PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. H3 purpose of telling stories in the chamber of a sick person till nature effects a cure or his medicine kills the patient. Shakespeare's definition gives the fate of a doctor "By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too." Lord Byron called medicine the destructive art, and the great George Washington had an aversion to medicine. It was only by the entreaties of his lady and Dr. James Craik that he could be prevailed upon to take the slighest preparation of medicine. Napoleon dis¬ carded it altogether and Las-Casas said of him. "The Emperor has no faith in medi¬ cine and never takes any." In the reign of Charles II medicine had become in England an experimental and progressive science and every day made some new advance in de¬ fiance of Hippocrates and Galen. In 1852 Ambrose Parre first introduced the ligature and tied the artery instead of plunging the limb into boiling tar, as was practiced by his contemporaries. The preju¬ dice that existed to this caused him to be de¬ nounced with the moat reckless violence for daring to suspend the life of a man upon a a mere .thread. Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood, was called "The Circulator" in derision. He was deprived of the right to practice his profession in his own country, was threatened with ban¬ ishment and finally was compelled to leave his native land to escape the obloquy that was heaped upon him, and died without realizing the benefit of his labors. In every country any new advance was met with vio¬ lent opposition. In 1638 the curative prop¬ erties of the cinchona was introduced by the Countess of Cinchon, wife of the ex-King of Peru. Having been afflicted with a fever, she was advised by the governor of Loxa to try it. After much hesitation she resolved, and by its use was restored to health. Ten years later a Jesuit of Rome endeavored to introduce the Peruvian bark into Europe, but his efforts were unsuccessful. The pro¬ fession and laity denounced it. Inocula¬ tion for smallpox was introduced by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, who observed the practice in Turkey and witnessed its won¬ derful effects in mitigating the severity of that much dreaded disease. No sooner did she make known her purpose than the med¬ ical faculty arose at once and predicted the most disastrous consequences. The clergy discanted from the pulpit on thus seeking to take events from the hands of Providence. She finally resolved to try the experiment on her own daughter in order to satisfy the profession and the public of its utility. In; 1790 we find the same spirit of antagonism against Doctor Jenner , who first noticed that cowpox, a disease communicated to those who milked the cows in the western part of England , saved tho6e who took it from be¬ ing infected with smallpox. This fact sug¬ gested the idea of inoculating the children with virus from the udder of the cow, which he did. and in the course of a few-years he saw the pustules developed in all the points where the skin had been punctured, similar to those of cowpox. He became satisfied of its being a preventive of smallpox. This discovery was received with ridicule and con¬ tempt, like every other improvement. Jen ¬ ner was persecuted and driven from his country. Even religion and the Bible were made engines of attack against him and his invention. One man attempted to approve that vaccination was anti-Christ. At that time smallpox was the scourge of the hu¬ man family and but for the discovery of Jenner would have remained such until the present time. For a long period dissection