THE TEACHING OF MEDICINE.

Abstract

Medicine can be readily separated into two distinct portions; the scientific and the practical or art. The science of medicine, or better, one should say the sciences used in medicine, can be taught by the specialist whose knowledge of the practice of medicine may be very limited. Chemistry, physics, biology, physiology, anatomy, microscopy, histology, pathology, bacteriology and materia medica are capable of being taught in the class-room and laboratory without the aid of the living human subject. These branches of science so virtually necessary to the practice of medicine should be taught by men thoroughly trained and competent, and as this requires time for which no recompense is to be had out of practice, and as the knowledge can not be acquired in practice as other specialists such chairs should pay their occupants sufficiently well to permit them to give most of their time to the study. There would then