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 here laid down, be adopted in our asylums, especially among lunatics, the advantage would be great: probably more cures might be wrought than by all other experiments which have ever been made.

Where the brain is inflamed, or when the nerves are affccted, what could be more effectual, than total abstinence from all narcotics, stimulating food, and hot drinks—a free use of cold water upon the skin, with friction, and as much as possible, regular repose?

One writer has well observed, “It is certain, in many cases, we should rather let nature be the chief physician.”

The subjoined testimonies of the utility of the rules of Mr. Graham, when strictly obeyed, if they do not convince the "stout-hearted and far from righteousness, may serve to encourage some desponding dyspeptic that there yet may be hope.

The remark is often made, "I am a friend to temperance, but there is danger of carrying things a little too far." To this I would answer; and if I am too minute, let it be remembered that a subject so much disputed and so little relished, needs "line upon line, here a little and there a little." It is nearly three years since the Temperance House was opened in New York, and it has passed through the ordeal of friends and foes, learned and unlearned, physicians and quacks, ministers and laymen, Christians and infidels, healthy and unhealthy, with the addition of two seasons of cholera. Some have tested