The Public Medical Services. His address will undoubtedly arouse attention to the need of furnishing naval and military medical officers with systematic training in

their work, with skilled and trained assistance, with sufficient establishment and appliances and with

for practising the methods of the sick and wounded in war, and succouring with means of seeing and knowing what imo provements are taking place in the science and

opportunities

o

practice of profession. It is not

the

ever

onward-moving

quite certain, however,

medical

that Conti-

nental methods are applicable to British institutions. The Briton does not require to be put in

leading strings

nursed

into

maturity of a The conditions of type. of the service British Army

or

somewhat conventional recruitment and differ

radically

from those of Continental armies

and, given proper organization, establishment and appliances the British Medical Officer is apt to rise to the occasion and acquit himself worthily. of the sick and wounded by intuition, and there is plenty of room' for developing and extending those arrangements for training and exercising the

Still, the efficient

does not

naval and

care

come

medical officer for his

special already instituted at Haslar, Netley and Aldershot; and above all there is an extremely strong case for the systematic and liberal grant of study leave. military

work which

have been