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effective These premises are as apple
cable to the individual Institution as they
are to the single human organism.
The above quoted pa agraph from my
Chicago address contains the very kernel
OF the modern conception of medical SCI
ence and art, and intelligently compre-
hcnded constitutes medical knowledge,
the applicability OF which to the treat
ment OF disease and for the restoration
OF the health OF the patient Is entirely
dependent upon the skill with which Il Is
employed, so as to get satisfactory re-
suits. As stated by me in another med
teal paper; What people need to enable
them TO maintain health and efficiency
and to successfully react to the exciting
causes OF disease, is knowledge, education
and guidance, as well as the administra-
ton of chemo, vaccine and sero-therapy
when these adjuvants are indicated. All
knowledge is so related that to compre-
bend one branch one must know some
thing OF all branches. Especially Is this
true OF the fundamentals of medical SCI
ence, Psychology, sociology, philosophy.
hysiology. anatomy, ZOOLOGY. chemistry,
hacterlology geology, physics, astronomy
and biology. In fact. all OF these studies
are included IN the last named term, thus
giving us a biological psychology. Where
one OF these studies leaves off, the other
begins, and In comprehending either OF
these branches one has drifted into the
others before he is aware of 1t. These
are the biological sciences, and upon
| ones knowledge of these fundamental
branches are his philosophic. scientific.
! psychologist, or practical conceptions OF
| life grounded. They are one and the
same thing. l. e.. knowledge. the worth
| of which In the successful practice OF
medicine. together with his technical
laboratory branches, must be determined
by Individual experience. It is vsritably
the man behind the gum that counts.
| As further supporting my contentious
for broad conception OF medical science.
or OF scientific probationary. or OF mod
ern psychiatry and neurology. or OF
rational clinical medicine, which are
practically one and the same thing, and
OF the necessity OF the employment OF
special scientific teohnio az adapted to
the needs Of the diseased individual,
DIR. T.. L. Southland of the Harvard Med
teal School. truly says: zone Of the great
est difficulties In the American system
has been that Neurology has been re-
garded as somehow foreign to internal
medicine In Germany and England the
| Neurologist Is an internist, and II called
on to diagnose pain incidentally. he at
least knows whether 1t is a case of rheu-
matism or stomach trouble. American
Nourologists arc rather proud OF their
ignorance OF internal medicine. On the
other hand, the American internists are
often proud OF their ignorance Of Nervous
and Mental diseases. think Phychiatry
viii increase in Importance because it
will take many more decades for intern
lists TO get the social point of view. When
consideration OF the individual in his rela-
ton TO society obtains. psychiatry will
disappear because every body will be a
psychlatrist Jour. A. NJ. A. Nov. l4th.)
Thus we see the death knell Of the ex-
cessive specialization OF the present time.
where only symptoms or end results are
treated. while the real problem OF the
individual is being neglected. This 10
only tolerated by an easily gullible pub
lie because they DO not know any better
II should be our business to let the peo-
pie know that we are capable of render
Ing them a far greater and more efficient
service than that of treating merely
symptoms. or end results, or of simply
treating the patient in spots. such az
eyes, nose, ears. throat. heart, liver
stomach. blood vessels and other sepa :
rate organs. instead OF detecting and re-
moving the cause, be II indigenous or
exogenous, ARCHAEOLOGICAL. occupationai
dietetic, social. chemical. physical or psy-
Geological, such as may be responsible
for the symptoms. or Of the local mani
festations OF disease.
! 1t is in such measures that the cancer,
, rheumatism" tuberculosis, Brights dis
ease, as we'll as pellagra. inetflciency
and so-called insanity problem. and the
entire problem OF the diseased individual
. under whatever designation, will look to
: for efficient help from the medical pro
5 fession, as soon as the people become
, aware OF the Incompatible value OF such
professional service. and physicians are
} qualified 60 so assist thsn.
Such methods not only have the en-
q dorsement of the more intelligent scIen-
tific physicians and institutions of the
entire world. but they give POSITIVE
3 RESULTS FOR MY PATIENTS, in COM
. parison with which the various methods
: most generally used. except by most OF
$ those who treat children's diseases, arc
a fraud and a farce, because they do not
: conserve the welfare OF those seeking
/ aid.
a With every patient with sufficient in.
: teligence TO follow the regime outlined
: for his or her restoration, save one case
g OF local abcess where surgery was es.
h sential. a positive curative result has
}. been obtained by me. for more than fiv,
: years. I'm my practice in the city OF
o Omaha, while approximately 5000 human
= lives have been sacrificed on the ALTA
= OF Ignorance. the majority of which could
4 have been saved by the employment OF
e the more advanced methods Of scientifi,
i medicine.
> In reference TO the reaction Of the nerv
: GUS Organism to the stimuli OF education
or OF environment, a well known physl
= clan OF Edinburgh truly remarks: IF W,
!. contrast an ordinary developing chill,
- with one which is backward. we will Otter
= notice that 1t is in Initiative that the lat
= ter is primarily and fundamentally lack
= ing, II is not so much that he has not ,
brain as that he objects TO use IT, Where
as the healthy child will constantly, o
: his own accord, seek out new problems
:, and attempt zealously TO master them
the defective child can only be induce,
to do so by extremely tactful handlini