Excerpt from The Oxford Medicine Advance Pages, Vol. 1
In the midst of war a new system of medicine has been undertaken. The reasons lie in part in conditions created by the war, in part they are found in the present situation of medicine. War in itself has changed the current of thought in regard to all topics and it has created new conditions. Following the war necessarily there will be a period of reconstruction and readjustment. Medicine will play an important part in these changes, and in turn all sorts of new conditions will react to affect medicine. A summary of the present state of medicine should be ready to play its part in this new era.
In the period just prior to this war, medicine was undergoing rapid changes. A functional concept of medicine, to a considerable extent, had supplemented the older structural concept. This brought into use many new methods of studying patients, and from these much new data had been accumulated, correlated, and interpreted in relation to disease. Anglo-Saxon physicians were active in this work, and Anglo-Saxon medicine as a result has contributed much to these newer developments. A number of years have elapsed since a system of medicine in English has been published, and now is an opportune time to issue a medicine by American and English physicians and to present their viewpoints for the reconstructive period of the war and immediately thereafter.
Newer publishing methods make it possible to issue in parts, to supplement at will, and to replace from time to time as views change. Under these conditions a medicine written for the present can be maintained in tune with succeeding periods, and need not lose its value, since it will not get out of date. Such a method will be used in this work.
Representative American and English men of medicine will contribute. Emphasis throughout will be placed on function. Structure, however, will not be neglected, but when possible, it will be interpreted in terms of function. Treatment will receive adequate discussion.
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