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THERE is evidence of a growing feeling among members of the medical profession that the time has come to disperse the atmosphere of mystery which has hitherto attended their ministrations, and to take the public more into their confidence as to the principles on which health may be preserved or regained. They have every reason to believe that the popular ignorance of medical science not only hinders the progress of hygiene, and therapeutics, but also is the soil on which quackeries of all kinds grow and flourish, and that the education of the laity in the elementary principles of medicine would conduce to the public health, and at the same time benefit the physician by freeing him from the competition of the incompetent and unscrupulous.
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The Research Defence Society. Nature 78, 176–177 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078176a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/078176a0