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Friday, June 9, 1916 



CONTENTS 

 The Teaching of Clinical Medicine: Db. 

 Lewellts F. Bakker 799 



Our Universities: Pboeessok John M. 

 COXJLTEE 810 



The San Diego Meeting of the Pacific Di- 

 vision of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science 812 



Scientific Notes and News 813 



University and Educational News 817 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Second Year of College Chemistry: H. 

 N. Holmes. Stylolites in Quartzite: W. A. 

 Takr. The Definition of Energy: "Wm. 

 Kent 817 



Scientific Books: — 



Shreve on the Vegetation of a Desert 

 Mountain Range: Propessoe B. E. Living- 

 ston. Giltner's Laboratory Manual in Gen- 

 eral Microbiology : Professor H. W. Conn. 821 



Special Articles: — 

 A New Fundamental Equation in Optics: 

 Professor C. W. Woodworth 824 



Anthropology at the Washington Meeting: 

 Propessob George Grant MacCuedt 825 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington: Dr. 



M. W. Lyon, Jr 934 



THE TEACHING OF CLINICAL 

 MEDICINE 1 



U9S. intended for patlication and books, etc., intended tor 

 review should be sent to Professor J. MeKeen Cattell, Garri»on- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE SCIENCE OF CLINICAL MEDICINE 



Clinical medicine is the most complex 

 of all the natural sciences, for successfully 

 to study it one needs to be more or less 

 familiar with the content and the methods 

 of investigation of a whole series of ancil- 

 lary natural sciences (physics, chemistry, 

 biology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, 

 physiologic chemistry, pharmacology, path- 

 ologic anatomy, pathologic physiology, bac- 

 teriology and parasitology, immunology, 

 etc.). Like other natural sciences, clinical 

 medicine consists of a growing accumula- 

 tion of truths that make up a more or less 

 distinct body of knowledge. In order that 

 this body may be conveniently organized, 

 the facts of the science have to be collected, 

 compared with one another, arranged in 

 logical sequence, and, as far as possible, 

 summarized in the form of generalizations 

 known as laws or principles. The many 

 ways of accumulating and organizing the 

 facts pertaining to the sick constitute the 

 scientific method of internal medicine. 



Studies of patients have shown us that 

 the transformations of matter and energy 

 in the bodies of the sick, though conforming 

 to natural law, deviate to a certain extent 

 either qualitatively or quantitatively from 

 the transformations in health. Workers in 

 clinical medicine are gradually finding out 

 how to detect these deviations from the 

 normal by systematic inquisition of the 

 minds and bodies of their patients. They 



1 Bead at the meeting of the Association of 

 American Medical Colleges, Chicago, February, 

 1916. 



