Article February 8, 1908 Issue

The value of these meetings to the members of the congress,...

From an address by Dr. Osler before the Congress of American Physicians,

Sun

The value of these meetings to the members of the congress, and the benefit which comes almost directly to the sick and halt and maimed, appear largely in the fact that the gatherings are a kind of clearing-house for new ideas in medicine and surgery. Every dose of medicine given to a patient is an experiment, every operation performed is more or less of an experiment. The result of a dose or an operation may be reported in a formal and technical article, operation may be reported in a formal and technical article, in a magazine or in the form of a paper read before the congress. The doctor of sixty years of age and wide experience meets the man of thirty-five who is hewing out a new course by means of experiments. The man who is counted wise to-day meets the man who will be counted wise ten years from now, and both are gainers by the personal contact and exchange of views.

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