ASIATIC CHOLERA. Called, also, by different medical writers, malignant cholera, pestilential cholera, blue cholera and epidemic cholera. This is the fully developed disease. It is sudden in its attack, and is attended with general depression. The patient appears unspeakably distressed. The countenance puts on a leaden, death-like appearance, a crimsoned circle is visible around the eyes, which are sunken and inexpressive. The pulse is high, then feeble, then intermittent, fluttering, wirey, and then is lost to the examining finger. The skin is cold, giving the sensations of the coldness and moisture characteristic of the state of death. In the milder forms, vomiting and diarrhoea begin earlier than in attacks of the cholera in this form. These, however, come on in a few hours, and generally result in overpowering the organic functions in a few hours more, which, inducing a quiet state, carries the patient beyond the sphere of disease.

It is quite unnecessary to dwell upon the symptoms of Asiatic cholera. The principal idea to impress upon the reader is, that all the foregoing indications are embraced in the highest and last form of the complaint, together with almost every symptom that characterizes typhoid or ship fever, and fever and ague-such as tremulousness or shivering, incontinence of urine, or copious discharges and coldness. In truth, cholera is only, and simply, the opposite of a violent fever. Fever is the positive state, and cold, or cholera, is the negative state. The former is caused by a superabundance of magnetism in the atmosphere; the latter, by a superabundance of electricity. Magnetism is hot, and electricity is cold. The patient will feel cold to the touch, but is constantly complaining of the intensest heat, and positively rejects the administration of warm applications.

4. THE CURE. Unfortunately, medical science could do but little to prevent the spread of this disease. The treatment generally instituted was unsuccessful every where, and in almost all cases: indeed, it was better calculated to produce, than to cure, the disease against which it was employed. Bleeding, blistering, leeching, calomelizing, and debilitating the system by various allopathic remedies and proceedings, did but little besides frightening the patient and hastening the period of dissolution. It would seem, however, that the simplicity of the disease was sufficient to suggest simplicity of treatment, and such I am now delighted in being able to prescribe. From what has been said, it must appear evident to the reader, that the complaint is not a mysterious or compound one, and that a simple treatment-one calculated to restore to the system its just equilibrium of atomic motion and temperature-is needed to cure the patient and extirpate the general pestilence.

But, before prescribing for the disease in man, I will say what is good to preserve the potato from decay. About the time the tops begin to be visible above the ground, put a pint of iron-filings, or cinders, or scales, found around the blacksmith's anvil, upon the place where the potato was planted and is growing. This will ab

sorb the superabundant electricity, and restore a balanced condition. among the surrounding elements, which are engaged in decomposing the plant, and the decay will cease immediately.

As for the individual suffering with an attack of cholera, I am impressed to prescribe the following, which I now admonish every individual to immediately procure: Get two gallons of the best cider brandy; put it into a stone vessel; add to the brandy half an ounce each of carbonate of iron, gum of camphor, gum of kino, and African capsicum. Shake it once or twice during ten days, and place it where it can be easily obtained. Now take a walk into the fields, and find eight smooth, equal sized stones, not exceeding, in size, a six pound cannon ball. Now, if you have no wash-tub sufficiently spacious for a man of your size to sit on a chair in, then I advise you to procure one immediately. Have the jug of brandy, the eight stones and the tub, at all times on hand and available, and you can not only defy the severest form of Asiatic cholera, but you can dispense with the services of the physician. When the patient is attacked with any of the detailed symptoms, place him directly in the tub, divested of clothing, and put about him, secured around the bottom of the vessel, two or three heavy blankets (leaving an aperture to put the hand in), then, having the stones made hot by placing them in the fire, put four in the tub, under the chair on which the patient is sitting, and pour on brandy from a pitcher, or some convenient vessel. Let the liquid fall with sufficient moderation on the stones to enable the fumigations to pervade the patient's body. Change the stones as they become cool, or incapable of converting the liquid into steam. This direction being constantly followed, the patient's suffering will soon cease. The griping and convulsions, and, indeed, all the symptoms, will disappear in part or altogether. As soon as the perspiration is visible, give the patient a gill of white brandy, and place him in bed. Thereafter, the most ordinary nursing will restore the sufferer to a state of physical health and harmony. I would again urge the necessity of procuring the above articles, and of keeping the system in a state of cleanliness, and the mind in a state of freedom and happiness.

In confirmation of the foregoing, the editor of the Univercœlum says: "Of the philosophy of that portion of Mr. Davis's article on cholera, which speaks of the POTATO ROT, and the means of preventing it, we have received the following confirmation from an otherwise intelligent gentleman, who is no believer in interior perception. He informed me that a friend of his, residing in the interior of this state, had been in the habit, for two or three years past, of treating his potato vines with the sweepings from a blacksmith's shop, and that it was found that wherever these were spread upon the ground, the potatoes were not subject to the rot, whereas the rot frequently prevailed in those hills immediately contiguous. This effect, he said, was generally attributed, by those who observed it, to the ammonia exhaling from the horny substances chipped from the horses' hoofs; but he said he was convinced that it was rather attributable to the iron filings and oxydized scales scraped up from the floor of the blacksmith's shop. This is precisely Mr. Davis's remedy."

ART. V. -INTUITIVE SCIENCE-CHOLERA AND POTATO ROT.

NEUROLOGY recognizes, in man, a higher species of intellect than is generally recognized by modern philosophy. It teaches that certain interior intellectual organs of the front lobe, lying in the region to which Gall gave the name of "EDUCABILITY," manifest that transcendent form of perception, which reaches, at once, the most elaborate results of reason and judgment. From this intuitive region proceed the phenomena of clairvoyance, or mental perception of distant objects, and prevoyance, or mental perception of future events. This region of the human brain has heretofore been neglected, alike by the physiologist, phrenologist and mental philosopher. But the cultivators of animal magnetism have known and exercised these powers, and gifted men, in various ages and different nations, have spontaneously displayed their own high endowments. Yet the man of genius, the wise seers and the magnetists alike, have all overlooked the true nature and location of these wonderful powers; it has remained for neurological experiment to demonstrate, that the internal portion of the front lobes of the brain (adjacent to the falx), is the seat of all manifestations of the intuitive intellect, and that these extraordinary faculties belong not merely to the gifted seer or the mesmeric subject, but really to the whole human race, and need only a proper cultivation, hereafter, to elevate the whole human family into the sphere of science and virtue.

There will be a new era in the cultivation and diffusion of science, when the intuitive intellect begins to be cultivated--when men of science learn to penetrate the mysteries of nature by direct percep tion. That such a period must come, and that it will be an era of incomparable brilliancy, is already foreshadowed. We find that a poor ignorant youth, at Poughkeepsie, a simple-hearted shoemaker, ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS, after undergoing repeated mesmeric operations, and displaying the most astonishing clairvoyant powers in the mesmeric somnambulism, during a few years past, has so effectually developed and invigorated his intuitive or clairvoyant faculties, as to be enabled to exercise them without the assistance of any magnetic operator, and thus, at will, to elevate himself into a state of spiritual clear-sightedness, in which his clairvoyant perception is equal to anything displayed in the state of artificial somnambulism. During the course of experiments in which his magnetic somniloquence was displayed, his intellectual powers became so vigorous, and his discourses were so interesting and beautiful, that it was deemed proper to take down his words as they were delivered, and to publish the series of discourses which he uttered in the somniloquent state.

These discourses, published in a large volume of eight hundred pages, and commonly called the "Revelations of Davis," cover a great range of theological, moral, spiritual and scientific subjects, and display an amount of knowledge and intellectual power perfectly astounding, to those who are not aware of the vast scope of the intuitive faculties of man. This work (which I have not yet examined) stands as one of the most extraordinary psychological phenomena ever known. That a comparatively uneducated youth should have produced, in magnetic slumber, by extemporaneous discourses, a brilliant and learned work, as this is generally conceded to be, which few educated men, with libraries at their command, could surpass with the pen-is a fact so astonishing, that nothing but the most unanimous and unimpeachable testimony could have established its truth. Yet this is a conceded fact.

Since the production of that work, Mr. Davis has, without undergoing the magnetic operations, written a number of essays, principally upon medical subjects. One of these essays, relating to cholera, was published a few months since in the Univercælum, a weekly newspaper, at New York, to which he is a frequent contributor. This essay of Mr. Davis is herewith presented to the readers of the Journal of Man, as an interesting display of intuitive intelligence.

The style of Mr. Davis's essays upon medical subjects, is such as we might expect from the nature of the subject and the method of research employed by the writer. They abound in vague generalities, truisms and abstractions, while they are deficient in that minute, full and positive accuracy of statement which belongs to essays based upon experience, or upon exact scientific knowledge. There is a shadowy dimness about the whole, which indicates its origin in the ideal class of faculties. But in his plans of treatment, he generally presents a distinct, simple and rational course-different materially from the fashionable system of practice-yet coinciding, in the main, with the principles and methods approved by a great number of medical men who dissent from the common course of medical practice. To what extent Mr. Davis's views may be strictly original, and to what extent they have been influenced by information derived from others, I cannot say; but I think it highly probable that in his clairvoyant communications and sympathies, he is impressed and guided, to some extent, by the sphere of medical knowledge existing in our country, with which he comes into mental contact, perhaps unconsciously.

We do not find him making any important revelations or discoveries upon medical subjects. On the contrary, he merely presents, in a peculiar manner, what was before known to a portion, if not to the whole, of the medical profession. He exercises his judgment in laying down a peculiar course of management, but he proceeds upon principles which are obvious and from which others may draw similar conclusions.

As to his views of the origin or cause of cholera, I have no doubt

that they are correct, so far as relates to ascribing this disease to imponderable agents. The movements of imponderable agents, which we may class under the generic title of ELECTRICITY, are probably the most important causes of epidemic diseases. In reference to cholera, we find that it rages alike in summer and in winter, in dry and in moist locations, in a malarious atmosphere and in an atmosphere apparently pure. It has no regular line of march nor uniform distribution, as if caused by the winds; and although it is sometimes communicated by contagion, it cannot be wholly excluded by any quarantine or sanitary cordon. If we refer the disease to electrical causes, dependent upon meteorological changes and the electric forces which belong to the strata of the earth, we find its eccentric course at once explained. This explains, also, the fact announced by several geological observers, that calcareous formations, especially where the blue silurian limestone abounds, are more favorable than others to the prevalence of cholera, and that the cliff limestone, which contains a portion of iron in its composition, exerts a protective influence over its localities. We may suppose that the calcareous strata are either better calculated than others to produce a negative or, in some way, morbific state of the superincumbent atmosphere; or, we may suppose that the electric current from calcareous strata, carries with it a more depressing influence, and is better calculated to derange the abdominal organs. Calcareous strata may also contribute to the unhealthiness of particular localities, by a greater conducting power, permitting freer and more sudden changes of atmospheric electricity than silicious or aluminous elements in the soil would permit.

The researches of Baron Reichenbach go to show the important influence, upon man, of imponderable agents heretofore unobserved, and several medical writers have endeavored to demonstrate the important influence of atmospheric and and terrestrial electricity upon human health. Recently, Sir James Murray has given the subject an extensive investigation, and has gone so far as to maintain, that houses may be so constructed as to protect the inhabitants completely from the local electrical currents, and thus shield them from the prevalent diseases of certain unhealthy localities. Indeed, he maintains that his views have stood the test of experiment, and that houses constructed according to his directions, have secured the health of their inmates in regions where, without such protection, they must inevitably have suffered from the endemic diseases. In the future development of this subject, I propose to show, that not only the electric currents, of which Sir James Murray speaks, but the various strata of the earth, may have an important influence upon human health.*

It is much to be regretted that there have not been more extensive meteorological and electric observations, to illustrate the philosophy of cholera. It is stated by Surgeon J. Smellie, of London, that "it has been remarked, that on those days on which this disease was most prevalent, the electric condition of the atmosphere was in a highly disturbed slate, and the various instruments used to exhibit the phenomena of electrici