APPENDIX.
I.
The following are the views of the celebrated M. Parent Duchalet of Paris as to the requirement of such a Council of Salubrity as I have referred to.
“ It is generally thought in the world, that the medical knowledge acquired in the schools is all that is necessary to become a useful member of the council. The greater part of medical men themselves share this opinion ; and, on the strength of some precepts they have collected from books on health and professions, they think themselves sufficiently instructed to decide on the instant the gravest questions, which can only be resolved by special studies.
“ A man may have exhausted medical literature ; he may be an excellent practitioner at the sick-bed, a learned physician, a clever and eloquent professor; but all these acquirements, taken in themselves, are nearly useless in a ‘ Conseil de Salubritd ’ like that of
Paris ; and, if an occasion presents itself to make use
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