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The next session opens by an Introductory Lecture, at 6 James street, Tuesday evening (7.30), November 1st, which all subscribers of the JOURNAL are invited to attend. Fee for the course of six weeks, $25. Subject of the introductory, "What can we all do for ourselves and our friends?" LITERARY NOTICES. THE life of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim, known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings concerning Cosmology, Anthropology, Pneumatology, Magic and Sorcery, Medicine, Alchemy, and Astrology, Philosophy, and Theosophy, extracted and translated from his rare and extensive works, and from some unpublished manuscripts, by FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D., 220 pages. Published by George Redway, London, York Street. Scientific students will find it interesting to trace the life and speculations of Paracelsus, but to those who are not well grounded in science and philosophy, who have an easy credulity, such writings have a misleading tendency. Paracelsus was a great reformer, both in medicine and religion, and had very remarkable success as a physician. The sensation he produced, the profound admiration of his friends and hostility of his enemies show him to have been an extraordinary man. The present volume is well written and interesting, and fur nishes themes for future comment. "Life and Labors of Dr. J. R. Newton,-Healer, or The Modern Bethesda." This handsome volume of 320 pages, with a fine likeness of Dr. Newton, should occupy a place in every library, as a record and demonstration of the grand truth that man has in his living spirit a healing power which is proportioned to his spiritual development and affinity with heaven. Sold by Colby & Rich, Boston, $2. "THE PURPOSE OF THEOSOPHY," by Mrs. A. P. Sinnett, London, published by Chapman & Hall, 1885 (107 pages). This is a brief and clear statement That it differs widely of the Oriental Theosophy. from the Theosophy of American students is a matter of course. 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A few copies left at this office will be sent by mail for $1. A VOLAPUK GRAMMAR, for the study of the Volapük language, by Prof. Kerchkoffs, translated, into English by Karl Dorubush, has lately been published. Volapük has gained a foothold in nearly every European nation, and bids fair to become universal. MAYO'S ANÆSTHETIC. The suspension of pain, under dangerous surgical operations, is the greatest triumph of Therapeutic Science in the present century. It came first by mesmeric hypnotism, which was applicable only to a few, and was restricted by the jealous hostility of the old medical profession. came the nitrous oxide, introduced by Dr. Wells, of Hartford, and promptly discountenanced by the enlightened (?) medical profession of Boston, and Then Mayo, of Boston, has combined it with certain harmless vegetable nervines, which appear to control the fatal tendency which belongs to all anæs thetics when carried too far. The success of Dr. Mayo, in perfecting our best anesthetic, is amply attested by those who have used it. Dr. Thorndike, than whom Boston had no better surgeon, pro. nounced it "the safest the world has yet seen." It has been administered to children and to patients in extreme debility. Drs. Frizzell and Williams say they have given it "repeatedly in heart disease, severe lung diseases, Bright's disease, etc., where the patients were so feeble as to require assistance in walking, many of them under medical treataskno irritation, suffocation, nor depression. We heartily commend it to all as the anesthetic of the age.' Dr. Morrill, of Boston, administered Mayo's anesthetic to his wife with delightful results when "her lungs were so badly disorganized, that the administration of ether or gas would be entirely unsafe." The reputation of this anaesthetic is now well established; in fact, it is not only safe and harmless, but has great medical virtue for daily use in many diseases, and is coming into use for such purposes. In a paper betore the Georgia State Dental Society, Dr. E. Parsons testified Strongly to its superiority. "The nitrous oxide (says Dr. P.) causes the patient when fully under its influence to have very like the appearance of a corpse," but under this new anesthetic "the patient appears like one in a natural sleep." The language of the press generally has been highly commendatory, and if Dr. Mayo had occupied so conspicuous a rank as Prof. Simpson, of Edinburgh, his new anesthetic would have been adopted at once in every college of America and Europe. Mayo's Vegetable Anæsthetic. A perfectly safe and pleasant substitute for chlo roform, ether, nitrous oxide gas, and all other anasthetics. Discovered by Dr. U. K. Mayo, April, over 300,000 cases successfully. The youngest child 1883, and since administered by him and others in the most sensitive lady, and those having heart disease, and lung complaint, inhale this vapor with impunity. It stimulates the circulation of the blood and builds up the tissues. Indorsed by the highest authority in the professions, recommended in midwifery and all cases of nervous prostration. Physicians, surgeons, dentists and private families supplied with this vapor, liquefied, in cylinders of same as Nitrous Oxide, but it does not produce various capacities. It should be administered the headache and nausea as that sometimes does. For further information, pamphlets, testimonials, etc., DR. U. K. MAYO, Dentist, apply to 378 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. set aside for the next candidate, ether, discovered THE CARRIER DOVE. in the United States also, but far inferior to the nitrous oxide as a safe and pleasant agent. This was largely superseded by chloroform, discovered much | An Illustrated Weekly Magazine, Devoted to earlier by Liebig and others, but introduced as an SPIRITUALISM AND REFORM. anesthetic in 1847, by Prof. Simpson. This proved to be the most powerful and dangerous of all. Thus the whole policy of the medical profession was to discourage the safe, and encourage the more dangerous agents. The magnetic sleep, the most perfect of all anesthetic agents, was expelled from the realm of college authority; ether was substituted for nitrous oxide, and chloroform preferred to ether, until frequent deaths gave warning. Nitrous oxide, much the safest of the three, has not been the favorite, but has held its ground, especially with dentists. But even nitrous oxide is not perfect. It is not equal to the magnetic sleep, when the latter is practicable, but fortunately it is applicable to all To perfect the nitrous oxide, making it universally safe and pleasant, Dr. U. K. 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Below we give a partial table of contents of the fourth edition of the Flower Family Formula Book: This little encyclopædia of useful household information, with its great number of most valuable formulas, will be sent free, post-paid, to every reader of this paper who forwards his or her name and address to the R. C. FLOWER MEDICAL CO., BOSTON, MASS. 1. BART GO. PRINTERS 54 PEARL STREET, BODION. THE WORLD'S NEGLECTED OR FORGOTTEN LEADERS AND PIONEERS, 1-9 9-11 11-15 15-18 Edison's Phonograph; Type-setting Eclipsed; Printing in Col- LIFE AND DEATH - Marvellous Examples Introduction to the Journal of Man. As the JOURNAL OF MAN is designed to occupy the highest realm of knowledge attainable by man, it cannot be a magazine for the millions who have no aspiration toward such knowledge. Its pages will not be devoted to the elementary lessons that such persons need to attract them to the science of the soul and the brain, and the philosophy of reform. They must be given to the illustration of science that is essentially new, which would be instructive to those who already have some elementary knowledge of the subject. That knowledge which readers of the Journal will be presumed to have is briefly presented in the following sketch of THE SCIENCE OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 1. The brain is the seat of conscious life, the organ of all the powers of the soul, the controlling organ of the body in all its functions, and is therefore a psycho-physiological apparatus, psychic in its relation to the soul, physiological in its relation to the body. 18-22 22 Chapter 10.-The 23-32 2. The anatomy of the brain, which is wonderfully complex, was first rationally explored and understood by Dr. Gall, the greatest philosopher of cessful investigation of its psychic functions was the eighteenth century. The first and only sucalso made by him, and his doctrines were for many years admired by the ablest scientists of Europe, but after his death fell into unmerited neglect, for three sufficient reasons: First, his method of investigation by studying comparative development was entirely neglected. Phrenology decayed when the fountain of the science was thus closed, as geology would have declined under similar treatment. But no student of comparative development has ever repudiated the discoveries of Gall. It was unfortunate that Gall and Spurzheim did not give lessons in cranioscopy. Secondly, the intense materialism of the scientific class has made them profoundly averse to all investigation of a psychic nature and to all profound philosophy. Thirdly, the inaccuracies of Gall's incomplete discoveries, especially in reference to the cerebellum, furnished some valid objections to his opponents, who paid no attention to his evidences, but condemned without investigation. 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