Evening star., 1932-11-06

- ERHAPS no other field" is so infested
n with claimants of every sort as is the
health field. In a sense these claims
are but the response to CALL Disease
is in many cases, but a matter OF the
mind This in more instances than
we are willing to admit. But it is, nevertheless,
true So one who ministers to the mind, one
who stirs it suggestively toward healing and
health is quite frequently hailed as savior,
where the regular M D.. trained in the highest
institutions of his profession, may not receive
anything like such trust ana open applause.
A quack is a pretender in the domain OF
healing Quackery is tie system of frauds by
way of which restoraticns to health are said to
be effected Now the orthodox NJ. D. trained
in the regulation school Of medicine Is likely
to name as quackery many an order OF healing
to which thousands are willing to pay high
tribute OF confidence and praise. So it Is here.
DR. Fishbeir traces the evolution of "Fads and
Quackeries in Healing He goes back in this
pursuit to the conclusion that the human being
Graves miracles, that in respect to his own body
healing by miracle is much more acceptable
than healing by the routine of medical treat
ment from the duly authorized physician.
Much to that without doubt. And it IS of these
miracles" in full force today that DR.. Fish
bem writes in this vigorous, ut-thrusting
volume. Among them all our personal food
fads and "follies, all our reducing and re-
juvenating stunts. with many a "pathy' and
practice" which good feeling holds me from
naming at this point. If you curious, take
up this book You will find in it not one &C.
casion of side-steppng or whispering. 1t is, in
every line, straight ahead, as we'll as unmis-
taxable in voice and word.
From the beginning of mind healing to
Christian Science the program, in part, runs
with periods off for special consideration of the
various forms of mind healing that have from
time to time appeared. Some of which are at
the moment high in popularity and patronage
"Fads in Health Legislation" is chapter of
special interest, of special irony, too. Choosing
Physician closes the study on a high note
of vigorous sanity
One can readily imagine Dr.. Fishbein stirring
up tremendous hullabaloo with "Fads and
Quackery in Healing Or that he would do so
if people, by and large were given to reading.
They not Yet the jar of this book would
be wholesome str among the fat sleepy-heads
of the day II for other effect than to get
mad about it. to throw things around to
raise a fog generally. This man has
a fine reputation in his profession. He
has held, and still holds, many po-
sition Of honor in medical associations. He
has written volumnously and successfully.
Among his books are The Medical Follies,"
"Shattering Health Superstitions," The Human
Body and lis Care" and so on with several
more books of important titles and promising
substance.
He sounds like a good deal OF fighter. He
should be Of that stripe For 1t is clear that
some fighting in the field of general physical
weil-being is overdue. Maybe just maybe, here
it is. In either case peace in medicine,
this is a robust book Of expert opinion of plain
common sense, and of out-and-out frankness
in speech that is altogether fearless.
SAPPHO OF LESBOS; Her Life and Times BY
Arthur Weigall author Of Life and Times
of Marc Antony" etc. New York: Fred
erick A. Stokes Co.
CIX HUNDRED lines of song No more And
- even these have been searched out from
forgotten hiding places in zeal like that with
which men grope for diamonds in concealing
clods of earth. But, by these fragments alone
Sappho of Lesbos still stands as the greatest
of lyric poets Here, Arthur Wegall recreated
the life and the times of this woman who lived
$500 years ago, half thousand years before
the Christian era set in. Contemporaries of the
gifted Lesban were Aesop Croesus the prophet
jeremiah, Scion of Athens and his six compan-
Ions who together stand the seven wise men,
Here, Arthur Weigall recreates that time, set
ting within it the full and rounded life OF
Sappho Mr.. Wegall's method is like that Of
the poet with the flower in the cranned wall"
He plucks his great ones root and ALL that
readers may know the soil that went into their
making, the suns that w3rmed them. the
hurlan influences that surrounded and shaped
them. They come alive vivid and immediate
from the hands of this writer
So, Sappho is native of Lesbos, a particular
island in the Aegean from which radiate nat
ural lines of communication and intercourse to
the coast of Asia Minor, to Greece, to Italy and
the islands near to Lesbos itself. With the same
patience that has driven this tireless man
hunter of Egypt and its neighborhood into the
lives of the Pharaohs and their successive dy-
nasties, with the patience has he delved
here into the life of the woman who, all these
centuries has held her own among the urgent
and fierce competitions of genius. Bit by bit,
in the natural duties and joys of common
life he builds up the young days of