MONIES AT MONTPE

LIER IN 1675.

The manner of making a Doctor of Physic is this: First, a procession in scarlet robes and black caps the professor took his seat and after a company of fiddlers had played a certain time, he made them a sign to hold, that he might have an opportunity to entertain the company, which he did in a speech against innovations the musicians then took their turn. The Inceptor or candidate, then began his speech, wherein I found little edification, being chiefly complimentary to the chancellor and professors, who were present. The Doctor then put on his head the cap that had marched in on the beadle's staff, in sign of his doctorship-put a ring upon his finger-girt himself about the loins with a gold chain-made him sit down beside him that having taken pains he might now take ease and kissed and embraced him in token of thot friendship which ought to be ongst them. John Locke: ary.

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knew nothing of plastic surgery,

of tenotomy, of the ophthalmoscope, or of the use of the microscope in diagnosis, and had only just learned how to ligate arteries and to treat ordinary wounds in a simple and sensible way. The really great surgeon of that day was bold, cool and skillful, could perform most of the great operations, such as amputation, ligature of large arteries, removal of tumors, Caesarean section, and the like, but such men were few and far between. John Shaw Billings (1895).

M. J. Kutisker, M. D. 9

WHAT A YOUNG DOCTOR THINKS ABOUT ALTRUISM

} Kitty Parsons 9

Ralph M. Thomson, M. D. Edward Willard Watson, M. D. 10 Zim 11

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Soft lines of tranquil thought his

face fulfill

Walter E. Anthony, M. D. Edmond J. Melville, M. D.

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His face at once benign and proud and shy.

BOTH WAYS FROM THE MIDDLE EDITORIALS

Herbert L. Smith, M. D.

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If envy scout, if ignorance deny, His faultless patience, his unyielding will,

Beautiful gentleness, and splen

did skill,

Innumerable gratitudes reply.

His wise, rare smile is sweet with certainties,

And seems in all his patients to compel

Such love and faith as failure cannot quell.

We hold him for another

Battling with custom, prejudice, disease,

As once the son of Zeus with Death and Hell.

-William Ernest Henly: In Hospital.

*A pen-portrait of Lord Lister.