le to make the rates at the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute comparatively low. If we had only
a limited number of patients, we should be obliged to make the charges
commensurate with our expenses; but our practice having become very
extensive, and the income being correspondingly large, we are enabled to
make the rates at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute so moderate
that all who desire can avail themselves of its medical, surgical, and
hygienic advantages.

[Illustration: Prescription Department--Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute.]

FACILITIES FOR TREATMENT.

Of the many advantages afforded by the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, in treating disease, we can make only brief mention of a few
of the more prominent.

DIVISION OF LABOR.

In the examination and treatment of patients, our practice is divided
into specialties. Each member of the Faculty, although educated to
practice in _all_ departments of medicine and surgery, is here assigned
to a special department only, to which he devotes his entire time, study
and attention.

ADVANTAGES OF SPECIALTIES.

The division-of-labor system proves as effectual in the exercise of the
professions as in manufactures. In the legal profession this has long
been a recognized fact. One lawyer devotes his attention specially to
criminal law, and distinguishes himself in that department. Another
develops a special faculty for unraveling knotty questions in matters of
real estate, and, if a title is to be proved, or a deed annulled, he is
the preferred counselor. In a certain manner, too, this has long been
practiced by the medical profession. Thus some physicians (and we may
add physicians who call themselves "regular," and are specially caustic
in their denunciation of "advertising doctors") are accustomed to
distribute cards among their patrons, certifying that they give special
attention to diseases of women and children. In this institution each
physician and surgeon is assigned a special department of medicine or
surgery. By constant study and attention to his department, each has
become a skillful specialist, readily detecting every phase and
complication of the diseases referred to him. Not only is superior skill
thus attained, but also _rapidity_ and _accuracy_ in diagnosis.

Thoroughness and efficiency in any branch of learning can be secured
only by devoting to it special study and attention. When the faculty of
a university is