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Show Physicians im .en aiamabie. "It Is a most anfortunste thing," ssys tbe North American Journal of Hornet pathy. "that the moral degeneration degen-eration to which every drug habitue almost Inevitably comes Is a tin that almost always Ilea at tbe door of some medical adviser. Few patients live so fsr from the doctor as to warrant him leaving a supply of morphine tablets for them to take 'if an attack comes on.' Tbe practice of medicine seems to be summed sp la tbe prescription of opiates la the case of some physicians. physi-cians. It is better to wear out the medicine case and let tbe hypodermic rust out than vice versa. Of course, we knew that the hypodermic should not rust and that tbe medicine case caanot; but our readers are height sough to reed between the llaee " f |