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comely imaginable, owing to the severity with which ill health was treated; still, even the best were liable to be out of sorts sometimes, and there were few families that had not a medicine-chest in a cupboard somewhere. I could understand that it should be necessary to attach painful remedies to diseases, inasmuch as there would be no getting rid of them otherwise. The public whipping of those who had the small-pox seemed not only intelligible but natural. I could even understand their punishing incurables with seclusion, and in extreme cases with death; but the tone of manner which they adopted towards these unfortunate persons, and the feelings with which they one and all regarded them, were quite beyond my comprehension.