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246 THB HEALTH BUIJ.ETIN tuberculosis, but because she had the wrong doctor in the beginning of her Illness. If the wrong doctor had not been available, she would have been cured by the right doctor within a month or two. So it is perfectly clear chat the careless and inefficient physician is far worse than no physician, [f the inefficient physicians were harmless, then it would make no difference CO North Carolina how many of that 3lass we had; but there is no inefficient physician that does not time and igain get between people and their lives. So we say to the Board of Medical Examiners that, as a Board charged with the duty of protecting life and iealth in North Carolina, the State Board of Health wishes you God-speed in your application of the anti-quack-^ry law. the murdered and the murderer A physician who practices at one the large clinics in New York City md who sees daily the evil effects of aatent medicine, expresses himself in ao uncertain terms about the whole patent medicine business. He says: It is discouraging to see what faith many people still have in the lying labels on patent medicines. Every day we see patients who come to be relieved of a cough, and to be strengthened and built up, but who have had the cough and increasing weakness for some months. These poor fellows didn't do a thing for themselves all those months, except swallow patent medicines whose labels promised miracles. The man who puts faith in such labels is a fool^ the man who sells such stuff is a thief; the man who manufactures flavored hooze-and-sugar-water and makes up the lying labels is a murderer. He tells the following as a true story and typical of those happening almost every day. One poor devil came for treatment recently. He had had a cold for about six months, and yet, during all that time, did nothing for himself but eat pounds of cough drops and drink quarts of patent cough medicines. He was in the last stage of tuberculosis, and was so weak that it was not safe to let him walk a few steps to the ambulance, and yet he had been at work as a cook and dish washer, only the night before. Think of the time this man lost while depending on his cough drops and patent medicines! It cost him all chance for recovery from tuberculosis. Sensible and scientific treatment, at the very beginning, would have given him a good chance to get entirely well. The neglect, during six months, brought him into the last stages of consumption, from which no treatment could pull him out! On his grave a stone should be erected—Murdered by the Get-Rich-Quick Patent Medicine Faker. The living room is not complete without a couch or some kind of a recliner as a piece of its furniture. It should be the kind made for comfort and use and not as an ornament too much prized to even be sat upon. Nothing will save so much strength to the busy housewife who has only a few minutes at a time to rest, or to the husband who can spare a few minutes after the noon meal, as to relax for even a half hour on a comfortable couch. Very few people want to go to bed for a rest in the middle of the day, or have time for it, but most people, especially women, need every day to lie down and relax mind and body. After all, there is probably only one form of exercise that is suitable for all ages and is at all times available, and that is to be taken in the open air—the exercise which is probably the most ideal—walking. The most encouraging feature of health work is the ever-increasing tendency to educate.
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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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Fixed Title * | Page 246 |
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-04-030-0252 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; editorial |
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_0252.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 | 11 |
Page Number | 246 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 246 THB HEALTH BUIJ.ETIN tuberculosis, but because she had the wrong doctor in the beginning of her Illness. If the wrong doctor had not been available, she would have been cured by the right doctor within a month or two. So it is perfectly clear chat the careless and inefficient physician is far worse than no physician, [f the inefficient physicians were harmless, then it would make no difference CO North Carolina how many of that 3lass we had; but there is no inefficient physician that does not time and igain get between people and their lives. So we say to the Board of Medical Examiners that, as a Board charged with the duty of protecting life and iealth in North Carolina, the State Board of Health wishes you God-speed in your application of the anti-quack-^ry law. the murdered and the murderer A physician who practices at one the large clinics in New York City md who sees daily the evil effects of aatent medicine, expresses himself in ao uncertain terms about the whole patent medicine business. He says: It is discouraging to see what faith many people still have in the lying labels on patent medicines. Every day we see patients who come to be relieved of a cough, and to be strengthened and built up, but who have had the cough and increasing weakness for some months. These poor fellows didn't do a thing for themselves all those months, except swallow patent medicines whose labels promised miracles. The man who puts faith in such labels is a fool^ the man who sells such stuff is a thief; the man who manufactures flavored hooze-and-sugar-water and makes up the lying labels is a murderer. He tells the following as a true story and typical of those happening almost every day. One poor devil came for treatment recently. He had had a cold for about six months, and yet, during all that time, did nothing for himself but eat pounds of cough drops and drink quarts of patent cough medicines. He was in the last stage of tuberculosis, and was so weak that it was not safe to let him walk a few steps to the ambulance, and yet he had been at work as a cook and dish washer, only the night before. Think of the time this man lost while depending on his cough drops and patent medicines! It cost him all chance for recovery from tuberculosis. Sensible and scientific treatment, at the very beginning, would have given him a good chance to get entirely well. The neglect, during six months, brought him into the last stages of consumption, from which no treatment could pull him out! On his grave a stone should be erected—Murdered by the Get-Rich-Quick Patent Medicine Faker. The living room is not complete without a couch or some kind of a recliner as a piece of its furniture. It should be the kind made for comfort and use and not as an ornament too much prized to even be sat upon. Nothing will save so much strength to the busy housewife who has only a few minutes at a time to rest, or to the husband who can spare a few minutes after the noon meal, as to relax for even a half hour on a comfortable couch. Very few people want to go to bed for a rest in the middle of the day, or have time for it, but most people, especially women, need every day to lie down and relax mind and body. After all, there is probably only one form of exercise that is suitable for all ages and is at all times available, and that is to be taken in the open air—the exercise which is probably the most ideal—walking. The most encouraging feature of health work is the ever-increasing tendency to educate. |
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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