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dreamed of by a people which for ages has sat in darkness and 
in the shadow of death. 
n the realms of disease prevention, if the results are less 
tangible, they have infinitely greater possibilities. can 
population, such as are found in the army and the jails. We 
The ultimate aim of Medical Research.—By Lr.-Cox. J. W. 
Cornwatu I.MS. - 
All diseases can be classified thus :— 
e to accidents. 
2. Due to physical agencies. 
3. Due to chemical agencies. 
4. Due to specific parasitic agents. 
5. Due to disturbed function. 
(a) metabolic, 
(6) mechanistic. Ss Wis ‘ta 
. ey are all preventable, some by State agency, the rest by 
ividual himself. ini - 
spending far too much time, money and peg fl a al 
tigating the pathological processes of declared ae a risa 
laborate cures, and far too little in trying to learn the cau 
®viations from a state of health. : to- 
e main efforts of medical research workers petrnaid epee eed 
face the discovery oi conditions which permit a distur 
ions of the organs of the body to occur. : , din 
P athological and therapeutical studies which have not this en 
view are of secondary importance. 
