Medicine from Ancient Greece to Soviet Russia

" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret AUTUMN, 1941. For the purpose of this address the term medicine is used in t e sense given to it by the distinguished American doctor, Le Koy Crummer, when he said that medicine meant to him not the discoveries of the great men, but the land of medical attention available to the common man down the centuries.1 , and that I may appear to be straining the word culture in applying it to medicine regarded not simply as an art or a science, u primarily from the sociological point of view as the appica ion the art of medicine to the people as a whole. But this ex ensi the meaning of the word culture is excusable, indeed necessary, the present instance, as the distinguishing character o me lcme the U.S.S.R. is its emphasis on the sociological side.