lows:

"The reason medicine has advanced so slowly is because physicians
have studied the writings of their predecessors instead of nature."

From England the verdict comes to this effect:

Professor Evans, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons,
of London, says, in part:

"The Medical Practice of our day is, at the best, a most uncertain
and unsatisfactory system: it has neither philosophy nor common
sense to recommend it to confidence."

If such opinions prevail _within_ the sacred, State-protected precincts
of the profession, how long, revolted confidence exclaims--how long
before a credulous, deluded public awakens from its deep hypnotic
trance.

Against Tonsil destruction three arguments stand:

(1) That the primal intention of Universal Mind--(sometimes termed the
Soul of Being; the Spirit of All Good or, in simple reverence,
"God")--was obviously no malign intention, but an intention for _good_,
is an axiom which will be rationally accepted, I presume, as logically
and conclusively assured.

(2) That the functions of the tonsils are, in the present state of
medical knowledge, practically still unknown is the deliberate and final
statement made within the past few years by one of the greatest reputed
authorities on the subject.

(3) That the tonsil has some important mission to fulfill is clearly
demonstrated by the fact of its frequent recrudescence, or rather, the
natural renewal of the organ after surgical removal--a spontaneous
physiological organic mutiny, as it were, supported by its lymphatic
glandular dependents, against the reckless ignorance of medical
practitioners and the perversity of the medico-cum-parental fashion of
the day.

For the fact that it is a fashion, and nothing more, is unhappily fully
established on ample and high authority within the medical prescriptive
pale. And, in fact, even as "The Tonsure" or shaving of the crown,
became by fashion and mendicity a feature of priesthood and monastic
piety, so has the slaughter of the Tonsils come to be regarded by
fashion and mendacity as a feature of childhood and medical expediency
and ineptitude.

Professor John D. Mackenzie, M.D., of Baltimore, a distinguished leader
of the advanced school of medical science, in the course of a brilliant
and exhaustive treatise on the subject written as he says, reluctantly,
in the interest of the public health and safety, quotes the deliberate
opinion of