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Speculum : the Journal of the Melbourne Medical Students No. 108. [RE-IssuEd JUNE, 1921, Si Speculum Placet, Inspire. The Speculum Published by the MELBOURNE MEDICAL STUDENTS' SOCIETY. for Circulation among. its Members. CONTENTS. Page. Editorial ... 1 Notes and Comments The Annual Meeting - 5 Annual Report ... ... 9 11 Uncensored Celebrities ... 12 The Illusion of Security 15 Medical Music ... Some Practical Hints on Anaesthetics Is TheLitan y Revised The Ready Reference ... 24 Hare and Hounds Run ... 25 France's Discovery of the Value of Gaines in the National Life ... ... 26 Treatment of Disease by Supernatural Means 27 Wilson Hall 32 The Late Sir William Osler 33 Stickina Nositis . 37 On Dit 41 The Literary Page ... 42 Verse and Worse 43 Reviews ... 45 The Valley of Shadows 47 Around the Hospitals 48 Correspondence ... 53 Commentaries ... ••• 55 Post-Graduation Study •.. 57 Medical Education for Women 58 Old Boys ... ••• ••. 60 Hurry On! Please ... 64 Spic ula ••• 63 Sports Notes ••• ••• 69 Boxing and Medical Students 75 Commencement Celebrations 76 Duds and Derelicts ••• 79 Year Notes ... 80 Editorial Notice ... 86 Our Advertisers .. 87 MELBOURNE SPORTS DEPOT The Leading Firm in Australia for all Sporting Goods. CRICKET, FOOTBALL, GOLF, LACROSSE, HOCKEY, BOWLS, ARCHERY, POLO, GUNS, AMMUNITION, FISHING TACKLE, FENCING FOILS, CROQUET, BADMINTON, GYMNASTIC GOODS, &c., &c. TENNIS! The M.S.D. EXTRA SPECIAL - Price 30/- The Best Value in the World. We Carry the Largest Stock of Tennis Material in the Commonwealth. AYRES' RACKETS AND BALLS. SLAZENCER'S „ 9 9 M.S.D. RACKETS. Tennis Markers, Nets, Poles, Scorers, &c. Our TENNIS RACKETS are selected by Experts in England, and we offer you the Largest Collection in Aus- tralasia to choose from. Fresh Goods by every Mail. Our Prices are Reasonable. Our Goods are the Best. Call and Inspect or Write for Catalogue. 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LONDON AND 451, KENT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W. 41' 2918 All Rights Reserved „,,,„,„„ll„,„„,„,„„„,„„,„,„„„,„„,„„„„,„,„,„,„,„,„„„„„„,,,„ The Speculum THE 7OURNAL OF THE MELBOURNE MEDICAL STUDENTS' SOCIETY. No. 108. MAY, 1921. ••Let us take comfort," said the late 'Sir William Ramsay, in an address at University College, London, "in the thought that the day of examinations, for the sake of examinations, is _approaching an end." Such a sweeping avowal of optimism •on the part of a University 'professor will surely sound ex- •.aggerated to Melbourne Medical Students who have within the 'last few years been forced to take, along with countless other established examinations, one 'in botany in their first year, have - heard rumours of an examination in second year, or who have -recently received the news of a practical examination in 'Pathology and Children's Diseases. In fact, to the present :day student, far from 'there being an end to examinations, it would seem that the examination mania has arisen with re- •newed vigour, become a tyrannical demiurge, puffed up by professorial profundities and held in awe by the whole student body. From the tuberosity of our editorial isolation we look down --upon the course we have travelled—backwards across the vista Of years, with its Junkie of purin bodies and primitive streaks, 'and forwards to a professorship or a private practice and a perambulator. And all along the line are the half-obliterated mile-stones of past examinations or the gigantic grotesques of :those that loom ahead. Though the abuses of the examin- ational method have eaten into the vitals of our educational V. %N" 2 THE SPECULUM. ray, 1921.. system like a canker, making student life one huge proces s of "swot" and "pot-hunting" synonymous with Pathology or Philosophy, there seems to be nothing to take its place. Many,. indeed, have given thought to the subject, and a few have • made tentative efforts at reform, but at present there is no remedy to hand--only the idealistic talk of some far-sighted men who see the evils of such a fetish. With the enormous advancement of knowledge in every department of medical science (and other sciences also) consequent upon our emer- gence from the dusty trappings of that back-parlour world of hopeless muddle and theological tension called early Victorian, every branch of every subject has swollen into enormous di- mensions, in which, goaded by everlasting examinations, the • student must become proficient. Life to-day is lived at greater tension. It is more crowded and hurried, more vital and enervating. The vastness of the earth has vanished. Oceans have become rivers, and kingdoms the environs of a single city. Specialisation is impossible to the majority. The pur- Suit of perfection remains only for the few. The printer, the druggist and the blacksmith were specialists in the old days, when leisure allowed them within limits, to carry proficiency to perfection. Now only the leisured class, academicians, and men of private means are permitted to specialise. The prac- titioner must at least have touched the surface of all medical sciences : the student must have passed his exams. But in so doing he is harassed throughout the whole length of his course • by the burden of examination s made more difficult by each specialist-examiner—zoologist, pathologist, ophthalmologist, etc.—with whom he comes in contact, claiming his undivided attentions, and forcing on him the importance of his special subject through the medium of examinations. Like Rienzi, he quickly becomes the slave of petty tyrants. The days of our leisure have vanished. No longer may we aspire, as did Michael Faraday and Humphry Davy to grasp the whole range and knowled ge of Science. We commence our alphabets in the cradle, vacillate between Scripture and - swimming, cricket and chemistry in our youth, and crowd into six fleeting years a knowledge of medicine, which has been built up slowly through the centuries by the minds of so many generations—content only, if we may keep the polish on our brass plates, raise aThank balance concomitantly with a family, and in such time as remains, follow the dictates of our desires. Some, of course, will relinquish the stethoscope for the cap and gown of a professor or lecturer—a few will enter the realms May. 1921. THE SPECULUM. 3 of research—and so drive the next generation to its calling along the ruts of more examinations. The huge complexes of race hatred and population pressure which, seven years ago, culminated in a world-war, will again commence to operate. Meanwhile, "Reconstruction"' is the timorous "tally-ho" of our politicians. The fervour of activity has come upon us. The gospel of progress is proclaimed. But will anything be done to militate against the baneful incubus. of perpetual examinations? A few Men have realised the difference between a student who reads in order to pass an examination and the student who works that he may broaden the basis of knowledge ; that examinations should play only a second part in the work of a University whose chief function should be to advance knowledge. All the talk in the world won't alter the examination system. It may point out the way. We desire to hand round congratulations to those members of the M.S.S. who recently attained to the dignity of gloves and a cane and "the rights and privileges of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in the University of Melbourne." Already this year a few additions have been made to the medical course in Division IV.
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