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headache, etc., often yield to suggestion. If, with ability to diagnose disease and without the aid from coal-tar sedatives and opiates, the physician can relieve such maladies as headache, lumbago, sciatica, or the anguish of rheumatic joint, duty imposes the obligation to do so."

This shows the trend of the more advanced and liberal in the medical fraternity, and for my part I am not at all inclined to antagonize the profession as a whole, or indeed, at all.

What if there are some illiterate physicians who are opposed to the new movement. They do not lead the van. There are others, more intelligent, who are in the lead, and the ignorant will follow. I have many regular physicians on my list of subscribers, who write me for instruction. Others who actually send their patients to me for treatment, and others still who take treatment themselves, who acknowledge the inefficacy of drugs, and ask for something better. One physician in New York asked me to go in partnership with him, and if the truth were known physicians as a whole are not so prejudiced as they are represented to be.

Of course, if we go in as cranks and order that the attending physician be turned out of the sick room, we naturally stir up some ill feeling. That is the mistake the Christian Scientists have made, as in the case of Harold Frederic,