The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-05
CAIRO DOCTOR
CALLS MEDICAL
ADVS. QUACKERY
Says Man Who Tells Truth
Is Crowded out of the
Newspapers.
DR.. WICHTERCH LUNDS
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
S. E. Mo. Medics Open Conclave
by Hospital Inspection
and Smoker.

sells of the Southeast Missouri Medi-
cal Association at the outset of its
fortieth annual convention. The ply
stefan whose names appears in print
was branded quack, and newspapers
were attacked as independable.
DR.. w. F. Grinstead of Cairo, who
spoke in response to a welcome adj
dress delivered by DR.. r. F. Wichte
rich of the Cape, declared that "the
man who tells the truth is crowded
out of the newspapers by the quacks,
whose business it is to persue a bunco
game with the public"
THE ethical, honorable man cannot
depend on what newspapers say any
more. The quacks fill their columns"
he declared.
DR.. Wichterich had opened the sub
ject of the newspaper and the doctor
in his address by saying that ethical
physicians must listen silently to the
criticism of the newspapers and the
braying of the quaclis.
Twenty-six doctors from Southeast
Missouri attended the first session of
| the convention, which was held in the
Commercial Club rooms and was in
the nature Of a smoker given by the
Cape County Medical Association.
The physicians yesterday afternoon
visited st. Francis Hospital and IN
spected its entire equipment.
Today and tomorrow their time will
be engaged in scientific discussions
and papers bearing on medical sub
iects delivered by men prominent in
the profession in this part Of the State
and from ST. Louis.
The session last night was presided
over by DR.. J. H. Timberman of
Marston. In his address of welcome,
DR.. Wichtcrich said as follows:
"Our County society is possessed of
splendid body of men whose minds
ere clear and pure, which places them
in harmony with the ethics of the
American Medical Association Their
hearts are big, warm, inviting, in SYM
rathy with their fellow man, and beat
ing in unison with outstretched hands
they bid you a hearty welcome to par
take of their hospitality.
eve feel hOnored and congratulate
ourselves in having such men as you
as our guests, who typify ideal medi-
cal ethics, which will make our asso-
citation here congenial, beneficial and
edifying.
medical organization is the stimu-
lous through which all great medical
achievements have come. All great
medical scientists are enthusiastic sup
Iporters of medical organization, the
foundation of which IS ethics; but
there is no record of any quack or
advertising doctor ever having been
able to give anything to progressive
medicine.
"This accounts for the tactics they
persue They know they are not able
to cone morally and Intellectually with
the ethical physician. The greatest
blessing to humanity that ever ami
mated from the brain of man comes
from the self sacrificing true ethical
physician.
when their ideas have been put
into practice. they have saved millions
of lives and this without compensation
and in a great many instances when
their life's work has ended, and they
have passed beyond the great divide,
they have left their families DEEPEN
dent. Yet there are few who know
the names and works of these men.
They are not praised, applauded, per-
petuated in history, or monuments
erected to their memory.
with all this ingratitude there is
no science that has progressed like
medicine. and the reward we look to
is a satisfied conscience and a good,
Just, loving God.
eve know much of the history of
the Southeast Missouri Medical Asso-
citation. We know its members are
possessed of the best element of the
medical profession. We know that its
members qualifications in their re-
spective branches are the equal of any
in the State. We know there is less
quackery in the district that comprises
this organization than any in the
State. We know your accomplish
ments along the lines of medical sci
ence and ethics, which have not only
acted for your benefit but likewise for
every man, woman and child in the