Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1870 — Music for Invalids. [ARTICLE]

Music for Invalids.

An exchange says: "It was the celebrated German physician Hofeland, who first fully recognized the curative power of music. Frequently the life of a dying man may be saved by gentle music not too near his bedside. It is only to catch his attention and hold it with something that imparts pleasureable feelings in order to sustain him beyond the moment of supreme exhaustion which marks the crisis of the disease. Usually, however, the ears of the dying are regaled with no sweeter music than the sighs and snifles of their sorrowing friends. Of course they are troubled, depressed, and when the critical breath comes, fail to catch it, and so die. There is much in this theory.” Music as an agent for promoting health is of high value. If invalids would devote an hour or two daily to practicing vocal music, it would often restore them to health. Persons with weak lungs may thus ward off fatal lung disease. The effects on the body and mind are excellent. The census of Cincinnati is to be retaken by authority of the City Council. Every Saturday.—The engravings in N 0.137, September 10, are: The Baden Prisoners. taken at Nlederbronn; Portrait of Mademoiselle Sessl; Sammer Days, by J. W. Hennessy; French Soldiers Bathing, at Nancy; A PruselanJOatpost; Morning In the Desert; Baarbruck; Some Recruits for the Boulh German Army r A Picnic in the Woods; On the Beach at Long Branch. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood ” Is continued, and a large amount of fresh miscellaneous reading matter is given. Fixlds, Osgood a Co., Boston. J 6.00 per annum.