The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles & other Matters October & November 1913

In Europe the past is most evident in the Church and the office of the Ruler. [...] Thus the popular dread of the strong official arm—until of late years we have come to know the full strength of the private and corporate arm—is responsible for some of the very anachrnisms of which we complain. [...] The readier response the leadership which the medical profession shows is not merely apparent and due to the lagging of the lawyers. [...] But how different is the manner of the surgeons with their attendant nurses intent upon their operation from that of the lawyers and their clerk at their tasks of removing from the human system some festering wrong ! The expense of time the burdening preliminaries the gathering dust and smoke the variety of finesse perhaps even of outrageous imputation or open insult—one wonders how a great p [...] There in the surgery the white-gowned doctors and the nurses dealing with a problem distinctly physcal seem to represent and symbolize the refinement the intellgence the silent mastery the perfect co-operation which lies at the heart of all that is truly civilized.