{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_27717/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_27717","id":"gutenberg_27717","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27717","summary":null,"tags":["Buchanan's Journal of Man","Category: Archaeology & Anthropology","Category: Health & Medicine","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Psychiatry/Psychology","Medicine -- Periodicals","Phrenology -- Periodicals","Science -- Periodicals"],"text":"Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n                             BUCHANAN'S\n                           JOURNAL OF MAN.\n\n             VOL. I.        OCTOBER, 1887.        NO. 9.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.\n\n\n  The Oriental View of Anthropology\n  MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--Religion and Science; Good Psychology;\n    The Far-away Battle; How not to do it; Robbery of Public Lands;\n    Land Reform in England; Life in Europe; Education in France;\n    Canada and the Union; Woman in the Moon; Emancipation from\n    Petticoats; Women's Rights on the Streets; A Woman's Triumph in\n    Paris; A Woman's Bible; Work for Women; Mrs. Stanton on the\n    Jubilee; Electricity; Progress of the Telegraph; The Mystery of\n    the Ages; Progress of the Marvellous; A Grand Aerolite; The Boy\n    Pianist; Centenarians; Educated Monkeys; Causes of Idiocy; A\n    Powerful Temperance Argument; Slow Progress; Community Doctors;\n    The Selfish System of Society; Educated Beetles; Rustless Iron;\n    Weighing the Earth; Head and Heart; The Rectification of\n    Cerebral Science\n  Chapter IX.--Rectification of Cerebral Science, Correcting the\n    Organology of Gall and Spurzheim\n\n\n\n\nTHE ORIENTAL VIEW OF ANTHROPOLOGY.\n\n\nIn the following essay, DR. F. HARTMANN, an enlightened author of the\nTheosophical and Occult school, presents the mystic or Oriental view\nof man, in an interesting manner, deducing therefrom a philosophy of\nthe healing art. My readers will no doubt be interested in his\nexposition, and, as the ancient doctrine differs materially from the\nresults of experimental investigation, I take the liberty of\nincorporating my comments in publishing the essay.\n\n\nA RATIONAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE.\n\nAll lovers of truth, progress, and freedom of thought must be grateful\nto Dr. J. R. Buchanan for his discovery of the science of SARCOGNOMY.\nHis system brings us nearer to a recognition of the true nature of\nman, his origin and his destiny, and of the relations which he bears\nto the Divine Source from which he emanated in the beginning, and to\nwhich he will ultimately return; for the enlightened ones of all\nnations agree that the _real_ man, who resides temporarily in the\nphysical human body, who feels through the instrumentality of the\nheart, and thinks through the instrumentality of the brain of the\nexternal body, does not originate in the womb of the mother from which\nthe physical body is born, but is of a spiritual origin, again and\nagain re-incarnating itself in physical masks and forms of flesh and\nblood, living and dying, and being reborn, until, having attained that\nstate of perfection, which renders the inner man capable to exist in a\nstate of spiritual consciousness without being encumbered by a gross\nearthly organization, which chains him to animal life.\n\n    [It should here be remarked that the great majority of those who\n    are considered enlightened, and to whom the world is indebted\n    for the sciences which it now possesses, do not accept this\n    theory of re-incarnation. As commonly stated, it is liable to\n    many decisive objections, and these objections, which I have\n    clearly stated in the Religio-Philosophical Journal, have not\n    been, and I think will not be, removed by the teachers of\n    re-incarnation.]\n\nIt may perhaps not be premature to examine how far the doctrines of\nDr. Buchanan correspond with the doctrines of occult science; that is\nto say, with that science which is based upon a perception and\nunderstanding of certain facts, which, to be perceived, require\nspiritual powers of perception, such as are not yet developed in the\nmajority of mankind, but which are only in possession of those who\nhave mentally risen above the sphere of external phenomena and\naccustomed themselves to look at spiritual things with the eye of the\nspirit. It is not my intention to enter at present into an elaborate\nreview of the most prominent writers on occult subjects, and to quote\npassages from such authors to support the views expressed in the\nfollowing pages, but rather to give a short statement of their\ndoctrines in regard to the omnipotent power of Will and Life; both\nthese powers being fundamentally identical; both being merely\ndifferent modes of actions, or functions, of that universal, eternal,\nand divine Central Power of the universe, which is beyond the\nconception of mortals, and which the latter call _God_.\n\nThe ancient religions, as well as reason and logic, tell us that there\nis, and can be, only one supreme God, or First Cause of the universe,\nand that from this one first and fundamental Cause or Power every\nsecondary power and everything that exists has come into existence, or\nbeen evolved within it and through its eternal activity. The whole of\nthe universe with everything contained therein, man included, is and\ncan be nothing else but a manifestation of this internal fundamental\npower, or, as it has been expressed by the ancient philosophers, the\nuniverse is the product of the Divine Imagination (thought) of the\nFirst Great Cause, thrown into objectivity by its eternal Will.\n\nWe see, therefore, the great unmanifested _One_ manifesting itself in\nits own _Substance_ (Space) by means of _two_ powers, _Thought_\n(imagination) and _Will_ (the _Word_ or Life); both powers being\nfundamentally identical and merely two different modes of activity or\nfunctions of the _One_ Eternal, internal Principle, called God.\nAccording to the _Bible_, God said, \"Let there be light,\" and through\nthe power of this outspoken \"_Word_,\" the world came into existence.\nThis allegory, expressed in modern language, means that by the\n_active_ Will of the universal First Cause, the images existing in its\neternal memory were thrown into objectivity and thus produced the\ngerms from which the worlds with all things existing therein were\nevolved and grew into the shapes in which we see them now. The\n_Brahmins_ say that when _Brahm_ awoke from his slumber after the\nnight of creation (the great Pralaya) was over, he _breathed out_ of\nhis own substance, and thus the evolution of worlds began. If he\n_in-breathes_ again, the worlds will be re-absorbed in his substance,\nand the day of creation will be over.\n\n    [God being essentially and self-evidently inconceivable by man,\n    all attempts of Brahmin, Christian, or any other theologians to\n    explain his existence and his methods of creation can be\n    recognized by the scientific mind only as hypotheses\n    unsusceptible of verification, and, therefore, incapable of\n    becoming a proper basis of Philosophy.]\n\nThus we find, on examining the doctrines of all the greatest religions\nof the world, that they all teach the same truth, although they teach\nit in different words and in different allegories. They all teach that\nthere exist two fundamental powers, originating from the absolute\n_One_, namely, _Thought_ and _Will_; and it logically follows that if\na man were a complete master over his thoughts and his will, he could\nbecome a creator within the realm to which his thought and imagination\nextend; he could, consequently, by the power of his will and thought,\ncontrol all the functions of his organism, the so-called involuntary\nones as well as those which are voluntary. He could--if he possessed a\nperfect knowledge of his own constitution--restore abnormal functions\nto their normal state, and restore diseased organs to health.\n\n    [The mode of expression used in this paragraph is rather\n    misleading. One may have a complete mastery of his thoughts and\n    will, while both thought and will are very feeble and\n    ineffective. It requires great POWER in the will and thought to\n    acquire such control over bodily functions, and any expression\n    leading persons of feeble character to suppose they can attain\n    such results would be delusive. Many persons of feeble character\n    have been led by current speculations to aspire far beyond their\n    ability.]\n\nAnother fundamental doctrine of Occultism is that man is a Microcosm,\nin which is germinally (potentially) contained everything that exists\nin the Macrocosm of the universe. [An unproved hypothesis.] As the\nwill and thought of that universal and divine internal power, which is\ncalled God, penetrates and pervades the whole of the universe;\nlikewise the will and thought of man, if he has once attained perfect\nmastery over himself, extends through all parts of his organization,\npervades every organ, and may be made to act consciously wherever man\nchooses to employ it. But in the present state of man's condition upon\nthis earth, no one but the adepts have acquired this power. In them\nthought and will act as one. In the vast majority of human beings\nthought and will are not yet in entire harmony, and do not act as one.\nIn the regenerated one (the adept) heart and head act in perfect\nunison. The adept thinks what he wills, and wills what he thinks. In\nunregenerated humanity will and thought are divided and occupy two\ndifferent centres. In them the will has its seat in the _blood_ (whose\ncentral organ is the heart), and their thought or imagination has its\nseat in the brain. In them heart and brain are often not only not in\nperfect harmony, but even opposed to each other. But the _will_ and\n_life_ being one, and identical, we see that the central seat of\n_life_ is not, as has been maintained by Dr. Buchanan, the _brain_,\nbut the primary source of all life is the _heart_.\n\nWe see, therefore, a discrepancy between the doctrines of Dr. Buchanan\nand the occult doctrines in regard to Anthropology; but this\ndiscrepancy is of no serious consequence; because the _moon_ (the\n_intellect_) is in our solar system as necessary as the _sun_ (the\n_will_), and as the vast majority of people have a considerably\ndeveloped intellect, but only a very little developed will, and live,\nso to say, more in their brains than in their hearts, they may be\nlooked upon as receiving their powers and energies from their brains,\nwhile the brain receives its stimulus from the heart. The ancient\nRosicrucians compared the heart to the _sun_, the intellect, or\n_brain_, to the moon. The moon receives her light from the sun, the\ncentre of life of our solar system. If the sun were to cease to exist,\nthe moon would soon lose her borrowed light; likewise if the sun of\ndivine love ceases to shine in the human heart, the cold, calculating\nintellect may continue to glitter for a while, but it will finally\ncease to exist. If the brain vampyrizes the heart, that is to say, if\nit absorbs the greater part of the life principle, which ought to go\nto develop love and virtue in the heart, man may become a great\nreasoner, a scientist, arguer, and sophist; but he will not become\n_wise_, and his intellect will perish in this life or in the state\nafter death. We often see very intellectual people becoming criminals,\nand even lunatics are often very cunning. That which a man may call\nhis own in the end, are not the thoughts which he has stored in his\nperishable memory; but the fire of love and light which he has kindled\nin his heart. If this fire of life burns at his heart it will\nilluminate his mind, and enable the brain to see clear; it will\ndevelop his spiritual powers of perception, and cause him to perceive\nthings which no amount of intellectual brain-labor can grasp. It will\npenetrate even the physical body, and cause the soul therein to assume\nshape and to become immortal.\n\nIt is not to be supposed that the above truths will be at once\naccepted by every reader of the JOURNAL, except by such as have given\ndeep thought to the true nature of man. Neither are they a subject for\nscientific controversy or disputation. A knowledge of the truth is not\nproduced by disputations and quarrels, but only by direct perception,\nexperience, and understanding. The conclusions which man arrives at by\nlogic are merely productive of certain opinions, and these opinions\nare liable to be changed again as soon as the basis from which his\nlogic started, changes. A real knowledge of spiritual truths requires\na power of spiritual perception, which few men possess. Nevertheless,\neven our logical deductions, taking as a starting point that which we\nknow to be true, will help us to arrive at the same conclusions at\nwhich the Hermetic philosophers arrived by the power of spiritual\nperception.\n\n    [In the foregoing passage, Dr. H. professes to state doctrines\n    derived from intuition or spiritual perception by the ancients,\n    and also recognized to-day by spiritual perception. To me they\n    appear as the results only of that sort of ancient SPECULATION,\n    which recognized earth, air, fire, and water as the four\n    chemical elements of all things. I do not find them sustained by\n    the spiritual perception of those who have the intuitive powers\n    to-day, nor by scientific investigation. The substance of the\n    heart is _not the seat of life_. It is a merely muscular\n    substance, and ceases all action when separated from its\n    controlling ganglia. The vitality of the heart lies in its\n    ganglia--in other words, in the nervous system, _in which alone\n    is life_, and of which the brain is the commanding centre. That\n    life resides exclusively in the nervous system is one of the\n    established principles of physiology, which cannot be disturbed\n    by any theories descending from antiquity, before the dawn of\n    positive science. That the will resides in the blood and the\n    heart, is about as near the truth as Plato's doctrine that the\n    prophetic power belonged to the liver. If the region of Firmness\n    in the brain be large, it will be strongly manifested, even\n    though the heart be feeble, and as easily arrested as Col.\n    Townsend's. But if the upper surface of the brain be diseased,\n    or sensibly softened, the will power is almost destroyed, even\n    if the plethoric, hypertrophied heart is shaking the head with\n    its power. Many an individual of a delicate frame, has\n    overpowered by firmness and courage stout, muscular men of far\n    larger hearts. That the brain is the organ of thought alone, is\n    a very old crudity. It contains every human emotion and passion,\n    which we may stimulate in the impressible, or suspend instantly\n    by a slight pressure on the brain. There is no intense exercise\n    of any of the emotions or passions without a corresponding\n    warmth and tension in the portion of the brain to which they\n    belong, the development and activity of which determine their\n    power. The will and life are not _identical_, as Dr. H.\n    suggests, for if they were, we should not have these two words\n    with different meanings. If will is an attribute of life, that\n    does not constitute _identity_. The speculations of Rosicrucians\n    are of no authority in science. The divine love or influence is\n    in direct relation to the brain, the central organ of the soul,\n    and not to a muscular structure of the body, which is far below\n    the brain in rank. It would be just as reasonable to affirm that\n    courage belongs only to the muscles. That illuminating love\n    which Dr. H. ascribes to the heart, belongs to the upper region\n    of the brain, and is never found when that region lacks\n    development, or is in a cold, torpid condition. I deny entirely\n    that these mystic theories are the product of true, spiritual\n    perception. They arise from the fact that the thoracic region\n    sympathizes with the seat of true love and will in the brain.\n    This secondary effect has been felt and realized by those to\n    whom the functions of the brain were unknown. Spiritual\n    perception, now guided by the spirit of investigation, discovers\n    the whole truth--that all human faculties and impulses belong to\n    the brain, but have a secondary influence on the localities of\n    the body to which SARCOGNOMY shows their relations.]\n\nIf we believe in one great spiritual cause of all, and conceive of it\nas the great spiritual Sun of the universe (of which our terrestrial\nsun is merely an image or reflection), we find that spiritual man (the\nimage of God) can be nothing else but an individual ray of that\nspiritual sun, shining into matter, becoming polarized and forming a\ncentre of life in the developing human foetus, and causing this\nfoetus to grow in a living form of human shape, according to the\nconditions presented to it by the maternal organism, and when it is\nborn, and becomes conscious, the illusion of self is created within\nthat individual form. Besides the gross, visible, external form, more\nethereal internal forms are evolved, which are of a longer duration\nthan the outward physical form, but of which it is not necessary to\nspeak at present.\n\nAt all events, all that we positively know of man, is that he is an\ninvisible internal power, which evolves an outward shape, which we\ncall a human being. The material through which the organism is built\nup is the blood, and the centre from which the blood flows into all\nparts of the body and to which it returns from all parts, is the\nheart. The heart is consequently the centre from which that power\nwhich builds up the organism of man emanates, and as this power can be\nnothing else but Life, the heart is the centre of life. The heart and\nthe brain stand in the most intimate relation to each other, and\nneither one can continue to live if the other one ceases to act; but\naccording to the doctrines of the ancient and modern occultists the\nheart is of superior importance than the brain. A man may live a long\ntime without thinking, but he ceases to live when his heart ceases to\nbeat. The heart is the seat of life, the brain the seat of thought,\nbut both are equally necessary to enjoy life; there is no intellectual\nactivity without life, and a life without intelligence is worthless.\nThat the force which constructs the organism of man emanates from the\nheart, appears to me to be self-evident; that the power which guides\nthis construction emanates from the brain has been demonstrated by Dr.\nBuchanan.\n\n    [This is quite incorrect. The heart may cease acting, as in\n    apparent death while the processes of thought and feeling are\n    going on, and the individual is conscious that he is going to be\n    buried, but incapable of giving the alarm. On the other hand the\n    action of the brain may be suspended, as in apoplexy, while the\n    heart is beating vigorously. In such cases, though the action of\n    the cerebrum is suspended, the physiological brain or cerebellum\n    sustains physical life. We cannot say that the heart is superior\n    to the brain, because it supplies the brain with blood for its\n    growth, any more than we could say the same of the lungs, which\n    supply oxygen, without which the action of the brain is speedily\n    arrested. We might even extend the remark to the stomach and\n    thoracic duct, which supply the material for making a brain,\n    which certainly does not prove their superiority. The action of\n    the brain is far more important, for the quickest death is\n    produced by crushing the brain, or by cutting it off from the\n    body in the spinal cord of the neck, when heart, lungs, and\n    stomach are promptly arrested by losing the help of the brain.\n    If prior development in growth proved a superiority of rank, the\n    ganglionic system which accompanies the arteries and precedes\n    the evolution of the convoluted cerebrum would hold the highest\n    rank, although it is destitute of consciousness and volition,\n    which belong to the brain alone.]\n\nBut what is this power which emanates from the brain, and which guides\nthe organizing activity of the soul, but the power of life which is\ntransmitted to the brain from the heart, and which is modified in its\nactivity by the peculiar organization of the latter? Man in his\npresent state does not think with his heart, but with his brain;\nnevertheless, the heart is superior to the brain, for the brain has\nbeen built up by the power which came from the heart; and it is a\nuniversal law of nature, that no thing can produce anything superior\nto itself. During its foetal existence the brain of the child is built\nup by the blood of the mother; after man is born his brain receives\nits power of life through the heart, and in spiritually developed man\nthe thought-force created in the brain reacts again upon the will in\nthe heart, controlling its desires and entering into harmonious union\nwith the latter. The ancient alchemists say: \"If the Sun (the heart)\nenters in conjunction with the _Moon_ (the brain) then will Gold\n(Wisdom) be produced.\"\n\nWe see, therefore, in man two centres of life, the heart and the\nbrain, and it may properly be said that the brain is the seat of life,\nonly it may perhaps be added, that it is the secondary seat, while the\nprincipal seat is, or ought to be, in the heart. [Dr. H. identifies\nwill with life, yet every one knows that all acts of volition proceed\nfrom the brain alone, and never from the heart; hence by his own\nstatement the brain is the seat of life.] According to the doctrines\nof the Hermetic philosophers, God is the invisible central fire in the\nuniverse from which the Light of the Logos (Christ or the celestial\nAdam) emanated in the beginning. Man being a Microcosm, contains in\nhis heart the image of that internal and invisible central fire of\n_Love_, which sends the light of thought to the brain and illuminates\nthe mind of the seer. We are at present not living in the age of Love,\nbut in the age of Thought (not the age of _Reason_, but the age of\n_Reasoning_ and Speculation), and by the law of heredity, life has\nbecome pre-eminently concentrated in the brain; while in a more\nadvanced age, when the principle of universal Love and Benevolence\nwill be generally recognized, life will become more strongly\nconcentrated at the heart. Men will then not only think, but feel and\nbecome able to recognize the truth by that power which is known to us\nin its rudimental state as _Intuition_, but which, if developed, will\nbe far superior to that uncertain feeling called Intuition, and become\na Sun within the heart, sending its rays far up into the regions of\nthought. Then, as their Love for the supreme Good increases, will\ntheir knowledge increase, and as their knowledge expands will their\nWill become powerful and free.\n\n    [The physiology of this passage is all erroneous. In the ages of\n    animalism and barbarism the heart is more powerful, like the\n    rest of the muscular system to which it belongs. In a more\n    humane and refined condition the brain is more predominant. The\n    female heart is not as well developed as the male. The moral\n    superiority of women is due not to the heart but to the superior\n    region of the brain, to which we owe all elevation of\n    individuals and society.]\n\nIt has been said above that Will and Life are identical, and there are\nsufficient facts to prove that they are one. A man may prolong his\nlife by an effort of will, or he may cease to live if he wills to die.\nA loss of will-power in a limb is identical with paralysis of the\nlatter. If the will (conscious or unconscious will) ceases to act, man\nceases to live. No amount of thought exercised by the brain will raise\na limb of a person, unless the person has the will to raise it; no\namount of imagination on the part of the brain will execute an act,\nunless the will guided by the imagination causes the act to be\nexecuted. In the blood,--the representative of the animal\nlife-principle (Kama-rupa) is the seat of the will, its central office\nis the heart. There the will or life-power acts consciously or\nunconsciously, sending its rays to the brain, where they become more\nrefined, and from thence they radiate again back through the organism,\ncausing the unconscious or conscious processes of imagination and\nthought. The way in which these processes take place, has been well\ndescribed in Dr. Buchanan's \"Therapeutic Sarcognomy.\" Love, Will, and\nLife are ultimately one and the same power; they are like the three\nsides of a pyramid ending in one point, or like a star emitting a\nlight of three different hues. Without the fire of divine Love at the\ncentre there will be no good and powerful Will, without Will man is a\nuseless being, without virtue and without real life, an empty shell or\nform kept alive by the play of the elements, ceasing to exist when the\nform falls to pieces. But he who possesses a strong love for the good,\nthe beautiful, and true, grows strong in Will and strong in Life. His\nheart sends a pure current of life to the brain, which enables the\nlatter to see and grasp the ideas existing in the Astral light. The\npurer the will the more pure will be the imagination, and the more\nwill the latter be able to rise to the highest regions of thought,\nwhile these exalted thoughts will radiate their light back again to\nthe heart and stimulate the heart as the heart stimulated the brain.\n\nA consideration of the above will go to prove that Love (Will or Life)\nand Thought (Imagination or Light) are the forces by which the soul\nforms and regenerates the external body, and that he who obtains\nmastery over these forces within his own organism will be able to\nchange and remodel his body and to cure it of all ills. The fountain\nof life is the will, and if the will is good and pure and not poisoned\nby the imagination, a pure blood and a strong and healthy body will be\nthe result. If the imagination (thought) is pure, it will purify the\nwill and expel from the latter the elements of evil. _The fundamental\ndoctrine of the most rational system of medicine is therefore the\npurification of the Will and the Imagination_, and every one carries\nwithin his own heart the _universal panacea_, which cures all ills, if\nhe only knows how to employ it. The purification and strengthening of\nthe will by acts of love and human kindness and by leading a pure and\nunselfish life, should be the principal object of all religious and\nscientific education. The Bible says: \"If the _salt_ (the will) of the\nearth is worthless, wherewith shall it be salted?\" If the fountain\nfrom which all life springs is poisoned by evil thoughts, how can the\nsoul and body be healthy? The best _blood-purifier_ is a pure will,\nrendered pure by pure and holy thoughts.\n\nThis fundamental and self-evident truth is continually overlooked in\nour present age. The education of the intellect for the purpose of\nattaining selfish interests is made of paramount interest and the\nheart is neglected and left to starve.[1] The life-energy which ought\nto be employed to educate the heart and to render the will good and\npure, is wasted in the top story of the temple of man in idle\nspeculations about external and worthless things, in scientific\nquarrels and dogmatic disputations, which have usually no other object\nbut to tickle personal vanity and to give to ignorance an external\ncoat of learning. Many of our modern scientific authorities resemble\nants, which crawl over a leaf which fell from a tree: they know all\nabout the veins and cells of that leaf, but they know nothing whatever\nof the living tree, which produces such leaves, and moreover flowers\nand fruits. Likewise the rational medicine based upon reason and\nunderstanding, the science springing from a true knowledge of man will\nforever remain an enigma to the legally-authorized guardians of the\nhealth of humanity, as long as they know nothing of man except his\nexternal form and refuse to open their eyes and to see the eternal\ninternal power, of which the external form is merely an evanescent\nimage, a transient manifestation.\n\n    [1] There is no higher gift of Divinity than the gift of\n        intelligence, which, if pervaded by the light of Divine\n        love, constitutes the Christ, and those who are thus gifted\n        are indeed the \"favorites of God.\" But if such a people kill\n        the Christ-principle in their hearts, and use their\n        intellectual powers merely for selfish purposes, they will\n        become _accursed_. A system of medicine or theology which is\n        based upon self-interests of the privileged class of doctors\n        and priests is a curse to humanity.\n\n\nHoping that with the appearance of the JOURNAL OF MAN a new era of\ntruly rational medicine will begin in progressive America,\n\n                                 I am yours truly and fraternally,\n                                              FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D.\n\nKEMPTEN, BAVARIA, April 7, 1887.\n\n    [While reaching my conclusions in a different manner by careful\n    and prolonged experimental investigation, and expressing them\n    differently, I agree with Dr. Hartmann in his most important\n    principle,--the importance of love as the best element of life,\n    in sustaining health and intelligence, and the necessity of its\n    culture in education, which has been so long neglected, and\n    which I have endeavored to enforce in the \"New Education.\" The\n    structure and functions of the brain demonstrate that its love\n    region is the chief support of its life, that it supports both\n    will and intelligence, and that it not only sustains the highest\n    health of him in whom it is developed and exercised, but\n    ministers also to the health of all whom he meets, and is the\n    great healing power in those whose presence or touch relieves\n    the sick. The existence of this beneficent power in the human\n    constitution, more restorative and pleasant than all medicines\n    when present in sufficient fulness, is rapidly becoming known\n    throughout our country, and is made intelligible as to its\n    origin, nature and application by Sarcognomy, as I am teaching\n    in the College of Therapeutics. Medical colleges, in their\n    ignorance and jealousy, unwisely exclude and war against this\n    nobler and more ethical method of healing, thus compelling its\n    development and practice as a distinct profession, which is\n    rapidly undermining their influence and diminishing their\n    patronage by showing that, in many cases where drug remedies\n    have totally failed as applied by colleges, the psycho-dynamic\n    faculty of man may accomplish wonders.]\n\n\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.\n\n\nRELIGION AND SCIENCE are exceedingly harmonious in assisting each\nother, but theologians and scientists are exceedingly discordant. Who\nis in fault? It is the fault of both. Both are bigoted and\nnarrow-minded. Neither can see the truths that belong to the other\nparty; theologians dislike science, not being able to see that science\nis a grander and more unquestionable revelation than any they have\nderived from tradition, and scientists deride religion and theology,\nnot being able in their narrowness to recognize the higher forms of\nscience in the great spiritual truths which have been apparent to all\nraces from the most ancient limits of history. Of the scientific class\nthe majority are averse to the religion of the times, partly from\ntheir own sceptical nature, and partly because religion has been\npresented in the repulsive forms of an absurd theology.\n\nProf. E. S. Morse, the president of the American Association, is a\nvery sceptical agnostic.\n\n  Proud Huxley's the Prince of Agnostics, you see,\n  And Huxley and I do sweetly agree.\n\nAt the late meeting of the Association, August 10, at Columbia\nCollege, New York, Prof. Morse made an address in which he is reported\nas saying that \"Dr. Darwin's theory was accepted by science, although\necclesiastical bodies now and then rose up to protest against it. He\nasserted that the missing links for which there was such a clamor were\nbeing supplied with such rapidity that even the zoologist had to work\nto keep up with his science. It was a singular fact that no sooner did\nsome one raise an objection to the theories of derivative science,\nthan some discovery was made which swept down the barrier. It was safe\nenough for an intelligent man, no matter what he knew of science, to\naccept as true what science put forth, and to set down as false\nwhatever the church offered in opposition. Every theory and\ndeclaration of science had been opposed by the church. The penalty of\noriginal sin, according to a scientific writer, was the penalty of man\nbeing raised to an upright position. [Laughter.] Cannot it be proved\nwithout question that the illiteracy of Spain was the result of\ncenturies of religious oppression and of the inquisition?\"\n\nOne of the scientists told a _World_ reporter (says the _Truth\nSeeker_) that at last year's convention in Buffalo, Prof. Morse made\nan address that was so full of infidelity that the Catholic diocesan\nauthorities there forbade the clergy from attending the meetings.\n\nHowever, the Association has a small orthodox element in it, and on\nSunday about one-eighth of the members held a prayer-meeting at\nColumbia College, at which allusions were made to the ungodly\ncharacter of the majority of their associates, which the said\nassociates on Monday regarded as a very objectionable proceeding.\n\nIn the contests between scientists and theologians it has long been\napparent that the theologians are steadily receding. The time was, two\nor three hundred years ago, when fearless scientists were imprisoned\nor burned by theologians. Now, the scientists who lead the age treat\ntheology with contempt and the press sustains them. Meanwhile,\nscientific scepticism is invading the pulpit, and all that\ndistinguishes the Bible from any treatise on moral philosophy is\ngradually being surrendered by leading theologians; they are losing\nreligion as well as theology.\n\n\nGOOD PSYCHOLOGY.--Prof. Wm. James, of the chair of Philosophy in\nHarvard College, and apparently the most philosophic gentleman in that\nconservative institution, has published in the _Popular Science\nMonthly_ an essay on _Human Instincts_, characterized by a vigorous\ncommon sense and close observation. When he asserts (contrary to the\nold metaphysics) the existence of such instincts as fear,\nacquisitiveness, constructiveness, play (or, properly, playfulness),\ncuriosity, sociability, shyness, secretiveness, cleanliness, modesty,\nshame, love, coyness or personal isolation, jealousy, parental love,\netc., he shows the spirit of science. But is it not self-evident, Mr.\nJames, to a man of your fine intelligence, that all strong impulses\n(or instincts, as you call them) must have a special nervous apparatus\nin the psychic region of the brain; and that loving, blushing,\nstealing, and fighting cannot be functions of the same organs\nconcerned in perceiving color, or comprehending music? If I have\ntraced these instincts to the special convolutions in which they\nreside, and given innumerable demonstrations of their locality, even\nin Boston, and before critical observers, why have you not interested\nyourself in the question of the cerebral localities and the complete\ndemonstration of all the instincts by that method?\n\nI have even found an instinct of the _love of truth_ among the higher\nsentiments, which, to a few rare individuals, is the predominant\nimpulse of their lives, though, alas, in college professors, as well\nas in other classes generally, it is \"inhibited\" by a great variety of\nopposing instincts, interests, and social influences. Nowhere is it\nmore completely \"inhibited\" than in Boston and Cambridge, as I have\nbeen informed by the most intelligent old citizens.\n\n\nTHE FAR-AWAY BATTLE.--In the quiet home the sounds of the far-away\nstrife are not heard. The war of the cannon is determining the destiny\nof empires, but it is unheard in the cottage. The myriad sounds of\ncommerce in the city do not disturb the quiet of that home. Its quiet\nlife attracts no attention. But there is something in that home more\nimportant than war or commerce or king-craft--something that concerns\nhuman welfare more profoundly. In that quiet home, a human life is\ndeveloping; a human soul preparing for its life work--a work that will\nchange the destiny of coming generations. In many quiet homes such a\nwork is in progress, determining a nation's future.\n\nAll important movements are quiet and obscure in their origin. As the\nmagnificent forest was slowly and obscurely germinated in darkness, in\nthe seeds from which it sprung, so are the great discoveries in\nscience and philosophy matured in quietness and obscurity. The thinker\nhears afar the sound of strife and the agitation of parties warring\nfor power. He knows the follies and errors that agitate mankind, but\nhe is withheld from entering the strife, for he has a more important\nwork to accomplish--a work for the future. It is to such work that the\nJOURNAL OF MAN is devoted; laying the foundation of that philosophy in\nwhich future thinkers shall find the principles of social\nreorganization. It does not join in the strife of contending parties,\nnor does it recognize any existing party as entirely free from error.\nIt gives its care to new and growing truths, knowing that, as Carlyle\nsays, \"The weak thing weaker than a child becomes strong one day if it\nbe a true thing.\"\n\n\nHOW NOT TO DO IT.--The Seybert commission having made a splendid\nfailure to find interesting and valuable facts where other\ninvestigators have succeeded, their blundering ignorance is now\nassisted by newspaper mendacity. The _New York Times_, of Aug. 22,\nconcludes an extremely stupid article on this subject, by the\nfollowing paragraph, which, if the writer gave any indications of\nintelligence, would be set down as a pure specimen of mendacity, but\nis more probably a specimen of indolent ignorance:\n\n    \"If Spiritualists could furnish one clearly-proved case of a\n    spirit from the other world, seen and tested by those now living\n    on the earth, there would be some sense and reason in their\n    claims to be heard; but until they do, the great mass of\n    intelligent people will refuse to listen, and rightly, too.\"\n\nThere must be an immense mass of the same kind of lazy ignorance in\nthe community, when such stuff is tolerated in a newspaper. The\ncontents of daily newspapers show that they expect more patronage from\nthe debased and ignorant classes than from the intelligent and\nhonorable.\n\n\nROBBERY OF PUBLIC LANDS.--The report of Surveyor General Geo. W.\nJulian, of Colorado, shows that of the patented and unpatented lands\nreferred to, aggregating 8,694,965 acres, it will be safe to estimate\nthat at least one-half have been illegally devoted to private uses\nunder invalid grants, or unauthorized surveys.\n\nHe thinks it would not be extravagance to say that these land\nclaimants, with their enormous interests, have exercised a shaping\ninfluence upon Congress. Congress has approved 47 out of 49 of these\nclaims. In this connection the report calls attention to the action of\nCongress in 1860, and the Interior Department in 1879 in the famous\nMaxwell land grant case, which he characterizes as a wanton and\nshameful surrender to the rapacity of monopolists of 1,662,764 acres\nof the public domain, on which hundreds of poor men had settled in\ngood faith and made valuable improvements. It has been as calamitous\nto New Mexico, says the Surveyor General, as it is humiliating to the\nUnited States. The report says:\n\n    \"During the last Congress several members of both Houses,\n    including the delegate from this Territory, reported bills for\n    the confirmation of the Socorro grant, which is one of the most\n    shocking of the many attempts yet made to plunder the public\n    domain. I do not say that the men who introduced these bills\n    intended to make themselves parties to any scheme of robbery,\n    but their action shows that the hidden hand of roguery is still\n    feeling its way in Congress for a friendly go-between.\"\n\nAs a remedy for this condition of affairs, Mr. Julian recommends\nresurveys of all grants about which there is any doubt, and the\nentering of suits to set aside patents obtained by fraud.\n\n\nLAND REFORM IN ENGLAND.--One hundred and twenty-four members of the\nEnglish Parliament are in favor of the following land scheme\npropounded by Charles Bradlaugh:\n\n    \"Ownership of land should carry with it the duty of cultivation.\n\n    \"Where land capable of cultivation with profit, and not devoted\n    to some purpose of public utility or enjoyment, is held in a\n    waste or uncultivated state, the local authorities ought to have\n    the power to compulsorily acquire such land.\n\n    \"The compensation is to be only the 'payment to the owner for a\n    limited term of an annual sum not exceeding the then average net\n    annual produce of the said lands.'\n\n    \"The local authorities are to let the lands thus acquired to\n    tenant cultivators.\n\n    \"The conditions of tenure are to be such 'as shall afford\n    reasonable encouragement, opportunities, facilities, and\n    security for the due cultivation and development of the said\n    land.'\"\n\n\nLIFE IN EUROPE.--Senator Frye, of Maine, having returned from Europe,\nspoke thus to a reporter, at Lewiston:\n\n    \"We have taken a tour of the continent and of Great Britain, and\n    although we have seen many places, we have seen no place like\n    home--no place in all respects equal to America. You will find\n    in the Old World much that is admirable, but what impressed me\n    most painfully was the poverty of the masses of the people. Why,\n    the people in Europe live on the poorest food, and mighty little\n    of it. I found that laborers in Glasgow work for 2s. 6d. a\n    day--sixty-two cents. I was charmed with Edinburgh, but when I\n    saw women drunk and fighting in her beautiful streets, the\n    modern Athens lost her charms. I cannot convey to you the\n    picture of the degradation and want throughout Great Britain,\n    caused by drink. I come back a stouter cold-water man than when\n    I went away. The drink evil is a horror. Speaking of wages, I\n    found girls in factories in Venice working with great skill for\n    from five to twelve cents a day, the most experienced getting\n    twelve cents a day, out of which they have to live, but how they\n    live is a wonder. Their chief diet is macaroni. Farm hands all\n    over Europe--women--earn twenty cents a day. Women do most of\n    the field work. I saw no improved machinery on the farms of the\n    continent. I have seen twenty women in one field at work--not a\n    man in sight. The plain people see no meat to eat once a week on\n    the continent. The condition of American wage-earners is\n    incomparably better than that of working people in Europe. It's\n    the difference between comfort and competence, and discomfort\n    and insufficient food and clothing.\n\n    \"Perhaps the most contemptible people one meets abroad are the\n    Anglicized Americans--the man who apes, both in manners and\n    language, what he regards as the English aristocracy, affects to\n    believe everything in England perfect, and seems to be ashamed\n    to institute any favorable comparison between his country and\n    that.\"\n\n\nEDUCATION IN FRANCE.--The Academy of Medicine has passed a resolution\ndemanding of the government changes in the hours of study for\nchildren, larger play grounds, removal of schools to the country, and\ndaily teaching of gymnastics. These suggestions are urgently needed in\nFrance, where children are subjected to a far more rigid and\nenfeebling method than in America. The power of the church over\neducation is destroyed in France, and religious instruction is now\nprohibited.\n\n\nCANADA AND THE UNION.--Rev. W. H. Murray reports a strong feeling in\nCanada for annexation. He says:\n\n    \"A gentleman of great influence in this city, and of established\n    loyalty to the land of his birth, described the position here\n    very distinctly in the following words: 'I wish I could make\n    money and remain an Englishman, but I can't, and hence I propose\n    to become an American, for I cannot impoverish myself and my\n    family for a sentiment, however honorable.'\n\n    \"In the many conversations I have heard on the part of many\n    people of all classes touching commercial union, it has, in\n    every case, been assumed that it was only a prelude to political\n    union also. Many have insisted, as they talked, that the two\n    countries should come together, and at once; that the feeling of\n    the country was fast ripening for it, and that what it lacked in\n    education in this matter would soon be learned. This has\n    surprised me; for it was not so a few years ago.\"\n\n\nWOMAN IN THE MOON.--The discovery of a woman in the moon is announced\nby W. H. Burr, in a letter to the New York _Sun_, It was made more\nthan a year ago by Dr. James H. Thompson, a retired physician of\nWashington. It is a profile occupying the west half of the moon, the\ndark spot above answering to the banged hair. She faces a little\nupward, and has a neck big enough to require a collar of the size that\nMr. Cleveland wears. And yet she is good-looking. The profile may be\nseen through an opera-glass.--_Truth Seeker_.\n\n\nEMANCIPATION FROM PETTICOATS.--\"That distinguished Parisienne, Mme. de\nValsayre, has been petitioning the French legislature in favor of the\nemancipation of women from petticoats. Her case is that petticoats are\nvery dangerous, leading to innumerable fatal accidents, and that\ntrousers are just as decent, more healthy and far less expensive. 'All\nthis is very true,' says Labouchere, in the _World_, 'though I do not\nsuppose that if the French women were as free as our own countrywomen\nare to dress as they like, they would make much use of their liberty.\nTrousers do not afford the same scope for decoration as petticoats.\nThey cannot be trimmed to any considerable extent, and the effect of\nan improver or bustle worn under them would be absurd. I have always\nwondered, however, that serious ladies in this country do not set more\nstore by this branch of progress. If I were a woman I would much\nrather have a pair of trousers than a vote or even a university\ndegree.'\"\n\n\nWOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE STREETS.--The lawless freedom with which men\napproach or assail women in some American cities, while women on the\nother hand are subjected to the meddlesome and domineering\ninterference of policemen, lends some interest to the case of Miss\nCass in London, one of the victims of police brutality, which has\nexcited an inquiry and comment in Parliament, and is likely to result\nin the punishment of the policeman. The New York _Sun_ says:\n\n    \"The case of Miss Cass, who was arrested in Regent Street as a\n    disreputable character, has started in the _Pall Mall Gazette_ a\n    discussion of the annoyances to which decent women are subjected\n    in the streets of London. It will be remembered that she was a\n    respectable girl recently arrived in London, where she had\n    obtained employment in a milliner's shop, and that while waiting\n    in Regent Street early in the evening she was arrested by a\n    policeman, who insisted in regarding her as a professional\n    street-walker, as which, also, she was held by a magistrate, who\n    refused, to listen to her denials and explanations.\n\n    \"Many women have accordingly written to the _Pall Mall Gazette_\n    to ask why, if a woman is liable to arrest on the mere suspicion\n    of having addressed a man, men are allowed to annoy and insult\n    women in the London streets with perfect impunity. The testimony\n    of them all is that, even in the daytime, a lady with any claims\n    to good looks, and who walks alone, is always liable to such\n    treatment, no matter how modest her apparel and reserved her\n    demeanor. It is not merely of insolent and persistent staring\n    that they complain, for they have grown to expect that as a\n    matter of course; but they are actually spoken to by men who are\n    strangers to them, in the most insinuating and offensively\n    flattering terms. These men are commonly described as\n    'gentlemen' in appearance; 'a tall, distinguished,\n    military-looking man;' 'a youthful diplomat;' 'a government\n    official, a man holding a lucrative appointment,' and the like.\n    They are not roughs; from them ladies have nothing of the sort\n    to fear; but men who think to have the greater success and to\n    enjoy the complete immunity because they wear the garb of\n    gentlemen.\n\n    \"Rev. Mr. Haweis writes that 'you might easily fill the _Pall\n    Mall Gazette_ with nothing else for months, for we have come to\n    such a pass as this, that a young girl cannot stand aside at a\n    railway station while papa takes tickets, nor a girl lead her\n    blind relative through the streets, nor can a married woman go\n    twenty paces in a London thoroughfare without the risk of insult\n    or even assault.'\"\n\nThese evils are a relic of the old ideas of woman's inferiority, and\ntheir only sure remedy is the destruction of that inferiority by the\nindustrial and professional education, which will make the woman the\npar of her brother, and enable her to maintain her equal rights\neverywhere.\n\n\nA WOMAN'S TRIUMPH IN PARIS.--The public examination of Miss Bradley at\nthe Ecole de Medicine in Paris is thus described:\n\nWhen Miss Bradley stepped into the arena, clad in the traditional\ngarb, the general comment of the audience was:\n\n    \"How like _Portia_ in the trial scene of the 'Merchant of\n    Venice.'\"\n\nIt was known to Miss Bradley's college mates and other friends that\nher thesis would be on \"Iodism,\" and that she had taken a year to\nwrite an elaborate book on the subject, which will soon be republished\nin England from the original French. For an hour and a half she was\nquestioned with great shrewdness and ability by four of the leading\nprofessors of the Ecole de Medicine,--Drs. Fournier, Gautier, Porchet,\nand Robin. Each of these gentlemen had previously received a copy of\nMiss Bradley's bold book, and they had brought their copies to the\nexamining room, with multitudinous interrogation marks on the margins,\nshowing that the new treatise had not only been very carefully read,\nbut had excited much curiosity and attention. Miss Bradley had the\ngreat advantage of an unhackneyed theme, which she skilfully\nillustrated by a numerous array of unfamiliar facts.\n\nHer triumph was of a very peculiar character. Her four examiners said\nto her, with admiring frankness: \"You have been working a new field;\nwe cannot agree with many of your conclusions; further investigation\nmay lead either yourself or us to different views; but, meanwhile, you\nhave presented to the college a thesis which does you uncommon honor,\nand for which we unanimously award you the maximum mark of merit.\"\n\nAfter the announcement of the award, Miss Bradley was entertained at\ndinner by Miss Augusta Klumpke, the first female physician who has\never been admitted to practice in the hospitals of Paris. Both these\nladies are Americans--Miss Klumpke from San Francisco, and Miss\nBradley from New York.\n\n\nA WOMAN'S BIBLE.--We have not reached the end of revision. A woman's\ntranslation of the Bible is expected next. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton\nis the chairman of the American committee having this matter in\ncharge, and a woman's Bible and commentary are to be expected in due\ntime.\n\n\nWORK FOR WOMEN.--Miss Katie Young, of Ironton, Mo., writes _The Voice_\na letter upon the advantages of plating, as a new and pleasant field\nof work for women. A relative made her a plating-machine at a cost of\n$4; she readily obtained orders for work from everybody in the\nneighborhood; the outlay for chemicals, etc., proved slight; and in 22\ndays she netted $95.45. Her brother, working 24 days, cleared $90.50.\nMiss Young states that she is making a collection of curiosities, and\nthat to any lady sending her a sea-shell, fancy stone, piece of rock,\nore or crystal, an old coin, or curious specimen of any description,\nshe will be glad to mail complete directions for making a machine\nsimilar to hers, that will do gold, silver and nickel-plating.\n\nF. Henry Greer writes: \"Two young gentlewomen are studying electrical\nengineering, which profession has not yet been overcrowded. Great\nfortunes have been made in its pursuit. If any readers of your\nvaluable journal are interested, I will freely give them any\ninformation in my power.\"\n\n\nMRS. STANTON ON THE JUBILEE.--\"If mine has been the one discordant\nnote in the grand jubilee chorus to the Queen, it is because behind\nall the busy preparations for the most brilliant pageant the world has\never witnessed, of gilded royalty and nobility, my eyes beheld the\ndark shadows on the background of homeless, starving men, women and\nchildren, into whose desolate lives would never come one touch of\nlight or love. There is something to me unspeakably sad in the eager,\ngazing multitudes that crowd the streets on these grand gala days.\nThere is ever a sphinx-like questioning look in their upturned faces\nthat seems to say, 'Ah! must the many ever suffer that the few may\nshine?' As the sun went down on that 21st of June, what a contrast in\nthe close of the day's festivities between the children of luxury and\nwant.\n\n\"Who that can share in imagination one hour the miseries of England's\nimpoverished people, can rejoice in a reign of fifty years that has\ncost the nation 22,000,000 of pounds sterling in extra allowances to\nthe Queen and her children, in addition to the legitimate cost of the\nroyal household and the hereditary property rights of the throne?\"\nNevertheless the Jubilee was a fine exhibition, and the _London\nBaptist_ says that $4,000 was paid for the use of the windows of one\nhouse to see the Jubilee.\n\n\nELECTRICITY seems destined to be the motor power for street cars. In\nMontgomery, Alabama, the mule has already been superseded, and there\nare fifteen miles of street railways operated by the electric motor.\nSome satisfactory experiments have been made on the Cambridge Street\nrailway. Edison's latest discoveries in the conversion of heat into\nelectricity are expected to produce important results, dispensing with\nthe intermediate use of steam, and ultimately getting the power from\nthe sun's rays.\n\n\nPROGRESS OF THE TELEGRAPH.--The _London Times_ thus summarizes some of\nthe statements made by Mr. Raikes, the postmaster-general, in his\nspeech delivered at the telegraph jubilee the other day:\n\n    At first a machine required five wires before it could dispatch\n    a message. Now on one single wire seven or eight messages can be\n    sent simultaneously. At first the rate of sending did not amount\n    to more than four or five words a minute. Now on the latest\n    machine no less than 462 words a minute can be dispatched. The\n    number of messages has increased by steady steps, until now,\n    under the new tariff and with the facilities that have been so\n    widely extended since the telegraphs came into the hands of the\n    government, the number is truly portentous. Those sent during\n    the past year amounted to close upon a million a week--fifty-one\n    and one-half millions in all. Letters have grown from 80,000,000\n    in the year of the Queen's accession to more than 1,400,000,000.\n    According to Mr. Pender, there are some 115,000 miles of cables\n    lying at the bottom of the sea. The progress in this department\n    has been constant. The latest scheme, as the new colonial\n    blue-books show, is for laying a cable under the Pacific Ocean,\n    from Vancouver to New Zealand. Surely there is no task from\n    which modern science will recoil.\n\n\nTHE MYSTERY OF THE AGES.--A work recently published at London by the\nCountess of Caithness is a work of ability and learning, devoted\nespecially to a philosophy which is thus defined:\n\n    \"Theosophy is the essence of all doctrines, the inner truth of\n    all religions.... God is Spirit, and Spirit is One, Infinite,\n    and Eternal, whether it speak through the life of Buddha or\n    Jesus, Zoroaster or Mahommed.... The ideal of the Theosophist is\n    the at one-ment of his own spirit with that of the Infinite.\n    This is the essential teaching of all religions, and to obtain\n    this union you must believe in and obey the voice of your own\n    higher conscience; for the true Christ is the Divine Spirit\n    within you, and thus, God manifest in humanity.\"\n\n\nPROGRESS OF THE MARVELLOUS.--Mrs. Herbert, of St. Joseph's Hospital,\nJoliet, Illinois, as reported Aug. 16, had slept 219 days, sitting in\nan easy chair, in a cataleptic state. She rarely moves a muscle, and\nif her arm is lifted and not replaced it remains as it was left. Her\nhands are cold, and her face very pallid. The food given her daily, it\nis said, would only sustain life in a bird, and the doctors are\nexpecting her death.\n\nMr. C. J. Helleberg, of Cincinnati, says that a lady of his family has\nbecome developed as a medium, and many messages have been written\nthrough her. Among others, a message from Charles XII. of Sweden\ndeclared that \"Sweden will be a republic sooner than any other power\nin Europe,\" and the elections will be easily and honestly managed.\n\n\nA GRAND AEROLITE.--The _Galt Gazette_ (California) describes the fall\nof a meteor in that vicinity, witnessed by Dr. Goodspeed, which fell\nin a slough and so heated the water as to kill the catfish that\ninhabited it. It lies in the pond, and looks as if a hundred feet\nwide. A much more marvellous story has been published of an engraved\nmeteoric stone falling in an obscure portion of Georgia near Clayton\nCourt-house, which is a hoax, and has been so pronounced by the\npostmaster at Clayton.\n\nWhether the California story is true I have not ascertained, but the\nfall of a great meteor in this region has developed a grand meteoric\ncapacity for lying. The despatch first published by the _Boston\nHerald_ described the stone as falling near McAdam Junction, not far\nfrom Bangor, Maine, making the crockery rattle at the Junction, and\nplunging into the earth all but about ten feet of the stone, which was\nso hot that no one could come within fifty yards of it. It has not\nbeen found at all, for it dropped into the Bay of Fundy; but it\nilluminated the whole country for a vast distance, and looked as large\nas the moon. It had a long trailing violet light behind it as it fell.\nOur meteoric showers generally occur in August, this was on the 15th\nof September.\n\n\nTHE BOY PIANIST.--Joseph Hoffmann is considered in London the greatest\nyoung pianist since the days of Mozart. He is coming to America. He is\nfrom Poland.\n\n\nCENTENARIANS.--The _Rabbi Hirsch_, born in Poland, died a few weeks\nago in Brooklyn, aged 109. He saw Napoleon on his march to Moscow.\nMrs. Paradis of North Grosvenordale, Conn., died Aug. 26, aged 120.\nThe _Boston Globe_ in making a record of old people in Maine, has\nmentioned Miss Betsey Sargent, of Canterbury, aged 100; Mrs. Ellen\nScott, Portsmouth, 100; Mrs. Mary Mann, Oxford, 101; Mrs. Jane Wilson,\nEdgecomb, 102; John Chandler, Concord, 102; Mrs. Nancy Chase, Edgerly,\n103; Perault Pickard, Colchester, 107; Robert Peters, Berwick, 107;\nGeorge McQueen, Portland, 109; Giles Bronson, Castleton, 115; Mrs.\nMary Ludkends, Portland, 117.\n\nSamuel Zielinski, a Pole, who came to the United States after he was\n100 years old, is now living a mile from Dubois, Illinois, with his\ndescendants, at the age of 120.\n\n\nEDUCATED MONKEYS.--The story comes from Brazil, by way of Panama, that\non a hemp farm seven large monkeys have been taught to work as\nlaborers, and that they work faster and eat less than negroes. If they\ncan pull hemp, why not do other work? If this report is confirmed it\nmay be of some importance.\n\nA correspondent of the _New York Times_ says that monkeys from Cape\nTown, Africa, have been introduced successfully into the hemp fields\nof Kentucky. One gentleman employs twelve near Shelbyville, Perkins &\nChirsman have eleven, Smith & Murphy twenty-six, and J. B. Park, near\nKingston, who introduced monkey labor, employs seventeen. The monkeys\ncost about $60 each, they are docile, easily taught, and cost about\none fourth of human labor.\n\n\nCAUSES OF IDIOCY.--Dr. T. Langdon Down, inquiring into the causes of\nidiocy, has found that intemperance of parents is one of the most\nconsiderable factors in producing the affection. His view is confirmed\nby some French and German investigators, one of whom, Dr. Delasiauve,\nhas said that in the village of Careme, whose riches were in its\nvineyards, ten years' comparative sobriety, enforced by vine-disease,\nhad a sensible effect in diminishing the cases of idiocy. Nervous\nconstitution and consumption exercise important influence. Of the\nprofessions, lawyers furnish the smallest proportion of idiots, while\nthey are credited with the procreation of a relatively very large\nnumber of men of eminence. With the clergy, these proportions are more\nthan reversed. The influence of consanguineous marriage, _per se_, is\ninsignificant, if it exists.--_Pop. Science Monthly_.\n\n\nA POWERFUL TEMPERANCE ARGUMENT.--A most powerful argument for\ntemperance is furnished by the records of the British army in India\nfor 1886, showing the comparative amount of crime, disease, and death\namong 12,807 soldiers, of whom 3,278 were temperate, and 8,828 were\ndrinking men. The number of cases of crime among the abstainers was\n172, among the drinkers 3,988, a difference of one to twenty-three in\nnumber, or more than ten to one in percentage. The temperate had but\n4.32 per cent. of crime, the drinkers 45.17 per cent. The percentage\nof sickness and death was more than twice as great among the drinkers.\nLiquor, therefore, _more than doubled_ the proportion of disease and\nmortality, and increased the _criminality more than tenfold_. Of the\nnumbers tried by court martial there were 120 times as many\nproportionally among the drinkers as among the temperate. The\ndestructive effects of drink are far greater in hot climates, and\nperceptibly greater in hot weather.\n\nThe Southern States of the Union are in advance of the Northern on the\ntemperance question. The legislature of Georgia has passed a bill by a\nlarge majority which taxes wine rooms in prohibition counties $10,000.\nAt present this covers nearly all the State.\n\nThe forty-fifth annual report of the Registrar General of England\nshows that estimating the average mortality of males in England at\n1,000, that of brewers is 1,361, of innkeepers and publicans 1,521.\nScotch reports show the mortality of males engaged in the liquor\nbusiness to be 68 per cent. above the actuaries table for healthy\nmales, and 49 per cent. over the English life table.\n\n\nSLOW PROGRESS.--It was a long time before lobelia was recognized by\nthe profession--before anything good was found to belong to it. Now\none of our leading professors thinks lobelia will become the most\nvaluable of our cardiac sedatives--regulator of the heart's action. I\nwrote up the value of lobelia in surgery, obstetrics and practice over\nthirty years ago; also the valuable properties of hydrastis can., both\nof which were almost unnoticed then and since by regular\npractitioners. But now Prof. Bartholow has discovered their great\nmerits and written the latter up especially, and what I and Prof.\nDodd, (V. S.,) wrote a third of a century ago will be credited to\nothers. Well, who cares? The tincture of calendule flavas I have tried\nto force upon the profession for forty years as a dressing for wounds,\nbut it will require some one higher in the profession to give it a\nhurrah, boys!--_Med. Summary_.\n\n\nCOMMUNITY DOCTORS.--It is manifestly the interest of society that the\ndoctor should be engaged and paid by the year, so that his interest\nwould be to keep the people well instead of sick. Moreover, it would\nbe more economical, as a doctor, secure of steady support, would not\nbe inclined to make heavy charges, and the patient would not find a\nfit of illness making a dangerous inroad on his finances, so as to\ndouble his misfortune. The scheme has been advocated in the\nnewspapers.\n\n\nTHE SELFISH SYSTEM OF SOCIETY.--The system of antagonism and\ncompetition results in a universal system of plunder by exorbitant\ncharges, and each man protects himself by overcharging in return.\nPlunder by overcharging is so much the custom that no one objects to\nit. The _Boston Herald_ says: \"There is a baker in New York, who sells\nlarge loaves of bread of the finest quality for five cents a loaf. The\nsame-sized loaf sells for ten cents in Boston.\" In like manner,\nAmericans generally pay ten cents for a loaf about half as large as\nthat sold for ten cents, in London; yet the London baker has to buy\nthe same flour after its cost is enhanced by an ocean voyage. This is\nthe custom of society; the glass of lemonade, costing perhaps two\ncents, is sold at all prices, from five or ten cents up to\ntwenty-five.\n\nThe correspondent of a Denver paper says that lumber costing\nforty-five cents a hundred feet, is sold at $2.25. These are samples\nof the financial disorder of life in all departments.\n\n\nEDUCATED BEETLES.--Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 24. Miss Emily Nelson, of\nthis city, has received a present from Merida, Yucatan, in the shape\nof an educated jewelled bug. It has a harness of gold and is jewelled\nwith precious stones.\n\nThe custom is said to have originated among the Spanish nobility\nseveral centuries ago, when the first bug was educated and worn by a\nprincess. The bug became greatly attached to the maiden, and partook\nof her moods and dispositions. When she was sad or disheartened the\nbug became sluggish; and when she was joyous and vivacious the bug was\nlikewise lively in its movements. At her death, the bug pined away and\ndied, too.\n\nMiss Nelson is very happy and justly very proud of her present. The\ninsect is about the size of an ordinary black beetle. Around the body\nis firmly fastened a gold band. A gold strap is riveted to this and\npasses down the back around and under the body, and is welded upon the\nunder side to the gold belt. Upon the back are tiny jewels set in gold\nand fastened into the shell. The coloring of the shell is a brilliant\nNile green, edged with black. The movement of the bug gives flashes of\nvariegated colors. Upon the under side is fastened a delicate gold\nchain which in turn is attached to a brooch. It is educated to eat\nfrom the lips. It understands various whistles and calls, and appears\nand disappears at the word of command.--_Globe_.\n\n\nRUSTLESS IRON is being manufactured in New York by a new process\nwhich, it is claimed, converts the surface of the metal into magnetic\noxide of iron. This is done by subjecting it successively to the\naction of highly heated air and carbonic acid gas from coal fires. The\nprocess can be applied with most satisfactory results to water-pipes\nand architectural work.\n\n\nWEIGHING THE EARTH.--Prof. Proctor proposes to repeat in Florida an\nexperiment to determine the weight of the earth, and mentions the\nresults of the methods heretofore tried. Newton first estimated the\nweight of the earth to be between five and six times as great as that\nof water. Such a weight it would have if it were one half iron and the\nother half limestone, or half copper and half clay. Evidently the\nmetallic weight preponderates.\n\nWeighing the earth is accomplished by comparing the effect of its\nattraction with that of much smaller bodies. One method is to compare,\nby balancing the weight of two balls, one above a globe of lead, as\nlarge as practicable, and the other below it, so as to have the\nattraction of the leaden globe pulling up and counteracting the\ngravitation to the earth. The effect is very slight and requires\ndelicate apparatus.\n\nBy another, but more inaccurate method, the attraction of the earth\nhas been compared with that of a mountain--a very indefinite method\nindeed. A better method was that of Astronomer Airy and Mr. Dunkin,\nwho went down into the Harton coal pit 1,260 feet to see how much\ndifference that depth would make in the movements of a pendulum. It\ngained 2-1/4 seconds in 24 hours, and the weight of the earth was\ninferred to be over 6-1/2 times as great as that of water; but it is\nmanifest that such a method could yield nothing much more accurate\nthan the mountain experiment which indicated a weight 4-3/4 times that\nof water. The ball experiment, which is the most reliable, indicated\n5-1/2 times the weight of water, thus coinciding with Newton's\nastronomical opinion, which is probably true.\n\n\nHEAD AND HEART.--The popular use of the terms head and heart to\nrepresent thought and emotion, which is contrary to physiology, is\nanalogous to Dr. Hartmann's statement of the oriental doctrine that\nthought alone belongs to the brain, but life and will to the heart.\nThis ancient _speculation_ (not intuition) is easily refuted. If it\nwere true, the will power and powers of life would be proportional to\nthe development of the heart, regardless of the brain, but the reverse\nis the fact. Great development of heart does not increase either will\npower, or life, but is injurious to both. The enlarged (hypertrophied)\nheart is injurious to vital power and will power, and in proportion to\nits increase, it tends to shorten life by apoplexy or some other form\nof cerebral disorder. It produces no increase of either life, will, or\nlove. In fact, the stomach is more nearly associated with love than\nthe heart, for men are much more amiable after enjoying a feast, but\nthe heart, which is a part of the muscular system, is at its maximum\nof action in combat and war.\n\n\nTHE RECTIFICATION OF CEREBRAL SCIENCE, commenced in this number, will\nbe continued in the November number, bringing the science up to its\npresent condition, and showing how, after the rectification is\ncompleted, the science attains a grand simplicity, and, instead of\nbeing puzzled by cerebral organology, a very brief instruction will\nenable us to master the subject. In 1836 I instructed Prof. Cubi at\nNew Orleans in the old organology, giving him six lessons in exchange\nfor his instructions in Spanish. Three lessons would give an equal\nfamiliarity with the new system, though it is four times as extensive.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.--RECTIFICATION OF CEREBRAL SCIENCE, CORRECTING THE\nORGANOLOGY OF GALL AND SPURZHEIM.\n\n    Approximate correctness and incompleteness of Gall and\n    Spurzheim--Grand anatomical discoveries of Gall---Reception of\n    his doctrines--His successors--Omission of Pneumatology and\n    Physiology by Gall and Spurzheim--Organs and faculties\n    overlooked--True locations of the faculties they recognized,\n    Amativeness, Philoprogenitiveness, Adhesiveness, Inhabitiveness,\n    Destructiveness, Combativeness, Secretiveness, Acquisitiveness,\n    Constructiveness, Cautiousness, Approbativeness, Self-Esteem,\n    Firmness, Religion, Benevolence, Hope, Marvellousness, Poetry,\n    Ideality, Imitation, Wit or Mirthfulness, Eventuality,\n    Individuality, Perceptive Organs, Time, Comparative Sagacity,\n    Causality, Tune, Constructiveness, Language--Comments on the\n    Organology of Gall.\n\n\nThe first question that occurs to the enlightened enquirer, when he\nlearns that the functions of the brain have been positively determined\nby experiment, is whether the cranioscopy of Gall and Spurzheim was\nsuccessful in locating the cerebral functions, and how nearly their\ninferences from development correspond with the revelations of\nexperiment.\n\nIt is with great pleasure that I am able to say that the system of\nGall and Spurzheim was a wonderful approximation to the truth. Dr.\nGall was pre-eminently the scientific pioneer of the nineteenth\ncentury. No single individual ever did so much to enlarge the sphere\nof human knowledge, and to establish the permanent foundations of\nphilosophy. Up to his time, the brain of man was at once the greatest\nmystery of anatomy and the repository of a greater amount of wisdom\nand truth than all other realms of science which had previously been\nexplored. But so limited was the knowledge, and so narrow the\nunderstanding of the learned, that the grandeur of cerebral science\nwas not even suspected, and, even at the present time, it is so remote\nfrom the speculations of the learned that, like a distant star, it has\nfew practical relations to their life; nor will its magnitude be\nrealized until an ample literature shall have made its scientific\nrecord.\n\nInto this field of mystery, Dr. Gall advanced with a courage unknown\nto his predecessors, and his success was equal to his courage. The\nentire plan and constitution of the brain were revealed by his\nanatomical genius, and his successors have but carried further and\nperfected his anatomical system. His anatomical exposition of the\nbrain, addressed to the French Institute in 1808, is one of the great\nlandmarks of the progress of science--the commencement of a new era;\nand his exposition of its functions was the solution of a problem\nwhich had defied the genius and learning of all his predecessors. His\ndiscoveries in anatomy were so great that Reil (himself a brain\nanatomist of the highest rank, whose name is permanently associated\nwith anatomy by the name \"Island of Reil,\" which belongs to the\nlocation in which Gall made his first discovery of the faculty and\norgan of language), Reil, I say, declared that Dr. Gall had shown him\nmore in his dissections of the brain than he thought it possible for\nany one man to have discovered in his lifetime; and, in fact, some of\nthe old anatomists, not having been personally instructed by Gall,\nprofessed to find it difficult, if not impossible, to unfold the brain\nafter his manner.\n\nThese discoveries gave Dr. Gall at once a very eminent rank among the\nlearned, for anatomy being a physical science, there never has been\nany opposition, jealousy, or scepticism against its cultivation among\nthe educated, nor was there anything marvellous in his revelation of\ncerebral functions, for he studied only the common familiar faculties\nof men and animals, and never looked into the mysterious and\nmarvellous powers which a more thorough investigation has revealed.\n\nIndeed, his reception at first was quite triumphant, and it was not\nuntil the death of Gall and Spurzheim, leaving no able and competent\nrepresentative to carry on their labors, that the drift of medical\nscepticism and ignorance arrested the progress of his doctrines. I say\n_ignorance_, for the aversion to the doctrines of Gall was due far\nmore to the ignorance of the profession and their entire neglect of\nthe craniological method than to any other causes.\n\nGall had good reason to be satisfied with his first reception, except\nas to the hostility of the Austrian government, which suppressed his\nlectures and compelled him to go abroad, settling finally in Paris,\nwhere he again encountered governmental hostility in the\nunfriendliness of Bonaparte, whose rejection alike of Gall and of\nFulton, who wished to introduce steam navigation, demonstrated that\ngreat military and political ability may co-exist with great\nshallowness of mind in reference to all things new, original, and\nphilanthropic. So it has always been, and so it continues.\n\nIn his travels in Germany, from 1805 to 1807, accompanied by Dr.\nSpurzheim, \"I experienced everywhere (said Gall) the most flattering\nreception. Sovereigns, ministers, philosophers, legislators, artists\nseconded my design on all occasions, augmenting my collection, and\nfurnishing me everywhere with new observations. The circumstances were\ntoo favorable to permit me to resist the invitations which came to me\nfrom most of the universities.\" Thirty-four of the leading cities and\nseats of learning enjoyed the visits of Gall and Spurzheim before they\nsettled in Paris, where, although French jealousy arose against this\nGerman invasion, and the influence of Napoleon prevented their cordial\nreception, they nevertheless commanded and retained the respect of\nscientists and had many devoted friends, including Broussais and\nAndral, who then stood at the head of the medical profession, and of\nCorvisart, Napoleon's physician, who could not overcome his master's\nprejudice.\n\nIn speaking of the great void left by the decease of Gall and\nSpurzheim, I do not forget that for a few years George Combe, Dr.\nElliotson, and Dr. Macartney, of England, and Dr. Caldwell, of\nAmerica, survived, but these eminent gentlemen were not so identified\nwith the science, or so competent to sustain it as to wear the mantle\nof its founders. My own labors beginning after the death of the\nfounders were those of investigation and discovery, and never to any\ngreat extent those of propagation. Indeed, for twenty years I entirely\nabandoned the scientific rostrum, and almost ended my labors, feeling\nthat my duty had been done in the way of development and\ndemonstration. But in accordance with the great law of periodicity, I\nresumed my labors in 1877-78.\n\nWhen we look at the doctrines of Gall and Spurzheim in the light of\npositive science and philosophy, our first observation is that they\nfell very far short of revealing the entire functions of the brain,\nand discovering in it all the important spiritual and physical\nfaculties and energies of life. They did not attempt to explore the\nbrain as a physiological organ, and determine how or in what special\norgans it controls the physiological functions. These may be regarded\nas one half, though the lower half, of its capacities, out of which\narises a vast amount of medical philosophy.\n\nAs to the psychic half of the cerebral functions, they omitted\nentirely that portion which relates to pneumatology. They thought\nnothing of the soul as an object of science, and made no attempt to\ntrace its connection with the brain, and the vast number of phenomena\nwhich lie along the border line between the physical and spiritual,\nand which are conspicuous in the phenomena of somnambulism, sleep,\ndreaming, hypnotism, spiritualism, clairvoyance, trance, ecstasy, and\nreligious marvels.\n\nOverlooking these things, they sought the seats of from twenty-seven\nfaculties (as with Gall) to thirty-five (as with Spurzheim), and did\nnot appear to realize how many had been entirely omitted. When all\nthey attempted to locate are located by positive experiment and\nassigned their proper localities and limits, we find fully one half of\nthe cerebral surface vacant for organs of other functions. Indeed, the\nfirst large publication of Gall and Spurzheim, in four volumes folio,\nwith an atlas of 100 plates, begun in 1809 and finished in 1819, did\nnot in the cranial map of organs profess to be a complete development\nof the functions of the brain. It located organs, but did not\ndetermine the functions intermediate between their boundaries. This\nwas the map of Gall. In that of Spurzheim the intermediate spaces were\noccupied and the entire exterior surface of the brain devoted to\norganology, yet still the basilar and interior surface of the brain\nremained unknown to Spurzheim, and the exterior regions which he\nsupposed entirely occupied by his organs were but half occupied by\nthem. Thus when we consider the unexplored basilar and interior\nregions, and that half of its exterior surface which was erroneously\nappropriated to the thirty-five organs, as well as the erroneous\nlocation of several, we perceive that _more than half_ of the organs\nand functions of the brain remained for investigation.\n\nTurning away from the anatomy to contemplate the psychology, we\nperceive that _more than half of human nature_ had been omitted from\nthe German scheme,--that half of the mental functions which belongs to\nthe organs of the vacant spaces on the corrected map, and in addition\nto these the higher psychic functions, and the lower physiological\nfunctions, neither of which Gall and Spurzheim explored, because they\ndid not attempt to study the brain as a physiological organ, and they\ndid not bring the soul and the higher functions of the mind within the\nscope of their science.\n\nGall was a bold, original naturalist and anatomist but not a\npsychologist; and the incorrectness of his psychology hindered his\ninvestigations, and prevented him from carrying out a proper\nsubdivision of faculties and organs. He says in the last volume: \"Each\nfundamental power, essentially distinct, includes sensation,\nperception, memory and recollection, judgment and\nimagination,\"--disregarding the truth that these are distinct\nintellectual powers, belonging to different organs, and therefore\nbearing no proportion to each other. One may have an immense memory\nwithout imagination, or a brilliant imagination without much memory.\nThese, and many other psychological errors, are apparent in the\nwritings of Gall, and still more in those of Spurzheim.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nIn the drawing herewith presented, the thirty-five organs of Spurzheim\nare assigned their proper locations and dimensions. The first organ,\nAMATIVENESS (made second by Spurzheim), was assumed to occupy the\nentire cerebellum. It really occupies only its median and superior\nportion, and a small section of the anterior surface of the spinal\ncord, adjacent to the encephalon. This error of Gall and Spurzheim did\na great deal to discredit their system. It manifested on their part a\nfallibility of judgment, and a dogmatic adherence to first impressions\nin the face of evidence to the contrary; for the experiments of\nRolando and Flourens demonstrated a connection between the cerebellum\nand the general vital force and muscular action. The relation may not\nhave been clearly understood, but the facts were decisive, and the\nresearches of Majendie, with the more recent ones of Ferrier, have\nmade more clear the relations of the cerebellum to the muscular system\nand vital force.\n\nThe doctrine of Gall has been abandoned by physiologists because\nrefuted by many facts, the most decisive of which is that the\ncerebellum of castrated horses is larger than that of stallions, which\ncould not be possible if the cerebellum had only sexual functions.\nMoreover, the doctrine of Gall was essentially unreasonable in itself.\nTo suppose that so large a portion of the brain which is continually\nactive, being well supplied with blood, could have a function which is\nbut occasionally active, and which, through the greater part of human\nlife, is unnoticed or inactive, is extremely unreasonable; and to\nsuppose that the serious disturbances of animal life and muscular\nmotion, caused by ablations of the cerebellum, were due to the\ndisturbance of an organ having only sexual functions, was thoroughly\nabsurd. The parrot-like repetition of these exploded errors by the\nfollowers of the phrenological system contributed to its discredit in\nthe medical profession.\n\nThe 2d organ of Gall (3d of Spurzheim), PHILOPROGENITIVENESS, was\nregarded as one of the best known phrenological organs, but my\nunprejudiced study of heads soon assured me of its inaccuracy. The\norgan was small in Spurzheim, who was remarkably fond of children, and\nI have found it small in ladies who showed no lack of parental love,\nbut generally well developed and active in criminal skulls. One which\nI obtained in Arkansas, of a man named Richmond, had this region large\nand active, although he was the one of a group of murderers by whom\nthe children, or, rather, boys, were killed. This region is _extremely\ndefective_ in the brains of birds, which are certainly very devoted to\ntheir young. The attachment to children belongs really to an interior\nregion of the occiput, where the occipital lobes face the median line.\nHence it is that a large occipital development very often coincides\nwith the love of children; but the true position of the organ renders\nit difficult to determine its development in life.\n\nADHESIVENESS (3d) is located by Spurzheim farther back and lower than\nit should be; also, too far back in Gall's map. It belongs to the\nvacant space in front of Gall's location.\n\nINHABITIVENESS (5th) is an imaginary definition of the function\nlocated behind Self-esteem. Equally imaginary is the doctrine of the\nEdinburgh phrenologists, who call it Concentrativeness. The\nobservations of Gall led him to regard it as a portion of the organ of\nPride, and as giving to animals a love of lofty locations. Gall was\nnearer right than Spurzheim or Combe. The only function I find in this\nspot is Self-confidence. The tendencies to a quiet love of home, and\nthe ability to tranquillize and concentrate the mind, are located,\nvirtually, above the ear on the temporal arch, the ridge which\nseparates the lateral from the superior surface of the head.\n\nDESTRUCTIVENESS, the 5th organ of Gall and 1st of Spurzheim, was\nlocated much too high and too far forward by Gall. I am surprised at\nthis, since it differs so widely from the indications of comparative\nanatomy that it is difficult to imagine how Gall was misled. Any one\ncomparing the skull of a dog with that of a sheep may discover the\nerror. He called it Murder, or the wish to destroy. Spurzheim, who\ndoes not describe its location, says, \"At the beginning Gall placed\nthe seat of this organ too far behind the ear, but a great number of\nobservations convinced us that its seat is immediately above the ear.\"\nThe truth is that the convolutions which terminate on the temporal\nbone over the ear are only on the border of Destructiveness, and\nproduce only an irritable and impulsive temper. The true\nDestructiveness extends fully an inch under the surface of the middle\nlobe, along the petrous ridge of the temporal bone, and is manifested\nexternally just behind the ear by the prominence of the mastoid\nprocess.\n\nCOMBATIVENESS (the 6th of Spurzheim, or Courage and Self-defence, the\n4th of Gall) is located with tolerable correctness by each and\nproperly described.\n\nSECRETIVENESS, which is but a modification of Cautiousness, occupying\nits middle region, is much too large on the maps, and on that of Gall\nit is quite out of place--too far forward and too high up, occupying a\nregion which produces modesty and refinement.\n\nACQUISITIVENESS (7th of Gall, 8th of Spurzheim) is still farther\nmislocated on the map of Gall, occupying a region of intellectual,\ninventive and literary capacity. This is the most _outre_ and absurd\nof all Gall's locations. Placing this selfish and grasping propensity\nin the front lobe which belongs to intellect, when it really belongs\nto the selfish, adhesive, and combative elements of the occiput, is an\nerror of so extravagant a character as to show that Gall had no\ncorrect psychology in his mind, and no capacity or desire to construct\na harmonious system. Spurzheim's location, much farther back, is\nsomewhat less erroneous, but both are thoroughly false, and a few\nmonths of my first observations fifty-two years ago satisfied me as to\nthis error. That it should have flourished unchallenged by\nPhrenologists for eighty years, seems to show that when a dominant\nidea is once established in the mind, all facts are made to conform to\nit. Is is remarkable, too, that the very great difference between the\nlocations given by Gall and by Spurzheim has not attracted notice. But\nin fact the map of Gall has never had any popular currency. Spurzheim\nand Combe have been the accepted authors. The true location of\nacquisitiveness is anterior to combativeness, and lower than\nadhesiveness. Gall was misled by studying the young pickpockets and\nthieves of Vienna. The organ that he found suits a low cunning and\ndextrous character when the head lacks elevation.\n\nCONSTRUCTIVENESS, Spurzheim's 9th (Bausinn, or aptitude for mechanical\narts, of Gall No. 19), is decidedly mislocated by Spurzheim. Instead\nof being placed in the purely intellectual region adjacent to\ncalculation, order, and system, it is carried back and down into the\nregion of somnolence and sensitive impressibility. Gall's location is\na little worse because lower, being carried out of the intellectual\nregion into the middle lobe according to his published map. It is very\neasy to detect this error in examining a number of heads, and it was\nquite apparent to me in my first year's observations. In impressible\npersons the touch upon this locality produces nothing but a dreamy\ninfluence, and a disposition to close the eyes. Carried farther, it\nproduces the mesmeric sleep.\n\nCAUTIOUSNESS (the 10th of both Spurzheim and Gall) was too far back in\nSpurzheim's map, occupying space that belongs to adhesiveness. It runs\ndownward along the course of the lateral convolutions, and its more\ntimid and gloomy functions are developed near the ear, differing\nwidely from the functions of its upper portion.\n\nAPPROBATIVENESS (the 11th of Spurzheim, and 9th of Gall) is located\nwith substantial correctness, covering, however, more functions than\nthat term expresses. Gall's location and definition are also\nsubstantially correct.\n\nSELF-ESTEEM (the 12th of Spurzheim, 8th of Gall) is well located and\ndescribed with approximative correctness.\n\nFIRMNESS, RELIGION (Veneration or Theosophy), and BENEVOLENCE are so\nwell located and described by both Gall and Spurzheim as to need but\nlittle comment at present. The four superior organs on the median\nline, and the organ of CONSCIENTIOUSNESS were more correctly located\nand described than any other large portion of the brain.\n\nHOPE is not adjacent to Conscientiousness, but parallel to Religion.\n\nMARVELLOUSNESS has a preposterously large space assigned it, being\nreally a small organ at the summit of Ideality, which exercises a more\nintellectual and less superstitious function than has been given it.\nMarvellousness, Hope, Conscientiousness, Time, Order, Weight, Size,\nand Individuality are the eight organs discovered and added by\nSpurzheim, not having been recognized by Gall. The exterior portion of\nSpurzheim's Marvellousness occupies the space devoted by Gall to\nPoetry.\n\nPOETRY, recognized by Gall, is brought lower by Spurzheim and called\nIDEALITY. Both locations are substantially correct. The location of\nGall is the seat of Marvellousness, Imagination, and Spirituality;\nthat of Spurzheim is well expressed by the term Ideality, and the\ndescription given, but the word Poetry is rather too limited as the\ndefinition of Gall's organ. It gives brilliance to prose and to\noratory, or even conversation, as well as to poetry.\n\nIMITATION, adjacent to Benevolence, is somewhat better located by Gall\nthan by Spurzheim, who gives it too much breadth anteriorly.\n\nWIT or MIRTHFULNESS is a confused and erroneous statement. The two\nfaculties are distinct, Wit being intellectual and occupying a small\nspace adjacent to Causality or Reason, while Mirthfulness, or the\nsentiment of the ludicrous, is just above it, and should properly be\ncalled Humor. The mirthful or playful faculty is in the posterior\nregion adjacent to Approbativeness, and may be quite conspicuous when\nthere is neither wit nor humor in the mirth. Imitation, Mirth or\nHumor, and Wit follow each other in a line. The so-called organ of Wit\n(Gall) or Mirthfulness (Spurzheim) is the seat of the most profound\nreasoning faculty, while the CAUSALITY of Spurzheim, the METAPHYSICAL\nDEPTH of thought of Gall, though it gives a clear analytical\nintelligence has really less profundity and ability in reasoning than\nthe organ which they have misnamed Wit and Mirthfulness, which is\npre-eminently the organ of profound reasoning.\n\nEVENTUALITY and INDIVIDUALITY are confounded as one organ by Gall,\ncalling it Educability, or Memory of Things but rightly separated by\nSpurzheim, as the observation and memory of events are distinct from\nthe observation of things. Though I do not use the word Individuality,\nit is not an objectionable expression, as it suggests the fine\nperceptive power of its location. Both Gall and Spurzheim had a\npractically good idea of the region of Eventuality, which Gall first\ncalled the memory of things. Spurzheim's description is good; but when\nthe organ is analyzed, it yields consciousness and observation on the\nmedian line, memory more exterior, extending to Time.\n\nPERCEPTIVE ORGANS--The most marvellous feature of the old\nphrenological system, is the accuracy with which the smallest organs\nof the brain have been discovered, located, and described. The organs\nof Form, Size, Weight, Color, Order, and Number, or Calculation, were\nso accurately located and described by Spurzheim, that little remains\nto be said about them. Gall discovered only Form, Color, and Number,\nand the latter he located in the position which belongs to Order.\nThese organs were but little developed in Gall, whose great success\nwas due to his philosophic originality and independence. He was not a\nclose observer, and there was a sternness in his nature which\nprevented him from accepting readily the suggestions of Spurzheim, who\nwith less boldness of character and greater accuracy of perception,\nwas better fitted for minute observation and anatomical analysis. His\nown cranium has been preserved, in which I found these perceptive\norgans distinctly marked by their digital impressions on the\nsuperorbital plate over the eye. It is a remarkable fact that the\nintellectual faculties have been most easily understood and located,\nwhile their antagonists in the occipital region have proved the\ngreatest puzzle in psychic and cerebral investigations. Gall failed,\nand left a vacant space in the occiput. Spurzheim failed, but covered\nthe ground incorrectly, and it was many years after I discovered\ncerebral impressibility before I attained a satisfactory view of the\npsychology of this region. The location and definition of LOCALITY are\nsubstantially correct.\n\nThe organ of TIME, another of Spurzheim's discoveries, was very\ncorrectly located and defined by him. It lies just above the organ of\nColor.\n\nCOMPARATIVE SAGACITY, or Perspicacity, as Gall called it, was a better\nterm than Comparison, which was introduced by Spurzheim. Direct\nperception of truth is its leading character. Illustration by\ncomparison belongs to the breadth of the forehead, to the Ideal and\nInventive region, and is the characteristic of poetry. Spurzheim's\ndescription, however, is substantially correct. It qualifies for clear\nstatement, but not for comprehensive or ingenious reasoning. The\nportion on the median line has still more penetration, in consequence\nof which it perceives the nature and tendencies of everything, and is\nenabled to exercise foresight. Still farther in on the median line are\nlocated the powers which are more intuitive, and transcending ordinary\nforesight are entitled to be called prophecy.\n\nThe CAUSALITY of Spurzheim, or Metaphysical Depth of thought of Gall,\nwas defined with approximate correctness. The immediate perception of\ncausation lies just above the organ of Time, and the special organ of\nReason extends therefrom upwards. If the reflective organs of one side\nof the forehead are divided into an interior and exterior group by a\nvertical line from the pupil of the eye, the interior group would\nrepresent a comprehensive understanding possessing sagacity and\njudgment, while the exterior would represent profound ingenious\nthought and originality, a capacity for discovering truth by reason\nand meditation, by analysis and synthesis, while the interior would\ndiscover it only by direct perception. In the exterior group would be\nincluded the misnamed organ of Wit or Mirthfulness, which is really a\nsource of philosophy and originality.\n\nTUNE and CONSTRUCTIVENESS have really reversed their positions in the\nmaps of Spurzheim and Gall. The inventive faculty of musical composers\nwas what Gall discovered as Music. The sense of Melody and Tune lies\nbehind the brow in connection with the _sense of hearing_, at the\nanterior portion of Sensibility, which forty years after my discovery\nis beginning to be recognized in consequence of the experiments of\nFerrier on animals. The organ of hearing which he demonstrated in the\nmonkey, occupies the same position in the superior temporal\nconvolution, behind the eye, which I have given it in man, which\nbrings it into close connection with the organs of Language and Tune.\nIts close connection with the region of impressibility called\nSomnolence explains its supreme control over our emotions.\n\nThe organ of LANGUAGE, the first discovery of Gall, has been the first\nto receive its demonstration from pathology and vivisection. But the\npioneer teacher to whom contemporaries are unjust has to wait very\nlong for an honorable recognition. The existence of an organ of\nLanguage at the junction of the front and middle lobes, at the back of\nthe eye-sockets, has become established in our physiology from the\ndevelopments of disease and autopsies, without mentioning in\nconnection that it was the discovery of Gall. Perhaps the authors of\nthe text-books may not even know the location of Gall's discovery in\nthe brain, and think only of the external sign, the prominence of the\neyes, produced by the convolution at the back of their orbits.\n\nDr. Spurzheim simply located the external sign of the prominence of\nthe organ at the eye, while Gall recognized the talent for languages\nas lying further back than that for verbal memory, and consequently\nbeing manifested lower at the eye. Nevertheless Gall made a correct\nobservation, as he noticed that a full development was indicated when\nthe temples were broad behind the eye. The true location of the organ\nexternally is just behind the outer angle of the eye, a position\ncentral to Gall's observations, and corresponding in the brain to that\njunction of the front and middle lobes in which the organ has been\ndemonstrated by pathology, though not so accurately defined as in my\nexperiments.\n\nPerhaps in twenty or thirty years more my demonstrations having been\nbrought before the public may attract the attention of the laborious\nvivisectors in Europe, who have done so much to verify them, and who\nwill find that their labors do not refute but do confirm what I have\ndiscovered by methods so much simpler, easier and more pleasant.\n\nIn the second volume I propose to show in detail how much the\npathologists and vivisectors have done to illustrate and corroborate\nthe new Anthropology.\n\n[Illustration: ORGANOLOGY OF GALL, 1809.\n\n    1. Instinct of Generation.\n    2. Love of Offspring.\n    3. Friendship, Attachment.\n    4. Courage, Self-Defence.\n    5. Murder, Wish to Destroy.\n    6. Cunning.\n    7. Sentiment of Property.\n    8. Pride, Self-Esteem, Haughtiness.\n    9. Vanity, Ambition.\n    10. Cautiousness, Foresight, Prudence.\n    11. Memory of Things, Educability.\n    12. Local Memory.\n    13. Memory of Persons.\n    14. Verbal Memory.\n    15. Memory for Languages.\n    16. Colors.\n    17. Music.\n    18. Number.\n    19. Aptitude for Mechanical Arts.\n    20. Comparative Aptitude for Drawing Comparisons.\n    21. Metaphysical Depth of Thought, Aptitude for Drawing Conclusions.\n    22. Wit.\n    23. Poetry.\n    24. Good Nature.\n    25. Mimicry.\n    26. Theosophy, Religion.\n    27. Firmness of Character.]\n\n\n\n\nBUSINESS DEPARTMENT.\n\n\nCOLLEGE OF THERAPEUTICS.\n\nNext Session Begins November 1, 1887.\n\nThis institution is the germ of what will be an immense revolution in\neducation hereafter, when the knowledge now given to small classes\nwill hold a conspicuous place in every college, and will be presented\nin every high school.\n\nThe mountain mass of inertia, which opposes, passively, all\nfundamental changes, cannot now resist scientific demonstration as it\nhas in the past. The instruction in the College of Therapeutics, is\nthoroughly demonstrative, leaving no room for doubt, and it gives a\nspecies of knowledge which ought to be a part of every one's\neducation--a knowledge of the constitution of man, not obtainable\nto-day in any medical or literary college, nor in our mammoth\nlibraries. It is not merely as a deep philosophy that this interests\nus, but as a guide in the preservation of health, and in the\nregulation of spiritual phenomena, which would, to a very great\nextent, supersede our reliance on the medical profession by giving us\nthe control of the vital powers, by which we may protect ourselves,\nand control the development of the young.\n\nEach student was made to feel the effects of local treatment on the\nbody, and the power of rapidly changing disease to health, and was\npersonally taught to perform the manipulations for this purpose, and\nto investigate disease or portray character by the psychometric\nmethods as well as to test the value of medicines.\n\nThe various uses and scientific application of electricity were shown,\nand many things entirely unknown and unrecognized in works on\nElectro-Therapeutics. The entire class was placed under a medical\ninfluence simultaneously by the agency of electricity--an operation so\nmarvelous that it would be considered incredible in medical colleges.\nBy these and other experiments and numerous illustrations and lucid\nexplanations of the brain and nervous system, the instruction was made\ndeeply interesting, and students have attended more than one course to\nperfect themselves in the science. The following declaration of\nsentiments shows how the course was regarded by the class:\n\n    \"The summer class of 1887 in the College of Therapeutics,\n    feeling it their duty to add their testimony to that of many\n    others in reference to the grand scientific discoveries which\n    they have seen thoroughly demonstrated by Prof. J. R. Buchanan,\n    would say to the public that no one can attend such a course of\n    instruction as we have recently been engaged in, without\n    realizing that Therapeutic Sarcognomy greatly enlarges the\n    practical resources of the healing art for the medical\n    practitioner, magnetizer and electro-therapeutist, while\n    Psychometry, whose positive truths we have tested and proven,\n    like the sun's rays, illumines all the dark problems of medical\n    practice and of psycho-physiological sciences.\n\n    \"Therapeutic Sarcognomy explains the very intricate and\n    mysterious relations of the soul, the brain and body, which\n    prior to Prof. Buchanan's discoveries were unknown to all\n    scientific teachers, and are even now only known to his students\n    and the readers of his works,\n\n    \"We feel that we have been very fortunate in finding so valuable\n    a source of knowledge, whose future benefits to the human race,\n    in many ways, cannot be briefly stated, and we would assure all\n    who may attend this college, or read the published works of\n    Prof. Buchanan, and his monthly, the _Journal of Man_, that they\n    will, when acquainted with the subject, be ready to unite with\n    us in appreciating and honoring the greatest addition ever made\n    to biological and psychological sciences. Hoping that the time\n    is not for distant when all students in medical colleges may\n    obtain access to this most important knowledge, we give our\n    testimony to the public.\"\n\n                      H. C. ALDRICH, M. D., D. D. S., _Chairman_.\n                      DR. JNO. C. SCHLARBAUM, _Secretary_.\n\n\nOBITUARY RECORD.\n\nVisit to our Cemetery.\n\nSad are the words, \"_It might have been_,\" sad the recollection of\nlives untimely ended, and equally sad the lives that perished unborn.\nWe have been looking among the latter, the spirit life that might have\ngone forth to bless society, but perished ere its birth.\n\nThe JOURNAL OF MAN has brought forth many a bright, strong thought\nthat will have its career among men, but the other bright, strong\nthoughts that could not be forced through its narrow limits must be\nburied and lost to its readers, and they have been interred with\nsorrow. The following is a list of our early dead--perhaps for some of\nthem there may be a resurrection when a larger JOURNAL is issued, but\nperhaps the majority are interred forever.\n\n1. Career of Mohammedanism in Africa. 2. The True History of Buddha.\n3. Influence of Christianity in history. 4. Startling Calculations for\nthe Future. 6. The Snake Charmers in Tunis. 6. Mesmerism in China\nbefore the Christian Era. 7. Dr. Montgomery on the Cell Theory. 8. A\nRace of Dwarfs in the Pyrenees. 9. Religious Hallucination in the\nBahamas. 10. Philosophy of Death. 11. The Delsarte System of Elocution\nand Acting. 12. Why Should the Chinese go? an eloquent argument by a\nlearned Mandarin. 13. An Organic Index of Human Longevity--the\nDoctrine of Powell. 15. Anthropological Laws of Longevity. 16.\nPsychometry and Thought Transference in India. 17. Prof. Dana on\nEvolution. 18. Statistics of Heads and Brains. 19. Cures by Prayer.\n20. Indian Witchcraft. 21. Hypnotism among Turkish Dervishes. 22.\nDiscussion of Heredity and Temperaments. 23. Theory and Practice of\nthe Divining Rod. 24. Mrs. Stanton on Sleep. 25. Cures for Insomnia,\nand Singular Case of Night-sweats. 26. A Modern Samson. 27.\nTransactions in Psychic Research. 28. A Critique of Unreason--a\nCaustic Review of the Psychic Society. 29. Scientific View of the\nAntiquity of Man. 30. Phrenological Quackery. 31. English and German\nIndustrial Education. 32. Training of Viennese Girls. 33. Revolutions\nin Medicine. 34. History and Progress of Russian Nihilists. 35. The\nParadise of Labor--the Familistere at Guise in France. 36. Exhibition\nof the Keeley Motor. 37. A New Element in the Blood. 38. Reform of the\nLunacy Laws. 39. Marvellous Dreams. 40. Byron's Spiritual Belief. 41.\nHow to Deal with Drunkards and Medical Treatment of Intemperance. 42.\nCombination of Electricity and Medicine. 43. Meynert's Psychiatry, a\nTreatise on Diseases of the Fore-brain. 44. A Mesmerized Detective.\n45. Wonderful Spirit Telegraphy. 46. Discovery of Dead Bodies by\nIntuition. 47. How Clouds are formed. 48. Psychometric Reports on\nSimon of Samaria, Henry George, Dr. McGlynn, Lucretia Mott, Dr. Gall,\nCharlemagne and Julius Caesar. 49. The Puget Sound Colony. 50. English\nRule in Ireland. 51. Dr. Eadon on Memory. 52. Harrison on Mysticism.\n53. Progress in Many Parts of the World. 54. Communications from\nvarious correspondents, etc., etc. This is not _one half_, but it is\nneedless to prolong the catalogue of the buried innocents,--the\ninteresting narratives, discussions and expositions of rare knowledge\nwhich the limited area of the JOURNAL has compelled me to exclude.\n\nLet us hope that in our enlarged JOURNAL next year, there may be room\nto review the most important features of social and scientific\nprogress as well as to present gradually the elements of that\nworld-embracing science which is called Anthropology,--the\npresentation of which will require at least ten years. I am making\nevery effort at present to prepare the improved and enlarged edition\nof the Therapeutic Sarcognomy for the coming winter.\n\n\nLIBERAL PUBLICATIONS.\n\nTHE GOLDEN GATE at San Francisco is a successful eight-page weekly\nSpiritual newspaper now in its fourth volume, well filled with\ninteresting matter. It illustrates spiritual phenomena by engravings,\nis well edited and highly appreciated. Published by J. J. Owen at\n$2.50 per annum.\n\nHALL'S JOURNAL OF HEALTH at New York, a monthly of twenty-four pages,\none dollar per annum, has been well received for thirty-three years,\nand of late, with a new editor, it has renewed its vigor and\nprosperity. It contains not only valuable hygienic instruction but\ninteresting sketches of Spiritual and progressive science and has\nhonored the editor of this Journal with a friendly biographical\nsketch. Its circulation is increasing.\n\nTHE BETTER WAY, a Spiritual weekly published at Cincinnati at $2 a\nyear, is the successor to four Spiritual papers that have ceased, and\nappears to have the elements of success.\n\nTHE EASTERN STAR, published at Glenburn, Maine, by C. M. Brown,\nweekly, at $1 per year, is full of the enthusiasm and energy that win\nsuccess. The editor appears to have a clear head and warm heart and\ndevotes his journal to Spiritualism.\n\nTHE CARRIER DOVE, a large folio weekly illustrated Spiritual journal.\n$2.50 per annum, published at San Francisco, is now in its fourth\nvolume, and has obtained a merited success.\n\nTHE TRUTH-SEEKER, a weekly journal ($3 a year) established by the late\nD. M. Bennett, still carries on with undiminished ability the honest\nagnostic work for which it has been famous. It is a vigorous\niconoclast but does little for constructive progress.\n\nTHE OPEN COURT, by B. F. Underwood, Chicago, with an able corps of\ncorrespondents, maintains a high literary character, and discusses\nphilosophy and current topics from the agnostic standpoint. Its belief\nin dry metaphysics, and its stubborn materialistic scepticism are its\ngreatest peculiarities. Published fortnightly at $3 a year.\n\n\nUNLIKE ANY OTHER PAPER.\n\nThe _Spectator_, unlike other home papers, seeks (1) to acquaint every\nfamily with simple and efficient treatment for the various common\ndiseases, to, in a word, educate the people so they can avoid disease\nand cure sickness, thus saving enormous doctors' bills, and many\nprecious lives. (2) To elevate and cultivate the moral nature,\nawakening the conscience, and developing the noblest attributes of\nmanhood. (3) To give instructive and entertaining food to literary\ntaste, thus developing the mind. (4) To give just such hints to\nhousekeepers that they need to tell how to prepare delicious dishes,\nto beautify homes, and to make the fireside the most attractive spot\nin the world.--_Am. Spectator_.\n\n\nMAYO'S ANAESTHETIC.\n\nThe suspension of pain, under dangerous surgical operations, is the\ngreatest triumph of Therapeutic Science in the present century. It\ncame first by mesmeric hypnotism, which was applicable only to a few,\nand was restricted by the jealous hostility of the old medical\nprofession. Then came the nitrous oxide, introduced by Dr. Wells, of\nHartford, and promptly discountenanced by the enlightened (?) medical\nprofession of Boston, and set aside for the next candidate, ether,\ndiscovered in the United States also, but far interior to the nitrous\noxide as a safe and pleasant agent. This was largely superseded by\nchloroform, discovered much earlier by Liebig and others, but\nintroduced as an anaesthetic in 1847, by Prof. Simpson. This proved to\nbe the most powerful and dangerous of all. Thus the whole policy of\nthe medical profession was to discourage the safe, and encourage the\nmore dangerous agents. The magnetic sleep, the most perfect of all\nanaesthetic agents, was expelled from the realm of college authority;\nether was substituted for nitrous oxide, and chloroform preferred to\nether, until frequent deaths gave warning.\n\nNitrous oxide, much the safest of the three, has not been the\nfavorite, but has held its ground, especially with dentists. But even\nnitrous oxide is not perfect. It is not equal to the magnetic sleep,\nwhen the latter is practicable, but fortunately it is applicable to\nall. To perfect the nitrous oxide, making it universally safe and\npleasant, Dr. U. K. Mayo, of Boston, has combined it with certain\nharmless vegetable nervines, which appear to control the fatal\ntendency which belongs to all anaesthetics when carried too far. The\nsuccess of Dr. Mayo, in perfecting our best anaesthetic, is amply\nattested by those who have used it. Dr. Thorndike, than whom, Boston\nhad no better surgeon, pronounced it \"the safest the world has yet\nseen.\" It has been administered to children and to patients in extreme\ndebility. Drs. Frizzell and Williams, say they have given it\n\"repeatedly in heart disease, severe lung diseases, Bright's disease,\netc., where the patients were so feeble as to require assistance in\nwalking, many of them under medical treatment, and the results have\nbeen all that we could ask--no irritation, suffocation, nor\ndepression. We heartily commend it to all as the anaesthetic of the\nage.\" Dr. Morrill, of Boston, administered Mayo's anaesthetic to his\nwife with delightful results when \"her lungs were so badly\ndisorganized, that the administration of ether or gas would be\nentirely unsafe.\" The reputation of this anaesthetic is now well\nestablished; in fact, it is not only safe and harmless, but has great\nmedical virtue for daily use in many diseases, and is coming into use\nfor such purposes. In a paper before the Georgia State Dental Society,\nDr. E. Parsons testified strongly to its superiority. \"The nitrous\noxide, (says Dr. P.) causes the patient when fully under its influence\nto have very like the appearance of a corpse,\" but under this new\nanaesthetic \"the patient appears like one in a natural sleep.\" The\nlanguage of the press, generally has been highly commendatory, and if\nDr. Mayo had occupied so conspicuous a rank as Prof. Simpson, of\nEdinburgh, his new anaesthetic would have been adopted at once in every\ncollege of America and Europe.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n                     Mayo's Vegetable Anaesthetic.\n\nA perfectly safe and pleasant substitute for chloroform, ether,\nnitrous oxide gas, and all other anaesthetics. Discovered by Dr. U. K.\nMayo, April, 1883, and since administered by him and others in over\n300,000 cases successfully. The youngest child, the most sensitive\nlady, and those having heart disease, and lung complaint, inhale this\nvapor with impunity. It stimulates the circulation of the blood and\nbuilds up the tissues. Indorsed by the highest authority in the\nprofessions, recommended in midwifery and all cases of nervous\nprostration. Physicians, surgeons, dentists and private families\nsupplied with this vapor, liquefied, in cylinders of various\ncapacities. It should be administered the same as Nitrous Oxide, but\nit does not produce headache and nausea as that sometimes does. For\nfurther information pamphlets, testimonials, etc., apply to\n\n                                      DR. U. K. MAYO, Dentist,\n                                        378 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n                          THE CARRIER DOVE.\n\n              An Illustrated Weekly Magazine, Devoted to\n\n                       SPIRITUALISM AND REFORM.\n\n                    Edited by MRS. J. SCHLESINGER.\n\nEach number will contain the portraits and Biographical Sketches of\nprominent Mediums and Spiritual workers of the Pacific Coast, and\nelsewhere. Also, Spirit Pictures by our Artist Mediums. Lectures,\nessays, poems, spirit messages, editorials and miscellaneous items.\n\n          DR. L. SCHLESINGER,   }\n          MRS. J. SCHLESINGER,  }          PUBLISHERS.\n\n            Terms:--$2.50 per Year. Single Copies, 10 cts.\n\n                      Address, THE CARRIER DOVE,\n             32 Ellis Street, San Francisco, California.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n    Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents came from the first\n    issue of the volume.","title":"Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887: Volume 1, Number 9","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":18623}