Show at it again that the american medical assoria tion is still intent on placing the shackles ph ackles of official control on the american people is 13 quite evident the association in a recent article by its IN secretary says the chief hindrance to progress in all lines of medical ed in the united states is the lack of a single national legal con trod of all educational matters incle ding medical colleges the association bewails this facts fact and looks form ard to the day when the control of all things pertaL pertaining to the health of the people shall be placed in the hands of one board or commission the obvious intent of the bhole matter is to place the entire nation wil ly nilly under the tutelage of or a sin gle school of medicine evidently the allopathic to the exclusion of alloth ers the formation of a certain set of lilvia laus governing all classes of people and demanding conformity to the re quire ments of one system to the ex elusion of the rest the times makes no pl plea ea for a med leal standard that will allow imposition by quacks or practices by the ignorant and unskilled nor the setting at naught of the plain laws of sanitation but it does protest vigorously against the attempts of any advocates of a single school of healing no mat ter how ivell mell meaning their efforts to force their beliefs and practices on even a single individual freedom in thought religion and care of the mind and body are all essential to the happiness of a liberty loving people extracts from editorial in pomona times pomona california july 2 1914 |