Thora is an old s yingthat physi- J cians aro a class of men who pour " drugs, of which they, know little, e into bodies of whioh thoy know " less. This is both truo and .un- v rue at tho same time. Thero are 8 good and poor lawyers, and good and ' poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is * th'it thoy are clannish, and apt to be r concoited. They don't like to bebeaton c at.their owirtrade by outsiders who I havo never studied niedicino, They * therefore, pay, by thoir frequent j failures, the penalty of refusing instruc- | tion nniofls the teacher bears their own ' " Hall Mark." ; '.. ' An eminent physician—Dr Brown- ' Sequard, of Paris-states the fact ' accurately when he. says: "The, medi- ' cal profession are so bound up in thoir ' self-coiitidenco and conceit that they ' allow the diamond truths of science I bo picked up •,'by persons en tirely outside', their ranks." Wegivo ' a most interesting incident,. which lluslrates this important truth, ' Tho ateamship " Uoncordio" of tho Donaldson Lino, sailed from Glasgow ' (or Baltimore in 1887, having on hoard asa fireman amannamedKlchard Wade of Glasgow. He had boon a fireman ' for fourteen yoars on various ships sail in.' from America, China and India He had borno tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy and stroll;. On the trip wo now name ho began for tho first time to feel weak and ill. Ilis'appotito failed and ho Buttered trom drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth and costivehess and irresmlarity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work ho had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the tire-room. Quite often he wan sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in tho head. Later during tho passage ho grew worso, and when the ship roached Halifax ho was placed m tho Victoria General Hospital, and the ship Bailed away without him, The I house surgeon gnvo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and tho next day tho visiting physician wve him a mix ture jo take every four hours, that in two days Wade .was so much worso that thodostors stopped both tho powders ' and tho mixture. 