Abstract
To the Editor:— In your editorial A Pillar of Medicine ( 195 :1145, 1966) I was amazed to find the phrase manuscripts which... laws of physiology. I had thought that to flaunt and to flout had opposite meanings. I was even more astounded to find in the latest Webster's Third International that flout is given as a synonym of flaunt. This is indeed the world of Alice in Wonderland in which we live, when words can be made to have any meaning that we choose to give them. Do you, Sirs, condemn or condone this tendency? This called to mind the obituary notice of the Canadian physician W. S. Stansbury that appeared in Vox Sanguinis a few years ago, But above all he was loyal to the causes he eschewed....
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