Dear Sir:
—Allow me to make one remark on the question of bed-side teaching, with which you dealt so fully and so well in your editorial of the 9th inst. The difficulty lies entirely in the short three-session course. The students, teachers and patients are here, and there is no reason whatever why Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati should not have clinical teaching just as thorough, and just as systematic as is given to-day in Edinburgh, or on this continent, in Montreal. Large classes, in large cities with ample hospital facilities, can be perfectly well managed. The lack of a fourth year is the only obstacle. Yours truly,