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Suggestive Therapeutics Chief Stock in Trade--Advice of a Medical College President--Disease Prevention Rather than Cure--Hygienic Living--The Medical Pretender--"Dangerous Diagnosis" Graft--Great Flourish of Trumpets--No "Starving Time" for Him--"Big Operations"--Mutilating the Human Body--Dr. C. W. Oviatt's Views--Dr. Maurice H. Richardson's Incisive Statements--Crying Need for Reform--Surgery that is Useless, Conscienceless and for Purely Commercial Ends--Spirit of Surgical Graft Especially in the West--Fee-Splitting and Commissions--A Nation of "Dollar-Chasers"--The Public's Share of Responsibility--Senn's Advice--The "Surgical Conscience."