'the fault is not in our stars, but .in ourselves."

It is too often true that the physician is content with being simply a physician, a medical man, and nothing more. The world is full of doctors who never read a book, except it be a medical one, and who never have time to lose themselves in the admira-. tion of a masterpiece from the brush of a great artist. The beautiful is blotted from their lives. They have no time, they say. The doctor's life, they tell you, is too busy, too crowded with work, to afford time for these refinements of existence. I think it was Ruskin who uttered the sad declaration that Scotland had no art because her people had no leisure, and yet the busiest men we know in our profession are the very men who seem always to have a little time to give to subjects of general interest, and to the newspaper reporter. Those brilliant lights in the medical profession, Billeath and Vichaw, shine yet more brightly because of the versatality of their genius.

Their genius led them into the legislative hall as well as the amphitheatre.

The doctor should not be too busy to have political ideas of his own; and he should have the courage and the hardihood to assert them, he should not have too much of them either, but

let him, as in Hamlet's advise to the players, "acquire and beget a temperance that shall give him smoothness." If it begets sufficient "smoothness" to make him a health commissioner or a central committee man, it occurs to my mind not that he is a worse physician, but that he is a better citizen in the broader signification of the word. It tells me that he is in touch with the age in which he moves and that he moves with it.

Once, long ago upon a stricken field a king urged on his wavering chiefs with the cry: "Fight on, my men! Remember you were Scotsmen before you were knights!" And so it is with us. Let us be men first and doctors afterwards. Let us feel the pulse of the age in which we live, and live as much as we can while we do live, and to as good a purpose.

Then in the words of Omar:

"When the angel of the darker drink

At last shall find us by the river-brink And, offering his cup invite our soul

Forth to our lips to quaff, we shall not shrink."

Dr. Bransford Lewis presided with great ease, dignity and geniality, giving to the occasion a tone of mutual good feeling rarely seen on set occasions of this character. It is not necessary to state that the menu was fully up to St. Louis gastronomic records, and the "wee sma' hours" saw us safely on the owl car. PROSIT.

We are pleased te see that the medical journalists generally are taking the same view as we have done of the therapeutic significance and relationship of those great principles of modern therapy which have so revolutionized the modern practice of med

icine. It is difficult to see how a physician's armamentarium could be of any service in this day and generation of therapy without antitoxine, protonuclein, nuclein, melachol, erysiphelas prodigiosus, et id omne genus. They have come to stay.

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The venerable and now sainted father of the editor of the CLINIQUE ever carried as the burden of his long editorial life "lack of space." How often do we remember his sorrowing over "unset copy." Well, we are inWell, we are inheriting the same lament, but we hope, and are happy to say have reason to hope that the increase of the subscription list and profitable advertising will give us room to swim in. Then we shall be able to properly respond to all the pleasant and genial things said of us by others and to express

our own appreciation of what we believe to be the rapid advance of modern medical journalism.

We are proud to say, falling into line with Western enthusiasm (which by the way makes us all the happier and the better for its indulgence) that the medical journals of St. Louis preserve that interchangeable courtesy which is rarely seen in any department of journalism and medical journalism in particular. It is the avant courier of a brighter era we firmly believe.

We are greatly pleased to receive from Dr. J. W. McLaughlin of Austin, Texas a delightful brochure. The Kinetic and Therapeutic energy of drugs, the bacteriology of dengue, and an outline of the Physical Theory of Fermentation Immunity and Infection and its bearing on the Rationale of Serum Therapy. The following corroborates our often expressed views;

"The products of the vital activity of pathogenic bacteria-which are termed toxines and tox-albuminsare admitted to be the essential cause of infection when they are introduced into a susceptible organism in sufficeint amount, and the cause of immueity to infection when they are inoculated, first in small doses, and then in gradually increased doses as thesystem becomes tolerant. Toxines and toxalbumins are further believed to be of

the nature of unorganized ferments, and to act within the susceptible organism as ferments do in fermentable solutions; that is, these toxines, by means of the energy of their molecular waves, dissociate and transform into inhibitory bodies such loosely-combined substances, within the organism; whose molecular waves make them susceptible to the molecular energy of the toxines. It will be observed that inhibitory bodies must result from the nature of this action, as they do from that of fermentation, and the cause of inhibitory power of these bodies, in the one case as in the other, is in the character of their molecular waves, which are the opposite or antagonists of the primary ferment, because of the wave influence under which ferment products are formed. The substances, say in man's body that most probably are dissociated by pathogenic bacteria are the albuminoids of his fluids. The