New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-06
Also Tells Medical Associa-
ton Cabinet Should Have
Physician Member
Lauds American Nurse
Declares She Is Best in World
and Makes Best Wife
and Mother

DR.. Charles H. Mayo, the noted sur
geon of Rochester. Mimi. who was in
stalled last night at the Waldorf
Astoria as president of the American
Medical Association now in session.
made a strong plea to his brother ply
sicans to do all in their power to
bring about absolute prohibition as a
war measure.
Also he urged that the United States
should, as soon as convenient, have
medical officer in the Cabinet of the
has now assumed an importance such
as il never had before. Dr. Mayo said
in part:
eve must aid in all that will ele
waite the general standard Of, and con-
serve, the American citizen. Prohibi-
tion is a war measure the value of
which is beyond discussion. Medicine
has reached a period when alcohol Is
rarely employed as drug, being dis
placed by better remedies. Alcohols
only place now is in the arts and
science National prohibition would be
welcomed by the medical profession.
"The benefit to our country after the
present war in having some thousands
| of medical officers trained in santa
ton, hygiene and the prevention OF
disease will be incalculable. Through
lax examinations of recruits and the
natural effects of prolonged life and
I overcrowding in trenches and under
ground structures, tuberculosis VIII
become a menace to our soldiers, as 1T
is to-day in France.
Praises Army Surgeons
at is most fortunate that our army
medical service is in the hands of three
of our ablest men, Surgeons General
Gorgas, BREASTED and Blue, and we
must laud the work Of the general
medical council under the able direc-
torship of DR.. Franklin Martin.
Medical men, your country needs
you now and always. You must re-
member that the state is permanent
and does not exist for the good Of the
| individual but that the individual
exists for the good of the state"
Dr.. Mayo was loudly applauded when
he said with deliberation that medical
science had at last become nearly an
exact science. With the enormous OPP
portunities offered them by caring for
the sick and wounded on a gigantic
scale the medical men engaged IN TINS
war had made marvellous advancement
in methods and treatment.
The American medical man, he said,
stood high in the field Of discovery and
invention. but the regrettable feature
! of it all was that his creations received
little appreciation until they had been
taken up and Endorsed by the Teutons
and sent back TO America bearing the
mark "made in Germany"
american Nurses Best in World"
In conclusion, DR.. Mayo bestowed
high praise upon the American trained
nurse, whom he described as the most
efficient in the world, and the best
equipped by training and temperament
TO care for the sick and wounded. He
was loudly applauded when he said that
the American trained nurse, by the
very nature of her vocation and prep
aration, made the best wife and mother
in the world.
The meeting was called 10 order by
Surgeon General Rupert Blue, the re-
firing president Bishop Charles s.
Burch pronounced the invocation. An
address of welcome was delivered by
Dr. Alexander Lambert, president of
the Medical Society of the State Of New
York
Emotional education. so prevalent IN
this country due to the humanitarian
idea instilled into the minds Of chill
drcn, was severely attacked yesterday
by DR.. Charles w. Burr, of Philadelphia,
who lectured before the American Acad-
envy of Medicine at the Hotel Blltmore
on the subject of Insanity"
Teaching American boys to love Grip
pies, he declared, was likely to bring
them ultimately TO love degenerates in
stead Of good strong girls. Increase in
degeneracy, he said, was due largely TO
the fact that every degenerate child who
is born is carefully preserved, condi-
ton so unlike the ages of the past,
when degenerates and physical weak
lings were allowed to die if not actu-
ally killed.
DR.. Burr expressed no sympathy for
birth control, declaring that 1t could
not do the nation any good