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been written, and B8 many crude ideas held as any other 

 in medicine, *we are able to eliminate much of the confu- 

 sion that has so Long attended these terms, and prevenl 



the mistakes by no means uncommon in the treatment of 

 disease occasioned by this wry confusion. 

 But we have said enough, perhaps, of these medical 



associations of our subject, for while there is much mate- 

 rial remaining, showing how intimately connected have 

 been the lives and deaths of frogs and the progress of 

 physiological science, it would doubtless have more of 

 professional than general interest. We pass by therefore, 

 the many questions making up the mystery of our being, 

 which they have helped to elucidate or solve ; questions, 

 about the workings of the nervous system, about rudi- 

 mentary or embryonic life, changes of form, transitions 

 from inferior to superior organizations, and finally ques- 

 tions in medical jurisprudence, even, where they have lent 

 their mute though striking testimony in the detection of 

 hidden crime. 



If, what we have said, removes from any mind the idea 

 of their insignificancy, or redeems them from the reproach- 

 ful utilitarian inquiry sometimes made of animals lower 

 than ourselves, of wherefore were they made, it will have 

 answered our purpose. 



In conclusion, we are, for ourselves, free to confess that 

 we love the frogs. We love them as table delicacies, for 

 the music they make, and for the good they bave been to 

 man. We never pass them by, when their full chorus is 

 ringing upon the night air, with its deep bass, and airy 

 alto mingling harmoniously, without a thrill of pleasure 

 intensified by the recollection of their history and associ- 

 ations. Individually they are full of interest. They have 

 a certain grace o\' form and motion, a certain beauty ot 

 color, a bright eye, ami a tongue not devoid of melody. 

 As a class they deserve respectful recognition by virtue of 



