The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-11-14
MAJOR BOARD AD-
DRESSES K. N. A.
Rebukes Local Physicians For
Not Giving Their Services To
The National Army.

The following address was delivered
by Major Milton Borad of Camp Zach
airy Taylor at the first general session OF
the sixty.seventh annual meeting of the
Kentucky Medical Association which
convened in Louisville, 10.
The retiring president, DR.. Board,
made his address brief, but it contai ed
a rebuke to some of the local medical
men, whose services, the speaker claim-
ed, are needed in the army lie said in
part:
Modern warfare requires trained
medical officers and as there were few
in the regular service, enlistments were
asked for to the number of approximate
ly $4,000; Kentucky's part of this quota
was about 500, and of this number about
90 per cent, have received commissions
or applied for them. A goodly number
of Kentucky doctors have accepted COM
missions and have been assigned to duty
at great personal sacrifice, large num-
Der Of others, men of ability, men of
means, men of little or no responsibility,
have thus far withheld their service
from country so badly i'll need Of same.
/ deeply regret this situation and the
necessity for calling attention to it, but
my friends, have never been ambigu-
Gus, either by nature or from practice. |
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run true to form if failed here and now
officially and personally, to call attention
to this situation. | have seen distin.
gushed professor from Chicago, man
approaching sixty years of age, of indie
pendent means, of large practice, i'll fact
one of the most prominent specialists
and teachers OF America, exposing him.
self to a cold at Camp Taylor, day after
day and week after week examining
soldiers with diseased eyes and defective
vision, perhaps the most important med
ical work to be i'll preparing the new
army, but have not seen any Louisville
eye specialist out there Yes, | have
seen one whom we all love, past the
meridiah of life, in feeble health, not
physically able to serve his country, and
yet giving upon numerous occasions his
encouragement and support | refer to
DR.. J. NJ. Ray.
There are other prom nent eye, ear
and throat doc ors there from Chicago, |
Michigan, Iowa and other points, but
thus far Kentucky specialists i'll these
lines have failed to show up at Camp !,
Taylor. The chief operating surgeon
out there is Kentuckian, soon to sue
coed me in this chair; his two assistants
are KentuCkians, as is the chief of head
surgery. The head Of the genito urinary
department is a Keutuckian am with
my two assistants, one of them Ken
tuckian, trying to look after the neuro-
department; but when a SEN
or medical officer WAS needed at the
base hospital the commanding officer
vas compelled to go again to Chicago
% the Rush Medical College to get him
because none Of the distinguished inter-
lists of the city OF Louisville had volun
ecrtd his service. My friend this war
yill not be over i'll few months. We
ire not fighting Spain We are to EN- {
gage in the most titanic struggle i'll the
history of this government, and appeal t
o the medical men of Kentucky to mea +
ure up to the traditions Of the Common
wealth and acquit themselves like men .
o the born Stacker. my remarks will be
| invite their criticism; but
hose who have not given due considera-
ion to the situation, | hope not to offend !,
ut to arouse to deep sense of their OBJ
igation. louisville Post.