Medical Arena Volume 5-6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...etiquette, nor cares he for the interests of medical men as such, but respects them as citizens and he writes as a citizen, a tax-payer and a member of the commonwealth of Missouri. The point in question is. What good or harm has followed or is to follow the last order passed by the board restricting or regulating the admission of students into medical colleges? This is partly answered in the foregoing. It is certainly right that men who intend to study medicine should have such school knowledge as will enable them to read and understand the books and language of the country; and as we happen to live in the land of the free, in a land where our President speaks English, where laws are written and read in English, where everything is done in English, where all sorts and kinds of books, not excluding scientific or medical hooks, are printed in English-therefore it would seem that the English language is good enough, sufficiently copious, and certainly much better, safer, and more certain of conveying real knowledge than a language dead and little understood. By what right can any board prevent a citizen entering into any business, into any study? Is it to prevent making doctors, to protect those in practice? to advance the fees? to deprive the country, especially the small settlements, of medical help or advice? Are there any members of the board wishing to go themselves into the swamps and pestilential localities, where marsh fever, malaria and other kinds of sickness ate bred? It not then why should any one go there? Certainly no one could practice medicine in such districts unless he be born there, any more than such an one born there could practice in a city successfully. The English language is enough in any part of the world; yes, the language of the wo...