Nothing appalled and depressed me so much as this silent, uncomplaining misery.

It is a fact of great interest, that notwithstanding this defective nutrition in men subjected to crowding and filth, contagious fevers were rare; and typhus fever, which is supposed to be generated in just such a state of things as existed at Andersonville, was unknown.

These facts, established by my investigations, stand in striking contrast with such a statement as the following by a recent English writer: "A deficiency of food, especially of the nitrogenous part, quickly leads to the breaking up of the animal frame.

Plague, pestilence and famine are associated with each other in the public mind, and the records of every country show how closely they are related.

The medical history of Ireland is remarkable for the illustrations of how much mischief may be occasioned by a general deficiency of food.