Word: ryle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...champions of the idea was on hand-Britain's Dr. John A. Ryle, first professor of social medicine at Oxford...
...Thirty years of my life," he said, "I have watched disease in the ward being studied more and more thoroughly-if not always more thoughtfully-through the higher power of the microscope." Dr. Ryle thought it was high time to switch to a telescope, to consider man "as a person and a member of a family and of much larger social groups, with his health and sickness intimately bound up with the conditions of his life and work...
Professor Ryle suggested that doctors should look for answers to some unexplored questions: What makes healthy people healthy? Why has the prevalence of intestinal ulcers, once rare, risen so enormously in the 20th Century? Why did the stillbirth rate in Wales, and tuberculosis in Britain, drop sharply during the war? Why do workingmen die of stomach and skin cancer twice as often as professional men? Why do doctors have twelve times as high a death rate from angina pectoris as farm workers...