Show 4 DAIL DAILY HEALTH SERVICE I Medical Science Has Many ManyI 1 to Fight Disease I 1 New Weapons Q- Q Editors Editor Note This is the last of air alx articles In which Dr Morris editor of ot tho the Journal ot of the American Medical association and the nations nation's foremost authority on he health helth subjects review the ac accomplishments accomplishments ac- ac of or orm m medical E science lence during the year tr 1929 S S S By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hy- Hy gels gein the Health Magazine One of tho the features of oC modern medical advancement nt is tho the discover discovery er cry ery of t new apparatus for tor tiso Oeo in noel diagnosis and treatment of disease It would seem that man has gone as far tar as he can possibly go with the tho senses that he has and that ItIs it itIs itIs Is necessary to prolong or 01 project the these s senses by the use of ot such fuch In Instruments Instruments instruments In- In as tho the microscope stethoscope etho Ia laryngoscope electrocardiograph electro electro- card cardiograph audiometer and sem I. I lar devices When these theM electrical instruments capable of oC amplifying sights or sounds tremendously and andeen even een of ot increasing tho the s sense nse of oC touch are arc used new facts are aro learned NEW FORMS OF TREATMENT In the treatment nt of r C disease heat hea lI light ht water and similar physical forces arc nrc amplified greatly or used In lu new forms forma to considerable ad ad- vantage In the field of or chemistry the thc old dru drugs s are developed in now new combinations com Corn which intensify greatly their effects DI Bismuth muth loni- loni known to chemistry is now adapted in various combinations for the specific I clUe treatment of OC the major venereal venereal vene vene- real disease rIc acid a powerful powerful pow pow- erf erful l sedative e drug 1 In is now avaIlable available avail avaIl- able in dozens of or preparations of ot varied efficiency Diphtheria toxin used for the SchIck test and for the prevention o of or diphtheria is modified In various ways a 8 so 80 that it ma may be injected Inject with practically no reaction All sorts of oC bacterial preparations are arc arenow now available which are aro used to great id In both the prevention prevention prevention tion and treatment of DC Infectious dl disease ease Each FAch year Car hundreds of ot I Ine Introduced ne new preparations are thoroughly tested by the medical profession arid and eich tho the permanent permanent per per- manent gain is con considerable One of the them most Interesting Vances ances in medical l care has been lad tIie Oie development of or tho the hospitals and similar Institutions for tor the tho earn care ot or il the sick nick In such Buch great cen el Is pO possible to apply appl nil ll of the ad ad- i ad-i and laboratory methods for diagnosis that ha hav been mentioned and to give elve adequate ade nde quate nursing care caro and physical treatment These things have ha lx Iny creased greatly the cost ost of oC medical n care 1 Tho Tim number of ot hospitals in iii this country has Increased ed from less than 1000 In 1890 to more moro than in tho timo current year ear Th The Tho number num her ber of ot nurses nurse graduating annually has hns been Increased from less lew th than In 1890 to this year Th The Tho physical therapy and X ray depart depart- m meats in hospitals h have havo e increased lJ by 6 65 P per T cent in the last ten years eari Hence more people are are- being given hel the opportunity to receive scientific medical caro earn under the moat ad V conditions j 1 MEDICAL CARE IS VITAL V j The great problem of ot the present is to develop somo some method whereby people will realize that at least two million people are aro seriously sick ever evory da day In the tho United States and that human beings will bo be wise if iff the they anticipate the sicknesses that are Inevitable and save sufficient funds to insure tho the best heEt medical medical and hospital caro when sickness sJ conies comes 4 lien t the tho appendix lx becomes becom s Ine In ln 2 j d when hen tuberculosis strikes when tho the gallbladder becomes become blocked by b stones or Ol when one ono suf sut Ors a n. serious JJ and mutilating accident acct acci dent the sum of or 01 1300 to in ln insure jn sure the best possible medical care Is far more moro Important than the pos session of ot an asthmatic motor car or a L shrieking radio days asI a I year ear |