_Contributing Editor, Medical Review of Reviews_, _Pharmaceutical Chemist, Columbia University_, _Member of the American Chemical Society_, _Author of_ “_Pathfinders in Medicine_.” “What is left for us modern men? We cannot be Greek now. The cypress of knowledge springs, and withers when it comes in sight of Troy; the cypress of pleasure likewise, if it has not died already at the root of cankering Calvinism; the cypress of religion is tottering. What is left? Science, for those who are scientific. Art for artists; and all literary men are artists in a way. But science falls not to the lot of all. Art is hardly worth pursuing now. What is left? Hasheesh, I think: Hasheesh of one form or ano…
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