Annals of medical history . e than the work ofgifted doctors alone. All who havestriven for human developmenthave furthered this art whichjoins or crosses every threadof social fabric and whichhas always been more thana system of healing. Medicine must be thelast barrier but one be-tween man and the stands at the entranceand exit of life and, sinceit seems nearest the mys-tery, it has always beenpatiently looked to to dis-close what lies behind thatstrange curtain which risesand drops so abruptly. Itis so bound up in our souls with the arts andhumanities, that its history is inseparab
Annals of medical history . e than the work ofgifted doctors alone. All who havestriven for human developmenthave furthered this art whichjoins or crosses every threadof social fabric and whichhas always been more thana system of healing. Medicine must be thelast barrier but one be-tween man and the stands at the entranceand exit of life and, sinceit seems nearest the mys-tery, it has always beenpatiently looked to to dis-close what lies behind thatstrange curtain which risesand drops so abruptly. Itis so bound up in our souls with the arts andhumanities, that its history is inseparablefrom the history of all human thought andbehavior. Its records, at first sight seemingto mark a development and ascendancyquite its own, are really the records of thedesires and fears and beliefs universal tohumanity; and neither they nor the menwho helped make them can be understood by themselves. long as thought was not free, medicine,in common with other branches of learning,had to Struggle with tradition, dogma, prej-. Francois Marie Arocet di. Voltaire (1694-1778). udice, superstition, all backed by the mightof church and state. Society, inevitablyaverse to reality, placed, as long as it could,these deadly taboos across the path of what-ever might bring it and reality face to was only as, little by little, opinionsceased to be matters reviewed by the police,and when investigation was no longer re-garded as offensive to God, that the prob-lems of medicine, so long waiting solution,could be brought into the light to be%>v studied. The broader vision whichmade this development pos-sible came from the menoutside of our professionquite as much as fromthose within it; and it wasthese allies of ours espe-cially who risked their livesin the struggle for the es-tablishment of fought our battles,and their names must heplaced with the names ofactual medical craftsmenwho, in wresting secretsfrom Nature, made com-mentary give plaee to observation and con-tro
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