Major General William Crawford Gorgas / [Franklin H. Martin].

  • Franklin Henry Martin
Date:
[1929]
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Credit: Major General William Crawford Gorgas / [Franklin H. Martin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fitness their confreres who remained at home. Gen¬ eral Gorgas and his Corps, as the physicians of a great army, and with perfect co-operation by the men who were their patients, succeeded in maintaining an extraordinarily low rate of mortality, and from the standpoint of statistics, a lower death rate than was maintained by those in civil life. PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION General Gorgas once said, “Why not apply this periodic medical examination to all people in civil life”? From the three great adventures of Gorgas in scientific medicine—in Havana, in Panama, and as Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army during the World War—the medical man and layman can recognize the advantage in better personal health and better health conditions when complete co-operation is maintained between the doctors and the people—their patients. It also becomes evident, as one reads of these achieve¬ ments, that scientific medicine is interesting, rational, and absolutely free from mystery and sham. If the doctors of the United States had the same impelling influence over the citizens of this country that General Gorgas had over the people of Havana and Panama, and over the U. S. Army, preventable diseases would be reduced to a comparable astonish¬ ing minimum. Why neglect the opportunity to have the same co-operation, which the physician would be ready to give, even though there may not exist the autocratic and military means of compelling such co-operation ? If the people of the United States would volunta¬ rily insist that they be given a scientific medical ex-
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