Editorial June 5, 1909 ISSUE

WARPED WORLDLY WISDOM

John B. Willis

In a recent address before a gathering of physicians, one of America's foremost educators, while speaking of the requirements now laid upon the medical profession, is reported to have said: "Another combat to be urged is that of scientific progress toward new knowledge, not the supernatural but the natural way, and it is for the medical profession to give warning against the new superstitions. Knowledge is by observation, and scientific study is the kind required."

This statement was manifestly aimed at the effort to realize by non-material means the end and purpose of the medical profession. It is a seemingly fair and logical phrasing, but it fails to make any definite statement while bringing to thought a legion of intimations.

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