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and taking up another, but it is sharpened and 

 strengthened by the change. 



Lawson Tait has said that he sends his medical 

 students to the mills and manufactories to learn how 

 to use their hands. At the pottery they may learn to 

 mold plastic clay, that they may make a model of a 

 deformity; they shall spend time in the limner's studio 

 and the photographic gallery, that they may learn to 

 express features in outline and shade. The physician 

 who can not sketch a morbid expression is unfortu- 

 nate. I would make drawing a compulsory qualifi- 

 cation to matriculation. The best surgeons in the 

 world have served time among the trades. It is a 

 laudable accomplishment to be able to handle tools 

 adroitly. There are more advantages in cultured ma- 

 nipulation than ever entered the head of a classical 

 dullard. The surgeon's tactus eruditus is the cultivated 

 sense of palpation ; and it is not inherited, but ac- 

 quired. , 



A dislocated shoulder or hip can not be reduced 

 without an understanding of the application of force 

 in the most direct and advantageous manner; and 

 there is no better place to become expert in such 

 knowledge than in the multiple and varied labors of a 

 rural ist. In a logging camp are experiences which 

 test a man's ingenuity and widen his mental capa- 

 cities. 



