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Parish, of St. George the Martyr, Southward.
that it was His work, and that it must be treated and cared for according to title end for
which it was formed—fitness for His service. A country inhabited by an ailing, diseased,
hypochondriacal population would bo both helpless and useless; and not likely to excite
other the respect, or the fear, or the gratitude, of other nations ; but would only claim to bo
trodden down and stamped out as a nuisance from off the face of the earth.
Sir J. G. Simpson, M.D., however, in the spirit of prophecy beholds a far brighter
and happier prospect: he says, that a period will arrive when we shall be able to stay the
ravages of consumption, blot out-fevers and inflammation, cure cancer, destroy all morbific
germ, annul the deadly influences of malaria and contagions; when our hygienic condition
and laws shall have been changed so as to forbid all communicable diseases from being
spread, and remove all causes of sickness that are removable; and when the rapidly increasing
length of human life shall begin to fulfil that ancient prophecy, "the child shall
die a hundred years old." We shall never Bee that day, but we may help to assure and
hasten on its advent.
HENRY BATESON, M.D.
June 8th, 1869.