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HOLY noon TIDE. 



SEPT. 20. SS. EusTACnius and companions, mm. 

 St. Agapetus, pope, 536. 



Obs, St, Eustachnis was a nobleman, who suffered martyrdom 

 at Rome about the reign of Adiian, together with his wife Then- 

 phista, and two sons Agapius and Tlieopliistus. An ancient church 

 in Rome was built in honour of St. J'.ustachius : his body lay depo- 

 sited in this church till, in tlie twelfth century, it was translated to 

 that of St. Denis near Paris. His shrine was pillaged in this place, 

 and part of his bones burnt, by the Huguenots in 1567 ; but a por- 

 tion of them still remains in the parish church, which bears the name 

 of St. Eustachius in Paris. 



Meadow Saffron Colchicum aiitnmnale full fl. 

 Naked Saffron Crocus nudijiorus fl. 



Autumnal Colchicums and Croci blovv together. Tiie Crocus re- 

 gistered today comes up with a naked flower, that is, no leaves ap- 

 pear till after it is blown. Both this and the common Autumnal 

 Crocus produce a variety whose flowers are pale flesh colour, or 

 almost white, instead of the usual deep bluish purple, which, is the 

 most common colour of their flowers. 'J'his day is Dysenterialis in 

 the Ephemeris of Nature. 



This is of all times of the year the most productive of epidemical 

 disorders of the bowels, which are erroneously asciibed to fruits, but 

 which in reality the autumnal fruits seem best calculated to mollify, 

 as we have elsewhere observed. If the diarrhoea be very violent, 

 or accompanied with incessant vomiting, as in Cholera Morbus, the 

 best practice is, after the intestinal canal has been suffered copiously 

 to evacuate itself, to take small doses of chalk, or of some other sub- 

 stance known to check the disorder, with which chemists are always 

 prepared. But in ordinary cases it is a safer plan to let the disease 

 spend itself, as there is a great deal of irritation of the intestines, 

 which the flux carries off. We should avoid eating animal food, but 

 take tea, broths, gruel, and other diluents, and the disorder will 

 usually soon subside of itself. After it has so subsidad, we should 

 guard against its return by taking great care to keep the bowels re- 

 gular, by eating light and vegetable food and fruits, or now and then 

 taking a gentle dose of opening medicine, or of blue pill. 



The constant habit of smoking Tobacco is a very salutary prac- 

 tice in general, as well as being a preventive against infection ia 

 particular. The German pipes are the best, and get better as they 

 are. used, particularly those made of RIerschaum, called Ecume de 

 Mer. Next to these the Turkey pipes, with long tubes, are to be 

 recommended, but these are fitter for summer smoking, under the 

 shade of trees, than for the fireside. The best Tobacco is the Turkey, 

 the Persian, and what is called Dutch Canaster. Smoking is a cus- 

 tom which should be recommended in the close cottages of the 

 poor, and in great populous towns liable to contagion. 



