The clinical laboratory is the connecting link between the two parts of the medical
school; and it must be immediately accessible. The clinical teacher cannot stop for
data that he must perhaps cross town to get; the student responsible for a parti-
cular case will not include in the facts on the basis of which he is making up his
mind the results of an examination of blood, sputum, and feces, if these must be
transported for study much beyond the hospital walls. Nor will the interne or the
young practitioner require the knowledge in question before coming to a conclusion,
unless he-has formed at sdkool the habit of so doing.* In this laboratory a theoreti-

iHenrr A. ChTiatiMit"Thc Clinicsl LdxRatorr," fn CobmMa Univtnily QmiHtrIf, toL xL.do. S,

P.S39.
