MODERN MEDICINE — DOAN 519 



still more ardor. Thus, even in science itself, the known loses its 

 attraction, while the unknown is always full of charm." Or as Pascal 

 put it: "We are in search never of things but of the search for things." 

 The section of medical sciences in the Ohio Academy of Science 

 salutes you, the underlying, fundamental sciences from which are 

 synthesized new and more effective and essential answers to these 

 problems of individual and community health. We acknowledge 

 gratefully the past contributions upon which medical progress has been 

 built, and solicit a continuing, ever more intimate, and productive 

 liaison, in the best interests of — let us hope — a rising and not a waning 

 civilization. 



