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[page 733] patients. A visiting committee would have nothing to do with the business affairs of the institution, they would confine themselves entirely to the examination of the patients. Ques. Do not the present physicians on the board of trustees as a matter of fact inquire into the treatment of cases and visit the halls, and the patients. Ans. No sir. Ques. They never examine into the treatment of the patients. Ans. Yes sir. I never know one of those physicians to go there and make special inquiries about how such a person was, with a desire to know that was his treatment. I have heard Dr. Cushing talk frequently with Dr. Sanborn, but not go into a ward to take an individual case and follow it up, keep sort of a record of it, and carry it along from week to week. Ques. Do you think that the average physician in ordinary practice, having no knowledge specially of insanity, could be competent to advise and instruct the resident physicians who had made that subject a study. Ans. You do not understand what the object of these physicians is. When the physicians come onto the board of trustees they do not know anything about insanity; it would be the same with the