TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1938. Modern Medical Problems
“I have been pointing out lately,” said the eminent physician, Lord Horder, in a recent address, “that modern medical science, through very admirable health services, has got most of the acute and devastating diseases —both infectious and occupational—under fairly good control. These do not constitute nowadays the major part of the doctor’s problem.
“If we except cancer, which still demands our close and unremitting research and thought for its elucidation, it is the far less lethal, though economically and socially distressing, states of ‘ill-health’ that bulk chiefly in our plan of campaign. If I were to specify two of the most important categories in this connection I should instance the group of disabilities which we call ‘rheumatic diseases’ and the ‘functional nerve diseases.
“But health is not the mere absence of disease. There is a positive quality about health which claims our attention, and it is this quality which is capable of almost indefinite extension if we will concentrate upon it.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 38, 15 February 1938, Page 6
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