Hang on, kids! Daddy is going to step it up to eight five now. Ephraim McDowell in 1809 performed the first ovariotomy Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, England Founded in 1752 by Charles White, famous surgeon and scientist. The Infirmary, one of the largest hospitals in England, is the oldest teaching hospital in the Provinces, apprentices having been received as early as 1757. Famous men serving on the Hospital staff have been Thomas Percival, Thomas Henry and Peter Mark Roget. WHEN WE ARE OLD (Omaha World Herald) The United States is on the point of growing old, reports the national resources committee. Old not so much in the years of its national existence, for as the life of nations go it is still young But old in the average age of its people. Old in their thinking and in the nature of their activities. Within only 25 years the population will become stationary. The proportion of those over 60 years will be double what it is now. In the same proportion the number of those under 20 will decrease. The birth rate is falling, the life expectancy rising. As a result there will be pronounced changes in occupational trends There will be quieter forms of recreation. Fewer facilities for primary education will increase. The steady reduction of the age limit for employes will be checked and older persons will be given greater consideration. A larger percentage will be no longer self supporting and will require public aid. Youth will lose influence in both government and business. And, with a stationary population, higher living standards will be required to create new markets and make the social order secure. Whether one likes that prospect depends, you might say, on what one likes. It depends largely, perhaps, on ones own age. Older people wont mind it if the era of whoopee and jazz passes. They will say that means better books, better music, more worthwhile entertainment, quieter and so pleasanter and wiser living. They can endure it with fortitude if the fewer young folks have to turn to and work harder and surrender more to support the more numerous old folks. And if, despite that, power in government and industry passes more and more from the hands of the young into the hands of the old, they can say, complacently, that is as it should be. For wisdom and sound judgment come with graying hairs. It may be so. But there will be many to challenge it. After all, the springtime is the period of growth, of development, of change, of exuberance, of enterprise, of bold adventuring. The autumn is decadent; there is withering and rotting then. And in winter death grips the throat of nature. It marks time, fights desperately to hold on until the spring comes once more. Nor does mankind escape or deviate from the universal law. There is a vast difference between the life of the frontier, where the young and vigorous, th bold and hardy rule, and that of the staid and settled old town that has seen the centuries pass, where precedent and custom and venerable gaffers establish the ways of life. On the frontier something is going to be done; something big. In the old town there are the memories, perhaps, of something big that was done, once on a time long past. Nations and peoples, however, are like the individual. They may regret, may complain, may yearn for the glad confident sunshine of a vanishing youth, but they cant turn back the hands of the clock or keep them from moving always in the one direction. Like it or not the years pass and age comes, autumn and then winter come, and so it must be with us. But the autumns of civilizations, their winters, are sometimes very long. Much depends on whether wisdom has really been gained through the periods of youth and maturity. If it has been they may be very pleasant and profitable, too, with the reaping of rich harvests from what has been long growing. WARNERS CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY