of life: the result being a kiad of CTOotional partsia, the 

 head getting due exercise and be-coming agile, while the 

 heart getting little stiffens and fails to perfonn its Bympa- 

 thetic function. In the University iNIagaxine for February, 

 1910, there is an article on "A Laboratory Worker's Mo- 

 tive." This laboratory worlcer is mi English physiologist 

 living in London. He is, the writer tells us, an old man. 

 He works to tind out new things. When found he gives 

 them to the M'cdd, retuiTis to his searching, and for all 

 hours of the day and most of the night. He has no wife, 

 no family, no recreation save his work. Honors have been 

 heape-d upon him. Pretty ladies and distinguished ladies 

 come to^ his laboratory to see and be honored in seeing the 

 maji. All have urged him toleave his workroom for a, time 

 and to enjoy with them the thingB that they enjoy, but he 

 remains working alone. Sometimes his friends reproach 

 him for his attitude. The answer of the old man is, I have 

 been much alone, and sometimes the desire for comradeship 

 has been almost over]>owering and bea cause4 me to qu.e6- 

 tion the wisdom of my ideals." The heroism and unselfish 

 devotion of this old man we cannot but admire, yet surely 

 his task could be performed without starving hia heart. 

 This confcission of the impainnent of the emotional side of - 

 life for the salce of the intellectual remmdis nio of the 

 bantering remark of a friend of mine to a. bunch of his 

 medical friends with Vv'hom he was spending an evening. 

 The talk turned to tlie superiority of the modern dcwjtor 

 over the doctor of bygone days. "The superiority," 

 broke in my friend, "is not all on the »3ide of the modern. 

 When my grandmother's doctor caanc to her bedside in her 

 sickness, he saw a humo.n being and his licart went cut to 

 her. When my doctor, wlio belongs to tlic modern school 

 of experts, comes to my bedside in my sickness, it seemfl 

 to me that he sees, not a human being with thoughts 

 which look before and after, but a< piece of machinery, 

 and that he puts a pair of keen, imperturbable eyes upon 

 me that he may determine the c-xtent of the mechanical 



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