Why Medical Progress Will Not Lengthen Life
THE New York World sums up the opinions of numerous renowned physicians that it had asked to write upon the medical outlook for the twentieth century in the head-line, “Man Will Live Longer in the Next Century as the Result of Nineteenth Century Discoveries.” The advancement made in the science of medicine tends to longevity. It should work out this blessing for mankind. But it will not do it, for the simple reason that men will not avail themselves of it. A few will be blessed by it, but the vast majority will not, and consequently disease will be more and more prevalent. Cancer, consumption, and many other like deadly diseases are alarmingly on the increase, and this is so because men will not regard the light that is shining for them in this enlightened age.