Pelvic Gonorrhea; with sub-sections on Treatment and Standard of Cure; Treatment of Chronic Gonorrhea; with subsections on Clinical Examination, Bougie a Boule, Urethroscopy, Blood Examination, Treatment and Standard of Cure; Gonorrhea in the Adult Female; Treatment of Gonorrhea in the Female; Diagnosis of Gonorrhea in Children with subsections on its Treatment, the Rationale, Complications and the Standard of Cure of Vulve Vaginitis in Children.

The Report recommends that "all laboratories, including university laboratories, doing Wassermann tests, shall be licensed by and under the supervision of the Provincial Board of Health" and urges "private, university, hospital, municipal and provincial laboratories, in the use of these tests, to adopt recognized methods, so as to approach uniform results for the purposes of comparative study."

This valuable Report is expected to prove of immediate and practical usefulness to every practitioner in Canada and cannot fail to become an indispensable adjunct to all who make a specialty of the treatment of venereal diseases.

The personnel of the Medical Committee whose extended labors have resulted in its careful preparation and publication is as follows: Chairman: Dr. E. E. King; Secretary: Dr. C. H. Archibald; Members: Dr. Gordon Bates, Dr. Kendal Bates, Dr. Noble Black, Dr. W. Colling, Dr. M. A. Cox, Dr. H. C. Cruickshank, Dr. H. K. Detweiler, Dr. E. C. Dixon, Dr. W. E. Ferguson, Dr. A. G. Fleming, Dr. Edna Guest, Dr. C. H. Hair, Dr. E. B. Hardy, Dr. F. W. Hassard, Dr. Hewett, Dr. G. Howland, Dr. W. Jones, Dr. W. W. Lailey, Dr. Lillian Langstaff, Dr. J. C. McClelland, Dr. R. A. McComb, Dr. Alex. McKay, Dr. F. W. Marlow, Dr. E. A. Morgan, Dr. R. W. Naylor, Dr. H. E. Paul, Dr. Robin Pearse, Dr. G. W. Ross, Dr. Geo. S. Strathy, Dr. E. J. Trew, Dr. W. T. Williams and Dr. A. I. Willinsky.

The Canadian Social Hygiene Council will follow this Report immediately by another one on the same subject prepared specially for the Institution of Nurses and for use in all training schools throughout Canada.

Selected Articles

KIPLING'S BEAUTIFUL ALLEGORY

"Mr. Rudyard Kipling was the chief speaker at the recent annual dinner given at the Royal College of Surgeons in connection with the Hunterian Oration. It is possible that Mr. Kipling's presence may have been due to the hint given. by the president of the college that the Hunterian orator (Sir John Bland-Sutton), knew more about Mr. Kipling's 'works' than anybody else.

"But be that as it may, Mr. Kipling made a delightful speech in proposing the health of Sir John Bland-Sutton. As he developed what was really a beautiful allegory, the famous surgeons present hung breathless on his words."Morning Post.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, as reported by the Morning Post,

said:

"In the memorable oration to which we have listened this afternoon, Sir John Bland-Sutton touched on the noble verse in Ecclesiasticus: 'Honor the physician with the honor which is due to him for the uses which ye may have of him.' There' is an alternative reading, which runs, 'Honor a physician before thou hast need of him.' It is also seemly to honor him after that event.

"There is a legend

which has been transmitted to us from the remotest ages. It has entered into many brains and colored not a few creeds. It is this: Once upon a time. or rather, at the very birth of time, when the gods were so new that they had no names, and man was still damp from the clay of the pit whence he had been digged, man claimed that he, too, was in some sort a deity.

"The gods were as just in those days as they are now. They weighed his evidence and decided that man's claim was good-that he was, in effect, a divinity, and, as such, entitled to be freed from the trammels of mere brute instinct, to

enjoy the consequence of his own acts. But the gods sell everything at a price. Having conceded man's claim, the legend goes that they came by stealth and stole away this godhead, with intent to hide it where man should never find it again.

"But this was none so easy. If they hid it anywhere on earth, the gods foresaw that man, the inveterate hunter-the father, you might say, of all hunters-would leave no stone unturned or wave unplumed till he had recovered it. If they concealed it among themselves, they feared that man might in the end batter his way up even to the skies. And, while they were all thus at a stand, the wisest of the gods, who afterwards became the God Brahm, said, 'I know. Give it to me.' And he closed his hand upon the tiny unstable light of man's stolen godhead, and when that great hand. opened again, the light was gone.

"All is well,' said Brahm. I have hidden it where man will never dream of looking for it. I have hidden it inside man himself.' 'Yes, but whereabouts inside man have you hidden it? all the other gods asked. 'Ah,' said Brahm, 'that is my secret, and always will be unless and until man discovers it for himself.'

"Thus, then, gentlemen, does this case stand with man up to the present. Consider, for a moment, the pathos of the poor brute's position. You all know the common formula for him. Born of woman, on woman designed to beget his like -the natural quarry of the Seven Deadly Sins, but the altar of an inextinguishable hope.' Or, more scientifically (I regret I am not a scientific person), he might be defined as 'an imperfectly denatured animal intermittently subject to the unpredictable reactions of an unlocated spiritual area.

"And it is just this search for this unlocated spiritual area, whether it be a growth or a survival, which has preoccupied man from that day to this. The priest and the lawgiver have probed and fished for it all through the ages; but, more than any other, through all the ages the leech, the medieine man, the healer, has been hottest on its track. He has searched ever its track. He has searched wherever he dared -openly or furtively-in safety or at the risk of his life. In the early days the astrologer-physician, as he called himself, dreamed that the secret of man's eternal unrest was laid up

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in the sun, moon, and stars; and consequently, since all created things were one in essence, that an universal medicament for man's eternal woes would be discovered upon earth. So he has searched the earth and the heavens for those twin secrets, and sacrificed himself in the search as a matter of course.

"Later, when the embargoes on the healing art were lifted, when at last, he was permitted to look openly into the bodies of mankind, the nature of his dreams changed for a while. He had found more wonders beneath his knife than earth or the planets had heretofore shown him. And that was barely ten generations ago. Once again, the surgeon, as he had become, renewed his search, and once again sacrificed himself in the search as his passion drove him. There is no anesthesia so complete as man's absorption in his own job.

"In the teeth of the outrageous,, the absurd disabilities imposed on him, man, the imperfectly denatured animal, who cannot trust the evidence of his own senses in the simplest matter of fact; whose evidence on the simplest matter is colored by his own iniquities; man, always the hunter, went up against the darkness that cloaked him and every act of his being, to find out what order of created being he might be. He called it scientific research. It was the old quest under a new name. But this time, the seekers who headed it, unlike the priest and the lawyer, admitted that they knew very little. Epperience had taught them to be humble.

"They moved forward into areas of the body, which, till then, had denied themselves to man's hand. They were turned back, without explanation, from other areas which, as vet, would tolerate no spying. They were bewildered by mysteries which some new marriage of observation upon accident, some predestined slip of the knife resolved into-mysteries profounder still!

"Is it any wonder that the old dreams came back? The dream of the essential unity of all created things-the dream that some day that which men called life might be led into matter which men called dead-the boldest dream of all, that eventually man might surprise the ultimate secret of his being where Brahm had hidden it, in the body of man. And meanwhile, their days were filled, as yours are filled, with the piteous procession of men and women begging them, as men and women

beg of you daily, for leave to be allowed to live a little longer, upon whatever terms.

"Is it any wonder, gentlemen of the College of Surgeons, that your calling should exact the utmost that man can give— full knowledge, exquisite judgment and skill in the highest, to be put forth, not at any self-chosen moment, but daily at the need of others? More than this. Your dread art demands the instant impersonal vision which in one breath, one beat of the pulse, can automatically dismiss every preconceived idea and impression, and as automatically recognize, accept and overcome whatever of new and unsuspected menace may have slid into the light beneath your steadfast hand.

"But such virtue is not reached or maintained except by a life's labor, a life's single-minded devotion. Its reward is not only the knowledge of mastery and the gratitude of the layman, which may or may not bring content. Its true reward is the dearly-prized, because unpurchasable, acknow ledgment of one's fellow craftsmen."

WALKING AND WORKING

Exercise is almost as important in the conservation of health as is diet. Sedentary workers or those who lead an indoor life from compulsion or choice should take a certain amount of outdoor exercise daily with the same regularity and care that they take their food. A great many of the gastrointestinal diseases, and especially constipation, which afflict sedentary workers and which frequently lead to serious disease, are due to lack of or insufficient exercise in the open air. cording to Dr. Leonard Hill, the well known British authority, in a pamphlet on Scientific Ventilation issued by the British Medical Research Committtee, sedentary workers should ration their outdoor exercise, which, in his opinion, should never be less than walking six miles daily or the equivalent in work in a garden or on the land.

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Unfortunately, the average sedentary worker does not ration his outdoor exercise in accordance with his bodily needs, but, as a rule, takes only that amount of exercise which going to and from work requires of him. Generally speaking, the measure of his daily walk is the distance between