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of our obligations to the past. Great changes are taking place 
around us. India is passing through a very definite and im- 
portant metamorphosis, the results of which are bound to 
have far reaching effects on every branch of thought in the 
country. The responsibility for her progress in medical science 
has now devolved upon her people and her future progress 
will greatly depend upon the attitude adopted by her political 
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medicine has been built, while her educated classes, in common 
with the rest of the world are more concerned with a host 
It is only by looking into the past and contrasting the medical 
conditions which prevailed at that time with those of the 
present day that we are able to measure the progress which 
