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Show I RAMPANT I i H This If beyond doubt the day ot I compulsion, not to .any violence, In H medicine. No sooner does Dr. Gold I rater suggest that every New Yorker JH be lined up once a year for forclblo 9 examination as to his health than H Dr. Osier cdmes along to Insist that I the' most "rigid control over consump- H tires bo established by the state. To H his professional eye, 90 per cent ot H u5 would be found to have tuberculo- H bIs, If only he could examine us by H means ot radium and a microscope. B rhank fortune he cannot explore our H , "Innards," at least not without our H ' consent. But the campaign for gov- H ernment by, with, and through the H doctors does go merrily on. Here Is H Dr. Harvey Wiley out for dally ex- H amlnatlons of all school children. H Once a week Is not to be enough; the m very existence ot the nation depends H upon the dally probing of. each child H as to his adenoids, his appendix, his fl eyes, and as to any stray germs that may have become active during the H previous twenty-four hours. M Far more serious is that fact that M Dr. N. P. Colwell, secretary ot tho H Council on Medical Education of the H American Medical Association has a H little New Nationalism doctrine ot H his own. He is for wiping out all H State lines, so as to put the entire H control of medical education and H progress into the hands of a Foder- H al official with absolute legal pow- H ers and a seat In the Cabinet. "In ev- m ery other country having a standing H comparable with that of the Unltc'd H states." he says, "the control ot ed- H States," he says, "the control ot ea- M ucatton Is a function of the national H government." So we are soon to H ravo in Washington an autocrat to 1 tell Just how every doctor shall be H educated. May heaven help the os- 1 teopaths and who knows? the horn- H eopaths, perhaps when this federal secretary of health takes his seat at H the cabinet table. From this, ot H course, the next step will be the na-, H- tlonallzatlon ot the physician. Hav- H ing assumed control ot his education H It will naturally be the government's H duty to see that he walks In the prop- H er path, keeps himself up to date by J study, and has enough to eat for him- VV self and his children. State modi-, cine, with all doctors on the national payroll, will como next they are H well started on this road In England with their old age pensions and insur-H insur-H ance funds. Once tho medical pro'' H fesslon has become a branch ot tho H federal government, tho citizen will H be fully as helpless as somo of our m physicians would llko to see him. He H could then be forced to contain every H serum the cabinet might decldo to In- Ject into him against typhoid, scar-H scar-H let fever diphtheria, and the hives. H That old outworn idea that a man's 1 home Is his castle will speedily dls M appear when doqtors, doctor Injectors H doctor sanitarians of all degrees have H free run of his house. They will H come In numbers, because when na-H na-H tlonal control ot health and Congress H Is perfect, there will be' nothing for H doctors to do but inspect and pro-H pro-H vent. H Well, it the average man is terri- H Bed by this prospect ot State owner- H ship ot hla health, as well as his rail- M roads, ho may perhaps recall tor his encouragement that some of these M fine medical passions perish beforo 1 they reach a great ago. Tlioro was B a Harvard medical professor who In 1 tho early days ot appendicitis assur-H assur-H d his class that thoy would live to H see the tlmo when tho appendix ot H every now born babe would bo re-H re-H moved by the surgeon, while a doctor greeted tho now arrival on earth bj Micclnutlng him boforo ho could ov- n gasp. Fortunately, with dtdtlnnt signs ot a reaction against too much abdominal surgery In sight, as volcod by hlgli authority nt tho recent gath- rlng of tho American Medical Asso- liatlon, this onco wild rago'for a large annual nppondlx harvest is rapidly discrediting tho'Doston prophet's foro st. At any rate, tho temptation Is H ,tmBer so great as a few yeans ugo M for family heads to protect them-gftft them-gftft icheg against kindly medjeal friends 1 I havlnS their appendices 'placod In their wives' names. t Is an ago when it Is everybody's rr'vllcBo nnd pleasure to bring forth , .emos t0 transform tho world over !.ght by ffco or by duress of law. ,.'18 ,locto',a liavo simply fallen In H th i WlUl tho rroval,lnB tendoncy In fl tor vl8,on ot a worId ru,od w d0C- H huntTa dQVOtod to a novor ceasing M l for OTory disease germ known HliT ,Wn t0 mnn- An nwakoning da y, t ovcrybody's duty thoo( M BemM 8hoot nrrows until alio io-H io-H "'wMes St. Sebastian. I |