Take the case of a young woman, for instance, who entered the hospital with a history of nausea and discomfort in the upper part of the abdomen after eating. Mrs. Brown had “suffered many things of many physicians.” Each of them gave her a tonic and limited her diet. She stopped eating everything that any of her physicians advised her to omit, and is now living on a little milk with a few crackers; but her symptoms persist. The history suggests a possible gastric ulcer or gall-stones, and with a proper desire to study the case thoroughly, she is given a test meal, gastric analysis, and duodenal intubation, and roentgen-ray examinations are made of the gastro-intestinal tract and gall-bladder. All of these diagnostic methods give negative results; that is, they do not show evidence of any structural change. The case immediately becomes much less interesting than if it had turned out to be a gastric ulcer with atypical symptoms. The visiting physician walks by and says, “Well there’s nothing the matter with her.” The clinical clerk says, “I did an awful lot of work on that case and it turned out to be nothing at all.” The intern, who wants to clear out the ward to make room for some interesting cases, says, “Mrs. Brown, you can send for your clothes and go home to-morrow. There really is nothing the matter with you, and fortunately you have not got any of the serious troubles we suspected. We have used all the most modern and scientific methods and we find that there is no reason why you should not eat anything you want to. I’ll give you a tonic to take when you go home.” Same story, same colored medicine! Mrs. Brown goes home, somewhat better for her rest in new surroundings, thinking that nurses are kind and physicians are pleasant, but that they do not seem to know much about the sort of medicine that will touch her trouble. She takes up her life and the symptoms return--and then she tries chiropractic, or perhaps Christian Science.