University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-01-06
What Is Required in One Who Would Cure
and Prevent Disease--Talks by
Faculty Members.

| been connected with this kind of work.
IL affords excellent training for other
lines. Most persons who take it up
take up some other line after getting
! experience in this"
Doctor Noyes said that the opportu-
mites for any doctor to become veal
| thy were not fiattering.
A doctor can make a good, COM
Portable living" he said. But as for
his making milliOns-well, few ever
do il. But on the other hand the doc
tor does have an opportunity of being
a powerful influence in the progress
of society There are temptations
which come to young doctor to
abuse his profession because he can
make a great deal of money by doing
that, but the. kind of man that allows
that temptation to overcome him will
ne"er be anything. He cannot yield to
it once and still be the same.
And along that same line, doctor
must be man of strong moral char
acter. He must be able to stand for
principle when it looks like things
are against him. If man has a vel
low streak in him it will come out.
That kind of man cannot succeed
in medicine
In regard to nursing as a vocation
fpr
a teacher in the training school for
nurses said that the development OF
nursing was making an increase in the
demand for nurses. The qualities that
a young woman should have to con-
slider being nurse. Mrs. Smith said,
are good health, thorough education
and high character
IF two girls come to me and ask
my advice about becoming nurses"
said Mrs. Smith, Il ask them straight
out: What makes you want to be
nurses Perhaps one answers: Well,
| have to do something. 1t seems to
me that nursing should be pretty
good work. | believe that | can do
it. and it pays pretty WELL The other
may reply: oh, | think it is the
most noble work that woman can do.
| think that nursing is such a noble
work | would choose the first one
every time. The girls that become
nurses because they think nursing is
such noble work are the ones that
are through with it as soon as they
have some work to do or strike some
thing that they do not like.
Character cannot be over-emphasiz-
ed in nurses. | do not refer to her
church affiliations, but she must have
high principles. | should not say that
personality makes nurse, but an at
tractive personality is a quality that
will help her. That is true in almost
any work. A gentle voice will be a
valuable asset. A girl may have traits
of character that will be an aid or a
hindrance to her i'm becoming a nurse,
but in no sense do believe that nurses
are born. They are made, trained and
educated. And now they must be well
educated, too.
In regard to the preventive side of
nursing, Mrs. Smith said:
IF woman is to fulfill her duty /
as a nurse, she must turn her ener-
gies not alone to cure but to preven- /
ton, and this means that the nurse is .
to no small extent the teacher of the .
future. 1t is a glorious thing to re-
lieve pain and give comfort In this /
respect the nurse will never find her
occupation gone. Her field is to teach .
people how to live in order to avoid |
the ills which flesh is heir to. and, .
in certain extent, to disinherit the /
flesh of these ills. She carries to peo-
pie the gospel of cleanliness, the gos-
pei of pure air and water and the gos-
pei of the toothbrush
Mrs. Smith said that great deal
of work along the lines of hygiene and /.
public health was being done by nurs- /
es in the cities. They have an i'm
portant part in the popular campaign
to eliminate sickness by teaching the
people how to keep well. B.