CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS C. E. DENT DR. WOLSTENHOLME in his opening words has covered verv fully the procedure to be followed at our meetings during the next few days. Before going further I want to express our deep appreciation of his work in organizing this Symposium and our gratitude too to the Ciba Foundation, by whose generosity it has been made possible. Many of us here have experience of the vast amount of work required in order to plan and bring about representative international meetings of this kind, and it is a real pleasure, mixed with feelings of relief, to recall the manner in which Dr. Wolstenholme and his staff have shouldered this burden for us. You will note, on turning to the programme, that the first papers concern the more fundamental approach to the structure and metabolism of bone. From this we proceed through biochemistry and then physiology, and finally come to rest with clinical medicine. This is a most logical and suit- able arrangement of subject matter. It puts first things first and reminds those of us who deal with the interesting immedi- ate applications of knowledge, that we are always ultimately dependent on the basic scientist, whose work we must make serious efforts to comprehend, even if it may appear at first sight to be somewhat remote from ordinary affairs. Between us we cover very many aspects of our chosen subject. We each know a great deal about certain narrow aspects and are painfully aware of our ignorance of almost everything else. I hope that in the discussions we will not allow such ignorance to cramp our style in any way on the mistaken assumption that we should only talk about things we fully BONE 1 0 Bone Structure and Metabolism G. E. W. Wolstenholme.Cecil,ia M. O'Con,ner Copyright 0 1956 Ciba Foundation Symposium

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CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS

C. E. DENT

DR. WOLSTENHOLME in his opening words has covered verv fully the procedure to be followed a t our meetings during the next few days. Before going further I want to express our deep appreciation of his work in organizing this Symposium and our gratitude too to the Ciba Foundation, by whose generosity it has been made possible. Many of us here have experience of the vast amount of work required in order to plan and bring about representative international meetings of this kind, and it is a real pleasure, mixed with feelings of relief, to recall the manner in which Dr. Wolstenholme and his staff have shouldered this burden for us.

You will note, on turning to the programme, that the first papers concern the more fundamental approach to the structure and metabolism of bone. From this we proceed through biochemistry and then physiology, and finally come to rest with clinical medicine. This is a most logical and suit- able arrangement of subject matter. It puts first things first and reminds those of us who deal with the interesting immedi- ate applications of knowledge, that we are always ultimately dependent on the basic scientist, whose work we must make serious efforts to comprehend, even if it may appear a t first sight to be somewhat remote from ordinary affairs.

Between us we cover very many aspects of our chosen subject. We each know a great deal about certain narrow aspects and are painfully aware of our ignorance of almost everything else. I hope that in the discussions we will not allow such ignorance to cramp our style in any way on the mistaken assumption that we should only talk about things we fully

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Bone Structure and Metabolism G. E. W. Wolstenholme.Cecil,ia M. O'Con,ner

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understand. May I suggest also that in the next few days we act not so much as members of a Symposium-this word is rather too formal for my liking-but as simple members of a family gathering, brought together from all parts, many of us strangers, but all of us already closely knit by a common loyalty and ideal.