The advance of medicine / by Lord Moynihan.

  • Moynihan, Berkeley Moynihan, Baron, 1865-1936.
Date:
1932
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Credit: The advance of medicine / by Lord Moynihan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE ADVANCE OF MEDICINE ‘ Medicine is a Science which hath been more professed than laboured: and yet more laboured than advanced.’ ' Bacon, Advancement of Learning. I THE distinguishing feature of the intel¬ lectual life of the last half-century has * been the revolutionary advance of science. New ideas are to-day expressed in so new a language, new conceptions and changed methods have created so new a vocabulary, that to the scientist of fifty years ago much of the literature of to-day would be unintel¬ ligible. In every department of scientific work the advance has indeed been stupendous, al¬ most passing belief. Nor is the wonder of it lessened when we compare or contrast it with all that has happened in other departments of intellectual activity. In painting, in sculpture, in the design or craft of architecture, in litera¬ ture, we have altered our immediate interests perhaps, and have often changed our tastes, but when we compare our efforts with the ideas and achievements of days gone by we remain in a state of profound and reverent humility. In craftsmanship, as we have learned only in the last few years, perhaps nothing more exquisite has been wrought by