Show constitution AND DISEASE NE of the reasons why the old family 0 ONE doctor enjoyed the unlimited trust and confluence of his patients ads mi s that he knows my constitution and small wonder I 1 in the old days when a doctor as a young roan man just out of hla his medical school settled in a town and stayed there till his death it not cot infrequently happened that he would carry children through the atie years of childhood be present at their we wedding adding bring their children into tho the world and care for them until they in turn grew up and married and had children in many cases in which the doctor lived and practiced to a ripe old age it not infrequently happened that the same man would attend and care for three or even four generations ile he knew them and he know their parents and their grandparents ants if he know their constitution who did ile he studied not only the diseases but the pat tonta ta he not only knew what disease they had but how each patient would react to each disease whether his file resistance was good or poor whether at a critical stage tho the patient would rally and fight to the end or whether he would go BO to eld pieces feces from lack of fighting blood in bid ancestors bince the middle of tho the last cei century tury scientific men juen have boen been so occupied in findt finding the physical cause of each disease tai t that at little attention hils has been en paid to the 0 patient himself it yot tot it is plain lain 1 that the lilly physical condition ot oi fh the 0 patient to Is after 0 U the e r most a t important 10 factor possibilities for infection are everywhere pro present sent EA each of us to Is exposed every day tp ig pneumonia monia influenza and probably ably in ill large birge cities especially to measles scarlet fever diphtheria ani and other infection why dont we all take them obviously Obvious ty because there them ts to a difference in us so mo dr george draper in it a rem reboot lit address before the medical society ot the state of Penn pennsylvania sylvanin says wo we mut must come back to tho the point of view of mpr grandfathers and begin to da aa pair more attention to io ho be condition and tho iho hereditary of tue the patient himself what for want of a better inarae we call our constitution the point wherein herein we differ from our oar 11 this he sap Is the he sum total of the hereditary characters and personal peculiarities influenced by environment which determines tle individual reaction to disease |