Cholera and Fever Poisons

sooner, especially as I have additional experiences on the subject, which I trust will prove not valueless. I regret that carelessness in punctuating should h;iva had such an effect on " Alpha", as 1 can easily see that it has caused him to have many misconceptions with regard to the matter contained in the paper. I will try and remedy some of them now, and as I suppose he has put most of his difficulties into his letter,! will answer it seriatim. I suppose "Alpha" is aware of the fact that a practitioner can commauicate puerperal fever from a patient who is suffering from it, to one who is in a condition to develope the disease, i. e. who is a nidus. Ho also must be aware of the fact that, when a practitioner got puerperal fever in his practices, he used to abandon that branch of his profession altogether, for a time, and generally goes on a short holiday. If baths aud disinfectants were efficacious, theu such an abstention from duty would uot at all be requisite. I must take it for grauted that my punctuation was very much at fault, for Iperceive that "Alpha," does uot know that a man who attends scarlatina or erysipelas cases, can communicate