Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-05-10
Or. MCCORMACK LECTURES
Al the School Auditorium Monday. -lauds
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of the State Board of Health, deli,
cred an address at School Auditorium
Monday afternoon. His subject wa
The Proper Relation of the Medica
Profession TO the Public. ~ Their
was an audience of representative,
people present. Many physicians o
the county were in attendance. NAM
ladies were also present.
Judge W. 4. Blackburn called tn,
meeting to order and introduced tho
speaker.
DIR. Mccormack said that he had
been secretary OF the state organiza-
ton for the past twenty-five years,
and was personally acquainted with
nearly every physician in the State
that the average laymen looked upon
purpose was to tell the people that it
was not.
When j came IN contact with the
Kentucky legislature twenty-seven
years ago, he continued. IL found
that doctors were held IN public con
tempt. | found that, in trying to
secure medical legislation, that if the
doctors were united in support Of
bill, the probability of the bills pas
sage was lessened
II searched for the reason of this
and ! did not have far TO 90. found
that almost every doctor in the State
was speaking in terms of disparage.
ment of the other doctors in the com
munity. The result was that the in
dividual doctor stood very high with
the small circle in which he rrscticed
but the profession a. whole stood
very low. found five or six med
ical colleges in Louisville where there
should have been but one, and the
young doctor left the school ready 10
fight the graduates of every other
school In the village where there
were two doctors needing each others
help, they had nothing to do with
each other.
Il found that this widespread pre-
iudice originated with the doctors
themselves. But We have largely
stopped tina, now, and | want to try
To show YOU how the district Of the
profession affects you.
DR. Mccormack deplored the gov
ernment hospital service, saying that
the japanese had surpassed this coun-
try in preventing disease in the army.
.'Our ration is breaking down in the
digging of the Panama canal. When
DIR Gorgas. the great physician who
stamped out yellow fever in Cuba
went to Panama to look after sanitary
affairs and asked the government for
screens for the hospitals there, he
waited several weeks, and was finally
notified that he would be given
screens for the windows on one side
of the hospital
Half the deaths and halt the
sickness you had in the county last
year was due To preventable sickness
and ought never 10 have occurred
Consumption is not an inherited dis
ease if we could prevent infection
until those who now have il are cur
ed there need never ne another case
of consumption in Kentucky. Every
ca,c of typhoid fever was caused by
the patient getting into his stomach
some discharge from former patient
1t is a. impossible to have typhoid
fever without the germ as il is to
raise corn without the seed. In the
country districts these germs are ear
ricd almost entirely by supplies. In
the cities they get into the water
supply. These and all other germ
diseases can be prevented. ~
The doctor spoke at length on the
petty iealousies in the medical pro.
fession He SAID the physicians
made a bad impression on the public
by their constant abuse aud low talk
about their brother practitioners.
Take away this jealousy that has