Here isa quotation from an old friend of mine and of yours—a doctor, one of the wisest, most kindly-hearted, and successful of the men who compose his useful profession. amy patients for the past forty years, th "One thing," he says, "I have been telling
far at least as the science' of medicine is concerned the human mind is merely a name for a group of brain functions. The food in the blood acts chemically upon certain nerve centres, and this is myster nously worked up into what we call reason, In other words, the condition of the mind depends upon that of the body.
"For example," continues the doctor, "there are people who are troubled by irritability, great mental depression, sleeplessness, mental hallucination, and those
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