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liberal and cordial feelings which happily prevail. The same may, I believe, be said of our sister college, with which we are so happily united, not only in the necessary duties of examination, but in the nobler union of joint endeavours to search out the secrets of Nature by way of experiment. Long may this continue, for upon its continuance rests not only the dignity and peace of our profession, but in great measure our power of doing good. However ignorantly our patients will sometimes decry what they call professional etiquette, the wiser among them know (and in the long run the wise lead the foolish) that this term really means the observance of those rules which distinguish a profession from a trade, which make our calling honourable as well as honest, which check the arts of advertisement and direct our ambitions to obtaining the suffrages, not of the public which cannot, but of our profession which can, judge truly—rules of
