Show I r 1 The Triumph of f Medicine 1 c By DR FR FRANK CRANE RANE I Dr W. W WA A. A Evans a Chicago health expert in n an ad ad address ress the other d flay day r ti d cl ci red that Public health work pays and pa pa s iV well ll li In no other field has las there been the same advance tl va e a as In public health work vork This his calls attention to to the gr greatest at l st t stride forward th h de cle in the medical profession The advance of the science of hl hi has not be ben been so markedly in lii the tr treatment nt bf disease although although al- al though hough that is considerable aS It ha has Ih lh the prevention lion ion of t disease The rh h best way t to conserve public health is ot not ottO It tO b p perfect ct the business of saving people as Ss itis It l is to Lb k keep p the people from getting Mi Sick l k The Th sateL safety or of f travel Havel l Upon the railroad dd s ii t depend ep nd s su u Uit th the tt excellent x ellent facilities for fot t kIh c care re df I Wt vi wrecks is tS it s U the ability of the railroad t tl to tH v nt nth h lis S bo tors h heretofore r have spen t sl of ot th their lr energies ener energies ener- ener gies gIe ih Ili i lip tp and mending the h n h vi ks TheY Their Have stood about waiting for the human humah fh tu Lu o br break brdak k d down and d. d then come to th ih the i ic sc c A i iQ spirit has pervaded d our age Enormous Enor Enor- Enormous mou sUms d voted to research have resulted In Id lh- lh th the h c caus causey uS S of dise disease se alit arid and by br th the k know know- ledge l- l edge of th caus causes s smallpox inilla i arid oth other t plagues s h har vt been een obliterated It is much bett belter r foi for k li community t to be r l' t 4 immune to sr si smallpox all ox r for r instance by br vac Hi and by sanitary rah ai-rah rn iHs rIts than It i is' to to have r ice of men ready l tb to t take of the s suffering rte hg from smallpox It is better to hi have Va the milk supply iid d arid kept pure jure than it n is tb be bt equipped d tb to h handle ruH the tue diseases diseases- resulting tr tf from m impure milk It is better to se seC seo th t. t the W tr ter supply of t a com community coin coin- is pure and unpolluted than It Ii is t to be he equipped to take care bf bL th the t pati of typhoid f fever ver and similar ills The rue future of the bf t medicIne lI lies s largely arg ly in the direction of the pr t f t diCe disease lse s se Every man probably carries caries about b tt bt in his IllS mouth and and- nose the germs of mahy it a f fatal j but hut if his health is strong enough these diseases dIsease as s l off whereas asi if if il It is weakened these diseases are arb are lag tr The trouble with diabetes r for r Instance hie is h hot hit l so ab fh much ch the s resulting fro froth 1 that dis ds a as s it itis' itis is' is ta taut f. f th that t. t it renders a. a person c easily to other diseases es a as' as one writer expressed it H i is ilk like ii a. a man whose house Is built upon the s sand saha hd The rh first firt precaution Is js to put lUt a good rock fo r the h houel iJ b hot hd h hot t to prepare for saving the ut- ut tants when hen the house crumbles Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate It A j |