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 the social and economic upheavals which would result beggar imagination.

The photographic effect of Röntgen rays has already been the subject of a suggestion, and even the facts now remotest from practical use in connection with the rays of various sorts so much discussed in the scientific newspapers will no doubt be utilised in a manner or in manners far removed from the limited employment in therapeutics already found for them.

And indeed medicine, not the most progressive of modern sciences, will no doubt make vast strides during the period under discussion.

It would be altogether fallacious to forecast the position and probable achievements of medical science in a century's time on the line of simple development from the practice of today. The changes will be revolutionary rather than evolutionary. When it is remembered that only fifty years ago limbs were hacked