The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-26
YALE COMMENCEMENT WEEK
(Continued from First Page.)

nouncement of degrees and prizes were omitted. They are to be announced at
 the commencement.
 pr, T. Mitchell Prudden of New York
 delivered the address in medicine, New Outlook in the Science and Art of Med iolne."
 In the course of his address Dr. Prud- Iden said; Many of our institutions for l higher education now recognize the val
 ue of a knowledge of the body, and of
 the physical conditions under which man can best secure the highest use- | fulness and enjoyment. But I do not think that as yet this subject has re- I ceived attention at all commensurate with it's vital bearing upon the well | being, spiritual and mental, as well as | physical, of those whom the universities | equip. So long as a knowledge of the | human frame was looked at from the standpoint of the dispenser of mysteri-
 ous drugs to mysterious organism | for the purpose of expelling mysterious foes; SO long as the body was regarded ! chiefly as a more or less disreputable
 tabernacle for the temporary uses of
 the soul; so long as its harmonious and | significant relationship to other forms | of being lay largely beyond our ken;
 so long, say, as all these conditions prevailed accurate knowledge of the body and the factors necessary to It's physical well-being did not command
 attention in the higher educational out l look.
 know that our colleges are not now | backward in the practical development of many of the physical powers of
 the human frame; nor am I unmindful,
 among the fruitage which in these later years the football field has yielded of
 the discovery of the supreme value
 under certain conditions, of the human
 body as a projectile, But the contests
 for which would crave equipment are
 in wider fields than in the ball ground
 and the gymnasium, and of higher sig
 nificance than the atheletic glory of the
 hour honorable, and when gathered
 about our own standards, inspiring, as
 this may be.
 The clear appreciation of the close
 relationship of medicine to other phases
 of biology; the newly recognized im-
 portance of practical familiarity with
 things themselves, rather than with the impressions which another has gather
 ed and more or less lucidly imparts;
 the patient training of the hand and eye and ear to catch minutest varia-
 tions in surface and color and shape and sound all these requirements of modern medical instruction involve pe- cuniary support far beyond that which was formerly sufficient.
 10 f, ,Jo kfr,. which Is coming on the scene, and not prone to invest with unnecessary cere- monlal or mystery the dealings of It's professional advisers with It's ailments Many laymen know as well as we do that the administration of drugs in their hour of stress is but an adjunct to the often more needful and more potent guidance in diet, in regimen, and in the varied general measure by which the stricken organism may be nursed back to health.
 Municipal and state health organiza- tions have accomplished much of late in | the protection of the people against dis | ease, But the humlliating confession | must be made that in many measures of | public sanitation in this country we are | far behind the requirements of science, | This is not, as a. rule, because our health | officers do not know what to do or how | to do. It Is not usually because they 1 are indifferent or negligent But in | many cases the pitiftil sacrifice of life | and the inexpressIble suffering and loss | which preventible disease involves and | due to legislative indifference or folly,
 I am aware that there are many ex- captions, but think that am not mis- taken when say that among the meas l ures vital to the public welfare over | which our legislators, state and federal | alike, wrangle and picker and deal- when these are mot treated with indlf- ference and contempt, as not contribu- tory to the profit or to the dlsgracefm of the hour-there are none which more often fall of intelligent con sideration than those which concern the public health.
 But laymen in public office cannot be regarded alone at fault If they be not wisely directed; and physicians are not, think as keenly alive in this way as they should be to their responsibilities as citizens. They know what ought to be done In the larger public way to rem Ter the new Knowledge in sanitation and the control of disease available, 1 and yet do not individually or as a guild bring their expert knowledge strongly to bear as the intelligent clti- zen always can, if he be right and enough in earnest.
 There is little doubt that almost any egislative measure which the medical profession unites and persists in urg- ng, as essential to the maintenance of he public health, cam be speedily se- ,ured In the new struggle for inde- in this land-not this time with an honorable foe, but until the people wake from their ignominious ap- thy with mercenary bosses and politi- al parasites-the doctor too, must { hare openly and with all the forces which his position and influence and pecial knowledge can command, if 1 many of the now beneficent achieve nents in his science are not to be crip- lied and their immediate utility made foid in the tolls of petty politics.
 know that there is a general feeling 2 mong physicians of the better sort { hat conspicuous interest in public af- airs may be construed and looked upon s in some sort of means of profess ( ional advertisement. And one cannot hoose but appreciate and admire the I and high sense of honor of f