no DR. CEASE'S RECIPES. 



4. The Pulse in Health— Average Beats per Minute— FroiD- 

 Physiologist Carpenter : 



New-born infants, - - From 140 down to 130 



During 1st year, . - - 



" 2d year, 



" 8d year, .... 

 From 7th to 14th year, 



" 14th to 21st year, 



" 21st to 60th year, 

 In old age, .... 



In inflammatory or acute diseases the pulse may rise to 120, or even to 160, 

 in the adult, and becoming so frequent in the child that it cannot be counted. 

 Muscular exertion, mental excitement, digestion, alcoholic drink, and elevation 

 above the sea level, accelerate the pulse, and as a rule it is more frequent in the 

 morning than in the evening. It is slower in sleep, and from the effects of rest, 

 diet, cold, or blood-letting. The pulse of a grown woman exceeds that of a 

 man of the same age, as much as 10 to 14 beats a minute, and, according to some 

 authorities, is less frequent in the tall than in the short person, the variations 

 being about 4 beats for each 6 inches of height. 



Remarks. — With this tabulation, any person of average ability (we are now 

 talking of averages) can form a fair opinion of how much disturbance there 

 may be in one's system, to cause any variation from the general average, and 

 hence, tell how sick a person may be and the probability of returning health,, 

 under favorable circumstances; also the general average of the length of life 

 and probability of marriages, etc. But it may not be amiss here, to state that 

 while standing, a healthy man's pulse beats about 74 times in a minute; when 

 sitting, only about 70 ; and when he lies down, only about 64. Thus the heart 

 takes its rest at night ; and as the heart passes in its beats about 6 ozs. of blood, 

 it is saved the lifting of about 30,000 ozs. of blood in 8 hours' sleep. But now 

 suppose he is a drinking man, and takes his wine or liquor day and night, the 

 heart must not only get no rest, but is increased by at least 15,000 beats in thi» 

 8 hours and he rises more tired than when he retired, and wholly unfit for the 

 day's work, and so strikes out again for the "ruddy bumper," as some call 

 it, to " settle his nerves," and thus in a few years he settles, also, into a drunk- 

 ard's grave, mourned for only by those who ought to have been helped by hina 

 yet, for many years, if he would have cast away his " cups." O, why will men 

 so far forget the object of their being? 



1. THE TONGUE— WHAT IT TELLS.— I am very sorry that I 

 do not know who wrote the following soliloquy upon the tongue, as it is both 

 sensible and sound in its teachings; hence, I say, let it be read with care and 

 its teachings heeded. He says: 



" A man can never be happy if his stomach is out of order; and dyspepsia 

 and hysteria imitate the symptoms of innumerable disorders. But how, the 

 reader may ask, can I tell the illness, from which I think I am suffering, to be 

 real or imaginary? At any rate, I should answer, look to your stomach first, 

 and, pray, just take a glance at your tongue. If ever I was so far left to myself 

 as to meditate some rash act, I should, before going into the matter, have a look 



