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46 where such a result was possible; and naturally they go on, year after year, trying one quack remedy after another, until the grave opens and ends their miseries.

No cry of murder goes up at the poor victim's funeral. He is laid peacefully away with loud lamentations and regrets at the intervention of Divine Providence. But who is to blame for this murder—this poisoning by slow degrees of a life that might have been useful and prolonged? Enumerate all the deaths that occur in a usual serious war through diseases and other causes and multiply it by one hundred, and it would probably closely approximate the actual number who annually lose their lives through the causes mentioned above. We have every precaution to protect the weak and the ignorant from robbery or assault, but who on this earth are protecting the fragile, inexperienced, nervous wrecks from being robbed, physically and financially, by the quacks and should-be convicts, who hire the space and reputation of the most renowed newspapers and periodicals to assist them in their nefarious business?