changed! If your liver begins to misconduct itself the first thought
of the modern operator is to cut it out and hide it some place where
you can't find it. The oldtimer would have bombarded it with a
large brunette pill about the size and color of a damson plum.
Or he might put you on a diet of molasses seasoned to taste with
blue mass and quinine and other attractive condiments. Likewise,
in the spring of the year he frequently anointed the young of the
species with a mixture of mutton suet and asafetida. This treatment
had an effect that was distinctly depressing upon the growing boy.
It militated against his popularity. It forced him to seek his
pleasures outdoors, and a good distance outdoors at that.

It was very hard for a boy, however naturally attractive he might
be, to retain his popularity at the fireside circle when coated
with mutton suet and asafetida and then taken into a warm room.
He attracted attention which he did not court and which was
distasteful to him. Keeping quiet did not seem to help him any.
Even if they had been blindfolded others would still have felt his
presence. A civit-cat suffers from the same drawbacks in a social
way, but the advantage to the civit-cat is that as a general thing
it associates only with other civit-cats.

Except in the country the old-time, catch-as-catch-can general
practitioner appears to be dying out. In the city one finds him
occasionally, playing a limit game in an office on a back street--
two dollars to come in, five to call; but the tendency of the day
is toward specialists. Hence the expert who treats you for just
one particular thing With a pain in your chest, say, you go to a
chest specialist. So long as he can keep the trouble confined to
your chest, all well and good. If it slips down or slides up he