The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES
CHILD HEALTH
CONSIDERED At
DOCTOR FARLEY
Series of Clinics Held for
Delegates Attending In
ternationaI Meeting.


Intelligence of a community can
be judged by infant mortality and
child morbidity. The average med
ical student or young physician is
so well equipped as to find the
symptoms of most of diseases Of
children by early recognition"
With these words DR.. Alan G.
Brown. professor of diseases of chill
dren, University of Toronto, To-
ronto, Canada, led series of clinics
today of the Interstate Postcard
uate Medical Association of North
America, in the Murat temple.
"The vast majority Of disturbance
of children can be prevented. They
can be protected from deficiency
diseases, such as ricketts, and
anemia, if their resistance is in
creased by proper types of food"
DIR. Brown said.
Heads Child Hospital
Eighty per cent of DR.. Browns
work in Toronto is in giving advice
for the prevention of diseases in
Chi ldren. He heads a 600-bed hos
pital which is said to be one OF the
largest children's hospital in the
world, and serves the entire prov
ince of Ontario, Canada.
DR.. w. McKim Marriott, profess
sor of pediatrics, Washington uni
versity'S school of medicine, St.
Louis, Mo-, was another clinician
today who related details of infant
feeding and child care with patients
from the James Whitcomb Riley
hospital.
DR.. Marriott said 80 per cent of
the population of the United States
have had infantile paralysis at
some time in their lives without
having the paralysis.
Cancer Cure Is Denied
adults are protected from other
attacks and are immune, to a GER
tain degree, due to having had the
disease in some form, as a fever,
without having the paralysis" he
told the theater full of medical
men.
Radium as a cure for breast can
GERS was denied by DR.. John F.
Erdmann, professor of surgery of
Columbia university, New York
city, following a morning clinic. He
said radium and X-ray diminished
the plan and was efficient in skin
cancers, but that it could not be
held up as a cure for breast or
colon cancers.
Cancers never disappear of their
own volition. Tumors, sometimes
do, and often tumors or cysts be-
come cancers in the hands of a
quack specialist" he asserted.
The intestinal tract, with its
thirty-f1ve feet of tubing, can get
blisters just like the inner tube of
your automobile tire.
Debunks PsyIlium Seed
In clinic talk, DR.. Irwin Abel,
professor of surgery of the Louis
vile school of medicine, told of di-
verticuloSis, or the disease which
causes the intestinal tube to blister
and swell.
when these bliSters break the
infection spreads and a operation
is necessary Immediately in order
to save life" he declared.
Cathartics, or patented products,
were termed in many instances dy-
NANTES to the system. He sugges-
ted petroleum products for use.
He debunked the use of psyillium
seed as a cathartic with the COM
ment:
"You give that to rich patients at
$3.50 an ounce, but IS cents worth
of flax-seed will do the same thing.
Two clinics, directed by DR..
Harold B. Cushing and DR.. Dean D,
Lewis, with an address by DR.. Cyrus
G. Sturgis, Ann Arbor, Mich, are
scheduled for later today.
Tonight children's diseases will
form the main addresses scheduled
for the meeting.
The banquet of the session will
be held Friday night as the Clay
pool with Sip Robert A. Falconer,
retiring president of Toronto uni
versity, and Frank B. Noyes, pres
ident of the Associated Press, as
the main speakers.