DOCTOR-PEER’S TOAST
‘DAMNATION TO RHEUMATISM’ -, r ~ LONDON, 12th April. * “Damnation - to rheumatism,” was Lord Moynihau’s original toast at Droitwich. lie added that doctors cloaked their ignorance of rheumatism-cbjM . a multitude of words. Yet its: treatment’• in ' Britain alone . cost .J&li year, and was responsible for ■' of the maladies which disabled workers..!. This did not take into account-;...the burdens of sickness, crippling—often.,, humiliating—deformity, and- pain.; Re- j search in rheumatism ought to be undertaken by a specially created 'depart-', merit of British universities, be-pdded...-. “Men are not too old at 40,” said s)ii-L Thomas Oliver in bis presidential "address to the Institute of, Hygiene. “Graceful ageing carries with it 'dignity. ~ and wins respect, but one liiust Ire _ happy, with a contented mind. Age,;.' however, is not measurable by the years lived, but by services rendered:” '
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 April 1934, Page 7
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