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on the time and energies of an exacting, laborious 

 practice are such that fatigue, bodily and mental, must 

 follow sooner or later. Of all learned professions the 

 medical is the one in greatest need and most deserving 

 of a long, free-of-care annual vacation. It is hard to 

 make the public believe this, but it is nevertheless true. 

 During the summer months the complicated mechanism 

 of the law comes to a standstill and the lawyers take 

 their vacation without crippling their bank account to 

 any considerable extent. The fashionable churches 

 close their doors when the members of the congrega* 

 tions leave for their luxurious summer homes, and the 

 rectors and preachers, with purses well filled with gold 

 by their appreciative parishioners for their vacation 

 expenses, leave the great cities and spend their allotted 

 leisure weeks and months where they are sure to find 

 rest, comfort and recreation. It is the physician who 

 is expected to work from one end of the year to the 

 other, ready for call by day and night, in sunshine 

 and storm. It is the physician whose annual income 

 suffers when he leaves his practice for a much-needed 

 outing. It is the physician who carries away with him 

 the weight of. his responsibilities to a greater extent 

 than the members of any other profession when away 

 from daily routine work. The public must be made to 

 understand that medical men are entitled, above any 

 other profession or class of men, to an annual vacation, 

 and that such vacation, properly spent, will bring to 

 their patients better service, and will be one of the most 

 important factors in promoting the science of medi- 

 cine, public hygiene and sanitation. 



Where and how shall the physician spend his vaca- 

 tion ? 



"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of educa- 

 tion; in the elder, a part of experience." — Bacon. 



The physician who has the interests of his patients 

 and profession at heart will not be content, like most 



