Cholera may seem more frightful, but it is in reality less destructive.

It terminates rapidly in death, or in as rapid recovery.
Its visitation, too, is short, and it leaves those who recover unimpaired in health and strength.

Civil war, were it not for its crimes, would be, as far as regards the welfare of a country, a visitation less to be dreaded than epidemic fever." ***** "It is not possible, then, to form an exaggerated picture of the sufferings of a million and a half of people in these countries, in their convalescence from fever, deprived of, not only the comforts, but even the necessaries of life, with scanty food, and fuel, and covering, only rising from fever to slowly fall victims to those numerous chronic diseases that are sure to seize upon enfeebled constitutions.

Death would be to many a more merciful dispensation than such a recovery."-- Famine and Fever, as Clause and Effect in Ireland, &a., &o.

By D.J.Cohkigan, Esq., M.D., M.K.C.S.B.