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Harry L. Arnold, Jr., MD
Honolulu

JAMA. 1975;231(13):1339.

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To the Editor.—

Angela Roddey Holder (230:1327, 1974) attributed to Charles Dickens a statement made by one of his characters, the beadle, in Oliver Twist, and she cleaned up the grammar a little bit. What the beadle, Mr. Bumble, said was actually "The law is a ass, a idiot." And sometimes it surely is—even if it is, as Ms. Holder shows, "a system, not a collection of traps and snares." . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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