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Show Advance of Medicine Dr. Charles H. Mayo, world-renowned surgeon of Rochester, Minn,, is ouoted as saying that medical knowledge know-ledge of the underlying causes of disease dis-ease has advanced more during the last 25 years than in the preceding 21 centuries. This is a strong statement, but if the docter had gone back a few years, farther to include the discoveries of Walter Reed and others in connectioon with infectious diseases it might be accepted ac-cepted as literally true. Recent advances in surgery have been even more remarkable than those in medicine, and have been tremendously tremend-ously aided by the X-ray, improved anesthetics an-esthetics and more effective means for the prevention of infection. There are still many diseases which have so far baffled all efforts to control con-trol them, but in the light of the accomplishments ac-complishments of the recent past it is reasonable to expect that these, too may ultimately yield to human science and skill. |