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Nome, Alaska, July 31, 1010.
HELPLESS.
Every once in a while medica
men congratulate themselves upoi
the progress which their science ha
made and the healing art finds n<
more zealous upholders than tin
doctors themselves.
Hut it takes an epidemic liki
this of infantile paralysis to sliov
us the strict limitations of the ar
of medicine and the mere fact tha
a physician says that the epidemi
‘‘would have to burn itself out" re
minds us that it is in precisely tin
same way that they regarded th
black plague many centuries ago.
Learned in diagonals, with sense
acutely trained to detect symptoms
adepts in the use of the microscope
■with an accumulated knowledge o
bacteriology that is itself profound
the progress that medicine ha
made none the less depends not s<
much upon these things as upon th
lirm dependence on the old sat
that prevention is better than curt
It may he admitted that many doc
tors are men “applying medicine
of which they know little into th
bodies of which they know less'"
as the ruthless judge in the famou
Maybriek poisoning trial said li
summing up, commenting upon th
di;. repact expert testimony," bu
the results of investigation in ever
branch at least reveal the fuc
these things are at best only ad
juncts, towards the essential facto:
of keeping the social health good
to the much greater field of pre
ventive medicine.
And it is in this field that medi
cine shows its most serious limita
tions, and in these limitations it 1
that the 'physicians, withal thei:
high standard of ethics, show a la
inentable lack of moral courage:
Take this infantile paralysis. 1
is essentially a disease that origi
nates in filthy surroundings. Tha
has been known for years. Insfeat
of tlie various health department!
courageously facing the highly pro
fitable tenement evil and the enorm
ous gains of the real estate met
from such disease breeding sur
roundings, they merely treat the et
fects of such conditions, a,nd wlier
the final calamity comes they ad
mit their helplessness. But thej
are powerless today because yester
day they failed with whole hearted
earnestness to attack in determined
fashion the causes of theso diseases
The same thing can be brought
against the physicians in their me
thods of combatting tuberculosis
Now turberculosis can be elimi
nated. It is not impossible to pre
vent its spread and to prevent li
day after day shocking and horrify
ing with the number of its hapless
victims. Fresh air, sunshine, whole
some, cleanly and sufficient food,
sanitary habitations, avoidance ol
fatigue—these things practically
prevent tuberculosis. The physicians
know better than any one that in
dustrial conditions, nervous strain,
dust choked air, foul environment,
the slum, the sweatshops are proli
fic breeders of all disease. They
know that could such conditions be
eliminated tuberculosis and infan
tile paralysis and a host of other
no less scourging plagues could be
removed from the scheme of things
Instead however of directing all
their professional force towards the
elimination of these things, they
do so in a perfunctory
manner, while they direct all
their energies to what may with
hardly complimentary epithet be
tailed palliative medicine.
Sc one knows better than do the
doitors that they are not attacking
causes when they attack merely the
symptoms of the patient, and tuner
cutnsis and iiii'antile paralysis and a
host of other ills are merely the
symptoms which society neglects
because the physicians are pleased
to regard it as no part of theli
function to interfere with these
tilings which contribute so much
to the profit system.
Their viewpoint is a class view
point, and hopelessly narrowed to
the individual cases that present
themselves to them. In consequence
they are fighting a losing or gain
ing battle against an endless chain
of diseases which are provided just
as fast as the system can grind
them out.
At one time when the babies in
New York were dying at the rate ol
forty an hour, the munificent sum
| of eighty thousand dollars was ap
propriated to fight the disease. Yet
j we can appraise beter the scientific
nature of the achievement of the
, physicians when we recollect that
I upon the foot and mouth disease
! affecting the cattle a year ago, the
sum appropriated amounted to
several millions. The affected cor
rals were destroyed, cars were sub
jected to ruthless disinfection, many
were burned, whole districts quar
antined, special serivee men ap
pointed to handle the situation, an I
steps taken to prevent a recurrence
of any outbreak of the disease or Its
possible recurrence as an epidemic.
Therj were no veterinarians who
dared to say that the disease
would burn itself out. If so theti
public position would have been
promptly made untenable for the
nation cannot afford to lose its cattle
or its hogs. Can it afford to lose
its human population? Can it af
ford to risk its babies?
Truth to tell there is no more
weary reading that the self adulatory
addresses of tuberculosis congresses.
These eulogies which these master
symptom-fighters utter are a weari
ness of the soul and just as vain.
They know that they are combatting
effects and not a one of them has
the hardihood of mind to rise
among these charlatans and de
I nounce (tlie quackery of their me
.thods as hypocritical and useless
For they are not ignorant men,
They are men with a scientific train
ing that reaches an astonishing
degree of efficiency. Most of them
have profound insight into various
departments of real knowledge. Yet
they cowardly evade the real issue
that confronts them, and that is
that they must attack the cause ol
these dreaded epidemics if they are
to control and conquer them. That
is not to be done by absorbing glo
bular millions from some foundation
for palliative treatment or for
research into the effects which they
are later to endeavor to combat.
But it will be found in their man
fully facing the truth before them
and falling back upon the some
what elementary principle of the
healing art “remove the cause and
the effect will cease”. Does their
courage rise to that moderate
standard? Evidently not.
OVERSTOCK ED
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions In Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
>we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved It oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
CITY BATH HOTJSBi.
Moonlight Spring Water. (Boll
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M. O. SOLBERG.
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A. WITTENBERG
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ANNOUNCEMENT
CONRAD FREEDING has opened a
WHOLESALE GROCERY
in the AMES BUILDING with a full Hne of fresh and first class
Goods at right prices. Agents in Nome for the MEADOWBROOK.
PASTEURIZED BUTTER, unexcelled anywhere—Eggs, Ham and
Bacon, Potatoes, Oranges, Lemons, Vegetables of all kinds and
best grade of staple goods. Camps outfitted. Orders solicited.
Prompt and satisfactory service guaranteed.
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call at Seward, Valdez, Cordova; Steamer will also visit Colum
bia Glacier. At Cordova steamer will remain long enough to al
low excursionists time to make special trip out over the railroad
to Miles Glacier, from Cordova the Steamer will return direct
by the outside route to Seattle.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
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