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Show ASSERT DOCTORS MUST TREAT MENTAL DISEASE NEW ViiIIK. Oct. 4. Psychology win bs an important study for students at the college of Physicians and Sur Ijeons at Columbia I'nlversltv this year, i Those who began their eourse in the .medical school were told by Dr. J. A. I Fordyce professor of Dermatology, in his opening address, thai physicians f the future- must not only be able to administer to bodily ills, but mental ; ones, also. Speaking on "The Fallacy and the 'student." Dr. Fordyce. said in part: "Bodily Ills are often leas dangerous I than the fancies and blrarre theories of mind-- di-t ri-H.-cil or diseased. Tho one affects the Individual and the 0th , er ma imperil the Integrity of tho I nation. "By reason of his Intimate and confidential con-fidential relations with all classes In a community, tin physician may administer admin-ister not only to diseases of the body i but often hi dlreet his patients Itl ; matters of public policy and antidote mistaken social theories." Dr. Fordyce staled that the medical profession must follow the h-udj of the business man In an effort to comprehend compre-hend the fundamental reasons for the i present Hoclal unrest "and help to di- rec the public mind Into normal instead in-stead of pathological channels." |