Nor is the history of medicine without its martyrs. While scien- 

 tific inquiry has been the chief instrument in producing a higher and 

 better civilization, it has met at almost every step determined op- 

 position from the powers of ignorance and jealousy. There is great 

 satisfaction in giving to the world those things which all men see and 

 for which all men are grateful. The poet, the painter, the musician 

 and the architect vie with one another in their appeal to the esthetic 

 sense. Yet is there not something higher even than knowledge for 

 the sake of knowledge, or art for art's sake? Yes, there is honor 

 to him who chooses a less spectacular calling, to him who applies 

 scientific knowledge to the conquest of disease. Such men have bat- 

 tled with the enemy unencouraged by the blare of trumpets or the 

 throb of the war drum. They have pursued their work in hospital 

 ward or laboratory, or as "Weelum McLure," have braved the winter 

 storm on errands of mercy to the suffering. 



"Speak History! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy long 



annals and say; 

 Are they those whom the world calls victors who won the 



success of the day? 

 The martyrs or Nero? The Spartans who fell at Ther- 

 mopylae's tryst, 

 Or the Persians and Xerxes? His Judges, or Socrates? 

 Pilate or Christ?" 



J. H. D. 



Among the works by which the writer has been assisted and to which his 

 grateful acknowledgments are due are the following: William Harvey, by D'Arcy 

 Power; Biology and it's Makers, by Locy; Lectures on the History of Physiology 

 and Claude Bernard, by Sir Michael Foster; Harvey's Work on the Circulation, 

 Sydenham Society Edition; Beaumont's Work on Digestion (original copy); Life 

 and Letters of William Beaumont, by Myer; Brain and Personality, by Thomp- 

 son; Recent Progress of Heredity, Variation and Evolution, by Locke; Heredity, 

 by Thompson; Gorton's History of Medicine; The Relation of Medicine to Philos- 

 ophy, Moon. — Alabama Student, by Osier. 



