which St. Paul enforced upon the Christian world.  One idea pervades thought from Homer to Lucian-like an aroma—­pride in the body as a whole.  In the strong conviction that “our soul in its rose mesh” is quite as much helped by flesh as flesh by the soul the Greek sang his song—­“For pleasant is this flesh.”  Just so far as we appreciate the value of the fair mind in the fair body, so far do we apprehend ideals expressed by the Greek in every department of life.  The beautiful soul harmonizing with the beautiful body was as much the glorious ideal of Plato as it was the end of the education of Aristotle.  What a splendid picture in Book iii of the “Republic,” of the day when “. . . our youth will dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall flow into the eye and ear like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason.”  The glory of this zeal for the enrichment of this present life was revealed to the Greeks as to no other people, but in respect to care for the body of the common man, we have only seen its fulfilment in our own day, as a direct result of the methods of research initiated by them.  Everywhere throughout the Hippocratic writings we find this attitude towards life, which has never been better expressed than in the fine phrase, “Where there is love of humanity there will be love of the profession.”  This is well brought out in the qualifications laid down by Hippocrates for the study of medicine.  “Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine ought to be possessed of the following advantages:  a natural disposition; instruction; a favourable position for the study; early tuition; love of labour; leisure.  First of all, a natural talent is required, for when nature opposes, everything else is vain; but when nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming a nearly pupil in a place well adapted for instruction.  He must also bring to the task a love of labour and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”  And the directions given for the conduct of life and for the relation which the physician should have with the public are those of our code of ethics today.  Consultations in doubtful cases are advised, touting for fees is discouraged.  “If two or more ways of medical treatment were possible, the physician was recommended to choose the least imposing or sensational; it was an act of ‘deceit’ to dazzle the patient’s eye by brilliant exhibitions of skill which might very well be dispensed with.  The practice of holding public lectures in order to increase his reputation was discouraged in the physician, and he was especially warned against lectures tricked out with quotations from the poets.  Physicians