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PUBLIC HEALTH AND EDUCATION 137 believe that a gold wedding ring rubbed on the eye will cure a sty; that ear-rings improve sight and that a bronze finger-ring (if exploited in glowing terms by a health fakir and sold at a high price) will cure rheumatism. Then, there are those who believe that tuberculosis is hereditary, and that the smell from a horse stable will cure consumption. Others believe that the infectious diseases of children are inevitable, that children ought to have them to make them grow, and that the younger they have them the better. Eed flannel (it must always be red) is thought to be good for sore throats—and especially so if it is used in connection with some high smelling, aromatic salve prepared by patent medicine houses. To many, back'ache always indicates kidney trouble, cancers have roots like trees and the roots can be drawn out with the cancer if proper care is exercised. Malaria is always due to night air and typhoid to decayed leaves in the drinking water. Many who have never had smallpox believe the disease to be much less severe than vaccination. Among our best and more intelligent families, who should know better, there is the belief that there is absolutely no danger of infection from a sick child until the doctor pronounces exactly what the particular disease is. Then, of course, nearly everybody (and this is not confined to North Carolina) believes that whiskey is good for pretty near every ailment the flesh is heir to. So long as this jumble of pure myth, current tradition, childhood misunderstandings carried over unconsciously into the serious repertoire of adult conceptions, control and form the basis of procedure for the public health thought and action of our citizenship; or, until by education these absurdities are definitely combated and eliminated, just so long will the teaching of the truth be retarded. Then, again, the rural health worker in many sections of our State finds religious prejudice one of the chief problems he must consider before souring the cooperation of the people. Until one has had the actual experience it will be difficult for him to believe that human beings exist in North Carolina whose lives are absolutely bound and restricted by ideas of fatalism and predestination. There are many people and many families who hold this so thoroughly that they do not believe in medicine and will not even send for a physician in case of serious illness. These people, as the saying goes, believe that "what is to be will be, whether it ever happens or not." They conceive of God as some great, unseen, avenging power, who delights to come upon man unaware and smite him or his family with sickness or death as a punishment for some minor temporal sin. There are many people in North
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1917 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-064 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 64 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 135 |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1917 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-064-0185 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 64 |
Page Number | 135 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | PUBLIC HEALTH AND EDUCATION 137 believe that a gold wedding ring rubbed on the eye will cure a sty; that ear-rings improve sight and that a bronze finger-ring (if exploited in glowing terms by a health fakir and sold at a high price) will cure rheumatism. Then, there are those who believe that tuberculosis is hereditary, and that the smell from a horse stable will cure consumption. Others believe that the infectious diseases of children are inevitable, that children ought to have them to make them grow, and that the younger they have them the better. Eed flannel (it must always be red) is thought to be good for sore throats—and especially so if it is used in connection with some high smelling, aromatic salve prepared by patent medicine houses. To many, back'ache always indicates kidney trouble, cancers have roots like trees and the roots can be drawn out with the cancer if proper care is exercised. Malaria is always due to night air and typhoid to decayed leaves in the drinking water. Many who have never had smallpox believe the disease to be much less severe than vaccination. Among our best and more intelligent families, who should know better, there is the belief that there is absolutely no danger of infection from a sick child until the doctor pronounces exactly what the particular disease is. Then, of course, nearly everybody (and this is not confined to North Carolina) believes that whiskey is good for pretty near every ailment the flesh is heir to. So long as this jumble of pure myth, current tradition, childhood misunderstandings carried over unconsciously into the serious repertoire of adult conceptions, control and form the basis of procedure for the public health thought and action of our citizenship; or, until by education these absurdities are definitely combated and eliminated, just so long will the teaching of the truth be retarded. Then, again, the rural health worker in many sections of our State finds religious prejudice one of the chief problems he must consider before souring the cooperation of the people. Until one has had the actual experience it will be difficult for him to believe that human beings exist in North Carolina whose lives are absolutely bound and restricted by ideas of fatalism and predestination. There are many people and many families who hold this so thoroughly that they do not believe in medicine and will not even send for a physician in case of serious illness. These people, as the saying goes, believe that "what is to be will be, whether it ever happens or not." They conceive of God as some great, unseen, avenging power, who delights to come upon man unaware and smite him or his family with sickness or death as a punishment for some minor temporal sin. There are many people in North |
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Article Title | Some Phases Of Rural Sanitation. |
Article Author | B. E. Washburn |
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