disposed to employ their arms. Many attempt training of the shoulders and chest, and abandon it in disgust. But if in the systematic performance of the exercises other persons are interested, the patient cannot withdraw. Besides, those exercises in which others participate have social attractions, to which consumptives, as a class, are peculiarly susceptible. For example, a consumptive young lady has brothers who assist her in certain prescribed exercises. These are to be executed twice a day, at hours when the brothers are at home. There is an affectionate interest in the group with reference to the pleasant duty. It is not forgotten. Suppose the brother is the patient, the sisters or mother will act as assistants. In every family such exercises are sure of the proper attention. I need scarcely say, that, if the patient undertake to exercise alone, with dumb-bells or some similar means, it will soon grow tiresome, and be abandoned. Moreover, it is a matter of no small moment that other members of the family who are not unlikely to be predisposed to the same malady — will thus secure a series of profitable exercises. I must add my conviction, that by no other variety of training can the efforts be so accurately directed to the muscles whose weakness permits the distortion of chest which is often the exciting cause of the malady. With a good-sized room, and open windows, the air may be pure, while the exercise will prove the occasion of a thorough ventilation of the house. I am indebted to Friedrich Robert Nitzsche of Dresden for the drawings of the accompanying cuts. His works are invaluable. Fig. 1. Assistant, standing behind the patient, grasps his hands. Patient draws up the hands, as shown in the dotted lines, assistant resisting. Patient forces his hands back again to the first position, assistant resisting. Repeat five times. Fig. 1. vised, the resistance should be adapted to the patient's strength. Fig. 2. Fig. 2. Assistant, standing behind the patient, who is seated, grasps his uplifted hands. Patient draws down the hands, as shown by the dotted lines, assistant resisting. Patient forces the hands back to the first position, assistant resisting. In this, as in the other exercises ad- Repeat three times. the strength of the patient or the weakness of the assistant, it might prove more agreeable to employ two assistants. Fig. 3. Fig. 3 shows an improvement on Fig. 2 for those cases in which, either from Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Figs. 4 and 5 represent an exercise patient should exert the positive force in which hardly needs description. The both directions, the assistants resisting. . Fig. 8. Fig. 8 shows an exercise valuable in the treatment of drooping shoulders. When the patient has raised his arms, as in the dotted lines, he may bring them back to the horizontal in front, without the interference of the assistant. Fig. 9 illustrates an exercise which may be used twenty or thirty times, if managed with gentleness. I cannot here undertake to say how often these exercises should be employed, nor in what cases; they are given merely as suggestive. A complete series of "Mutual Help Exercises," adapted to the treatment of the consumptive, includes a large number, many of which are not only valuable, but cannot fail to deeply interest all concerned. If to the Mutual Help Exercises it is desired to add those in which the health Fig. 9. seeker can work alone, I would suggest the new exercises with the wooden dumbbell, wand, and club, and the one hundred and seven exercises with Schreber's Pangymnastikon. Consumption - genuine tuberculous consumption can be cured, even in the stage of softening or abscess. Dr. J. Hughes Bennett, Professor Calkins, Dr. Parrish, Dr. Carswell, Laennec, Professor Lee, Dr. Abernethy, Sir James Clarke, and fifty other distinguished authors, declare their faith in its curability. In not less than a thousand post-mortem examinations, the lungs have exhibited scars, concretions, or other indubitable evidences of recovery from genuine consumption. I have cured many cases with exercise and other hygienic agents. VIOLET-PLANTING. THE heavy apple-trees Are shaking off their snow in breezy play; Have fallen, fading, from the lap of May; And we will make a flower-bed to-day Oh, if we could but tell the wild-flowers where How would they haste to bloom and weep above Come, children, come! From the sweet, ferny meads, Wherein he used to walk in days of yore, Where the long dusty road seems wearisome, Of budding promise, fragrance, and delight, That, when the first June night Shall draw about his bed its fragrant gloom, |