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which to create a panic. Smallpox panics are
worked up ostensibly for the public welfare
Often they are due to the desire for petty
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of a health board official. Be-
sides, there are millions of dollars invested in
the making Of vaccInes and serums, and it is
not to the interest of the manufacturers and
stockholders that business should decline.
While There Is Life There Is Hope
One of the most prominent of the journals
to take UP the cause of ant-vivisection Life
C4 prints n bitterly satircal protest on the
subject, signed with the initials of Ellis o.
Jones.
In Massachusetts, recently they have been
trying to take the dog out of the clutches of
the ,Vivsector. Doctor Cannon, professor of
physiology at Harvard, was one of those who
opposed the bill that introduced in the
LEGISLATURE for that purpose. He said that the
RABBIT and other smaller inferior animals have
organs so fine that experiments do not bring
the same results as do those on dogs, while the
monkey is too expensive for ordinary expert
ments
No room for sentiment there IT. therefore.
expense Is the most important thing to be con-
sdered, why not orphans? Orphans have
no friends and can he had for almost nothing,
Medical etiquette a much -taked-of and
very complicated article, shrouds the person.
ality of most of our great physicians in mys-
terry, But few rise so high that they
tguratively speaking-step off the top rung
of the ladder into n transcendental state
where it is even possible to write them up in
the magazines and papers. Such a man is
Dr. Howard Kelly who is the subject of an
article by another doctor, Stoddard Good
hue. NJ. D.. In the Cosmopolitan (5)
AS 7 came into DR.. Howard Kelly's surgery
in Baltimore, he in the midst of n very
dihcult and delicate operation, surrounded of
course, by assistant physicians and nurses. He
was manipulating scalpel and needle ith the
deftness for which he is celebrated-using either
nfnI ,tY,rrI,
but, nevertheless, he entered at once into an
animated conversation.
About the only recent progress in this field"
he said, "is to make the difficult operations as
feasible and as in their results as the
easy ones. improvements In technique enable
to do this.
But, of course two operations are lust
alike, and no matter how often you operate
something of interest is always revealed to
Keep up your enthusiasm. Zeal and zest doc
tor-these are the great words They are the
only words beginning with q except proper
names that occur in the Bible And they de-
serve to stand by themselves With zeal and
%cst you can move mountains, and have fun
in doing it."
This ! take II was an average "a hours for
thiS tireless worker; five or six capital opera-
tlons at home and hospital: the supervision of
Iadlum cancer patients; conference about
sunday sermons and social service; dictation
OF Vouminous correspondence q few hours of
literary composition; night tour of inspection
and advice In the slums; n conference with
police othctals. and a lecture on the history Of
the operation for ovarian tumors Zeal and
zest pondered, when coupled with a tire
less physique and n brain endowed with native
genius they are marvellous asset"