will dedicate herself to the mitigation and cure of this fearful malady?

With these brief hints, it might be proper for us to dismiss this subject; but we cannot forbear remarking, that females (we must be permitted to use this technical word in a treatise so scientific as this) who have a tendency or aptitude to excite the malady of lovesickness, are often found to possess a peculiar skill or capacity for curing it. It would seem from this that there may be more truth than elegance in the adage, "The hair of the same dog," &c. We may add to these observations, that, in this disease, practice is better than theory, and nature is superior to philosophy. If a hospital should arise from these suggestions, and Miss Martineau should be elected president, we would respectfully suggest, that females rather younger than she is, should be employed to nurse the patients.

We cannot better illustrate our remarks, and enforce the importance of our subject upon the reader, than by directing his attention to the picture entitled "The Declaration." It might seem that this word would need no explanation; but it may be proper to say that, technically, it signifies that act of madness to which the

disease of which we are treating, usually leads. There are many- alas! very many who have

experienced that throbbing of the heart; that bewilderment of the brain; that tottering of the knees; that trembling of the hand; that faltering of the tongue; that rushing of the blood; that tempest of mingled hope and fear; that awful setting of life's dearest wishes upon the hazard of a die- - which attends the act of frenzy, sometimes called "popping the question!" Who that has passed through such a scene, fails to look back to it, in after years, with wonder, that his faculties ever recovered from the wreck, the abandonment, the confusion, of that awful moment?

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O woman! woman! thou who canst cast such a potent spell over man, thou who canst hurl down from his supremacy the acknowledged lord of creation, and humble him at thy very feet, like the spell-bound bird, fallen and fluttering before the fascinations of the serpent, thy power is great, see that thou abuse it not; see that thou exercise it generously! On this interesting occasion, we would appeal to the sex individually, (for, according to our experience, it is ever better to take one at a time,) and beg them to give this subject their serious

attention; and should it be the fate of any one of them, in the course of human events, to excite the mental malady of which we have been discoursing, let her take example from the peasant maiden in the picture, and soften the sufferings of the victim, by catching the disease with which he is afflicted. In this state

of mutual suffering, go both to the nearest minister, and let him, by the aid of the church, exorcise you.