It was based upon ignorance, upon prejudice, and upon privately interested misrepresentation. The new scientific spirit, working side by side with the new spirit of a broader and deeper humanity, has demonstrated, and is demonstrating, the truth, that in no other union is there such great strength as in the union of those who are working together, creating wealth for themselves and serving humanity. COURAGE AND KINDLINESS [EDITOR'S NOTE.-Robert Louis Stevenson said that the doctor was the highest specimen of humanity, and it is indeed noteworthy how many lessons of fortitude and inspiration come to us from the lives of great medical men. In no case is this more true than in that of Stevenson's own friend and counsellor, the late Dr. E. L. Trudeau, "the Beloved Physician," known all over the world as the founder of the Saranac sanitarium for consumptives and a man who for forty years battled against the dread disease of which he finally died in December, 1915. The three following anecdotes are reprinted from Dr. Trudeau's "Autobiography," with the permission of Messrs. Lea & Febiger, and Doubleday, Page & Co., who publish the book jointly]: "YOU HAVE TUBERCULOSIS" WHILE at Little Neck I had had on two or three occasions attacks of fever, but nearly everybody had malaria and took quinine which, however, did little good. After we moved into town I felt tired all the time, but thought it was the confinement of city life and paid but little attention to it. One afternoon I was at the dispensary with Dr. Walton, and he insisted |