varied experiment were compared to test the ingredients in true'proportion for an " armature," being also a vehicle to convey the electric touch, at the right instant, to the very precinct of depression. But Dr. King was a rare enthusiast. If he tested his work in a dose or two for volun*-teers, he always verified each result in his own person that he might know whereof he could affirm. Thus he persisted until at last he could inwardly recognize the Electro-Magnetic touch; and to enjoy this novel sensation, he says the body should be in a curved posture and reclining on the right side. After about two hours a delightful thrill or trembling is felt as tha Electrobole is discharged, revolving on its way through the duodenum; and for this reason also the medicine should be taken at night, that it may be promoted by the friendly aid of sleep and its rounded attitudes. How much more might here be added especially the cogent argument by which the doctor conclusively demonstrates the last postulate in the above "Admirable Thesis "but let us now pass from this digression, remembering that the movement is still onward, and ¦ rarro the colok This is the large intestine, beginning at the " Csscal valve," and, with the rectum, including only about one-fifth of the whole alvine tract. It is plain that Dr. King had conceived Electrobole exclusively as a depurative cure to exterminate the infusorial germs infesting the smaller intestines. Beyond this idea he proceeded no further, and with the cure he rested on his laurels. No one could suppose there was yet a hidden virtue in this brave medicine, a discovery even more admirable than its matchless invention; and none will ever hear the name of that obscure discoverer who first declared this wonder, welcome to our suffering race. It is rumored that the first hint came from the forecastle, a sly4 demand, through the Assisting Surgeon, until the diminished supply could no longer be concealed. Still it is related that Dr. King would never be fully convinced. Some assert that professional pride was wounded lest his great medication might be tarnished by the noisy repute of such a specialty. Or, like other physicians, perhaps, he had found Piles to be most obstinatea malady irregular, unmanageableand so he denied that the Datient could hope for a final cure. But how vain is this" professional pompl For the universe is greater than our thoughts, and even Dr. King, in this unexpected discovery, is seen to be only an unconscious instrument, as in one respect, at least, he'"builded wiser than he knew." And hence we now refer our thoughtful readers to a brief investigation of the Piles, or Hemorrhoids, this most excruciating scourge of mankind, whether on land or seaalmost universal, but specially the Anglo-Saxon races. constant heritage of * PILES, OK HEMORRHOIDS. This terrible affliction can scarcely be called a disease. In its limited and true meaning it is most clearly a simple 66