The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-08-19

but on the threshold of tremendous advances that
can and will be made through the efforts of re-
search work. Every scientist today realizes that
it needs only effort with willing, conscientious, and
untiring workers, and the proper provisions for
carrying on efforts of this kind, to discover and
control diseases in a way that never was dreamed
of in the ages gone by. Already the nucleus of a
corps of men specially skilled in tropical and pre-
ventive medicine has been selected and is await
ing assignment to work as soon as the iaborator-
les are ready. Almost all the leading institutions
have expressed an interest in the work and a de.
sire to send the best of their research workers to
take advantage of the privileges they will be Of
fered at this institution for an endeavor of this
kind.
1t is hoped that many scholarships will be de-
veloped in the great educational institutions which
will enable deserving young men Of high attain
ments who wish to make a life work of these sub
jects to be sent to the Gorgas Memorial institute
for a thorough grounding that will enable them
to carry on throughout their lives in all countries
the purposes that will mean so much to the we'll
being and happiness of their respective countries.
1t must be remembered that the dangers of trop-
teal diseases are not confined to the Tropics alone,
but on account of world intercourse are constant
" being carried to the non-tropical countries, en-
dangering their health and weil-being. With this
institute at Panama. associated as it will be with
the health department of the republic and that of
the United States, whose officers are stationed In
Panama, the constant flow of persons coming from
the Tropics through the canal to the northern and
non-tropical countries will be under most careful
supervision, and any dangerous element should be
discovered and taken care of at this point. The
splendid chain Of hospitals already built and build
ing in Panama. which are the equal of any in the
world. furnish opportunity for the care. isolation,
treatment, and study Of any infected persons that
may be found. In view of this practical applica-
ton Of the work of the institute it is felt that all
countries involved will be interested to assist in
the maintenance Of the institution when once es-
tabliShed.
To my mind one Of the important and special
departments of the institute will be It's library. 1t
is our hope to gather here the most complete and
the finest library on the subjects Of tropical and
preventive medicine in the world.
1t should be mentioned in this convection that
the headquarters of the provisional board have
been established at the Pan American Union. IN
der the personal supervision of the director, DR..
l.. S. Rowe, who is a member Of the provisional
board.
1t is easy for one who has been in Panama to
picture this beautiful and useful institution, stand
ing upon the shores Of the Pacific and surrounded
by the buildings of the new Santo Tomas hospita!
and those Of the Panama Exposition, with their
beautiful gardens and artistic establishment. and
to realize how splendid will be the ultimate result
Of these endeavors to perpetuate the life and work
Of General Gorgas.