Wonderful article. Even Osler and Kussmaul complained about the waning exam skills of students in their time. I had to look it up: Pantechnicon van - Wikipedia says A Pantechnicon van, currently usually shortened to pantechnicon, was originally a furniture removal van drawn by horses and used by the British company "The Pantechnicon" for delivering and collecting furniture which its customers wished to store. The name is a word largely of British English usage. Webster says same.