K^TSrS^S CITY 
Review of Science and Industry, 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 
SCIENCE. MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 
VOL VII. APRIL, 1884. NO. 12 
EDUCATION. 
THE RELATIONS OF LAW AND MEDICINE, i 
HON. S. O. THACHER. 
The learned professions from immemorial time until a modern era included 
in three divisions the devotees of religion, medicine and law. Their fortunes 
have fluctuated with different epochs and exigencies and their relative values, 
significance and attainments have, by no means, been unvarying and persistent. 
Their domains have never been entirely distinct, but each has had much to do in 
regions familiar to one or both of the others. Yet, notwithstanding this com- 
munion of domicile, on the whole these pursuits of men have come on together 
with much forbearance and general good will. 
It is quite true that every truth, natural or spiritual, must at the last be rec- 
oncilable with, support and fortify every other truth. The house cannot be 
divided against itself, and if one fact upturns another this last must be held to 
be a supposition, a mere spy and not a true man. 
To disprove this harmony, of old the question was put by scholastic logi- 
cians, what would ensue were an irresistible force to meet an immovable body. 
Whichever way the answer came it was false. But suppositions like these do 
not affect the general statement that the solid irrevocable affirmations of religion, 
law and medicine, differing inasmuch as they apply to varying phases of life and 
1. Delivered at the 15th Annual Commencement of the Kansas City Medical College, March 
4, 1884. 
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