76 Dr. Mac Culloch on Malaria on Ship-board. 



men, are but too well known to the Navy, and to the State 

 also. The expenditure of life, and therefore of money, is not 

 less known, at least, in the accounts, if placed, as usual, to the 

 general average of unavoidable casualties. What regards 

 humanity is not worth reckoning, it is to be presumed. If all 

 this can be prevented, he who shall prevent it will have effected 

 no small good, in many ways. The detail of past evils and 

 future possible benefits would form a very curious and instruc- 

 tive picture ; it would carry even an air of romance. In 

 the merchant service, the evils are radically the same, but the 

 effects are in some respects different. Humanity here, also, 

 reckons for nothing, as long as the dead man can be replaced 

 by a living one. Yet there is loss : wages are paid for services 

 not performed; vessels are disabled from inefficiency of hands ; 

 and vessels are lost. The owners escape, it is true, for they 

 are insured. Who is there to care ? — the insurers. The in- 

 surers are so divided and diluted, that there is no one to care. 

 The merchant service is little likely to do anything towards 

 improving the health of ships. It must finally rest with the 

 Admiralty, with the State. That when the State believes 

 what is here detailed to be true, it will regulate accordingly, 

 we cannot doubt ; but we may safely doubt if this reasoning 

 is adequate to command their belief. * 



Lineaments of Leanness. By William Wadd, Esq., F.L.S. 



It may naturally be supposed, from the cases and comments 

 on corpulence, that the ^^ fat and /azr" have not been the 

 only persons who have consulted me ; the man who knows 

 how to reduce " the fat'' ought to know how to " fatten the 

 lean ;" and, accordingly, I have occasionally been visited by 

 ** quelques Anatomies Vivantes,^^ and although Mons. ^, 



* This extraordinary production of nature, pronounced by the most 

 eminent of the faculty in France and England, to be a " great phenome- 

 non,'" was brought, as we are told, to this country, at a considerable 

 expense, to contribute to the advancement of science ! The expense of 

 keeping a skeleton we cannot calculate from any practical experience in 

 this country ; but we may presume it was not much ; *' a recreative excur- 

 sion,'" for a party of such persons, would, it may be presumed, not cost 

 so large a sum as the convivial committee of City lands. Quere ? which 

 Was advanced most by the skeleton's visit, the Englishman's philosophy, 

 or the Frenchman's fortune ? 



