Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-10-02

the regular schools Of medicine.
The solution OF this great problem
lies In the state Board of Medical
Examiners. Create one board with
representatives OF each school on sect.
Insist on the same preliminary re-
quifements. Examine each applicant
in the same fundamental branches.
leaving the system OF healing Co the
member at The board from the APP
plirant's particular school DO this.
and the same high standard OF
scholarahip. the same nigh degree ~!
intelligence. viii be markod Ia the
doctor whether he be from the regular
school, the osteopathic. the homes
opathlc, or what not You have then
barred no school, no sect They are
all equal In the eyes OF the law. and
what is far better. they are competent
men and women, doctors whom YOU
can trust whether. as I have said be-
fore, they give you pills to get YOU
well, rub your spine TO effect "a cure.
OF pray Almighty God 10 rid YOU Of
disease.
maintain. and ! think any fair
minded person, who has given tho
matter sufficient thought. viii agree
with me. that to control disease and
20 keep in check disastrous opldemics
We need 90 call into play the police
power OF the stnte. Just what this
police power may mean as determined
by the various commemorative. on
how fnr-reaching may be its appllca-
ton IN not Ia the scope of this sd
dress; but suffice II is o. say that in
every description OF the police movers
Of the state that has been given by
text writers or hy the decisions Of our
courts Is found "A direct reference to
the protection OF lives and health Of
persons. Hence q most proper, and
IN fact the most beneficial exercised
OF this police power Is found IN tho
regulation ~ the practice of medicine.
II matters not 10 me whether my
neighbor desires To call Christian
science practitioner To treat himself
or any member of his family for some
non-coniagious disease but Il does
concern me when he calls such n per-
son Ia the guise of healer and such
person fails 20 diagnose diptheria, or
any other contagious disease, and
simply treats II as an ordinary all
meni. thereby exposing the reminder
OF the population 20 dangerous M
Ness untold suffering and In many
cases, death, Here it Is unquostion-
ably the duty of the state 10 protect
the lives OF Infants. children and mis-
guided adults from the ignorant prac-
tice OF unqualified healers. u h nod
q question OF liberty and the exercise
Of personal rights. 30 moro so than
should / choose TO throw myself be.
fore nm approaching train with the
avowed intention of taking my own
NE, or infllct untold fortunes on an
animal ! might own merely because
offer the right of propriotorship.
Ia the former case the law would
prohibit me, and the humane society.
would direct the law 8gainst me In
the latter. since Wc still have with
us IN large numbers people who seem
10 lacK sufficient judgmont In mat
'efH OF health, then j becomes the
duty OF the state 10 care for them and
watch over their acts by exactly the
same power they would exercise oyer
one Of unsound mind by virtue OF In
sanity on various degrees of imbccn-
ity.
81 present we need such protection
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tho attention OF the last legislature
vas Ia effect the law : nave outlined
for you today II was twice defeated.
Public opinion would have none of
H. Personally. we're there not 70
higher duty of physician than mere
personal consideration, would say
let the public hang. Throw down the
few bars We have already established
ana let the inferior elements of modi-
cine of all nations prey upon tho
health aud purses of our people" Re-
action would surely follow and by the
laws of natural progress the people
would appeal To the better elements
Of the profession and demand laws
for their protection.
hut such Is not the duty Of the we'll
moaning physician. We, the organ
lied profession ~ New Mexico. must
Keep pioddlns on. suffering defeat
after defeat, yet ever striving 60 bet.
ter health conditions thai Va the years
Co come New Mexico shall take her
place among her sisters In this great
commonwealth 90 states; her laws AN
object OF admiration, not OF ridiculc