Medicine in War-Time

Abstract

SOME twenty years have passed since the Medical Research Council published a Medical Supplement to the War Office Daily Review of the Foreign Press. In those twenty years the foundations of medicine have been widely extended, the methods of medicine have continued to shift from treatment towards prevention and, particularly in the last few years, the general outlook of men of science has changed from a detached aloofness towards active participation in the solution of social problems. Supposing that a medical man of 1918 had slept from then to now and woke up to read the first number of the new Bulletin of War Medicine, issued by the Medical Research Council (see p. 585 of this issue), what evidence would he find of the progress of medical knowledge and of a wider outlook?