I have named this world Dore-lyn.  It is fifty times as large as our Earth and of greater specific gravity.

Its human creatures are delightfully formed and are in ruddy health and refined happiness.  In shape these Dore-lynites differ somewhat from us, but long before I had reached this planet I learned something of the universal standards of symmetry and ascertained that creatures could be beautiful without resembling us whatever.

Here I found four billions of people and there is room for twenty billions more.  So if you are in ill health, and have run the round of our medical fraternity without success, I would advise you to go to Dore-lyn, if you know how to reach it.

These Dore-lynites are almost three times our size and they are subject to most of our ills and many more.  From an early date the head government of this world paid particular attention to hygiene, keeping all medical work under its own care.

The government controls the whole field of medical science just as we do the post-office department.

There are no conflicting schools of medicines such as Allopathic, Homeopathic, Hydropathic, Eclectic and Osteopathic.  The government gives handsome rewards to any one who furnishes a new discovery or gives additional light.  Everything is duly tested and proved to be a success by a corps of experts before it is given to the practicing fraternity.  The government holds certain rights in experimenting that no physician or medical school would think of having in our world.  The government medical schools of Dore-lyn are marvels indeed.  Nothing is spared that money or talent can furnish.  The full graduates of these schools are only “the survival of the fittest.”  Others take a secondary degree and can act as assistants or retire from the list.  The government has a series of institutions that do a work similar to our hospitals and have a corps of full graduates supplying the stations.  This entire system is so arranged that every family or individual receives all necessary treatment free.

The cost of carrying on this vast system is one of the items of national expense.  I will now mention some of the medical achievements of these Dore-lynites.

When a physician suspects that the blood is poisoned he at once proceeds to a chemical analysis, and if certain kinds of poison are found, the blood is filtered by the use of a fine instrument.  A blood vessel is exposed and cut, and the two ends fastened to the delicate filter.  Thus the blood is cleansed by passing through this instrument.  Those acquainted with the manner in which the blood circulates can readily see how all the blood of the body can be reached in a short time.  This method is very successful in the treatment of all bites of poisonous insects and reptiles, and all types of hydrophobia, which are ten-fold more numerous in Dore-lyn than in our world.