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Polyglandular therapy is at present the fashion, 

 but used without accurate diagnosis and intelli- 

 gence is rather like firing into the brown, and the 

 results often are the same. 



I am not advocating the entire abolition of old 

 age, for in the Divine order of things the night 

 cometh to us all. Surely it is the Divine order 

 also that we should value the great gift of life, 

 and strive to maintain its efficiency to the last 

 and to the utmost. 



As the end draws near, the enthusiastic radical- 

 ism of youth passes almost imperceptibly into 

 the conservatism of old age. Laudatores temporis 

 acti, we some of us sigh for the land where there is 

 rest and, as we fondly think, no more change ; but 

 some of us, optimists to the end, look forward with 

 eyes wide open to the great adventure of the life 

 to come. Whichever class claims us, may we be 

 able to say in Stevenson's cheerful and character- 

 istic words : 



Under the wide and starry sky, 

 Dig the grave and let me lie. 

 Glad did I live and gladly die, 

 And I laid me down with a will. 



This be the verse you grave for me : 

 Here he lies where he longed to be ; 

 Home is the sailor, home from the sea, 

 And the hunter home from the hill. 



