Lord Granville on Saturday made an amusing little speech at
the International Medical and Sanitary Exhibition. He -said the tendency to empiricism seemed to be an instinct. He had the gout in Rome once, and received prescriptions in all manner of languages, Russian included. The Cardinal-Secre- tary of State gave him advice, and a Northern Foreign Minister gave him exactly the opposite, till he found that the only way to get well was to leave Rome. Last Easter he was said to have another attack, and he received letters of advice almost hourly. He was advised to drink whisky ; he was advised to drink -claret ; he was advised to be teetotal; and one gentleman, "whom he had no reason to suppose was a dentist, advised him to get a complete set of back teeth." He drew from his -experience the moral that we needed scientific advice, and on some points—the supply of pure water for example—a kind of -aid which private individuals could not supply. He assured the country that the Government was fully awake to the need of sanitary laws,—a more modest version of Lord Beaconsfield's Omnia sanitas.
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