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LAUGHTER.-Laughter has even dissipa-
ted disease and preserved life by sudden
effort of nature. We are told that the grea,
Erasmus laughed SO heartily at the satyr by
Reuchlier and Van Hutton that he broke an
imposthume, and recovered his health In
a singular treatise on Laughter, Joubert
gives two similar instances: A patient be-
ing very low, the physician, who had Or
dered dose Of rhubarb, countermanded
the medicine, which was left on the table


A monkey in the room, jumping up, disco
vered the goblet, and having tasted, made


terrible grimace. Again, only putting his


tongue to it, he perceived some sweetness


Of the dissolved mamma, while the rhubarb
had sunk to the bottom. Thus embolden-
ed, he swallowed the whole, but found it
such a nauseous portion that, after many
strange and fantastic grimaces, he grim


ned his teeth in agony, and in violent
fury threw the goblet on the floor. The


whole affair was so ludicrous that the sick
man burst into repeated peals of laughter,
and the resovery of cheerfulness led to
health.