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Excerpt from Some Resemblances Betwixt Plants and Animals in Respect of Their Nutrition, With Some Remarks on the Position of the Natural History Sciences in Medical Education: Address to the Medical Students at the Opening of the Winter Session, University of Glasgow, Tuesday, October 28th, 1879
As you are all aware, there is at the present time an agitation for medical reform, heralded by the plausible cry of protection for the public. N 0 one will deny that there is room for reform in certain directions, but it is open to grave question whether the sweeping changes in the character of the tests for medical licence and the modifications of the course of study which have been urged would produce the effect desired. It is hard to conceive of how lowering the standard of examination to a minimum would tend to the better protection of the public, or how the exclusion from the curriculum of study of those sciences, which even the reformers designate the fundamental medical sciences, would produce practitioners more fitted for the work of their profession.
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