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ciently extended to comprehend all infected cases. But if 

 the quarantine prove to be an imaginary one, or if the pesti- 

 lence has broken out through atmospheric agencies and has 

 extended itself beyond the limits of frontier or local cordons, 

 then when the maladroitness of fancied security has been 

 foiled, and all the allied antagonists to scientific methods 

 are prostrated, this Irutum fulmen recoils upon its abettors; 

 and the appeal that then comes to the skill they despised 

 loses the full measure of benefit to have been secured at the 

 outset, had better, not baser agencies been employed. 



These are the plain practical lessons which the histories of 

 all epidemics in the human family, and of all plagues among 

 the brute races, clearly and invariably teach. They mark the 

 bold uprising and clamor of empiricism, and in its successive 

 overthrows by the strides of pestilence they point to the 

 modest but masterly persuasions and trials of science for true 

 and enduring relief. And if we seem to dwell upon such 

 teachings, it is because we are conscious that as " the still 

 small voice " followed the tempest, the earthquake and the 

 fire, and the preparations for it was not until these fearful 

 manifestations had awed the querulous, and doubting prophet ; 

 so it always is in the face of mortal pestilences that the 

 bowlings of terror, the onslaught of savage phrenzy and the 

 fierce desolations of misguided zeal, precede the calm and 

 benign intuitions of mercy and judgment, which make up 

 what we call science, and give to it the radiance of a divine 

 vision. 



Happy are those who are saved from the period of agita- 

 tion, tumult and dismay, to witness the return of serene and 

 successful counsels and procedures. Most fortunate is the 

 people who, anticipating this as the natural order of events 

 wherever prejudice and passion hold their course, use all 

 their energy and wisdom to cut short or forestal their sway, 

 and hasten to usher in the reign of order and method. 



As above intimated, we have to propose, before we con- 

 clude this branch of our subject, a method of treatment to bo 

 approved by the Society, and as we hope, also by minds 

 versed in or attracted by scientific investigations. But before 



