The Press., 1890-01-02

A BO>tOm ImstitutiOm. The Peabody
 Medical Emstitute and Hts Quarter
 Cemaury's Work.
 One of the self-eyident propositions regard ing most, if not all, human institutions is that their survival indicates their fitness to exist. In other words, when an institution best serves some good purpose, 1t is apt to live. while such purpose is to be, or should be served. To combat the ordinary ills to which the flesh is heir, we have good physi- clans by the thousand and hospitals by the hundred; but there are ailments of so subtle nature, many of which infest society like @ dry rot, that require special skill and care in their treatment, that the specialist alone-and he must be man of rare qualifcations-can best treat them. Of such ailments those which have their origins in disorders of the nervous system are usually the most difficult to deal with, or to treat successfully. Their origin may be remote to the eye of the ordi- nary practitioner, while to the eye of the specialist it may be plainly indicated by the nature of the manifestations. At any rate, they are always more or less difficult of treat ment, requiring peculiar methods and patient and persevering attention on the part of the medical man. To treat such nervous mala- dies was the object of the founder of the Peabody Medical Institute, when. some 25 years ago, he established it at No. Bulfnch SlT60G, DOSlOu, WQ0r0 IL IS lOCaC0u GO tQlS- OAy, and where it will, no doubt, continue for many years to come, it being an established fact in the history of medical institutions that where they are eminently useful to humanity they are permanent. Its mission being largely philanthropic, it was named after that emi- nent American philanthropist, the late George Peabody, whose benefcence gladdens and will continue to gladden. thousands of his feowbe-
 ngs on both sides of the Atlantic for ages to come. It has had wonderful history of success, has this Peabody Medical Institute and it has extended it's usefulness not only throughout the length and breadth of this land but in the countries of Europe and Asia. So systematic are the methods pursued in the duct of the business pertaining to this institution that it treat by letter at distance the ob stinate of diseases which within the scope of it's treatment.
 The Peabody Medical Institute, also, has done a vast amount of phanthropic work in it's publications which, while being standard medical works, yet written for the purpose of bringing about that most necessary condition of self-knowledge that is em- bodied, in the motto, stKnow Thyself" Indeed, there is estimating tue vae of such publications, written as these are for popular comprehension, for
 they disseminate the information that IS most tia to the man or woman who would lead a moral, sober and virtuous life.
 Filling such useful sphere in the education and enlightenment of the world and in sministering to in most diseases it is not to be wonder ed at that the Peabody Medical Institute lives an thrfves, but the wonder would be that 1t should not
 live and extend its influence in behalf of suffering hu- manity.-Boston, Mass., Herald, Dec. 19, 1889. Oh, fisherman, your wife must wish You had different mode;
 For though you never catch fish,
 You yet bring home load.