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Though projected as a rejoinder to the foregoing, this paper is, in the main, an attack on Freud.
Dr. Ross asks if the profession 'has, on the whole, shown indifference or hostility to these developments of natural science, which have a bearing on its practice'? He thinks that medical men have welcomed new ideas, when they have been 'accompanied by proper evidence'. He instances X-rays and bacteriological and serological methods of diagnosis and treatment. 'Whenever, in short, there has been a sign that the problem really was a scientific problem, it has at once obtained a fair hearing'. If this sign is lacking, opposition is to be expected.
Sir James Simpson's attitude to Hahnemann is justified in that it sprang from 'a hatred of shams and a hatred of arrogance'. If Dr. Ross will read Godlee's Lord Lister, he will note that Sir James's opposition