The disease progressed to a chronic illness in up to 25% of patients, and its late neurologic manifestations had a profound affect on Western history when it infected societal leaders; on societal morays as a means to curb the disease; and on public health practices. When the Medical Research Council conducted its survey of medical advances of greatest import, the largest number of responses was for the discovery of antibiotics by Alexander Fleming.
Few delegations had as differing a duo of senators as Massachusetts, which paired the expansionist Henry Cabot Lodge with Senator George Hoar. The speech below deals with the annexation of the Philippines (an outgrowth of the war in Cuba). But the principles outlined by Hoar were broader.
