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Show Cooperation of British Medical Men Needed to Fight Social Degeneration ! By DEAN W. r! INGE, London, England. ( We are not yet a degenerate people, but we are not in healthy con-rlition. con-rlition. Machinery has transformed a skilled into an unskilled population popula-tion and modern workers are parasitic on the machine which has ousted them from natural human occupations. With this disastrous change has come the growth of antisocial movements, both anarchistic and parasitic. Dole receivers, representing an acute serial p-ohlcm of Kugland that has grown up since the war, are an example of this parasitic attitude. The most immediate way of helping will be to persuade people how pressing these social problems really are. The great medical societies can do much if they will speak out. I do not think they quite realize how giad the public would be to listen to them. The modern man may deny ! ' that he has a soul, and forgot that he has a mind ; but he is acutely era- : icious that he has a bodv, and, therefore, he has a great respect for the i doctors. |