Cancer Research: Its History and Prospects

  • Professor Alexander Haddow

Abstract


Of all the invitations one has ever been privileged to receive, I wish you to know that the arrival of yourown was a special honour, and a special delight to accept—giving me, among other things, the opportunity to re-visit the house of our ancient Society, and to recall at close hand many happy occasions within these walls some thirty years ago. It was the time of the great Sir Alfred Ewing as Vice-Chancellor, and, in the Medical School, of Sir John Fraser and Sir David Wilkie of glorious memory,whose portraits adorn your walls. We generated then, as doubtless you generate now, abiding affection for Edinburgh and its University, and not only affection but I confess it, sentiment, for our Royal Medical Society. Reading the leading article in the second number of Res Medica, I have been greatly struck by its closing sentences: “At a time when religions, cultures and individuals are menaced by nuclear weapons and foreign ideologies, living traditions assume an importance never envisaged by their inaugurators. Let us then foster unity and friendship and be worthy heirs of our heritage.” This is the ever-renewing and ever more significant function of the Royal Medical Society, and I esteem the great honour of inaugurating your two hundred and twenty-second Session. I mention these things to show how it is and why, that I received your invitation with such pleasure and gratitude.
How to Cite
Haddow, P. A. (1). Cancer Research: Its History and Prospects. Res Medica, 1(3). https://doi.org/10.2218/resmedica.v1i3.318
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