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MISCELLANEA. 
As to his low charges, many poor women will not have mid- 
wives to attend them : his fees are according to the patients’ ability 
to pay ; and he has attended many poor women in this place and 
elsewhere gratis. 
He fears no jaundic’d rival’s envious breath. 
Leicester, 
Feb, 4th, 1846. 
I have the honour to be, 
Mr. Editor, 
Your humble servant, 
Lucina. 
Life of a Medical Man. 
THERE is not any career which so rapidly wears away the 
powers of life, because there is no other which requires a greater 
activity of mind and body. He has to bear the changes of weather, 
continual fatigue, irregularity in his meals, broken rest, and to 
live in the midst of miasma and contagion. If in the country, to 
traverse considerable distances on horseback, exposed to wind and 
storm, to brave all dangers to go to the relief of suffering humanity. 
A fearful truth for medical men has been established bv the 
table of mortality of Dr. Casper, published in the British Revieiv. 
Of 1000 members of the medical profession, 600 died before their 
sixty-second year, while of persons leading a quiet life, such as 
agriculturists or theologians, the mortality is only 347. If we take 
100 individuals of each of these classes, 43 theologians, 40 agri- 
culturists, 35 clerks, and 32 soldiers, will reach their 70th year : 
of 100 professors of the healing art, 24 only will reach that age. 
They are the sign-posts to health : they can shew the road to old 
age, but rarely tread it themselves. 
Experiments at the Lyons Veterinary School. 
Experiments are being made at the Veterinary School at Lyons, 
for preventing the communication of hydrophobia, and for curing 
this dreadful disease. A remedy, proposed by a person not be- 
longing to the school, was tried, and produced the following 
results. A dog, fully ascertained to be in a rabid state, was made 
to bite five other dogs. Three of these animals were subjected to 
the treatment proposed. All of these were preserved from the 
malady, while the two others died in all the usual convulsions 
of the disease. 
