The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-13

eating, sudden drauglrts, together with
an undue nervous strain on the patient,
will battle the most ssllillful physician,
and render his efforts to effect a cure nun
sand void.
Yet, when a patient dies, the question
is asked who was the attending pnE-
sician p when it ought to be. How fa1th-
fully were his directions followed, and
how inteligently was the medicine sup
plinented by CONSCIENTIOUS attehuoli 10
necessary detaiils?
FAITH sHEALING5 AND THE law.
According to the New York Tribune, :
the aid of the law is to be invoked to res
cue a young woman in Chicago from
the criminal folly OF the faith-healing
community, says the New York Medical
Journal" The young woman is SAID TO Dc
suffering from 'fhra!in fewer, (which,
from the reference no her screams OF
agony, we take to be tIiberculous nlenin-
gifts, and these wiseacres are attempt
ing to cure her 10y casting out devils,
amounting the head with oil and other
methods. The Humane Society and sthe
Health Department, having no legal
ground to interfere. q, judge has been
appealed to for an order to commit her
to the Detention Hospital for treatment
The atsurdity of these people is -eNempLl-
fed in the following statement, which
purports to have emanated from one OF
the disciples:
Miss Bettisons Illness lis due to the
rapidity of her spiritual experience. 1t lis
due to the struggle between the lHoiT
Ghost and whatever of evil there IS III
her for mastery. The Holy Ghost seems
to have come to her all at once and Us
more than her body can stand We fcel
sure she Will he well in a few days III we
are only left alone and allowed TO care
for
We are no advocates Of any undue in
telference with the personal liberty of
the individual adult in full possession of
his faculties to get his trea trnent IN d.
sease done for him as he gets his laun-
dry. anywhere and by any method that
nleases him. But children who are incom-
petent nc take care OF themselves, and
adults who are mentally ancapaGtated,
either permanently or temporarily, nave
a right to protection from the VaSdries OF
fanatics.
MOSQUITO AND NIADARIAL DISEASE.
It is row pretty we'll established that
Tho MOSQUITO lis the chief agent in the
dissemination of malaria. However, it is
but one of that Testiferous insect that,
so far as is known, is responsible; and,
for the benefit of the public. We give be-
low 1.-THE smeans of distinguishing the
"anopheleS, the intecllFe cafiler-Lfoili
the .sc,sIex, ''-narmless- e, so far as
malaria is concerned, member of the tribe.
While resting on IA wall the axis of the
BODY of the anopheles Us almost vertical
to THE wall, while the body of the culex
is parallel to the wall. In the anopheles
the wings show dark spots along their
anterior margins: but in the culeX the
wings are usually plain The proboscis
in The anophelcs is long and thick. and Is
directed towards the surface on which the
insect is: in the culex, it is directed
parallel ito that surface. Wherever ttle
anophedes is found there is danger iof
malaria, while the culex is supposed to
be harmless.
Prophylaxis consists in the destruction
of the anopneles and the protection CT
sufferers from nalaria-siltce it is from
biting this class of persons that the
anophe1es receives its store of inbcutable
material.
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