Excerpt from Diseases of Children
This book appears at a time of trial such as our country has never before known. The days we live through at present are epoch-making. Civilisation and human evolution have reached a crucial point, and the loosened dogs of war are moulding a spiritual as well as a physical rampart between the time of the past and the time of the future.
Medicine, like all else, will never be the same again. When that bright to-morrow, which we all expect, has shone, the cataclysmic explosion of elemental human passions and its aftermath will have imposed indelible alterations on the social and professional outlook of the physician.
One such alteration will inevitably be a change in the perspective of scientific paediatrics. Diseases of children have always been recognised as forming the bulk of medical practice. Within recent years attention has been vicariously directed towards counter-acting the enormous preventable infantile mortality, and academic recognition of the child - of disease in children - of scientific paediatrics - has come by the granting of a minor position in the curriculum to instruction in the subject of "diseases of children."
Henceforth preventive medicine must focus on the child even before birth. Everything in relation to him must receive profoundest attention, and scientific paediatrics must be one of the most important pillars in the medical curriculum. Our medical graduates of the future must inevitably have a systematic knowledge of, and practical experience of dealing with, diseases of children.
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