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MEN I HAVE PAINTED philosopher, was readily accepted and adapted to the life and the researches of the young neurologist. He quickly diagnosed the state of society, and the habits of the animals suggested a cure that could be applied to each individual. Men and women have been overcome by two gnawing human desires which feverishly they sought to gratify—love of money and love of pleasure. The mental excitement and fatigue attendant upon such questionable pursuits enfeebled the body and wrecked the nerves.

As a keen student of morals, the young doctor quickly perceived that theologians, on the one hand, had ever conspired to divide immortal man from the "beasts that perish," and, on the other, social reformers ignored the teachings of nature in constructing their artificial codes of social ethics. In both systems man is treated either as a spiritual or a mental entity, entirely regardless of his physical nature.

The young scientist hit upon the plan of treating the animal part of man as the animal treated itself. Having discovered that for the greater part of the day all animate nature is in repose, he instituted among his patients a system whereby continuous rest became obligatory. To exhausted men he said, "If you wish to live, go kill something"; to women with shattered nerves, "You must hibernate." The pursuit of game became a tonic for men; long hours of sleep soothed ambitious and aspiring women, and restored their balance.

The proof of the accuracy of his diagnosis lay in the success of the treatment prescribed. As a naturalist and pathologist his fame was secure.

He next turned his attention to the study of the venom of reptiles, and, in collaboration with Dr. John Madison