The Journal of Clinical Medicine pays in its latest issue a compliment fo the layman upd to the journalist It makes various learned papers, on such subjects. as Typhus Fever, Cutaneous Allergic. Tesis, Non-Tuber-culeus Bronchiectasis by eminent medical scientists yield precedence toa witty discussion of that fell dlsesse "Cacoethes Seribend!" by Mr.
W. Woodhead. Mr, Woodhead's justification is speedily announced: he find that disease without mention in any medical treatise and he accuses the medical profession of knowing ite about it although some of its members have notoriously fallen victims. So Mr. Woodhead gallantly steps into the breach and extends the' medical knowledge of his boats, He points out that the cure hus not been dlacovered so perhaps the amble lon' of some research Worker Will Be" stimulated, Incidentally Mr. Woodhead cites the name of Dr. Axel Munthe og. that of one doctor who {urned writer, Its curious to think hhow numerous these recruits from the medical profession are. Off hand there was the late William de Morgan fand there is the living the accomp-Mihed author of. "Far Forest"—to ame Mr, Brett Young's latest and most remarkable novel, 'The stage ienows Dr, Merton Hodges, the former AME. oticer' who. hes made a fortune with "Wind and the Nain. Cacoethrs scribendi may be a dis tressing. complaint, as Mr, Woodhead Suggests, but it has managed to bring, fivenee to some. doc arch ing and not curing tt
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