Tropical Medicine Today

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SOME forty years ago Sir William Osler, in his presidential address to the Classical Association,1 commented:The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialties themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous ... Applying themselves early to research, young men get into back waters far from the main stream. They quickly lose the sense of proportion, become hypercritical, and the smaller the field, the greater the tendency to megalocephaly.Osler's concern for the development of science is relevant today, although I shall not here examine present-day population pressures in . . .

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