in consequence of the earthquake driving so many 
into the Liguanea plaia for a habitation. Green- 
bay was an additional grave-yard. There Louis 
‘Galdy lies buried, dead forty seven years after he had 
been buried alive in the earthquake, and disinterred 
again. But it is time to return to the Hespital. 
So far then with reference to the prospect oi 
death, but let us give some consideration to what 
may be made a salutary help, when that inequality 
in the condition of the body is overcome, which was 
disorder, and disease,—-and health returns, and life 
regains its normal pewer, in becoming ‘ the sum ot 
the actions of an organised being ;” when its tenden- 
cy to replace what was lost and repair what was de- 
ranged, results in the ordinary operations of its ori< 
ginal constitution, We know what the cheerful 
conversation of friends can do to keep the machinery 
of life steadily working when it has regained its 
balance. We know how the pleasant scenes of na- 
ture can force upon us in spite of our indifference, 
interest in the beauty of surrounding objects, and 
wonder and admiration at the instinetive intelligence 
which makes what is necessary to life and enjoyment 
subservient to both. When I had entered up thus 
much of my notes, I bethought me,.1 would tura to 
‘Chomson’s little convenient work on domestic medi- 
eine, and household surgery to ascertain the notice 
which he has bestowed upon the ménd, as one of the 
agencies of health. I found the influence it exercis- 
ed over the sanitary condition, expressed as making 
the tone of it, a weighty consideration in the ulti: 
mate issue of disease, and illustrating it by a. refer- 
