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semester. The object of this is two-fold — to show the 

 student the immensity of the specialty and to get him into 

 the habit of using the library. For this purpose the sub- 

 ject should be one not easily copied from his text book, 

 such as "A Sketch of von Helmholz," "A Review of Wilhelm 

 Meyer's Original Paper on Adenoids," "A Review of Hutch- 

 inson's Paper on Hutchinson's Triad," "The Anatomy of 

 the Ear in Birds" and so on. 



As to the second phase of my subject, it is well recognized 

 in other lines of teaching that research is necessary to the 

 development of good teachers. In the matter of research 

 in ear, nose and throat diseases we are easily behind every 

 other civilized country. It is true that we have a few large 

 institutions devoted to eye, ear, nose and throat, such as 

 the N. Y. Eye and Ear Infirmary, and the Illinois Char- 

 itable Eye and Ear Infirmary; but who ever heard of 

 any reports of original research coming out of them? I 

 have never heard of a single section of a temporal bone 

 affiliated with so important a disease as Otosclerosis ever 

 being in America. When we want to get any real 

 knowledge of the Pathology of the Ear, Nose and Throat 

 we are compelled to go either to German, Austrian or Swiss 

 literature. We have no men trained in research work along 

 this line. We have no facilities for research work along 

 this line. Nowhere in the United States is there any large 

 collection of anatomical specimens of the ear, nose and 

 throat that can compare in any way with the material in 

 the Hunterian Museum in London. 



Now the opportunity to correct their faults is at hand. 

 In Cook County Hospital is an abundance of material for 

 instruction of students in the manner I have outlined. The 

 attending men have begged for the chance of using it for 

 teaching purposes, but we are almost invariably turned 

 down by the colleges, for it would upset the established re- 

 gime, or it would create rival courses, a state of affairs 

 which to my mind is highly desirable, for nothing could do 

 so much to stimulate a teacher to do better work than the 

 knowledge that someone else would get the students to 

 teach if his work were not satisfactory. 



