The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-23
WOULD CHZOROEORlN
ALL MEN OVER SIXTY
LITTLE DONE BY
men OYER FORTY
DR.. .Osler, Leaving for England,
lays Medical Colleges in
United States.

AMERICANS osLER WOULD CHLoRoFoRM.
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Howells, J. Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Garne;
gie Justices Brewer and Peckham' Admiral
Gs-John Hay, John wanamaker, F. Hopkinson
c5@Rear Admiral seSiey, General Miles, Senator
W; A: Clark, Senator German. Bishop Keane'
e4~Henry Wattsrson, General S. M. B. Young,
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esSseneral corSin. General chaRee. Joaquin
slHstiss MsKs 4 Senators Nelson and Spoon
Now York Sun Special Service.
Baltimore, Feb. 23.-That little in the
world is accomplished by man
oyer forty years years. OF age; that men ae5a. OF
formed, that American medical colleges
are teaching mongrel systems Of medi'
cine, producing ignorant practitioners
and borrowing their sciences and in
structors from abroad, and that Europe
is far ahead of the United States in
medical universities. were, the state,
ments made in the farewell address of
ercises of Johns Hopkins university
which institution he is about to leave
to become head of the medical school
of Oxford university. He said:
I have two fixed ideas we'll known tt
my friends The first is the comparative
uselessness of men above 40 years of age
This may seem shocking, and yet, rea(
Alright, the worlds history bears out the
statement.
Fifteen Golden Years.
1t is difficult to name a great and far
reaching conquest Of the mind which has
not been given to the world by a man or
whose back the sun was still shining. Thu
effective, moving, vitalizing work Of thu
world IS done between the ages of Is ant
40-these fifteen golden years Of plenty
the anabollc or constructive period, il
which there Is always a balance in thu
mental bank and the credit is still good
| In the science and art of medicine Their
has been no advance Of the first ranl
which has not been initiated by young o
comparatively young men. -..-
| My second idea is the uselessness Of mel
above go years of age, and the incalcu
liable benefit it would be in commercial
political and in professional life II, as
matter, OF course, men stopped WOTk a.
this age. In that charming novel, eth
Fixed Period" Anthony Trollope diseusse
| the practical advantages in modern life o
return to this ancient usage, and thu
plot hinges on the admirable scheme Q
a college into which at 60 men retire,
for.SA year of contemplation before !,
peaceful departure by chloroform. T.
-. = sexagenarians Do Evil. g..
AS it can be maintained that all tn
great advances have come from men un
der 40, so the history Of the world show
that very large proportion of the evil
may be traced to the sexagenarians-
nearly all the great mistakes, POLITICAL
and socially, all Of the worst poems, mos
of the bad pictures, a majority Of the ba
novels, not a few Of the bad sermons an
speeches
DR.. Osler made his criticisms Of tn
system of medical education in Americ
while praising the hospital and the lab
oratory practice accorded at Johns Hop
kins.
According to his own theory, D,
Osler should be chloroformed in abou
four wears, as he was born in l840.