Research and Medical Progress, and Other Addresses

arst address deals with research and medical progress, and stresses the necessity for every medical lllftn, whether general practitioner or specialist to have ^?ine special line of "research constantly before him 0 keep his mentality keen and active. Reference is ttiade to Sir James Mackenzie's well known career, *l11 instance of a general practitioner who laid the ^'nidations of present-day cardiology. (In this conation the author has made a blunder on p. IS in Inferring to Burnley as "a small town in Scotland, \noro there was but little immigration and where amilios lived for generations." Burnley is a large \,,anufaeturing town in Lancashire; and the reviewer. v"o had the honour of being attended on many fusions by the late Sir James Mackenzie, when he a small boy, and when Dr. Mackenzie was then , nKnown to fame, can remember the awe with which 0 Watched Mackenzie use the sphygmograph.) .v,?any of the papers deal with gastric surgery, in