FAMILY HEALTH [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sm,—I Should
like to correct any impression that may arise that the Pioneer Health Centre is anything but a development of • the main idea and thesis to which Sir James Mackenzie devoted his life. Our first report" The Case for Action-(193i) " page 22, gives our acknowledgment to the first pioneer in this direction : " his work marks the turn of the tide of interest and research in medicine " . . . " studying not the end but the beginning of disease."
But the hope for the future health of the nation cannot be based even on preventive medicine—that is and can be no more than a defensive attitude. To move forward from the defensive both in action and philosophy is the prime need of the moment, in sociology and statesmanship as in medicine. We, the authors of the report under review, are humble pupils of Sir James Mackenzie, trying to forward by one step his great conceptions.—Yours faithfully, G. SCOTT WILLIAMSON, M.C., M.D.
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