Peking, is the reprint of a paper read last year before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow. Originally addressed to a professional audience, those who are likely to read it with most pleasure are physicians here and in Europe, but the general public cannot fail to gain information from it regarding those customs and social peculiar rities of the Chinese which, while deeply interesting in themselves, are further of importance as influencing to a great extent the conditions of health and the characters of disease. The simple food and unstimulating beverages which find favour among the Chinese, the phlegmatic constitution which enables them to bear with equanunity, or at least to accept with resignation, misfortunes which would drive a European to despair, the subjugation in which they hold their passions, or, perhaps, more truly, their incapacity for intense enjoyment in the over-indulgence of the sensual appel tites, their contempt for time and for the rushing which indicates our desire to eco-noise it, and the general reasonableness of their life, shield the natives of China from whole classes of disease which find many victims in the Western world. Asa set off against this group of advantages, many disadvantages have to be taken into account. Infant anortality must under any circumstances run high when mothers lead secluded lives, rarely enjoying either air or exercise. Then when an emergency arises, which, to be met with success, demands some Imowledge of the structure of the human frame, the absolute
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.