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1st. c. medical society. 213 American disease—Nervous Prostration,—and so it might prove fatal to many. Still it is of the greatest moment that each individual should have a larger and clearer knowledge of the causes and effects of diseases, and of the urgent necessity of consulting a physician in the beginning of ill-health and impaired normal functions, thereby gaining all of the benefits of an early diagnosis, the importance of which is being more and more realized by both physicians and surgeons; many of the failures of the present in the most common and closely studied diseases being directly and alone attributable to a late diagnosis, brought about either by ignorance on the part of the patient or careless indifference in the hands of the physician, whereby an almost incredibly short period of time may change a hopeful to a hopeless condition,—in such common diseases as tuberculosis, diphtheria, appendicitis, obstructive jaundice, and the like. When the public conscience has been aroused to a due appreciation of these golden moments in the very beginning of disease, before the progress of destruction and impairment of vital functions have made the conditions unfavorable for the application of remedies, which at an earlier stage would have assured the patient of a speedy recovery, spared him probably from weeks of suffering and many dollars of the savings, which the very effort to accumulate and lay aside for the peace and comfort of old age was in so large a measure responsible for his beginning ill-health; then will be seen the first light of the dawn of the approaching day when the great masses of working men and women will realize how they have been imposed upon by every adventurous imposter who has been mean enough to widely advertise some patent medicine or erve tonic as a means of enriching himself by taking the hard-earned pennies from the homes of the poor. In return for which he has flooded their homes with literature, often dangerous and obscene, to poison the minds of their children while he poisons their bodies with vile concoctions and robs them of every chance of recoverv.
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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 | 1905 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-052 |
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. |
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 | 52 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
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Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-16-052 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-16 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983307 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 213 |
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 | 1905 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-052-0223 |
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. |
Filename | transactionsofme52medi_0223.jp2 |
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 | 52 |
Page Number | 213 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 1st. c. medical society. 213 American disease—Nervous Prostration,—and so it might prove fatal to many. Still it is of the greatest moment that each individual should have a larger and clearer knowledge of the causes and effects of diseases, and of the urgent necessity of consulting a physician in the beginning of ill-health and impaired normal functions, thereby gaining all of the benefits of an early diagnosis, the importance of which is being more and more realized by both physicians and surgeons; many of the failures of the present in the most common and closely studied diseases being directly and alone attributable to a late diagnosis, brought about either by ignorance on the part of the patient or careless indifference in the hands of the physician, whereby an almost incredibly short period of time may change a hopeful to a hopeless condition,—in such common diseases as tuberculosis, diphtheria, appendicitis, obstructive jaundice, and the like. When the public conscience has been aroused to a due appreciation of these golden moments in the very beginning of disease, before the progress of destruction and impairment of vital functions have made the conditions unfavorable for the application of remedies, which at an earlier stage would have assured the patient of a speedy recovery, spared him probably from weeks of suffering and many dollars of the savings, which the very effort to accumulate and lay aside for the peace and comfort of old age was in so large a measure responsible for his beginning ill-health; then will be seen the first light of the dawn of the approaching day when the great masses of working men and women will realize how they have been imposed upon by every adventurous imposter who has been mean enough to widely advertise some patent medicine or erve tonic as a means of enriching himself by taking the hard-earned pennies from the homes of the poor. In return for which he has flooded their homes with literature, often dangerous and obscene, to poison the minds of their children while he poisons their bodies with vile concoctions and robs them of every chance of recoverv. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-16/nchh-16-052.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-d; nchh-16 |
Article Title | The Annual Essay�The Physician and the Public |
Article Author | Tucker, John Hill |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-16-052 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-16 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983307 |
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