Paris, France, July 20, 1899.
To the Editor.
—The lay as well as the medical public already recognizes that the torrid heat and drenching rains of a tropical climate are more to be dreaded by the American pacificator, than its hostile and treacherous mongrel population, but the non-professional community does not understand that which even the medical fraternity at home is slow to declare—a far greater evil than even these menaces the youthful soldiers, and through them, when they return, the people of our own land with whom they come in contact. Among the harpies, whose nests are in the East Indies and countries bordering the China Sea, there is none more ravenous and destructive than the lues venerea, whose victims are first the young and vigorous males of the race, and through them, those whom they infect, these remotely to empoison others.No amount of religious instruction or moral