To the Editor of the "Nortu-Curna Dairy News."
Sir,—Will some reader of your valued paper give me some infor-motion on the following points? Why are medical practitioners, who have not taken their M.D. degree, given the title of "Doctor"? A perusal of the Hong. List for Shanghai will reveal the interest. ing fact that many of our local practitioners, (at least 50 per cent. of them, I should say), are not Doctors of Medicine. Some are Bachelors of Medicine, some Members of the R.C.S., some Licen-fiates of the R.C.P. and yet one and all are included in the term "Doctor". A man who has taken his B.Se., his B.D. or his Mus. Bac. degree is never under any circumstances called a doctor, even by courtesy, although he may know a great deal more about science, divinity and music respectively than the medico who is called, "doctor" by courtesy. Why is li Enclosing my card, I am, etc., Inquirer. Shanghai, Feb, 19.
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