British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 October 1913, Page 2

British and Foreign

[eI-KCTUKJ TKLEGItAPi]. COPYRIGHT.] [I'l.ll I'ItKSS ASSOCIATION.] expert opjxklxs. London, October 2. Sir William Osier, in addressing Ihe students of SH. (jeorge's ilospital, vigorously attacked the examination system where.by some of the best material failed simply ill rough the curriculum. Medicine could be taught without systematic leciurers. They should burn the anatomical fetish. He instanced Cunningham's "Anatomy"', as barbaric crueliy and a burden lo the mind wiih minutiae which were only of Chinese value us a Titanic test of the memory. Where possible, evidence of original work should be substituted for examination. Sir Tohii McFadyen, in opening- the lloval Veterinary College, declared that tuberculosis had an enormous hold on every European country. The number of milking or dairy herds in England and S< of land free from tuberculosis was praciicallv negligible.