2. The Water Cure. By James Wilson, M.D. London: Trubner and Co. 3. Hydropathy. By Ed. Wm. Lane, M.D. London: Churchill. 4. Confessions of a Water Patient. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart, M.P. London: H. Baillière. 5. An Address to the Public on the Prevention and Treatment of Cholera on rational principles. Cork: Geo. Purcell and Co. 6. A few Facts forgotten by the Faculty. By S. B. Birch, M.D. London: H. Baillière. [2] Because either they disapprove of whatever is not practiced by themselves, or they are ashamed to follow new opinions, and to acknowledge when old, the errors they had imbibed in youth. [3] The ganglionic nerves are those which cover the stomach, and regulate the digestive organs: they are also called the “Solar Plexus.” [4] The late melancholy case of Mr. Stafford O’Brien is an instance of this injurious practice; that gentleman was copiously bled, doubtless that he might be the better enabled, in his so enfeebled condition, to resist the action of a powerful poison (opium) afterwards administered with deadly effect. We cast no imputation whatever on the attendant physician in this case, as we believe the treatment pursued by him was strictly that enjoined by the orthodox school. Yet, if one wished to destroy life, could they take a surer means of doing it? [5] “The generality of men are not so much accustomed to pursue this or that course, in consequence of their previous conviction that it is right, as to believe that it is right, because they have been accustomed to pursue it.”—Archbishop Whately. [6] We do not pretend to assert, that consumption is curable when ORGANIC disease of the lungs has actually been established, but we maintain that the disease is perfectly curable in its incipient stages, though not by drugs nor banishment to a foreign clime. The latter may somewhat prolong the disease, but will not cure it, unless by accident, when of a very mild form. [7] The temperature and vitality of our bodies depend upon the continued and rapid combination of oxygen with the oxidizable products of the blood; if the necessary supply of oxygen be interfered with, the vitality of the system flags, and disease results. [8] The very name of scrofula points to the origin of the disease, it being derived from the Latin Scrofa, a pig (quod sues præcipue hoc morbo vexantur. Cels. 5, 38), in allusion to the condition of the skin in those persons in whom a scrofulous habit has been engendered. It has been proved beyond contradiction that the partial closure of the pores, which every one suffers from in some degree, is the chief source of scrofula in all its hideous forms. [9] When blood is overloaded with carbon, and deprived of its necessary supply of oxygen, the term “veinous” is applied to it.