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Show ABOUT HUMAN BODY - tion of the biceps does not bring in its train an attack of nervous prostration. Seriously, this great complexity is not appreciated. Gay critics, the antl-this antl-this and the anti-that, grow Impatient with medical science and turn to others oth-ers who profess to work successfully with simpler methods. But those to whom they turn are utterly unfamiliar with the complexities of the human body and its functions, complexities that are way beyond the anti-thls and the anti-that." have here an inheritance, through many generations, of the mediaeval notion of the vileness of the human body, a notion which is out of keeping with the enlightened science of today. This science shows within ourselves wondrous mechanisms and adapata-tions adapata-tions which ought to arouse a man's admiration if he possesses a truly aesthetic sense. Dr. Lee gave a sketch of the human body, covering its composition anatomically ana-tomically and chemically, and a survey sur-vey of its functions, stopping now and again to suggest the lines which future research will take where mysteries mys-teries still "lure and baffle." He tried to give his audience some conception of the wonderful complexity of the human organism. He illustrated it at one point by describing just what it means to contract one's biceps voluntarily, volun-tarily, added laughingly: "We may, In our bewilderment, well wonder why a mere innocent contrac- Distrust of Medicine Arises From Ignorance of Anatomy. Enlightened Science of Today Shows Within Ourselves Wondrous Mechanisms Mech-anisms and Adaptions Which Arouse Admiration. New York. Dr. Frederic S. Lee, professor of physiology at Columbia university, opened the Jessup lectures on scientific features of modern medicine medi-cine at the Museum of Natural History His-tory with a "Sketch of the Normal Human Body." It is Dr. Lee's conviction convic-tion that whatever distrust of medical potency may now exist arises largely from ignorance of the human body and the present status of medical science." "In, accepting the Jessup lectureship" lecture-ship" he said, "I was influenced largely large-ly by the thought that through it 1 might perhaps be of service to both the medical profession and an intelligent intelli-gent public by telling the public something some-thing of what medical leaders are doing. do-ing. "Nothwithstanding the swift progress prog-ress of medical science we frequently meet with a distrust of the efficiency of medicine, a feeling that the physician physi-cian knows far too little c&ncerning disease and its cure, and a tendency to turn toward strange cults, making fair promises. Such distrust is as old as medicine itself. I do not believe that it Is justified. Doubting is indeed in-deed an entirely legitimate form of mental exercise. The man of science who is not a doubter has no claim to honorable standing. But not all doubts are equally estimable. There are those that betray much knowledge and those that betray little.' "The ignorance of the human body among many persons is extraordinarily extraordinari-ly great. It is strange to find thinking, think-ing, reasoning men 'and women, who were born with their bodies, who have clung to them in sickness and In health, for better or for worse, who have used them for every variety of human service, and yet hold themselves them-selves utterly aloof from a knowledge of bodily affairs. I suspect that we |