To our national shame be it said that few, very few of the wonderful advances in the science of the healing art which have signalized recent years have been made by our country men. Even in tropical disease Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, Americans and even Japanese, are shooting ahead of us. We have to get a Koch to find for us the Cholera germ and a Haffkine to protect us from it, a Laveran to teach us what malaria is, a Kitisato to show us the germ of plague and a Yersin or a Haffkine to cure us of its effects.

Light comes from the East, but the light of medical science comes from the West. But our India ever ready to absorb the light from other sources, sometimes reflects but seldom radiates. In the domain of pure science under more favourable circumstances, we see already a radiant glow. In the science of medicine, if circumstances had favoured who knows we might not have had similar results. Each country is contributing its share to the common stock of medical knowledge but we have none to offer. We want a Professor Koch from Germany to tell us the cause of Asiatic cholera, and we are waiting for some other professor from somewhere else to find a cure for it.