The lung disease, called lung sickness, in cattle, does not, with regard to the organ attacked, affect human beings, but the tendency of the present race of mankind is to anemic rather than acutely inflammatory diseases. The most destructive modern diseases, influenza, cholera, and diphtheria, are of an anemic character; other diseases are now, more than formerly, inclined to assume this character. It is not that medicine and doctors, but that human constitutions, vary. The rule laid down by Pinel that bleeding confirms mania is good now; but 50 or 70 years ago, as, perhaps, 50 or 70 years hence, more exceptional cases did and may again occur than are at present met with. {55} [Sidenote: Vide Tables P. and Q., pp. 44 and 45.] The mortality from fever will be seen to have been great; but of the seven deaths recorded, six came into the hospital in a dying state. One, admitted November 25th, died five hours after admission; another, admitted at noon, December 11th, died at half-past four a.m. next morning; another, admitted on the 5th, died on the 6th; another, admitted on September 19th, died on the 20th; other two rallied by the administration of wine, sago, &c., but died from two to five days after admission, again sinking. They received shelter and attention, and had what chance there was of recovery; and some others, beyond all reasonable expectation, recovered. The number of Kafir and druggist-doctored patients thrown upon my hands in a moribund state is great. Of the cases of fever that I attended throughout, most did well. The hospital has been occupied somewhat more than three years and a half, but I have held office as district surgeon in the service of Government eight years and a half, and I speak of my experience during the whole term of such service. In giving names to complaints, I have not set down diarrhœa or even tænia, of which many instances have occurred, but these instances have been incidental or symptomatic. Tænia has been discovered and treated in cases of patients who had wounds, &c., and this frequently. There is no complaint so generally prevalent among both natives and settlers. The tapeworm of South Africa is about two-fifths in width† narrower than that of Europe. The most effective treatment has been 1 1/2 oz. sp. terebinth, early in the morning, and one drop of croton oil, or a dose of other aperient medicine, four or five hours after, _nisi prius soluta sit alvus_. A less dose than 1 1/2 oz. more disturbs the system than this quantity, and fails to act. I procured some ethereal extract of male fern in one case, of which I gave one scruple early in the morning, and a black draught some hours after. It caused no nausea or other apparent constitutional disturbance, and a piece of tapeworm was expelled, still alive, which measured 22 feet long. Turpentine generally expels them dead. † The English assumed as 1 in width, the South African 0·6.