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continual presence of disease its problems may become trivial and its 

 practise ineffective. 



The university medical school may in still another way hasten the 

 diffusion of sounder views concerning health and disease by creating 

 more interest among the educated in the general problems of pathol- 

 ogy. This is but the obverse of physiology, and its principles once 

 scientifically founded and objectively developed along general and 

 comparative lines, should form an attractive study in all biological 

 laboratories. We are still some distance from the realization of this 

 suggestion, but the task is worthy of the best men in our best schools. 



If we take this broad view of the work of the university medical 

 school and try to put it into effect, medical science will come out of 

 its somewhat isolated position and take its proper place beside the 

 other sciences. The work of the physician will then be rated more 

 justly, because the great complexity of the problem of health and dis- 

 ease will be more appreciated. His services will then be sought more 

 frequently before rather than during the calamity of illness, because 

 it will be better understood why he can more easily forestall and pre- 

 vent than cure disease. 



