1^ ABOUND THE WORLD VIA INDIA. 



acknowledged leaders in the profession. What was new 

 yesterday may become old and obsolete to-morrow. Sci- 

 entific work is no longer confined to a few favored 

 institutions; it may be seen in all parts of the civil- 

 ized globe. Nations and institutions are now engaged 

 in a laudable competition to excel in blazing new path- 

 ways through the still unexplored territories of scientific 

 medicine. It is by the concerted, systematic, scientific 

 investigation of disease in all climes and under varying 

 conditions that we must look for more radical measures 

 in the prevention and more successful treatment of 

 disease. There is no time in the life of a medical man 

 when he feels more confident and competent to battle 

 successfully with disease and perform the most diffi- 

 cult operations than on the day he leaves his alma ma- 

 ter, diploma in hand, ready to seek his place in the 

 crowded ranks of his future profession. If the new as- 

 pirant for a liberal patronage is honest, it will not take 

 him long to discover his shortcomings and crave for 

 more knowledge. He will be made painfully aware of 

 the fact that 



"Because all the sick do not recover, therefore 

 medicine is no art." — Cicero. 



The completion of the study of medicine, even in 

 the best equipped medical colleges and universities, fur- 

 nishes at best but the foundation for the subsequent 

 post-graduate education. If the foundation is firm and 

 the building material contributed later substantial and 

 in sivfficient abundance, the resulting structure will re- 

 sist fire, wind and storm, a lasting monument to the 

 builder. If the foundation is defective and the build- 

 ing material not of the right sort, failure and disap- 

 pointment will surely follow misdirected efforts, no 

 matter how earnest and persistent they have been. 

 The successful physician and surgeon will be the one 

 who, with the day of his graduation, enters on a ra- 

 tional, well-planned, systematic post-graduate course of 



