Show future generations likely to inhabit a world free from plagues by DR FRANK BILLINGS professor of Ale medicine dicine the future of medicine will be greater in opportunity than the past has been in accomplishment the work accomplished ju justifies stifles the statement that the knowledge of the cause and means of transmission with the use of dependable measures of prevention of most of the infectious diseases and sanitary science could make the world free of these plagues the captains of the hosts of death wo we cannot rest and bo be satis satisfied fled with acknowledge acknowledgements ments of these splendid accomplishments because there are still hundreds of problems to be solved which are arc of the greatest importance there still are arc infectious diseases to be investigated and wo we must learn their cause and find specific means for their prevention and cure of these infectious diseases epidemic influenza is hi probably the most important because we are ignorant of the nature of its etiologic 0 virus without this knowledge we are unable to prevent its epidemic recurrence we have no definite knowledge of the cause of insanity or feeble mindedness clinical studies of these conditions have been interesting but not especially productive it is believed that alie problem of prevention may bo be solved by an intense clinical laboratory research utilizing biochemistry physical chemistry and biology birth control and sterilization should not bo be adopted until the underlying u lider lying problems of heredity have been thoroughly investigated |