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 and report on any speech defect, also on any tendency to curvature. He will note the presence of any hair or skin disease," etc. Wiesbaden seems to have taken all this, but she added something of her own, for her formula of examination reads thus: "General constitution, height, weight, chest girth, chest and body organs, skin disease, spine and extremities, eyes and vision, ears and hearing power, mouth, nose, and speech, special remarks to teachers for the treatment in school, communications to the parents."

Such is the scope of the great entrance physical examination. It leaves the school doctor, if he be worthy the name, aware of the child's state and prospects. This light is gained at the very threshold of the child's school life. It is won in the presence of the mother or guardian, and to give it to her is the first and great duty of the German school doctor. No one who reads the records can