The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-24


 ideals upon medical education than is afforded by what has been done in one Of the departments of Yale univeI slty to promote and develop the study of physiological chemistry. I have no hesitation in saying that the impetus which has been given here to this in0st important department of .chemieaI study and research has been felt by ev- cry medical school worthy the naIL.., in America. To Professor Chittenden and the Sheffield Scientific school is due the honor os initiating most important and heretofore neglected branch of study-one wsich would prabably nev- CT have been developed by a school un- attached to university.
 The university occupies vantage ground enjoyed bv no mara medical school. She is unselfsh. and by reason Of her endowment is abe t1 vtay all educational ques'i3Ls n an unbiased manner. regardless of tho effect .Ipon mere numbers of students. She stands for knowledge and for truth. She can afford to disregard the mere question of filling up the profession. and need only consider the proper education of compe- tent men. The country suffers from too many medical schools and too many imperfectly educated men. The uni- versity is alone competent to limit the production and to, improve the quality. The intensely practical studies of the physician, upon the one hand, need the broadening influence of university at mosphere to bring every branch of sci- ence into its proper relations, and to give proper perspective. The univer- sity. upon the other, needs and should foster departments like those of medi- cine to avoid a dilletantism which re- gards culture as an end and not an ad- junct Of life. I have sometimes thought that. with the increase of luxu- ry and wealth. and especially with the increase of leisure class, there has been an increase of those persons who pursue college course without purpose or aim. Many of these, in fact. pass through their course without attempt ing severe study, and are content with the passing joys, joys of an undergrad uate existence. Like aorsmen in a boat they constantly fix their eyes on re- ceding shore, are satisfied with what they see, and do not look in front of them. To such the mental stimulation which comes from university contact with eager, earnest men engaged in branches of merical study which call into keenest activity every faculty must prove of untold benefit.
 MEDICINE A STUDY OF PRINCE
 PLIES.
 Too many medical men reason from case to case as did John Hunter and frequently these cases are imperfectiy observed and inadequately interpreted. The physician needs rather a study of principles deduced from systematic and painstaking observations of the phe- nomena of disease and illuminated by scientific conceptions. Already anato- lny, physiology, chemistry, bacteriology and pathology are firmly founded upon the scientific method. The practice of medicine and of surgery, pharmacology, food dynanics and bodily metabolism must be similarly based upon scientific deductions. The range of observation required must be wide and the mass of accumulated facts to be gathered, for ultimate study must be enormously large. The task of interpreting such, observed phenomena calls for the widest training of the human faculty and where else can this training be se- cured except in connection with studies of the broadest and most liberalizing character. From every point of view the intellectual aspect of medicine is the most important. To men who have been trained by university studies for research we must look for the future development of medicine. The training of the medical man has been narrow in the past; in future he must draw his inspiration from centers of learning and receive stimulation from his intellectu- al peers. A lack of thoroughness. is thought by those who are familiar with the educational and industrial develop ment of the world to be characteristic of the American people. We grasp af- ter results but are not willing to lay a broad foundation of preliminary educa- tion. We have business universities (once commercial colleges). Summer universities, correspondence universi- ties and the like, and seek to get knowl- edge and to secure regrees in the short est time and with the least possible study. In no profession has this lack of thoroughness wrought so much evil as in the study of medicine.
 IN HARD PRACTICE IS MOST PROMISE.
 To those who are to receive the degree of Doctor of Medicine. I offer hearty word of congratulat tion, because in the study of medicine it is possible to com- bine research and practical work, that