2. Whatever either increases or disorders the general circulation, and especially all causes that increase the action of the cerebral arteries, or, as it is usually though improperly expressed, which occasion a determination of blood to the head. Of the former kind are violent exercise, and external heat applied to the surface generally, as by a heated atmosphere or the _hot bath_; of the latter, the direct application of heat to the head; falls or blows, occasioning a shock to the brain; stooping; intense thinking; intoxicating drinks, and other narcotic substances. These last, however, as well as _mental emotions_, often relieve a paroxysm of headach, though they favour its return afterwards. 3. A disordered state of the stomach, of which a vomiting of _bile_ may be one symptom, is also to be ranked among the _occasional causes_ of _headach_. These _occasional causes_ do not in general produce their effect, unless where a _predisposition_ to the disease exists. This predisposition is often hereditary, or it may be acquired by long-protracted study and habits of intoxication.--_Dr. Clutterbuck's Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System_. HYDROPHOBIA. There is no cure for this disease when once the symptoms show themselves. A variety of remedies have from time to time been advertised by quacks. The "Ormskirk Medicine," at one time, was much in vogue; it had its day, but it did not cure the disease, nor, as far as I know, did it mitigate any of its symptoms. With regard to the affection of the mind itself in this disease, it does not appear that the patients are deprived of reason; some have merely, by the dint of resolution, conquered the dread of water, though they never could conquer the convulsive motions which the contact of liquids occasioned; while this resolution has been of no avail, for the convulsions and other symptoms increasing, have almost always destroyed the unhappy sufferers. --_Abernethy's Lectures_. EFFECTS OF KINDNESS ON THE SICK.