Show Reynolds Lecturer Reviews Progress Of Medical Science Describes Malaria as War's Most Serious Problem By Jo Ann Squires The most astounding advances made in modern medicine are of little if the majority of the people do not profit by the application of these advances has lagged far behind the rapid development of medical declared Maxwell M. at the annual Reynolds lecture Wednesday evening in Kingsbury students of the subject believe that the solution can be found by making improvements in the present methods of medical he pointed than by extreme measures involving so called professor and head of the department of the school of received his D. from the University of Tulane and a B. A. an M. S. degree and a B. S. in medicine from the University of Staff Member Working on the medical staffs of the University of Johns Hopkins and the University of he has written many articles and publications and a as well as being very active in Advocating a four year medical school as the solution to many of our present told some of the advantages of such an such as to give physicians the opportunity oC learning the latest developments in medicine and furnishing facilities for as well as a school to train young men and women in the and of the field of of Elaborating on March of down through the told how some ancient empires declined and fell because of weakness due to The also may be applied inasmuch as medicine has progressed most during the brighter eras of such as the Golden Age of Greece and Renaissance Beginning in ancient such men as Hippocrates and Galen and the Arabian were contemporaries of the Greek As pointed the Renaissance period dawned on the beginning of the modern experimental period with William Edward Jenner and James Lind making rapid strides in the fields of blood circulation and the treatment and prevention of scurvy and Progress Very Slow Progress was very and eighteenth century hospitals were the means of spreading rather than curing Also poor such as water supplies spread terrible Even after it was discovered that bacteria-causing diseases are spread by such water companies refused to abide by sanitary The discovery and development of the microscope by Roger Bacon in the Galileo in the century and Van was responsible for the beginning of the germ and cell theories and the foundations of stated but a period of two centuries lapsed between the time bacteria were first seen until they were attributed to be disease Fatalities High Fatalities of surgery were so high that no operations were attempted except the setting of probing and suturing amputations and the opening of until the nineteenth when anesthetics were invented and the conquest of infection was begun by Joseph Meeting much opposition to his he also developed a sterile catgut for suturing Recent outstanding in according to are operations on gastrointestinal female genital thyroid and orthopedics and chest The mortality rate has dropped immensely and along with the other has profoundly influenced the battle casualties of Diagnostic Methods The evolution of diagnostic methods and of our understanding of our disease processes was discussed by the and the importance of such advancements as tapping of X-ray and knowledge about t In regard to the modern day penicillin and the Reynolds Lecturer Maxwell M. speaks on advancement of called this the as contrasted with the physiological and etiological said had its beginnings in the work of Paul at the turn of the present An unusual feature in the development of the sulpha drugs is that they were first used with success by a German industrial Gerhard several years after which the scientists in other countries developed many new The results of this drug have been it has reduced pneumonia fatalities from 25 per cent to five per declared that the chief problem of this war is probably Now a coordinated effort is being made to find better than quinine or Medicine is now playing an important part in enabling aviation experts to achieve even higher standards by adapting and treating the body for special types of illness caused by aerial he |