The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1908-04-09
A LARGE AUDIENCE
GREETS DIR. MCCORMACK
His Address Listened to With UnabOthed Interest,"
SynOpsys of His Speech.

Dr. j. N Mccormack, representing Medical
socaon delivered address the opera city
Monday night and audience subject
being Things about doctors that doctors and other people should
know His address exceedingly Interesting throughout and
contained suggestions which followed by people would
suit IN better health OF the country at large The following an
abstract OF his address and worthy of being read sded
McCauey proposed make history England as fasc
mating as the latest novel, and did It. With such and
would be make popular knowledge of medicine
live long and WELL and to get the most of life if
tertanng novel, at least as instructive as the hest history
medicine sciences Doctors their meth
DDS and everything concerning them certainly in recenf
without Intention kept in the realm of weird the
terou almost they always
easily misrepresented and constantly
brought much disaster the people that the time has
Tor 70 end ana with TINS IN view intend to lift the veil and
have seek profession just it's In doing this,
will be frankly revealed of which known little redeemed
by charities and benefacons great and universal will
and challenge
tinct purpose in view which will appear proceed
In order show something my this task NAV
be that for 29 have been member
"a secretary of the board of health
OF Kentucky For - years have profess
sion before session of the legislature of Kentucky
ing the time with delegates often
represented congress- Once or twice almost
part of this country talk upon this subject aymen discussing
freely at the conclusion of my remarks Going from state TO
until have been nearly all of many of
them from county talking these both
physicians and aymen in this heart way been
able to make study of doctors of what they doing
what people think of them and of ts reform, way has
been possible other before After years
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districts of Great Britain and the continent of Europe making
comparative study of medical and health conditions
there.
In all early with legislatures was
constantly confronted with otherwise broad: farnnded
by almost universal bias distus prejudice
and whatever they proposed found that this
aceabe almost dssensons between physicians
of school and creed always and competitive and
practically always particular official had had his conf
dence the profession destroyed by criticism all
the community by his family physician a
that while each doctor stood high in the estimation of few people
the who had low
study of medical history showed that this evil had
down from the centuries cung had the
all of the other segregated cang but bringing
disaster the people than those primarily nvovedn The
legal the only of the professions
this owing mainly to the fact that lawyers live in the
gregate and consequently harmony and for this they
had always been able to direct the policy of this country
few profession aroused enormy of
this evil and to its banefu effects it and the and wei
banded and probably
the history of the world did reform profession and
now regardless OF schooS or aes ours Is rapidly becoming one
the harmonious of the vocatons This evil existed
SO long. however that had created public sentiment fixed
habit of thought with the people, which did disappear with
removal of its and today almost much generation
ago. the widespread feeling that practical
united body of men, and consequently cannot be safely entrusted
with the public with
state capitol and at Washington year after year even in of
culture and experience of the berat
all other matters All the heroism of the profession all of
history and in the final abolition cholera and
yellow fever and the fact that the three noble who
their lives accomplish the latter who freed large of
the from the annual dread of this psenc
possible OF unrearded
lie in unmarked graves has made little perceptbe change in this
sentiment
You will first be shown how this has affected
Not speak the avodabe suffering sorrow upon
of the people every year
prevenabe sickness and Deaths and from vicious living
almost be- conception In actual dol
lars and estimated than
for all During last year 100000 persons died. and
sick involving tho and material prosperity
of 5000 900 homes and 25 people
believe that one-thd distinctly practically
preventabe with existing knowledge but that this might
tended other diseases and the constantly
broad scientific research collective investigation