RT Journal
T1 PSeudoreligion and quackery.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD August 5
VO XXXIII
IS 6
SP 359
OP 360
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450580053012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450580053012
AB As we near the end of the nineteenth century, we congratulate ourselves on the remarkable advances that have been made in the various branches of the medical sciences and arts. We read ofthese advances in medical journals, in the metropolitan newspapers and in the magazines. Diseases and various afflictions which a quarter of a century ago were called incurable are now amenable to treatment. Not only this, but what is still more desirable and satisfactory is that the better understanding of the cause—the etiology—of many diseases has made these absolutely preventable. In one particular branch of medicine is the duplex advantage of today over the past specially noticeable. The pangs of childbirth have been removed or lessened by the discovery of anesthetics, but what is of still more importance, the terrible death-rate has been eliminated. The complications and diseases heretofore incident to maternity have been brought within the category of