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remorseful, another ill-tempered, another jealous, another cheer- 
ful, another benevolent. It is a warm day, and they all perspire. 
Samples of their sudor, or perspiration, are handed to the psycho- 
logist ; and under examination these several samples reveal all 
the emotional conditions particularized above, distinctly and 
unmistakably. Each disagreeable, or malign emotion is 
associated with its own particular poison, which reacts injuriously 
upon the person physically; whereby bad thoughts, and 
memories, undermine the energies; and among all the chemical 
products of such motions that of conscious guilt is the worst. 
If a small quantity of the sudor of a person suffering from a sense 
of guilt is placed in a glass tube, and exposed to contact with 
selenic acid, it will turn pink. And, corresponding to the evil 
emotion, there is a mischievous change in the tissues of the body, 
which depresses vitality, and engenders poison ; whilst on the 
other hand every good emotion works an exalting, and life- 
promoting change. | 
Reverting to the subject of mineral waters, a distinct relation 
exists as to mineralization of the bodily tissues for good or evil, 
between the physical states of gout on the one hand, and 
tubercular consumption of the lungs on the other. Furthermore, 
the dietetic treatment of these diseases is respectively indicated 
by this relation. The gouty subject is over-mineralized, and 
must be fed accordingly, whilst the consumptive patient is under- 
mineralized, and has to be almost surfeited with urea (largely 
present in ordinary eggs), the obnoxious basis of gout. Chemic- 
ally, the blood of the gouty and the consumptive are antagonistic. 
“The consumptive,” says a physician who successfully conducts 
an important open-air sanatorium near New York City, ‘‘ should 
eat all that a gouty patient may not eat.” They chiefly lack 
the chlorides, and phosphates, whilst deficient also in acids ; 
on the other hand, in gouty persons, the blood is too largely 
endowed with these ingredients, beyond a standard of health. 
With regard to eggs, as particularly well suited for the needs of 
the consumptive, it is found that this food differs intrinsically 
from all other forms, not only as to its nutrient capabilities, 
but also as to its stimulating effects. Usually the method is 
to begin with three eggs daily, taken raw if possible, either in 
egg lemonade, or perhaps (though less profitably) with a little 
whisky, or sherry; in most cases it is better to give the eggs 
raw, and unmixed, even by the patient sucking them from the 
