Medicine: College of Surgeons

The American College of Surgeons met at Philadelphia last week and pithily discussed professorial problems.

Ignorant Public. "The Public is more ignorant about medicine than any other science."—Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, Rochester, Minn., who, like his older brother Dr. William James Mayo (also at this meeting), always makes arresting remarks at conventions.

Laggard Brains. "Is there any use of making it possible for a man to live to be go, if his brain dies at the age of 70? . . .

Until we teach them and educate them how to live so that their brains...

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