Report of a meeting of the Cancer Commission of Harvard University in aid of a hospital for incurable cases of cancer : Wednesday, April 13, 1910.

  • Harvard University. Cancer Commission
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[1910]
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Credit: Report of a meeting of the Cancer Commission of Harvard University in aid of a hospital for incurable cases of cancer : Wednesday, April 13, 1910. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    This second group I may call constructive measures. They resemble the educational effort, which is largely constructive in its nature, building up mental capacity and moral character as means of efficiency, as means of protection against evil. Now, this particular effort to which our attention is called by Dr. Warren and his associates this afternoon is both palliative and constructive,—palliative for the patients to be treated in this hospital—peculiarly unfortunate people, because there are so few refuges for such sufferers; but much more than palliative, for this effort is con- structive: it aims to build up medical re- search and to bring it to an issue of defence, prevention, and cure. That is great con- struction. That is what has been going on in medical research for more than one hun- dred years, with extraordinary success. And here is a new effort in a direction much needed—desperately needed, I may say, by the human race. I do not know how any call could be clearer or more ringing to a good man or woman of means. I do not know how any proposal could be made to stir more vividly hope, faith, confidence, in a happy issue. How happy would that issue be! Cancer
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