Show To Certain Old OId Men Mell MellBy By Herbert Kaufman THE FIE AMERICAN M MEDICAL SOCIETY recently held it its annual meeting at Detroit Young men 1 predominated redon l the see session slon Imagination and and arteries hard harden n tog together ther and progress n must be I served by imagination There is a point in m every life at which the mind ceases to adventure Then i hen we begin to live b by what the past brought and taught us us-on us on our hoar hoards s of learning and earning Mere years do not bring wisdom Incapacity grows rows hopeless with age Once upon a time lime we held differently and mainly measured medical ability by time That's all changed however We Ve Ve realize I that the future holds more secrets than the thc past ever revealed rc Now we demand the latest theories of practice practice the the newest treatment of disease the disease the younger men are arc finally getting their chance Nothing more strongly attested that fact than the serious I attention which their papers received at t this national nation al conference One after another they took the rostrum expounded their I views and announced their discoveries The of the n profession sion made their showing too too the the truly great are masterful to the thc end But there was many a grizzled practitioner in that bod body y who saw himself crowded in the background by the rising power of youth One such turned to an au elderly confrere after the explanation of a specially ori original inal treatment for certain classes of throat troubles and remarked This is the last meeting I shall shaH attend I feel like a aback aback back hack number and it hurts to be shoved to the sidelines The other smiled sullied a foolish attitude We Vc did our share in our own da day All science is a relay race The most that thal the best of us can do do to is to run our particular stretch efficiently THEY merely take up where we leave off just as we began where our predecessors ceased I 1 refuse to rob myself of my part in the final victory I It t is not the less mine because e my lap came in mid- mid course All An human triumphs are cumulative Let every man embittered by the surrender of place find as sweet a philosophy to console retirement Copyright 1917 by Herbert Kaufman Gre Great Britain and all other othor rights reserved I |