The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-10

and where the passions run riot with
out let or hindrance. Not only the poor
must be controlled by law, but the rich
and middle classes as we'll Marriages
dissipation ventilation and water sup
ply must be controlled among all class
es. Consumption, a, preventable dis
ease, destroys more of the human race
than any other disease. Quarantine
must be more rigid; quarantine the
eonsumptive, quarantine OF kill the
bugs and you wipe out the disease.
Spare not the individuals feelings.
Tt is the governments duty to see that
one individual does not injure a whole
community The people must be taught
that there is nothing as costly as sick
ness. and nothing so remunerative as
health. Americans have too much use
less furniture. carpets. rugs. lace cur
tains, moldy literature, bed clothes, old
wearing apparel bric-a- brac, pictures
and drapery, shut UP in unused rooms
and use too many moss covered buck
cts Pay more attention to the water
supply. Impurities, whether gaseous
animal or vegetable are dissolved and
suspended in water. Purify the water.
Make public baths Congress gave
nearly three-fourths of q hundred mill
lion dollars appropriation Tor improve
ment in rivers and harbOrS why not
put some of the money into suitable
baths for the benefit of all classes. An
Gent Rome and Greece spent thousands
Of dollars in this way and were dOubly
repaid for their trouble.
The United States could well af-
ford to spend thousands of dollars in
putting UP proper buildings for indoor
games, and give prizes, if no more than
an olive wreath to the winner in ath-
letic contests. Establish outdoor games
and you do away with the anaemics
sour careWOrn, hypOchOndrical and ca
daVerOUs look Of all who viii partici-
pate. Encourage more negilgee and
comfortable dress; less stylish and
starchy clothes; less whisky and tObac-
co, and more pure water, externally and
7eg1I v~ d TO
sunburn, braWny hands and big feet.
and to be ashamed Of spindle legs, small
arms and hollow chests Advise riding
in the open air, Carriages, horseback or
bicycles, walking and physical culture.
Teach them to shun resorts of bacteria
as they would the jungle OF wild ami
mails, and that bacteria are far more
dangerous to human life.
IF every disease has a cause, which
none will gainsay then why are we not
able to place the individual in condition
that viii enable him to ward off it's ef-
fectS or boldly attack with such rene
dies that viii destroy its power 1t is
a much more complex route to control
hereditary disease We must begin
with the parent and continue our eff
forts from generation to generation I'M
til nature and the doctor are able to
bring forth a. perfect being. The gov
eminent must enforce all existing laws
and enact new, that we may prevent
the spread of disease. preserve health
prolong life, refine, enoble and purify
mankind.
Man has but one life to live, yet the
physician and people act as though he
had an indefinite number and could call
back at pleasure. Freed from heredi-
tary faint. guarded from accident, in
lection and poison, people ought to ripen
and drop off as fruit. More than hale
the people die before maturity. This
should not be. There is no reason why
with proper encOurag cement and direc-
ton from the medical profession. en-
nv OF 81 Tor he A 7cr--
lean people should not become the most
healthy. vigorous and rugged people on
the face of the earth. and live long be-
yond the three score and ten
The discussion of Mr. McLaughlin's
paper evoked much humor. DR.. Minney
was called upon to open the discussion
BE said:
II don't exactly agree with the doctor
in his views I don't believe it would do
TO place man in a straight jacket as
the doctor suggests I believe that
there is a higher law in nature that con-
trolls these things and think things are
better as they are. don't think the
people would want it. and you must
have something they want before they
would do it. The doctor says we should
do away with starched clothes, and he
has on the whitest and stiffest shirt of
any man in the house. Personally. I
am pretty well satisfied the way things
are"
DR.. POWELL am very much surprised
that DR.. Minney should make the re-
marks he did. I think he would make
a very good political talker, but when it
comes to q discussion of this paper he
should have nothing to say. I think
one thing the profession should do is to
preach the broken laws of hygiene. A
physician cannot always do as he
breaches. as he is necessarily irregular
in his habits, and being a creature OF
environments, can not always buy
negligee shirt when starched ones are
the only kind on sale.
DR.. Colcord-I just want to say one
word along the line of natures laws. I
was a young man once, a good many
years ago. and 1 know it would have
taken good many microbes to have
kept me away from the girl 1 loved,
when / wanted to kiss her
DR.. Ma gee-AlOng the line Of quaran-
tine, think this body should extend a
vote of commentator to the city school
board for their action in cleaning out
school houses as dwelling places. 1t was
the wise thing to do
DR.. D. B. Colcord also read a paper
before the society, entitled The Ebbs
and Floods of Vitality
The election Of officers for the ensuing
year resulted in DR.. Ida c. Barnes be-
ing chosen president, DR.. Frances
Storrs, vice president; and DR.. Harriet
secretary and treasurer.
At the close of other business, DR.. NJ.
B. Ward, the retiring president, deliV-
cred the annual address. In his address 4
Dr.. Ward suggested that the academy
devote a certain number Of meetings
each year to the consideration of plain
subjects which affect the welfare of all
mankind, and that on these occasions
the meetings be made public and be
held in spacious hail where a large
number could be accommodated, and q
general invita- ton to the public ex-
tended "In my judgment" said the
doctor, "this is the only logical plan to
handicap travelling lecturers and
quacks who prey upon the minds of
the credulous people, condemning the
standing of educated prof ssional men
in the community. and effectually con-
vincing the public that their home doc 4