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Show "NEW SPIRIT OF MEDICINE" Dr. C. G. Plumraer of Salt Lako City' gave his second lecture before nn audience which crowded the chapel chap-el of tho Agricultural College last Saturday. The doctor asserted that live medical med-ical men are no longer exponents of the theory that medicine cures, but they admit that nature does all that and tho best medicine can dd Is to alleviate pain, or assist in tho natural natu-ral processor of recuporatlon. The speaker branded medlclno au "dope" and was cspcciallytvindictlvo against patent medicines. He then defined the new spirit of medicine as preventative pre-ventative rather than attempting to effect cures after virulent disease germs have been allowed to fasten themselves on debilitated vitalities. Again he reiterated the fact that if ono would llvo hygtonlcally, tho normal nor-mal resistance of such a person Is sufficient to ronder him immune from any number of disease-spreading bacteria. Added to that ho advocated artificial arti-ficial aids to assist in this immunizing immuniz-ing process. Ho explained how an-tl-toxln Is now boing used successfully success-fully against tyhpold fever, diphtheria, diphthe-ria, yellow fover, smallpox, and scarlet scar-let fever toxins; nnd that even now experiments aro proving tliat tho dreaded tuberculosis, which annually annual-ly takes oft 200,000 people In our country, can bo prevented by Injecting Inject-ing a proparation of Inert tubercnl bacilli into patients before, or In tho act of contracting tho disease Malaria, Ma-laria, hookworm, typhus fejver, bubonic bu-bonic 'pljague, Infant paralbls, nil may bo controlled, according to Dr. Plummer. "And tho tlmo to handlo any disease- is beforo It overpowers thoso admirable and olllclent scavengers scav-engers and at tho same time guardians guard-ians of health tho white corpuscles of tho blood." Tho gentleman enumerated some common carriers of dlbcaso, such as tho mosquito, laden with malaria and yollow fovor; tho louso, scattering typhus fqvor gorms; fleas, responsible respon-sible for tho bubonic plaguo; infant paralysis, at the door of tho barn fly; tho houso fly and typhoid, etc. Ho then showed how sanitary prevention pre-vention mothodg llko drainage of swamps, removal of filth and waste as breeding places for Germs and tho like, had almost entirely eradicated many diseases that havo been epl-domic epl-domic In tho same regions beforo. Ho also gave many concrete examples exam-ples that tho above named diseases can bo prevented by vaccination In practically oveny! caso. Dr. Plummer' also advocated the establishment of a national board of health whoso business should bo to secure tno enforcement of uniform uni-form legislation adequate to mub tho needs of every city, town and hamlet In tho country to "entirely eliminate curablq and preventable diseases from tho face of tho earth." this board's duty furthor should bo to mako uniform marriago roqulre-montis, roqulre-montis, looking towards prohibiting the mentally 'diseased, feeble minded, mind-ed, people with a venereal disease such as syphilis, from marrying according ac-cording to law. And to insure against all others Dr. Plummor urges that "chronic criminals and feoble minded should bo assoxuallz-ed assoxuallz-ed but that w0 keep this class of people from reproducing their kind." |