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            A CHART TO HEALTH.
            (SECOND EDITION.)
            
               THE ELECTRIC EQUILIBRIUM.
            
            To produce an equilibrium of electricity in the human body is good health, and the following must be done: Take the shower bath six nights out of seven for six months, commencing the first of May and stopping it the first of November, and from the first of November to the first of May wash the feet in cold water six nights out of seven; also take one of the stimulating Tonic Pills six mornings out of seven for the first month and three of the same Pills each week for the second month; then lay aside these pills: also take one of the Black 
Electric
 Pills every seventh morning for the first year, and one of the same Black Pills the first Sunday morning in each month of the second year; then lay aside these pills altogether. Remember that the water is to be used at night, the last thing you do before going to bed, and that it is to be as near the temperature of fresh water from the spring or well as you can get it. From a half gallon to two gallons of water is enough to use at a time for each bath, and it must be administered as quickly as possible, when the air is cool. The water should pass through from 75 to 100 holes not larger than one eighth of an inch, and the instrument be from two to three feet above the head. Where persons are nervous, the first eight or ten times applying the water to the body it should be a little warmer and not as much water used; but for the feet in winter always cold. In washing the skin at other times always use cold water. The shower bath, taken as above directed six nights out of seven in summer and winter and continued from six to twenty four months will cure nearly all chronic diseases. Rub the skin well in winter, being quick about it, and take some exercise immediately after each bath if comfortable warmth of the skin does not come on in a reasonable time after the rubbing. The winter bath should be taken in the morning.—The second year's application of the water to the body three times a week will be often enough; after the second year it must be applied to the body twice a week from the first of May to the first of November each year and the feet attended to as before directed in winter to keep up the electric equilibrium of the human body as long as you live. The above way of applying this conductor of electricity to the body is decidedly the best, but in case of your being from home the next best way of applying it is by a sponge or towel, always remembering that 
the head must be thoroughly wet and the water applied to every part of the body. The foregoing management, so far as water is concerned as a conductor of electricity, is applicable to infants as soon as born: they will not require the medicinal part; but children of 1 year old and upwards to 4 years old when commencing this system should take the internal conductor, to wit, the Black Electric Pill, as directed for an adult, except 1–5th as much for a year old child and ¼th as much for 2 years old, mixed with a little syrup, and in proportion to age increase a little; when 4 years old and upwards both of the medicines are to be given, but not as much for each dose in proportion to age. The practice of not wearing caps on the heads of infants was introduced in Georgia in 1827 by your humble servant, sanctioned by Dr. Jno. Pope, then 60 years old. It is a good practice. Eat of but 2 or 3 dishes at the same meal, and when you know that any article of diet does not suit or agree with you, be sure you do not not eat that article. You may with impunity (save a little headache) eat one hearty meal per day, the other two meals being light; but if you eat three hearty meals per day the electric fluid will accumulate faster than the conductors can take it off, and sooner or later you will have some acute inflammatory disease, and be punished in that way for a violation of NATURE's LAWS. Let your daily hearty meal be the same meal each day, if you can't eat three moderate meals per day. When you eat HEARTY of FRUIT between meals let your next meal be very light. When by accident or business you miss a meal eat no more than your ordinary meal. Suffer not your children when over two years old to eat between meals, and every April for three years after you begin this system give them some Vermifuge medicine; after that they will not be troubled with worms.
            N. B. In case you do not carry out the foregoing strictly and you or any of your family are taken sick, if on the first complaint you give or take one of the Black Electric Pills and in 24 hours another pill, and a third pill at the next 24 hours, not eating any thing for three days, but drinking as much cold water as may be desired, all of the acute diseases (except cholera) will be broken up in that time. Chronic diseases will not be broken up in all cases, but the violence of the disease will be arrested.
            Entered according to Act of Congress in the year of our Lord 1857, by W. J. 
McGeilee
, M. D., in the Clerk's office of the U. States District Court for the Southern Dis't. of the State of Georgia, at Savannah.
W. J. McGEHEE, M. D.
            
               The Stimulating Tonic Pill.
            
            Take 60 grains of the Sulphate of Quinine, 60 grains of Cayenne Pepper; mix with a little flour and a little water and make 64 pills. Take one of these pills six mornings out of seven for 30 days, and then for the next 30 days take one every other morning.
            
               The Black Electric Pill.
            
            Take 60 grains of Blue Mass and 20 grains of finely pulverized Charcoal. Mix and make 64 pills; take one of those pills every Sunday morning for the first year; the second year take one the first Sunday morning in each month.
            
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