The Hon. Francis Gillette, in a speech in Hartford, Conn., in 1871, said that there was in Connecticut, on an average, one liquor shop to every forty voters, and three to every Christian church. A cry, an appeal, came to me from the city, a few days since, after this wise: 'Our young men are going to destruction, and we want your influence, counsel, and prayers, to help save them.
But few of the human race die of old age. Besides the thousand and one diseases flesh is heir to, and the disease which Mrs. O'Flannagan said her husband died of, viz., Of a Saturday 'tis that poor Mike died, very many die of disappointment. More _fret_ out. Mr. Beecher said,It is the fretting that wears out the machinery; friction, not the real wear.
ancient Saxons and Teutons a beverage was made of honey and water, and sometimes flavored with mulberries. This drink was used especially at weddings and the after festivals. These festivals were kept up among the nobility sometimes for a month--monath. The hunig monath was thus established, and the next moon after the marriage was called the honeymoon.
Several kings and great lords are made mention of as being particularly fond of using the lancet. Peter the Great of Russia was remarkably fond of witnessing dissections and surgical operations. He even used to carry a case of instruments in his pocket. He often visited the hospitals to witness capital operations, at times assisting in person, and was able to dissect properly, to bleed a patient, and extract a tooth as well as one of the faculty.
From that excellent work,Scenes in the Practice of a New York Surgeon, by Dr. E. H. Dixon, I copy, with some abbreviation, the following, which the author termsLeaves from the Log-book of an Unfledged Æsculapian: In the year 1830 I was sent forth, like our long-suffering andw,--from the ark of safety, the old St. Duane Street College. I pitched my tent, and set up my trap, in what was then a fashionable up-town street.