New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-06
CITES TRIBUNE AS
LEADER IN REFORM
Dean V. c. Vaughan Tells
of Evils of Fake Cure
Advertisements.
GREAT ADVANCE IN
NEWSPAPERS SEEN
University of Michigan Club
Hears Dictograph Greeting
from DR.. Angel,

Or. Victor c. Vaughan. president Of
tho American Medical Association and
dean Of the medical faculty OF the Uni
vorsjty Of Michigan. speaking at the
University Of Michigan Club Of New
York nj Delmonico's last night, cited
The Tribune and its antl-patent medl-
cine policy as a leading example OF the
cleaner conditions that have come into
being in the United States.
Scientific medicine" he said. rs
rendering this country a great service:
I'm no country H. the average length OF
life greater. nor the death rate lower.
Preventive medicine measures its VIC
tories not by the numbers slain, but
by the numbers saved The death rate
from Tuberculosis has been reduced al
the rate OF 10000 a year.
"Anothcr great advance IS seen IN
the newspapers. Twenty years ago
thew printed the advertisements Of all
kinds OF quack medicines, like Peruna,
for instance. A year or two ago two
of Boston's papers printed advertise
mcnts saying: Or. Vaughan says
50 per cent Of death are prcventable.'
iona Vita will prevent these
Twenty years ago nothing could
have been done in that case. ! saw
lawyer about IT, lie said that | could
do nothing since the quotation at
trbuted to me stopped with the word
'preventable' But wrote TO The Bos-
ton Advertiser and Transcript and
those advertisements were shut out.
received letters of thanks from those
papers.
81 am glad to say that some Of the
greatest newspapers in New YORK, no
taby The Tribune. have cut out ad-
vertisements of false, fake cures:
Twenty years ago Advertisements Of
medicines containing morphine were
plentiful. especially in the religious
press. About that time there came 20
me one of the greatest preachers IN
this country. He had been made a
morphine fend by proprietary medl-
cine for Catarrh.
"He entered into contract with me
n cure or kill him. He took house
in the country. He was no weaElingg,
hut when I'd 60 70 see him he'd tall
nm his knees and beg: One more dose
of morphine I'D sell my soul Tor JUST
one more dose" he'd plead.
"In six months he went out cured OF
tho habit He became a college presl-
don't One day telegram came 10 me-
I | went 10 MIN. llC NeS 49,
MES. He was dying from cancer OF tne
stomach. yet he would not take inc
morphine the doctors wanted TO give
/ him TO relieve his pain until relieved
/ him from his oath.
His case illustrates how the van,
hires once fed on the people oil thIs
I country. But we have now come u
/ cleaner conditions OF life -,
/ Among the other speakers az inc an
ner were President Harry B. Hutchins
Of the University Of Michigan; Dear
Henry NJ. Bates. of the Law Scnoo
there; James NJ. Swift, former AttorneS
General of Massachusetts,; Judge ROD
ert F. Thompson, of Canandaigua, snC
Shirley W. Smith, secretary Of the uni
vorsIty. The invocation was given by
Charles Sumner Burch, Sun ragaI
Bishop of New York, and Kari II
During the speaking a dictaphon'
record Of greetings from former Pres
ident Angel, of Michigan, was repro
duced Then a joint message, sPoker
in turn by those at the guest table
winding up with general chorus wa
recorded. TO be taken back to Dr. An
gell bv President Hutchins.