American medical science receives world-wide commendation on the remarkable efforts by which it 1g endeavouring to maintain its ight agains {the infantile paralysis of Mr, Prod! Snite, Fortunately the possession of! wealth enables his parents to invoke the aid of the latest wonders of research, Thereby they are. minister-Jing to their own desperate need but they are also rendering to mankind real service in the benefits which must naturally accrue from the experience developed as the struggle for: Mr, Snite's life proceeds. They have Jattracted universal sympathy and, now that the patient has been safely. placed on board the Coolidge, they must be deeply thankful at the thought that he is one more stage nearer the goal in Chicago where It ig hoped that the final victory over hhis malady will be won by the skill of the staff of the Billings Hospital. This evidence of the modern world eagerness to exhaust ite scientific knowledge in the preservation of human life should be taken as a sct off against the negligence which permits the same ingenuity in invention to have scope for dealing death and destruction in the name of war. It gives hope for the future, If, for saving one life vast sums can be pended" and the highest skill in science and organization can be mo-Dbilized, it should not eventually be devond the wit of man to devise means for achieving the protection of humanity against the virus of national or sectional hatreds, Cannot the world be provided with an "iron Tung" to guarantee it against the deadly paralysis of war?
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