The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-03

State Auditors report for last year
showing how much larger were tile
appropriations for tho oyster Industry,
for prevention OF posts III crops, etc.
than for tho health Of the people of
3Virginin.
.virginia's appropriation OF $4..
600 year Is tho smallest In the
Union"
In order to effect the reforms we
propose, we have formed medical So
cieties lin all parts of the country. It
4 is part OF the object OF sucl, organ-
Eizatlons to put a. competent doctor In
the reach OF every person in Virginia
or any other State. And want to say
that any person who hasn't q compe-
tent, up-to-date doctor had better have
none, and trust to nature and to ma
lures God.
I'm almost every State poverty in
the medical professions constitutes one
OF It's greatest dangers. Doctors have
not shared In the current prosperity.
while the cost Of instruments and
books has vastly increased. There is
hardly n family In which tho life OF
some member has not been In the
haros OF physician In the last few
years.
1T is intolcrable that these men
who hold such risks should be IN
such poverty that they cannot
keep up Will liz IlulSot ~ WI!
stitutes a menace to the public ut
j large"
necessary night calls. "a man Is
hetter doctor when lie is wide-awake
than when half asleep" he said
Patent Medicines.
Proceeding. DR.. Mccormack then
took up tho subject OF patent med'-
cll,es mentioning Hostetter's Bitters,
Pcruna, Warmers Safe Cure. Mrs.
Pinkham's Compound. and others, as
"cheap compounds favored with wis
key; Bromo-Seltzer, "the sale OF which
ought to lave been forbidden by law;
headache medicines from which peo-
pie are found dead in beds and on the
streets.
"Takc tho consumption cures con-
tanning drugs dangerous for people
IN their weakened condition.; take the
catarrh remedies, containing a little
opium and cocaine, which are inhaled
into the systam In unlimited guam
titles; take the baby preparations; Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. every bottle
CT which contains morphine and drugs
which no doctor would prescribe.
THE Patent Medicine Association ro-
ported that they sold over 75,00o,0G0
OF these drugs last year chiefly cheap
.whiskey and dope.
IT believe in the same standards OF
morality for mon and women. Over
half the surgery for women In tho
United States last year came from the
and let us break up these infamous
practices!
Then let us bring in the clergy. l
yield to no man in my respect for the
clergy. There are quacks In the clergy.
as there are In medicine, and shysters
In law. Doctors lose their Interest In
the ministry when ministers sign state
ments that they cannot continue to preach
without Duffys Malt Whlskey.
"The great press of the country has
co-operated with the medical profession
in this country Many of the greatest
papers OF this country have cleared this
class OF business from their columns. It
is not worth while to put piety and truth
in the editorial columns. when there is
such fraud in the advertising columns.
I'VE ought to ask the good women to
meet with US. The world would not be
worth saving without the women. We
must call in the Woman's Christian Ten
perance Union. These good women would
be Mortified at an invitation to drink
beer, with five per cent. alcohol. or cham
payne. with eight per cent. alcohol, but
will use and sign testimonials for Mrs.
Pinkhams Compound at twenty one per
cent. alcohol or Peruna. at forty-four
per cent alcohol.
Time Has Come.
Then we should have the teachers
and show them the principles Of sani-
tation, the ventilation OF schoolhouses.
In many houses the only ventilation is
through the mistakes of the carpenters.
Japan has 1000 school doctors, nspect-
ing the schools daily. looking afte3 eyes.
throat. physical defornities, nlalnutrition
and infection.
I'VE ought to have constant asso-
citation with the lawyers. with the.
editors who will respond to any
thing when they understand the I'M
selfishness back Of it; with the farm
ers' institutes. the mercantile in
terests. The time has come to do
all this
Corporations employ lawyers to
keep them out OF the courts. not to
go to law. The time has come to