Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-20


 tingulshed members of the Ameri- can Medical Society, made a most favorable impression on large audience at the Y. M. c. A. audi torium last night, featuring to an unusually large assemblage of physi- clans and many others, interested in his present tour of the country. His subject was Things About Doctors Which Doctors aud Other People Ought to Know.
 Doctor Mccormack is said to be a multimillionaire. He is touring the country under the auspices of the American Medical Society and in the interest of the advancement of his profession, having given his work a life's study. He attended Goebel, the famous Kentucky official during his illness and was presented with $1O,OO0 by the Kentucky legis- lature in appreciation of his services.
 Mayor J. L.. Caldwell presided last night and together with Doctor Jordan and Attorney w. T. Young, made brief responses. Doctor Me Cormack vigorously urged the es- tablishment of a state board of health on sound financial basis and demanded that immediate at tention be paid to the sanitary con ditions of the state.
 Doctor Mccormack is chairman i of the organization committee of the American Medical Association and he has been stumping the country l for the past five years preaching the doctrine of sanitation and as a side issue decrying certain patent medi- cines.
 Speaking on the subject of state board of health, he declared it would be worth $1,OOO for every dollar ex- 1 pended. He asserted that this is the only state in the Union which makes no appropriation for such body and he added that the medi- cal law of Arkansas was not only the last formed, but IS now the most imperfect in the United States.
 The speaker urged mass meet ing of physicians, lawyers, teachers, clergy and druggists to unite upon plan whereby the legislature could be impressed With the necessity of an appropriation Tor the board of health.
 Referring to number of patent medicines, he declared that they make temperance women drunkards and babies morphine fiends before they are weaned.
 Sickness Can Be Prevented.
 "One-third of the sickness which has occurred in Arkansas and the United States within the last year and every year, was due to diseases which are distinctly and practically preventable," declared Doctor Me Cormack. "Much has been done by the medical profission to stop this cruel and unnecessary sick an death rate, but the efforts to secure reouisite legislation have been con stantly met by such popular indlf ference and opposition as to mak' efforts in this direction practically inetfectual."
 To show his knowledge of these matters, Doctor Mccormack pointe to the fact that he has been the ex ecutive officer of the state board O health of Kentucky for the pas quarter of a century; that he has Ii censed every physician in that state and for 27 years has represented his profession in the legislature. Continuing, Doctor McCormacl
 declared that he found the opposl tion of legislature bodies to effort of medical men in Corning broade lines for destroying diseases, wa due to the dissensions and backbit
 ing among the various schools o
 physicians. This condition, he de
 clared, extended from Maine to Cal
 ifornia. Recently the movement 10
 co-operation has had tendency t S bring the medical men closer tc n gether. It was this state of affalr b among the medical men, he declared d that resulted in the loss during tn d Spanish American war of 16 soldier e from preventable' disease to on ho rQx