WHY DO WE DIE

The attitude and the pretensions of the “medicine man” may perhaps have had some value in the days when the multitude was full of superstition and had no scientific knowledge, but we hope those days of ignorance have passed, though we fear superstition remains. The “medicine man” was a more or less clever poseur, who used his small amount of knowledge to conceal his very large amount of ignorance. The medical profession, till the more recent years, cannot be entirely acquitted of the same sort of dishonesty, but a new era of open-mindedness and honesty has, I think, begun.