Show physicians rampant tins is beyond doubt the day of or om not to say violence in no sooner does dr gold anater suggest that every new york r be lined up once a year for borci ile ble examination as to b h s health than jr r j osier comes along to insist that aej most fagid control over con stives be established by the state im ais professional eye 90 per cent if of as As N be found to have tuber ii losis if only he could examine us beans or 0 radium and a micro scope thank fortune he cannot ex ilore our innards at least not mahout our consent but the cam aaion for government by with and through the doctors goes merrily on lere here is dr harvey out for daily ex laminations imi ami nations of all school children once i week is not to be enough the very of 0 the nation depends upon the daily probing of each child as to adenoids bis his appendix his ees cues ind and as to any stray germs which may bave become active during the pre twenty tour four hours far more serious is the fact that N P colwell secretary of or the american medical association has a ittle little new nationalism doctrine of his own he ile is tor for wiping out all state ines so aa as lo 10 put the entire control of medical progress in to the hands of absolute legal powe sand a seat in the be cabinet in every other country laving having a standing comparable with hat that of the united states he says the control of education is a f finc inc anc tion of the national government so w we e are soon to have in washington an autocrat to tell just how every doctor shall be educated may ilea ven help the osteopaths and who knows the homeopaths homeopathy perhaps when this federal secretary of health takes tak his seat at the cabinet table from this of course the next step will be the nationalization of th the ie phy asician havin having assumed control of his education it will naturally be the government governments s duty to see that he malks v alks in the proper path keeps him self up to date by study and has enough to see for himself andr and h s children state medicine with all doctors on the national pay roll will come next they are well started on this road in england wi with th their old age pensions and insurance funds once the medical prof profession essin has be came come a branch of the federal govern ment the citizen willbe will be fully asheld as help less as some ir afo tour physicians would like to s e 0 him he ile could then be forced to contain every serum the cabinet might decide to inject into him against typhoid scarlet fever diphtheria and ind the hives that 0 old out outworn morn idea that a mans home is his castle v will ill speedily disappear when doctors doctor injectors doctor sana saria tanana of all de degrees derees rees have fr free ee run his house they will come in num bers because when national control of health and congress I 1 is perfect there will be nothing for doctors to do but inspect and prevent well if the average man is tern terri tied fied by this prospect of state owner ship ot his health as well as his rail roads he may perhaps recall for bis his encouragement that some of ahse fine medical passions perish before they r rech e e h a great e t age 0 ge there was a if harvard a r v a r d me adz al pr professor wh who inthe 04 early days hw class that they would live to see the time when NN hen the appendix of every new born babe would be removed by one surgeon while a doctor dotor greefs the new arrival on earth by vaccinating him before he could even gasp for 1 tuna tely with distinct signs of a r re e action aga aa too much abdominal surgery in sight as voiced by high authority at the recent gathering of the american medical association this once wild rage for a large an nual appendix harvest is rapidly dis crediting the boston prophets fore cast at any rate the temptation is no longer so great as a few years ago for family heads to fo protect them selves against kindly medical friends by having their appendices place I 1 their wives names it is an age when hen it is everybody a privilege and pleasure to bring hiring forth schemes to transform the world over night by force or by duress ot of law the doctors have simply fallen inline in line nath the prevailing tendency in their vision of a world ruled by doctors anid devoted to a never ceasing hunt I 1 for every disease germ known or un known to man an awakening is ui in evitable evil able the person who comes off most badly is miss liberty at whom it is everybody a duty these days to shoot arro vs until she resembles sf st sebastian extracts from ed tonal in new tork york I 1 lost ost jul july y 7 1914 1 |