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factor in progress, the mind of man. Machinery and 

 method have proved their value, and we shall not discard 

 them. France has perhaps in the past laid too little 

 stress on the organization of research, but she has never 

 failed to preserve that atmosphere of free intellectual 

 inquiry and unconquerable scientific curiosity in which 

 the genius who creates new machinery and devises new 

 methods to solve new problems can best develop. The 

 first great American physicians, one hundred years ago, 

 sought in Paris at the feet of LAENNEC and Louis, of 

 PINEL and RICORD, of DUPUYTREN and VELPEATJ, and of 

 the great MAGENDIE, the inspiration which enabled them 

 to lay the foundation of scientific medicine in our land. 

 American medical science is now thoroughly organized, 

 rich in facilities for research in hospitals and laboratories, 

 full of enthusiasm for high achievement. It must appro- 

 priate and adapt to its own uses the best that it finds in all 

 lands. In France it will find scientific imagination of the 

 highest order, sympathy so wide as to unite all groups of 

 specialists in devotion to the aims of medicine as a whole, 

 acute observation of the finer details of clinical symptoms, 

 a spirit which loves reality so intensely that it will not 

 cramp it within too simple and artificial categories, and 

 the best model for its imitation in the creation of its 

 medical literature. 



