CONTENTS. SCENES IN CITY PRACTICE. LEAVES FROM A MEDICAL LOG-BOOK. FISHING IN A FASHIONABLE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR PRACTICE-CLERICAL PATRONAGE -FIRST VISIT TO MRS. MACKEREL-DESCRIPTION OF MRS. MACKEREL-A MIDNIGHT WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE NERVE POWER?-ITS ACTION ON OUR BODIES UNDER THE VARIOUS STIMULI-ITS POWER OVER THE CONTRACTION OF THE MUSCLES- THE INFLUENCE OF PROLONGED INSPIRATION IN CURING DISEASES AND GIVING STRENGTH TO THE BODY-HOW DOES IT COMPARE WITH OTHER SYSTEMS OF PAGS 81 THE CAMP-MEETING-A GRAPHIC SCENE-A REVIVAL-A SERMON LUDICROUS EVENT-ZACCHEUS-CAMP-MEETING WOLVES-A MIDNIGHT ATTACK-PECULIAR THE BOTANIC MEDICAL BATTERY-ENVIABLE POSITION OF DOCTORS-THE PESTI- LENCE WALKS IN DARKNESS - INSIDIOUS NATURE OF FEVERS-A WESTERN SECRET CRIME-BEGGARED YOUTH AND AGE-LIFE A GOD-LESSON-A MIND DISEASED -HEART-CORRODING MEMORIES-A SACRIFICE TO MEDICAL PEDANTRY-SLEEP SCENES IN A WESTERN PHYSICIAN'S LIFE. WHAT IS MEMORY ?-COLLEGE LIFE IN THE COUNTRY-THE PIOUS STUDENT- THE ORPHAN BETRAYED THE ROBIN'S NEST-MATERNAL REFLECTIONS—WHAT IS LOVE? THE FUNERAL PLE: WHAT IS ITS PHILOSOPHY? II. PRECARIOUSNESS OF MEDICAL LIFE IN NEW YORK-A PROFESSIONAL MARTYR -THE CURSE OF AN IRISH PRACTICE-DEATH OF THE PHYSICIAN, AND HIS WIDOW AND CHILD-PARENTAL LOVE-MERCANTILE AFFECTION-THE LOVE OF THE FOUR IMPELLING POWERS TO EVIL-INTEMPERANCE, AMBITION, ANIMAL PASSION, AND THE LOVE OF MONEY-ILLUSTRATION OF THE LATTER BY AN AWFUL TRAGEDY 806 THE MOTHER-HER CHARACTER-THE PESTILENCE-A COUNTRY CONSULTATION--A TALE OF SORROW-THE SINS OF PARENTS VISITED UPON THE CHILDREN-THR DESERTED ONE-THE ATONEMENT-CHARACTER OF THE TRUE MOTHER-MEDICAL HEROICS-A PERFIDIOUS LETTER-VALUE OF A POOR MAN'S CHILD-THE MOTHER'S DESTROYING ANGEL-THE DRUNKARD'S HOME AND FAMILY-RETRIBU- WHAT IS HOOPING COUGH?-PERIOD OF OCCURRENCE-FIRST SYMPTOMS-SUBTLE 848 THE LAST DAY OF A COLLEGE LIFE-SCHOOL TEACHING-THE END CF A HYPOCRITE -HIS EARLY HISTORY-HIS TWO SONS-HIS WIFE AND FAMILY-DOMESTIC FELICITY-THE BROKEN VOW - THE BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER — SUICIDE — THE WESTERN VAMPIRE-THE DAUGHTER AND HER TWO IRISH BABIES NEW AND LAUGHABLE CURE FOR ERYSIPELAS THE ENGLISH NEIGHBORHOOD-THE EAGLES' EYRIE-THE NAVAL BALL-HONOR TO 881 895 898 SCENES IN THE PRACTICE OF A NEW YORK SURGEON. THE CHOLERA OF '82-THE BROADWAY WORKWOMEN-THE YOUNG MOTHER-THE LAST DAY'S WORK-TERRY'S COURTSHIP. Or all men, the physician is most likely to discover the leading traits of character in his fellow-beings; in no other condition than that of sickness, do they present themselves without those guards upon the countenance and tongue, that an artificial mode of life has rendered indispensable to their comfort, if not their existence, in city life more especially. So universal is this habit of caution and hypocrisy in order to find out and flatter, or at least not to offend the weaknesses of our fellows, that the cunning physician often cultivates it with wonderful success in procuring wealth, and exciting the almost superstitious reverence of his patients for fancied skill. With ordinary powers of observation, and knowledge of the customary symptoms and consequences of the existing disease, and the use of inert medicines and seasonable anticipation and announcement of results he can often foretell with certainty, he soon gets up an envied reputation and secures the luxuries of life: but he never gets |