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[May, 1891. 
ashamed, inasniuoh as he was laughed at by the 
rest, lie weut to sleep. And the god anointed his 
head with a drug and made it have hair. 
Thyson of Ilermione. He having his eyes licked 
by one of the dogs belonging to the sacred place, 
went away cured. 
All these inscriptions, witli several otherS, are 
on one slab. The follow iiig is of later date, and 
shows a very difl'erent method of cure. The god 
seems to have prescribed with excellent judg- 
ment : 
I, M. Julius Apellas, of Mylassa, was sent for 
by the god because I often fell ill and suffered 
from dyspepsia. And on the voyage to ^^-^gina he 
advised me never to get very angry. And when I 
came to the Hieron he bade me muttie up my head 
for two days, during which it rained; to take 
cheese and bread, with lettuce; to take my bath 
without an attendant; to exercise myself by run- 
ning; to drink water ia which lemon-peel had 
been soaked; to walk in the open air; to take 
sand baths ; to walk about barefooted ; before 
entering the bath, to pour wine into the warm 
water; to bathe alone, and to give a fee to the 
attendant; to sacrifice in common to ^'Esculapius, 
Epione, and the Eleusineau deities; to take milk 
mixed with honey. And one day, when I was 
drinking milk alone, he said : " Put honey into 
the milk, that it may act as an aperient." And 
when I begged the god to cure me more quickly, I 
dreamed that I went out from the sacred enclos- 
ure to the baths annointed all over with mustard 
and salt, and that a boy led me, holiliug in his 
hands a steaming censer, and that the priest said : 
"You are«ured; you must pay the fees." Ac- 
cordingly I did what I had dreamed, and when I 
was annointed with the mustard and salt I felt 
pain ; but after I had washed myself I no longer 
felt pain. These things happened within nine 
days after my arrival. And he touched my right 
hand and breast. And the next day, as I was 
sacrificing, the flame blazed up and burned my 
hand, so that blisters arose on it. But in a little 
while the hand was cured. And when I remained, 
he told me to use anise with olive oil for head- 
ache. But I did not suffer with headache. It 
happened, however, that, engaging in study, I 
had a rush of blood to the head ; but when I used 
the oil I was freed from tlie headache. He told 
me to gargle with cold water for sore throat (for 
I consulted him also about this) and for tonsililis. 
And he bade me record these things. I went 
away healed and full of gratitude. 
[Medical Record.] 
BEAUTY AS A MEAX8 OF HEALTH. 
Before one of the New Y'ork Working Girls' 
Clubs, Dr. Louise Fiske Bryson recently gave an 
address upon this subject, reversing in more ways 
than one tlie usual copy-l)ook apliorism. While 
acknowledging the impossibility of any protracted 
happiness without virtue, and the maintenance of 
beauty's fine edge without goodness, the doctor 
affirmed that systematic efforts to be beautiful 
will insure a; fair degree of health, and that hap- 
piness is the best safeguard against vice. The 
difference in appearance l)etvveen one woman and 
another, it was stated, is more than anything else 
an affair of style; that beauty of beauties so hard 
to define and so easy to recognjze, which makes 
the girl of no-colored hair, features of indifferent 
turn, and lines none too perfect, infinitely more 
attractive than other maids of faultless curves 
and innumerable strong points not cemented by 
this magic quality. Style may be defined, for 
want of something better to express it, as an 
attractive manner of holding the body, a firm, 
graceful way of doing things, and of moving 
about. It is the visible sign of inherent power 
and reserve force. It is the outcome of long, deep 
breaths and the use of many nmscles. The prayer 
of the New ITork child, "lord, make us very 
stylish," when viewed arjght, is recognized as an 
aspii-ation based upon sound scientific principles 
and worthy of universal commendation. 
Proper breathing is the first art to cultivate in 
the pursuit of beauty. The lungs have their own 
muscular power, and this should be exercised. 
The chest must be enlarged by full, deep breath- 
ing, and not by muscular action from without. 
Inflate the lungs upward and outward, as if the 
inflation were about to lift the body off the 
ground. Hold the shoulders on a line with the 
hips, and stand so that the lips, chin, chest, and 
toes come upon one line, the feet being turned out 
at an angle of sixty degrees. It is wrong to make 
the bony structure do most of the work in keep- 
ing the body upright. The muscles should hold 
it in position. In walking, keep face and chest 
well over the advanced foot, and cultivate a free, 
firm, easy gait, without hard or jarring move- 
ments. It is impossilile to stand or breathe aright 
if tlie feet are pinched. When correct posture 
and breathing are interfered with, the circulation 
is impeded, and deleterious substances in the 
blood tend to make the complexion bad. This is 
one of the many evils of tight shoes. To be well 
shod has a marked influence on style. The feet 
symbolize the body in their way as much as the 
hands. A clever shoemaker says that in a well- 
fitting shoe the human foot feels like a duck's foot 
in the mud. It is held firmly in place, but no- 
where compressed. Nothing can exceed the vul- 
garity and hygienic wickedness of a shoe that 
is manifestly too tight. For misery-producing 
power, hygienically as well as spiritually speak- 
ing, perhaps tight boots are without a rival. 
Next to the searcli for style pure and simple as 
a means of health, the care of the complexion and 
the cultivation of the right kind of expression are 
of great importance. 'I'he first is largely a matter 
of bathing and the general hygiene of the skin, 
while the second — a good expression— is best se- 
cured by the constant preference of higher 
thoughts over lower ones. This is the essence 
of intellectual living, and is fortunately within 
reach of us all. 
Beauty that is lasting and really worth while, is 
more or less dependent upon a good circulation ; 
while a good circulation is made possible by cor- 
rect pose, proper breathing, and the judicious 
care of the skin, something else is necessary to 
insure the normal quality and activity of the 
blood. And this something consists in a combi- 
nation of sunshine and exercise in the open air. 
Town-dwellers have too little of these blessings, 
partly from circumstances and partly from lack 
of wit. Exercise is the most important natural 
tonic of the body. Without it there can be no 
large, compact muscular frame. ■ It is as essential 
to physical development as air is to life, and an 
imiierative necessity in the maintenance of beauty. 
To keep the complexion and spirits good, to pre- 
serve grace, strength, and ability of motion, there 
is no gymnasium so valuable as the daily round of 
housework, no exercises more beneficent in their 
results than sweeping, dusting, making beds, 
washing dishes, and the polishing of brass and 
silver. One year of such muscular effort within 
doors, together with regular exercise in the open 
air, will do more for a woman's complexion than 
all the lotions and pomades that ever were in- 
vented. Perhaps the reason why housework does 
so much more for women than games, is the fact 
that exercise which is immediately productive 
cheers the spirit. It gives women the courage to 
go on with living, and makes things seem really 
worth while. 
In a general way the great secrets of beauty, 
and therefore of health, may be summed up as 
follows: Moderation in eating and drinking; 
short hours of labor and study; regularity in 
exercise, relaxation, and rest; cleanliness; equa- 
nimity of temper, and equality of temperature. 
To be as good-looking as possilde, and to be 
physically well, one must in general be happy. 
And to be happy it is necessary to carry out ideas 
of personal taste and preference, as many of them 
as can be put into definite form without infring- 
ing upon the rights of others. Happiness has a 
distinct losthetic and hygienic value. In itself it 
will secure perfect poise and respiration. To be 
happy is a duty just as style is a duty, and both 
are in great measure an affair of intellect and 
management. The old order put the cart before 
the horse ; it said : "Be virtuous and you will be 
happy" — a rule with many exceptions. But the 
old order changeth. And the modern gospel pos- 
tulates happiness and material prosperity as the 
basis of morality. Other times, other manners. 
The ardent pursuit of good looks sums up the 
best there is in hygiene, and becomes a legitimate 
and praiseworthy means of health. The world 
has yet room for two or three truths, of which 
not the least is the fact that the definite desire for 
personal beauty— which was in the beginning, is 
now, and ever shall be— constitutes in itself a per- 
fectly proper and meritorious inspiration to eflort, 
especially in a country where the shades of Puri- 
tanism linger as a sad inheritance, and where dis- 
interred Buddhism claims too often the frail neu- 
rasthenic for its own. 
[Original in POPULAR Sciekoe News.] 
THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF PNTiU- 
MONIA. 
In the February number of the Popular Sci- 
ence News, page 30, is an excellent article on 
the above subject. Permit me to suggest a very 
sirtiple but perhaps specific remedy for pneumonia 
tested in my practice for many years with uni- 
formly good results, and in my own case of double 
pneumouia September, 1879. The severe attack 
came at miilnight, and made good progress until 
the next morning at 10 o'clock. Used Faradic 
current with electrodes; result, very little good. 
A member of my family began treatment using 
the hand as electrode, (positive) ; negative, flat 
sheet metal (circular, 2^4 inches,) covered with 
cotton cloth and wet in quite warm water anil 
placed on fourth dorsal, the hand also w'et in 
warm water and placed over the left lung. I 
shall never forget the immediate sense of relief 
as the thread like stream of electricity passed 
through the suff'ering organ; in thirty minute- 
could breathe very comfortably, and in three day- 
all right. Imprudently entered the oftJce sixth 
day, gave treatment, and next day after had seri- 
ous attack on right side, much more severe, but 
the same mode of treatment again couijuered in 
four and a half days, and I was somewhat weak 
but well.' No relapse on either side. Entered into 
my work after one week's rest, three weeks in all, 
to stay, and remain in good health yet. Next 
month will close up my " fourscore." This seems 
to myself and friends a remarkable case to rely on 
electricity alone. I desire this treatment to be tested 
in pneumonia by physicians generally, and repori 
results. In general practice I never supposed 
electricity to be " contraindicated "' in any case, 
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