Excerpt from The Homeopathic Recorder Monthly, 1911, Vol. 26 The great universities where medicine is taught, as well as the little medical colleges that met the disapproval of Mr. Flexner; the strict examining boards as well as the easy-going ones; the high browed, dignified medical editor with the flippant one, and the one who has his eye chiefly on the advertiser; all these and all other good, and bad, citizens unite in agreeing that the physi cian Should be a man skilled in his profession, a highly educated man - and all that sort of thing. With colleges ever growing stricter, and examining boards probing deeper and deeper, why is it that the medical product turned out is SO very often but Dead sea fruit? Why is it that so very, very often the brilliant man, polished in all points like a diamond, theoretically capable of combating all manner Of disease, has so many humble patients turn from him with sorrow and disappointment, turn to the anathematized illegal practitioners? Why is it that when the treatment given one of the great, or noted, men of the world comes out after his death where the supposedly most brilliant and able physicians have been employed, it is severely, if quietly (though sometimes very openly in print), criticised as showing naught but helpless ignorance? This is a nice bunch of queries, but there are not many who read these lines but will admit that they are justified by everyday facts. The authorities on all sides have raised the standard of medical education very high, but is the poor devil afflicted with misery any better for it than he was under the ministrations of the old time doc? Let us cite an example. We get letters from all sorts and conditions of men, many of them containing curious things that would make a journal very interesting if published, but editors who love a quiet life do not publish them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.