cexiv Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
. 
At the same time experience has shown that the masses of 
India are by no means so conservative and so antagonistic 
to new ideas as we often assume, and it is quite likely that 
it is chiefly our methods of istruction that are to blame for 
the slight response that has been made up till now to our 
teaching. 
I will not exhaust your patience by dwelling on this 
subject. My sole aim has been to show that medical research 
and its application represent a problem of the first magnitude 
and that a solution of this problem is of the most pressing 
urgency. If you agree with me in my conclusions, as I am 
sure you do, only two questions remain to be considered. One 
is, who is to take action’ and the other is—what action is to be 
‘aken.’ In considering the answer to the first question we 
ust take into account the claim that has always been made 
ays. is claim has been amply justified over and over 
again. Let us regard the matter as a business proposition and 
heaven, they cannot be monopolised for the profit of any 
company or syndicate owing to the fact that they can be taken 
advantage of by every member of the community without pay- 
by the whole community. The trustees of the people are the 
Government and so it follows that it is the business of Govern- 
ment to shoulder the great responsibility. 
But our duty does not end with telling the government 
that medical research is their concern, we cannot so easily was 
our hands of the business 
been an insistent demand on the part of the public, govern- 
ment would have made a response which would have been in 
been done or should have been done, but by doing it them- 
selves now. The sooner we realise that the grant of representa- 
