The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-06-10
BOOZE PEDDL|NC
DOCTORS RAPED
Address Pueblo Physician
Before the Boston
Convention
Holds Vendors of LiquorBy
Prescriptions Social
Menace
ASSOCIATED Press DISPATCH

prescriber of alcohol licensed as a
physician, but whose ethical sense
would degrade bartender, the per-
functory prescriber for fee, the
vender of habit forming drugs-all
are educated criminals, a social men
ace, but posing as physicians. DR..
Hubert Work, of Pueblo, Colo, Pres
ident, told the American Medical As
ISOLATION convention here yesterday.
These physicians are tolerated by
the public, he continued, because OF
the integrity, efficiency and self
abnegation of a majority OF medical
men so great that these derelicts al
most escape notice.
81 sometimes fear that We regard
ourselves as dictators in medical
matters, when in reality we merely
meet the demands of the public. We
should remember that numerically
we are as one in 500 among the peo-
pie and that our calling has already
been granted many privileges, some
OF which are being betrayed.
physicians are indifferent to
quackery as competitor in all its
phases. Charlatans have no place in
rational medicine. They are adven-
turers, supported by people who
court deception for the excitement
of il, and who are lured by the my
Steries of ignorance.
Believe Crisis Threatens
"Thoughtful men believe that
crisis threatens established princi-
pies. and that physicians must now
earnestly address themselves to the
prevention of disease and disability
as the primary concept of medicine,
safeguarding its principles, lest the
profession lose its esprit de corps.
and its place in public esteem. If its
members become piece workers, it
essential economic factor in the pre-
servation of the national wealth, be-
cause Of depreciating national
health. Our medical outlook must
then be based on public welfare; and
the functions Of the physician should
be not only to treat, but also to pre-
vent disease in the families under
his care, and in the community OF
which he is a part.
Years ago the general practitioner
conceived his duty to be that of a
healer only. He regarded disease as
inevitable, If not indeed provldential.
Later he advised his clientele how to
avoid 1t. Both of these functions he
continues to exercise; but new
field presents ITSELF medical men
must now combat disease in the mass.
Within recent years our lay press has
indicated a welcome interest in mat
tiers pertaining to public health.
Our people regard it in new
light as a virile. organized force,
quite Independent Of the sick cham,
Der or hospital environment. They
see in the practice of medicine the
possible application of civil morals by
those skilled in healing-and more,
They now urge that 1t must include
the larger field of civic service for
those who are we'll; for social morals
should protect against disease, as
we'll as cure it, and business thrift
has come to recognize medicine as an
essential in public policy.
"The practice Of medicine demon
ates some men to the exclusion Of
many things that broaden and sweet
en- life. To boast of no knowledge
outside a specially, to smother inter-
est in cultural arts or collateral
>tinction between men and animals,
It to invite professional deterioration
and exclusion from the highest con-
cepts Of the profession.
mo thought is entertained of min
linking the importance of individual
rather to deprecate the tendency to
attract attention to them to neglect
of the larger things in medicine, so
necessary to retain public confidence
in our profession, and to secure CO.
operation Of physicians instead of
their dissertation. now threatened.
largely through special societies,
which is tending to obscure medicine
as a national asset.
City Now Rears Healthy Children
1.-The city now rears the healthiest
children, and schools them better, Of
fering conveniences and attractions,
not be found on the farm CONSOLIDATE
ed community schools have already
come, and with them must come
health of rural jewellers, or we shall
very soon be compelled to pay famine
prices for our food, and the source OF
virile men shall fail.
"An economist of health with gov
ernmental prerogatives. IN an acute
need for this nation, for the print
tive purpose Of producing our own
for trade exchange.
Clearly the state, or some unit OF
government, should contribute to in
stall at convenient points the hous-
ing and apparatus necessary to medi-
cal precision, making 1t available to
the poorest; but beyond that an or
ganized government should not go.
clan and patient must be preserved
where It exists, and restored where
lost, if we would give our best aid,
and avoid whole time state service.
with its attendant commercialising
Of the profession of medicine, and
the stressing of trade features
disqualification First Thought
disqualification Is now the first
thought for the sick, partly for pro-
fessional, chiefly for economic rea-
sons. We would have the laity taught
to see the future hospital as a So
Geologic institution, a place of refuge
accessible to the well for prophylac-
tic advice, and to the sick for their
unrestricted use, instead of retreat
accessible, only to those able to pay,
operated primarily for profit, and
not available to all.
1.-The multiplying offspring of those
who mature in body but not in mind,
and so are always children mentally,
Nare making themselves felt in bulk
as unstable young women, governed
only by thoughts of sex attraction,
creatures of day, to perish through
exposure; but in the criminal acts of
youth, committed by boys incapable
of earning a living by. approved
methods. These constitute the men