The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
THE GOSPEL OF GOOD HEALTH.
Strong, Forceful Lecture Saturday Eve
ming by DR.. J. N. Mccormack

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| ming by DR.. J. N. Mccormack.
An audience of representative people lis
tened to the lecture by DR.. J. N. McCor-
About Doctors that Doctors and Other
People Should Know in Grange hall Sat
urday evening. The lecture was given I'M
! der the auspices of the Windham County
Medical association. DR.. Mccormack, who
has been at the head Of the health depart
| ment of his state for 80 years, was intro
| duced by Ernest j. Waterman, chairman
| over an hour and 30 minutes, yet his au-
dience showed not the least sign of being
tired and when he closed he was given a
rising vote of thanks. DR.. Mccormack is
frank in his speeches, one might say al
most brutally SO, yet there is that ring
Of sincerity that not only holds the atten-
ton of his audience but makes friends for
congratulated by both men and women.
In discussing quacks he laid down heav-
lily on the manufacturers of patent medi-
cines and handled the Lydia Pinkham
remedies in way that left no doubt as
to what he thought about the manage
ment of the Pinkham company. He read
a clipping from Vermont daily, paper
confdentially to all letters that women
might write her, and then showed a pho |
tograph Of the tombstone of Mrs. Pink
ham, who has been dead 26 years. His lee
ture dealt to quite an extent in statistics. |
He said that the greatest asset of any |
nation, it smost important resource to be
considered, is that represented in its Wig
orous population, it's children, women and
tories and similar things called wealth,
have little more than an abstract value,
except as there is such a population to
operate and enjoy them. The drain upon
this asset in this country from diseases
now known to be preventable, and as re-
suit of vicious and immoral living, is esti-
mated at more than one-third of the en-
tire sick and death rate every year.
DR.. Mccormack said that in 10 years
our national government has expended
$40, 100000, and now proposed to appro-
pirate $250,000,000 more, to prevent tick
fever in cattle, cholera in hogs and chick
ems pests to crops and trees, and to pro-
tect other interests having money value,
while in all it's history it has never spent
a dollar or lifted g hand to protect the
nestle pestilences. There are experts and
funds in abundance at Washington to go
anywhere for investigation, or to prepare
literature in regard to any animal or plant
disease, any agricultural resource, water
power, or other condition affecting COM
nerciai interests, put the citizen VIII IN
lulre IN vain tor information ABOUT pro-
Getting his family from typhoid fever or
,ther sickness.
To properly inculcate the new gospel OF
lealth and long life DR.. Mccormack and
he $4,000 doctors composing the Ameri-
an Medical association which he repre-
ents believe that there should be a de-
artment of public health and hygiene in
The association is working
o secure the passage of law to provide
Or such department of the federal gov
rnment.
He favors the Swiss plan of caring for
he sick which is that of district super
ison under one or more competent physi-
ans provided for by the state county or
,wn. He believes that this plan will
be adopted in this country and
doctor will become a counsellor rather
ian practitioner. =
Touching the local field he suggested
lat medical inspection ought to be made ar
the pupils in the public schools at reg H
ar intervals and that the matter of ven fe
alton of school rooms should be made by
to any and all other phases of SC
hool work. His structure on druggists tn
10 handle questionable devices and rem TIC
les was couched in terms that were not WI
1bguous and could not but arouse an wi
terest among people willing to attempt !,
s,pnress the sale of such articles M