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vidual, the rights of eacli, and the duties of each to the other. 

 Society is a necessity. Being a necessity, it ought to be so 

 organized as to continue and perform its functions with the least 

 possible friction, and the greatest possible comfort and happiness 

 to all who compose it. Hence the immeasurable importance of 

 investigating, and of establishing in the minds of the rising gen- 

 erations an ethical adjustment of the parts of the social organism. 



MASSAGE IN SPRAINS, BRUISES, AND DISLOCATIONS. 



By DOUGLAS GRAHAM, M. D. 



IN the Life and Letters of Mr. George P. Marsh, Volume I, 

 page 219, is the following account of the brilliant success of 

 the treatment of two sprains by a wild Arab : " There seemed, 

 however, small chance that the proposed journey to Sinai, Petra, 

 Jerusalem, etc., could be carried out. The season was already far 

 advanced for desert travel ; Mr. Marsh had seriously sprained his 

 ankle at Karnac while carrying his wife through the great temple, 

 and could not now walk without the assistance of two persons; 

 and Miss Paine had been suffering from a somewhat similar 

 sprain even before leaving Constantinople, and had profited little 

 by the surgical skill of the Pranks at that place or in Egypt. The 

 dragoman, though it was clearly for his interest that the jour- 

 ney should be made, admitted the impossibility of it under these 

 circumstances, and gravely proposed that the two sprains should 

 be cured at once by an Arab doctor of his own acquaintance. He 

 entreated so earnestly and with such apparent confidence in his 

 miracle-worker that a consultation was held with some of the 

 oldest and most intelligent of the Frankish residents at Cairo, and, 

 though no one would exactly take the responsibility of advising 

 it, every one said that the evidence of these immediate cures was 

 such that he should certainly try the experiment in his own case. 

 Some, indeed, had tried it with entire success, and no one thought 

 any harm could come of it. 



" These considerations, added to an intense desire to see more of 

 the mysterious East, decided the lame patients to call in the ' ra- 

 doubeur.' So, the second morning after their installment in their 

 hotel, Achmet presented himself, bringing with him the most ex- 

 traordinary creature that can be well imagined. He was scarce 

 five feet in height, and was clad in a single garment of blue cotton 

 fastened about the waist with a leather belt. His old, withered 

 face was lighted up by one eye only, and that seemed but half 

 open, while nothing about his person would have led one to be- 

 lieve that the waters of the broad Nile were within reach. There 



