The study of the natural history of disease the basis of all advance in its treatment : being the address in medicine delivered at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association at Manchester, July-August, 1902 / by Sir Thomas Barlow.

  • Barlow, Thomas, Sir, 1845-1945
Date:
1902
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    of the national work will go to the municipalities of the country. Let us carry the municipalities with us in an enlightened crusade. That the public bodies are ready to do the right thing so far as their powers permit, and if the plans suggested are practicable, is abundantly manifest in this and other great towns. And for far-reaching researches in the advancement of pathology which lie beyond the proper limits whch the municipal bodies could consider may we not look to the generosity of Englishmen ? How much has been given for hospitals and charitable institutions but how little for the endowment of research which will help to lengthen human life and mitigate its physical ills ! The British Medical Association has an honourable record in its yearly series of timely and generous grants to indivi- dual workers for special research; and some invaluable work has been fostered and helped in this way. Might it not in the future seek to co-operate with municipal bodies, and through its widespread local branches supply the stimulus and perhaps the pecuniary assistance required to push forward investigation in local laboratories, and to afford the direction, and countenance which solitary workers so much need ? Let us fain hope that the day may come when to the other beneficent functions of this Association there may be added some form of systematized, continuous, and widespread local organization for the scientific study of the problems of disease.