SIR ARBUTHNOT LANE BLAMES BAD FEEDING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18043, 31 December 1926, Page 8

SIR ARBUTHNOT LANE BLAMES BAD FEEDING.

TELLS WHY MANY GIRLS ARE KNOCK-KNEED. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, October 26. “Disease should be regarded as a crime: people have no right t,o be ill; it is easy to prevent people getting ill, but you can do little or nothing to cure them.” These words of medical wisdom were spoken last night by Sir William Arbut.hnot Lane, discussing “Advertising and Health,” before the Publicity Club of London, at the Hotel Cecil. He said the General Medical Council had a good rule that no medical man should advertise any treatment Vby means of which he was likely to gain patients. He had no hesitation in going to the public, because in preserving the health of people it was impossible for them to come to him as patients. “As you know,” Sir William proceeded, “we have had a tussle with the British Medical Association, which represents half the doctors in England. The other half are not in the association, and probably they have no desire to be, and regard the association as somewhat of a trade union. Not that I don’t think trade unions good, but from a professional point of view one is not particularly interested in them.” C 3 INTO Al. He pointed out that we bore a simple mechanical relationship to our surroundings, and if the relationship was altered, the anatomy was altered. Everything ive do to alter the anatomy tends to shorten life. As an illustration he quoted the case of the coal-heaver who, in England, had to carry two hundredweights of coal on his back and shoot it down a hole. As a result, his spine became locked and his chest fixed; he breathed with his ahdomen. and with a small amount of pneumonia he died readily. Commenting on the graceful carriage of native girls, he. said it was quite unusual to see a good pair of legs here. So many English girls nowadays were bow-legged or knock-kneed, the result of bad feeding when they were young. The New Health Society was going on like an avalanche, and would convert our C 3 people into an Al people. There were some doctors who did not care a hang what happened to thenpatients so long as they got their fees.