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10 GENERAL REMARKS, 
better never associate with a friend that will forsake us in the 
_ hour of danger. And be sure to learn out A. B. C. first, for 
there is not many mighty called, but God has chosen the 
weak things of this world to confound the wisdom of the 
wise. ; 
It appears, therefore, that the mental man is governed — 
‘measureably by the physical man, and it is certain that the 
physical man is governed by the signs and flow of the blood, 
and that disease in case of bad colds on the part then ruled 
by the signs will be affected when the cold is taken—for in- 
stance, when the sign is in the head, and a cold is taken, it 
will settle in the head. So throughout the whole body, 
which causes so many different diseases of different names— 
hence, when we take cold in the head there is a pressure of 
the brain, which causes inflammation and pain in the head, 
or dropsy, or congestion of the brain. Just so when the 
cold is seated on the lungs or bronchial tubes, it will either 
cause inflammation or congestion of- the lungs, phthisic, or 
asthma, and many times sharp, acute pains and distress for - 
breath ; and when on the liver, it causes weariness and pains 
in the tide and back, sometimes fever and ague, jaun- 
dice, dumb ague, indigestion, loss of appetite, relaxativeness, 
many times ensues, When in the bowels and intestines, 
. bilious cholic and wind cholic, shooting pains, and many times 
inflammation, &¢. When on the thoracic, duct or great ar- 
tery, which runs up the spine through the trunk, pleurisy, 
“ eramp and acute pains in the left side. When on the kid- 
neys and bladder,“diabetes or gravel, with distressing pains 
in the small of the back and pains in the reetum. When on 
the pancreas or gall, or both, dropsical, dyspeptical and ner- 
vous complaints ensue, attended many times with lethargy, 
