ENDOCRINE THERAPEUTICS 



only, never swerving, unchangeable, just and true. 

 We are only now getting glimpses of its higher 

 potentialities and of its Divine simplicity. There 

 seems to be one power alone that governs and 

 moves the whole universe, matter and mind 

 alike. 



In practical therapeutics it must be our aim to 

 get knowledge of this power and to utilize it, as 

 Christ did in the service of mankind. We must, 

 I think, look on His miracles as evidences of His 

 knowledge and use of natural powers that are as 

 yet unknown to us. As yet, our low spiritual 

 development and our selfishness, national and 

 individual, would render such powers dangerous 

 weapons. " Such knowledge is too wonderful 

 for me ; I cannot attain unto it," says David, but 

 higher spiritual and altruistic ideals will fit us 

 for the glorious possession. 



Hitherto we have been looking on the science 

 of therapeutics far too much from the material 

 point of view. We have been very little above 

 the veterinary surgeon, who perforce has to 

 observe and treat almost entirely the objective 

 symptoms of animal diseases. The more honour 

 to him for his frequent successes. There is more 

 of psychological interest in a horse or a dog than 

 in a cow, but not enough for a foundation of treat- 



