Notes on Some Points Affecting the Diminution in the Rates of Mortality among Europeans in India

no slight degree due to improved methods of medical treatment, as well as to increased attention to the sanitary requirements of the soldier. It is only right that the medical officers of the army should be made aware that their efforts in combating actual disease have been in some instances quite as successful as in its prevention. In the present state of public feeling, the healing art is apt to be spoken slightingly of. It is the fashion to cast it in our teeth that we have no " specific" for the cure of cholera, and not very long since an influential journal ventured to hint that, because no effectual mode of arresting the progress of pestilence had been discovered, medicine must no longer expect to maintain herplacc in. the foremost rank of the sciences# To such cavillers, it will be a sufficient triumph on the part of medicine to show by actual results what has been done during the last few years towards the control of malarious fevers, dysentery, and some other diseases. Those who have witnessed the present methods of treating some of our more severe tropical maladies, which methods date from quite a recent period, cannot reasonably doubt but that in process of time, and with our bettered means of enquiry into the nature and causes of that greet pest of the nineteenth century?cholera?