Keppele's house, till about midnight she saw her hearse, and followed it with her eyes as far as it could be seen. Two days afterwards Mrs. Rodgers, her next only surviving intimate friend, was carried past her window, and by no persuasion could I draw her from thence, nor stop her sympathetic foreboding tears, so long as her eyes could follow the funeral, which was through two squares, from Fourth to Second-street, where the hearse disappeared." The doctor proceeds in describing the distress of his wife. But pointed as his expressions are, they do not convey the gloomy state of her mind with so much force as she has done it herself in two letters to her niece, Mrs. Cadwallader, who was then in the country. The one was dated the 9th, the other the 11th of October. I shall insert a few extracts from each of them. October 9th. "It is not possible for me to pass the streets without walking in a line with the dead, passing infected houses, and looking into open graves. This has been the case for many weeks." "I don't know what to write; my head is gone, and my heart is torn to pieces." "I intreat you to have no fears on my account. I am in the hands of a just and merciful God, and his will be done." October 11th. "Don't wonder that I am so low to-day. My heart is sunk down within me." The next day this excellent woman sickened, and died on the 19th of the same month. If in a person possessed naturally of uncommon equanimity and fortitude, the distresses of our city produced such dejection of spirits, what must have been their effect upon hundreds, who were not endowed with those rare and extraordinary qualities of mind! Death in this, as well as in many other cases in which medicine had done its duty, appeared to be the inevitable consequence of the total abstraction of the energy of the mind in restoring the natural motions of life. Under all the circumstances which have been mentioned, which opposed the system of depletion in the cure of this fever, it was still far more successful than any other mode of cure that had been pursued before in the United States, or in the West-Indies. Three out of four died of the disease in Jamaica, under the care of Dr. Hume. Dr. Blane considers it as one of the "most mortal" of diseases, and Dr. Jackson places a more successful mode of treating it among the subjects which will admit of "innovation" in medicine. After the 15th of September, my success was much limited, compared with what it had been before that time. But at no period of the disease did I lose more than one in twenty of those whom I saw on the first day, and attended regularly through every stage of the fever, provided they had not been previously worn down by attending the sick. The following statement, which will admit of being corrected, if it be inaccurate, will, I hope, establish the truth of the above assertions.