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SIR, — Mr. Ashe asks whether it is too late to legis-

late that the honourable title of doctor be confined to the medical profession. But why should a word de- rived from the Latin docere be so confined? If am- biguity is to be avoided, what is wrong with the term 'medicine-man'?

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