Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-06-07
MAYO DERlDES FETISH
OF GERMAN MEDICINE

America have not been accepted here
until they have been appropriated by
Teutons and returned to US with the
stamp Made in Germany"
In these words DR.. Charles II.
Mayo, one OF the famous Rochester
(Minn.) brothers and president Of the
American Medical association, at
tackled the fetish of German medical
supremacy here tonight.
He was heard and applauded by a
distinguished audience of thousands
OF leading American physicians and
surgeons attending the sixty-eighth
annual meeting of the association
here.
Il In the course of a long and COM
prehensiye address, Mr.. Mayo urged
the creation OF medical cabinet Of
aeer, declared national prohibition
would be welcomed by the medical
profession, praised DR.. Abraham Flex-
ners proposal for simplifying and
shortening preparatory school train
ing and discussed at length the
United States army's contribution to
medicine.
After listing great American in.
ventions, DR.. Mayo said:
OF bring up these things here be-
cause the great medical profession Of
this country has not stood as a
united body for that which is Amer
lean In medicine. Many, while abroad,
have apologized for medical condi-
tions at home, and for personl ad-
yancement have often written about
and discussed as remarkable Euro
pean discoveries that are trivial"
He then made the remark on Amer
lean discoveries stamped Made In
Germany" and continued:
"Our country has done much for
the advancement of the medical pro-
fession through the enactment Of just
laws requiring standards OF educa-
ton. Through the efforts OF the COM
mittee on medical education, OF which
DIR. Arthur D. Bevan is chairman, our
profession has largely aided in the
Standardization Of midical colleges
Through the work of this board, many
OF the inefficient medical colleges
have been forced to close, to the great
ultimate good of medical science anC
OF the people served by their gradu
ates.
THE added requirements of pre-
liminary education and increased
ycsJv Of medical study were so great
however, with the elimination of 4
per cent of the colleges, and the year
of study more than doubled, we hav
little more than one-third as man
students of medicine now as in 1906
Fewer doctors, better trained nurse
to take some Of their work, bette
educated people. and preventive med
cine to reduce sickness maintain a
even balance, however.
Now will come a hysterical d.
mand TO lower the bars OF educationa
medical requirements under pretext c
the necessity of war. II must not b
permitted. II ever we need educate
LHeu ~ 10 uO"
ITO our credit 1t may be said thf
today our graduates in medicine b
education and training are equal
those Of any country and better tina
those OF most countries of the worl
whereas a hundred years ago tn
educated man could acquire the bull
Of all that was known, 1t Is now cor
monty recognized that the world
more general an education n man +
ceives the more hampered he ma
be, unless he Is also highly educate
along some particular line. There Al
specialists in every line OF human e
deavor, the educator, the profession
man, the business man, the farm
and the laborer.
'"Flexner Is right in his effort
bring about n change in the preva
ing system of education, founded |
II was In the monks period of Il
worlds progress. II Is proper to a
tust education to mans Requirement
anu uSCthblNlcb VI NOuhys HiNoN
some Of the preparatory schools ha'
started q propaganda against even Il
trying out Of experimental changes
educational forms. The graduatir
age Of twenty nine in medicine is fo'
years too late, as the most productI'
and ideal period OF thought Is ther
by limited to too short time.
The graduates best work must
accomplished In the next fifteen year
wren his brain cells are most enc
Eitic and receptive. 1t is well to r
member that death overtakes q
average physician at the age OF flft
eight. The intellectual man an
woman marry late or not at ali. ar
the resulting birth rate does not e
coed oneJtiird Of their original nur
Der.
"In order that the physician ma
be graduated at the age of twent.
ave, his vocation should be chosen !
the seventh year of school life In o
der that special lines of study may b
begun, and the eighth grade, the wor