Excerpt from Philadelphia Medical Times, Vol. 7: A Bi-Weekly Journal of Medical and Surgical Science; October 28, 1876 Forced to meet these facts, -one of the New York dailies asserts that, although there are fewer deaths in this city, there is vastly more sickness than in the great me tropolis. AS is well put by one of our city newspapers, the lesser number of deaths in the greater number of cases proves how much better the Philadelphia doctors are than those of New York. Although we feel'this superiority, truth requires us to ac knowledge that our New York friends have magnified the number of our cases. The newspaper accounts of the frightful risk to be run in seeing the Centennial have had a great effect; not in diminishing attend ance at the great exhibition, but rather in alarming those who congregate to it. The desire to see it is so deep-rooted that the multitude comes, although it may feel like an army going to the conflict. The precautions taken by some of the fearful ones are very amusing. One party we know of brought a cask of the notorious Croton water and persisted in drinking it at the table-d hote and elsewhere, although by standing it had become fairly putrid. Another family, Staying fifteen miles away from the city, in a hilly district full of springs of the best water, receive daily their beloved and trusted Croton, bottled at their residence in New York. Ephraim truly is joined to his idols. The hotel keepers, wine-merchants, etc., owe a debt of gratitude to the New York press, as the extra demand for claret at the table helps in no mean way to fill the general ex chequer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.