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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5166, 10 March 1888, Page 2

\Vhilk tlio world has progressed ainazinjrly, liijxliual scienco Ims beun nearly ul v otaudstill, Ha professors bcinjr tlif must conyorvuiivo body in lliu world. The Uui'utioii flf life hu» been greatly lungthened duriiiy

the last half century, , but that has been brought about by improved sa?iitary arrangements, cheaper food, and higher wages. Figures tell us that men live longer to-day than ever before, but equally reliable figures also say that lunacy, cancer, heart disease, anddyspepsia haveeuormously increased. So many diseases, to which our forefathers were almost strangers, have gone on increasing year by year, that it is difficult to realise and hard to believe that the men of to-day are longer lived than then , forefathers, still wo must accept the statistics. Now, while every other art and study hayo opened up now fields, and a generally rapirl advancement lias been secured, medicine lags behind. New ills have upon us, diseases of a dangerous character arc rapidly spreading amongst us, but tho remedies for those diseases are still in the future, and those which are tried have been the same as ■were known in bygone ages. Surgery has made strides, operations are performed successfully to-day at which the ancients would have, stood aghast, but apparently from some want in the teaching, from some defect in the course pursued by students, or for the lack of experiments, our medical know-ledge has not kept pace I with tho times. Surely for this, as for all other ills, there is a remedy, and that remedy should be diligently sought for and found.