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Chas. O'Hagan Laughinghouse, M. D. 46 and most harmful of all, its veracity, for with eyes wide open, it knowingly prints advertisements worthy the pen of Ananias. The uneducated, thoughtless, undiscriminating classes are loaded with almanacs, circulars, fictitious certificates and false promises of quacks and nostrum-venders which impress the credulous, unsuspecting mind and fill it with plausible falsehoods. The family physician is put aside and his testimony against these frauds, if he has the manliness to denounce them, is attributed to his jealousy. Heretofore the profession has scorned to take up arms against these social lepers. When we can warn against such direful evil, is it beneath our dignity to teach the ignorant? There have been valuable suggestions made in current medical literature showing that general interest is being evoked on this subject. In several journals of late will be seen paragraphs taking the broad view that medicine should no longer be an occasionally useful mystery to the laity, but on the contrary a living, continuously applied help to a higher civilization. There are advocates of public medical instruction, provided it is done in a proper way, paying special attention to practical methods of Preventive Medicines. Reacting, this instruction will beget greater respect for the physician in the every day affairs of life. It will make the practice easier and more successful, for, when taught how, we will find willing hearts and hands in the effort to save humanity as much as possible from all the ills which Preventive Medicine can blot out. Dr. Shastid's remarks are the outcome of this thought. Why could we not here in North Carolina learn a bit from the business sagacity of the patent medicine manufacturers and issue medical almanacs, conservative, concise, non dogmatic, free from great detail, seriously, truthfully gotten up, yet popular and send them free to all? Let every County Medical Society have a medical bureau with the local physician as the local agent to instruct the people in sanitary medical questions. We should do all in our power to get from the State a proper appropriation for its Board of Health. Legislators believe we do not care for help, and they do not give it simply because by our inactivity we have merited such an opinion. Verily, there are a hundred medical duties we are leaving
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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 | 1897 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-044 |
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 | 44 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 41 |
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 | 1897 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-044-0045 |
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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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
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 | 44 |
Page Number | 41 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | Chas. O'Hagan Laughinghouse, M. D. 46 and most harmful of all, its veracity, for with eyes wide open, it knowingly prints advertisements worthy the pen of Ananias. The uneducated, thoughtless, undiscriminating classes are loaded with almanacs, circulars, fictitious certificates and false promises of quacks and nostrum-venders which impress the credulous, unsuspecting mind and fill it with plausible falsehoods. The family physician is put aside and his testimony against these frauds, if he has the manliness to denounce them, is attributed to his jealousy. Heretofore the profession has scorned to take up arms against these social lepers. When we can warn against such direful evil, is it beneath our dignity to teach the ignorant? There have been valuable suggestions made in current medical literature showing that general interest is being evoked on this subject. In several journals of late will be seen paragraphs taking the broad view that medicine should no longer be an occasionally useful mystery to the laity, but on the contrary a living, continuously applied help to a higher civilization. There are advocates of public medical instruction, provided it is done in a proper way, paying special attention to practical methods of Preventive Medicines. Reacting, this instruction will beget greater respect for the physician in the every day affairs of life. It will make the practice easier and more successful, for, when taught how, we will find willing hearts and hands in the effort to save humanity as much as possible from all the ills which Preventive Medicine can blot out. Dr. Shastid's remarks are the outcome of this thought. Why could we not here in North Carolina learn a bit from the business sagacity of the patent medicine manufacturers and issue medical almanacs, conservative, concise, non dogmatic, free from great detail, seriously, truthfully gotten up, yet popular and send them free to all? Let every County Medical Society have a medical bureau with the local physician as the local agent to instruct the people in sanitary medical questions. We should do all in our power to get from the State a proper appropriation for its Board of Health. Legislators believe we do not care for help, and they do not give it simply because by our inactivity we have merited such an opinion. Verily, there are a hundred medical duties we are leaving |
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Article Title | Annual Oration A Few Hints In Medico-Social Ethics |
Article Author | Chas. O ' Hagan Laughinghouse |
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