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Physiology, Animal And Mental

Physiology, Animal And Mental image
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31
Month
July
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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applied lo the preservaron and restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind. By O. S. Fowler, New York : Fowlersand Wells, 1847,312 pages, mailable. Price 50 els. We have read this work through with much attention. There is nothing Stoical, gloomy or forbidding about it. If old Epicurus were to arise from the dead, he wouïd at once recognize Mr. Fowler as one of his most consistent and systematic disciples. They ngree in the main object of existence - happiness - as thegreatend which all should seek for by the proper exercise of every faculty and power they possess. They both agree that we should eat, drink, sleep, and enjoy ourselves, and gralify our senses as well as our minds in every way that is productive of the greatest omount of happiness on the whole. The great end of existence is to make ourselves as hacpy na we can. Starting with t'iis most comfortable and refreshing principie of action, the author discusses the relation ■of body and mind, healih and sickness, food and drinks, how to eat, digestión, respiration, circulation, sleep, perspiralion, warmth, the muscular and nervous systems, exercise, Sec. His final chapter is on the remedy of diseases, embracing the most valuable directions both for the sick and wel!. We have not time or space to go into an analysis of all the important truthslaid down, noi of those points we deern exceotionable. But we aÖvise the reader, especially if he have pcarlhealth, to purchase the work and iteadiit attentively, anri he will find in it a cast amount of physiological knowledge in aicondensed and eminently practical Torm. The intimóte connecüon between physioal energy and mental power is hapjnly isplayci M Sickness is exceedingly expeneive, as well as pninful; and those rho would avoid it should learn how to jrreserve health when they have it, and jiegalu t when losi, and thus keep them■sel-ves out of the hands of the doctors. - A sound mind in a healthy body" is a Ireasure of grent value. Here are the tes1 prac:ical suggestions for attaining this penrl nf greal priie that we have seen. - A few copies enn be had at this office. (ET At the Chicago Convention, Hroe Greely vas called on for a speech. U give a paragraph a a sample of sent'tavents higlily honorable to him : "I am not now for tlie first time an enthusiast in the cause of nlernal improvement, It is to me the cause of human progness and of advancing civilization. - Hurn oldly and sadly from the records of victories won over routed armies nnd shatttered ations ; I sicken at the speclacl of slaughtercd thnusanda and pyramide of human bones ; my heart responds rathar to the victorios of Mnn over Nature - of Beneficence over rugged Obstacle tod bttndObslruction. lu the monumenis of sucli victories - in the Erie cnnnl, tho Western Railroad, the Deleware Breakwtter - í feel a pntriotic interest, a grateíul pride- and not merely a pííi-iotic pride only,in the narrow sense; for I rejoice a!so in that magnificent monucnentof victory, the Wellund canal, vanquishing one of the most stubborn obstailes ever interposeed by nature to the progress of eommerce. In these fearless victories, whose fruits are not devnstation and slnughter, ashes and ruins, but beauty nnd beneücence and joy, 1 feel the interest of a patriot and a man. 1 trust that these trophies will soon chequer our whole land and overtop its mountains. that they will be planted all over the lakes and rivers - on the seaboard nd at (he North - on the St. Clair Flats and at the Sault Ste Marie." (t?" The Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Democrat wriles : " I will conclude this letter by the narration of an incident that occurred here a few evenings since. A sl.-xve girl, about 17 years old, who had been residing a long time with her master in Ihis city, was secreily sold by him, and taken away to an unknown destination under the following circumstances : Her former master ent her out as upon an errand, at 11 o'clock, P. M. The buyer then eized her, and upon her screaming, with a curse struuk her on the mouth and thrust her into a carriage in waiting. A numberof Odd Feílows just then carne fromtheir lodge, and while they were discussing the propriety of rescuing her, she was borne offby her new owner.Horrible !" The French Gorernment has ordered that scientific men in al! the departmenU .hall examine microscopically.every fortnight, thi. growing potatoesin the several districts, with a view to discover ïftne plant be again tninted, and the cause, .f uch a calirnity again nrise.

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