KNOCK-KNEED GIRLS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5073, 10 January 1927, Page 2

KNOCK-KNEED GIRLS.

BAD FEEDING THE CAUSE.

NOTED SURGEON’S DECLARATION

“Disease should be regarded as a crime ; people have no right to be ill ; it is easy to prevent people getting ill, bt you can do little or nothing do cure them.” These words o’f med'cal wisdom were spoken recently by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, discussii'g “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 by means of which he was likely to gam patients.

He had no hesitation in ? fing to t.lie public, because in pieseiving the health of people it was impossibly for them to come to him as yat’cnts.

“As you know,” Sir .’illlam 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 we, do to alter the. anatomy tends to shorten life.

As an ill uh t rati in be quoted the ease 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 witli ms abdomen, and with a small amount of pneumonia he died readily. <

Commenting on the gracdul carriage of native girls, he said it was quite unusual to se.e a good pair of legs he.ro. So many English girls nowadays were bow-legged or knockkneed, 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 their patients so lopg as they got their fees.