New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21
DOCTORS OPINIONS.
The opinions follow:


DIR. s A. KNOPF, of No. 16 West 95th-st,, one
Of the leading specialists in this country In the
treatment of tuberculosis:
Il must answer with emphatic No First,
the medical profession has for It's highest
ideal the preserving of life Second even the most
skilled physician will admit the possibility of error
and it happens and then that n seemingly in
durable person is restored 10 health What would
be the possible consequence if the practice advocat
ed by Miss Anne S, Hall and indorsed by Professor
Charles Eliot Norton, of Cambridge. Mass should
come in vogue? We would add a new crime. de
servingly called medical murder and paraueled only
In It's disgrace TO civilization by that other heinous
crime, judicial murder. Third. to the skilled phy-
sician it is possible, by the aid of carefully admin
istered drugs, TO relieve suffering and the agony
OF the dying, without shortening the patients life
presumably, the advocates of the theory under
consideration would wish TO include the hopelessly
insane criminally or otherwise, the idiots, and
perhaps even the habitual drunkards It ia evident
that the distinguished persons above mentioned
know how all true physcians are bed ey ,+ %oIo
!Qta mat since such diseases as were lust men
TONED are preventable must try to prevent
them. Next 10 healing the physicians constant
occupation is 10 prevent disease Many diseases for
eE yTy Sohsldered ineurabe and qnpreventabe or
knowledge, diminished just as much, if not more
should we look 10 the decrease Of other disyy
ea ..5f through a proper prevention as well?
PITY preached on HOSPITAL s9nday a9 H[owtn OF
far better answer to the question than 7 have
been able to give; 1t would be a beautiful world
prisons or hospitals or insane asylums any char
i r.r9 because all the people were healthy and
themselves 1t would be a fine world If we could
as to whether it would be so fine a world if we
reached this by wholesale slaughter. II we should
sick. and should leave alive only those who We're
weaker, that nations are not so strong as thev
would be; but believe that preeisely, the con
IS the most of this tender care, the most SYM
pathy, pity, love. where the incompetent and the
inightiest IN battle if 1t comes to war mightiest
IN finance, rightest in manufacture, mightiest in
all that goes to make up a strong dominating ma
DR. w OLIVER MOORE. professor emeritus in
the New-York POSTGRADUATE Medical School:
1.-The physician should decidedly not be intrusted
with the power TO practise euthanasia- It would
put too much power In the hands of one person
who might be inscriptions AS the law now
stands Il would be homicide.
Although have answered the questions as
have-it IS in Of the existing lavgs-I am thor
oughly IN favor Of giving 70 incurable patients a
q law passed authorizing the Governor or Mayor
to appoint board Of well known physicians who
given &c case and they to decide II the patent Is
incurable. OF course this should be done only by
way one could safeguard the whole matter. other
Of Il ee IF rES Woa 2Py all sorts
of course the great objection that win be raised
sti1l strongly held to-"
Dr. HENRY S. sTBARNs. ex-president Of the
Medical Society of the County Of New-Yorks
Human knowledge and judgment being still
anite qualities. Is TO occur and numbers
of lives be knowingly ended which might have been
saved. In the most desperate cases my experience
IS that pain already suffered effects Of high
Temperature presence Of toxins IN the circula-
ision, OF the certainty OF the near approach OF