The Medical Practitioner as an Asset to Preventive Medicine.

" MEDICINE," wrote Plato more than two thousand years uigo, "is the science of health." To-day it is popularly regarded as the science of disease; otherwise we should be in the iab,it of paying for medical attendance only while we were actually maintained in good health, and yet, as matters now are, we are taught to live when our life is wellnigh spent. A revolution in act as well as in thought is necessary if it is hoped to create a national, or indeed an individual, health conscience during the present generation. The establislhment of an individual health conscience is, I believe, tile ideal we all have in view. Two tentative schemes to this end are now under