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Physiological Department.-37. The Circulation of the Bloodhow governed by the brain-explanation of its different changes, and their significance. 38. The Philosophy of Health and Disease. 39. Rationale of Insanity and Sanity. 40. Life and Death. 41. Calorification, or formation of heat, and Refrigeration. 42. Respiration. 43. The Abdominal Organs. 44. Muscularity. 45. The Cerebellum, its functions. 46. Philosophy of Animal Magnetism. 47. Art of Relieving Disease by Nervauric Manipulation. 48. The old Doctrine of Temperaments and the Neurological System. 49. The Principles of Dietetics, as established by Neurology. 50. Philosophy of Medicine. The new system of Medical Science indicated by Neurology.

Mathematical and Philosophical Department.-51. Cerebral Forms. 52. General Laws of Pathognomy-the Science of Expression, Attitude, Gesture, Elocution, &c. 53-57. Pathognomy of the Intellectual, Virtuous, Energetic, Morbid, Criminal and Physiological Organs. 58. Essential Principles of Pathognomy, and Philosophy of co-operative relations among the Organs. 59. Cerebral Harmonies Beautiful and complicated relations of the Mind, the Brain, the Body and the World, developed by Neurology. 60. Philosophy of Color, Music and Language, in their relations to the Brain.

61. Chirognomy--Mathematical interpretation of the movements of the hand, in writing, showing how to infer the character from the hand writing.

62-68. Physiognomy-The Physiognomy of Development, and Physiognomy of Motion, showing the significance of every feature and every movement.

69-74. Corporeal Psychology-Connections and Sympathies of the Mind with the Body-in health and in disease-Physiognom ical expression of each part of the Body.

75-80. Microcosmal relations of Man to the Universe-Progress and Destiny of Mankind.

SCIENTIFIC ENGRAVINGS.-In due season, I expect to present my readers with a series of engravings, illustrating the new systems of Phrenology and Physiognomy, the anatomy of the brain and the sympathetic relations between the brain and body. The Journal is designed to be an organ for the fullest and most extensive exposition of Neurological science.

CORRESPONDENCE.-Letters from many quarters, give assurance of sympathy and appreciation. Says J, "If a tithe of the promises made in your prospectus be fulfilled, your work will be, in my opinion, the most valuable publication of the age." Says M., "I have received the first number of the Journal of Man, and although it is merely introductory, I read its pages with much avidity, much pleasure and great profit." Says U., "Your Journal, Number two, was received the evening before yesterday, and with regard to its con

tents, I must say, they afforded quite a literary banquet, which after first serving me, was placed into the hands of others, who seem to partake of its dainties with great relish." Others write for additional copies, as their numbers are loaned to friends and worn out by their circulation. M. writes, "There are those who are looking to your work with the deepest interest, and hope you will stand as a true Priest of Nature, to expound her wonderful laws." Says H., "Doctor, I would be glad to see you, it would be more than a rich feast for me, but I know not when I shall have that pleasure."

Words of encouragement, approval, admiration and friendship, are coming in from the good and liberal men of our country. There are thousands in our country whose hearts expand in sympathy with the grand aims and truths of this Journal, who have not yet been reached and are not even aware of its existence. In time, I hope to gather into my circle of readers, a noble army of good men and true.

UNION. At the present period, the friends of mankind are laboring in many different fields of moral, religious, and scientific renovation, and with many different views, but with the common aim of elevating society from its present imperfect and unhappy condition. Let each in his own sphere honor the sincere and disinterested labors of all others, however different their views; let the union of all good men be the watchword of the day, and the progress of all truth will be greatly accelerated in the public mind.

APOLOGIES.-The delay in the publication of the February No. produced a similar delay in the present. My own engagements render it difficult to give due attention to the Journal and its busness correspondence. Our Medical Lectures, unlike those of the Colleges, continue through eight months, successively, instead of terminating at the close of the winter session. These duties, together with the editorship of the Eclectic Medical Journal (of the same dimensions as the Journal of Man), constitute a heavy responsibility, and these responsibilities have been increased by the necessity of contending for the rights of our College aud Students to equal facilities in the Cominercial Hospital, from which they have been excluded by the Old School, which claims an exclusive monopoly. It became necessary for me to visit Columbus, and deliver an address, for the purpose of giving the members of the Legislature some information upon professional and collegiate subjects I am gratified to be able to say, that liberal principles are fast gaining the ascendancy in all things. The old College here, which ridicules Phrenology, Animal Magnetism, and other liberal ideas, has greatly lost its moral force and hold upon the public mind.

So rapid has been the progress of the public mind, that those who were fifteen or twenty years since regarded as liberal, are already falling in the rear of the mental progress of the day.

BUCHANAN'S

JOURNAL OF MAN.

Vol. I, No. 4.- APRIL, 1849.

ART. I.-PSYCHOMETRY.-(CONTINUED.)

Ir is only those of peculiarly fine, sensitive and intellectual endowments, who can thus grasp, at once, the whole character, and speak of its details with the familiarity of thorough acquaintance. Generally, the opinion is formed, in a gradual manner, from a careful study of the impressions, and the character is opened up to the mind by a consecutive survey of its different relations. Frequently the writer will appear before the mind's eye of the psychometric explorer, with a characteristic expression of countenance and attitude illustrating some trait of his nature, or engaged in some characteristic act; and, after a time, he will appear in some other scene, equally characteristic, which has been actually a scene in his life, or which is a legitimate illustration of his disposition.

Oftentimes the scenes which are thus presented will be highly picturesque and poetical-happily illustrative of the true spirit of the man. In trying several autographs upon the head of the Rev. Mr. G., I was struck with several of his picturesque sketches. For example, in portraying the Rev. Mr. Bascom, the eloquent Methodist divine, who rose by his own energies from an humble position, he said, that the first scene that rose to his mind was an humble forest residence-a small clearing in the woods-the kettles hanging over the fire from forked sticks-a youth of studious disposition, cultivating his mind: then various transitions occurred-the country advanced in cultivation-villages and cities sprang up-the youth was observed in other scenes, and soon became a powerful, eloquent, and universally admired orator of the pulpit. In the autograph of the Rev. Alexander Campbell (the religious reformer), he

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