The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-02-18
MEDICAL !!
ENFORCEMENT

Within the past few years props
gAnda in behalf OF enforced medics
inspection and medical control OF
tAe people has assumed such propol
tons and developed such arrogan
disrega : OF personal rights. as (
call forth protest from even thos
who believe in medical practice.
case Il point is tho following editor
ial IN the San Francisco Chronicle: =
Peal for the protection OF tho
rHbiio health Is spreading at a
predigfous rate. and people are
astonished and shocked 60 learn
that 60 where they may and do
what they may they cannot es-
cape the rfsk OF deadly disease.
Tho friends hand which you so
cordially shake when you meet
him may Just have left n strap OF
an overcrowdsd streetcar. from
which II conveys 90 you tho
germs OF all known commune
able diseases. There Ia no bet
ter means OF assuring a universal
commlnglng than tho support OF
a street-car strap hanger.
Apparently. tho only real as
snrance against contagion In tho
permanent isolation OF every
BODY. or. AS an alternative meas
ure. ths laws may require that n
fumigr ing closet be constructed
I'm ench building. wherein every
holy ah.ri fumignte himself be-
fore meeting ANYBODY else. tho
DOCTOR only being allowed to-
roam ~ larh.
GOOD many AFRO considering
wh,'her q "a all worth while.
WIZ ehould ono wish Co 1.-Two if I'm
ord 10 do 30 one must omit all
that makes life worth living
Some arc coming TO think that
the fear OF disease will do moro
q shorten life than tho diseases
themselves.
For years the medical profcs-
sion has protested against tho
minute detailing OF symptoms in
patent medicine advertisements
M calculated 10 Induce disease
I'm healthy persons who read
them-if healthy persons do read
them. But never in the worst
DAYS OF soul narrowing medical
advertisements was there so muck
20 terrify as In the common
very-day reports OF meetings OF
boards OF health aud medical
conventions.
II would seem that the more
one knows the more miserable he
must be.
This so-called hea1th propaganda
has used the fear q cLaoase as III
chief weapon, and has tone much
harm by instilling this fear into thu
minds OF people who have beer
taught to accept a. hnal and not "a
be questioned the verdict OF ply
either individually or collec
lively. We DO not mean by this that
all physicians have INDUCED in this
psactice OF frightening the people.
but their spokesmen. whether self
appointed or not, seem TO have given
this impression with the sanction and
tho approval OF both local and ma
tfonal medical societies The wrong
that " being done IN this way is
more far-reaching than Is generally
and II Is time that some
thing more than mere sarcastic pro
test on the part OF q few newspapers
should be depended upon 10 turn back
the tide OF medical encreachment
In the mean time the public should
realize that enforced medical inspec
ton has passed TO such a stage that
IL 10 now being followed by 9 demand
for enforced medical treatment. In
view OF this threatened aerogation Of
Individual Rights. il seems pertinent
10 inquire into the supposed infallibn-
ny OF medical practice. When We DO
MS We End that leading physicians
are admitting that practically half OF
hospital diagnoses are wrong, that
many diseases are considered incur
able By any means known TO medical
practice, and Enthusiastically at
sast-sfter medicine has failed even
70 relieve these so-called "incurabls''
diseases the patients have. despite
medical pronoUn cement. regained nor
nal health.
Certainly such facts as these do
act justify the public IN putting it's
rights and it's liberties so unreserved-
" IN the hands 81 the medical pro-
tession as is demanded by it's spokes-
men, especially since the history OF
he practice OF medicine Is very large
y that OF loudly heralded certainties
which within a very few years, and
,omstimes within few moHths, have
proved to be nothing more than IN
.uccessful experiments The prao-
ice OF medicine. and even the pro-
'essional theories in relation 20 the
cause and nature or disease, are not
he same TODAY as they we're but 4
'ew years sgo. and unless the history
1f medical preetice IN the future diff
'ers radically from what II has been
y the past, he practice and theories
u today will soon be discarded for
Still other beliefs and practices.
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