Teaching of Physiology

an excellent reason for this omission in that the contemplation of the social and economic causes and consequences of illness brought inevitable frustration, because the aid and resources necessary to mitigate these influences were either totally absent or were provided by some charity usually gravely hampered by lack of funds. There has grown up under the new social Acts a wide range of assistance which can be brought to the aid of the victims of illness and accident, not as an act of charity but as an expression of the prudence of a community which has elected to insure itself against the malevolence of chance.