The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-11-21
LIFE GROWS LONGER
AND STRONGER

In talk last month before body
OF surgeons and physicians one of
the Mayo brothers, who by the way
Is In the very foremost rank of sur
gerry, said among other things: "The
advance made In surgery since the.
civil war Is responsible for an addi
tionai fifteen years to the average
human life" And he added also,
that medico-therapy In it's advance
was good for another fifteen years
during the same period, This length.
ems our lease on life thirty years,
lmaking the brittle span Just that
much more elastic. But still we come
far short in measuring up with that
boy MethuseIah, spoken Of in the old
testament.
And now comes DR.. Arthur L. For
ster. NJ. ID, ID. e. OF Chicago. an admit
ted authority in the profession, and
declares in recent article that, .'for
approximately len years there has
been developing. with increasing in
sistence, feeling oil anfipathy to
drugs by the lalty and dissatisfaction
with them on tho part OF the physi-
Ecian. So strong was this sentiment
grown that 1t has given rise to many
and various schools OF healing. each
tof which has for it's object the cure
OF disease by extra-medicinal meas
ures. All possess undoubted merit,
though none can be said to have
found the one and only remedial
agent But composite OF what each
contributes furnishes weapon in the
treatment Of disease that Is far
reaching In It's power for good.
1T Ia IA fact that the medical profes-
sion itself Ii turning more and more
to physiological therapeutics. Ply
sicians have daily occasion to wit
ness the cures registered by the so
called cults, many OF them achieved
In cases pronounced incurable by
their medical attendant.
so II small wonder that they
place less reliance In drugs and re-
ira medicinal measures.
"A review OF medical literature dis
closes the startling information that
In over one hundred diseases drugs
are virtually worthless. consequently
IL IL not surprising that many have
instituted search for other meas-
ures whereby they might supply this
defiency."
Each day somebody somewhere rs
working out the problems and pre-
senting new methods and new RENE
dies to the world for consideration
The burning OF midnight oil and the
solving OF problems by these students
of science will in on way benefit hui
manity only In so far as the new
ways are accepted,
Had we been content with condi.
tons AZ they were one hundred years
ago our fastest mode OF travel over
land would be horses. A hundred
years ago II would have taken at
least six months to travel across
country from New York to San Fran
cisco. Now the distance can be made
In less than three days actual travel
ing time. Had the old methods been
satisfactory we would still be using
the old spinning wheel and the hand
loom for the manufacture OF cloth
for our clothing. The grain that fur
nishea food for the whole world
would DO threshed out with the fail.
But mankind In the majority is new
or satisfied. and as fast as n weak
ness or flaw In found in anything,
thousands are searching for more
satisfactory method and better
remedy and the waiting millions are
ready to discard the old and accept
the new upon sufficient proof.
The writer contends In all honesty
that Chiropractic is n greater factor
in the production OF health and the
proionging of life than surgery and
medicine combined and the world.
which has been impatiently waiting
Tor more satisfactory method and a
stirer remedy are leaving the old and
accepting the new.
DIR. STAFFORD. u. G. PHI. c.