Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-08
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PREVENTIVE
MEDICTNE

ne time vii Genre NHen the duty I
81 doctors viii be 70 keep people IN
good health, instead Of curing the
after they have become Ill. T
doctors vii receive a salary Tor d
ing this. and re poor as well as Z.
rich viii receive proper medica
treatment. Prompt medical attention
viii usually foreslall serious results;
but the fear o. an enormous d3Ctor'-
bill nov keeps most people from con
sulting medical aid When doctors
are paid to keep people well, and
their jobs depend upon how veil they
perform their duties, there Hiil be
less sickness, and people will be more
likely to attain the allotted three
score and ten.
Progress in Preventive Mo.dciRe.
Springfield lll.-Dr. Isaac D. RaWl-
ings, state director Of public health,
recently issued The following state
nent relative 10 the care Of adults.
The department Of public health II
teaching, preaching and urging Inc
financial benefit Of the individual h.
Keeping Well and Keeping Fit
through an annual physical eAamina-
ton. This is the field of preventive
medicine where most good can be
done towards the prevention 81 neaft,
kidney and other of the large group
of degenerative diseases that NOW
cause death in such a large number Of
our adult population. Il is q matter
of education.
The dental profession started q
number of years ago to urge the
great value financially and otherwise
of each individual having an examina-
ton of his teeth two or four times
annually. The result has been that
the practice of dentistry is largely
changed. Whereas much OF the form
er work was extraction ant plate
making, the dentist now gets chance
at the teeth in time to preserve them
through Filings and usually at a tine
when work can be done without pain
or expense to the patient.
The practice of medicine in q few
years, by the same educational pro-
paganda can become more truly pre-
yentiye through a periodic annual,
thorough physical examination, and
the discovery Of threatening breaks in
the human machine at a period suffi-
ciently early to permit repairs or
corrections before the individual is
put out of commission at great fihan-
cial loss
IN other words let US proclaim
for the adult the slogan similar to
the one we have used so long ard
so very effectively for the infant.
Keep the adult well by an annual
| physical examination can become an
effective slogan which in few years
WI revolutionize the practice .5 the
general practitioner by making it
largely preventive rather than cara-
tive medicine.
Through provision for adult ply
steal examinations at the Illinois state
! fair, the pageant of progress, the
Central States Fair at Aurora, az
| the Kankakee county fair, total of
| 100 adults were examined by the
state department of public health.
| These somewhat superficial eXamina-
tions consisted of weighing, measur-
! ing, making test of muscular power
i'm the arm and forea a. examining
the blood for anemia .haemoglobin
test) and taking blood pressure. The
findings were interpreted by an eX-
! pert and the person concerned given
advice in right living or If the eN-
animation showed anything wrong,
he was told to see his physician for
a complete examination and treat
ment. Each person, however. was in
formed of the desirability Of watca-
ing his health and to this end was
urged to have a physical examination
annually--by his physician"
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