Medicine: Sequel

When the Massachusetts Medical Society bade Dr. Robert E. Lincoln resign for treating everything from sinus trouble to cancer with whiffs of his unproved baoteriophages, Lincoln refused and promised "a damned good fight" (TIME, March 17). Last week Dr. Lincoln gave up the fight. Possibly forestalling a move to expel him, he resigned with a blast at the society: "Unprofessional, undemocratic, arbitrarily unfair and un-American."

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