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give promise of satisfaction. So a well arranged village or town or home of well 
ordered life and thought within, will render such things easier to all within. If 
our minds are at ease on the wood and water questions they are by that much 
the better prepared to take up the music and painting, and Ruskin says, "the 
more piano we have the less savage we have." 
The Olney hymns and other beautful thoughts of the author could not have 
found utterance but for the shelter of Mrs. Osborne's beautiful home, whose 
quiet ordering saved from utter wreck the gifted WilHam Cowper. Sunnyside and 
the beauties of the Hudson shine upon the pages of Washington Irving. The 
best conditions for work will ordinarily produce the best work and the most of it. 
The saved and added mental strength, that lies in these things, is no inconsider- 
able store. 
The mental and moral worth that is shown by and through them is a thing 
more noticed. It is hardly needful that I should speak of the refinement that 
shines through the window made beautiful with flowers. The hearts that make 
room and time for cherishing these speechless beauties cannot be rude, coarse, 
hard, or unfeeling. The hand that make beautiful the yard is apt to indicate a 
heart that looks beyond the doorsill of a personal selfishness, and the grouping of 
such homes would point out the region where a friendly hearted man would love to 
have his home; where he might expect that neighborly sympathies would expand 
to his own heart's gain, and community of interests and pursuits lead to improve- 
ments in all the common interests of life. 
MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 
UNCOMMON DISEASES IN PERU AND BOLIVIA. i 
EDWIN R. HEATH, M. D. 
" Varruga de Sangre," Verruca Hcemorragica, (Bloody Wart). — Prescott 
in his "Conquest of Peru" mentions a peculiar disease which attacked the 
Spaniards during their wanderings among the mountains, to which they gave the 
name " Varrugas," their name for wart, owing to the excresences of the eruption 
resembling warts. 
1 In submitting to your readers the accompanying article I have avoided as mucli as possi- 
ble technical names and theories. As a traveler, the facts which might be useful to know are 
sought after and simply recorded. 
Published in a medical journal, this article would need to have been more explicit, and then 
it would only have reached a certain class of readers. 
Only striking specialties have been noticed, yet much might be written on the diseases of 
those countries which might be useful as determining the geographical distribution of disease. 
For instance, in the mountains of Bolivia, especially on the eastern slopes, cataracts and opaque 
corneas are very common, not diflRering from other places except in their abundance. This sub- 
ject alone, presented in all its merits, would be valuable to scientists, but this not being a treat 
ment of the geographical distribution, it and many other similar facts are not touched on. 
