Show corruption the medical record comments on the case of dr collins a physician who has been sentenced in england to io a term of seven years penal servitude for performing an unlawful operation the judge when summing up in the be trial took occasion to say that the woman who submits herself to an unlawful operation Is guilty of felony just as much as the agent she employs to which the record remarks that it might go tar far to prevent the murder of the unborn were this aspect of the ease case more dwelt upon since the fear of disgrace and punishment in this world often act as a more efficient deterrent from crime than does any dread of consequences in the hereafter it Is in to be feared that both in this coughtry and in great britain the standard of morality if judged by eases bases of the kind referred to that sometimes come come to light is very low in certain circles and there is danger of it gradually pa dually sinking still lower it to 10 well knoby known that medical men are to bd b f found willing to use their knowledge for criminal purposes and also news papers are sometimes opening their advertising ver columns to thinly veiled announcements noun cements of remedies wherewith to commit prenatal murder wha a depth of depravity where such traffic can be made profitable we often talk of the immorality of prance france tor for instance and forget our own the question Is whether the ends of justice generally are met in dealing with the evil ref referred erred to were the principle recognized as true that the one who shrinks from the duties of maternity and therefore tempts weak minded physicians to commit a detestable crime is guilty as well as the one who takes his pay for such medical ald aid 11 probably the nature of the heinous offense would be better understood it cannot be too often repeated that justice if not blind and law if not impartial create an atmosphere mo sphere favorable to crime |