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Its cuisine, conducted according to the Caloric system is different. Its remarkable system of baths including Nauheim is different. Its system of manual Swedish movements is different. Its school of nealth is unique and fascinating. Its care and treatment of guests, especially invalids, are preculiarly its own. Indeed, the whole vast institution, its atmosphere and environments are suffused with what has become known the world over as "The Battle Creek Idea." Its main building, absolutely fire proof, contains seven acres of ideal indoors. It has over 100 suites with private baths, telephone in every room, model kitchen and sunny dining rooms on top floor with 50-mile view, great palm garden, delightful sun parlors, elegant lobbies, parlors and rest foyers, wide porches and spacious home-like roo1S. It employs the most elaborate and costly scientific equipment for phototherapy, electricity, X-ray electric light, baths, Finson rays, etc. The Rates are Moderate. Board and room, including baths, services of bath attendants and necessary medical attention, cost less at the Battle Creek Sanitarium than board and room alone at many resort hotels not so elegantly appointed. Those desiring absolute quiet and rest can have it at any time. For those desiring them, there are marches, lectures, stereopticons, musicales, contests, exhibitions, walking, driving, tally-ho a d picnic parties and other indoor and outdoor entertainments and amusements. Write for copy of their catalogue. Address Box 402, THE SANITARIUM, Battle Creek, Mich. All through railroad tickets have stop-over privilege at Battle Creek. MASTER-MINDS IN MEDICINE-JOHN HUNTER (1728-93), GREAT MAN OF SCIENCE AND SURGEON. DR. WILLIAM J. FISCHER, Author of "Songs by the Wayside," "Winona and Other Stories," "The Toiler and Other Poems." "I am not anxious about my children, but in their doing well in this world. I would rather make them feel one moral virtue than read libraries of all the dead and living languages."-JOHN HUNTER. In the whole history of medicine it is almost impossible to find a more striking personality than John Hunter. Great man of science and surgeon that he was, we love to look back a few centuries, with pleasure and satisfaction, upon the eventful years that covered his life. "It is impossible," writes one, "to include in one view the multitudinous forms of Hunter's work; you cannot see the wood for the trees." Picture Hunter going around as physician, surgeon, anatomist, biologist, pathologist and naturalist-all these faculties developed to a high degree and your mind's eye can form a picture of the strong, versatile talent of this great and wonderful man. John Hunter was not an idle dreamer, sitting by the wayside, thinking and spinning out his wonderful theories, his fancy rearing strange castles in the air. No, far from it. Hunter was a builder. He worked upon strong foundations, his work was lasting, and when he died he had built for medicine and surgery a beautiful Day out of the clear Dawn, in which Harvey and Sydenham were fading, twin morning-stars. He was verily a Caesar amongst men. What a pity the spiritual side was so sadly neglected throughout his life! Into his career he crowded work that would have done credit to a number of busy, active minds. In his unremitting toil, he lost sight of the great law of the conservation of energy, and we will see how this over-exertion often cost him, later, many a bitter pang of suffering. Hunter was not born with the lucky "silver spoon in his mouth." All his greatness was due to himself; he was an inde- . fatigable toiler, and when the end came he died in harness-worker to the last. "Men have varied in their tendency to careful observation or to mere thinking," writes James Paget. "They have varied as have the several individual mental fitness or inclinations; but the general tendency has been to observation, to the accumulation of facts as in the work of Pasteur and Lister. This, then, was Hunter's chief distinction: that his mind was set on practical. surgery. He was not at first scientific; he had mere business teaching in his boyhood and a natural love of collecting; but after maturity he became scientific, and then was made constantly active in science by his continued love of collecting, and by the use of his collection for the advancement of pathology, and by the study of all structures even remotely connected with the specimens in his collection. Thus his mind, given to science, was engaged in practice; he associated surgery with science and made them mutually illustrative." Student of nature from boyhood up, student in busy days of practice, Hunter remained a student-a seer to the last. He had not only read with his eyes, but he probed into the things about him and experimented and dissected with his own hands hundreds and thousands of living things in nature's vast garden. "Don't think-try!" he would say. "Be patient! be accurate!" Simple words, it is true, but applicable at the present time to the whole range of medical science and everything pertaining to it. And to-day Hunter, the instructor of such great men as Astley Cooper, Abernethy, Cline, Thompson, Physick and Jenner, is looked upon as one of our greatest clinicians-for his eyes were ever ready to see and his hands to feel. The history of the Hunters of Hunterston, in Ayrshire, Scotland, goes back to the thirteenth century, and from this great Scotch a branch sprang John Hunter, the subject of this sketch. The old manor-house of Hunterston, with its antique tower, stands to this day. In the days of old it was a stronghold; now it is a farmhouse and cattle graze in the fields around it. We have to do with the Hunter branch of Long Calderwood, a small estate seven miles from Glasgow-for here lived John Hunter, his father, and here John Hunter, Jr., was born on February 13, 1728-the last of ten children. Dr. Mathew Baillie says of the father that "he was a man of good understanding, of great integrity and of an anxious temper." His mother, Agnes, a daughter of Mr. Paul Maltster, who was treasurer of the city of Glasgow, was "a woman of great worth and of considerable talent." The Hunters were not rich; they could only afford the most necessary things of life. "Their father,' writes one, "from the expenses of a large family, although man |