Walking Death

In yellow-fever distráete the teclmical term "walking case" is wcll nnderstood, mm! iadicates a singular, and at the same time a fearful, form of this dreadful djgeii.se. A "walkinp: case " is a patiënt who ref uses to yield to the sickness, will not go to bed, but keeps on liis feet untíl lio drops dead. Sometimos lic ref uses to believe he has the yellow fever ; sometimos lio realizos that he lias it, but displays the most abject fear; or, it may bo, the utmost courage and indifference in regard to his own feite'. He will sometimes, in pite of all that i'rieuds can do, rosan the streets with the seal of deatn on his face, until at last he falJs a YJctim to the destróyer,