The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-20
SAYS MEDICAL MEN
SHOULD Use POWER
DR.. Edwin c. Register Elected
President of the Editors
Association.
BANQUET ENDS SESSIONS

The forty-sixth annual meeting Of
the American Medical Editors Associa-
ton. which began Monday at the Hotel
McAlpin, closed last night with the an
nual banquet.
DR.. II. Edwin Lewis. president. In his
address TO the several hundred physi-
clans and medical editors said the med
zeal men OF the United States do not
realize their power in the body polite
of the body social In other words, they
are oblivious TO the force they are In
their communities and the influence they
could and should-wleld In the solution
OF countless problems of the utmost i'm
portance to the people. lie added that
tho solid, substantial medical publica-
lions Of the country have opportunities
such as they have mover known before
and that If they arise TO the situation
and prove true to the trust now I'M
posed In them there is no limit to the
service they can give to the American
practitioner OF medicine and through
him to all humanity.
It the conclusion OF Yesterdays ses-
sion DR.. Edwin g. Register uf Charlotte,
n. G.. editor OF the Mcdicdt Journal. was
elected president Or. ". \. Jones Of
Minneapolis, first vlcc-president Or. g..
NJ. Piersal OF Philadelphia. second vice.
president. and Or. J. Macdonald. Jr., OF
New York. secretary ~ treasurer.
Intervening t,ltara Nl.ra rand Ia IN
number of physicians. Or. John j. A.
O'l.cilly OF Brooklyn addressed the mem
bcrs on The Problem of the Medical
Expert Witness" He said
The problem of the medical expert
witness is the personal equation, and
the solution OF that problem is not to be
found In the statutes of the State or ma
ton OF in the codes of ethics of medi-
cue or law, but in the application of
the square deal as between himself and
his nelghbor. either bccause he is by
nature just or because the exposure OF
his injustice puts an end to his practice
of distortiug medical truths"
DR.. Il. J. Roller had for his topic
THE Possibilities of "A New Speciality
lie aid Il am sure that If ii greater
number OF ethical men We're oxpertly
trained to practise privately the proven
ton of disease, instead OF an inconsider-
able reduction In conEcnital mortality
and "A rapidly increasing derenerative
mortality, enormous reduction in the
death rate from those two most potent
causes don would Immediately result.
our profession has been dealing pri-
vately almost entirely with the effects
instead OF the causes of disease. We
have been Questioning ourselves and
doing our iightiuS at the grave instead
of by the iircside and the cradle. Men
are taught with endless detail the treat
ment OF buhonic plague. when they don't
know the therapeutics OF "a bath. They
learn the management of a face presen-
tation when they don't know how to eN-
ercise an cxpectant mother. They study
the e~Nt!rpation or a Gasserian gdnglion
and overlook tAe utility of u toothbrush.
They kno how To do a castro intes-
final anaStomos.s. but they don't know
! the chemistry of foods, the psychology
Of worry or the way TO exercise.
The people are right. They dom
want us TO deal with the cause and not
10 rcmoyc that cause after Il has once
become effective. but to antedatc that
cause n make it ineffective. That's
the province of a new Speciality
other speakers We're Dr. II. Edwin
Lewis, ed!tor OF american Ncdicirc: pr.
L. e. REGISTER. editor OF the Charlotte
Medical journal pr Ira :. VILE. editor
90 the RCri'W Of RcriCiCS; pr. james +.
Warbasse, special editor ~ tn" ImCri-
can journal OF Nlur1c,g; Dr. Ernest :
| RiShop. professor OF clinical medicine,
New York polyclir.r; pr. samuel +.
riothcys, Or. Anthony Bassl-r, Dr. illr-
old Hays, Or William GEORGE Russell,
| s. pc Witt Clough Of chicago. Dr. John
W. Wainwright, Dr. g. l.. TAYLOR, pr.
i. \. Jockardy and pr. L. T., Stewart.