again it was extremely unpopular. I had grown rather indifferent to its practical value till 1847, when I was overtaken by an argument ad hominem.

A case.-In May, 1847, a patient, an entire stranger to me, ten miles distant, called me in consultation with her attending physician. I found a case as follows:-A female, aged nineteen-face white as marble,—just able to sit up while I examined her, respiration very quick, violent cough,- expectoration bloody, chest heaved every breath,-rather dropsical,-violent palpitation most of the time. She was pronounced consumptive and to have heart disease. I promised to help her; but did not believe I could, for she had tried the old and young city and country physicians to no purpose four years. My heart and courage failed me when I found this person looking to me for help. After I left the house, she said to her mother, "I believe that Doctor can cure me." "Oh, child," said she, "how can you be so deceived?" Three weeks passed, and I heard nothing from this case; but as I was passing my near neighbor, I was called in. I knew not for what; but I found there this patientno better a sight to behold,-one upon whom no one could look but with much sympathy, for she was corpse-like. She had persisted in struggling to get down to this uncle's after much dissuasion from friends. I had rather a painful interview with her; for I feared that she might fall into my hands entirely, and I said to myself when I left the house, I hope you won't be sick while you are here, for I do not know what to do for this case. She had been a target for Allopathic shooting for four years. She carried wounds without number, and calomel aches from head to foot-but had naturally an iron constitution. On Friday, I made her a friendly call: on Sunday, I was called professionally in great haste to see her. She had sinking turns, was in great distress for breath, excruciating pain in chest, circulation of blood retarded, &c. In the course of a few hours she was relieved, but finally relapsed into a very distressing sickness of three weeks in which her life was very doubtful. She partially recovered, and was able to sit up a little, when she had an attack more violent than the first: the symptoms were similar, but more alarming. She failed for two weeks very rapidly. A consultation was held and the case given over, though her old physician remarked, "She is hard to kill." It was ten o'clock, the night after the consultation, when friends had been called to part with her (for she thought she should die now, though she never had before in her ill turns)--most of them had left, when in consequence of importunities to give her something to put her out of misery, I seated myself on the bedside, and said to her, "Let me pass my hand on your forehead, shut your eyes and go to Baltimore." (She had a brother there she was anxious to see.)

She instantly became motionless and easy.

"She is gone," said her mother. "Perhaps not," I said. No change occurred for two hours, and I concluded to go home. A pulsation was all the sign of life-she was considered to be in a dying state. I expressed no opinion. I left, and returned at eight o'clock next morning. She was still in same condition. I thought perhaps I might wake her. I placed my hands one on the pit of the stomach, the other on the head, and I perceived more motion, a slight shock pervaded her whole system,—she awoke, looked around, inquired the time of night, and how long she had slept. "Ten hours," was the reply. This astonished her. I then asked how she felt. "Much better, I am dry and hungry—after taking something into my stomach, I should like to go to sleep again if I could." I remained half an hour, and then repeated the same process as the evening previous, with the same result. I would observe that all the bad symptoms after she woke were gone, viz: pain, cough, diarrhea, œdema, &c. I left her then for six hours-returned and aroused her. She took more refreshment and again requested me to induce sleep, which I did. After six hours more I returned, when I ventured to speak to her in the trance state. After some effort she spoke in a whisper. She said, "I am in no pain-you have removed it all-you can cure me-I am full of calomel, and have suffered more injury from medical treatment than from disease-viz: by poisonous medicines and frequent bleedings. My nervous system is more affected than the rest of my system, but you can quite cure me. I can see all parts of my system, and will describe my disease and difficulties to you at some future time, and will give you all the directions how to remove my pains and difficulties." I followed this lady's directions and cured her, and now she has entered upon a life of matrimony.

From that day to this I commenced the science of Medicine over again, and have learned something I wish to communicate to the world. I term the system of medical treatment which I pursue, Psycopathy, in accordance with the spiritual basis upon which it is founded. In a future article I shall discuss the case alluded to above, and others, with a view to establish the claims of this mode of practice to general confidence.

ART. VI.-ETHNOLOGICAL RESERCHES.

[FROM DE BOW'S BEVIEW.]

The present era is especially marked by the extraordinary researches in course of prosecution, by scientific men, into the natural history of the human species. These writers have proceeded in the face of those who hold up the scriptural text, interpreted by themselves, as final and conclusive, and launch the

anathemas of infidelity and irreverence against every one disposed to examine into the evidences of their faith! The time has passed when the progress of investigation can be interrupted by the spirit which dictated from its haughty tribunal to Copernicus and Galileo," the world is not round and does not revolve about the sun, and it is heretical to assert such dogmas as these."

With all our reverence for the teachings of holy writ and abiding faith in their inspiration, which sustain us in every hour of trial or of suffering, we can never countenance the narrow bigotry of those who, daring to speak under its authority, would prescribe lines for science to pursue, and declare forever, thus far shalt thou go and no further.

The interests of sound and heaven-inspired theology are identical with those of physical truth. There is but one Author to the physical and the moral universe, and every investigation tending to reconcile the two together, of which they must be capable, is a sacred and noble work. We are willing to try the Bible by the most searching processes of human philosophy and skill, in all of its doctrines and expositions, in the full assurance it will pass, brightened, the fiery ordeal, and remain unshaken while time shall last. Were it otherwise, and the sacred volume incapable of withstanding the shock of scientific discovery, the permanent interests of man would be promoted by its immediate rejection. Mr. Locke (and none will gainsay his piety and devotion) expresses the proposition in other words-If the Bible teach a square and a circle are identical, faith would be impossible and absurd!

The formula, which came almost universally to be credited, that all mankind are from one common pair, and all animals from the pairs and septules preserved in the ark, has been, in the progress of modern ethnology, vigorously, and, as we believe, unanswerably attacked.

Eight years ago, Dr. Nott, of Mobile, published a pamphlet denying the unity doctrine, which fell like a fire brand in the midst of inflammable material. He was attacked through the Southern Quarterly, by Mr. Curtis, of North Carolina, but in two articles in reply, the doctor left to his opponent scarce a foot of ground to stand upon. This discussion, whilst it gave the first impulse to these studies in our country, set Dr. Nott at work so assiduously, that he collected every authority and opinion, and pursued the matter with incredible ardor. Sympathizing in these investigations, we invited him, in January, 1849, to deliver two lectures upon them, from our chair of Political Economy in the University of Louisiana. These lectures, at our suggestion, were published soon afterward, with notes and illustrations, in a volume already noticed in the Review.

Since this period, Mr. Luke Burke has commenced the publication of an Ethnological Magazine, in London, attacking the

doctrines of the "Unitists;" and, at the late Scientific Convention in Charleston, Prof. Agassiz, in reply to a serious and formal interrogatory, announced that he was entirely convinced they were untenable. The views of this distinguished naturalist are fully set out by him, in an article in a late number of the Christian Examiner, Boston.

The Rev. Dr. Bachman, of Charleston, the co-laborer of Audubon, and a man of splendid attainments, has since come out with a volume, maintaining the unity argument with all the force of his erudition. He has been replied to ably, by that distinguished naturalist, Morton, through the Charleston Medical Journal, and we think it will be difficult to make a rejoinder.

The devout, pious and scientific Dr. J. Pye Smith says:

"If the two first inhabitants of Eden were the progenitors, not of all human beings, but only of the races whence sprung the Hebrew family, still it would remain the fact. that all were formed by the immediate power of God, and all their circumstances, stated or implied in the Scriptures, would remain the same, as to moral and practical purposes. "Some difficulties with Scripture history would be taken away-such as the sons of Adam obtaining wives who were their own sisters; Cain's acquiring instruments of husbandry, which must have been supplied by miracle immediately from Heaven, upon the usual supposition; his apprehensions of summary punishment; his fleeing into another region, of which Josephus so understands the text as to affirm that Cain obtained confederates, and became a plunderer and a robber-implying the existence of a population be yond his own family; and his building a city,' a considerable collection of habitations. "Thus, if, contrary to all reasonable probability, this great question should ever be determined in the way opposite to what we now think the verdict of truth, the highest interests of man will not be affected."

Dr. Morton, of Philadelphia, says:

"With respect to the origin of the human race by a single pair, I always felt there was a moral objection to it; and I read the sacred text with much more satisfaction since I am convinced that it does not require the interpretation usually put upon it.

"There is, again, a philosophical objection to the propagation of any animals from a single pair, because this incestuous intercourse tends, eventually, to the deterioration and extinction of the races that are subjected to it. I do not believe that the earth ever could have been furnished with animals after this plan, unless a miracle had been wrought at every stage of it. The process of breeding in and in, is extremely difficult and olen impossible. Sir John Sebright and others have proved this on a large scale, with respect to domestic animals; and the same fact is equally familiar in this country. Azara states that the natives of Paraguay have found, from experience, that their cattle gradually diminish in size, and lose their fecundity, unless fresh animals of both sexes are introduced, from time to time, from other pastures than their own; and Mr. Alexander Walker, after a laborious examination of this question, declares, that, by this process, nearly perfect beings would degenerate.' Here, then, even among our domestic animals, we have a degree of that same difficulty which is proverbial among admitted hybrids. As to man. let us suppose the mulatto offspring of a black man and a white woman, or the reverse, were compelled to marry among themselves, without any access of other individuals of either race, how long do you suppose this mixed breed would last? Not beyond the third or fourth generation.

"I am convinced the more we study the Mosaic history, in connection with natural science, the more shall we be instructed by both. Is our faith shaken because Galee has shown that the sun does not revolve round the earth, but the earth round the sun' Does it detract from our admiration of creative wisdom, to be told, as geology teaches, that past time is in eternity? Does it lessen our admiration of the past, or our hope in the future, to be told that mankind have existed chiliads of centuries (I quote the words of Dr. Pritchard) upon the earth? or does our religion suffer detriment, because the great Lepsius has deciphered the legends of Memphis, and proved that they date back three thousand five hundred years before Christ? Yet these things are true; and if the pride of man feels humiliated at his past ignorance, let him be thankful that he has yet lived to see so much light."

BUCHANAN'S

JOURNAL OF MAN.

Vol. II, No. 6--DECEMBER, 1850.

ART. I-THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES AND ORGANS! [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 143.]

In front of Spirituality, between Ideality and Imagination, lies Marvelousness, the organ which makes us fond of wonders and of all that is supernatural, producing in excess a childish credulity or willingness to believe anything out of the usual course of nature. Its legitimate influence is displayed in giving an expansiveness to the mind, and an interest in the investigation of rare, wonderful, unaccountable facts, which often reveal important principles. Like the moral organs, it may lead to errors or excesses when not guided by the intellect; but with the proper associated faculties it becomes one of the most amiable, elevating and enlightening faculties-congenial to truth and human improvement.

Descending along the temples, just in front of the coronal suture, we find a number of functions which may be very conveniently grouped together under the title of Ideality. This is the region of vast, beautiful, mystic, dim and dream-like perceptions. Ideality terminates below in Somnolence, the organ of partial sleep, dreaming, somnambulism, &c. Its position between Somnolence, Marvelousness and Spirituality, surrounded by Modesty, Purity, Sensibility, Music, Invention, Scheming and Imagination, shows that it must be an intellectual organ, conducing to refinement and delicacy, producing contemplation rather than perception-vagueness rather than exactness-shadowy rather than precise conceptions, and original creative power rather than simple conceptions of what already exists. Such is the true character of the organ of Ideality-an organ delighting in poetical and fictitious literature--in the world of thought rather than in the world of reality-in visionary creations of the beautiful and perfect-in VOL. II.-K