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Delphine Lettau and Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.
This is undoubtedly the age of humanity—as far, at least, as Englandis concerned. A man who beats his wife is shocking to us, and acolonel who cannot manage his soldiers without having them beaten isnearly equally so. We are not very fond of hanging; and some of us goso far as to recoil under any circumstances from taking the blood oflife. We perform our operations under chloroform; and it has evenbeen suggested that those schoolmasters who insist on adhering insome sort to the doctrines of Solomon should perform their operationsin the s