The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-20
Says EDUCATION IS
CHEAPENED BY
: Y. N. c. A.
DR.. B. D. Harrison, Secretary of State
Medical Board, Makes Bitter At.
/, tack on Hot House Degrees"
a. Before D. G. M. Alumni.
Operation by DR.. Daniel La Ferte
Postponed Because Patients Parents
Expected Comet To Destroy Earth.

The alleged cheapening OF educa'
ton by such means as night and day
correspondence schools OF a technical
nature and the giving OF degrees such
as A b. and M A. by the Y. M. Z. A.
and other institutions was denounced
In strong terms by DR.. Beverly ID. Har
rison, secretary OF the state medicai
board, In q talk on The policy or the
State Board OF Registration In Medi'
cine" before the alumni Of the Detroit
College OF Medicine, Thursday after
noon.
Il do not believe In such dollhouse
methods OF education, and they should
be discouraged" said the doctor. III
q degree can be obtained In this man
ner what is the use Of many going to
college and spending lot OF money
TO get one? / am happy TO say that
the night medical schools have all
been abolished in this country, and the
reform should be carried further.
do not say these schools, such as the
Y. NJ. c. A. is establishing, are not
doing good work, but let them content
themselves with giving the graduates
q certificate of the work that has been
done. II is not fair that degree
obtained in this way should count Tor
just as much as a university degree
obtained In the regular way"
DR.. Harrison told of the splendid re-
suits that had been accomplished By
the state medical board In Michigan,
with the result that Michigan has at
tanned very high standing, medically.
Because OF the excellence Of Michigan
medical schools. whose graduates form
the bulk OF the applicants for certit-
Gates from the state board, the per-
centage of failures in the cxamina-
tions is very small, said DR.. Harrison.
Those who are plucked are almost In
variably graduates who come here
from schools In other states, he de-
clared.
Operations In orthopaedic surgery
by DR.. Daniel LaFerte featured the
clinic held in Harper hospital, Tues
Gay morning. DR.. LaFerte had
planned to perform four operations,
but the comets approach interfered
with one. That was the case OF
Syrian boy, suffering from a very pro-
nounced case OF bow legs. His par
ents had been instructed TO take the
boy to the hospital Wednesday even.
ing, 80 that he might be prepared for
nor his parents showed up at the hos
pital. and when DR.. LAFerte inquired
as to the cause ne was informed that
inasmuch as there was grave danger
! OF the comet striking the earth IL was
useless to have an operation.
"The parents evidently figured that
n the Nsarth were going to be de-
stroyed there was no use having the |
| hnuBo fOh n
| little while" said the doctor.
The other three operations we're
performed as per schedule, however,
and were watched with much interest |
i by the doctors. The subjects were all |
little boys, from to years old. One
: of them presented a bad case of club |
feet, another was knock-kneed, while |
third had bow legs. The bow legs
are now as straight as any lads; the |
knock knees have been corrected. and
little Joe, who used to walk by lifting |
one foot over the other in a very awk-
ward manner, will be able to step right |
out just like the other boys when he
leaves his bed
DR.. G. T. Jackson, OF New York. an |
eminent authority on skin diseases, |
had an interesting clinic. One case
presented was that of a young woman
suffering from badness. The ladies |
in the amphitheater were greatly sur.
rrised when the doctor laid hold Of |
her wealth OF dark-brown tresses and |
pulled them of with the greatest ease. |
Dr. L. 3. Hirschman demonstrated the
use Of comparatively new anesthetlc.
In his clinical address on alcohol |
before the Detroit College of Medicine |
alumni, Wednesday afternoon, DR.. A. |
wv. Ives declared that drinking among |
women, particularly among those OF
the upper social strata, is decidedly on
the increase.