Between the Recuperative Bodily Power of Man in a Rude
and in a Highly Civilised State. (Harrison and Sons.) It was suggested by Professor Horsley's lecture on "The Operation of Trephining during the Neolithic Period in Europe," and illuetrates the suggestion there made that savage man recovers from injury or natural weakness with a rapidity with which his civilised fellows cannot compare. The most interesting of his illustrations are those which refer to rapid recovery from childbirth. Of each we have often heard. It is carious to find that fine breeding of sheep makes it dangerous to leave them at lambing-time. The tardy recovery of educated women from childbirth is attributed not only to the weakness of their muscular development, but also to the large heads of their offspring. The failure in recuperative power in civilised man, Dr. Harley is inclined to attribute chiefly to the use of alcohol.
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