[3] Dr. Hambleton calculates the pecuniary loss from waste of life in the army from preventable disease, chiefly of the lungs, as at least half a million a year--a waste of life which adds materially to the number of recruits required. Whilst stating the hygienic measures in relation to clothing, special exercises, air, and bathing, which have been shown to restore the inferior physique of recruits, he places as the crowning necessity ‘explaining to the men the effects of good and bad habits upon their health, so as to insure their co-operation.’ [4] Sir Walter Scott, a connoisseur in dogs, writing about popular belief in 1832, remarks: ‘The powers of this talisman have of late been chiefly restricted to the cure of persons bitten by mad dogs, and as the disease in such cases frequently arises from imagination, there can be no reason to doubt that water which has been poured on the Lee penny furnishes a congenial cure.’ [5] An English gentleman, Captain Frank Fairbanks, was detained for a fortnight in quarantine (says a Boston telegram) because he refused to be vaccinated. A younger brother of his had lost his life through vaccination. [6] See Crookshank’s _History and Pathology of Vaccination_. [7] Dr. Adametz states that ‘one gramme of Gruyère cheese contains 90,000 microbes; after seventy days they had increased to 800,000. A gramme of another kind of cheese contained about two million microbes, whilst a piece of the rind contained about five million!’ [8] This is virtually accepted by one of the foremost advocates of inoculation, who, acknowledging that preventive inoculation ought to be strictly limited, adds: ‘Inoculation is only a palliative measure, for the first object to be aimed at is the stamping out of infectious disease, and I cannot help thinking that the day will come when preventive inoculation will be a thing of the past.’ [9] The greatest injury which is now being done to medicine and the advancement of hygiene is the abuse of the word ‘research’ and the degradation of this noble exercise of human intellect by methods of application not suited to the subject of investigation. APPENDIX (Page 56) _On the Humane Prevention of Rabies_ In the course of a discussion on the subject of rabies, a suggestion was made that a resolution should be passed by the Section and sent to Government, recommending measures for the prevention of hydrophobia.