WHEN DOCTORS DIFFER
We should consider it a very grave matter (says the Argonaut) to be accused of indifference to medical science. It would be a charge of ignorance, and therefore humiliating. But we want to know, and a desire to know is always . commendable. Now a few dayfi ago the New York Sun published a long statement from J>r. Kenneth F. Junor, of Brooklyn, to the effect that interference with cancer is nearly always useless and usually harmful. Chemical agencies alone, we are told, should be the "goal of research." And now the New York Sun prints an editorial based on the verdict of Dr. Howard Lilienthal to the effect that we must rely- on surgery alone and that an operation offers the only hope. -Now which of these two eminent men is right? Obviously they cannot both be right. Which of them is speaking from knowledge? Clearly not- both of them. If we dolieve Dr. Junor, shall we then be guilty of an indifference to medical science? Or shall we incur that charge because we believe Dr. Lilienthal? And what will be said about us if we suggest that both these gentlemen are guessing?
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 59, 6 September 1913, Page 10
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196WHEN DOCTORS DIFFER Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 59, 6 September 1913, Page 10
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