HEALTH IN 2023.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9771, 31 July 1924, Page 2

HEALTH IN 2023.

EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR. DOCTOR’S PROPHECY. Predictions of health conditions in 2023 were made by Dr F. P. Millard, of Toronto, founder and president of the National League for the Prevention of Spinal Curvature, at a dinner given in his honour at Indianapolis, where he had demonstrated his technique in connection with Bright’s disease. Dr Millard prophesies (writes the Montreal correspondent of the Loudon Daily Express) as follows: “Kidney cosies” will be worn to protect the kidneys on chilly days, just as a teapot is kc«t warm bv a “tea cosy.” Little rouge will he used, as a method of tinting the cheeks bv internal corrections will be known to all. There will he no hidden mysteries regarding the cure of disease. Each person will he thoroughly posted on how to take care of himself and what to do in an emergency, and accordingly there will be fewer physicians than at the present time. Every high school pupil will be perfectly 'familiar with the topography of his anatomy, as he is familiar today with the geography of the world. Living to 150. Every organ in the body will be preserved if at all possible (not in alcohol), the tonsil* will be known as two of the most valuable organs in the body, and the appendix will he considered the oilcan of the caecum and ascending colon. People will live to he 140 and 150, thanks to semi-annual examination and a better method of diagnosing and treating. Serums will he unknown, and no vaccination marks will be necessary. _ There will be a tendency for people to grow taller, as there will be no 'spinal curvatures or lack of assimilation. ... Many of the disease of to-day wnL he unknown. The effect of weather on humans will he better understood, and the protection of the feet will bring about a. stronger race. High arches will he the rule, in that everv* one will understand how to spring his arches upward, making hotter sninal balance.