Medicine, old and new : an introductory address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the winter session 1899-1900 at St. George's Hospital Medical School on Oct. 2nd, 1899 / by W. Howship Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, W. Howship (William Howship), 1832-1913.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Medicine, old and new : an introductory address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the winter session 1899-1900 at St. George's Hospital Medical School on Oct. 2nd, 1899 / by W. Howship Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    time, in tracing diseases to their sources in foreign organisms, and at the possibilities in the way of pre- vention and cure which are implied, Ave are filled with wonder and with hope. It is not too much to predict that before long every zymotic dis- ease, and perhaps many which we do not consider so, will be found to have an extraneous origin, and if further practical results are not obtained the future will not fulfil the promise of the past. What with Jenner's fundamental discovery, the superadditions which modern science has built upon it, and the new modes of creating anti- dotes to disease by the use of its own products, we see a wide prospect of relieving the ills of mortality, limited though it be by the prejudice