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52 prescriptions for the sick, until mortal mind acquires an educated appetite for strong drinks, and men and women are made loathsome sots.

Footsteps of progress and spiritualization greet us on every hand. Drug-systems are quitting their hold on

matter, and so letting in its higher stratum, mortal mind. Homœopathy, a step in advance of Allopathy, is doing this. Matter is going out of medicine; and mortal mind, of a higher attenuation than the drug, is governing the pellet.

A lady in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, was etherized, and died in consequence, although her physicians

insisted that it would be unsafe to perform a needed surgical operation without the ether. After the autopsy her sister testified that the deceased protested against inhaling the ether, and said it would kill her; but she was compelled by her physicians to take it. Her hands were held, and she was forced into submission. The case was brought to trial. The evidence was found to be conclusive; and a verdict was returned that her death was occasioned, not by the ether, but by her fear of inhaling it.

Is it skilful or scientific surgery to take no heed of mental conditions, and treat the patient as if she were

so much mindless matter, and as if matter were the only factor to be consulted? Had those unscientific surgeons understood metaphysics, they would not have risked such treatment, in that woman's state of mind. They would either have allayed her fear, or have performed the operation without ether.

The sequel proved that this Lynn lady died from