Whether it should be taken upon an empty stomach, must depend upon the constitution of the reader. If he is of that happy complexion that he awakes in the morning with his spirits elastic as the air, fresh as the dawn, and joyous as the sky-lark, let him by all means read a chapter before breakfast. It will be a carminative, a cordial for the day. If on the contrary his faculties continue to feel the influence of the leaden sceptre till breakfast has resuscitated them, I advise him not to open the book before the stomach has been propitiated by a morning offering. Breakfast will be the best time for batchelors, and especially for lawyers. They will find it excellent to prime with. I do not recommend it at night. Rather, indeed, I caution the reader against indulging in it at that time. Its effect might be injurious, for it would counteract the genial tendency to repose which ought then to be encouraged. Therefore when the hour of sleep approaches, lay this book aside, and read four pages upon political economy,—it matters not in what author, though the Scotch are to be preferred. Except at night, it may be perused at any time by those who have the _mens sana in corpore sano_; those who fear God, honor the King, love their country and their kind, do their duty to their neighbours, and live in the performance and enjoyment of the domestic charities. It will be an excellent Saturday book for Rowland Hill; his sermon will be pleasanter for it next day. The book is good for valetudinarians, and may even be recommended in aid of Abernethy's blue-pill. But I do not advise it with water-gruel nor sago; hardly with chicken-broth, calf's-foot-jelly or beef-tea. It accords well with a course of tonics. But a convalescent will find it best with his first beef-steak and glass of wine. The case is different for those who have either a twist in the head or a morbid affection about the pericardium. If Grey Bennet will read it,—(from which I dehort him) he should prepare by taking the following medicine to purge choler: Rx. _Extract: Colocynth: Comp: gr. x. Calomel: gr. v. Syr: q. s. f. Massa in pilulas iij. dividenda. —Sumat pilulas iij horâ somni._ It will do Lord Holland no harm. Lord John Russel is recommended to use sage tea with it. If this operate as an alterative, it may save him from taking oil of rue hereafter in powerful doses. For Mr. Brougham, a strong decoction of the herb _lunaria_, will be needful,—a plant “elegantly so named by the elder botanists, and by all succeeding ones, from _luna_, the moon, on account of the silvery semi-transparent aspect, and broad circular shape of its seed-vessels.” _Honesty_, or _satin-flower_, are its trivial names. It is recommended in this case not so much for the cephalic properties which its Linnean appellation might seem to denote, as for its emollient and purifying virtue.