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KONGKONG DAILY PRESB, THURSDAY, JUNE 2187, 1913

PRINCE AND THE DOCTORS. į Dirve ly and indirectly, the society as a whale and ita individual members have MEDICAL SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY.

prayed it may "times over. It is an in- The Prince of Wales was the guest of stitution to which every one who has bene- the Medical Society of London at their fited by our hospitals, and every one who 180th anniversary dinner, held at the wants to help them, must always be Hyde Park Hotel on May 13th. Lord grateful. I am emphatically very kien to help them all I can, and, in thanking you Dawson of Pent, president of the society. for your kind hospitality to-night, I wel- was in the chair, and was supported by come this opportunity of thanking you Mr. Lloyd Georgy, M.P., Lord Hestart also for a century and a half of spottid Lord Chief Justice), Mr. Neville Chan service in the cause of the buspitals, and herlain (Minister of Health), and many of wishing you all success in the great. distinguished members of the learned pre-work whet you have in hand. (Loud

chours.)

fessions,

The Prince of Wades, in replying to the toast of his healthy said: —

TRP MY MEDICA, SCIENCE, It is common Loast of members of Medicine and the Medical Society of Mr. Lloyd George, proposing the toust the medient profession" that they practise London," said it was only forty years, he the oblest seier known to man. I dalieved, before the foundation of that not think there can in any doubt about society that the barbers and the surgeons ii-it is almost impossible to imagine an

to

4ge so fartubate as to need to doctors, parated. (Laughter.) That was a very Lexpect the only rascu why there were ed indication of the state of medical to doctors in the Garden of Eden was that date the art of destroying human life science in those days Immediately before that Eve obvinily know the familiar pre-laughter)-he was alluding to another scription. An apple a day keep the profession had been perfected by scien dbetor away (Laughter.)

tific means from generation to generation. Perhaps it is rather rash of me to aliudo The art of saving life had hardly, novel. this prescription at his particular Seisnes had been called in for destruction moment, when I am a solitary and rather and was regarded as an intruder very nervous patient surrounded by some of the largely when it came to the saving of life. I keenest practitioners in London-a lonely. Since then there had en merrible | island in a sea of medicine, as it were changes-changes which rend like ♫ (Laughter.) I am half afraid that if I romaner. changes which were speak lightly of the medical profession the Cheers.) It was an age of revolution- epic. tormbers of this society may retaliate at industrial and scientific That age trach the end of the evening by drawing up the avdical profession, and there was some terrifying diagnosis which will kepine profession that responded more readily me in for the rest of the summer. to it. However, Lord Howson has just proposed given human life a better fighting chance. (Cheers.) Medieal reis nee had my health in such a kind way, and you They had a right to rejoice in what they have drunk its cordially, that I am not had done. The greatest advaner of all in seriously alarmed. As one too, who has medical science was the advaner which had a long experience of the kindness of had been made in preventing disease. heart characteristic of members of your (Cheers.) There was a good deal in the profession. I should be ungenerous ifald Chinese idea of paying the doctor as did not feel thoroughly at home in such long as one was well and of cutting off a company as this Nobody who has had as his foes when one was ill, (Laughter.) It much to do with hospitals, military and was a profound philosophy which came civil, as I hate, ean have failed to di from the reflection of a very reflective cover that there is something about the race, who had plenty of time fur reflec, art of healing which has a-particularly good firet on those who practise it. men of the world knew that it was better tion. (Laughter.) The great business Whether he is in a regimental mess or ship's ward-room, whether he is a hot pital man, or a general practitioner, the doctor is always a man of many friends

FRIEND OF THE COMMENITY,

from getting ill than to pay him for get- to pay the doctor for telling how to keep

water, in food, and, above all, is the ting people will In Sanitation. in

housing of the people, milient science bad done much for the pople,

LORD DAWSON'S REPLY.

And talking of the general practitioner, I should like, is passing, to pay him a special tribute,. He is a very devoted, and sometimes unrecognised, friend to the Lord Dawson, responding, said Medicins community. On him, in the long run of scieners, but it was permented by the | was not only based on an increasing range the health and well-being of the coscientific spirit, and there was a belief-- munity depend and in his hands to a great extent is the honour of your pro hitherto unknown. Men realized that if an enthusiasm for research to'a degree fession as a whole, for to the majority of

The

people he is the only representative of they were to do justice to themselves they it with whom they come in eɔntact. We must ever be weaving the yarn of the all owe the general practitioner a big scienes into the web of their art. richt of gratitude. I am glad to see thres Medicine had extended its realm from b

minent and distinguished me from the "rvation to precise investigation. United States of America here this even greatness of its progress was instanced by ing. (Cheers.) We owe a 'great deal to infection immunity, asepsis, horgines. America (laughter)-1 am talking about internal steretions, metabolism. and the nedicine and not money. As a really like, and the conquest of malaria, yellow sincere friend of America I welcome them fever and other tropical diseases. And what was encouraging was that from the The origins of medicine, as I have positions so far gained could be seen already suzgested, are lost in the mists pathways to further discovery. Further, of antiquity. We are not here to-night, investigation was organized, its results however, to speculate on problems of that were collated, and its benefits made avail- wort: we are here to celebrate the originable.

to this country.

of this distinguished society 150 years ago, and to review the work it has done since

DISCOVERY OF INSULIN.

then. Mr. Lloyd George, I know, is totas launched in the right way was A striking example of a great discovery large on this subject. If I may Inutis. They thought with pride and an appropriate metaphor, I should sorry to try to prescribe for & case in miration of the achievement of their distinguished colleagues at Toronto. which he has been already called in. (Chours.) There they and co-ordination Bat there is one aspect of it which appeals between laboratory and ward, results to me. specially, and to which I cannot farther tested in selected hospitals in help alluding-I mean the close connection Canada, Great Britain and the United between such a society as this and ates, careful control by the Medical national institution which I am always Research Council to secure efficient pro proud to help to the best of my ability-duction, and there was before the world our national hospital systru.

a reliable remedy which would give a con siderable control of a fell diseñse, More

GROWTH OF THE HOSPITALS.

The Society was founded in 1773, to- than that, new encouragement would thus wards the end of a century in which every be given to the patient and never ceasing branch of thought was growing with endeavour to conquer the mystery of that almost tropical rapidity; the very fact of great scourge cancer, which had so far its foundation was a proof of the intel battled a multitude of distinguished work- lectual development of medicine, showingers in many countries,

that it was passing from the twilight of Vast changes had been wrought by quackery into the clear light of science preventive medicine, and it promised Now the progress of medicine always goes greater still-n public health service pa- hand-in-hand with the development of the surpassed, the care of the mother and hospital system, and, sure enough, you child, the health of industry, and increas will find that at just about this ameing control of infectious diseases. If he date the dawn of modern medicine saw the future aright, health as a positive there sprang up in London a cluster of conception and its achievement would hospitals whose names are household

more and more claim their attention and words to-day-Guy's. St. George's, the that of medical education.

The prac London, the Middlesex, Queen Charlotte, titioner would no longer separate the dis- and a number of others. And, though case from the environment and circum- well know that the period in question is stances which conditioned it, So his also remarkable for series of those spacre of responsibility would widen and purely scientific achievements without his scientific knowledge would be at the which Medicine could not exist that its service, not only of the individual, but of history containg nincs as Jenner. Lister the community. The problem of tuber. or Pasteur-still, it is this former point culosis, for example, was wrapped up which I want to emphasize to-night,

All these

that throughout this period the growth of with that of housing. It was concerned your society, and others like it, inovce on with fresh air, ventilation, pure food, as parallelines with the growth of the well as with open-air eares. modera hospital system as we know it Aspects would be equally the concern of

the practitioners of the future. Lo-day,

Medical research is valueless to humanity un'es humanity can benefit practically by it; brilliant doctors like Lister would Labour in vain, unless there were somaj -

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to the great mass of the sick and the like looking through a fine plate glass suffering among the community The window," said an American lady, in thei lospitals are much a medium. They ard course of her remarks while in a tramcar at one the universities and the workshops

of medien science-the centres to which the other day. She said just the right come both the doctor to get further tecl thing. It cost a bit, more to build a nical knowledge and the patient to get plate glass window and it cont a bit more hi, share of its practical application.

Without the hospitals medical science to make a pair of Toric lenses than the would be, comparatively speaking, a line-ordinary Eat kind. Tories are more than wn thing. Consequently, the value of such a society as this, from a national worth the small difference in cost to you point of view. depends very largely on its in the added comfort you derive from relationship to the hospital system, and by their use, Toric lenses of any prescripi- that the public judges it. Your society tion are manufactured by The Hongkong owing its origin to the same quickening of interest in the common health which Optical Co., successors to Clark & Co., impelled Londoners of the later 186h em Manufacturing and Befricting Opticians, try to enlarge that system, has grown 53, Queen's Road, Central-ADIT. |upinlougside it, and has never failed to

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