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Medical Education in England. 
. a memorandum of nearly two hundred pages, 
addressed to the Minister of Health, Sir George 
Newman has reviewed some of the recent advances 
in medical education in England.' The occasion is 
—— timely. Never before has there been such an urgency 
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1023. and expectation of reforms ; never, as since the War, 



Such general appreciation of the vast potentialities of 
CONTENTS. PAGE medical science in determining the society of the future. 
Medical Education in England : . 765 There is no medical school in Britain but has felt 
vg Coal-Mining in the War Period. By Prof. 766 reinvigorated by the general sense of change and 
‘The Stroctural Units of the Body. By Dr. E F. Movement forwards. Like the celestial shades, 
Armstrong, F.R.S.. 768 | Benevolence and Gratitude, in Tourguenieff’s amusing 
Actuarial Mathematics. By W.E.HB. | .. eae B ; 
Our Bookshelf se 5 Ff <! x é F 3 : - 18 Satire, Science and Practice have been made acquainted. 
Letters to the Editor :— Of all the heavenly company they alone did not know 
ium.—Dr. F. W. Aston, * ae ee 
ah a. ‘— er 771 | each other before. Congratulation is free and happy ; 
ae ae Theory one the Quantum Theory. —Prof. , | it 4s part of the new atmosphere of hope and fresh 
The so- Soins © pe in the Waters of the a resolve. 
Thames Oyster-beds.—Dr. J. H. Orton .  . 7731 "Since the publication of an earlier memorandum 
The Relation of the Critical onstants and the True A Fi oe 
Specific Heat of Ferromagnetic Substances. —Dr. In 1918 “there have been significant developments 
R. Ashworth . 773 in - = at » : ¥ . 
Uae Paper Band. (WW&h Diagrani.)-Prof. in Medical Education” in England, and medical 
C. V. Boys, F.R.S. 774 | education in England was, on the whole, ahead of the 
The Viscosity of Liquids. —R.M. Deeley 774 | rest of the world already. Probably this last is a fair 
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Perseid Meteors in July 1592.—Dr. J. K. Fothering- Se : 
nec 774 |-Summary of the facts as they are presented here, not 
The Measurement of Overvoltage. —Dr. S. Glasstone 775 | by Sir George Newman alone, but by a host of industri- 
A New Phototropic Compound of Mercury.—Prof. e 
Y. Venkataramaiah and Bh. S. V. Raghava Rao 775 ous correspondents, in great wealth of detail, albeit 
Ancient Egyptian Chronology. By Dr. H.R. Hall 776 | from diverging points of view. Darwin and Huxle 
The Booth “Anniversary of the Eeeeition of St. ins P y 


Bartholomew's Hospital 777 | among the naturalists, Shakespeare, Keats, and 
ci Complete peaiieasoe of Coal. ae Dr. J ‘Ss. G. d Wordsworth among the poets, are requisitioned to 
an. 7™ | point the moral of Sir Clifford Allbutt, who has said 
Mr. F. W. Harmer. By Prof. Percy F. Kendall, that ‘“‘ at this moment it is revealed to us that Medicine 
a: gas C. S. Salter. ‘By Dr. Hugh Robert 779 | has come to a new birth. ree What is then this new 
Mill Se eee _ birth, this revolution in Medicine ? It is nothing less 
pee Bare ee | eS TBr than its enlargement from an art of observation and 
Our Astronomical Column. . . ‘ F 735 empiricism to an applied science founded upon research ; 
Research Items . : ° . : ae 
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich. ANNUAL. from a craft of tradition and sagacity to an applied 
VISIVATION . ‘ 789 | science of analysis and law ; from a descriptive code 
cea = University College and Hospital, 78q | Of surface phenomena to the discovery of deeper 
The Mind of the Maori. "By Sidney H. Ray ; - 790 | affinities ; from a set of rules and axioms of qualit 
The Promotion of a ch the pare of 4 y 
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to measurements of quantity. 
Bristol . . : 790 
Radiation Theory : ‘ - 791 The new knowledge came in almost bewildering 
Soil Acidity ary! Plant Distribution . F é  9Ou 
University and Educational Intelligence ; 792 sugcession—cell changes, toxins, immunology, asepsis, 
Societies and Academies : ‘ ‘ - 793 | internal secretion, cardiology. ‘The medical man 
ee eceived . <n) eee ih may now be, if he will, master of his fate”; and we 
New Methods of Crystal Analysis and their Bearing know that this jubilation is scarcely in excess or ill- 
on Pure and Applied oe Sy: Sir William founded. We know that chemistry and physics have 
Bragg, K.B.E., F.R.S. * - Supp. iii. : . . aS 
: Served the physiologist nobly and untiringly ; that 
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ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON, W C.2. mand of all biological a ka ; that British physiology 
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elegraphic ress: USIS, LONDON ssed to the Minister of Health by Sir George Newman, ie ica 
Telept Number: GERRARD 8830. HM: Stationery Oice, 1983. ts 34. net) Board of Education. (London: 
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