PERFECT HEALTH
A DOCTOR’S PREDICTION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 20. “I foresee a time when the bottled preparations of to-day will figure as the crude relics of dark ages in antiquarian museums,” said Sir Robert Phillips, in his Presidential address at the meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh. “The final triumph of medicine will consist, not in the exclusion of disease, but in the restoration of man to perfect form and natural function. Medicine has ceased to be merely a healing art. The doctor must more and more regard himself as a preventative agent. Health is born, and disease is, for the most part, made. ■ I am prepared to believe that thirty years hence tuberculosis will be largely a memory of the past. The time will come when hospitals for advanced disease and settlements for tuberculosis wrecks will be regarded as anachronisms.” He. finally urged everybody to undergo systematic examination, and asked why should not private contracts be arranged on the Oriental principle of payment for being kept well.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1927, Page 7
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