obstinate cases of disease. In this department the Faculty are not at
all limited or hampered in prescribing, and do not confine themselves in
the least to the proprietary or standard medicines manufactured for
general sale through druggists, but employ a series of curative agents
unsurpassed in variety and range of application. They aim to carefully
adapt their prescriptions to each individual case.

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THE

INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE

_SOME OF THE CAUSES THAT LED TO ITS ERECTION, AND THE ADVANTAGES WHICH
IT AFFORDS._

[Illustration: One of the Private Consultation-rooms, Gentlemen's
Department.]

The destinies of institutions, like those of men, are often determined
by pre-existing causes. The destinies of some men are like those of
way-side plants, springing up without other apparent cause than the
caprice of nature, developing without any apparent aim, yielding no
perfected fruit, and finally, dying, leaving scarcely a trace of their
existence. Thus it is with institutions which have their origin only in
man's caprice. To be enduring, they must be founded upon the needs and
necessities of humanity. Many of the great men of the world owe their
greatness more to surrounding circumstances than to the genius within
them. The highest genius can be dwarfed or deformed by the force of
adverse circumstances; hence the poetic truth of Gray in those exquisite
lines:

"Some mute inglorious Milton here may lie,
Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood."

Opportunity is the guiding star of genius. Without it, genius would
drift hither and thither upon the restless, ever-changing waves of
circumstance, never casting anchor in a secure haven. Upon opportunity,
too, depends the success of institutions. By opportunity we mean a real
and acknowledged public want. Whoever undertakes to supply this want
finds himself upon the crest-wave of prosperity. It was to supply such a
want that this institution was erected.

A REMEDIAL HOME.

Of the seventy millions of people living in the United States to-day, it
is estimated that nearly twelve millions are sufferers from chronic
disease. Think for a moment! Twelve millions of people slowly but surely
dying by the insidious and fatal development of chronic diseases! This
is an appalling fact. And yet this is the very class of diseases with
which the general practitioner is least familiar.

As a general