HEALTH AND DISEASE

Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 5

HEALTH AND DISEASE

A VISION OF THE FUTURE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 20. “I foresee the time when the bottled preparations of to-day will figure m antiquarian museums as crude relics pi the Dark Ages,” said Sir Robert Phillip in his presidential address at a meeting of the British Medical Association at Edinburgh. “ Tlio final triumph of medicine will consist not in the exclusion of disease, but in the restoration of man to a perfect form and natural function. Medicine lias ceased to bo merely a healing art, and the doctor must more and more regard himself as a preventive agent. Health is born, and disease i» for the most part made. 1 am prepared to believe that thirty years hence tuberculosis will be largely a memory of the past, and the lime will come when hospitals for advanced disease anr.l settlements for tuberculosis wrecks will be regarded as anachronisms,” Sir Robert Phillip finally urged everybody to undergo a systematic examination. and asked why private contracts should not be arranged on tho Oriental principle of payment for being kept well.