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seen illuminating them as it now does the many common maladies 

 which we daily encounter. Most truly would we express the fervent 

 prayer of Tennyson : 



"Let knowledge grow from more to more," 



for to no other as much as to the true physician does this desire come 

 that thereby the sum of human ills may be lessened, and the sad- 

 dened face of a suffering humanity be illumined, let us hope, with 

 spontaneous gratitude towards a profession which, with all its imper- 

 fections, is yet most earnest in the promotion of man's highest 

 mental as well as physical well-being. 



Many are the points concerning these neurotic puzzles which we 

 have left untouched ; but it is hoped that other more experienced 

 minds, and pens, wielded by other more facile hands, will take these 

 up, adding thereby to the sum total of that medical knowledge, one 

 of the many glories of the future for, as our Laureate sings, 



" And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the sun." 



