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parts of some function or functions the vital power being

attracted to the disordered part." The recent advances in our know- ledge of blood-poisoning and disease-germs are ignored or assailed by Mr. Milton. The experiments of Pasteur, Burdon-Sanderson, and others "do not cast a ray of light upon the scene." By several means,. but not by calm reasoning, sound learning, or exact observation, the author of these lectures endeavours to uphold and develope many exploded fallacies, and even to invent a few novelties of the same order. The value of his own views may be gauged by the diagrams and descriptions on pages 142 and 146, and by his caricature of the germ theory of disease on page 77.