ad in its present very cheap and attractive form."--_Star._

"Mrs. Clifford's remarkable tale."--_Athenaeum._

"Will prove a healthy tonic to readers who have recently been taking a
course of shilling shocker mental medicine.... There are many beautiful
womanly touches throughout the pages of this interesting volume, and it
can be safely recommended to readers old and young."--_Aberdeen Free
Press._

MASTERS OF MEDICINE edited by ERNEST HART, D.C.L., Editor of "The
British Medical Journal"

_Large crown 8vo., cloth_, 3s. 6d. _each_.

Medical discoveries more directly concern the well-being and
happiness of the human race than any victories of science. They
appeal to one of the primary instincts of human nature, that of
self-preservation. The importance of health as the most valuable of
our national assets is coming to be more and more recognised, and
the place of the doctor in Society and in the State is becoming one
of steadily increasing prominence; indeed, Mr. Gladstone said not
many years ago that the time would surely come when the medical
profession would take precedence of all the others in authority as
well as in dignity. The development of medicine from an empiric art
to an exact science is one of the most important and also one of
the most interesting chapters in the history of civilisation. The
histories of medicine which exist are for the most part only fitted
for the intellectual digestion of Dryasdust and his congeners. Of
the men who made the discoveries which have saved incalculable
numbers of human lives, and which have lengthened the span of human
existence, there is often no record at all accessible to the
general reader. Yet the story of these men's lives, of their
struggles and of their triumphs, is not only interesting, but in
the highest degree stimulating and educative. Many of them could
have said with literal truth what Sir Thomas Browne said
figuratively, that their lives were a romance. Hitherto there have
been no accounts of the lives of medical discoverers in a form at
once convenient and uniform, and sold at a popular price. The
"Masters of Medicine" is a series of biographies written by
"eminent hands" intended to supply this want. It is intended that
the man shall be depicted as he moved and lived and had his being,
and that the scope an