room during the day, except a few hours devoted to sleep, attending with the most assiduous care lo all her wants, and assisted at every dressing ; as well as will) a coloured woman, who acted as assistant, and was almost always in the room through the day, and always assisted at the dressings. This is a forcible illustration of the fact which has often been noticed, that the human system by a constant exposure (o any cause of disease, is able to resist its influence, while it yields to an

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... ional exposure of the same kind. I do not feel disposed to add any thing by way of comment, to this statement. It ought, however, lo be remarked, in connexion with it, that gore-throats, similar in most respects, lo these have occurred in town with unusual frequency (or several months past. 1 have met with them in several families, and in more than one instance almost every individual in the family has been affected in succession. But the disease has been of a mild character. The cases were generally less severe, particularly in the first attack, than those 1 have described in this paper.