PAPERS OX MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH I 7 



Universities are something more than buildings ; teach- 

 ing is something more than laboratory equipment : pro- 

 fessional training, in the highest sense, is more than 

 technical instruction. Our medical schools nmst not be 

 satisfied with anything short of that training which is 

 not only of the highest scientific quality, but also of the 

 broadest practical value. "While the curriculum in our 

 medical schools today is perhaps more crowded and over- 

 weighted than that of any other course of technical in- 

 struction, a place must be made in the four-year medical 

 course for instructing the physician of the future in the 

 spirit as well as in the letter of his work. He must be 

 told the history of his profession, not in a perfunctory 

 recital of names and dates, but so as to make him under- 

 stand the heritage of effort, experience, knowledge and 

 sacrifice which the great men of previous generations 

 have handed on to him. He must be taught his duties 

 and his responsibilities to his patients and to his com- 

 munity with as much care as he is now instructed in 

 anatomy, bacteriology, and chemistry. He must be 

 shown his duty and his responsibility to his profession 

 and to his individual pr - eiaies. and he must 



be given as sound instruction in the business of his pro- 

 011 as he is now given in its science. In a word, he 

 must be taught the vastly increased scientific knowledge 

 of today, plus the practical, personal inspiration of the 

 old system, so that each graduate of our vastly improved 

 medical colleges of today may be not only the best trained 

 man in his community, but also the man with the largest, 

 broadest, and deepest human understanding and sym- 

 pathy. 



