Audi Alteram Partem.
To the Editor:—I have just read a letter in The Journal for July 27, last, from S. Paulo, Brazil, about the yellow fever in Santas, Campinas, and other smaller places in the same Province, with a great deal of interest and attention, as I am in the position to bear testimony to its correctness, having been all the time of the late epidemic practicing in Rio de Janeiro, which also suffered at the same period; so much so that the fatal year, 1889, will not soon be forgotten there. I was in correspondence with a medical friend in S. Paulo who gave me a very graphic picture of the state of affairs there, and I shrewdly suspect that he is the author of the letter in The Journal; and as I know and esteem him as a competent observer of rigid impartiality, I think he will