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GENERAL SESSIONS 87 We now have compulsory education, whether or not our scheme of education is comprehensive enough, embracing a training in matters of health to allow one to wisely choose from the ample supply of material and personnel that the orthodox medical profession has to offer: and a large percentage of this public, those supposed to know and leading the public, actually create difficulties and obstructions to medical protection. Compulsory vaccination laws have already been repealed in two states, with the result that most of the smallpox in the United States is now found in these states, and smallpox has no respect for state lines. Similarly the Democratic party voted for repeal of the 18th Amendment —a prohibition which did not prohibit. It has not been the history of medicine that it has progressed by aid of State or Church, but woefully the contrary by the forcing of individual thought stubbornly and tenaciously through the opposition of medical bodies and through obstructions, barriers, thrown up in the way of the pioneers. The story is a familiar one to the medical profession and should be known by all laymen: the rational Medicine of Hippocrates, and the Hippocratic Oath; the degeneration of medicine through the Church; the plagues, the pestilences; the revival of independent thought by Para-cellus; Versalius daring to study the structure of the human body; staunching the blood flow with a ligature by Pare; vaccination by Jenner; infectious nature of childbed fever, Semmelweis and Oliver Wendell Holmes; of wounds, Lister; of disease, Pasteur and Koch; abdominal surgery, McDowell; the balm of anesthesia, Morton, Long and Simpson. Application: The building of the Panama Canal, Gorgas. All these epoch-making contributions were made by individuals under sacrifice, obstruction by Church and State. The greatest balm given to man, that of relief of pain at childbirth, particularly, was forced by Simpson through the Church, the Church, in turn, preying on the public with the biblical question: "In sorrow, thou shalt bring forth children" and always neglecting to mention a verse, a few lines ahead which described the whole process of a surgical operation: "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof." The question of the application of orthodox medicine to the public involves principles far deeper than the costs of the care. The fact that $125,000,000 is spent for the services of naturo-paths, faith-healers, and similar cults and $360,000,000 for patent medicines, as well as millions for chewing gum and candy, millions for sex books and sex cinemas, would indicate that a great many people can and do pay for what they want and have to pay for. At the same time, almost every epic in i\merican history portrayed on the film has been doomed to failure and at a loss of millions of dollars by the producers who, in their turn, if they remain in business, must give pictures the public will buy. This situation arises from that ignorance referred to, on the part of the public, with sur-
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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 | 1933 |
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Health Discipline | Medicine |
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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 | 1933 |
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Form General | Periodicals |
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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 | 80 |
Page Number | 87 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | GENERAL SESSIONS 87 We now have compulsory education, whether or not our scheme of education is comprehensive enough, embracing a training in matters of health to allow one to wisely choose from the ample supply of material and personnel that the orthodox medical profession has to offer: and a large percentage of this public, those supposed to know and leading the public, actually create difficulties and obstructions to medical protection. Compulsory vaccination laws have already been repealed in two states, with the result that most of the smallpox in the United States is now found in these states, and smallpox has no respect for state lines. Similarly the Democratic party voted for repeal of the 18th Amendment —a prohibition which did not prohibit. It has not been the history of medicine that it has progressed by aid of State or Church, but woefully the contrary by the forcing of individual thought stubbornly and tenaciously through the opposition of medical bodies and through obstructions, barriers, thrown up in the way of the pioneers. The story is a familiar one to the medical profession and should be known by all laymen: the rational Medicine of Hippocrates, and the Hippocratic Oath; the degeneration of medicine through the Church; the plagues, the pestilences; the revival of independent thought by Para-cellus; Versalius daring to study the structure of the human body; staunching the blood flow with a ligature by Pare; vaccination by Jenner; infectious nature of childbed fever, Semmelweis and Oliver Wendell Holmes; of wounds, Lister; of disease, Pasteur and Koch; abdominal surgery, McDowell; the balm of anesthesia, Morton, Long and Simpson. Application: The building of the Panama Canal, Gorgas. All these epoch-making contributions were made by individuals under sacrifice, obstruction by Church and State. The greatest balm given to man, that of relief of pain at childbirth, particularly, was forced by Simpson through the Church, the Church, in turn, preying on the public with the biblical question: "In sorrow, thou shalt bring forth children" and always neglecting to mention a verse, a few lines ahead which described the whole process of a surgical operation: "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof." The question of the application of orthodox medicine to the public involves principles far deeper than the costs of the care. The fact that $125,000,000 is spent for the services of naturo-paths, faith-healers, and similar cults and $360,000,000 for patent medicines, as well as millions for chewing gum and candy, millions for sex books and sex cinemas, would indicate that a great many people can and do pay for what they want and have to pay for. At the same time, almost every epic in i\merican history portrayed on the film has been doomed to failure and at a loss of millions of dollars by the producers who, in their turn, if they remain in business, must give pictures the public will buy. This situation arises from that ignorance referred to, on the part of the public, with sur- |
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Article Title | Diseases, Doctors And Dollars (The Costs Of Medical Care) |
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