Dr Whyte used the lancet very freely, but every one of his patients died; Dr Buchan was in the habit occasionally of having recourse to it; and, in the first season, he said, that he had met with several cases where bleeding was of the greatest service. In the beginning of the season, Mr Price bled one patient. The blood appeared very dark, and dissolved: this patient died, and Mr Price never repeated the operation on any other. Some gentlemen, attached to the Brunonian system, put the stimulating plan to the test. By Messieurs Adrian and Whyte, patients were for some time kept under the influence of wine and opium; but, this practice was never successful and they deserted it. It was at length the practice of Mr Adrian to unite stimulants and mercurials. Seldom before, I believe, have the bodies of those who died of this disease been dissected. The first was a Sepoy, by Mr Price alone; the second by Messieurs Price and Rice; and, in the last subject, viz. Signior Posetti, the Italian merchant, so severely affected were both of these gentlemen, that it put a stop to this mode of investigation. The general appearances seen on the subjects, were, a perfectly-diseased state of the glandular system. In the liver, no matter was found; but, it was much enlarged and greatly diseased. Signior Posetti had only one bubo; the femoral gland was sixteen times the natural size and weight; and the blood, from the femoral artery, flowed black, pitchy, and dissolved in its texture. I come now to the last, and most pleasing part of the subject, the means of _The prevention._ If, in the treatment of the disease, we were not successful, we assuredly were completely so in the prevention. At length, this became so generally known, that we no longer heard the distressing accounts of despondence and despair among the natives. They now no longer entertained such a dread of the pest-houses. We at length even found volunteers from the natives for duty in the pest-houses. There was hardly a corps, or an hospital in the army, where, at one period or other, the disease did not make its appearance, but it was always in our power to arrest its progress. In well regulated corps, where a rigid discipline was enforced, and proper attention to the interior economy was paid, it rarely happened, indeed, that much difficulty was experienced in eradicating the contagion. As our success in the prevention was so great, all that remains for me is to mention the substance of General Baird’s order to the army on this subject. 1st, To every hospital, an observation-room, or in lieu of it a tent was attached, and to it, every case whatever with febrile symptoms was sent, as soon as discovered, and was there most strictly watched by the surgeon.