Authority in medicine : old and new / by Major Greenwood.

  • Major Greenwood
Date:
1943
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Credit: Authority in medicine : old and new / by Major Greenwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reports are many concerned with the problems of what is now called Social Medicine; as examples I would cite No. loi, on Child Life Investigations, and No. 114 on Social Conditions and Acute Rheumatism; they illustrate —often by success in reaching, sometimes by failure to reach, a clear-cut conclusion—the virtues and defects of our methods. The doing of this unspectacular, careful work has prepared the ground for a future harvest. Clinical and sociological research had a better friend in Fletcher than most of its advocates reahsed. Linacre is to us hardly more than a name; Fletcher a vividly personal memory. But, unless his story is told, Fletcher will become as shadowy as Linacre; administra¬ tors are soon forgotten. I, who gratefully remember many acts of generous kindness, cannot repay them by doing him full justice; my knowledge is not complete. I hke, however, to think that to couple his name with that of Linacre in a Linacre Lecture, would have pleased him; a lecture in Cambridge which commemorates an Oxford scholar may fitly end with a tribute to a son of Cambridge.
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