consider that cither infancy or old age opposed decided objections to bleeding, where the symptoms appeared to require it; but in those two conditions it was necessary to resort to the depletion early. He did not place much reliance on the other means which had been recommended, such as tartar emetic, mercury, or camphor. Indeed, he had seen a case in which the disease attacked a person affected with ptyalism, without mitigation of the severity of the epidemic. Blistering, after venesection,

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... occasionally useful. Opium must he used with the greatest caution. In old catarrh little good could be done. True, stimulants might be employed, but to stimulate was not to strengthen. The blood, in all cases, presented the usual inflammatory characters. BOSTON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL. BOSTON, MARCH 29, 1837 "THREE EXPERIMENTS OV LIVING." Tins is not n medical hook, nor would we have now noticed it, hut that tho principal character is one of our craft and thereby comes under our supervision. Nor even on this ground alone would wo speak of it here ; but it has so many excellencies, and is so popular and rend so extensively, that we fear its virtues will give wide currency to its vices, and, as far as its influence goes, encourage the notion that success is the great nnd only lliing to he thought of by the young physician, no matter how pitiful Ihe means nor how improbable the circumstances by which it is obtained. Dr. Fulton is poor, yet marries at the outset of his attempt at practice. Here he was with a family, but without, any means of support; The or-