were reported to have occurred in Hamah, 35 deg. lat. N., long. 37 deg. E.?a town of 40,000 inhabitants, situated on the banks of the Orontes, and lying on the high road between Aleppo and Damascus. How the disease should have appeared in so inland a place without its being known to exist in any part of Turkey or any of the provinces contiguous to it was a mystery, and the first reports were dis-