MEDICAL SCIENCE REMARKABLE ADVANCES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21143, 10 July 1943, Page 4

MEDICAL SCIENCE

REMARKABLE ADVANCES

LONDON, July 6. The remarkable contribution of medical research to the health of the armies in the field and the civil population at home was shown in a statement by the Lord President of the Council, Sir John Anderson, at a meeting in London of the British Medical Association. After pointing out that in campaigns in the last century, and even as recently as the South African War, disease killed more men than did wounds. Sir John said in the last war’ our troops began to receive the benefit ot advances achieved by medical science. Since then there had been further progress and it was gratifying to know that when a'large number ot German and Italian soldiers riddled with typhoid and dysentry were captured in North'Africa the resources ol British medical men proved so infinitely superior to those of the Germans and Italians that the epidemic was cleaned up in a most astonishing way. . , . „ At home the people never had been better nourished or in a better physical state, in spite of the stress and strain of war. After the war the medical profession would have to deal with millions of people in Europe suffering from malnutrition, and this would be a great opportunity for the medical men of the Allied nations.