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Abstract

AT the opening of the London Hospital Medical School, Prof. Huxley gave an address on the relations of the State to the medical profession. He considers the present relations on the whole satisfactory, and that it is not desirable that the State should do more than it does to protect the public against incompetent persons and quacks. He thinks that no license should be granted except for the three qualifications, and that the course of study should be extended somewhat backwards, by insisting, instead of the general education test, upon some knowledge of elementary physics, chemistry, and so forth, by the young man desirous of entering upon a course of medical studies. In conclusion, he referred to the want of organisation for the advancement of the science of medicine considered as a pure science.