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PUBLIC HEALTH Rnd 5^.NITA.TI0N THE >L1{SE A\D FAKE CURES An Open Field for Effective Xurse >Vork ERHAPS the district nurse comes ^^ to know more directly and inti-mately the evil and extent of "fake cures" than any other class of people. She comes in touch with the details of family life and is often made the confidante of family secrets and home troubles. In order for her to render her best _ service she must be taken into the inner IT'S COMI^Tx circle and made a patent medicine manufacturers physician An instance or two given here will be sufficient to picture the nurse grappling with the situation and the severity of the fight she is called on to make. A district nurse gives the following as her own experience: A district tuberculosis nurse, upon her first visit to a bedridden, far-ad-vanced consumptive woman, questioned the husband as to why he had delayed so long in sending for a physician and nurse to care for his wife. His reply was of such an incoherent nature that _the nurse concluded ---- it had been due to the usual dislike of calling in the city and the svmpathetic f r i end are having their troubles these days, lack of money to nf tho ThP various states tlie health author- pay any other. Mat- or tne lamiiy. me i^ot on llieir trail ami sev- ters had been let patient soon realizes magazines and ne^vspapers, drift along until the this, and what is notably "Harper's Weekly," have patient had become often revealed to her taken up their cudgels against the so ill that medical thp Tinrlprivln^ cheating and poisoning of the pu))- care was imperative as tne uncierijing ^^^^^^ ne^'spapers ot this and pride was set cause of conditions country finally reach the high plane ^side and the city is no less than start- of keeping faith with their readers ^i^vsir-iaTi raiiPd- hp HO, an. ^c'^l.tf iS^/'SI-l She IS often made to ^^^^ p^^mit a patent medicine ad- ^he nurse. This was doubt her own eyes, vertisement to appear in their col- apparently the situa- And that ivill mean a death tino, but before leav- But in fighting nmns, xi. i. 1>10TV to the patent medicine busi- mg the house the this many-headed ,iess.-LaFollettr- — -......... monster the nurse finds a great oppor-tunity for genuine service—perhaps for genuine service-one of her greatest. She may not adopt the Carrie Nation method with best results, as the process must be slow and sure, but she must fight in her own way and fight to win. She must educate. Ignorance and superstition are her greatest foes. They are the faithful handmaidens of the fakers. It is in this mental and moral darkness that the deeds of the fakers are perpetrated. She must let in the light and dispel the darkness. nurse unearthed the _ real reason why --there had been no funds to pay the physician. Behind a screen in one corner of the patient's room stood two barrels filled to overflowing with empty bottles, bearing the label of one of the most widely advertised and flagrantly misrepresented consumptive "cures," each bottle representing an expenditure of five dollars. What was the result? A dying woman, a burdensome debt and later a grave in the potter's field—sorrow, un-happiness and blighted young lives. Into a tuberculosis dispensary there dragged herself one day a tall, large-boned but deathly pale woman. Dropping into the seat for which she
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1915-1916 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-030 |
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 | 30 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-04 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 54 |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1915-1916 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-030-0060 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review |
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 | healthbulletinse30nort_0060.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 | 30 |
Issue Number | 3 |
Page Number | 54 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | PUBLIC HEALTH Rnd 5^.NITA.TI0N THE >L1{SE A\D FAKE CURES An Open Field for Effective Xurse >Vork ERHAPS the district nurse comes ^^ to know more directly and inti-mately the evil and extent of "fake cures" than any other class of people. She comes in touch with the details of family life and is often made the confidante of family secrets and home troubles. In order for her to render her best _ service she must be taken into the inner IT'S COMI^Tx circle and made a patent medicine manufacturers physician An instance or two given here will be sufficient to picture the nurse grappling with the situation and the severity of the fight she is called on to make. A district nurse gives the following as her own experience: A district tuberculosis nurse, upon her first visit to a bedridden, far-ad-vanced consumptive woman, questioned the husband as to why he had delayed so long in sending for a physician and nurse to care for his wife. His reply was of such an incoherent nature that _the nurse concluded ---- it had been due to the usual dislike of calling in the city and the svmpathetic f r i end are having their troubles these days, lack of money to nf tho ThP various states tlie health author- pay any other. Mat- or tne lamiiy. me i^ot on llieir trail ami sev- ters had been let patient soon realizes magazines and ne^vspapers, drift along until the this, and what is notably "Harper's Weekly" have patient had become often revealed to her taken up their cudgels against the so ill that medical thp Tinrlprivln^ cheating and poisoning of the pu))- care was imperative as tne uncierijing ^^^^^^ ne^'spapers ot this and pride was set cause of conditions country finally reach the high plane ^side and the city is no less than start- of keeping faith with their readers ^i^vsir-iaTi raiiPd- hp HO, an. ^c'^l.tf iS^/'SI-l She IS often made to ^^^^ p^^mit a patent medicine ad- ^he nurse. This was doubt her own eyes, vertisement to appear in their col- apparently the situa- And that ivill mean a death tino, but before leav- But in fighting nmns, xi. i. 1>10TV to the patent medicine busi- mg the house the this many-headed ,iess.-LaFollettr- — -......... monster the nurse finds a great oppor-tunity for genuine service—perhaps for genuine service-one of her greatest. She may not adopt the Carrie Nation method with best results, as the process must be slow and sure, but she must fight in her own way and fight to win. She must educate. Ignorance and superstition are her greatest foes. They are the faithful handmaidens of the fakers. It is in this mental and moral darkness that the deeds of the fakers are perpetrated. She must let in the light and dispel the darkness. nurse unearthed the _ real reason why --there had been no funds to pay the physician. Behind a screen in one corner of the patient's room stood two barrels filled to overflowing with empty bottles, bearing the label of one of the most widely advertised and flagrantly misrepresented consumptive "cures" each bottle representing an expenditure of five dollars. What was the result? A dying woman, a burdensome debt and later a grave in the potter's field—sorrow, un-happiness and blighted young lives. Into a tuberculosis dispensary there dragged herself one day a tall, large-boned but deathly pale woman. Dropping into the seat for which she |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-030.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-030 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-04 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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