as men of affairs who know the value of cold cash in influencing public opinion through that great moral lever, the press. Instead of doing this, however, we welcome to our colleges all who possess the necessary educational and moral qualifications, with no restrictions on account of age or sex. Not only this, but we have also raised the standard of medical training from a two to a four year course. We thus increase the number and raise the qualifications of our competitors-a course the very opposite to that of the trusts. Make it your duty on all opportune occasions to lay bare the falsity of such accusations and to maintain the honor and unselfishness of our vocation. I wish to emphasize the fact that the Code concedes great liberty of thought. It places no restrictions upon your studies or your practice, provided you do not adopt any special dogma, and claim to embrace all medical knowledge in a single rule of faith and practice. The whole realm of human medical knowledge is left open for your investigation, that you may adopt the good and reject the bad. We are not hydropaths, nor yet do we show the faintest symptoms of hydrophobia. We gladly recommend an abundance of water to our patients whenever experience, observation and scientific investigation have established its usefulness. We are not mental healers, though knowing well that mind has its appropriate sphere of therapeutic action, and that hope and courage are important aids to recovery. We use suggestion in the management of our patients, but are not such extremists as to believe that serious organic affections, abscesses, cancers, tumors, fractures and dislocations. can be cured or corrected by a mere hint at recovery. We read in the daily papers that a few of our clerical friends imagine that by this agency alone they can overcome sickness and pain, the dread enemies of our race. Now, in order to use this agent honestly and skillfully, we must know the exact limit of its power, or in other words, the conditions in which it may be safely employed. No one familiar with disease would think of relying on suggestion alone in a case of tuberculosis of the spine, or the hip-joint, or in advanced stages of Bright's disease with threatening convulsions. To rely on suggestion in these and hundreds of other dangerous conditions is to trifle with human life. And, yet, who but a very skillful physician can tell when he meets one of these dangerous conditions. We assume that the single aim of these gentlemen is to do good, to be helpful to mankind. But good intentions alone are not sufficient excuse for assuming responsibilities without a knowledge of the duties to be performed. The pulpit has taught us, and we do not at all doubt the correctness of the lesson, that the path to Hades is paved with good intentions. To suggest to a patient that he is on the path of recovery without knowing either the nature or probable outcome of his disease is a serious infringement of the moral code of the great founder of the church, whose rule for honest speech was: "Let your yea be yea, and nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than this cometh of evil." Trifling with the truth is not a Christian virtue. To render honest service a workman must know the use of his tools. A scythe is a sharp instrument, but a razor is to be preferred for shaving purposes. Suggestion is well enough in its place, but in diphtheria I very much prefer a dose of antitoxin. To use any therapeutic agent wisely and safely, a thorough knowledge of disease is indispensable. As physicians you are recommended to read all theories, that you may "prove all things, and hold fast that which is good." I take great pleasure in presenting each of you with a copy of this official declaration of the policies of the regular medical profession of this country. May you prove yourselves worthy of the confidence we place in you, and be as successful in winning the respect and esteem of the public as in obtaining your diplomas from Gross Medical College. Cholera and Religion.-According to Dr. Zavitziano, the United States Sanitary Commissioner at Constantinople (Philadelphia Medical Journal), 1,129 deaths from cholera occurred in the Hedjaz in March, over half of these being in the "Holy City" of Mecca, whither the unwashed multitude of Moslem pilgrims congregate from all parts of the Eastern Continent. More than 1,000 deaths from cholera took place during the winter in Calcutta, where the stupid religious customs and prejudices make sanitation nearly impossible. NOTES. Hints About the Baby.-The Texas Medical News furnishes the following sensible pediatric suggestions: Give a baby plenty of water four or five times a day. Give a baby a rockless bed to itself. A baby should be held only to be nursed. Massage and exercise a baby each day. Give a baby a chance to lie naked and kick daily. Never give a baby diluted alcohol, liquors or coffee. Teach a baby to hang by its hands and spring with its legs. If the baby is constipated, give the mother sodium phosphate. Ventilate sufficiently and keep room temperature below 75° F. A cartload of sand makes a healthful plaything for a baby. Heredity and Tuberculosis.-Statistics, based on the history of several thousand families (Providence Medical Journal) show that only about one-third of all cases of tuberculosis have tubercular parentage, and that only 10 per cent. more of children of tuberculous parents have the disease than of other children. Dr. King (Medical Record), from carefully recorded observations of 242 cases in private practice, attempts to prove that, instead of predisposition to tuberculosis, the child of tuberculous parents inherits a relative immunity. In 103 fatal cases of the 242 studied, 76 occurred in children of non-tuberculous parentage, and the average duration of the disease was 2.93 years. In the remaining 27, of tuberculous parentage, the average period was 4.01 years. Joseph Eastman, M. D.-Dr. Joseph Eastman, for many years one of the collaborators of the DENVER MEDICAL TIMES, died June 5th. Dr. Joseph Eastman was born in Fulton county, New York, January 29th, 1842. Graduated in medicine at the University of Georgetown, 1865. He enlisted in the Civil War at the very beginning of troubles, and he was mustered out in 1866. He located and practiced his profession in Indiana, and spent the greater part of his professional life at Indianapolis. 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