Abstract
Taught by art divine the sage physician eludes the urn, and chains or exiles death. The story of medicine enthralls the imagination by its infinite charm and arouses admiration for its victories in the battles against disease. Its romance is so compelling that men cannot be unmoved by its blessings, when they realize with us its splendor. The records of the discoveries of medicine are more fascinating than fiction; their marvelous benefits are as if in response to Jeremiah's lament, Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there? The price of these great benefactions is beyond all the rubies of the world; it can never be computed and it can never be paid. In the Middle Ages the average life of man was twenty-odd years. Now the span has been increased almost threefold. Compute if you can the growth in economic value of a human life extended
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