On the 18th, leaning on his servant Titas' arm, he took an anodyne draught. "A little later he took another draught of a similar kind, and at six o'clock he uttered his last intelligible sentence: 'Now I shall go to sleep.' He slept for 24 hours, and at 6:15 o'clock on the evening of April 19th surprised the watchers by opening his eyes and instantly shutting them. He died at that instant." Bleeding, blistering, purging and strong narcotic medicines constituted heroic treatment in Lord Byron's time. He submitted to it and died easy!

President Garfield, shot down by the assassin, Guiteau, would, in all probability, have lived if he had had the plain surroundings and skillful surgical treatment of a common soldier. French and German medical professors criticised Dr. Bliss and the treatment most scathingly. He was treated too much, and by too many doctors. The location of the ball was not discovered till the autopsy. They probed a pus channel instead of the track of the bullet. The treatment was such a piece of blundering all through that progressive medical journals denounced it, and the Cincinnati Commercial said: "It is a ghastly thing to think of the solemn committee of physicians filling the President's room while his wound was dressed, and the 'flexible tube' was poked into the yielding flesh of the sick man, three inches at first, and finally 14 inches, in a direction opposite from that taken by the ball."

Lord Beaconfield died while the allopaths and homeoepaths were quarreling over his sick body.

And what the lesson from Beaconsfield, Garfield, Byron, Washington and thousands of others? Just this: physicians must be students and progressive. There must be in them the "gift to heal;" there must be insight and intuition; there must be persistent study and calm judgment, and, added to these, there should be travel and ripe experience to constitute the successful physician.

Several years ago I chanced to cross the ocean from Liverpool to New York in the same steamer with the gifted and world-renowned Dr. J. Marion Sims. His deportment and magnanimous mention of other schools of medicine than his own quite carried me captive. Here is his famous formula called the "alterative compound," excellent for the blood, and pronounced by some a specific for syphilis in its secondary and tertiary stages. Take of

Fluid Extract of Smilax Sarsaparilla (Bamboo Brier),

Fluid Extract of Stillingia Sylvatica,

Fluid Extract of Lappa Minor,

Fluid Extract of Phytolacca Decandra, لل 2 ozs.

Tincture Xanthoxylum Carolinianum, 1 oz.

The ideal, "The coming physician," as Prof. Reubens terms him, will heal both mind and body. There is much in the mind-cure theory. There are many cases on record where imagination or fear has killed. If the mind can kill, can it not also cure? The inmost spirit cannot sicken, cannot die. The mind controls the body, and it can be educated to the point of controlling, and often curing sickness. The oyster mends its own shell; the tree heals itself when wounded by the woodman's axe. Many diseases are purely imaginary; others are real, requiring medicines.

Dr. Livingstone, a man doubly armed with faith and medical science, took his Bible in one hand, his medicines in the other, and penetrated the depths of Africa as traveler, doctor and missionary, doing good.

As a physician with three diplomas, representing two different schools of medicine, and a certificate from the Philadelphia Hospital; as a physician registered in Atlantic Co., New Jersey, and the city of Philadelphia; as a physician who has traveled twice around the world and two-thirds of the way a third time, studying diseases and their treatment in some of the medical hospitals of Asia as well as Europe, I can, with all due deference to the different medical fraternities and colleges, afford to be independent, and, being thus independent, I can not only well afford to endorse and appropriate the best and most recently discovered remedies known to the profession, or formulated in Materia Medica, but I can admit, as I cheerfully do, the successful medical treatment and uses of hydropathy: the hot air bath, the medicated steam bath, the disinfecting bath, the shower bath, the sun bath, vital magnetism (of which Dr. Babbitt, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is an adept), the electric battery, the will-power, massage and the prayer-and-faith-cure, one or more or all of which are assistants, and, in some cases, indispensable to the restoration of health.

The 75,000 physicians of America, administering drugs to the amount of $125,000,000 yearly, should, while avoiding Latin phrases and medical technicalities as much as possible, teach hygiene in the families where they practice, and instruct the people how to live so as to keep well and live a century.

In some parts of China the mandarins pay their doctors for keeping them and their families well; but if they become sick these doctors lose their salaries. How would this plan work in the United States?

In the golden age, in the good time coming, of which dreamers have dreamed and poets sung, the preacher and the doctor will be merged into one profession. Mind and body mutually affect each other. Jesus healed both. See His command to the disciples: "And Jesus sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and heal the sick." - Luke ix. 2.

"The man who dares to think, to live,

True to his soul's divinest light,

Shall to the world an impulse give

For truth and right.

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The brave in heart, the true in mind,

Will dare to see the truth aright,

While coward souls, perverse and blind,

Will shun the light.

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But though all eyes on earth were closed,

Still would the sun as brightly shine,

And truth, by all the world opposed,

Is still divine.

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That which men abuse to-day,

Men of the future will adore,

And truth, which error seeks to slay,

Lives evermore.

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The Cross may meet his noblest deeds,

The faggot blaze at every word,

Yet through the angry strife of creeds,

Christ will be heard."