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THE first annual report (1914—1915) of the Medical Research Committee has been published. It bears date October 18, which is very appropriate, because that is St. Luke's day, the day of the beloved physician. St. Luke's medical knowledge, doubtless, was that which Browning ascribes to Karshish: we have improved on St. Luke, so far as medicine is concerned. This report is a notable bit of work. The Medical Research Committee, as we all know, was born of the Insurance Act, and was endowed, at birth, with a penny in the pound. It was intended to study the diseases of civil and industrial life. It was born in August, 1913. A twelvemonth later came the war. Pendent opera interrupta the work on the diseases of dangerous trades, the work on the commoner maladies of our big cities, was more or less declared off. The nation was thrown, all of a sudden, all unprepared, into that most dangerous of all dangerous trades, War.
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Medical Research . Nature 96, 483 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096483a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/096483a0