Life — September 15, 1910 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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by 1 A, Mitchell He Would Have Pulled Me Over Dr. THORNE’S IDEA Not to become acquainted with Steve Wadsworth and follow him through the strange vicissitudes of his remarkable career is to miss intercourse with a human being of a kind rarely found between the covers of a book. —Baltimore American, By J. A. MIrcukL Author of Vhe Last American, Amos Judd, The Pines of Lory, elc., ete, One Dollar, Net LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 3ist Street, New York From Our Readers (Continued from page 450) disappear, natural resistance will in- crease and the physicians will be fewer monumber and of much less impor- “The Conspiracy Against Health” you will find a sort of correspondence with this Professor Fisher, Dr. Simmons, seeretary of the American Medical Association and Mr. Fdwsel Bok, of The Ladies’ Home Noy : vf these gentlemen favored an invest nas indicated by questions To my mind that shows favor a National Health De for what Yale (Professor chool) and the American \ssociation and other allied on the party Fisher Medical The Montclair Ferty Minutes from B'way Montclair, N. J. interests can get out of it in political power and appropriations. It is a graft scheme for power and money, pure and simple. When this system of medicine, defiant of scriptural or herbal medicine, and which of itself lowers man’s re- sistance to disease is knocked out it will carry with it a lot of germ theory We must remember that the germicide which will destroy the fighting or de- structive (Jack Johnson) germ, may be much harder on what scientists call the benevolent (or parson or philan- thropist) germ. If the benevolent germ goes to destruction with the de- structive germ we have in our too ob- vious high susceptibility to disease just such logical conditions naturally to be expected. This medical interest, through its system of practice, has got itself into its present dilemma. It cannot fur- ther proceed on its present system without stultification, being now unable to cope with conditions which if the science it claims should be able to keep within bounds, and it cannot about face on its practice without stultitic: being an acknowledgment of failure. To defeat its scheme to grasp power and money through a National Health Department will b for the people, which if they cou a vie conceive “The Utmost in Cigarettes” We don't count the cost when we make them. You won't when you smoke them Cork Tips or Plain | One Copy of thus Tire Hand The result of years of study by experienced motorists. The book for an automobil been published. It is so con e that it has been quoted as'tire authority in both Am n and foreign auto-journ IT TELLS: } tires—what si make quick eme ought to pump up your tr of your tires in win tire repair biL how to get 8000 miles orm ry set of tires Three Pages of the Booklet Tell You About the Sra “ER Electric ulcanizer How it seats up the cuts in your casings and prevents sand-pockets and blow-outs. wears your 1 be—how to ei Ifyou are bothered with tire troubles, Jet us know the make of your ear and the volta: your city lighting current and we will one of the books. It will cost you m C. A. SHALER, 1102 4th St., Waupun, - Wis. and measure would be simply astound- ing and stupefying They do not dream how much of their this medical trust; their organizer, Dr. MeCormack, to estimate it at one-third of the sickness and deaths misery is directly chargeable to seems average physician is through threatened proscription, prac- tically a prisoner, unable effectually to cach year; the ister the protest which thousands of feel The National Department of Health plank in the Republican National plat- iorm, through the efforts of Roosevelt ft, would cost those men dearly in public esteem if the people grasped the full significance of its being there. When the medical facts are known (Continued on page 455)