. The Canadian nurse . nded with these words:The face of medicine has indeedchanged but after all are we pritnarilyconcemed with faces? It is the charac-ter and spirit of our friends which welove. The spirit of medicine throughthe ages has been the spirit of remains remember him in these wordson this occasion. As he looks downupon us from that Elysium to whichall good doctors go, where there areno telephone calls and no night emer-gencies, I fancy that he will smile and be pleased. * * * I am reminded that I am addressingmyself to nurses, the hard-drilled sol-diery of
. The Canadian nurse . nded with these words:The face of medicine has indeedchanged but after all are we pritnarilyconcemed with faces? It is the charac-ter and spirit of our friends which welove. The spirit of medicine throughthe ages has been the spirit of remains remember him in these wordson this occasion. As he looks downupon us from that Elysium to whichall good doctors go, where there areno telephone calls and no night emer-gencies, I fancy that he will smile and be pleased. * * * I am reminded that I am addressingmyself to nurses, the hard-drilled sol-diery of the medical world. In so doingDoctor Archers spirit is with me forhe knew something of the value ofnurses — and his wife was a debt of doctors to nurses cannever be stated adequately. Probablythat is why they are so often takenfor granted. Let me say that the pres-ence of woman in the person of thenurse has helped to humanize medicinein all its departments. It has givenit its broad charity. Can you imagine. E. P. Scarlett AUGUST. 1968 • Vol. 51, No. 8 tm medicine and hospitals run solely bymen ? That brings up a grim prospect!So in speaking to you as nurses I amthinking of you and addressing you aspartners in the great adventure of medicine. * • » In a broad way my theme is life,the thing that is in and alx>ut miracle of human existence, thegreat mysterj- that has teased thehuman mind through the ages. Despiteall searching and knowledge, life stillis fundamentally a mysterj. They tellus that it had its begining on thisplanet from .SOO to 1,0(X) million yearsago. Biolt^ists estimate that man cameinto being from earlier forms of lifeat least years ago. Life has Inen called all .sort ofthings, but speculate as you will, onething is certain. ^Vherever you lookyou meet with the will-to-live, thetremendou-; thrust of bfe. It is uni-versal and insistent. All existencemanifests it. It is fundamental, in-stinctive, unthinking. Indeed it is agreat basi
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