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To the Editor: —The following extract from the letter of Joseph Severn, dated Rome, Jan. 11, 1821, written in the sickroom of John Keats (whom Severn was nursing in his last illness) may prove of interest as showing how the Italian medical authorities viewed tuberculosis a hundred years ago: News was brought me the other day that our gentle landlady had reported to the police that my friend was dying of consumption. Now their law is — that every individual thing, even to the paper on the walls in each room the patient has been in, shall, without reserve, be destroyed by fire, the loss to be made good by his friends. This startled me not a little, for in our sitting room where I wanted to bring him, there is property worth about £150, besides all our books, etc.—invaluable. Mosquito Destruction by a Plant. —According to investigations carried out
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