbidly sensitive in their feelings. Their passions, whether pleasurable or painful, are awakened with the greatest faciarise from its busy workings. Under this mighty influence man lity, and the most trifling causes will often elate them with hope, displays energies which lead him boldly to dare danger and complicated sufferings, or he is reduced to the most degraded state or sink them in despondency. A deep enthusiasm generally of miserable despondency. These diseases are the more fear-marks their character, and they not unfrequently display a high ful, since they rarely yield to physical aid; and it is seldom that order of talent, and a nice and discriminating taste, yet mingled moral influence is sufficiently persuasive to combat their inve- with all those uncomfortable eccentricities which are so apt to be teracy. It is idle to tell the timid hypochondriac that he is not the musician-for their pursuits have all a kindred nature, and associated with superior endowments. The poet, the painter, the mere circumstance of his believing himself sick constitutes a serious disorder. His constant apprehensions derange the subjects of this peculiar temperament. all work on the feelings and imagination-áre more especially his functions until an organic affection arises.* The patient who fancies that he labours under an affection of the heart, disturbs the circulation, which is ever influenced by our moral emotions, till at last this disturbance occasions the very malady which he dreaded. These aberrations of the mind arise from various causes, mental emotions, constitution, climate, diet, hereditary disposition, education. Tertullian called philosophy and medicine twin sisters; both may become powerful agents in controlling our imagination.

ill;

The ancients have variously endeavoured to determine the seat of this faculty. Aristotle placed it in the heart, which, from the sense of its oppression observed in acute moral sufferings, he considered the origin of our nerves, or sensorium. Avicenus and other philosophers located imagination in the anterior portion of the brain, which he called the prow; memory in the back part, which he denominated the poop; and judgment in the centre of the organ, or what mariners would term mid-ship. The notions of the phrenologists, Gall and Spurzheim, had long since been anticipated by philosophers and physicians, both in regard to the cerebral organ, and the external appearance of the cranium, which denoted their preponderancy. That temperature exercises a powerful influence over our mental faculties is evident. In warm climates we find a greater exaltation of the mind, more enthusiasm and vivid emotion, than in northern latitudes. The East is the land of fancy, illustrated by their wondrous tales of

*Indigestion, Nervousness, and Low Spirits.-By T. H. Yeoman, M.D.

The physical functions in this temperament are almost always Its subjects weak, and pass very readily into disordered states. are particularly liable to indigestion, and to sympathetic disturThus, under sudden excitements, palpitations, flushings of the bances in the nervous, circulatory, and respiratory systems. face, tremors, embarrassment in the respiration, with difficulty of speaking, are apt to occur, and even syncope or fainting will sometimes take place. The body, moreover, is generally spare individual to stoop forward; the face is pale and sickly, though, and feeble, with great weakness in the spine, which causes the under excitement, readily assuming a hectic glow, and its expression is usually of a pensive character.

The most melancholy nervous affections, as epilepsy, for example, have sometimes been brought on through the workings of a morbidly exalted and ungoverned imagination. And, in turn, the most enravishing conceits of fancy have at times been experienced by persons labouring under such disorders. It is have had their celestial visions, which their distempered minds in fits of epilepsy and ecstatic trances that religious enthusiasts have converted into realities.

The imagination, then, exercising so decided an influence on our moral feelings and conduct, and, by a requisite consequence, on our health and happiness, we perceive how important it is that standard of nature; that it be maintained in strict obedience to this faculty be wisely disciplined, or regulated according to the the judgment and will, and those delusive fancies in which the human mind is so prone to indulge be carefully suppressed;

since not only do they withdraw us from the rational ends and particular duties of life, thereby rendering us less useful both to ourselves and to society, but tend also to break down the physical energies, and prepare the constitution for the ingress of dis- MANAGEMENT OF ASTHMATICS DURING THE INTERMISSION. ease and for ultimate dissolution. The mind, as well as the body, let it be remembered, may be feasted too voluptuously. The delights of a fantastic paradise have little harmony with our present nature, and such day-dreams, such "castles in the air" should be checked and discouraged. The spirit,

I have seen numerous cases in which asthma was absent so long as a discharge was freely kept up; for this purpose an issue may be conveniently made on the upper part of the arm or shoulder, and frequently irritated by mezereon or savine.

Cold bathing and the shower-bath are amongst the most valuable means to be employed in all cases in which we wish to regain hardier habits, and in this disease should never be dispensed with; in the absence of a general bath, the chest should be freely sponged with cold water every morning, and afterwards dried well with a coarse towel, to induce a healthy reaction or glow.

DREAMS.

SEVERAL philosophers have asserted, that our dreams consist of nothing but the repetition of ideas which have already passed through the mind, though they may exist under new combinations. This, as Gall properly observes, is an error. Man may exercise the faculties of invention during his sleep, as in his waking hours; for the internal sources of his thoughts and feelings are the same, whether he sleeps or wakes. Cabanis relates of the illustrious Dr. Franklin, that he had on several occasions in his dreams been informed of the issue of affairs in which he was engaged at those times. His vigorous mind, otherwise entirely free from prejudice, says this author, could not quite guarantee him from a superstitious notion with respect to these premonitions. He did not take into consideration that his profound prudence and his rare sagacity, still directed the action of his brain during sleep. It is also related of Condillac, that whilst writing his Cours d' Etudes, he was frequently obliged to leave a chapter already prepared but incomplete, in order to sleep, and that on awaking he found it, on more than one occasion, finished in his head. Voltaire relates, that on several occasions he made verses in his sleep which he remembered when awake, and the same thing is told of Augustus Lafontaine. Alexander formed the plan of a battle while in the same state; and Tartini, a celebrated performer on the violin, composed his Devil's Sonata from the inspiration of a dream, in which his satanic majesty appeared, and challenged him to a competition on his own fiddle. These facts abundantly prove, that all the powers of the imagination and intellect may be active in dreams. Another remarkable instance, is the case of that distinguished poet, Mr. Coleridge. In his works, a poetical fragment, entitled Kubla Khan, is prefaced as follows:

ALCOHOLIC liquids, whether in the form of wine, malt liquor, or
spirits, increase the necessity for oxygen in a remarkable degree.
If it be supplied in due quantity, and the individual be healthy,
the spirit is for the most part consumed in the lungs, and the re-
sult is an augmentation of animal heat. This passes off with a
rapidity proportioned to its facility of generation, and of course re-
quires, for its renewal, a repetition of the cause—that is, more
spirit must be taken. The consumption of it, in the process of
respiration, is sometimes so complete, that large quantities may
be taken without intoxication following. People who are travel-
ling, especially in clear frosty weather, when the atmosphere is of
the greatest specific gravity, and more oxygen is taken into the
lungs at a single inspiration than in hot or hazy weather, will
drink as much spirit with impunity as would intoxicate them five
or six times over, were they sitting in a confined room. It is
not an uncommon thing for a man, whose maximum of whisky
toddy is a couple of glasses, to find, after having ascended Ben
Lomond, that he has unknowingly swallowed a whole bottle of
undiluted Glenlivat. The Highlanders are proverbial for the
quantity of whisky they drink, and for the little injury it does
them. Many of them habitually drink a wine-glassful of raw
spirit directly upon rising in the morning. To them it is a "cup
that cheers but not inebriates." They are not intoxicated by it
for the moment, nor do they suffer in any marked degree from
the usual remote consequences of drachm drinking. They are
not like the tavern-frequenter and spirit-tippler of the crowded
city-jaundiced, consumptive, impotent, imbecile, or paralysed,
dying before his time. They are hale, cheerful, and vigorous,
despite their practices. And wherefore this marvellous differ-
ence? Fresh air and free exercise are the foundation of it all.
The practice of spirit-drinking, under any circumstances than
those of necessity, is both unhealthy and unnatural. But the
poison is disarmed of half its virulence when taken under the
mitigating circumstances that we have mentioned.
Under oppo-
site circumstances, there is no limit to its mischief.
The system
cannot throw it off. It wanders with the corrupted blood; tires
and taints every organ.

And then what woes remain !-Life rolls apace,
And that incurable disease, old age,

In youthfal bodies more severely felt,

More sternly active,-shakes their blasted prime;
Except kind Nature, by some hasty blow,
Prevent the lingering fates,

TWO CHILDren killed WITH GODFREY'S CORDIAL.

"In the summer of the year 1707, the author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in Purchas's Pilgrimage:- Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto; and thus ten miles of fertile ground were enclosed with a wall.' The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that in-house, Camberwell, to inquire into the death of two infants, the deed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation, or consciousness of effort. On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small sur

AN inquest was lately held by Mr. Carter, at the "Rose" publicchildren of a man and woman named Buckley, who resided in Edmund Street, Camberwell. The father was a journeyman carpenter. A few days since, the children being very restless, the mother sent for a pennyworth of Godfrey's Cordial, and administered about a third of a teaspoonful to each. They soon fell into a deep sleep, and remained so until the mother became alarmed and sent for Mr. Flowers, a surgeon, who stated that they were suffering from the effects of a narcotic. He administered the usual antidotes, but notwithstanding every effort the children expired. The jury returned a verdict, "That the children died from the effects of Godfrey's Cordial, administered by the mother inadvertently." They also strongly condemned the use of this medicine.