TO PEOPLE WHO THINK FOR THEMSELVES. Invalids, a word with you. Don't permit yourselves to be dosed in the dark. Know what a medicine is before you swallow it. This is an indefeasible right-insist upon it. Don't allow your diseased stomach to be shrivelled and paralyzed by powerful astringents, or your bowels to be swept as with a coarse besom by drastic cathartics. If you are bilious, or dyspeptic, or nervous, or debilitated, or feverish, or sick at the stomach, or depressed in spiritsrefresh, tone, purify, and invigorate internal organs with You know what it is. There is no mystery about its composition. It is guaranteed by competent scientific authority to contain every component of the famous German Seltzer Water, except those which are of no medicinal value, and are therefore a drawback on the efficacy of the natural spring. You know, furthermore, that the first pathologists of the age recommend the Seltzer Spa Water as the best alterative and corrective that nature has furnished for the use of man. Bear in mind that in this preparation art has improved on nature. Manufactured only by the sole Proprietors, TARRANT & CO., Wholesale Druggists, 278 GREENWICH & 100 WARREN STS., NEW YORK SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. NOVEMBER, 1868. ART. I. MAN FROM THE MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW. The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind. By HENRY MAUDSLEY, M.D. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1867. 8vo. pp. xiv., 442. WHEN, even in the fullest light of all the knowledge now possessed, we think either on the conscious functions of the soul, or on the unconscious functions of the body, our intellectual powers are soon baffled, and we are lost in questions which no man ever has been, or ever will be, able to answer. Yet, in both directions,—the material and the spiritual, — is it not desirable to see as far as we can? To all minds the finite knowable must for ever be contained in the infinite unknowable. But different minds will penetrate to different distances, and with different degrees of distinctness and different qualities of emotion will recognize where the encircling light of intelligence ceases as it meets the all-ingulfing mystery. Every man should seek to extend the luminous ring of his knowledge as far as possible, and in pious self-surrender on its verge, with vivid awe and joy, worship God, who passes understanding. In this spirit let us cast a glance at man and his life, as seen by the physician. Regarded from the scientific point of view, the being of man is a typical metamorphosis of the organific material of the world into the forms of human tissues, and of the animating force of the world into the conditions of human consciousVOL. LXXXV. -NEW SERIES, VOL. VI. NO. III. 21 |