BMJ  2004;328:675 (20 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7441.675

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Old theories and old men

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Old theories and old men who cling to them must take themselves out of the way, or the new generation with its fresh thoughts and altered habits of mind come forward to take the place of that which is dying out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes. Medical essays 1842-1882. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1883:430

Jeremy Hugh Baron, honorary professorial lecturer

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York


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