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understood, it has responded appreciably to the benzothiadiazines, hydralazine, methyl dopa, guanethidine, and
ganglionic blocking agents. One of the most effective agents was rauwolfia, a herb used in ancient India for
anxiety. It was rediscovered in India in 1931 and put to clinical use in 1955.
HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
The emphasis of medical science has been largely centered in the hospital and the improvement of its
facilities and professional care; the recent decade has directed attention to the community through health
centers, visiting nurses, social service, and rehabilitation services in the home. Social problems such as
psychiatric crimes, drug abuse and addiction, alcoholism, delinquency, absenteeism, sexual deviation, and
smoking have increasingly burdened the physician. The medical profession has directed attention steadily in the
direction of prevention through periodic checkups, immunizations, psychological testing, and the
encouragement of a positive, wholesome life through recreation and physical exercise. In view of the present
expanding population of 3.6 billion people, medical science in the next fifty years must profit by the past fifty
years, and seek to curtail reproduction, and contribute to a higher quality of life.
[Editor's note.—For additional informative background, see The Growth of Medicine, compiled and
edited by Frederick Stenn (Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1967).]
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