Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-10-06
LONGEVITY OF LIFE

means. The building in the form OF
hospital would take care OF all patients
without prohibtivc cost, the chief bur-
den falling upon the community. The
physicians could attend their poorer
patients in the hospital and minimize
the danger of death so common in
cheaper Accommodations. All public
charity could be dispensed from this
place, saving the IS per cent loss gem
orally wasted in the administration of
charity.
DR., Alexander Craig. secretary OF
the American Medical association WAS
the second speaker, and gave an in
teresting illustrated lecture on the as
ISOLATION building in Chicago. The
American association was the first to
be organized as whole for the bene-
fit of the entire country. Altho the
orga nization was started for the pur-
pose of teaching medicine In the
country. the standard of the society
later became service first and the con-
sideration of fees second. The Chica go
physician then proceeded to illustrate
the soundness of the association by
slides of the building and pointing out
in detail the development OF the re-
sources in the headquarters to the
present status. graph of one large
circle representing the national asso-
citation, surrounding three other circles.
representing three state associations
within which are smaller circles illus
trating the county societies. and finally
the small white and black circles rep
resenting the active and inactive mem
bers of each society was put before the
audience In a plain way. Tho relation
of the members. county societies and
state organizations to tho national as
ISOLATION was clearly SHOWN.
Eighty thousand doctors are mem
bers of the associau ton. declared DR..
Craig. who had slides thrown on the
screen to show tho printing of tho So
900 medical journals. The value Of the
association building to the public was
demonstrated by the showing OF the
record that prove the education and
records of every medical graduate in
the country, Extremely interesting
also werc alleged exposures OF the pat
ent medicines. the advertisements Of
the uuack doctors before and after the
passing of the pure drug act.
DIR. W. w. Grunt. in commenting on
tho cause of cancer said that there was
no absolute cause of cancer known.
but some cases OF tumors and ulcers
are known to run into cancer. Nearly
10 per cent of all men contracting can
cor arc found to have 1t in the alimen-
disease in two-thirds of cases is in the
uterus and the breast. The cancer age
for women is known to be between the
ages of IS and So years. The American
society for the prevention of cancer
was instituted In 1918. said DIR. Grant.
and already two OF Colorado's physi-
clans have given up their practice 10
confinc their study and work TO can
Ger. The tendencies uninfluenccd by
medicine and influenced by medicine in
its later stages In fatal. asserted the
authority. The life OF the disease is
from two to four years. The majority
Of the patients go sometimes a year
without the symptoms appearing to
them to be serious, and by that time
1t Is often too late. The one class of
men able to cope with the disease arc
those who have spent their lives and
money studying its course. From 60
TO 20 per cent of all stomach cancers
are the direct result of ulcers de-
velopcd In the stomach" he went on
whether hydrochloric acid or Tactic
acids are present in tho stomach must
he determined by laboratory tests.
Tho N-ray and Radium arc often used
and arc often effective. but no hope
Is given for the patient who delays the
symptoms and neglects to go before a
physician.
Little can be done without
diagnosis" declared DIR. T. A. Stoddard
of this city in the closing address. Tho
patient must be diagnosed first, and
the greatest Of skill is needed in this
procedure. Tho physical examination
OF tho patient not only requires skin
In sounding out the projections and
Weaknesses of the body. but the great-
st of obsrvancy and historical dag
nois to be sure OF the disease. lob
servance is the whole of medicine"
quoted DIR. Stoddard who stated that
one of the physicians of Pueblo was
considered one Of the best in tho
country for his ability and unerring
symptoms arc taken into considcra-
ton. and the ailment is often arrived
at by a method of elimination. A
standard of diagnosis is being work d
out by the national association for the
rurposcs Of certainty In detecting