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Show HEALTH TRANSCENDS PUBLIC INSTRUCTION LOS ANGELES, CkL, Jum 27. Thou -jandi of vls.tlnjr iftiyslctatu tnd tbctr wlvrs filled th auditorium today when Prttldent William -H. Welch called the general meeting of Ue sixty -third session of the American Medical association to order. Addresses of welcome were delivered by Dr. W. alarvla Barlow, president of the Los Anselea County Medical association, asso-ciation, and by Mayor Alexander. The feature of the tfieral myelins; was the address of Dr. John B. Murphy of t'htcago, the Incoming president. Dr. Murphy dwelt at length npon the propensity propen-sity of the American public to patronise quurkfi and freak methods of healing:, and declared that the legal profession was Itself It-self to blame. The people should be educated, edu-cated, he said. "Health has received more attention than public Instruction," Dr. Murphy continued. con-tinued. "It Is my belief that public Instruction In-struction In medicine Is one of Mie most Important functions which the American Medical association has to perform. "There should be ntabliihed In every large city subcommittees for lay - press publications, mt that when the layman wlahe authoritative Information )n any particular line be can write lo the pre, and It through this committee ran give him a clean cut, poeltlvs and authentic rvport on what haa been accomplished In anv line. "1'9 to dste, the pttent medicine al-manar. al-manar. quark advertisements and leaves of healing have twen the principal Instructors In-structors of the public' Dr. Murphy defended vivisection and Incidentally ma do a plea for the establishment estab-lishment of a national bureau of health. |