Great Changes Throughout the Profession Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, distributed the prizes ai St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School Westminster, 'Among those present was Mr. G. M. Huggins, Premier of Southern Rhodesia, a former student'
A resume of the k of the Hospital and Medical School was given by the treasurer, Sir Arthur Stanley, and the Dean of the Medical School. Professor Leonard Dudgeon, respectively.
Sir Farquhar Buzzard, speaking of the enormous advances in knowledge in regard to health and disease and the prevention and cure of illness during the last 50 years, said it was being recognized to-day that the more knowledge a doctor possessed the more time he needed in dealing with patients. The old idea that the doctor knew all that was wrong with a patient as soon as he entered the room had faded out. The more one knew the more need there might be of expensive adjuncts, to one's knowledge.
It had been recognized, too, that in the future the place of preventive medicine, the preservation of health, was going to be just as important as that of what might be called curative medicine,
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