Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-29
MORE HEALTH LECTURES
Washingtonians to Help to
Educate Public With
Exhibits.

Contributed by the Medical Society Of the
District of COlumbia.o
While it is true that the inception of
preventive medicine came from medical
men, hygiene is now largely co-operated
In by laymen, such as engineers, demog-
raphers, architects and municipal officers.
The facts upon which their measures
must rest and the inspiration for their
work must however. continue to come
from students of medicine, pathology and
chemistry.
Furthermore, the direct instruction with
regard to the health of the body and mind
can only be relied upon when it comes
from professional sources. This is not
sufficiently realized. or less reliance would
be placed In the popular articles upon
health written by various amateurs with
pretensioRs to knowledge.
Public Cannot Judge.
The public is, of course, DESTROYS of ac-
curate information where personal health
is concerned, but 1T has no means of
Judging the true from the false. Cnwise
procedures, based upon half knowledge or
misinformation. are known to every prac-
tic.ng physician to be the cause of much
suffering.
An effort to minimize this public danger
is being made by the Medical Society or
the District Of Columbia. The manner In
hitch tn S is be ng done has been display
ed at the hygiene exhibition at 18th and
b streets northwest during the past week
1t will still be found at the rlght-hand
entrance to the large lecture hall at the
east side of the building. There are shown
several articles which have appeared in
the Sunday issue of tbs newspaper during
the PAST six months, and these articles
will continue to appear in the future
More Lectures Scheduled.
An important part of the exhibition will
be an extension of the newspaper articles
by a series of demonstrations and lee
lures in hygiene.
Many of these have been already ar
ranged, but complete particulars will be
given by the authorities of the exhibition
in the newspapers from time to time.
Those lectures. which last week We're
mainly given by lecturers and sanitarlans
from out of town, attracted much atten-
lion and were highly appreciated not only
by observation-disclosures, but by many OIL the
visitors of the congress.
Illustrations by projection and moving
pictures are largely used and demonstra-
lions of methods of study, such as OF the
physical and mental condition OF children,
are shown.
The following lectures and dates are
already on the program subject to slight
revision: DR.. Randolph September 80 at
8 pm. 1.-The Abuse of Drugs; DIR. G. l..
Magruder. September 30. at pm.
Milk; DR.. f. P. 'Magruder, October l, at
3 pm, what to Do in Emergencies
DR.. Egbert. October 1. at pm. "Quack
Mechanotherapy"; DR.: Barton. October 1.
at $50 pm. Standardization" DR.. Slmp
son, October 3, at pm. THE Necessity
for Early Diagnosis to Lessen the Nor
tality from Cancer: DR.. Williams. Dc
tober s. at $50 pm. Mental Healing"
In addition to these there will be the
following: DR.. White. Government Hos
pital for the Insane; DR.. Edwin Behrend.
"Preyentable Nutritional Diseases; DR..
Wells 1.-THE Ear and the Throat: DR..
Henning. 1.-THE Eye: DR.. Fry, Health;
DIR. Mallory. Diet; DR.. Leech, Proven
ton Of Diseases in Children