has reference to all forms of substances, evolution crystallization, fiber, molecular or atomic motions, etc., as noticed by Professor Tyndall in his lecture.

Each distinct species of metal and mineral has its own natural form and shape of crystal, as uniformly as every letter of the alphabet has its peculiar form and force or power, which is only varied by circumstances of position. But different kinds of atoms by combining, must, of course, assume a modified and different form; thus, the infinite variety of combinations and positions of matter, cause the variety of substances and phenomena, yet all are spontaneously produced by the one universally pervading force and law.

If we spread iron filings over a pane of glass, place a magnet under the glass and move it slowly, the filings will form lines similar in appearance to the fiber of wood or the flesh of animals; when one arm of the magnet is held still in position below the glass, these filings take the form of grass or moss, each blade upright and separate, being all of the same polarity. If we place both arms of a V magnet under the glass, the filings form curves, owing to the attracting or uniting influence of the opposite poles. In this experiment, we see how the force which dissolved metals in a charged and connected "galvanic" battery acts upon other metals; the result is precisely similar, as in the natural magnet which dissolves and reforms the filings.

The same force and action is seen in the electro plate process, where metals are spontaneously dissolved and reformed from the solution by their natural atomic force and action; also, in the professor's experiment of forming the metallic tree from a solution of sugar of lead, and in crystallization and reproduction generally, in fact, is universal and furnishes a reply to the professor's inquiry," How far does this wonderful display of molecular (atomic) force extend?

Ans. Ad infinitum.

We find connected with the earth three classes of substances only the mineral, the vegetable and the animal. In the account of the first formation, already referred to, we read of but two, viz., land and water. The vegetable must then have been, as now, produced by the spontaneous ato-magnetic action of water upon the mineral; the animal is also supported, in life, principally by the vegetable and by water.

We thus find atoms of matter to be composed of two essentially distinct classes, both having properties analogous; yet the atoms of either class, in their mutual attraction, independently act upon other atoms of their own class only, and by ato-magnetic law are naturally influenced by contact with the dissimilar properties of the other class. The two classes of atoms are identical with the substances known as hydrogen and oxygen. They may be distinguished as mineral matter and vegetable matter; male and female if you please, cold and warm, or even white or blue, and yellow or red, acid and alkali; one, the mineral, is observed as gas the more light and cold; the other, the vegetable, is as gas the more dense, heavy and warın. These classes, by their reciprocal action through the ato-magnetic force,

are continually changing from a state invisible and transparent to visible and opaque; from inorganic, or death-like, to organic; from inertness to life; rest to motion; forming and dissolving processes, and vice versa.

By their mutually attracting forces, gases and liquids are converted into solids; by their inherent repelling influence, solids are converted into liquids and gases. Water is the most important compound of the two elements; through its agency, direct or indirect, are produced nearly all modifications-all chemical changes of material. In aqueous solutions, or as gas, where there may be an excess of atoms of either class, they are then more free, and each, by the mutual attraction or repulsion of its like, reciprocates and brings into action its distinguishing properties; and according to the quality, condition, position, etc., of either, so are the phenomena and results.

We may now show how the result of that force is exhibited in the vegetable and the animal by the same law.

As Professor Tyndall has shown, in the formation of the leaden tree, that an excess of mineral or metal in aqueous solution did and must, of necessity, produce its like mineral substance in the form of a tree, with its branches and leaves according to ato-magnetic law, so, also, will a certain amount of mineral and vegetable matter in aqueous solution spontaneously produce vegetation, according to the natural condition and position of the compound, after its kind. That compound or "soil," with sufficient moisture and heat, acts as a decomposing or dissolving magnetic battery, and by its ato-magnetic force, throws its particles from the surface into the atmosphere in the form of vegetation, or "brings forth the grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself." Should a seed be planted not adapted to that soil, it (the seed) will be dissolved by the action of the soil, and will not yield or vegetate. Those "blades" sprout separately, they being as magnets take the form shown by the particles of iron filings, the top being always of like polarity spread from each other, the other pole (roots) do so, also, while, as the tree increases in size, the exhibition of force is diminished at the equator or middle, as seen by the deficiency of limbs or healthy sprouts, thus exhibiting similar actions and curves to those of the mineral natural magnet.

As the vegetable has its support and force from the dissolving or decomposing union of vegetable, and, principally, mineral matter, it must be furnished with an atmosphere surcharged with the warm vegetable gas to reciprocate with the mineral from which it is supplied, thus to absorb from and increase or support its life or ato-magnetic action, otherwise its polarity is reversed (as notice with the similar poles of the magnets and the filings), its growth is checked, and it dies.

Animals are supported by vegetables and water, the atoms of which still retain their force and properties; but it is only their composition, locality, position and condition that are changed; they

must, of necessity, have the same force and power. They are supplied and produced by a similar arrangement and process of actionas the vegetable from a different compound.

necessary.

For the production of animals an excess of vegetable matter is Animals are migratory, thus they seek their properly adapted food after their kind after their kind-conveying it to the stomach, where it acts in a similar way to the mineral and vegetable batteries, dissolving the food that supplies the body with material for its necessary waste; its ato-magnetic, or life action, is thus induced and continued. Each animal is thus, like a magnet, having the greater force, exhibited at the extremes, such as the head and feet and hands as poles. When that action, generated by the dissolving of its like material, as food in the stomach, is checked or reversed, we have pain, disease, or stagnation and death.

This ato-magnetic or life-force is greater in some animals than others, such as the frog, snake, eel, and those that live in the earth and are naturally adapted to the use of more mineral matter as food, and thrive in a warm vegetable atmosphere; they are more tenacious of life than those animals living entirely on vegetable food.

This force of nature is particularly noticed in the "mesmeric" influence of animals upon each other, and is prominently exhibited in some of each class of substances, such as iron and steel, in the mineral class; the conger eel in the animal and the pitcher plants of the vegetable.

This ato-magnetic force pervades the earth, including its sea and atmosphere, its vegetable and animal productions, its inorganic and organic matter; all are thereby magnetically related and dependent upon each other in a grand perpetual, reciprocal life-action and organization, thus proving the power or force referred to to be universal.

Further illustrations of this ato-magnetic phenomena may be found in a late work, "Origin of Creation.

INCURABLE DISEASES, SO CALLED.

By THOMAS R. FRASER, M. D., of Halifax, N. S.

"Flesh with the Life thereof, which is the Blood thereof."— Gen., chap. ix, v. 4. THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.

When the blood is in an unobstructed condition and has a free circulation throughout the whole human system; this condition is health.

Obstructions to this free circulation, either generally or locally, are productive of or cause pain and disease.

Obstructions to this circulation may be induced or caused by any check of the necessary free evaporations from the surface of the body and by obstructing the evacuations — by impure or unadapted atmosphere and otherwise.

From any of these causes the blood becomes saturated with the waste material of the body.

When in this condition the body is predisposed to receive or spontaneously form or produce contagious infections and other diseases as inflammations, fevers, cholera, diarrhoea, diphtheria, small pox, measles, incipient consumption, rheumatism, hæmorrhoids, hemorrhages, indigestion, etc., etc., etc; in fact, diseases generally.

Any local treatment to remove such disease without restoring the sufficient supply of the healthy blood and inducing its free circulation throughout the system by its natural force, must be uncertain, and thereby the disease is most likely to prove, as such are generally termed, incurable.

I will, by way of illustration, state a few of many cases I have had in practice, in fact some of them before I had entered a medical college, having then adopted and acted upon the same views I now hold of the nature of the blood and the cause of its circulation:

A CASE OF INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS.

[Extract of a letter from Dr. Hattie's father.]

"CALEDONIA, GUYSBORO CO., N. S., April, 1863. I was attacked with inflammation of the bowels, a doctor was called from Sherbrook and administered without giving me any relief. My son Daniel arrived from Wine Harbor, and on his recommendation had directions from Tho. R. Fraser, the application of which gave me immediate relief. Some three weeks after, while attending to my business as government surveyor, I was exposed to wet weather for two days, which brought on another attack of inflammation much more severe than the first. The former remedy was of no avail; I

was completely prostrated. When Tho. R. Fraser was called in he administered a treatment and medicine which immediately checked the disease, removed the pain, and restored me to health.

(Signed)

JOHN HATTIE,

Government Surveyor.

A CASE OF INDIGESTION, ETC.

[Extract of letter from Rev. James Byers, respecting his daughter, to Dr. T. R. Fraser, Halifax, N. S.]

CLIFTON, N. S., July 29, 1867.

Early in the spring of 1865, when about fourteen years of age, she began to complain of want of appetite, and very soon inability to take food of almost any kind, a thin slice of bread about the size of a dollar and sometimes part of an egg constituting a meal. Often times, indeed, she could eat nothing. Medicine seemed to be of no benefit. For months she continued to decline, becoming much emaciated, and our fears and the doctor's as well, were that she would become so wasted that nothing could be done for her. Under your treatment she speedily regained her appetite, at the end of two months returned vastly improved, has enjoyed excellent health ever since, and is now apparently as well as ever she was. My firm persuasion is that but for your treatment she could not have survived many months.

(Signed)

JAMES BYERS.

The treatment of this case, as well as the former case, was the application and administration of moisture and warmth externally and internally until a natural action and heat was induced throughout the system. In the latter case, the disease was caused from a want of sufficient supply of blood, thus there could not be sufficient circulation to induce heat or warmth and the natural action to digest and crave for food.

ANOTHER CASE OF INDIGESTION THAT WAS CALLED INCURABLE.

THO. R. FRASER, M. D.:

TRURO, N. S., July 2, 1867.

DEAR SIR.I feel it my duty and I feel it a pleasure to inform you that I am now enjoying pretty good health, can attend to my business, walk a mile in the morning to my store at eight o'clock, stand behind the counter and wait upon my customers until nine in the evening, and then walk home one mile, and often write after that. You know that last September, when I came to you I was not able to attend to business, my mind being affected as well as my body, my nervous system completely unstrung, reduced in flesh, weighing only 107 pounds; I now weigh 134 pounds, and I firmly believe that you were the instrument, under God, of doing it, and feel grateful to you for your kindness, and shall never forget it.