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Presidential Address ON A PLEA FOR GRADUATION IN LARYNGO-OTOLOGY ON A BROAD BASIS: Delivered before the Section of Laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine

1910; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 2607 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.2.2607.1901

0959-8138

Peter W. Williams,

Voice and Speech Disorders

n 'vePL'Taoos Nos ov $LTc?rs.(Life without examination is not worth living.)Plato.COMING from Bristol, where, as you are aware, we have recently developed a university, my thoughts have perforce been turned in the direction of educational matters, and as a lecturer on diseases of the nose, throat, and ear, I have given much consideration to the position of our own speciality in medical eduoation, which, in the interests of practitioners and of patients, leaves something to be desired.We hear it said that this is a day of specialism, and speoialism in modicine and surgery is thought to be a modern development.Yet we learn from the Ebers papyras that in the thirteenth century B.C. patients applying for relief to the medical temple at Thebes had to state their complaint, and that it was left to the principal of the medical staff to send the specialist best suited for the case.We find that the practice of surgery was distinguished from medicine even earlier than the thirteenth century B C., and it is recorded that in Egypt each physician treated a single disorder and no more, some devoting themselves to the eye, others to the teeth (they made artificial teeth, and some have asserted that they have found traces of gold stoppings in the mummies), and others again devoted themselves to disorders of the intes.