The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-12
CURRENT COMMENT
Tne Cortrovcrsy About Health.


first almanac ever issued in pubic health WORK
and 1t has Just put out the almanac for 1917.
The idea 1t will be observed. IL the one ions
acted upon by the patent-medicine people anu
now taken over to do good instead OF harn.
The new issue is extremely entertaining as Wen
as useful, the pictorial side being as Wen
done as the reading matter 1t can De OMAN
ed from the Department OF Health at rlch-
mond Kansas has followed this fntelilgeM
Virginia leadership with the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
that The Virginia Heath Almanac for lslI
is the most interesting, Instructive, ana useIui
public health pamphlet ever Issued by any de-
partment of health In America. The kansas
almanac can be obtained from the secretary OF
the Board OF Health Topeka, Kansas IN
contrast which is either amusing painful
according to ones realization of the conse-
auences, comes the Peruna Almanac Tor lsl.'
full OF reliance on human ignorance ana e.e .'-
ulity The symptoms which show that Peruna
is necessary include pretty nearly everything
from dependency to an inability to bear ttght
clothes around the waist. splendid consis-
tency is shown in the inclusion of an astrologi-
cal department Nerve, by the way. to say the
least, is shown by an enterprising gentleman
who begins an article in the newspapers. which
is paid for but not marked advertising, Win
the following statement .
Golfers attack all headache powders. pills
tablets. and effervescing drinks containing
acetaniIid has been of great educational value
to the public. as 1t has Informed them OF the
Objectionable features of acetanilid as heart
depressant
He then goes on to advertise a headache
of his own.
The contest between progressive medical SCI
ence and its opponents goes on quietly but
persistentiy and tercely. We noticed with re-
greet that the League for Medical Freedom
waged a campaign in Grand Rapids against
series Of lectures in the public schools on TIL
be~cuiosis and It's Prevention This campaign
might well have ended In victory had II not
been that the Michigan Legislature in 1909 pro-
nounced tuberculosis communicable disease,
and previous statute required instruction
every year in every grade about all commuri-
cable and contagious diseases. The League for
Medical Freedom has also ben opposing med
ieal inspection in the schools The newspaper
which took the part of the League for Medical
Freedom In the Grand Rapids controversy has
from two hundred TO two hundred and fifty
inches of patent medicine advertisements reg
ularly. In one issue noticed advertisement
Of the National League for Medical Freedom
just below advertisement Of an ''int~aven-
ous' treatment of tuberculosis. letter has
just reached signed Foster Milburn Com
pany o. e, Foster President" attacking bill
introduced in the Kentucky Legislature provide
that nobody make advertise a medicine
unless he is Il physician or pharmacist. The
Foster-Miburn Company are the manufacturers
of ''Doan's Kidney Pills and other proprietary
medicines
People along the Atlantic Seaboard probably
realize comparatively little how much the adj
ministraton has lost by letting Or. Wiley go
and standing by McCabe the manufacturer OF
false evidence against Wiley: Dunlap. McCabe's
Gratis could forget the ordinary rules of peanut
politics enough to amend the Pure Food and
Drugs Law effectively. and also to establish
National Bureau of Health. the credit they
would gain from the country would be meal.
cuable.--Coer's Weekly.