The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-05-05
he Spartmg Of Drugs.

DR.. O. w. Holmes, whose reputation as a physician
runs neck .nd neck with his | terary popularity, in his
yaledictory address to the medical students of Harvard
University, delivered on the 10Th ult., gives the fol-
lowing, we doubt not judicious advice to the medical
students who were about to graduate 8 With regard to
the exhibition of drags as a part of your medical treat
ment, the golden rule is, be sp"ri"y. Many remedies
you give would make a we'll person SO i'll that he would
send for you at once if he had taken one of your doses
accidentally. 1t is not quite fair to give such things
to a sick man, unless it is clear that they will do more
good than the very considerable harm you know they
will cause. Be very gracious with children especially.
/ have seen old men ,shiver at the recollection Of the
rhubarb and jaIap of infancy. You may depend upon
it that half the success of Homeopathy is due to the
sweet peace it has brought into the nursery. Between
eharine d llquvscence of a minute globule, what tender
mother could for "a moment hesitate !? ..sl.
S~pirlluallsM. .
A great many instances of spiritual power are ap-
pearing in very sections Of the country. We give a
few below. Such appeals as these, sustainei as to their
veracity, are bringing thousands upon thousands into
the ranks Of the spirituslists until soon, as predicted,
their power will be exercised and felt in the working of
The government. A California correspond. mt, in wri-
ting to an eastern paper, thus relates an incident =
And here | must tell you that the time Of the arrival
Of the steamer was foretold by a French girl in mag
netic sleep on the evening IF the 18th, the steamer
being then tw" days behind her time-a very unusual
delay-and the night being a clear one, everybody ex-
pected the steamer that night Or early the next morning
=. 9 P. NJ and said That Va accident had happeped.
The steamer entered the Golden Gate just az he s .
specified. After she had made her prophecy a magnet
z d table-magueti1ed BY The hands Of a circle af NEE
merist>-was questioned, and it CT n6rmed Ly tipping
the prop. cy Of the girl I heard of the prediction on
the afternoon Of the arrival of the steamer, and made it
the subject of a number Of jokrs. The arrival Of the
mail from California in New York, though a pretty sc
rious matter perhaps in Wall street, exci,cs far less in.
Yo and if the steamer due from Panama be a day or
two late, she becomes the main topic Of conversation
with every body, and any gossip about her Aie, over
town in a very short time.
THE SPlRiTUALTsT AND THE L1zARD.-A younsman
named Selden N Pinney, Of Ellington, Conn, having
been mysteriously i'll for two years, and obtaining no
benefit from physicians, be consulted a clairvoysnt
~piritualist, John X. Reade, of Hartford, who, while in
a trance state, declared that young Pinney had a Eve
the election of the reptile. Although without faith in
the declaration or prescription, the medicine was taken
as directed, and a k0i~y liz 'rI was elected. This is a
tough story, but the parents Of the young man affirm
its truthfulness in a communication to the Hartford
Timrs. a.w -.
SpIRITUALIsM IN THE u. s. SENATE.-The corre-
~spondent of the Philadelphia Mgx;rers writes -
lion. N. p. Tallmadge, formerly a member of the
is Senate, in a letter defending modern Spiritualism
from "a recent attack upon it by Zen. Shields, i~u.imates
that a number Of our present Senators are believers in
the doctrine, and that the political history If 100 viii
be greatly affected if not controlled by it.. The former
assertion is entirely true, | happen to know ; but that
the latter will prove So, prefer to entertain some
doubts