They show the kind of trade the Science is driving.
Now we come back to the question, Does the Science kill a patient here and there and now and then?
We must concede it.

Does it compensate for this?
I am persuaded that it can make a plausible showing in that direction.

For instance: when it lays its hand upon a soldier who has suffered thirty years of helpless torture and makes him whole in body and mind, what is the actual sum of that achievement?
This, I think: that it has restored to life a subject who had essentially died ten deaths a year for thirty years, and each of them a long and painful one.
But for its interference that man in the three years which have since elapsed, would have essentially died thirty times more.

There are thousands of young people in the land who are now ready to enter upon a life-long death similar to that man's.

Every time the Science captures one of these and secures to him life-long immunity from imagination-manufactured disease, it may plausibly claim that in his person it has saved three hundred lives.