He made war on the theoretical practitioners of the day, particularly the Methodists, who, like some of their modern followers, held that their business was with the disease and not with the conditions out of which it arose.
No other physician has ever occupied the commanding position of "Clarissimus" Galenus.

For fifteen centuries he dominated medical thought as powerfully as did Aristotle in the schools.

Not until the Renaissance did daring spirits begin to question the infallibility of this medical pope.

But here we must part with the last and, in many ways, the greatest of the Greeks--a man very much of our own type, who, could he visit this country today, might teach us many lessons.

He would smile in scorn at the water supply of many of our cities, thinking of the magnificent aqueducts of Rome and of many of the colonial towns--some still in use--which in lightness of structure and in durability testify to the astonishing skill of their engineers.