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ures for the protection of liuman from liuman. Such education 

 will cut down the death-rate more rapidly than medical treatment. 

 The establishment of hospitals and retreats for the treatment and 

 isolation of consumptives is the best step physicians have yet 

 taken for the prevention of the spread of thi.s disease. We are 

 now raising one foot to step up on the firmer ground of the twen- 

 tieth century, where no erring footsteps have yet been taken. In 

 the few days left us ere we reach that new trysting place, let us 

 bend our energies to the great task of leaving forever behind us 

 old prejudices; theories we were taught to accept, but which have 

 not proved trusty; deductions arrived at from experiments well 

 intended, but which are nullified by better evidence now before 

 us. Let us not look at things as they have been pictured, but 

 strive to see them exactly as they are. If we have failed to con- 

 vince you, we have at least pointed the way for future investi- 

 gation and given the earnest of the verdict that is to follow 

 whether you render it to-day or to-morrow. 



