

 Afr Adams-~ln the EHquiUst of the 9S.h October, nOsised communication from "A. A." puTpOrsing to give dsscrpon of Shs peculiar disease that hss recently sppsaEsd among us!"

 Your cosrespondsus's description from Celsua, (which by the way is taken from GOOds "Ssudy OG Medicine, ] is certainly very brief one, but, hOwev- CT clear may be the medical man, remains to be proved that the general reader is much the wiser for it. This "Ignis Sacer" (query, "Ignis Fatuus ?) of your correspondents imagination is a terrible name iOr disease, for 1t signifies less than hOty fire, yet the "anciens" applied the term to denote spe- cies of EEysipelas.

 The inhabitants of Lischfield must be gra,ied to learn shat this IgniS Sacer is rapidly disappearing from among Us-thae this ''hOly re'' has ceased its avages. and that strangers will longer be deterred from visiting us, through fear of internal combustion MEDIcUs.