First Aid

due to a nearby vacuum cleaner or a passing tramear. You will find that these devices will not help you when you are confronted with disease far from the resources of a modern hospital. The only thing that matters is whether or not you have taken heed to the lesson first taught in the Eastern Mediterranean over two thousand years ago, repeated again by the old Cromwellian captain-"the trooper turned physician," emphasised almost in our own hearing by the Dublin clinicians, and the lesson is this "Go to the bedside-there, and there alone, can you learn disease." I beg to acknowledge my debt to the following sources of information, from which I have drawn freely in the preparation of this address.