THE PATH OF REFORM
" A eonflict of* opinion always arises when a great new 4dea appears. When Lord Lister introduced modern antiseptie surgery, his ideas, which were contrary to what had been taught in the m.edical sehools, were opposed for a long time by many surgeons of his day. After the discovery that germs were the eause of diseases like eholera and dysentery, and that these germs were eonveyed by water and food, it took nearly a quarter of a eentury before this simple truth was fully understood, and publie opinion became strong enough to enahle those in duthority to spend the necessary money on modern sanitation to get rid of these diseases. It is ahvays the "" same with any new idea, especially if the acceptance of it means that something has got to "be done about it. But the new knowledgo of nutrition is.now heeoming generally accepted, and getting past the pcriod of eonflict. Something is alrcady being done to get it applied, aua more is foreshadowed for the future.5'r-Sir Jolni Boyd Orr, in the Listencr (London) .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 4
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