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There is yet, it would seem, much to learn in the science of Phrenology; for besides the organs in the convolutions on the external side of the brain, as seen in the above figure, there are many no doubt in the convolutions on the internal side, as will be seen in the following figure, representing the internal side of the right hemisphere of the brain.

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TUBERCULAR DISEASE OF THE ORGANS.

THERE are cases of tubercular disease of the organs of long standing, in which the reduction of the disease is sometimes very slow, as will be seen in the following case:

"DOCT. SHERWOOD,

"PORTLAND, August 19, 1842.

"Dear Sir-Having nearly closed the sales of the Magnetic Medicines you consigned to me last season, I now forward to you herewith a check for the amount, and solicit a further supply.

"I have the pleasure to inform you, that your medicines have now acquired a high reputation here, to which I think them justly entitled; but I found it almost impossible for a long time to get them into use, and, indeed, I do not know as I should have succeeded at all but for the happy effects they have produced in my own family.

"I will give you a few facts in relation to the case. The patient is a sister of Mrs. Smith, and is now about twenty-six years of age. She has been sick seven years, and for the last six years of the time, was wholly confined to her bed. In the first place, her spine was considerably af fected; her heart was also diseased, as indicated by violent palpitation, alluded to in your book, under the similitude of churning, and attended with a sensation described by her as of a large substance rising in her stomach and throat, and distressing her at times almost to suffication: her stomach was also diseased, as we suppose, from dyspepsia, insomuch that for several years she was wholly unable to taste bread or meat, or even gruel, without producing the most excruciating torture. During all this time her diet consisted almost exclusively of potatoes, being found to produce less distress than any other food. And, in addition to all these, she was much diseased also in the mesenteric system, or the womb, or some other organ in that region-her bowels became swolen to an unusual and alarming degree, and remained so constantly for over three years, during all which time she was unable to pass a drop of water except by means of an instrument. During the whole time of her sickness, she has been attended by some of our best physicians, but without any prospect of relief. You will readily imagine that her sufferings, under the circumstances of her case, were severe, but the extent of them cannot be appre

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