HUMAN NATURE

Evening Star, Issue 19559, 18 May 1927, Page 6

HUMAN NATURE

STILL A STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS THE PHYSICIAN’S BART. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, May 17. (Received May 18, at 30.40 a.m.) President Coolidge, addressing the annual session of the American Medical Association, declared that early in the nineteenth century there were only three medical schools and two general hospitals in the United States. He outlined tho rapid progress since made, particularly in the past half-century. Stressing the development of Federal, State, and municipal health organisations, the President said: “The human race is by no means young. It has reached a state of maturity. It is the inheritor of a very wide experience. It has located a great many fixed stars in tho firmament, and it is true no doubt than a multitude of others await revelation by more extended research. Somewhere m human nature there is still a structural weakness. We do not do so well as we know we should. Wo make many constitutions amd enact many laws laying out a course of action providing a method of relationship one with another, which theoretically are above criticism, but they do not come into full observance and effect. Society is still afflicted with crime, and among the nations there are still wars and rumors of wars. What part ti® physician will play in tho further 'idvan cement and well-being of the world is an interesting speculation. No on® can doubt that if humanity could b® brought to a state of physical well-be-ing many of onr social problems would disappear.”