Mr. R. 8. Greene, resident direc-for of the Rockefeller Foundation delivered a lecture evening entitled "A layman's impressions of modern medicine." Mr. Greene's remarks mainly dealt with the thoroughness of the education of the modern physician. Not only must he be educated in medicine, but s general thorough education, geography, history, mathematics, are just as necessary for the doctor as for the lawyer.
Mr. Greene has found that doctors are usually broadminded men with the human side of their nature well developed. Doctors take as intelligent interest in topics of the day as members of the other professions, and they are just as ap predative of literature and the arts. He referred to the importance of autopsies to which there has hitherto been strong opposition, but when the general public understands the importance of post-mortem the objection will disappear. Modern medicine in China, so far as Chinese are concerned, is in its very beginning, and he urged the importance of setting " high standard so as to establish the best traditions for the future.
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