The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1909-01-22


flamitory cases originated from
veneral diseases. DR.. Joseph Price
said that 80 per cent of all pelvic
suppurations and manly abdominal
conditions were due to venereal in.
fection. Dr. X. G. Morris said so
per cent OF his cases were due to-
venereal infection. DR.. b. G. Hirst
said that 75 per cent of his were due
to this awful and dreadful veneral
Infection My friends, II these figures
carry on their face the proof Of i'm
moral male tyranny, let us make the
most Of them.
Does the body polite suffer from
tho social evil?
Does America most need her a.
100000 young men I'm a healthy active
state for business and defense or
can she use them to equal advantage
when cripples. sterile or infectious
TO others or suffering from this trio
Of the devils malice toward men?
Does it mean anything to a nations
prosperity that at sometime before
adult life at least half her young
men are laid aside for time ow
ing to venereal disease and become
the means of incapacitating others;
that some receive permanent dis
abilities; and that not r. few are
rendered industrally useless? Does
she suffer from one years $500 cen.
sus) mortality OF 1881 (934 males,
657 females), a mere fraction of the
unreported total? Does she pay
heavy tax when 2 largo percentage
of those infested men and women
become sterile. permanently and per-
petually disabled from propagating
their kind? Does It count that these
diseases are responsible for many
of the insane and blind? Does she
find cause for regret that the i'm
moral element takes bodily hold of
politics and rules the town? This
state of affairs pertained i'm one of
our largest cities only q few months
age. And does the community learn
with surprise of needless annual
outlay OF public funds? In 1904 there
were treated at the Philadelphia hos
pital OF males alone 791 unnecessary
cases of venereal diseases, and I'm
1905. 663 males and 175 females:
while in the medical and surgical
wards were as many IL not more, in
& chronic state.
What Can ee Accomplished In the
Control Of the Social Evil and
Venereai Disease?
Everything. IL every physician will
but lend p hand; a great deal, with
the few who are already openly able
and willing to help. The effort Is
repaid IL one boy or girl is thereby
saved from venereal and moral in
fsetion. Would that there were no
one in the medical profession who
! felt Il necessary to see this move
men; become popular before offering
his active approval! There are in
deed, practical methods and the fol-
lowing are a few that have been tried
and have stood the test.
First and Foremost-The physician
is responsible for sane understand
ing OF the normal sexual functions
among his own clientele. He can
impart this knowledge to the indi-
yidual. male and female, either In his
office. by word Of mouth. or through
literature; but II necessary he has
the lecture room at his elbow; one
or the other methods should be EN-
ployed. The fantastic notion and the
ignorance of otherwise intelligent
adults regarding the normal sexual
phenomena and the proper care and
respect for their genital apparatus
is not a high tribute to our suppos'
edly unremitting thoughts for their
welfare.
Second.-Almost equally important
! Is the instruction OF fathers (Which
: my father gave me when | was twelve
years old and mothers regarding the
prevalence of the abuse OF these
; functions, the reasons therefor anG
the consequences, including the sta
tistics OF the insane and blind asy
lums and OF venereal disease ant
, the communicability of the latter