27 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 5

Every sensible person approves of professional strict- ness, but in

this case it has been allowed to run to pedantry and to callous ungraciousness. When humanity is disconsidered the public is not protected, nor is the profes- sional code honoured. Soon the battle between reason and an arid particularism must be fought out in the Council ; for those doctors who recognise that the nation can be taught how to keep healthy only through the Press are displaying an increasing audacity. Their case is that the nation must be helped, and that a doctor who signs his name in the Press is really only giving a guarantee to the public that he is a responsible giver of advice. He is in fact showing those qualifications to which the Council itself rightly attaches the utmost importance.

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