your expense, doctors to perform these operations: we will force
the man whose family may have the misfortune to contract a disease,
which the doctors have not told him how to prevent, to submit them to
such treatment.' But nothing is said about the desirability of
exercising government over oneself, one's body and one's mind! And
nothing is _said_ either, but it is suggested, that, if one accepts
meekly coercive treatment by official doctors, one may probably be
able to ignore the laws of life and health without having to pay the
penalty.

No sane and properly instructed citizens would be satisfied to have
State officials compel them to do what they ought to do for
themselves. It is because of this and because the suggestions and
compulsions of modern medicine are in keeping with the prevailing
philosophy that accumulates knowledge without wisdom, that we need
such counteracting influences as are afforded by journals like _The
Healthy Life._

LAYMAN.

A DOCTOR ON DOCTORS.

"I charge that whereas the first duty of a physician is to instruct
the people in the laws of health and thus prevent disease, the
tendency has ever been towards a conspiracy of mystery, humbug, and
silence."

"I charge that the general tendency of the profession has been to
depreciate the importance of personal and municipal cleanliness, and
to inculcate a reliance on drug medicines, vaccination, and other
unscientific expedients."

ALEXANDER ROSS, M.D., F.R.S.

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MODERN GERM MANIA: A CASE IN POINT.

Under the sensational heading, _Doomed to Carry Germs: Woman Typhoid
Victim for Life_, the following account appeared recently in _News of
the W