On Impetigo Contagiosa, or Porrigo

JournaLitors, and think only of the blight they are incident- ally permiiitted to fix on us.Bat further, according to miiodern view, these princip7es not only exist exter- na.lly (epidemic and endemic), but also are reproduced in, and emitted from, bodies undergoing disease (con- tagious.)In epidenmic sore-throat (and the same pro- Jbably holds good of several other diseases, for "' a more or less sore throat is a constant concomitant of all the acute specific diseases"), the pharyngeal region atppears to be the site of the local synmptoims; here it is that pathological changre is going on in contact with the air, and hence it is that we should expect con- tagia to be emitted.The samie reasoning applies to the laryngeal region in croupal cases.Now, where the carcase is, there will the vultures be gathered to- g-ether; and thus, not content with neutralising poi- sonous matters external to us, these organisms, in obedience to a splendidly designed schenie, seem, as it were, actually to descend upon the parts whence these poisons would be scattered broadcast, and kill them in the bud.Speculations such as these m-ay be idle a-nd need corroboration, still I hope they are not alto- rether irrelevant or useless; for, if we are enabled to look from these supplemental effects, these lesser evils, patent to the eye of sense, to the higher order of harmony to be seen only by the mental eye of thought, we are induced to teimiper our sorrow with gv,itude; and, while deploring and bearing as pa- tiently as possible the trials and afflictions permitted to vex us here below, our faith.is strengthened in, imay, we are even allowed to enjoy a foresaiadowing of, on 19 August