El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-22

proves almost invariably fatal In this connection we
and surgeons and very evous to the patients and their fe
Mackenzie professor of Layngoogy at John Hopkins In
who speaks of these operations as Surgical Insanes "
otherwise It IS most vicious form of graft.
Medical fads have occasionally been commented on
by the lay and diculed by the comic papers, says the
Literary Digest Aug 30) but when an eminent medical
professor dssects and condemns them leading article in
the journal of the American Medical Association Chicago
August o. II time for some of the of US take notice
he writer Is Dr. Joseph Zeer professor of dematology
IN the North Western University Medical School DR. Zes
Ter believes that Americans general faddsts and that
American medical simp y with the current Our
fads he says, show very short life and continuous
change and strongly inclined to cultivate certain
fas Just about when they began be discarded by Europ
cans. He goes on to say:
here was time when ovaneS were sacrificed to an ex
tent amounting to a fad The same criticism might perhaps
without much injustice be made today to appendectomy
Prot Zeer goes to several past fads and treat
ments pracced with great deal Of vigor and very little
nationality.
The present writer ventures to name two of the most
absurd really silly of all medical fads which, like the others
mentioned exceedngy mischievous since they are al
together misleading prevent all rational thought looking
to the night method of treatment hat the cause of para
yss the bite of stable es and that tuberculosis may be
communicated by kssng 1t with great satisfaction that
note the report of one scientist who after prolonged nvest-
cation and experimentation declares that his estimation
the stable fly entirely bameless and another honest IN
vesgato chief Of the Health Board of Chicago sat down
sodly the presentation Of physician who advocated
the importance of prohibiting kissing because of danger from
contagon Dr. w. A. Sawyer, director of the State Hy-
genc Laboratory Sacramento Calf IN his report to the
State Board of Health fully exoneraed the stable fly In
the matter of infant paralysis "a disease that attacks per-
sons of all ages and Health Commissioner Young Of Chi
cago appears as champion of the kiss, saying Have
the entire article against kissing stricken from the buetn
let people kiss all they to; is only dangerous when
under the observation of irae papa or mamma
Now we await the authority that shall halt the helsh
work of doctors that treat little innocent children suffering
from meningitis by abbmg them the spine and drawing
off natures fluid and injecting filthy serum The treatment
proves almost invariably fatal In this connection we may
well other fads that are very profitable to the
doctors and surgeons and very gevous the patients and
their friends Ionsectomy and appendecomy. DR.. John
n Mackenzie Professor of Laryngoogy at John Hopkins
University quotes approvngy the verdict of an eminent
surgeon who speaks of these operations as surgical nsan-
tiles When performed IN good faith 1t matter of g-
noance otherwise Is most vicious form of graft Among
the evils resulting from the removal of the tonss Professor
Mackenzie sums up this list: Death from hemorrhage and
shock development of tuberculosis IN lungs decorations and
other injuries of palate and phagngea muscles great con-
traction Of parts removal of barrier of infection; severe
infection of the wound sepcemia troublesome ccatrices
suppuratve os media; troubles of vision and voice. IN
creased susceptibility throat disease pharyngea qunsy
and finally OnS! The present writer can vouch for the
tact that victims OF tonsectOmy and appendecomy almost