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work and high powers of the microscope. It may be worth 
while to recall the address by Sir James Paget of England in 
1880 on plant diseases and their relation to man; the oak-galls 
having been the favorite. The Crown-gall in both wild and 
cultivated plants is analagous to sarcoma in man. Dr. E. F. 
Smith has recently produced a complex tumor or embryoma. It 
may not be out of place to remind the members here that Prof. 
T. J. Burrill was, I believe, the first instructor in Bacteriology 
in the United States, for he gave Bacteria in his Fungi courses 
in the 70’s and his paper on the Pear Blight in 1879. 
The treatment of mouth and the gastro-intestinal tract is 
where we all work together, the internist, the chemist, the 
bacteriologist, zoologist, pathologist, and dietitian. Use here 
of Micro-analysis shortens time, is accurate, takes less ma- 
terial, fewer re-agents, and the results are the same. The 
sooner the Universities give a full medical standing in the Ist, 
2nd, 5rd years for Dental students, or require the M. D. degree 
entire, the better it will be for all concerned; then specialize 
in the subjects desired as Occulist, Aurist, Dentist, ete. 
To be able in this day and age to treat a case intelligently, 
medical and dental men must know germs, culturing, vaccines, 
serum-therapy, surgery, and even law in its medical and 
forensic aspects. 
To the better understanding we need Biology in its broadest 
sense, the thorough mastery of the Microscope, its accessories, 
and we need to know and use the Polariscope and the selenites. 
Cheese yields various moulds and parasites. Aspergillus 
glaucus and Penicillium glaucum, cheese mites. Milw, water 
and all other foods and beverages require a good knowledge of 
biological studies even to the Textiles, for fibres yield errors 
and much amusement, as well as work to identify and tarce in 
disease and for Medico-legal examination. 
Flesh foods are important to all mankind in one way or an- 
other as Food and even Dangers in their uses. 
The Zoologist is required as well as the Botanist, Biologist, 
the Veterinarian, the Chemist, the Doctor and the Dentist. 
Hence closer co-operation with one another is much to be de- 
