DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING RÔLE OF SYPHILIS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

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At the meeting of the American Medical Association last year the Frank Billings Lecture was devoted to a review of the important part played by the great physician whose name the lectureship bears in the astonishing progress made by medical education in this country during the past thirty years. The distinguished speaker, Dr. Thayer, closed his remarks with the following prayer: "May he who has played so large a part in this progress long be spared to guide us with his wise counsel." This fervent wish, which surely must have been shared by everyone in the large audience, might well have been directed also to the lecturer himself. It is sad indeed to realize that within a few months of the time these words were spoken both Frank Billings and William Sydney Thayer had ended their earthly careers. In mourning the almost simultaneous loss of two such leaders one can

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