Show Dr Fishbein's Health Talks By Dy DR MORRIS FISHBEIN ELl You probably are arc acquainted wit with the seven wonders of ot the ancient world or at least some of ot them O Or you might have hav your opinion as to what these seven world wonders should be Well heres here's a chance for you to agree aree or disagree on the choice o othe of the seven wonders of medical sc ence One of ot the medical specialists of or the United States sets up the fo following fol fol- owing lowing as his choice 1 Immunity or resistance to di dis dis- ease case 2 Anesthesia or analgesia giving givin relief relie from pain 3 3 Antisepsis preventing woun wound infection and blood poisoning 4 Information on vitamins an and food values 5 Light and ventilation 6 The use of extracts of ot glanco glands glanc to o prevent and md to treat various gland glanc ular deficiency diseases 7 Periodic health examination t to prevent the effects of ot certain dis dis- eases cases Medicine however can hardly b be limited to seven wonders Th The ma marvels marvels mar mar- vels of medical science during th the thelast thelast last 50 years have outstripped a all other contributions to the happiness o of mankind Our knowledge of immunity or resistance resistance re re- re- re to disease has given us theria antitoxin tetanus antitoxin and scarlet carlet fever antitoxin It has given us a means for lor diagnosing many diseases It has caused the abolition of ye yellow yellow yel- yel low fever fevel from most of the civilized world and has cut the death rates rate from typhoid fever to an infinites mal inal number The relieving of ot pain for tor human beings during surgical operations anc and nd the development of or bacteriologic cleanliness under such conditions have hav permitted modern surgeons to invade every of the human bod body Medicines Medicine's contribution to the us use o of glandular substances for lor the tion of certain types of deformity anc and disease is really in a stage of infancy The discoveries already made are arc merely a foretaste of the tremendous to follow However there was one important additional trend of modern medicine above all others that has been omitted from this list It is medicines medicine's recognition of ot he importance of the mind mindin in relationship to the condition of at the the body generally Developments of or modern psychology g gy psychiatry and psychoanalysis as aswell well vel as modern methods o of handling the feeble feebleminded minded and the insane are arc contributions which may well accompany accompany pany those that have been mentioned |