beautiful, and, while I may not have done good, I rarely did harm by their use. I am not discussing the opium and cocaine laden classes. I wish to emphasize incalculable harm that must result to the physician himself who allows someone to do his thinking for him. I am also referring to the attitude of the ethical man to his patient, and beg to ask if we are doing even part of our duty when we are doing no harm. Allow me to conclude this topic by asking you to spend an hour some day in casually glancing over (a deep study would fully repay you) the pages of the U. S. P., or a list of the remedies that have in one year received the sanction of the Council on Pharmacy of American Medical Association. If you don't find enough drugs and combinations to meet every case and every conceivable situation, you had better desert practice and exploit some wonderful cure-all as a detail man. If we, as physicians, had nothing but our duty to our patients to consider, and incidentally our own profit and glory, the practice of medicine would soon degenerate into a mere trade. I may even say that, had we nothing but the promptings of our consciences to keep us in the straight and narrow path, if we had nothing but the knowledge of work well done, and if the desire and determination to give the best that is in us were our only incentives to an ethical life, the profession would be so beset by the temptations of commercialism, and the notoriety and prominence which commercial success brings, that the halls of Esculapius would soon need a scouring and purging greater than Hercules gave the Augean stables. Despite the high incentive to all that is best and purest in life which our noblest of callings should beget in us, physicians are only human, and human weakness, like disease, is no respecter of persons or of callings. It may have been that the medical fathers, with a knowledge of the temptations to which they were subjected, and a desire to save others from the pitfalls which beset their paths, were imbued with a determination to place their profession on a higher plane than others; or it may have been the natural evolution which inevitably resulted from and followed the promptings of man to help his fellow-man, to devote himself to the relief of pain and sickness, to sacrifice his comfort and ease and almost every pleasure in order that others might have ease of body and peace of mind and soul, which from the earliest days have placed medicine as a profession apart, and have imposed upon those who have entered its ranks certain standards of conduct and insisted on certain ethical relations which have lifted it above mere questions of gain and the vain acquisition of renown. We have been taught that Hippocrates himself was great not only as a physician, but greater still as an ethical teacher who has left with us certain maxims and proverbs which, though handed down through the ages, have lost none of their truth and none of their spotless morality. Even