Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-03-09
men NO GOOD after
THEY PASS 40 YEARS
Or. William Osler Declares the
Young Alone Are Real
Producers.
cHLoRoFoRM ALL At so
Old, He Says, Are Useless and Re-
sponsibie for Most Of the Trou-
bles and Evils Of the
World.
cHLoRoFoRM ALL At 60

Baltimore special: That little In the
world is accomplished by man over
40 years of age, that men of 60 should
he retired or chloroformed. that Amer
lean medical colleges are teaching
mongrel systems of medicine, producing
ignorant practitioners and borrowing
their sciences and instructors from
abroad. and that Europe is far ahead
of the United States in medical univer-
sites, were the statements made in
the farewell address of DIR. William Os-
Ter today at the anniversary exercises
of Johns Hopkins university. which in
stitution he is about to leave to become
head of the medical school of Oxford
university.
7 II have two fixed ideas well known to
my friends" he said. THE first is the
comparative uselessness of men above
40 years of age. This may seem shock
! ing and yet read Alright the worlds his
tory bears out the statement. Take
/ The sum of human achievement In ac-
i ton. i'm science, I'm art, in literature,
subtract the work of men above 40, and
while we should miss great treasures
even priceless treasures would
practically be where we are today.
Best Work by Young Men.
"lt is difficult TO name IL great and
! far-reaching conquest of the mind
| which has not been given to the world
| by man ON whose back the sun was
/ still Shining The effective, moving.
y,alizing work of the world = done be-
1 tween the ages of % and 40-,hese fif-
teen golden years of plenty. the ANA
boic or constructive period in which
there is always a balance in the mental
\ bank and the credit is still good.
I'm the science and art of medicine
/ there has been no advance of the first
rank which has not been initiated by
young or comparatively young men
Vesalius, Harvey. Hunter. Bycht, La
Ennec, Virchow, Lister. Koeh-the
green years We're yet upon their heads
! when their epoch making studies We're
made To modify an old saying, a man
is sane morally at 80. rich mentally at
40, wise spiritually at 5o-or never
THE young men should be encour-
aged and afforded every possible
/ chance to show what is in them.
Useless Above Age of so.
MY second idea is the useessness
of men above 60 years of age and the
incalcuable benefit it would be il
commercial, political and in profession
al life il, as matter of course. mer
stopped work at this age. In tina
charming novel. The Fixed Period,
Anthony Trollope discusses the prac-
tical advantages in modern life of {
return to this ancient usage, and the
plot hinges on the admirable scheme.
Oh cOlleBe lntO Whlch AT bO men re-
tired for year of contemplation be-
fore a peaceful departure by chloro-
form.
LAS it can be maintained that all Tho
great advances have come from mel
under 40, so the history of the world
shows that a very large proportion o
the evils may be traced to the seXa
genarians-nearly all the great mis-
takes, politically and socially. all of TIN
worst poems, most of the bad pictures
a majority of the bad novels, not
few of the bad sermons and speeches.
DIR. Osler made his criticisms of TIL
system of medical education in Amer
lea while praising the hospital and tn
laboratory practice accorded at John
HopkinS