Besides this course of continued intellectual growth, the furtherance of his moral culture is no less deserving his careful consideration. This, in the medical man is a special need; for no other profession opens so broad a field of temptation to the practice of deception, prevarication, white lies, downright falsehoods and all abuses of the moral sense. To be able to triumph over all these tempters and stand and live pure and immaculate, demands not only a strong moral force at the very threshold of a medical man's career, but a daily renewing from the only source of adequate strength; namely, the teachings and example of Him, who, though tempted like as we are, was without sin and died upon the Cross, that we might have the helpfulness of His grace in every hour of need.

The more surely to reap the advantages of His teachings, and himself to grow in grace of character, the young medical man should identify himself with some religious body bearing the Christian name, and from its associations and influence, acquire Sabbath after Sabbath a strengthening of his moral resistance to every temptation possible to his calling as well as to his own individuality. All this training, intellectual and moral, will not only add to his professional qualification and strength, but to his influence and reputation as a member of general society.

The next and third duty of the young medical man is towards his wife and children, if children he has. Though he must, it is true, look to his professional business, his patronage for his and their support, still it is possible to do this and to honor his calling and not at the same time sacrifice his domestic comfort and peace. But to secure this, he must give his wife and family the first place in his care and attention and devotion. His home must be regarded by him as first in his ambitions. What he may win in financial rewards, in reputation, in honors, his family should share with him. His wife as its queen, should wear the crown. But alas! what do we too often, I will not say averagely, find? We too often find the home of the medical man but a travesty on the name of home; and the wife in this home among the most neglected, the most desolate and most lonely of the women in any class in so-called respectable society! The best of the husband, the best of his time, the best of his attentions, the best of his sympathies, the best of his deference, the best of his reverence, the best of his heart life, the best of his soul life, is given to others-and she, with all her fondness and devotion and outgoing love has to take up and be satisfied with what is left of him; the residium of his spent powers!

Yet, how naturally and how easily, if not stoutly resisted, all this comes about. Consider for a moment!

To win and secure business and patronage in his ambitions, the young doctor, now married, feels that everything for a time must yield to this aspiration. He must give to it all possible time and all possible attention. This he is prone to do, even to the disregard of the ordinary home duties and cares, or by transfering them over to his wife. He is tempted to abbreviate his meal hours that he may capture a patron. He seems willing to give over his evenings which belong to. his wife and family, for the chase after this phantom of patronage. He will return perhaps to his home by his ordinary bed hours, but too weary long to confer with wife or children, if these honor his home. His wife and he are rarely seen out together either at places of amusement or lectures, or at church, or any local function, and so the days. and weeks and months pass with little or no real heart and soul fellowship between them.

His office hours, his outside visitations are characterized, of course, by nice and delicate attentions to his patients, who so draw out his symapthies and challenge his respect and regard, that almost unconscious to himself at the close of each day's work, he is emptied of his better self and illy fitted for any refreshing communion with his wife, who in her domestic tastes has occupied her time and done her best to make his home attractive and his coming welcome.

How will he, and how does he requite her home ministry and painstaking for his comfort? More often than otherwise, by plunging on his entering his house into an easy chair or hurl himself down upon a lounge and dozingly or listlessly ask for what has happened since morning or since noon-tide and how soon will dinner be served? After the repast is partaken of, he goes back to his office and in due time returns home too tired for more than a passing word or so with her, whom he has vowed to love, cherish and honor. In the course of his day's experience, in his office or library, he may have studied up his cases and taken a glance or so over the passing medical literature of the day and thus toned up his mental acumen all the better to discharge h isprofessional duties. Granting this to be true, sure it is, his wife has had no participation in this source of self-improvement.

His home reading is limited to the hurried review of the daily newspaper, and this by reading to himself with only a fraction of the later evening hours spent in the society of his wife, and spent in this way, he takes to his bed. This is about his average routine of life with only a moiety of his time given to his home, and only a moiety of his social life given to his wife. What wonder then, that towards her he

gradually grows apathetic and indifferent, finding as he does, his social tastes more fully and pleasingly satisfied in the companionship he finds in his office and in the fellowship of his outside clientele.

What wonder that his wife, as gradually losing his honeymoon fondness, his loving deference, his delicate and nice attentions, his heart fellowship, though carrying in her heroism and consciousness of her own duty well done, an exterior of complacency and philosophic resignation, should come at last to feel that her married life has proved a failure, so far as concerns her heart's ambition and aims?

My young friends, this is no overdrawn picture of many a medical man's home-Alas! too many. It indicates a shameful lack of fealty to one's own-a shameful lack or retrograde of a husband's moral force. And I have presented this picture to you as a hint and warning against your ever making such a wreck of your homes, to which should be given the best you are or may become, the best you have or may win, the best you shall ever attain to.

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THE VALUE OF PUBLICITY REGARDING TUBERCULOSIS. D. Lewis points out that the only hope for success in the combat with tuberculosis, lies in a widespread dissemination of knowledge concerning the disease among all classes of society. The matter of first importance is to help the people help themselves, and let them know the truth about every phase of the malady, and its danger to the individual infected, and to others who come in contact with him. The question is a most far-reaching one, and the State, as a whole, is deeply concerned, and should assume an active part in taking measures to restrict infection, and to assist the poor who become diseased. Rational prophylaxis requires especially safeguarding of the child, and this must be carried out on the broadest possible lines. Public facilities for securing wholesome milk for the poor, the provision of temporary homes for infants of tuberculous parents, supervision of the children in schools and employed in factories, and the proper education of parents, are all essential features. Where the adult is concerned, the problem has a bearing on almost every phase of public and private relationships, and building laws, control of water and food supplies, sanitary regulation of conditions in factories, public conveyances, jails, lodging houses, etc., are of paramount importance to intelligent prophylactic endeavor. There is still much to learn, but the essential fact to remember is the necessity at present of disseminating the knowledge that we already have.-Medical Record, January 14, 1905.

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FACTS WHICH THE HOMEOPATHIC PROFESSION MUST FACE. Every homeopathic physician who is interested in the perpetuation of the principles of his school of medicine should feel an individual responsibility in overcoming the present tendency of prospective medical students to choose an allopathic in preference to a homeopathic college. Optimism is a good trait in some things, but in regard to this question, especially at this time, it is dangerous. The sooner actual facts are looked squarely in the face, the sooner will everyone, who has the best interests of Homeopathy at heart, endeavor to bring about a different condition of things.

There has been a constant decrease in the number of students in homeopathic colleges in the United States since 1900, and during the last college year, 1904-5, there were less than in 1880, notwithstanding the fact that in 1880, there were only 12 homeopathic colleges and in 1905, there were 18. The number of students in allopathic colleges has increased during the same period and has more than doubled since 1880.

These are unpleasant facts to contemplate. It is well that so much attention was given to the subject of the propagandism of Homeopathy at the recent meeting of the A. I. H. Those connected

with college management have long foreseen the present condition of things, but the masses of homeopathic physicians have not yet been brought to a realizing sense of the danger which threatens their school. It is a fact evident to all on the slightest investigation, that if the decrease in medical students in homeopathic colleges is not checked, it will be increasingly difficult to persuade students to attend our colleges and Homeopathy, as a school, will become weaker and weaker.

What is the remedy? Among the many that have been offered, the one which has been most often repeated, is that our colleges are primarily at fault; that our college faculties are filled with "mongrels," "hypocrites" and "frauds"; that students are not wellgrounded in homeopathic principles and soon drift away and become indifferent to the success of their distinctive creed in medicine.

We do not believe that this is true, except in isolated instances. There may be some in every faculty who do not devote as much attention to homeopathic treatment as they could or should, but their influence with the students is not against Homeopathy. Every one of our colleges is endeavoring to teach, and does teach the best Homeopathy of which its individual teachers are capable. The critics of the colleges, who denounce certain teachers in the colleges, questioning their honesty and integrity, and accusing them of willfully misrepresenting the teachings of Hahnemann, would do well to consider what effect such denunciations have upon students of intelligence. Students observe and think for themselves and are more often impressed unfavorably by a teacher who is narrow and rabid in his denunciations of others, than by one who has a tendency to liberality.

The colleges are not so much at fault as some believe. To the extent that they are, the fault should be and will be corrected. If deficiencies in homeopathic teaching exist, such deficiencies can be and will be supplied.

But there is a more potent and timely remedy than the above and it is within the reach of every homeopathic physician.

What proportion of homeopathic physicians, let us ask, are on a continuous "still hunt" for prospective medical students? When such a one is found, how much effort is made to direct him to a homeopathic college? Is it not evident to everyone that the homeopathic physician who has a personal relation with the prospective student, is the one, next to the student himself, who is responsible for the choice which is made? He is the one who is on the ground, the accredited representative of the homeopathic colleges and who should see that the goods are delivered.

Every homeopathic physician should be able to offer convincing