This question could in all fairness be asked, after a careful analysis of the subject, particularly the evidence presented, in the very able paper, read last June before the Section on Surgery and Anatomy at the forty-fourth annual meeting of theAMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, bearing the title, "The Antiquity of Syphilis, and Moses as a Health Officer," by Dr. J. T. Jelks of Hot Springs, Ark. In this paper the Doctor has evidently touched the keynote of discussion; and without doubt, has been the means of turning many thinking men in a direction hitherto not sought, for clinical evidence in the diagnosis of disease. I think it quite worthy the profession to turn aside for a moment from our text-books, and consider some of the leading points in the arguments presented by Dr. Jelks, from a Scriptural standpoint. However, it will be our aim (as the reader will observe), in