mean instantaneous death in advanced cases. Persons suffering from coronary sclerosis with attacks of angina pectoris will do very well to give up their positions if heads of companies with great responsibilities and heavy burdens resting upon their shoulders, as any stormy shareholder meeting may prove fatal to them. As already said it is a sad fact, that persons may suffer from coronary sclerosis without even knowing it, as there are also thousands of victims of arteriosclerosis who are utterly ignorant of their condition, as this disease often presents no marked symptoms. I must deplore that most stupid habit of seeking for medical aid only when the ravages of disease have gone so far that reparation is impossible. How often do people forget the wise English proverb: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Just the same as children are sent every three months to the dentist to see if any of the teeth present may be decaying in order to save them, people already before feeling ill ought to at least once a year be examined thoroughly by a doctor to see if anything is wrong in the human machinery. I feel certain that in such a case many thousands of persons, instead of lying in their dark, cold graves below the earth, could still tread the soil enjoying sunshine and the scent of the flowers. There is no doubt that arteriosclerosis and especially coronary sclerosis could be avoided in many cases, through such an examination, for the onset of arteriosclerosis is generally insidious and slow, especially if it develops in the younger years, when due to syphilis, and thus, if in time recognized, it could be cured. But even without the syphilitic infection, cases in young persons are more frequent than we think. It is to the present terrible war, raging and destroying so many lives, that we owe the observation made by many of the military doctors that a goodly number of young soldiers present symptoms of arteriosclerosis, many of them having never suffered from syphilis. Often it is but a slight elevation of the blood-pressure, but which, if persistent, may indicate a beginning arteriosclerosis. THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HIGH BLOOD-PRESSURE AND THE PREVENTION OF APOPLEXY.