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of thy blood against Russia," just as I say now, 

 "Defend thy Turkish neighbor to the last drop 

 of thy blood against Russia." 



The reigning dynasty of Austria must reckon 

 with the logic of history. A time may come — 

 it must come — when her German provinces — 

 will go home. Well, well, I say : the royal 

 throne of the palace at Buda is a very glorious 

 seat. It will be good to think about how, after 

 its thousand years' history, it may not be men- 

 aced by the Russian monster — neither in the 

 form of a boa-constrictor, nor in that of a hun- 

 dred-armed polypus. The time is come to think 

 of it, now that the Turkish lion is fighting his 

 life or death struggle so gloriously. Let us not 

 lose the opportunity. " Sero medicina paratur." 

 " Mene ! Mene ! Tekel ! Upharsin ! " 



I do not say that the Hungarian Government 

 has given itself up to the impulses of robbery; 

 I say only that this is not excluded from the 

 " scheme." This vampire sits on its bed, on its 

 chest, on its arms. Shake off the vampire, I say. 

 Free your arms, and step at the head of the na- 

 tion. It is a glorious place. In such a great 

 crisis it is a very small ambition to aim, by the 

 cleverly-construed phrase of " taking notice," at 

 getting a vote of confidence from your party. 

 You should act so that the confidence of the 

 whole nation should surround you. You can do 

 it. You should adopt the policy that has been 

 pointed at by the whole nation. You should 



not contradict yourselves, for you said that 

 your hands were free. 



To the representatives of the nation I would 

 like to cry out from my remote solitary place : 

 " The fatherland is in danger — in such danger 

 as it has never been in before, viewing the ir- 

 revocability of the consequences. Then let the 

 fatherland not be made a party question among 

 yourselves, my countrymen ! Let the genius of 

 reconciliation hover over you when you stand 

 arm-in-arm around the altar of our fatherland. 

 I do not ask you to upset the Government, but 

 I beg of you to place it in such a situation that 

 its stability would be guaranteed by the fulfill- 

 ment of the nation's wishes. The action of Ser- 

 via has supplied you with «n opportunity which 

 answers even diplomatical considerations. Don't 

 let this occasion escape you." 



The fulfillment of the nation's will is the 

 purest loyalty. I say so — I, who never yield. It 

 is true, I do not like the Austrian eagle in our 

 fatherland. But I wish not that this eagle should 

 be consumed in flame by the Russian ; and I 

 shudder at the thought that Hungary may be 

 the funeral stake. 



I am a very old man. I long ago over- 

 stepped the line assigned by Scripture as the 

 limit to human life. Who knows whether this 

 be not my last word ? May it not be the voice 

 of one who cries in the desert ! — Contemporary 

 Review. 



HYDROPHOBIA AND BABIES. 



By Sir THOMAS WATSON. 



IN the May number of this Review I con- 

 tended, successfully I think, that the group 

 of diseases rightly included among those called 

 zymotic may, by means of wise legislation, and 

 the equipment of suitable machinery, be eventu- 

 ally banished from this island. The favorable 

 reception of my paper by many competent judges 

 of its subject-matter encourages me to speak of 

 another disease, also very destructive of human 

 life, though numerically not so destructive as 

 these, but even more dreadful and alarming to 

 the mind than any of them. This plague, also, I 

 hold to be one of which we might get perma- 

 nently rid. The disease, or rather the pair of 

 diseases, to which I advert consists of hydro- 



phobia in the human species and rabies in the 

 canine. It is well to keep in mind the distinc- 

 tion between these two. There would be no 

 hydrophobia were there no rabies ; there can be 

 no rabies unless it be communicated by a rabid 

 animal ; but they are not identical diseases. To 

 use the concrete form of speech, rabies in the 

 dog is quite different and distinct from hydro- 

 phobia in the man. The term hydrophobia is 

 often erroneously applied to both diseases, but 

 the rabid dog is never hydrophobic. 



There has been an astonishing increase of hy- 

 drophobia in this country within the last half- 

 century. Mr. Cresar Hawkins, writing in 1844, 

 says that only two cases of the disease had been 



