The Bicentennial of Evolution

Despite new therapies for cancer, including some cures, the death rate continued to climb throughout the 20th century. Heart disease and cancer alone now make up almost two-thirds of our deaths. A 1912 article entitled, The Automobile Knee, describes a syndrome which has become commonplace today. In contrast to the journal's Sanguine Centennial, the 2012 bicentennial is far more guarded.