worked up into sausages, to supply the daily markets of the city with that savory article.

Mr. Loveland says that in Clermont county, Ohio, there are five hundred and fifty thousand bushels of corn distilled in one year into whiskey. This would sustain fiftyfive thousand persons for a year. In the London Teetotal Times it is stated that there are sixty-four millions of bushels of barley brewed in Great Britain in a year, besides the raw grains that are distilled into gin, whiskey, etc. This would sustain six million four hundred thousand, or about one third of the whole population — nearly all the Irish population.

Mr. Granger, of Canandaigua, for four years resided at Geneseo, and put up from fifty to a hundred hogs a year. He does not recollect to have killed one, during the four years, without a tuberculated liver.

The mortality among the hogs in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, was very great a few years since. Dr. Sutton, a highly intelligent physician of Aurora, Indiana, who made numerous post-mortem examinations of hogs dead of the epidemic, came to the conclusion that this disease is not communicable by inoculation to the human constitution, inasmuch as he repeatedly wounded his fingers in those explorations. Can it be inferred from this that the flesh of those sickly animals may be eaten with safety by man, when it kills dogs that eat of it?

§ IV. NEW ZEALANDERS.

Mr. Sturgeon, an English miniature-painter, who passed six months in New Zealand, gives a striking account of the voracity he witnessed in a company of natives of that

island. They killed a pig by striking him on the head; then, without bleeding him, they put him, bristles on, into a hole in the earth, made warm by hot stones. Before he was half cooked through they withdrew him, cut him open with clam-shells, and fell on him, tooth and nail. He counted eleven persons on their hands and knees, feeding upon the different parts of the animal, all of which they most greedily devoured, and left no part remaining but the bristles and the bones! Mr. Sturgeon says that they do not often kill a hog, but when they do they make thorough work with him. He further says: "From children to the age of fifteen or sixteen, they do not partake of animal food, i. e. the animal man. Their diet, until that age, is chiefly potatoes, yams, and Indian corn; sometimes fish dried in the sun. They never use salt with any article of food, or in any way; they have a great dislike to salt. I have asked them which they prefer, the flesh of a white man, or that of their own tribes. The answer was, - White man's flesh too salt; not good.' They use no bread. From children to the age named, they exhibit few or no symptoms of their savage nature; but after joining their tribes in war, and partaking of the flesh of their enemies slain in battle, they almost immediately show their natural character, and they are, without exception, the most wild and savage of the whole colored race."

"They are remarkably clear-skinned, even after partaking of human flesh; but the color of their eyes alters, i. e., the white of the eye, or what was white previous to their cannibal practice, changes to red, which gives them a frightful appearance."

§ V. INTEMPERANCE IN EATING AND DRINKING.

I visited Mr., a lawyer, aged sixty-two. For the last six months he has been in a state of deep hypochondrism, or mental alienation, attended with the most obstinate constipation. His face, once fat, is now lean, and the skin hangs in wrinkles and pouches. The whole skin is dry, and covered with small scales; the limbs lank, and the abdomen, once exhibiting the ne plus ultra of the embonpoint, now loose and bagging. The expression of the countenance is fixed; not a ray of its former good cheer, nor even of hope. He had a blister between his shoulders two months ago; he says that it poisoned him through and through; by scratching it and other parts, he inoculated himself with its poison. Spiders have followed upon the scent of it, and they descend upon him in the night, fill the hair of the head, crawl into his mouth and stomach, and crawl over and through his whole skin. Cats and rats scratch at his door in the night and find the way into his room, and fill his mouth. Indeed, he has been obliged to swallow a great many live rats; and they and the spiders, filling up his stomach, prevent him from digesting food, or taking it, except in very small quantities. Agreeably to this impression, he cannot be prevailed on to take much food. On its being suggested that sponging his body and limbs two or three times a week in weak warm soap-suds, and following it with dry friction with warm cloths, would render the skin less attractive to the vermin and animals, he showed symptoms of great alarm, and said that this would extinguish life immediately; that he could not bear a drop of cold water without its striking a chill through him, and

that warm water would do the same. He is equally afraid of a breath of fresh air, and is in constant terror at the thought of death. Wretched man! He has eaten freely, and for many years drank stimulant drinks freely, though it is said he did not use tobacco.

He was educated at one of the New England colleges, was regularly bred to the law, was for many years in full business as a lawyer, was respectable for talents, accumulated considerable property, and by foolish speculations lost most of it; has been proverbially irritable in his temper, and often fell into disputes and wranglings.

Now the sequel. He has lived for many years in the gross violation of the laws of his constitution, and now he eats imaginary spiders and rats, the fruit of his own doings.

Intoxication. A fit of downright drunkenness, in which the sufferer lies for hours in a state of apoplectic insensibility, everybody believes to be injurious to the constitution. There are few, however, who are not of the opinion that daily dram-drinking, even though the immediate effects are not marked by distinct intoxication, is altogether more pernicious to the constitution than a thoroughgoing drunken fit once in six months or a year.

Now, does not every one see that each dose taken by the dram-drinker contributes its share to the irreparable mischief done to his constitution? Yet how small, and how entirely imperceptible, the amount of injury belonging to each individual dram. Drinkers of spirit pursuing each of these methods have been known, and the different effects have been repeatedly observed.

CHAPTER XIX.

SEVERE FORMS OF NERVOUS DISEASE

PALSY

EPILEPSY.

APOPLEXY

THE value of a rigid and persevering vegetable diet, in promoting a cure of some of the severe forms of nervous disease, may be inferred from the following cases, as well as from others scattered in the records of the profession.

§ I. APOPLEXY.

Dr. Watson, in his thirtieth lecture, says of apoplexy: Among the premonitory symptoms, headache is of frequent occurrence; but the same symptom is abundantly common in persons who are in no danger of apoplexy; it derives its minatory character from the concurrent circumstances. Headaches awaken our fears when they begin to be troublesome in advanced life. They are then still more formidable if they are accompanied by vertigo, or, without any other evidence of gastric derangement, by nausea and retching. Sometimes severe headache ushers in, and almost forms a part of, the apoplectic attack.

"Vertigo itself, even without headache, is a very common precursor or warning of an approaching seizure. It is sometimes slight and transient; sometimes almost