Show STUDENT LIFE culture and blessings to his fellow men — are results of the work of this untiring son of genius In closing just a word on our present day We are living in the greatest age of progress and civilization the world has ever seen A year of life now is like a decade centuries ago The mighty Napoleon at the zenith of his power could not command the luxuries and comforts we now regard as commonplace And is there still opportunity for progress ? Aye more than ever before With the past as a guide the present as an aidj what might we not accomplish in the future? Take for instance the field of medicine that highest of all noble callings With chloroform and ether at our command — those Godsends to suffering human 109 with the theory of evolution beginning “to throw its electric light down thousands of avenues closed to the fathers of medicine ” with the germ theory working its revolution in surgery obstetrics and in the treatment of contagious diseases when a thousand applications of antiseptics and anaesthetics are yet to be made or made in better ways ” when a specific for cancer tuberculosis and “the white plague” are yet to be found when with the discoveries of each succeeding year it is more and more worth while to be a doctor when each year strengthens the doctor’s grip on sin and death What possibilities for “Scientific Progress” in this line alone ! ity Ray H Fisher 04 |