Milford chronicle., 1926-10-29

What of Bright's disease and the
heart diseases? ? What of the nephrit-
ides and the cirrhesis? What of the
pneumonias? These Affections still
destroy more lives than all other
types of morbidity, although the
eradication of the focal infection
will go far to prevent many of these
conditions. But it remains for us to
apply our knowledge in support of a
method whereby the man of middle
life may be Over-hauled, his infirmi-
ties anticipated, and his incipient
diseases recognized, to the end that
he may not only live out the antici-
pated span of life, but may live to a
very old age.
We have ignored the tremendous
Importance of the periodic and thor
ough physical examination of our
selves.
So the slogan is, have thorough
medical examination on your birth
day. 1t is surprising the lack of care
we give our bodies and the lack of
intelligence we sometimes display in
choosing persons to care for the
delicate machinery of this most won
derful of all mechanism, the human
body, which is the temple of the i'm
mortal soul. What would you think
of a man who would entrust the
many intricate things that go wrong
in the engine of a motor car to
person who would profess to remedy
anything that was wrong with it by
rubbing it on the outside.
Still persons who profess to be in
telligent, and who really are in other
decisions of life, will some times
leave the care of the treatment of the
disease of their bodies to most in
competent individuals who make
great pretense and propose to cure
the most complicated diseases by ad-
justing the spine, rubbing on the
outside, or reading out of a book and
telling people that the disease that
they are suffering and dying from
does not exist.
Isn't that a terrible thing to do for
little child that is strangling from
the diseased membranes that clog
the throat in diphtheria? 1t is hard
thing to try to enlighten distressed,
though misguided parents in the ag-
ongy of their sorrow, and tell them
that untruth and dogma allowed
their child to die, when intelligent,
prompt, scientific administration of
antitoxen would have saved its life.
1t would be cowardly if it were not
due to ignorance, for any one to at
tempt to give spinal adjustments, so
called (Which really never did, new
er can or never will adjust any
thing,) for a ruptuTed appendix or
for a tumor on the interior of the
body that is fast becoming malig-
nant.
The popularity of the healing
cults, fads, sects, and isms in human
sickness is due to those of an un-
stable, impressionable nervous >sys-
TEN, who are always looking for
some easy way of treatment, partic-
ularly if it is mysterious. They are
| unwilling to purchase health by
rational means, but want some mys-
| tical or miraculous occult force to be
invoked in their aid. They will treat
| any DOuy ludL Will hOlu SIlAA "AN OAAS
is born every minute. The aversion
to publicity in medicine is doubtless
founded on the feeling that science
needs no defense. yet it was said OF
Huxley and Darwin that they had to
fight the battle of science with the
public with one hand, while they la
bored in the laboratory with the
other.
Progress is a series of battles. 1t is
never won except by the repeated
launching of offensives. 1t must ever
be fought for, and with the cudgels
of truth. The fight is not for the pro-
fession, but after all, for humanity.