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Show .-. 'ic: :. " '. ..: y,m. . ; :- : -1 s ! ...r.Ias :r .ryl.::. : ' ' 1 j ::;t:?. 1". t;;.:vir ta 1 3 flu:: 1 r.t I . y.V. !.; r ia Hi j atl.cl:;;ic::l cr nerval ccr.::ti:a. It i.? inf,a?il,l3 to cut c; cn a live nan's tLc:.:x cr.l leisurely leis-urely EtuJj the rc-ur-it-ticn cf Its' Hoc J ia LU heart, while the gentleman h::z::If laohs en. It i3 nocest-ary to get a corpce to study carJiac lesions leisurely. Eut where thall our Utah eurgecaa get the sthTs? Khali they go to body-enatchinz? Let us believe they prefer to work legitimately in their noble profession. Other States deliver the - unclaimed un-claimed pauper dead to the medical colleges or to the anatomical societies. Utah should do the same. The bill now before the Legislature has been carefully care-fully drawn after the Illinois law. It is jealous of the rights of the dead and the living, and it is wholly in the interest of enlightened progress and of humanity. hu-manity. It should pass .without delay. Pcss tho Pauper Cadaver BUI. The bill before the Legislature providing for disposal dis-posal of the unclaimed pauper dead to the medical fraternity is a measure in the interest of. humanity and should be passed. In the popular mind, medicine medi-cine is assured to be one of the exact sciences. When a physician misses his guess, or, worse, when he admits his ignorance of unknown laws, he is set down as a quack. He piy enter into an explication v. of the etiology of a patient's condition, display an intimate knowledge of diagnosis and prognosis and call the ailment by a Cfreek compound as full of ingredients in-gredients as a consumptive is of bacilli, or a bread pill is of faith cure, and he will be considered a great one. But once let him acknowledge that he diagnosticates diag-nosticates by a system of exclusion and differentiation, differentia-tion, and that he draws his information and conclusions conclu-sions by the uncertain process of induction, and the average patient will set him down, not as M.' Dl, but as N. G. Medicine is not an exact science. But it becomes more and more exact with the passage of each succeeding decade. Investigation and experiment ex-periment make it more exact. Those who investi--. gate most thoroughly become most expert The greatest hospital surgeons spend much of their time in the deadhouse. They analyze minutely that creature crea-ture so fearfully and wonderfully made. Some delve as if they hoped to find the vital principle, therein or even prove the divine pedigree of man. Their research all brings more exact knowledge for use on the live subject, now dangerous would the practice prac-tice of medicine be did we not know Kerrey's great law but;went on with the fanciful" theories of the V i |