Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-01
MUS! Be MET WITH FoRTITuDE.
Utah a Place where Disease Plays a
0po.eN Far Inferior to the "Roll'
OF It's Physicians.
rsr DOCTORS ARE MULTIPLYING,
All This BY Way Of Levlty, After
Which a Hearty Welcome Is Ex'
tended to the Men Of Medicine,


Tho arth annual session OF the Rocky
Mountain Interstate Medical associa-
noo WIS called to order this morning at
,o,N o'clock IN the city council cham
bar by Dr.. c, H. solier, president OF the
association, There was a good attend
nnco OF physeians from Utah, Colo
raao, Idaho, wyoming, New Mexico
Novads and Arizona, which are repre-
sented In the association, and all indl-
cations point TO very successful ses-
sion.
THE GOVERNORS ADDRESS.
Rev. T. w, Pinksrton offered the In
vocation after which Governor Wells
delivered y decidedly pleasing address
Of welcome. Governor Wells said:
with a full sense OF the risk which
the greeting may imply. | nevertheless
extend 10 you. Mr.. President and gem
tlemen OF the medical profession, a
hearty welcome 20 our great inland
metropolis and our unique and splendid
state.
IN your leaving for a short time your
OVID patients 10 come and practise upon
ours, we realize at once the honor and
tho mischief YOU have done us, and
have no other wish and really no other
Idea than that your visit will be pleas
ant and extremely PRINTABLE. AS Widow
Bedotl says sickness and doctors are
trials sent by the will OF wise crea-
tor and alters ought to be underwent
with fortitude and resignation"
ROLE VS. ROLL.
"Let me tell you that this Is a coun-
try, though. IN which in the past dis
ease has had 70 play o. very inferior
role-lnalnitely inferior to the roll OF
the average physician Of today. which
II Is quite universally admitted Is big
enough 70 choke n horse. But as "A
matter OF fact sickness used to be al
most unknown here. Men and women
grew into healthy old age and when
tired of living passed away peAcefuly
aud nninternptedjy into their last, long
sleep. /; may have been because OF
our uneXampled climate; II may have
been because patti de fois gras and
lobster Newberg were unknown, or II
may have been because there were very
Few physicians In our midst. Our fire.
quent Old Folks reunions OF veterans
OF seynty and eighty and even ninety
and hundred years furnish undlsput-
aOle proof OF the erstwhile healthful-
ness OF the community, and much food
Tor thought as 10 whether disease is
better fostcred by environment or pre-
scFptlon. With air and climate and
SURROUNDINGS so bene6oent as ours.
ana With guod, strong, sturdy
stock 10 stnrt from, we had small
need for doctors: and the few we had.
resorting TO their professional skill
merely as an incident or a pustime were
appreciated more largely by reason OF
their success with field. ranch, mine or
morse racing or maybe In the gentle yo-
Gallon OF teaching the young Idea how
70 shoot than for their skin and know
ledge OF the Materia Medlcn.
MULTIPLICATION OF DOCTORS.
The natural conditions of TODAY az
compared with those OF the good old
ulhes referred to are essentially the
ame-with one gigantic exception that
gentlemen In your line of business
nave multiplied exceedingly. and that
without having to dabble in agricuhu r,.
mining sports or pedagogy they nil
seem TO be making a sleek and coInfor-
table living. Perhaps we have no more
sickness than we used to have In pro-
portion 10 our increased population, but
suen or 1t as we do have we are GER
fanny KEPT better Informed OF. You
WIN admit that there Is some advantage
~ that. And II is comfort to know
inat While We may feel and look TO be In
.he most robust and magnificent health,
mere are always at hand kind medical
friends 10 explain to us how we may
be living, teeming hive and mass ~
bacilli and other boyle things which will
get US II we don't watch out we
never hear now about anyones diving
without his family or friends knowing
exactly what was the matter with him
That condition Of bllssful Ignorance Is
~ changed. With such symptoms OF
disorder aS the highly trained physl-
clans Of today detect In most OF us the
wonder Is that We are able to live at all.
Yet live we do, and prosper generally.
and with gratitude to our medical ad.
ylsers that our situation is no Worse. We
greet them smllingly and try 10 nav
their ,sttle bills with becoming fortitude
or lftitute as the case may be.
LOCAL MICROBES AND GERMS
In repeating the word OF welcome
which II gives me real pleasure 10 81
press 10 you, my friends. I invite 40
much Of your attention as your Tina
VIII permit, TO the study and examlnn.
ton Of any new varieties Of mlerohaa
ana serme which we may 10 harboring
mere unRwarea ] have no doubf wa
nave rome species peculiar 10 thip ia
celitv' and you are entirely welcome 10
~ many specimens OF these "a YOU ma
MINK VIII DO OF service 10 YOU in ynur
regular business. Personally I do moi
we have. wy Ne'i"'
LAST OF ALL--wELcoME
"oihcr thinao however YOU wm nnd
Nnleli You are no loas cord ally inv,ted
20 ENJOY, among them full nnrrectr'
uon on tho part OF our ptonIe ~ *,
nopio profoaslon YOU follow and , ,c, ~,
lospltn'ity which fows rom nor "a,
yestern hearts, Surely tho eaylns of
hunlan NE ana the lssBanlnR ~ fhe
US ana pains Or mortality la n cur,cr,
s1n IN ambition worthy IN, higaea, On
tellont and deserving The r,st ~. ~,
esteem, From every atansnnl ~ '"se,u
p.uichsion, honorRbly purFIed in lie
.nnaahferr FOR No heRa1tlnf hnman
s,no' smnde iriMsasurabT nhaed of
Ely ouleri such guests NJ Mars mast
~pp' " inset and enter i and IN