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periences constitute a course of post-graduate education 

 which can not he supplanted by the greatest diligence 

 iu reading and haul laboratory work. The young doc- 

 tor should take short vacations, and with advancing age 

 the length of vacations and scope of travel should in- 

 crease. Away from trouble, free from care, the wander- 

 ing physician will find between his hospital visits, lab- 

 oratory investigations and museum studies most profit- 

 able opportunities to dip deep into the great and inex- 

 haustible book of nature. I can hardly conceive of a 

 physician who loves and values his profession who 

 should not take the deepest interest in medical geog- 

 raphy and everything that pertains to it. The physi- 

 cian can not help making man, under the most varying 

 conditions, climatic and social, a life study. He can 

 not resist the allurements of the vegetable and animal 

 kingdom under most diverse conditions of climate and 

 soil. Away from the bedside and operating room, out 

 of reach of the moaning, of the suffering and- the anx- 

 ious faces of the parents and friends of the afflicted, 

 he will instinctively turn to the more pleasant phases 

 of life and study and admire the wonderful works of 

 the Supreme Creator of all things, animate and inani- 

 mate. Away from toil the sun will appear to him 

 brighter, the stars nearer and more brilliant, the flow- 

 ers more beautiful, the foliage and sward greener, the 

 song of birds moi-e cheerful, the babbling of brooks more 

 gentle and the language of the talking ocean sweeter 

 than when eye and ear are engaged by the afflictions 

 of his suffering clientele. Let the overburdened, care- 

 worn physician remember when away from care and 

 anxiety 



"We place a happy life in tranquility of mind." 

 — Cicero. 



San Francisco, July 7, 1904. 



