The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-06-26

they only charged me FIVE doliars No,
no, I know what's the thing ID such mat
ters. Here's a couple of dollars. and if
that won't do, go and sue me, and be
hanged!"
Influence ofMirs on the L@as.
The influence of faith, belief or opinion
on the body, is unquestionble. We have
seen children of two, three or four years
of age shiyer in the cold bath, because
they feared, beforehand, it would be cold
to them. The proof of mental Influence
in this case is derived from the fact, that
when the same process in the same cir
cumstances, or those which nearly re-
semble it, is submitted to cheerfully and
without apprehension, there is no shiver-
ing.
The same truth is applicable almost
everywhere in life and in nearly all cir
cumstances. Things are, to very great
extent, as we apprehend them. If we
expect a room will be coldat so degrees
of Fahrenheit, it is very apt to prove So
If we expect to be fatigued with a certain
kind or degree OF. exercise or labor, we
are apt to be so; and the contrary So
if we expect to catch cold or any other
kind Of disease-even small pox-we are
very apt to find it So On the contrary,
he who does not expect to be sick or to
be assailed, may walk unscathed through
dangers by which the more timid man
would be destroyed. We might illustrate
the principle at which we aim by numer-
Gus examples, but few will be sufficient
for our present purpose. We wish, if pos.
sible, to fasten the conviction on the minds
of our readers, that just as surely does
the expectation of being wealthy, wise
or good, tend to such results, SO surely
does the expectation that we shall be
healthy or diseased tend to make us So
In Paris's Life.of Sir Humphrey Da-
Wy, we are told that DR.. Beddoes once
went to him with patient who was great
ly afflicted with one species of palsy, in
order that he might receive the nitrous
oxide gas, but without explaining to his
patient the nature of the operation. Be-
fore administering the gas, however, a
thermometer was placed under his
tongue. to ascertain the general tempera-
ture of his system. The patient not SO
much as imagining what was to be done,
no sooner felt the bulb of the thermome-
ter under his tongue, than he declared he
was better. The gas, therefore was not
given, but the man was. required to come
and be operated upon in the same way,
the following day, which he did, and
with similar happy effects. In fine, af-
ter repeating the operation of placing the
bulb of the thermometer under his tongue
every day, for fortnight, the patient
was dismissed, perfectly cured.
Equally worthy of our credit, though
itmay seem to partake little more of
the marvellous, is a story which DIR. Greg
ory of Edinburg, was accustomed to re-
late to his students.
Having ordered young patient of
his-a medical student to take an ano-
dyne at bed time, the young man under
stood him to say a cathartic. The me-
dicine was accordingly taken in the full
expectation of laxative effects; which, in
truth were realized. When Dr. G. asked
the next morning what effect the anodyne
had, the sick man exclaimed with great
surprise-tAnodyne, sir! did you not
send me cathartic?' By no means
said the doctor, 1t was an anodyne. Well
said the patient. it has certainly operated
as eathartic, but I feel greatly relieved
by it. Now it is quite possible that the
condition of the young man was such
that the anodyne produced cathartic eff
fects Independent of the state Of the mind;
still it is scarcely probable.
1t is on the same principle that medi-
cines in general, not only in the hands
of quacks. but in those Of regular ply
sicians themselves, have much of their
efficacy. The influence Of charms, and
conjul ations, and incantations, to restore
health among savages, is we'll known
We are none of us, in this respect. but
little elevated above the condition Of saw
ages. We are the continued dupes of
our fears: 'and feel thousand deaths in
fearing one. .'-Alcoa.
ABOLITION cANDIDATE.-Gerrit Smith
of New York has been nominated as an
abolition candidate for President. From
this it will be seen that we shall have
four candidates in the field for the