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MEDICINE: 



PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE. 



In this address on medicine which I have the 

 honour to deliver I do not purpose to recite a 

 story of its victories ; that has been often done 

 in learned and elegant discourses by orators 

 better equipped for the work. I shall do no 

 more than, looking at large on its present position, 

 try to indicate in a general way how, with 

 advances day after day, its horizon widens and 

 its expectations of service to mankind increase. 

 Never was the pace of medical progress so rapid 

 as during the last fifty years, and never the labour 

 to promote it so eager and strenuous. More 

 victories sure to come soon will no doubt reward 

 the zeal of those at work now and those who, 

 coming after, shall carry onwards the torch of 

 progress. 



When all is said, however, the right of present 

 glorification belongs rather to surgery, which, 

 since it has painfully found out the aseptic virtue 



* Address in medicine delivered at the Seventy-third Annual 

 Meeting of the British Medical Association, held at Leicester, 

 I9C5 



