emorrhages, yet he fully regained his health, and,
after a very useful life, died at an advanced age of another disease.
Post-mortem examination revealed the existence of cicatrices, or scars,
in his lungs where tubercular matter had been deposited. Dr. Wood, in
his Practice of Medicine, mentions another instance of a medical
gentleman in Philadelphia, who in early life suffered from consumption
with haemoptysis, from which he recovered, and afterwards died, at an
advanced age, of typhoid fever, when the knife revealed the presence of
cicatrices. Post-mortem examinations of individuals who have died of
other diseases, have revealed, in numerous instances, the presence of
consumption at some period of their existence. In these cases the lungs
were perfectly healed by cicatrization, or by the deposit of a chalky
material. A French physician made post-mortem examinations of one
hundred women, all of whom were over sixty years of age, and who had
died of other diseases, and in fifty of them he found evidences of the
previous existence of consumption.

Professor Flint says that consumption sometimes terminates in recovery,
and that his observations lead him to the conclusion that the prospect
of recovery is more favorable in cases characterized by frequent
hemorrhages. Drs. Ware and Walshe are also led to the same conclusion.

Professor J. Hughes Bennett, of Edinburgh, has thoroughly investigated
the subject, and adds his testimony to that of others, citing numerous
cases that have resulted in perfect recovery. If such testimony is not
sufficient, we may mention the following, whose names are well known and
respected in professional circles, and all of whom declare that
consumption is a curable disease. The list includes Laennec, Andral,
Cruveilhier, Kingston, Presat, Rogee, Boudet, and a host of others.

No farther back than 1866, on page 145, of the proceedings of the
Connecticut Medical Society, we find "Observations, Ante-mortem and
Post-mortem, upon the case of the late President Day by Prof. S.G.
Hubbard, M.D., New Haven," from which we learn that Jeremiah Day, LL.
D., who was for twenty-nine years President of Yale College, was, while
a mere youth, a victim of pulmonary consumption. During his infancy and
boyhood his vitality was feeble. He entered Yale College as a student in
1789, "but was soon obliged to leave the institution on account of
pulmonary difficulty, which was doubtless the incipient stage of the
organ