Show american spas not well enough known knowin to our physicians chicago Chic ngo lot us save for america and americans tho the many millions sp spent ent each year in foreign spas dr bernard fontus fantus chicago physician makes a plea to state governments to provide the nations doctors do actors with information in regard to the natural remedial resources within th their air own states no iio further asks the american medical association to interest itself in ridding american spas pas of quack or cry dr fantus presents his two ale pleas as in the journal of the american me medical d association Ameri american crin doctors know in a great deal more about european spas than about our own health resorts resort dr fantus bantu a states although in this country there are arc practically all tho the climatic and remedies po possessed a by any other country in tho the world some 2 2000 places in the united states boast ot of springs of more or less medicinal value tho the result of tho the european exodus each year Is not only a net loss to this country but also a financial loss to tho the patients who tire oro sent abroad for a treatment they could obtain much moro more economically no nearer homo home better handled in europe n drope in europe dr fantus declares the tha governments and tho the governmentally owned medical schools see to it that their doctors aro are well informed as to their national health resorts tills this la Is not only altruistic but also sound financial policy for through taxation governments are arc in virtual partnership with all the national enterprises A sick person does docs not got get the same benefit out of drinking mineral waters from a bottle in his own home experience has shown the therapeutic value of a aln m in oral eral water cure consists also of the remedial value of a vacation the ch change ange of scene a and nd of occue occupation a tho the change in mode of I 1 living V the subtle influence of climete and the factor of faith the chicago physician states distrust and skepticism prevail among doctors regarding american america n health resorts with a few notable exceptions this distrust is well merited in the opinion of dr fantus the mendacity of many of the advertisements verti tor mineral springs rivals that of tho claims for patent medicines in their palm pal lest days to ho he writes unethical practice pra c tice and quackery abound in and around health resorts even the social features and amusements in many of them may bo be objectionable from a therapeutic as well as a moral standpoint |