SOCIAL VALUE OF WAR-TIME MEDICAL RESEARCH

Abstract

SIR ALEXANDER BIGGAM has published a valuable paper on “War-time Advances in Medicine which might be translated into Civil Practice” (Edin. Med. J., 53, 413 ; Aug. 1946). In a world war, he says, some medical problems become so important that solutions of them must be found at all costs and, during the Second World War, the attacks upon these problems led to important advances in our knowledge, especially in the practice of preventive medicine.