He thinks there are some points of striking resemblance between this disease and sunstroke, so much as to suggest a pathological relationship. 1st. The same conditions seem to be sufficient for and essential to the development of each. 2. They come and go together. 3. The development is gradual and the recovery is slow in each, showing a profound impression made on the living-power of the patient. 4. The explosive character of the attack under the cumulative effects of continued high temperature with the sudden severe or fatal prostration consequent. “Wash your children well with _cold water_ twice a day, and _oftener_ in the hot season,” is the direction of the New York Board of Health, and Dr. Miller thinks if this one prescription were carried out, cholera infantum cases could be well nigh eliminated from the mortality reports. He thinks it worth while to inculcate among our patrons that however important it may be to take special care in feeling, this will not be sufficient alone, to carry the infant safely through the high temperature of July and August; and we would try to have the people study to keep the little ones _cool_, and the means recommended is cool-bathing or cool-sponging. Medicines are not of much use if the surroundings are cool. SOCIETY MATTERS. The subject selected by the Medical Society at the last meeting in Goldsborough, was SPONDYLITIS. They were fortunate in selecting Dr. M. Whitehead as the essayist. It seems to us it would be more agreeable to the essayist, to allow him to select his own theme, and provided he announced it in advance of the meeting, it would answer the same purpose. The annual oration will be delivered by Dr. W. W. Lane, of Wilmington, upon a subject not announced. The Society expects from these gentlemen rare entertainment and instruction. * * * * * In our quotation from the _Nation’s_ Berlin letter on “The Discovery of the Soul,” the printers made the mistake of not ending the paragraph with quotation marks, and our northern neighbors who copied it from the Journal entire without acknowledgement, have incorporated Sambo’s philosophy in a way that we considered original with ourselves. It would be news to the _Nation’s_ correspondent that he is versed in the mysteries of the philosophy involved in the “folk lore” of our Southern negroes. TO OUR READERS. THE VALUE OF PURE WINE IN SICKNESS.