Medical research in wartime / by Sir Edward Mellanby.

  • Mellanby, Edward, Sir, 1884-1955.
Date:
[1943?]
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Credit: Medical research in wartime / by Sir Edward Mellanby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    special purposes like commando operations, conditions for optimum vision in the dark. Probably I have said enough to show that this kind of research on fighting personnel is of very great importance. Conclusion I have now given a general survey of medical research activities during the war. I regret that, for obvious reasons, 1 have not been able to include in it an account of many of the more interesting discoveries that have been made, but most of these will come to light in course of time. The advance of medical science, both before and during the war, has been fantastic. This lectureship has been instituted in memory of a man whose outstanding quality was to apply scientific knowledge to the service of man. The work I have attempted to describe is exactly of this nature, and I am sure it would meet with his approval when I express the wish that this lecture be regarded as a tribute to all those engaged on medical research i in this country. Sitting as 1 do at the centre of all these activities I am in a position to say that this body of men andli women—pathologists, bacteriologists, physiologists, biochemists,! pharmacologists, and clinicians—deserve well of their country j for the unsurpassed quality of their work, for their devotion to its performance, and for their complete unselfishness in i carrying out their allotted tasks. Printed in Great Britain by Fisher, Knight and Co., Ltd.. The Gainsborough Press, St. Albans.