Conclusions and Results of the First World Conference on Medical Education*

by tending to make practitioners commercial rivals rather than professional brethren. Where such occurs everything possible must be done to overcome such influence. The widely scattered doctors of the less-welldeveloped territories are also a problem. It so happens that in the last two years I have travelled nearly 40,000 miles in three long medical tours in British Africa, mostly equatorial Africa, so that I might learn something of the outlook of doctors there and perhaps give them something of my outlook. The circumstances of these lands present formidable difficulties, but I will close by quoting the motto of my University of Birmingham, " Per ardua ad alta."