The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-10
HOW TO live TO Be 20.
DR.. Mclaughlin Reads Paper
Before the Doctors
That Ought to Interest Every
one Who Isn't Seventy.
If People Would Live Properly, Even
tually No Human Being on Earth
Would Die Young Unless by
Accident.

when we have perfected a system
that Will prevent sickness and death
until the allotted three score years and
ten is reached. we have done our duty;
until such time we have not"
This was the statement made by DR..
LII. IT. Mclaughlin to his fellow practi-
toners in his highly interesting paper,
How to Preserve Life Until Three
Score Years and Ten is Reached" at
the meeting of the Topeka Academy Of
Medicine and Surgery last night. The
paper was well prepared and advanced
a possibly practical theory for the pro-
lOngatiOn of human life until at least
the prOverbial 70 years of age had been
attained.
In his paper DR.. Mclaughlin said:
Every few years there are those in
he profession who are led to seek for
some new substance, or combinat1On OF
substances. that viii restore youth and
preserve life indefinitely and think
that if they can but discover the right
elixir that life may be perpetuated
through ages. Although we find no act
i've advocate Of this theory at the pres
ent time, we do find The profession just
as active, using all their energy to save
life by teaching how to make the sick
we'll the weak strong, and the strong
stronger.
What we do hope to accomplish is
the full and free physiological action
of every tissue and every cell in the
body. When we have done this, medl-
cal science has accomplished it's highest
purpose We must not expect to take
a diseased individual and make a per-
feet man of him by any single line Of
trea tment. If man could be stopped IN
his mad career OF degenerdcy, neglect
ing all principles and laws of health,
and could be brought to realize the
great influence for good or evil that
food, exercise, light, air, rest of body
and mind, sleep, passions, alcohol and
tobacco exert on health. much might be
done iowa rds e1eVating man above the
beast. and lengthening his days until
the allotted time.
The day is not far distant when
proper diagnosis viii be made of all
diseases which viii reveal some form Of
germ or lack or abundance of certain
elements as a cause of all sickness. and
that by the proper control of the same,
health Will be restored. Every year
brings forth some new apparatus to aid
US in our search for the cause and pre-
VentiOn of disease
1T is not sufficient to content our
selves with treating the individual
alone. We must so beyond this and
treat by all the forces in nature and
all the aids that science can command
for the healthy propagation OF our race,
beginning with the parent and cOntin-
uing on down through generations. Ma
ture is ever ready with her bOundless
resources to build up the weak. If ma
ture is encouraged the tendency is to
build UP and make stronger. Man
buses nature in every conceivable
form under heaven. He is the most
passionate. lustfuu and gluttonous of all
living creatures and is the more mex
cusable because it is not altogether
through lack of knowledge. The pro-
fession. who ought to be teachers and
leaders of the people on all subjects
pertaining to health. are found break
ing and disregarding all laws of health
themselves
There ought to be a change. The
profession should arouse themselves to
greater activity and put a stop TO the
thousands dying of preventable dis
eases. They must be brought to realize
that they are their brothers keepers,
and that they can prevent death. Sci
ence must step in and destroy all con-
tagiOn- Germ disease must be cOntroll-
ed or stamped out of existence. All the
so-called hereditary diseases must be
eradicat ted by gradual process of in
structiOn and the enforcement of the
laws of health. The profession cannot
do this of themselves the government
must lend her helpful hand, but the
profession must take the initiative.
Science with its all penetrating eye
sees the effect of filth. bad food, poor
ventilation, Over-Work, want of sleep,
uncontrolled passion, improper sexual
hygiene, and that not the Individual
alone is the sufferer. but that the sins
of the parent are visited upon in the Sd
and fourth generation of those physi-
cally. mentally or morally unfit to pro-
pagate our race We must not allow