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McCollom. -- Out-door exercise, sleeping-apartments well ventilated, plain, nutritious diet, cleanliness, proper clothing, eight or ten hours' sleep.

Fairman. -- Large, well- ventilated sleeping-apartments, plenty of exercise in open air, journeying, especially on horseback, good, wholesome diet, freedom from care, attention to the general health, avoidance of cold, wet, damp, and exposed localities.

Banney. -- I am sorry to say, after a practice of twenty-five years, and observing cases treated and not treated, that answers to your questions must mainly be conjectural, and, consequently, of little value. The conclusion to which I have come is this: tuberculosis results from a peculiarly depraved condition of the system, generally hereditary. If otherwise, and the predisposition not transmitted, there is not sufficient evidence to establish proof of cause. Until the cause is ascertained, the way of prevention or promotion seems to me very dark and Mind. Conclusion, -- a glorious uncertainty about the whole matter contained in the questions.

Richmond. -- Free, timely, and proper exercise in a pure atmosphere. Special attention should be paid to the digestive organs, or blood-making machinery, that the greatest possible amount of good, wholesome food may be converted into blood; and all condiments (stimulating) be avoided. Tobacco, the greatest bane to human kind, from its enervating power, is to be avoided in every form by all means. Porter, more than any article in my practice, prepares the digestive organs for nourishment, and guards the system against tuberculosis.

Mayo. -- Change of climate.

Bolan. -- I think cod-liver oil, with a constant and small dose of liquor, will retard the disease, and at times, produce a cure. I have seen a few children recover when one lung was entirely diseased.

Lincoln. -- Let the child, in infancy, receive its nourishment from a healthy nurse, free from any hereditary taint; a strict attention to cleanliness, keep in a moderate temperature, a sufficient quantity of clothing, pure air and sunlight. Let it sleep with a healthy, hut not old, person. In childhood give it healthful, hut not too violent exercise, so as not to prostrate those weak powers, but rather to invigorate and strengthen. If the patient is in a state of perspiration do not check it too suddenly. The brain should not he overtasked while the physical powers are weak. There should he an entire abstinence from any of those indulgencies which are so antagonistic to nature. It is our conviction that, by a strict adherence to these prophylactics, there is a possible escape from the terrible scourge which cuts down so many of the human race.

Sanborn. -- Moderate exercise daily, regular habits, such as regularity in eating, drinking, sleeping, and attending to calls of nature, dressing properly, not wearing clothes so close as to punish and disfigure the person, amusements, generous diet, change of location or climate, and keeping in the open air as much as possible when the weather is suitable. A change of climate I consider almost absolutely necessary, and, in the majority of cases, indispensable. Also amusements, -- everything which tends to cheerfulness of a moral character.

Bobbins. -- 1st. Residence in the country. 2d. Attention to diet: food to be taken at least four times a day, till ten years old, which is to be largely animal -- especially milk; sugar not to be rejected, but largely and judiciously used, as taking the place of fat in adult life. 3d. Bathing, almost daily, with frequent change of clothing. 4th. Constant out-door life. Such children by no means to be sent to public schools. Body before mind. Make romps of them rather than precocious prigs.

Bromwell. -- Extraordinary attention to general health.

Eldredge. -- I believe consumption to be decidedly hereditary, and that where there is this tendency life may be prolonged by generous living, residing in a favorable locality, having regard to drainage and exposure rather than to temperature; always sleeping in an upper chamber; and by avoiding harassing care and hard labor of every kind.

Collins. -- Good air, food, residence, surroundings, and everything that goes to make a perfect animal.

Peaslee. -- Hygienic means, especially out-of-door occupation.

Condie. -- I have seen cases in which children, male and female, strongly predisposed by hereditary taint to tubercular phthisis, have had the disease arrested, or, more properly speaking, have been saved from a development of the disease, by a proper hygienic course of treatment, including diet and regimen, especially when pursued in conjunction with a complete change of climate -- from one marked by dampness and rapid transition of temperature to an elevated, dry, inland situation with an equable temperature. Even in adult life, I have known pulmonary tuberculosis, after it was actually commenced, arrested in its course by the above means. In one instance -- that of a man named K , some thirty-eight years of age -- a saddler by trade, laboring under tuberculization of the lungs, at my advice, changed his occupation to that of drayman. This calling he pursued unintermittently for about six years, and affected an entire cure, as, after a very close examination, I verily believe to be the case.