should have dominion over it! I propose to take an aeroplane flight
through the centuries, touching only on the tall peaks from which may be
had a panoramic view of the epochs through which we pass.




ORIGIN OF MEDICINE

MEDICINE arose out of the primal sympathy of man with man; out of the
desire to help those in sorrow, need and sickness.

In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering.

The instinct of self-preservation, the longing to relieve a loved one,
and above all, the maternal passion--for such it is--gradually softened
the hard race of man--tum genus humanum primum mollescere coepit. In
his marvellous sketch of the evolution of man, nothing illustrates more
forcibly the prescience of Lucretius than the picture of the growth of
sympathy: "When with cries and gestures they taught with broken words
that 'tis right for all men to have pity on the weak." I heard the
well-known medical historian, the late Dr. Payne, remark that "the basis
of medicine is sympathy and the desire to help others, and whatever is
done with this end must be called medicine."

The first lessons came to primitive man by injuries, accidents, bites
of beasts and serpents, perhaps for long ages not appreciated by his