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disability, or because he said a man was injured in the course of his employment when he wasn't, it was very difficult to get them to move. We never did get far.

Matthias Nicoll was Health Commissioner. He was an awfully good man. I remember Roosevelt saying to me, “Well, go get Matt Nicoll and let's talk to him,” and we did. I remember that at Roosevelt's suggestion I told Nicoll a great deal of this story as it was then unfolding itself - about the shyster doctors who cheated for the claimant, and the equally reprehensible physicians who would testify for the insurance company, instead of testifying what seemed to us to be honorable. The Governor said to me, “Tell Dr. Nicoll some of this testimony that you have just repeated to me about the man who was a constitutional mental inferior after the box fell on his head, and a few other cases of that sort. See if he thinks that's a good diagnosis.”

Nicoll's reaction was that of any other decent educated physician - “That's most unlikely. That's the most fantastic thing I ever heard of. You cannot divorce your medical reasoning from the facts in the case. If you never saw the man before his accident and have only the story that he didn't go beyond fourth grade because he didn't get on with his teacher, that doesn't mean anything. He was also poor and he had to go to work. The fact we know is that he was able