“Looking at heredity alone, can anyone say with justice that a thorough grounding in the basic sciences of chemistry, physics, botany, and zoology is a waste of time for the doctor? The same laws govern heredity in plants and animals, vertebrate and invertebrate, even in man himself, and there can be no doubt that the parallel cases o’ inheritance in man and animals have a deep significance Our understanding of this we owe to these sciences, that have revealed In part <.ne secret of life’s endless chain and shown us how. in spite of apparent gaps, it extends unbroken from one generation to generation. Surely the wider the knowledge of them a man brings to his study of medicine the more clearly he will appreciate the essential unity of nature."—Dr. E. A. Cockayne, F.R.0.P., at Middlesex Hospital.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 27
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