The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-11
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thereia Is doing great good everywhere
and thanks to the constant iabors Of
the medical profession, epi1emics have
to a great extent lost their dreadful Of
fects, for they know how to prevent
them aud how to fight them.
Thanks to the persistent labOrs Of
the medical profession, we today eth
er know the causes how to prevent and
cure the following diseases: Rurbonic
plague cholera, cerebro spinal fever,
diphtheria. eryysypelas grippe, ma
laria or mosquito fever, measles, paro-
tidits, scarlatna smallpox. syphilis,
tuberculosis. typhoid fever typhus few
er tetanRs. yellow fever.
The above is made up of the diseases
that used to be epidemic and from
which mankind has suffered very
much, il we should add to these the
diseases due functional and mechani-
cal changes as well as surgical dl-
seases the list would grow almogt 70 a
good sized directory.
In View OF what | have stated it
might be Supposed that al commune
cable diseases have been eradicated.
that with our present knowledge OF
cause and effect the same are utilized
to give health and happiness TO all.
That tuberculosis, syphilis, mosquito
fevors are matter OF the past.
wish 1t was possible TO answer this Ia
the affirmative, unfortunately truth
forces a negative answer, when We turn
4 .Issf.
culosis is on the Increase That ac-
cording to Ghon (l2) there are about
2 100000 syphlitics in the United States,
and mosquito fever destroys the very
blood of thousands in every state
where it is found.
Cancer is actually Is per cent on the
increase (l3) and to this great black
list professor Norton of Yale, adds
the fact that during the year prfced-
ing the month of October, 1907 a mil
lion and one-half Of people Gied IN tile
United States from preventable causes.
If We add to this great number the
i46.327 killed and S3l ,45O people in
iured upon American railways tl4l in
the nineteen years covered by the In
terstate Commerce Commission report
We az once see the terrible great waste
of lives deaths due to preyentable
causes in the United states, the most
progressive country i'm our most pro
messive age. Whose fault Is this MIR
Speaker and Representatives of the
People OF the State OF OklahomaY Is
this our fault? is this the fault oi
the medical profession? Mo- OF what
ever we may be accused. we cannot be
accused Of being Indifferent to the peo
Pies welfare For years has the
American medical profession through
the American Medical Association
been knocking at the doors of Con
gress asking for imperative health leg
islation and getting very little. Con
gress is spending hundreds Of thou
sands OF dollars for war and other
purposes Co every cent IL spends foi
plblic health.
State medical societies send delega-
tions to state legislatures Co hey fof
health legislation. instead of being re.
ceived as self sacrificing heroes, who
deliberately work against their own ia.
terest, when they prevent the condi
tions OF favoring diseases, they are
frequently looked upon with suspicion
that they represent sepecial interests,
their demands are often ignored. Mr..
Speaker and Representatives OF the
People of the State OF Oklahoma, on
April /, 17l7, Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tague in writing of the great good OF
vaccination makes the following re-
marks: II am patriot enough TO bring
this useful invention 10 fashion IN
England and / should not fail 20 write
to some Of our doctors very particular.
ly about it. II knew any of them that
thought had virtue enough TO destroy
such considerable branch OF their
revenue" tlO.
The medical profession was lust as
little understood then By the good lady
as in our tines by many state legisla-
lures. II has and always had virtue
enough TO do the best for the good OF
humanity what SOuld Lady Montague
have said &c she would have been re-
Gently in the City of McAlister where
the medical profession offered an ordi'
nance for compulsory vaccination ~
the public schools, and. instead OF be
ing hailed as the heroes that the Nc
Alister doctors are, they We're accused
that In advocating vaccination thoY
were prompted by motives TO increas
their revenue. and an ignorant council
man gave as his opinion. that he
would. rather have his children die from
smallpox than be vaccinated' Sucn
rs the treatment accorded tie
medical profession by Legislative bod
les A profession who daily renders
Itha greatest services 10 the state
quietly mbeknown TO anybody a
soldier in the Philippines who was fol
lowing the enemy had 10 swim a river
...l ana .ff lIa aat,tttraI Auflu1IIn II
was his duty 10 TO so. and was promptly
made a brigadier general ia the Unit
ga States army While Or. Lazarus
had himself bitten by a yello@ ieyei
mosquito in order 90 study how n
lpfevent yellow fever from the destroy
lnE our people aId died as heroes dc