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"THE MEDICAL WORLD"

Once again we face a new year. We've
been facing the same kind of thing for
years, and yet it seems new every time it
comes around. It's always new, like the
ninth or nineteenth baby. As we all desire
to make our lives successful, to feel that
the world is better for our having lived,
to know that others believe so, let us re-
member that each year, and, indeed, each
day, is entirely new. That is to say, the
future is always before us and we have
the time and opportunity to make of it
almost what we will, there being, of course,
limitations to all of us, or we would long
ago have made this commonplace, mundane
sphere an ideal abode.

From the past we hope we have learnt
our lessons, and they surely are many. The
past is gone, but its memory remains and
its value as an instructor is great if we
will utilize it thus to the full measure of
its possibilities.

What we shall accomplish in the next

twelve months depends to some extent on

what we do today. Just as the past is a

school of experience and a foundation for

the present, so today bears a similar rela-

tion to the future-to the new year that is

before us. Let us take opportunity by the

forelock-someone said "she is bald in

back."

We can all realize that today is not what

we wish it were. Seize it with a will and
make it measure up to what it should.
Some of it we can charge up to our own
shortcomings. Here lies the greatest room
for improvement. What the world in gen-
eral is and does we can very little alter,
but we control our own actions and destiny
to a great extent; so let us make the most
of our opportunity. Let us rub off the
rust and clean away the cobwebs, dust and
soot. Let us polish up the brass ornaments
and clean the harness and the vehicles; let
us open up the instrument cabinet and the
bookcase.

If our instruments have outlived their
usefulness, let us get some new and modern
ones. Let us make a sphygmomanometer,
since it teaches so much and is now an in-
expensiv piece of very useful apparatus.
Plenty of other things that we know of
will come to mind in this connection.

Let us burnish up our knowledge. We
need a few books, every doctor needs a few
books every year. Look over your library
and our book reviews and see what you
need to assist you in giving your patients
the best possible service. Make yourself
up to date; it will be a great satisfaction to
you, as well as a help to your patients, and
it cannot fail to pay financially.

Old views of medical science and art pass
away as scientific medicin progresses on-
ward toward that goal of perfection that
we all seek. And as our science and art

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