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ness with all their attendant suffering, distress, anxiety, 

 nursing, sleepless nights. What shall we say to this? 



I come to you from an institution (Clark University) 

 devoted solely to the development of pure science, and my 

 department is that of physiology and neurology. Since 

 we have no medical faculty and do not give medical de- 

 grees, my laboratory is thus one that would be absolutely 

 closed, either for instruction or for research, should this 

 bill become a law. 



Now what are the values of pure science to the commu- 

 nity? I shall mention only one. The science of physiology 

 supplies the great foundation for all rational medicine. 

 Why do we have all this disease and premature death? 

 Mainly because we have not yet learned enough physiol- 

 ogy. I speak of the science in its widest sense. We do 

 not know enough of the laws of life. We have not studied 

 sufficiently the causes of disease. Our medical friends, as 

 a rule, have their hands full trying to cure disease ; but an 

 eminent medical authority has himself frankly confessed 

 that the doctor is like a blind man striking about him with 

 a club, about as likely to hit his patient as the disease. 

 This state of things will go on, with our 170,000 odd cases 

 of disease and premature death in Massachusetts, until we 

 learn more about the laws of life and improve the quality 

 of our education. 



Further, on the side of the physiology of the nervous 

 system, we have in Massachusetts nearly 10,000 insane 

 patients in the various asylums of the State, and the 

 number is annually increasing. Why is this? Largely 

 because we do not know enough about the physiology of 

 the brain. This is not simply a matter of medicine and 

 medical education. Nerve hygiene and physiology touches 

 intimately the education of every child in our public schools 

 underlies every-day life at a great many points. 



My work in Clark University has consisted largely in the 



