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side sources is the work of Pasteur. He was not a doctor but a 
biochemist, and yet there never was a man who did more 
to advance the cause of medical research. Among those who 
can help are the chemists, the biochemists, the zoologists, the 
botanists, the veterinary scientists, the physicists and even the 
geologists. 
Medical science has relationships and points of contact with 
nearly all the other sciences, and one of the most important 
problems of the future is to secure the help of other scientific 
workers and to ensure the most complete co-ordination between 
their work and ours. Science cannot be allowed to divide itself 
into watertight compartments and as medical research is 
ask is to be given the facilities for solving them. 
ing on the principle of getting the greatest and the 
Se 
Only a few of the tasks which lie before the medical research 
i i You all know that the 
work to be done is so great that it is not easy to decide where 
to begin, kala azar, leprosy, hookworm disease, the dysenteries 
and other bowel diseases, and the infectious diseases of the 
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