Description: Lengthy address charting the progress of medicine since antiquity and discussing the discovery of new illnesses, such as trench fever, during the First World War. Diseases which Ireland focuses on include malaria, typhoid fever, yellow fever, hookworm and trench fever.
Note
AMDigital Reference: MS C 117.
Original Version
Reproduction of: "The progress of medicine in the twentieth century," at Jefferson Medical College commencement 7 Jun 1919.