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and they are laughed out of court. Clinical Observation teaches 

 millions of people that they can eure all disease by dilutions of 

 powde^^^ sugar, millions more that they can eure all disease by 

 tinkering with the spine, and millions more that they can eure all 

 disease by denying its existence. It teaches one thing today and 

 another tomorrow. Clinical Observation is not the final court of 

 appeal! It is an advocate before the bar, and when the advocate 

 usurps the functions of the judge, and hands down decisions con- 

 trary to the evidence of sound pathology, we have a remedy — the 

 recall." — Ely. 



" I hold that in the f uture, students who are being trained to be 

 physiologists, whether in the field of physical and nervous or of 

 chemical physiology, ought to have the M.D. degree. . . . Any 

 doctor of philosophy who professes a different view I am compelled 

 to regard as like the fox, in the fable, which lost its tail. If they, 

 like this cunning animal, claim that a condition of taillessness is an 

 advantage, I would warn all the young physiological foxes to 

 beware. Grow a good bushy tail in the form of an M.D. after your 

 name, and let no tailless old fox beguile you out of growing it." — 

 Henderson. 



"Of great importance in connection with medical education in 

 this country is a System by which specially trained medical teachers 

 and research men in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and pathol- 

 ogy can be secured. At present it is very difficult to secure such 

 teachers. . . . The lack of well-trained medical men has led man}'- 

 of our medical schools to fill positions with men holding the Ph.D., 

 men well trained in their special sciences, but lacking the medical 

 training, and, therefore [?], lacking the medical point of view. 

 The lack of the medical point of view prevents such teachers from 

 fully understanding the work of the clinical departments and cor- 

 relating their work with those departments. Since there is so much 

 to learn in a very limited space of time, the subjects of the medical 

 course should be selected and taught by those who have received 

 the complete medical training, and who are thereby better enabled 

 to correlate these subjects with the other branches of the medical 

 course." — Report of the Conncil on Medical Education, American 



