doing previously. Common-sense is always at a discount,
and never more so than in this case. The tired brain-worker
doesn't want to stop. Give him something to whip up his brain
and his body, something to drive the spurs into them. 'What I
want,' he says, 'is a really strong tonic'; though, if he knew
that before, what was the use of coming to the doctor? Or he
would like to be told to take a glass of whisky-and-water when
he is tired, which is the maddest and most disastrous advice
that could be given.

"The man who has been ill-treating his stomach, eating too much
or too well, also demands a tonic--something to give him an
appetite so that he may eat more. And his poor overwrought
stomach is all the time crying out for rest.

"So it is all along the line. The possessor of an inflamed and
swollen knee prays for a liniment to rub into it which will cure
it straight away, and is highly disgusted when told that he will
have to lie up for a week or two.

"Again, for the tired stomach the cure is starvation. Let the
person live on his own fat, and a little milk-and-water for a
few days, and his stomach will take courage again and return to
work with renewed zest. But it is the most difficult thing in
the world to persuade the patient or his kind relatives of the
truth of this. There are many diseases in which, for a short
time at least, the less food the sick person has the better. But
the relatives are always much wiser than the doctor. They insist
'that the strength must be kept up,' and would like to force the
patient to eat more than he does when well. 'You will let his
strength down, doctor,' is a common complaint, and one of the
difficulties hospital authorities have to face is to prevent
kind friends from smuggling in food to the inmates, who, in
their opinion, are being brutally starved.

"I myself have cured people by making them rest--lie in bed and
starve. But the next time they were sick, _I wasn't the
doctor_."--"PHYSICIAN" in _Our Federation_.

"The blessings of sunlight and fresh air should be more
appreciated. The sun is the godfather of us all. The source of
all light, heat, electricity and energy, what wonder that it was
once worshipped as the Creator. The future will recognize it not
only as the best disinfectant, an all powerful preventive of