Show 5 Advice on Your Your Health By Morris Fishbein Editor Journal American Medical American Medical Association Without the medical profession wars would be so destructive of mankind that the world of living men might well cease to ex exist t. t The horrors of modern warfare are so great that the human being might be unable to endure them were it not for the contributions of medicine Indeed it has often been suggested that th the medical profession itself by a unanimous refusal to participate in any war whether characterized as righteous righteous righteous right right- or as the saving of democracy democracy democracy racy could end all wars In any war it is the doctor who must find out first which men are physically fit for service and make the others fit when repairs and rehabilitation and are possible The medical profession prevents the epidemics which in the past have destroyed more soldiers than were killed by gunpowder and shells In ancient wars great plagues of cholera and bubonic plague would destroy whole armies of men In the middle ages syphilis used to sweep through great armies and incapacitate thou thou- sands In our Civil war typhoid killed more men than were lost in battle In the Spanish-American Spanish war typhoid and yellow fever destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de many Even in the World war meningitis pneumonia and d dat at the last the devastating ini influenza U- U enza took a terrific toll of ot lives liM B When the wars end it is the medical profession which rep repa repairs rr the ravages by restoring the ph phys phy disabled and confer conferring upon the veteran the opportunity to live again V Now comes the question of what can be done for those who have lost their sight or their hearing nearing Particularly serious nowadays ar arthe arthe are the mentally shocked cases w who o find themselves haunted by their terrors And long after the w wars war rs have passed the veterans w- w who wo o develop tuberculosis cancer and and chronic diseases resulting from long sustained injuries demand SJ medical care During any great war Wt th theO ro of the medical prof sion for service is a first necea nece sary step S SIn 9 In the last great war the Amei lean ican medical profession had nO mo raw nOthan e ethan than physicians ed edwith with t troops oops serving on Oil draft rif boards manning base ho pit and taking care of the In Great Britain the do doctors doctor have already indicated not they can serve and t the e P par particular Mt I work of which i i capable S 1 |