Abstract
Chicago, April, 1894. Dr. T. A. Smith read a paper with the above title before the Tennessee State Medical Society, which was published in several medical journals. The object of Dr. Smith's paper was to define the minimum amount of knowledge the general practitioner should have before entering upon the practice of medicine. I took exceptions to his ideas in an article with the same title in thisJournal, Feb. 3, 1894. Dr. Smith replies to my criticism in an article in thisJournalof April 14, 1894. In Dr. Smith's first article he says the general practitioner should not attempt to use the ophthalmoscope. On this statement I took decided issue with him, and in his article of February 14 he repeats his former statement. In my article of Feb. 3,1894,I cited cases of glaucoma, cataract, optic atrophy and albuminuric retinitis where the ophthalmoscope would have been very valuable
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