The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23
DR. McADORY DELIVERS
 ADDRESS TO PHYSICIANS

the advancement of our knowledge of the normal. It is matter of impos- slbiiity VT them to keep pace with 50 by studying the pathology and srsat- ment of disease, they find themselves unable to make these fit in with their ancient ideas of the physiology, and the admixture of a conglomerate mass of facts. theories and superstitions,-- following biindly the lead of some one their individuality. and oming an impericists or the worst G.d.
 To illustrate what I mv--a; Suppose the physician graduated at the time arteries carried air, and ceased to study physiology at that time. How would ne feel Tn reading a text book of today shs orgsss1 while P .hs this s some what far-fetch ed. and the main facts concerning the circulation were proven and published in 1928. and when these eases of the organs underwent revo- lution. Since this time little by little our knowledge of the normal circula- vance a corresponding advance in the ideas of diseases. But today our knowledge, of tn circulation .s not per sioiosy ten years ago viii. if he should book. find himself often in strange sd snd ns ex sooks ba he soon becomes lost. or must follow blindly the author. and he can never. in his own mind. make things Tt. until he goes back and becomes familiar with the accepted idea as to the nor. mal.
 There is a growing tendency ;n. this country for doctors to go oh and at- tend post graduate courses. as have watched them attending these clinics and lectures they have often reminded of rstyssr meaissl students den xoad ss would be accomplished by the physi- elan. and more benefit derived by his patients. if he would attend an under branches; then he would be in condition of mind capable of appreciat.ng the post graduate work.
 When we stop and think of how few men keep up with the advances in tn e elementary branches of medicine, 1t is no wonder that we have a large num- tion is rife even .ii the minds of many of the elect. The majority. of medical students. when they graduate from ass nsnsd anS sens to De | your medical Journals of largest circu- lation and you will see testimonials | from doctors. and be impressed with the fact that this blind imperieism and | rank superstition exists, and do not believe that this would be true if these men had kept up with their elemen- man to practice rational medicine | without keeping up with these branches and I believe 1t is equally impossible for ss kssg @ qs wsh n1 tbns his sns
 practitioner or rational medicine. for with each advance he can see clearly and more clearly the relation between | cause and effect until finally he be- comes fully imbued with the Idea that | there can be no cause without its ef- feet. and when he sees the effect and seeks earnestly to find 1t. thus adding | always the element of the game to his | work, not holding behind that popular | universe moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform.
 l There comes to every practitioner of seis1"e iife so piaS tSs Hrsb act, | fold his tent l and silently steal away. Let us hope | that in the going he carries with him
 the consciousness of duty well per
 he has given his patient the advant-
 age of all possible that Is known to
 medican science today:
 cines kept up with the advance in the elementary branches. what efkect would 1 1t have upon medical science7
 laboratory man for all of our research | work and advancement. and they are
 doing all that they. can. It IS the gen, eral practitioner who sees the diseased
 patient first. and when we look back
 we see that 1t has been he who has has 1 ~r~e-vad the rheno'nePa that started the inquiry along the lines that ulti- l mateIy proved correct. It was Harvey, l a general practitioner in England, wno | discovered the circulation of the blood, and it was Beaumont, practitioner .n inc great Northwes who. observing
 through an accidental gastric nst1la, | stomach. started the inquiries which have today resulted in our knowledge | of digestion. While the practitioner does not work out all of the steps that
 proves a yet he 1t is who sees the
 first departure from the normal and II is upon these observations that the
 laboratory man Is dependent for sug-
 gestions as to what line to pursue.
 Let us never 'oose sight of the fact
 that there can be no perfect scientific
 medicine unt:l the function of the
 normal ss known and when our ideas
 are based upon theories. these ideas
 must give way to others. if when th z
 fact is known, 1t is different froms the
 theory used. For the past few years
 too little attention has been given to
 the study of the normal. and the pro
 satisfied with building their super | afructure upon a foundation of theo-