PREFACE 



My publisher tells me that this volume will 

 be regarded as a sequel to ' The Minor Horrors 

 of War,' and he assures me that sequels 

 are not a success. I have no doubt my 

 publisher is right, because if publishers were 

 not invariably right, and authors invariably 

 wrong, how can one explain the fact that 

 publishers are proverbially prosperous and 

 prominent people, whereas authors are notor- 

 iously penniless and obscure ? In spite of 

 his warning, however, I propose to publish 

 this little volume, for there still ' air some 

 catawampous chawers in the small way, too, 

 as graze upon a human pretty strong ' — as 

 ' one of them inwading conquerors at Paw- 

 kins's ' called them — ^that were unmentioned 

 in my earlier book. 



I am indebted to the kindness of the 

 Editor and Proprietors of the British Medical 

 Journal for permission to reprint Chapters I to 

 IX and Chapter XI, and to the Editor of The 



