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persons has been improved through dancing
But he questioned the moral effect.
Periodic examinations by physicians
would decrease operations ninety-nine per
cent. according to DIR. NJ. Lauderman' OF
Montreal who said the day would come
when governments would pay doctors
salaries to keep the public In health and
reduce the remuneration when public health
became bad.
BAD EFFECT ON MORALS
"The modern dance. with It's many
twists. wiggles, turns. curves and bends.
has lured the lanRuid woman from the soft
dlvan OF her boudoir and helped her dlges-
tion," said Doctor Foltz The dances
strengthen the muscles, joggle the spleen.
liven up the crculatory system and serve
as n cerebral stimulant. The general health
is greatly improved.
But I question IL the hygienio benefits
Offset the influence on the moals.
''The dance also serves as a leveler OF So
cial lines and distinctions" continued the
surgeon. ut creates mixed crowds, bring
ing together persons of vastly different
characters and temperaments. Some are OF
superior mental type. others inferior. but
| the lure OF the modern dance establishes
community feeling between them"
DIR. Truman Brophy, of Chicago, noted
surgeon, agreed that dancing was healthful,
| but took issue on the moral question with
Doctor Foltz.
81 believe that the modern dances fur
| nsh a most beneficial form of exercise"
| he said. "rhey bring into action all OF
| the muscles. / advise old men and elderly
women particularly, who do not get much
exercise, to do little juggling around for
| an hour or so every evening. The exer-
else will do them good and stir up their
sluggish digestive apparatus.
There is nothing immoral about these
dances. You can find immortality anywhere
IL you will look for It,"
MOVIES MENACE EYEsIGHT
Doctor Brophy said that moving pictures
Of our cities and towns are menacng the
| eyesght of the nation. Movies" and elec-
trio lights, he said, were rapidly transform
ing the United States into a nation Of
spectacled men, women and children.
Speaking of the future of medicine, he
said that the doctors of the future would
| serve simply in an advisory capacity.
I'VE will never wholly eliminate disease
and DEATH" he said. But the people will
become so well educated in preventive medi-
| cine that physicians will have TO serve only
in an advisory capacity. The problems OF
cancer and infantile paralysis will be solved.
We Will be able to trace cancer to its source
and remove the cause of the malady."
| How arms ana legs suffering from COM
pound fracture are saved in the war zone
from amputation was shown by DR.. Edward
| Martin in a series Of experiments today
at the University Hospital Prior TO the
| war, In most cases of compound fracture,
Doctor Martin said. 1t was usually Gus
tomary to amputate; but the war sur
geons have found a method Of removing
blood and tissue from between the broken
bone particles so that these particles would
mend. After they are mended, for several
days a salt solution is kept running through
the fracture. thus keeping the parts clean
and accelerating the mending process.
TUMoRs FAVOR CERTAIN FOODS
That tumors thrive on certain foods, such
as meat, vegetables and milk, was demon
strated at the theological Hospital by Dr.
Ellen White. She exhibited rats, some
OF which had been subjected to a normal
diet. such as Is given patients In hospitals
and to the Mendel-Osborne diet which con-
| sists of gelatin, lard and sugar. Under the
normal diet the tumors in the rats grew
| to great sizes. while under the Mendel-
| Osborne diet they ceased to grow. Doctor
| White said that the experiments had not
as yet been tried on human beings.
At the Methodist Hospital DIR. ]. T.
Rugh performed an operation for tuber'
culosis OF the spine. Instead Of removing
the diseased portion of the spine he placed
| piece OF healthy bone beside the diseased
section and welded them together. Under
| this treatment, he said that the diseased
portion would become healthy.
new method of blood TRANSMISSION. II
which the blood may be kept In Jars fol
two or three days. was demonstrated at th'
| Hahnemann Hospital today by DR.. s. w
sapplngton. The new type OF operation
called the citrate method. was witnessed
by many surgeons. who saw the blood of
normal man transferred from a jar into th'
veins OF an anemic girl
PROTECTS BLooD-GIvER
The new method. which obviates persona
| contact between the persons giving ant
| receiving the blood, Doctor Sappingtoi
pointed out. excludes the possibility OF tn
blood -giyer receiving any germs from tn
patient He told his hearers that II wa
possible 20 retain the blood in receptacle
for two or three days without coagulation
Thorough physical examination every nj,
months as means OF retaining health wa
urged by Doctor Laudernan. The Cana
| dian surgeon said that II man used half th'
precautions with his anatomy that he use
with the elevator In his factory, his auto
mobile or his furnace, the general healtl
of the world would be vastly improved
People would not get cancer and tuber
culosls In dangerous forms II they wer
examined at regular intervals, becaus
physical examinations would detect then
| In their very hrst stages and there woul
! be no danger OF their developing 70
serious stage" he said.
.srhe queer part about man Is that h
takes care OF mis- business hts home. hi
plant but he neglects the handspring o
| the entire works OF his body. Why is
| that man. with his efficiency In all oths
! things lets his own system got
men and women should have their res
: uiar physicians and should visit them res
: ularly as they go 70 a dentist
'srhe time Is coming when the care Z
: the national health will be taken up by N
i Government Doctors will be permitted |
. forget money. They win be put on salaris
10 keep the people well. with pay stoppIn
? when the people become sick"
vi Al the Medioo-chi Hospital DIR. ErneI
> La Place told the surgeons assembled thel
| that nffy per cent OF the deaths from oI
; | erafions were not due 10 the operation
; themselves but 20 the REPRESENTATIONS (
. in operations" ne said, carly diasnos
4 3 of the utmost importance. II we O.
conxInce Iaymen of this. We VIII cut dow
| a.. .4.o.I.< ~ fatalities An .u4ru II.u.