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which we should do well to heed. We are all

too busy, and try too much. Unhappily, there is but little choice in the matter, and while the disease is patent, there is little hope of discovering the remedy. This Dr. Smith does not propose to suggest, though he gives us a gleam of light in one chapter, by telling us that we must somehow get more phos- phorus. Unhappily, however, the simple method of taking what we want is accompanied by great dangers. This so-essential phosphorus has to be got into the system, if it is got at all, in a very subtle way indeed. Still readers of Dr. Smith's little book may learn something from it. If we cannot get quit of hurry and its evil effects, we can, at all events, do something by way of mitigation.