Medicine's Responsibility in the Propagation of Poor Protoplasm

THIS unexpected and undeserved honor has made me acutely aware of my lack of fitness to wear even for this short time the mantle that has graced such distinguished predecessors. Some of them have traced with inimitable charm and grace the progress of medicine through the years. Others have granted to you imaginative glimpses of its achievements in the years to come. As neither endowment nor inclination impels me to assume the role of either historian or prophet I shall ask you to consider with me not where we have been, not where we may be going, but where we . . .