The voluntary retirement of Doctor Davis should strike none with surprise. He has well earned at the hands of the American medical profession his many honors, and now he has arrived at an age, when life is no longer necessarily a warfare, and the peace he desires is his by right.
When one has passed his three score and ten years in constant work, he has the right to engage himself during the remainder of his life in such pursuit of enjoyment as is most congenial to him, and most free from care. He has not retired from his medical school, or his practice, and he will continue to perform much more labor than most men; but it became a question with him what particular care would most relieve him were he free from it, and so he chose to consign the management of The Journal, now on a firm