Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives is in the best sense of the word Grotesque.
