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understanding of organic life can never be obtained 

 without due relative study of both. The masterly 

 and incomparable teaching of Johannes Miiller owed 

 a great part of its captivating charm to his equitable 

 regard for morphology and physiology, as well as to 

 his comprehensive treatment, from the broadest point 

 of view, of the enormous mass of details to be dealt 

 with. I therefore have not the smallest doubt that 

 the morphological training of medical students, as at 

 present conducted at Berlin under the influence of 

 Eeichert and his colleagues, is as far behind that of 

 Muller's day, twenty or thirty years ago, in all general 

 comprehension of the typical organism, as it is in 

 advance of it in specialist acquirements. 



In medical, as in all other scientific learning, the 

 highest aim does not consist in seeking to accumu- 

 late a vast chaotic mass of isolated items of knowledge, 

 but in a general comprehension of the science, its aims 

 and problems. The teacher should, above everything, 

 guide the pupil to this general knowledge, and then it 

 will be easy to him, by the aid of proper methods, to 

 acquire mastery in each individual and special branch. 

 Thus in medicine, as in every other science, he is not 

 the best qualified who, on Bastian's method, has loaded 

 his memory with a confused mass of undigested facts, 

 and has flung them all together into his brain without 

 any order ; but, on the contrary, he who has practically 



