tempt something entirely unfitted to your sphere. A method suitable to the student in the laboratory or a clinician in a large hospital would not be the one for the practitioner of the crossroads. Each must fit his meth¬ ods to his needs. The practitioner remote from large centers must evolve his own system. He must have help ; if his practice is large, an assistant or competent nurse should be obtained. It is my belief that in the near fu¬ ture the trained nurse will become in fact a clinical

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... s¬ sistant, relieving the busy doctor of many details, as testing urine, stomach contents, and other minor manip¬ ulations. Even he who,is so remote as to be denied these aids can generally find those in the community who can be taught to take much of the drudgery. Learn to save time and apply it to the essentials, leaving the details to others.