Is it any wonder true physicians sometimes get disgusted with their profession when they see a shyster come into the town where they have worked for years, patiently and conscientiously building up a legitimate practice that begins to promise a decent living, and by such quack methods as diagnosing cases of simple fever, such as might come from acute indigestion or too much play in children, as something dangerous, typhoid or "threatened typhoid," or cases of congestion of the lungs as "lung fever," and by "aborting" or "curing" these terrible diseases in short order and having his patients out in a few days, jumps into fame and (financial) success at a bound? Because the typhoid (real typhoid) patients of the honest doctor lingered for weeks and sometimes died, and because frequently he lost a case of real pneumonia, he made but a poor showing in comparison with the new doctor. "He's just fresh from school, you know, from a post-graduate course in the East." Or, "He's been to the old country and _knows_ something." Just as if any physician, though he may have been out of school for many years, does not, or may not, know of all the curative agencies of demonstrated merit! Would a medical journal fail to keep its readers posted concerning any new discovery in medicine, or helpful appliance that promises real good to the profession? Yet people speak of one doctor's superior knowledge of the best treatment of a particular disease as if that doctor had access to some mysterious source of therapeutic knowledge unknown to other physicians. It is becoming less easy to work the "dangerous diagnosis" graft than formerly, for many people are learning that certain diseases must "run their course," and that there are no medicines that have specific curative effects on them. There is another graft now that is taking the place of the one just mentioned, to some extent at least. In the hands of a fellow with lots of nerve and little conscience it is the greatest of them all. This is the graft of the smart young fellow direct from a post-graduate course in the clinics of some great surgeon. He comes to town with a great flourish of trumpets. Of course, he observes the ethics of the profession! The long accounts of his superior education and unusual experience with operative surgery are only legitimate items of news for the local papers. Certainly! It is only right that such an unusual doctor should have so much attention.