XII. Medicine in Retrospect
XII. Medicine in Retrospect
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DOI：
10.1177/000348942803700112
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1928
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C. Mayo
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C. Mayo
这是一个荣幸，有助于这个纪念数字在荣誉的成就博士哈瑙勒布。我们是多么幸运，我们生活在这个医学进步的伟大时期，比如说，三十年，但我听到我父亲说同样的话，很多年前。他年轻时的教科书，当显微镜只显示最明显的东西时，在疾病的细菌理论提出之前，以最令人震惊的方式表明他们对疾病的看法是多么错误。他们的临床观察往往惊人地准确，但有时也会出现无法解释的错误。魏尔啸的发现至少花了一代人的时间才渗透到医学教学中。然而，他们称自己为现代人，并从他们所取得的科学成就的顶峰回顾他们的前辈，带着一种居高临下的怜悯。尽管我们目前的理论是健全的，我们所有的信念都得到了严格的证明，但我不能总是确信，从现在起的世纪里，不会有人对我们说同样的话。也许我们是在荒野中逗留，这样的纪律对医学的孩子来说是必要的，我们还没有看到应许之地。也许有人会在五十年或一百年后看到这些线条，并以宽容的怜悯评论说：“好吧，他有一个幻想，不管怎样！“这也许是真的，但我们不相信这一点也是好的。如果我们正在做我们的”四十年”，幸运的是我们不知道这一点。我相信我们正在走在阐明所有疾病的道路上，但旅程的终点可能还很远。每一天都是一步，总有一个里程碑即将到来;这就足够好了。
It is a privilege to contribute to this memorial number in honor of the accomplishments of Doctor Hanau Loeb. How fortunate we have been who have-lived during this great period of medical progress of say, thirty years, yet I have heard my father say the same, many years ago. The textbooks of the days of his youth, when the microscope was revealing only the most obvious things and before the germ theory of disease was put forward, show in a most startling way how false their ideas of disease were. Their clinical observations were often strikingly accurate, but sometimes unaccountably faulty. It took at least a generation for Virchow's discoveries to permeate medical teaching'. Yet they called themselves modern and looked back at their predecessors with a patronizing sort of pity from the pinnacles of scientific success to which they had attained. In spite of the soundness of our present theories and the exacting proof to which all our beliefs are put, I cannot always be sure that a century from now somebody will not be saying the same sort of things about us. It may be that we are sojourning in the wilderness, that such discipline is necessary for the children of Medicine, and that we have not yet so much as seen the promised land. Perhaps somebody may run across these lines in fifty or a hundred years and comment with tolerant pity:" Well, he had a glimmering of vision, anyway!" This may all be true, but it is just as well we cannot believe it. If we are doing our" forty years," it is fortunate we do not know it. I believe we are traveling the road to the elucidation of all disease, but the journey's end may be a long way off. Each day is a step, and there is always a milestone just around the corner; that is good enough.