Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-10-05 | Page 8 | Doctors of Health

p. p Doctors of Heal Health h disease and aud not enough too much time studying D Doctors spend B. B Favill of Chicago chair chair- chapman time tithe stud studying ing health said Dr Henry roan man all o of the he Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American Amen Ameri Ameri I i can an Medical association tion in an address i Industry c said Dr Favill is in the last analysis is a matter mattery I Health related to the well-being well of i of All of the great questions I y work their their opportunities their i the masses ses and their play habits habit t their e 1 livelihood their infancy and aid their old age correlate I absolutely in iii the one great factor of health The more thoroughly human affairs are Bre investigated the more underlying underling causes for social conditions are discovered the deeper becomes a knowledge ot ocial pathology the more manifest it I becomes that tha t mental moral and physical values in human affairs are are aie ultimately y questions questions ques ques- tio of health In other words it is going to be increasingly necessary for u un us to avoid disease but also to do n not to only lr to do everything p possible everything possible to retain he health balth 9 The work of the trained physician ph-Bician of the future is g going ing to be befar befar befar far clore more nore that of keeping people well than treating people who are sick From rom this point of view vie Dr Favill criticises criticises medical education education education tion of today y because while It teaches the young physician everything everything every- every thing that is known ab abut about ut disease it teaches him himat at atthe same time very little about health We are co coming coming more and more to relation in life is necessarily and in realize ci that success happiness any based on good health health health-a a sound mindin a sound body v This is the ideal toward which we should all ai aim n both as in- in and as committees To secure it a d Dr Favill has well pointed out two tAvo things medical profession skilled in are are necessary A A. properly trained all the m methods of modern science by which 1 health can be preserved preserved preserved pre pre- served and a public which will understand and anti intelligently estimate esti- esti mate math mat the value of growing scientific l knowledge on the jion of health and which will operate co-operate with properly trained t rand and nd right minded physicians in securing such Buch ben benefits fits The physicians phy- phy of today and of the future must resume the functions bf of the doctors of the middle age ages and be re real 1 teachers and leap lead leader I Poss Possessing ssi g the the technical l knowle knowledge ge necessary fo for securing lg 1 health c l they hey must point out the way to the people by hy which wInch freedom from disease e se cau an aue be e secured A