"DRY ROT."
To the Editor. We are often to)d that civilization is marked by pou; plenty ip every respect i among other thing?, in the variety of disease As the social organism develops, the catalogue of itsdiseasesis constantly lengthening. Your contemporary the ‘ Guardian’ has this morning added another to this lengthy catalogue. In a sub-leader it announces the discovery of a complaint which ought at once to be brought under the notice of the medical profession. Its technical name is “ dry rotits action is on “ the vitals,” which it attacks by “ gnawing”. We are not informed as to the shape of its dentals ; no doubt they have a marked resemblance to those of the celebrated rat which De la Roche intended to nip in the bud. Every one has heard of the man who made a wooden boat out of his head aud had enough of the same material left to, make another, but he sinks into insignificance beside a “nation with dry rot gnawing at its vitals.”—! am, &c., . Metaphor. February 26.
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Evening Star, Issue 3437, 26 February 1874, Page 2
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173"DRY ROT." Evening Star, Issue 3437, 26 February 1874, Page 2
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