A large number of certificates from distinguished medical gentlemen, equally satisfactory, might be added, were it necessary. But testimony still more to the point may be extracted from the correspondence of the subscriber, with those who have had personal experience of his work. A single sample will suffice to show that he has not stood still in his important branch 'of the Healing Art.

Extract of a letter from Mr. John M. Hammond, of Darien, Ga., dated 15th Dec. 1844.

Mr. James F. Foster-Dear Sir: In the month of June, 1839, I purchased of you a double truss, which I have ever since found to be admirably easy; one, as you told me, of your own make. I have had it repaired several times, and it being now about worn out, I write to you to forward a double truss to me, at Darien via Savannah, &c.'

Mr. Hammond was informed, by a letter dated the 25th of the same month, that he could be furnished with an improved article. To this he replied, by a letter of Jan. 5, 1845, of which the following is an extract.

I am so well satisfied with the kind of truss that I had of you, I wish you to send me just such a one. I have worn many kinds of trusses since my rupture, that took place some twenty years ago, and of the several kinds I find none so easy and comfortable as the one I purchased of you in June,

1839.'

Notwithstanding this, one of the improved trusses was sent him, which he thus acknowledges, under date of March 17th, 1845 :

'Your letters of the 16th and 17th ult. are both received, also the box containing the truss, which I must say I am highly pleased with. It fits me very well, and I shall endeavor to do whatever lies in my power to assist you in selling.'

Ap.tf.

JAMES F. FOSTER.

BATES'S PATENT SLIDING TOP SHOWER BATH.

THE Subscriber respectfully informs the public that he continues to manufacture, and has on hand, a large assortment of the above named celebrated SHOWER BATHS. They have met the decided approbation of the public, as the following certificates will show-and are now made in such perfection that from two to ten gallons of water can be raised to the top of the Bath by a child, so easy is the operation--and they can be used in the nicest bed chamber without wetting the carpet. Every person who values health and comfort should have one in his bed chamber, and use it, too, when he rises from his bed, which can be done before dressing.

From Dr. John C. Warren, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in Harvard University.

At the request of Mr. Bates, I have examined his Chamber Shower Bath. It appears to me to be the most convenient portable Shower Bath I am acquainted with, for it is light, neat, and worked with very little trouble. This is an improvement which I am glad to see, because I consider the external application of cold water to be a practice highly useful, and even important to many individuals.

The daily washing of the body serves to remove the cuticle which is constantly forming on the surface of the skin, and thus purifies it, and leaves its pores open for the discharge of those fluids which the preservation of health requires. Another great advantage is, that the sudden application of cold water in this mode to the surface of the body produces a bracing effect on the internal organs, particularly those of digestion.

The introduction of these baths into public hotels would be in my humble opinion, one of the greatest additions to the comfort of travellers, and their general use in private families would add much to the health of our whole population. Boston, April 2d, 1845. JOHN C. WARREN.

Also, the Flora Pneumatic Shower Bath, and a general assortment of what is needed by the bather---VAPOR APPARATUS, to be used with the Chamber Shower Baths, Bathing Tubs, Caps, Hip or Sitz Bath, Leg, Arm and Elbow Bathing Vessels, Hair Rubbers, &c., &c. L. V. BADGER, 49 Congress st.

May

WILSON'S BOTANICAL LABORATORY.

No. 18 Central Street, Boston, Ms.

THE subscribers would respectfully inform the public that they have recently opened the above establishment, where may be found an extensive assortment of Botanic Medicines, Shaker Herbs, Extracts, Oils, &c. Syringes of all kinds, and all the different Medical Works upon the reformed system of practice published in the United States; also,-Brandy, Wines, and other liquors of the choicest brands, for medicinal purposes, constantly for sale.

Having made arrangements to obtain all articles, that are indigenous to this country, directly from those parts where they are grown, and found in the greatest abundance and perfection, they are prepared to supply Wholesale Dealers, Practitioners, and others, with medicines of superior quality; at prices as low as they are sold at any similar establishment in the country. The utmost care will be used in the preparation of Compounds. Medicines neatly put in small packages, and labelled with full directions for family use, if required, and safely packed for any climate.

Orders, by mail or otherwise, from the most distant sections of the country, promptly and faithfully attended to. B. OSGOOD WILSON, G. CARLOS WILSON.

Ap.

9 m.

N. E. DEPOT OF DRUGS AND BOTANIC MEDICINES,

No. 79 and 81 Blackstone Street,-By J. T. Gilman Pike. Laboratory Nos. 5 & 6 Canal Street. J. T. G. Pike announces to his friends and the public, that he has on hand at his Depot, a very extensive stock of Drugs and Botanic Medicines. Wholesale dealers in all parts of the country will find his house unsurpassed in point of variety and quality. He will supply all the Botanic Medicines indigenous to this country, with a very full assortment from abroad. Also, all kinds of Wines and Liquors for Medical purposes. He has, also, a full assortment of Shaker Herbs, Medical Books, Dental Instruments, Syringes, &c. Practitioners, Families and Individuals can be supplied on the most reasonable terms, and when desired, the medicines will be neatly put up, and labelled with full directions and sent to any part of the country. All Drugs and Medicines, Books and Instruments, as cheap for cash as can be found in the country. Ap. 9 m.

BOWKER & CO.

FASHIONABLE Millinery and Straw Goods, Chambers 163 Washington street, opposite Milk street, Boston.

WILLIAM BOGLE,

HAIR Cutter and first Premium Ventilating and Gossamer Wig Maker, 228 Washington Street, Boston. Corner of Summer street, up stairs.

Parties residing in the country, by application, can obtain full directions how to measure the head for a Wig, and thereby insure a perfect fit.

May.

JOHN HAMMOND,

REAL ESTATE BROKER, No. 10 Brattle Square, Boston. Houses Bought, Sold and Let. Mortages Negociated.

WILLIAM J. REYNOLDS,

BOOKSELLER, No. 20 Cornhill, 3 doors from Washington Street, left side, Boston. Particular attention paid to orders of Booksellers and Country Traders.

NEWELL H. MOULTON,

DEALER in Butter, Cheese, Fruit, Lard and West India Goods, No. 50 Brattle Street, Boston.

JAMES WESTON,

No. 8 Eliot Street, between Washington and Tremont Streets, has constantly on hand, CLOCKS for sale. Also, Clocks and Timepieces cleaned and repaired. Ap.

9m.

Communicated for the Journal of Health by WALTer Channing, M.D.

[Continued from page 172.]

In a former number I spoke of the effects of neglected physical education upon physical health, the health of the body. I propose now to speak of its moral bearing. Writers on this subject have confined themselves much to the physical inquiry. The importance of bodily health in the popular use of the words, has most occupied regard. True, the connection has been pointed out between the moral and the intellectual nature, their highest exercise, and the best physical health. Sana mens in corpore sano, has been the text from which most teachings have come. I propose now to speak from the same, and with such particularity as it appears to me the subject demands.

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Disease affects the mind in its uses, and the character, which is the product of moral and intellectual activity. Physicians divide disease into two great classes, chronic and acute. Physical education has place in the production of both. Its neglect predisposes to acute disease by diminishing the power to resist the operation of causes which act to produce it. Sometimes constitutional debility may prevent the attacks of acute disease; and remarkable exemptions are in memory, in which this has been showed. But these are oftener exceptions than rules. The existence of grave disease of long standing may more frequently prevent attacks of epidemic disease. Chronic disease, that,

namely, which is of long duration, and in which changes in symptoms do not occur, and it is this last fact in its history which has led to the designation chronic, rather than the length of time it may have lasted,-chronic disease, and that often very severe form of it which we call constitutional debility, is the most frequent product of neglected physical culture. The functions of organs become gradually disturbed by such neglect. The food is imperfectly digested. The growth is impaired if weakness declares itself in early life. Muscular vigor is wanting. A certain degree of emaciation exists, and this permanently. The circulation of the blood loses its characteristics in health, and the respiratory function is imperfectly performed. Invalidism is the mode of life of the individual, and change is not looked for, or thought possible. Now in the midst of this general disturbance, some local trouble may be developed. At first it is slow. It is scarcely noticed. Slowly but surely, it makes progress, until at length it attracts attention. The man now begins in earnest to think he is ill, and looks round for relief. Disease has taken up its abode in some organ, the lungs for instance, and there it will hold its place. The transition from general exhaustion, or debility, to some fixed, local disease, is in many cases quite striking, and it is often strikingly so to the individual most directly concerned. He may have passed years in a very uncomfortable state, made so very much by its indefiniteness. He now has a fixed object of attention and interest. He He may have expressed little interest about results of certain troubles. He now has his mind bent upon that which is to come.

Now how is it with the mind, in its uses, with character, as their product, in the state now briefly sketched? He who is suffering from general invalidism,-in whom grave local disease is wanting, has his mind principally occupied about himself. From being attentive to that which is annoying enough,—in which is suffering more or less severe, suffering gets exaggerated, so that the present state, which differs not greatly if at all from that which may have long preceded it, is felt to be far, far worse than it ever has been. The man withdraws from active life, alike from its charities and from its highest sympathies, and escapes from duty because he has so long felt incapable of performing any. To him, what seems imaginary to others, is intensely real. He never forgets it. Said one of this class to me one day, "I can tell when the wind is east before the windowshutters are opened, and before I have put a finger out of bed. It finds its way to the very marrow of my bones as soon as it begins to blow." As it is with the wind, so is it with every other fact in the occurrences of daily life. The invalid, who

has become such by the entire neglect of the truest means of health, of physical culture, and especially he who along with this has violated the whole natural law in the indulgence of his senses, is thus the slave of outward circumstance. His mind, and his character, get their hue from his physical state, and he lives on most uncomfortably to himself, and not the less so to those about him.

It is quite curious to observe the effect of disease upon the temper, the character, and power to use the mind, when such disease is but imperfectly formed, and has scarcely attracted the attention of the sufferer. The temper is soured. The character changed. The mind acts imperfectly. It is less within control, so to speak, than formerly. The change in all these respects is very striking. The individual is conscious of it, and so are others. He cannot explain the state of things at all. At length some local trouble shows itself. It may be by the occurrence of pain only, and this not very severe. Remedies are resorted to. The disease disappears, and with it the whole previous moral state, and intellectual peculiarities may go along with it. Now this very disease may have been the direct result of neglected physical education, and the violation of natural laws which that neglect may have induced. Thus it is that the most important facts in the history of the individual, those which more strongly indicate his whole condition, may have their causes and explanation in other facts, physical conditions, which might have been very easily avoided, and so their products never known.

The effects of disease on the mind and character are not the same in every form of disease. The organ affected, and the kind of disease, have much power in determining what these effects shall be. Thus for the most part chronic disease of the lungs is characterized by bright and cheerful states of mind. There is hope of recovery even in the latest days of consumption. This disease occurs in those years of life when the intellectual and physical powers have acquired activity, and not unfrequently at an age in which demand is made for their best uses. Considering the fatal tendency of this disease, and the deep injury it inflicts on the lungs, one might suppose it a very painful malady. But it is not so. There are times in which local suffering is very severe. But this more frequently comes of disease of remote organs which have been brought into trouble, than from the pulmonary lesion. The muscular strength may remain after a very remarkable manner, and we find consumptive patients abroad, walking, or riding on horseback many miles, and without fatigue, the pulse becoming slower, and the whole condition for the hour much improved. The appetite and