MAY 6 1019

VOL. II

THE WOLF AND THE
NURSE.

A wolf traveled through the forest seeking food.

As he approached a hut, he heard,

A little child crying and the nurse scolding:

"Stop your crying or I'll give you to a wolf."

The robber, believing, that the nurse was telling the truth Patiently waited till evening, As the night

Had supplanted he day, he heard the nurse

Cajoling the child: "Sleep, my little one, if the wolf Should happen to come, we will kill him."

The wolf went off complaining he had been deceived, And called in anger:

"Con

demned be this stupid woman Who had deceived me and says what she does not mean." -Phædrus (Esop).

Molière died of pulmonary tuberculosis.

No. 1.

It is said that Montaigne and Erasmus both suffered from gout.

Plato regarded it as a sign of national neglect that a city had many physicians and judges.

The evidence is perfectly clear-cut that pugnacious tendencies of men are invited by primitive emotions and are supported by fundamental physiologic changes that through eons of racial inheritance have given the body vigor for combat. No dull routine of drill, or any other deadening procedure, will call these energizing mechanisms into action. On the other hand, the hazards of hard-fought athletic contests stir the elemental excitements and mobilize the bodily forces just as the hazards of ancient war used to do.-Dr. Walter B. Cannon.

Science commits suicide when

it adopts a creed.-Huxley.

It is not by any means an uncommon thing for authors' secretaries to become authors. One of the most conspicuous examples is Mary E. Wilkins, now Mrs. Freeman-Wilkins, who was for a long time secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes. I well remember the day when he stopped me in the street in Boston to say, "I have a hated rival. My secretary, Mary Wilkins, has just published a novel-a much better one than I ever wrote."-Douglas Sladen, "Twenty Years of My Life."

In the very beginning of his career he had contracted the habit from his master, Dr. Puche, of minutely taking notes of each visit of each patient; this custom enabled him to accumulate in his forty years of active practice a veritable pathological treasure. He often said "I am a collector of 'syphilis,' just as other men are collectors of antiques, of pictures, of autographs, etc. It is by means of these notes that I have been enabled to convince myself and in turn to convince my colleagues of the truth of the connection of syphilis to tabes, to paresis, to leucoplacia and to the heredospecific dystrophies." — Darier, on Fournier, The Medical Fortnightly.