"Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled."

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Source : British Medical Journal 1: 995 (1925)

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

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