The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-16
AN APPEAL TO THE DOCTORS.

tention by the medical fraternity, b.
the Board of Health. and by other au-
thorities. The efforts of great doctors
while they never lose sight Of the in
vestigation of human suffering and the
relief of transitory conditions. are Ill
timately directed to the extirpation OF
the causes of disease, just as the labors
of great lawyers converge upon the re-
duction, and not upon the increase. of
| litigation. There are quacks in both
professions, to when the dollar. with
out reference to the methods of obtain
ing it, is the chief object in life. But,
contrary to general supposition, these
travesties upon science and honor. are
scarcer in the Twentieth than they were
| in the Nineteeth Century. They still
exist, however, and, through their in
| ordinate and reckless cupidity. bring
disrepute upon trained, experienced and
! faithful. men and upon intelligent COM
munities.
Ignorant people, of whom there is a
less proportion in these Islands than in
any but the most favored parts of the
mainland, believe enormously that most
lawyers prefer. first, their own inter-
ests, and. second. the interests of their
clients, and that they rarely care a
snap for the public at large. Following
out this delusion, there are many who
go so far as to hold that doctors, not
only by their lack OF concerted effort
but at least by their silence and oc-
casienalIy by active means. promote or
fail to fetard the spread of serious
disorders. Put money in thy purse
is by thousands considered a predemin- |
ant inspiration to the legal and medical
professions.
OF course such views are inaccurate, |
but they are also mischievous. and they !
derive certain plausibility from inert
ness and lack of public spirit. In the
Great Plague of London, in the extra
ordinary visitations Of cholera that
Paris experienced in 1881 or 1882, in
numerous epidemics that have occurred
in different parts of the world, in an
cient and medieval days and before the
enormous development of three-quarters
of the last century. healthy men and
women, and even children. were actual
ly inoculated with deadly virus to swell
the roll of patients or to satiate per-
sonal vengeance. But, for nearly eighty
years, such monstrosities, even in bar
barous or semi-barbarous regions. have
ceased to exist, and now-a-
lays even a quack has to gid his hypoc-
risy by ''the Difference which vice pays I
to virtue"
The Territory of Hawaii is not behind
he remainder of Christendom in its
respect for the higher civilization, of
which. notwithstanding its charged
the United States is the
oremost promoter. There is an oppor-
unity here for our local physicians,
many of whom it is difficult to outrank,
o show their disinterestedness and
heir combined powers, when vigorous [
v backed, to check any injurious con- I
Iitions, to which scientific methods are r
applicable. If not unrivaIled, the Z
Innate and diversified adaptation of a
Hawaii to the highest standard of z
IeaIth and longevity. are not excelled c
Ipon the face of the globe. If there v
re any blemishes in this otherwise ac- r
urate picture, they should be promptly (
r
There are leading men who consider L
hat the useful and important discov-
ries Of microbes, bacteria and bacilLi,
ave produced narrow medical theories n
fhich ignore masses of fact that prop .
rly enter into the conservation of
ealth and the reduction of disease.
Ipon such points, laymen are incompe-
emit to judge, but they are probably
iorthy of consideration. 1t may be that
Providence has designed the germ prin-
iple as the basis upon which physical
ERECTION, freedom from pain, and
nally Immortality, may be- automatic
ally secured. 1t seems to be quite OBJ
ious that, in some form, the concep-
ion of Providence has it's place in all
lvestigation, through which the pro-
racted conflict between good and evil,
hysical, intellectual, moral and spiritu-
|, lis slowly advancing towards a def
lite end. Whether as principals or
gents, however, skilled men are the
through which per-
lament results. steps in the onward
larch of humanity. are reached.
Evidently our local progress, fed and
Gated by the transmission of facts and
E thought through electrical currents.
lrough the rapid movements in which
team and oil are the energetic fac
IFS, and by means of print and illus
alton, demands medical cooperation.
ONE doctors tell US that many dis
asses are propagated by innumerablel
arieties of mosquitoes, of which each