The need of research in medicine : the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1907 / by Frederick Taylor.

  • Sir Frederick Taylor, 1st Baronet
Date:
1908
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    be diminished to such a point that no room is left for the exercise of sympathy and humane sentiment on the part of the medical profession. Had some of our opponents more knowledge of the enormously difficult problems presented by disease, could they picture to themselves the thousands, nay millions, of sufferers upon the face of the earth, one cannot help thinking that they also would be converted to the view that the alleviation of all this suffering and the pro- longation of life did indeed justify the sacrifice of animal life which the profession thinks necessary. The consideration of the question of the value of experiment and research leads one to think on the one hand of the enormous progress which has been made in medicine in the last few years; on the other, of the large measure of our ignorance of natural pheno- mena in relation to diseases and its treatment or control. The great triumph of the last thirty years is the discovery of the depen- dence of so much of human disease upon the growth of parasitic organisms. In the
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