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degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Laws from an American college, was greatly beloved by his people and much es- teemed for his skill and genial kindness. In politics he was a Conservative. He died on the 16th of November, 1892, and was buried at Cross Roads church cemetery, Lot 48. His .widow survives him, and his memory is still green in the community. Dr. James Handrahan, son of Thomas Handrahan, Esq., and his wife, Mary Keoughan, was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on January I I, 1865. He was educated at St. Peter’s and St. Pat— rick’s schools and also at St. Dunstan’s Col- lege, in his native city. After taking a four years' course in the University Medical Col- lege, New York City, he graduated from that institution in 1892. The next year he married Flora Adeline, a daughter of David Hunter, Esq., of Alberton, and located at North Wiltshire, twelve miles from Char- lottetown, where he established himself in a good practice. There, too, his four chil- dren were born, namely: Thomas David, Kirwin, Gladys and James Warburton. Finding work as a general country practi- tioner too severe for his rather delicate con- stitution, in 1900 he returned with his fam- ily to Charlottetown. After serving two years as surgeon on board Her Majesty’s surveying ship “Gulnare,” he settled down to his native city to practice his profession. He is one of the members of the staff of the city hospital and holds the position of gov- ernment physician for the jail and poor house. ‘ The medicine of the future will largely be preventive. In view of the fact that per- fect health cannot be maintained without pure food, fresh air and exercise, it stands to reason that on these lines the power of

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resisting disease is greatly strengthened. It is as important for children to be taught how men and women grow as to obtain knowledge of how plants grow. The food of the people should contain two elements, tissue building and heat producing. Our system of education should inculcate and teach animal physiology and the circula- tion of the blood should be made clear, showing the part which the veins, arteries and capillaries perform; showing also the functions of the heart, that great, muscular double acting force pump that at every beat sends two ounces of blood through it, and making seventy-two pulsations per minute; the enormous quantity of sixteen hundred gallons are pumped in the twenty-four hours. The great nervous system presides over all. It indicates every function of the body. The intellect, with its various facul- ties, and moral nature, with its emotions. reside there. Love, the highest emotion of the soul, dwells there; hatred, envy, malice and all uncharitableness dwell there. Lofty ideals can be maintained there and when we would do good often evil is present with us. With a correct knowledge of our own bod- ies our term of life should be greatly pro- longed to at least ninety or one hundred years. and on these lines very little medi- cine would be required. The advantage of health makes your meat and drink both sa— voury and pleasant; and it makes the bed easy. and the sleep refreshing; it makes ex- ercise a sport and walking abroad the en- joyment of your liberty. Prince Edward Island is regarded by many as the Garden of the Gulf, if not the Garden of Eden; it abounds with plenty of fruit, pure water, pure air and pure food, and as a health re- sort is not surpassed in the Dominion of Canada. Health seekers in the summer sea-