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diseases of debility are undermining our stamina as a race, and 
unless we are found willing to modify our mad industrialism, and 
especially our love for competition in education, we shall 
ultimately succeed in “ improving ourselves off the face of the 
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To return : every right-thinking man must, we believe, feel 
indignant on learning that children born in work-houses, “ when 
six days old,” and even when twenty-four hours old, are often vac- 
cinated. Nor can the compulsory re-vaccination of recruits on 
entering the army, or of candidates for employment in the Post 
Office, the police force, &c., be justified. With singular caprice, in 
the Inland Revenue Department, “ the advantages of compulsory 
re-vaccination are reserved for the inferior and junior servants of 
a particular department,” to wit, the stamping-room boys. Mr. 
Tebb remarks : “ Surely the older servants and chiefs of the 
Department have more need of a renewal of the prophylactic 
than the stamping-room boys, whose vaccination, it may be 
presumed, is of comparatively recent date.” 
One feature in this work against which we must record our 
protest is the intimation, repeatedly met with in its pages, that 
medical practitioners, in upholding vaccination, are to no small 
degree influenced by the fees which they receive (see pp. 16, 56, 
63). Yet a medical officer of health, quoted by Dr. Fox in a 
work reviewed in our present number, said : “ The public cannot 
expeCt that I, who receive from them for my public services next 
to nothing, should do my best to prevent the extension of so 
remunerative a disease as smallpox, every case of which I con- 
sider, taking the average of fees obtained from rich and poor, to 
be worth to me a £5 note.” Surely this is the view that a 
mercenary medical man would naturally take. 
Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liver- 
pool during the Seventy -second Session, 1882-83. No. 
XXXVII. London : Longmans and Co. Liverpool : D. 
Marples and Co., Limited. 
In these “ Proceedings ” we find abstracts of a few interesting 
papers which have not been thought worthy of publication in 
full. Especial mention must be made of a notice by Mr. E. 
Dukinfield Jones, C.E., on the remarkable drinking habit of a 
yellow and black Brazilian moth ( Panthra pardalarid). lhe 
author found these moths sitting on the wet stones in small 
streams near San Paulo, sucking up the water in a continuous 
stream, and letting it escape in drops from the abdomen. These 
