once tried to argue with me that a certain lady
patient--a warm personal friend of my questioner and a Spiritualist--had
ovaritis, because he felt an intense burning pain in his _right ovarian
region_ whenever he went near to her. I tried to reason with him that
that pain should be in his right testicle, but he would insist on having
the sympathetic pain in _his_ ovarian region.

CHAPTER XI.

RELIGIO MEDICI.

Sir Thomas Browne, in his "Religio Medici,"[49] alludes to the scandal
that is generally attached to our profession, we being accused of
professing no religion. That this opinion is still prevalent at the
present day is undeniable,--philosophers and physicians are believed to
be atheists and non-religionists,--while, at the same time, by that
strange contradiction that is so common, philosophers and physicians are
the known and recognized sources of religions, such is the intimate
relation existing between physical and moral hygiene. Confucius, the
contemporary of Pythagoras, whose religion was said to be nothing more
than the observance of a certain moral and political ethical code, and
he who first formulated the text "that one should do unto others as one
wishes others to do unto him," the founder of the Confucian religion,
the orthodox religion of China, was a philosopher. Buddha, the founder
of the second creed recognized in China, and which forms the religion of
a great part of eastern Asia, was also a philosopher who was endeavoring
to reduce the Brahminical religion to the simple principles of
philosophical religion, based on morality. Moses not only was the
greatest philosopher of his time, but also had an insight into medicine
that to us of the present day is simply incomprehensible. The Great
Master was both a philosopher and a physician, his disputes with the
learned and his attention to the sick having given him the titles of
Great Master and Divine Healer.

To use the words of the "Religio Medici," the great body of the medical
profession can, without usurpation, assume the name of Christians; for
no monk of the desert convents of Asia Minor or religious knight of the
middle ages, either in their care of the sick, or giving food and
shelter to the weary, or protection of sword and shield to the oppressed
pilgrim plodding his way to the Holy Land, were more deserving of the
name of Christian than the medical man unwearily and unselfishly
practicing his profession. To the true student of his