The question of time has no place in the matter, save that it must not exceed physiological limits and be sufficient for the needs of the case. The patient should understand at once that it is to accomplish a specific purpose that the treatment is given, just as definite as a surgical or dental operation, and when the work is done it is time to stop. He would hardly be attracted to the dentist who guaranteed to use forty-five minutes in extracting a tooth. Good judgment is required in this as in all matters pertaining to osteopathy. There is a generally expressed opinion among the older osteopaths, based on experience, that: first, a short specific treatment is productive of best results and, second, treatments given under high tension when quick work is necessary are most satisfactory. Long treatments are debilitating and over stimulation amounts to inhibition. Further, in a long treatment it is necessary to go over the whole body, thus dispersing the vital forces (which have been stimulated for healing and upbuilding the pathological area) to parts not involved, thus defeating the very purposes intended. Dr. Still always advocated and gave the short, specific treatment. The point always to be considered is the individual characteristics of the patient, and effects of the first treatment should be carefully observed. After a patient has been under treatment for any considerable time it is well to give him a vacation from treatment, and it is remarkable what improvement will be shown at times by such a measure and how seldom he will lose ground. Dr. Still presented this subject vividly as follows: “To treat the spine more than once or twice a week and thereby irritate the spinal cord, will cause the vital assimilation to be perverted and become death producing by effecting an absorption of the living molecules of life before they are fully matured and while they are in the cellular system, lying immediately under the lymphatics. If you will allow yourself to think for a moment of the possible irritation of the spinal cord and what effect it will have on the uterus, for example, you will realize that I have told you a truth. Many of your patients are well six months before they are discharged. They continue treatment because they are weak, and they are weak because you keep them so by irritating the spinal cord.” It is not a rare experience for a patient to leave apparently with little or no improvement only to report a complete recovery a little later.