This much-dreaded disease reached Hsii-chien about the middle of July, and disappeared about the middle of An: When the streets got. full of decaying watermelon rinds, and the flies were bad, and the summer heat at its worst, it suddenly ceased its ravages. It would have been recorded as a signal triumph of modern scientific treatment had there been any. The health officers also would have won "golden opinions" had such officers existed. As it is, science and religion k-ep quiet, while ignorance praises the heathen Tites which were performed.
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