Show A Discredit to the Medical Profession. In the Police court the other day avsocalled 'morphine fiend" appealed to the police to compel the medical profession to stop converting sick persons per-sons into mental and physical wrecks by dosing them with opium. The raving? of this outcast are entitled to more than passing notice. There is much in this unfortunate's appeal that doctors might consider con-sider with profit to weak-willed men and women. Societies that exercise control over the practice of medicine should also give it serious attention. There are doctors who resort to morphine to repress symptoms of disease which they are unable to diagnose diag-nose and therefore cannot treat properly. The habit hab-it of prescribing the drug for the temporary alleviation allevia-tion of pain is too general. A halt should be called. Every "morphine fiend" who may trace his down-fall down-fall to a doctor stands a living discredit to the medical medi-cal profession and physicians as a means of self-protection self-protection must find a remedy for the evil. The number of human derelicts set adrift by doctors who recklessly prescribe morphine is appalling. |