133 from the neighbourhood a fellow traveller from the same district, to the question, " Do you know Dr. --2 " there came the reply, " Ken Dr. -? Why, he brocht me intil the world, and he's the finest puir mon's doctor that ever breathed." I see him now, aged, retired, with shattered health, and indifferent means, an ending to his days far other than he has merited, but withal content, and, I think, not regretful that he has been "a' body's body." Another comes to memory who worked from youth

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... advanced years with almost unremitting toil, a man against whom no breath of evil whisper ever stirred, of whom I have heard it said, "If I had committed a murder I would go and tell Dr. -." " Such an attitude is the result of the human relationship, the penetration to the depths of human life, the intercourse with its sanctities and woes, which is inherent in the work of the practitioner and which is the compensation for the difficulties of his life. The life-work of most other callings is less intimate, controlled more by the tyranny of mere things." I recollect an incident related by a colleague of his .entry to a sick room, and of how the patient, putting down a book which he had in his hand, and which happened to be the Bible, made the comment, " It's only the doctor." The observation on the incident was that clergymen see men at their best, lawyers see men at their worst, while doctors see men as they are.