To the Editor:—
A pressing need in the field of medical education lies in the creation of a central agency for the purpose of collecting, constructing, exhibiting, indexing, and lending medical audio-visual aids. Such aids have become the bedrock of medical teaching. They include graphic mediums such as x-ray films, photographs, paintings, slides, motion pictures, charts, diagrams, stamps, electrocardiogram, electroencephalograms, myograms, and three dimensional objects such as anatomic and pathological specimens, models, moulages, statuary, instruments, and drugs. This type of institute would not be a museum in the conventional sense but would be a library of audiovisual aids, relating also to dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and veterinary medicine. The exhibits, being portable, could be lent to physicians, medical schools, medical societies, school groups, public meetings, and even international exhibitions. Exhibits and important teaching materials, such as the famous kidneys described by Richard Bright, now at Guy's Hospital in London, could be