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opinions are divided. The celcbrated physician Plater was present one day at an asscmbly of doctors, who discussed the question of napping after dinner, and most of whom condemned it. “Ecce homo,” saidthe old Esculapius; “I am seventy-six, have never been ill in my life, and I have al- ways slept after dinner.” If the patierit goes into the open air directly after dinner, the wearincss and drowsiness, which are apt to come on at that time, wear off, and thus the patient secures to himsclf amore refreshing sleep at night.

The supper should be very moderate, and the time for it about cight o’clock. A basin of light soup with bread in it will be found the most suitable food at that hour.

Every species of amusement, card-playing, dancing, etc., must be regulated by the inclination of the patient, and the circumstances of the place. In general, social intercourse with a fcw clioicc spirits during an hour or two, pre- viously to retiring to rest, is the most proper and agreeable mode of passing that time of the evening.

An absurd notion prevails in England, that physicians on the continent are inferior in talent and education, as well as in tact and vigour of practice, to those of this country. Hence, invalids, who are about to visit the Spas of Germany, will rather run the risk of taking the advice and directions of a medical man at honie, who is totally unacquainted with the nature and character of the German mineral water intended to be used, and still morc so with the locality and other collateral circumstances belonging thereto, than to fall into the hands of a German doctor. Howevcr all unprejudiced medical men who have paid any Icngthened visit to the continent, unanimously agree,— that a more learned, or better instructed dass of medical men is not easily to be found, eitlier in England or else- where; that they are as deeply versed in the Science and