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American Public Generally Intelligent--But Densely Ignorant in Important Particulars--Cotton Mather and Witchcraft--A.B.s, A.M.s, M.D.s and Ph.D.s Espousing Christian Science, Chiropractics and Osteopathy-- Gullibility of the College Bred--The Ignorant Suspicious of New Things--The Educated Man's Creed--Dearth of Therapeutic Knowledge by the Laity--Is the Medical Profession to Blame?--Physician's Arguments Controvertible--Host of Incompetents Among the Regular Physicians--Report of Committee on Medical Colleges--The "Big Doctors"--Doc Booze--The "Leading Doctor"--Osler's Drug Nihilism--The X-Ray Graft.