$250 Prize Essay Competition—The Progress of Invention during the past Fifty Years

+ Leprosy: Fifty Years of Progress

The first technical issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, published in 1922, was dedicated to leprosy. During the intervening SO years considerable progress has been made in understanding the disease, leading to benefit for the patient and more effective control. Movement away from institutionalization and toward ambulatory care for patients plus new and effective treatment...

Fifty Years of Medical Progress, 1873-1922

Congestive heart failure: fifty years of progress.

Volume 1 of Circulation provides an excellent snapshot of the understanding of the mechanisms and treatment of heart failure a half century ago. During that era, circulatory pathophysiology was at the center of investigative attention. For example, Tinsley Harrison and his group divided heart failure into “primary disorders of filling and primary disorders of emptying,”1 a forerunner of our cur...

An overview of fifty years in cancer research: autobiographical essay.

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

. Although it may well be unreliable and illogical, is a well-known habit to form firm, lasting, and definite first impressions. That they are often ^accurate and always superficial is to be admitted, but nevertheless they frequently form the basis of our later estimations and prejudice our views for good or evil, the more so when the situation is a new one to us, or one whose arrival we have b...