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ADVANCES in medicine and the allied sciences have of recent years been very great ; it is no exaggeration to say that the change both actual and potential in only one generation of time has been exceptional. This increase in degree and direction of knowledge cannot be wholly regarded as technical detail interesting to the practising physician in the conduct of his profession ; it comes, on the contrary, directly within the concern of the intelligent man in the street, for the prevention and treatment of (disease are matters which impinge immediately upon his personal life. Immunization against diphtheria may be cited as an example ; it is now an established method, easy in performance and satisfactory in practice, yet it has been carried out in Great Britain on a scale which can only be described as petty compared with the extent practised in the United States. The difference is almost entirely due to the respective efficiencies of the campaigns bringing the matter to the notice of the general public.
Medicine and Mankind
By Arnold Sorsby. Pp. 256 + 16 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1941.) 12s. 6d. net.
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GEOGHEGAN, J. Medicine and Mankind. Nature 149, 233 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149233a0
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