Some Aspects of the Colonial Medical Services*
THE Glasgow Medical Journal. No. VI. December, 1924. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. VISTAS AND VISIONS: SOME ASPECTS OF THE COLONIAL MEDICAL SERVICES* By ANDREW BALFOUR, C.B., C.M.G., M.D., London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. At this, the commencement of another session at the well-known extra-mural School of Medicine in Glasgow, I cannot help wondering how many of you students have in your own minds outlined your future careers. The French say "L'homme can no doubt that our propose mais Dieu dispose," and there be national poet was right when he told us in his homely doric " that the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley." Yet that need not prevent us, when young and sanguine, from speculating upon the future, harbouring our secret hopes, and even formulating our plans. Glasgow has ever been, and I suppose always will be, a Mecca for the men of the West Highlands, and it is at least very certain that those amongst * Address delivered at the opening of Session 1924-1925 at The Anderson College of Medicine, 14th October, 1924. No. a. Vol. CIL 354 Dr. Andrew Balfour?Vistas and Visions: you who hail from the lone sheiling or the misty isle, in whose veins courses the blood of the Celt, have dreamed dreams and seen visions. It would be discourteous to pry too closely into these cherished anticipations, but I take it that the majority look forward to the day when they will be let loose upon a confiding public and will practise, at first no doubt at that public's expense, employing the phrase in two senses, the lessons they have learned from a band of able and devoted teachers.
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